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AI, bots and robots
- Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
- How AlexNet dominated the competition and popularized deep learning
- Dr. Erich Jarvis: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language and Music
- Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?
- Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?
- Programming Cognitive Robots
- Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology
- AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans
- Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
- Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k?
- Generating Fashion Using AI
- AI is getting better at generating porn
AI image generators like Stable Diffusion are powering new websites that generate highly customize porn. The trend could have far-reaching consequences.
Blockchain and decentralization
- Avalanche conspires with law firm to attack competing blockchains
- Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in ‘just over an hour’
Woman computer scientist of the week
Tandy Jo Warnow is an American computer scientist, the Founder Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.
Cloud and architecture
- Acorn: A lightweight PaaS for Kubernertes, from Rancher founders
- A History of Silicon Innovation at AWS
- Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order
- Rights, Laws, and Google
- Decoding AWS Reserved Instances
- AWS services, explained in Victorian English with GPT-3
- AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture
- Becoming a Systems Architect
- XCode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available
Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers. - SmartDry’s useful laundry sensor to be cloud-bricked next month
- What would make AWS even better
#10 on my Re:Invent 2022 Wishlist countdown
Development and languages
- Corman Lisp development environment for MS Windows
- A Programming Language Database
PLDB: a Programming Language Database. Contribute to breck7/pldb development by creating an account on GitHub. - Built-in container support for the .NET SDK
- I like the Odin programming language
As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go, but not with C or C++1, The Odin language is a great fit. Proper systems language Odin is a systems langauge… - What does it take to be a good programmer?
- Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
- The state of Flow-based Programming
- Git’s database internals I: packed object store
- The OK? Programming Language
- Is Over, Bye GitHub
- Using Python to vectorize artwork for PCBs
- Python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing
- Programming on 34 Keys
- JavaScript Hydration Is a Workaround, Not a Solution
- Git’s database internals II: commit history queries
- Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control. - Moving “The Swift Programming Language” Book to Open Source
- Performance Improvements in .NET 7
- Git’s Database Internals III: File History Queries
- Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
- Cognitive loads in programming
- WebKit on GitHub
On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub. - Encrypted Git hosting should be easy
encrypted git hosting should be easy. Contribute to nathants/git-remote-aws development by creating an account on GitHub. - Crystal Programming Language
- GitHub is removing the Trending Repositories page due to “low usage”
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September … - Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US
- GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September … - From Prison to Programming
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today’s guest is Rick Wolter. He’s an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that’s all they need to know about Rick. But today’s… […]
Quote of the week
This ‘users are idiots, and are confused by functionality’ mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
— Linus
Enterprises
- Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
- Intel enters a new era of chiplets
- They’re trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn’t care
- Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company
- Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Google has announced last month that they will be changing their Play Store policies for developers. These changes aim to improve the ads experience, tighten security and limit misinformation according to the company. The policies are going into effect later in 2022, which all existing apps will need to comply with. One of the main policy changes concerns the VPN Service which will take effect on November 1, 2022: Google claims to be cracking down on apps that are using the VPN service to tr… - Run Stable Diffusion on Intel CPUs
Contribute to bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino development by creating an account on GitHub. - AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch: Ryzen 7950X and More, Coming Sept. 27th
- Understanding Google’s File System
- Tesla’s ban on pro-union shirts is illegal and must be rescinded, NLRB rules
- Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?
- US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
- Random Google Street View
Simply click ‘Next’ and continue to be amazed. Select your favorite country. Play a slideshow in fullscreen. Use as a screensaver. Best way to kill your time. - Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract
- Customer who defamed BC company on Google, Yelp ordered to pay $90k
- Google Blocks Truth Social from the Play Store – Will Apple Be Next?
- Google employee resigns, saying company ‘silences Palestinians’
- I’m building an open-source Amazon
Multi-channel fulfillment at scale - Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election
- Intel details 12th Gen Core SoCs optimized for edge applications
- Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter
- Amazon’s Global Quest to Crush Unions
Other news
- Accept payments in crypto on your website (5 lines of code)
- Volkswriter Deluxe – One of the first word processors for the IBM PC
- Samba on Linux the Easy Way
- Difficulties of providing a crypto payment system on your website
- GitHub for English Teachers
- The Three Pillars of Functional Autonomy of Hackers
- Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
- SoftBank’s Epic Losses Reveal Masayoshi Son’s Broken Business Model
- Namecheap CEO gives incentive to hack arbitrary users on their platform
- Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100
- A DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100
- AutoHotkey for Linux
AutoHotkey for Linux (X11-based systems). Contribute to phil294/AHK_X11 development by creating an account on GitHub. - Fed expects to launch long-awaited Faster Payments System by 2023
The new payments system will allow faster payments of bills, paychecks and other transfers around-the-clock instead of days. - Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability. - Being a university fresher can be hard
- Learn PWA
A course that breaks down every aspect of modern progressive web app development. - Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location
- High-dose Vitamin B6 reduces anxiety and strengthens visual surround suppression
- 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?
- Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model
Following the cancellation of thousands of flights this summer, the German state of Lower Saxony, in the country’s north west, has renewed calls to abolish advance payment for flight bookings. - White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research
- Hackers created an enormous traffic jam in Moscow
- Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from
- Israeli rules say West Bank visitors must declare love interest
Stanford engineers created a more efficient and flexible AI chip, which could bring the power of AI into tiny edge devices.
At Hot Chips 34, we got a glimpse of the Tesla Dojo custom AI supercomputer, its V1 Interface NICs with HBM and how it scales data loading
Learn about The Merge – when Mainnet Ethereum joins the Beacon Chain coordinated proof-of-stake system.
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
Pythonâs still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills
Hi, I'm surprised I didn't find an existing discussion with this topic. Some services like github-releases.githubusercontent.com or user pages do support IPv6, however the webpage (github.c…
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
Even if you don’t know what to look for, you’ll probably be able to guess if something was created for Netflix just based on a few frames. 
Experts say case highlights dangers of automated detection of child sexual abuse images
Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post. 
An article explaining why Xen wasn’t affected by the recent RETBleed security issue on Intel CPUs.
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
Clipchamp video editor is now available as an app for Windows PC. Drag, drop and create professional videos in minutes.
Everyone should know why.
A recent post on Reddit’s main economic forum included a 2018 graphic that shows that…
Edo Liberty, Pinecone CEO, provides a glimpse into the journey behind building a database company, including some insights into the latest innovations around the product and vector search.
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost. In a memorandum to federal departments and agencies, Dr. Alondra Nelson, the head of OSTP, delivered guidance for agencies to update their public access…
«The Sims» remains popular more than 20 years after its debut. It is also a haven for neurodiverse players, some of whom grew up with the life-simulation game and continue to revisit it well into adulthood.
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let’s do some testing.
My Windows 11 x64 security hardening guide. Contribute to beerisgood/Windows11_Hardening development by creating an account on GitHub.
Android 13 is here with new customization features, privacy features and multi-device features for phones, laptops and tablets.
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
Dozens of apps- often highly rated in the Play Store- facilitate extortion and threats in Mexico and other countries around the world.
Participate in the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) pilot offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and support the grid while also earning compensation and maintaining your energy security.
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Run Postgres in your local web browser with guided tutorials to help you grow your Postgres skills.
Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction…
To stay ahead of the quantum computer threat, cryptographers around the world have spent the past two decades designing postquantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These are based on new mathematical problems that both quantum and classical computers find difficult to solve.
Mitchell Weiss Professor of Management Practice Harvard Business School Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Possibility government. Mitchell Weiss, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, joined the podcast to talk about his new book We the Possibility. He discusses how bringing entrepreneurship into government can help solve complex problems and improve services. He also … Continued
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
There is growing confidence that the Ethereum Merge, scheduled for mid-September, won’t be postponed after the Goerli merge went smoothly.
How Fivetran cofounders George Fraser and Taylor Brown pulled off a «rabbit out of a hat» deal to make their data company viable.
God’s actual programming language. Contribute to elonlit/Genesis development by creating an account on GitHub.
Writing Python C extensions in Julia within 5 minutes. – GitHub – Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy: Writing Python C extensions in Julia within 5 minutes.
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware. Contribute to Sycnex/Windows10Debloater development by creating an account on GitHub.
Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows and macOS, because privacy is sexy ?? – GitHub – undergroundwires/privacy.sexy: Open-source tool to enforce privacy &…
For Teslas built since mid-2017, âevery time you drive, it records the whole track of where you drive, the GPS coordinates and certain other metrics for every mile driven,â says a Tesla owner who has reverse engineered the company’s Autopilot data collection.
Does your laptop need an upgrade? We ran benchmarking tests to help you decide.
A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?
The Current Status Quo
The Federal Court has ordered Google LLC to pay $60 million in penalties for making misleading representations to consumers about the collection and use of their personal location data on Android phones between January 2017 and December 2018, following court action by the ACCC.
Working in a library with an open space of 400 seats is nothing unheard of, but such a huge open space at work is doomed to fail. Is it? Let’s take a look at what we all can learn from hundreds of years old reading rooms.
Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem – we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like comparing the similarities between Deephaven and Materalize, viewing pandas DataFrames, gRPC tooling for getting data streams to the browser, using Kafka with Parquet for storage, or using Redpanda for streaming analytics?
Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov’t to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment – GitHub – 0xricksanchez/like-dbg: Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment
Yes, thatâs a llama dunking a basketball. A summary of the process, limitations, and lessons learned while experimenting with the closedâ¦
It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.
Sonatype identified a ‘secretslib’ PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
Update your app.
Hyundai’s all-electric mid-size crossover utility vehicle IONIQ 5 Hyundai Motor Co. is highly likely to suffer a further production delay for its all-electric 
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
GitHub is introducing non-essential cookies on web pages that market our products to businesses. These cookies will provide analytics to improve the site experience and personalize content and ads …
All about QBasic and QuickBasic
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than Google Flatbuffers and optimized for TinyGo and WASM. – GitHub – inkeliz/karmem: Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than …
Has TypeScript gotten slow for you? Run this one magic command to visualize what TypeScript is compiling, and maybe get to the root of the issue.
Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite – GitHub – phiresky/sqlite-zstd: Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite
FauxPilot – an open-source GitHub Copilot server. Contribute to moyix/fauxpilot development by creating an account on GitHub.
But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?
The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Fly.io – GitHub – serverless-dns/serverless-dns: The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy…
It has been interesting as Iâve shifted out of .NET ecosystem which Iâve worked with on the server side (and some stints of desktopâ¦
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
We’re sharing our internal programming language guidance that helps our engineers and developers choose the best language for their projects.
How do you create a Python package? How do you set up automated testing and code coverage? How do you publish the package? That’s what this article…
WebContainers are now supported on Firefox for desktop and mobile as a result of StackBlitz and Mozilla collaboration! ?
Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engine clusters against best practices – GitHub – google/gke-policy-automation: Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engin…
For the first time in our history you can buy Mullvad VPN physical activation codes on Amazon!
In an interview in June, Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers discussed making tweaks to old episodes on Netflix, something they later denied. But where do we draw the line in the retconning of art?
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McDonalds in Australia do a decent cup of coffee. It’s not great but it’s consistently decent so I often start my day with a cup. Due to my travels around Australia in a decked out van I have seen how many McDonalds operate and just how many of
Turbulent Indigo. “I was in a losing fight with a business that basically, you know, was treating me like an also-ran or a has-been, even though I was still doing good work,’ she told an interviewer at the time.
I’ve been thinking about supplementing another language to Python for some time – mainly to cope with areas Python struggles with, or is a pain to use (which I’ll go over in a minute). I had used C/C++ some years ago, but don’t want to go back to them. C
Explores the current standards for publishing deep learning papers, the details they lack, the challenges in reproducing them, and how to overcome them.
Google announces its new Quantum Virtual Machine
@kr stacked 761 sats posting https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme [11 comments]
The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in our favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending. The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) […]
Critics fear the UK Data Protection and Digital information Bill could be incompatible with the GDPR regime in Europe.
WebAssembly, commonly abbreviated as Wasm, is a portable binary intermediate language that can execute on different platforms in a virtual machine. The intermediate language is compiled, either just-in-time (JIT) or ahead-of-time (AOT), to the machine code appropriate for the architecture. Many programming languages compile to WebAssembly, including C, C++, C#
The Council approves new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act.
18 trees lost per second from Brazilian Amazon in 2021, according to new report. Deforestation is up 20 percent.
A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits – GitHub – jawerty/myAlgorithm: A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits
Hi, from Japan. We’ve been suffering from the spam pages on Google search results for almost half a year. A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that our site is not hacked. Our site is not hacked These links redirect to the Google Calendar spam malware pages via Cloudflare. ESET security software detects ‘JS/Adware.Sculinst’ malware. Our product name is used for their page titles. They’re…
Somehow, posting a video clip of the cat game Stray on Twitter got me banned from Twitter, and I’m baffled as to how.
Sitting exams is unpleasant at the best of times, but my daughter believes she has extra cause to complain. Two of her A-level papers are scheduled for the same time, so she must take a break betwe…
Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time as studies over the years show that being a part of a group can enhance happiness and life satisfaction
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Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV – GitHub – ajensenwaud/dbs-tools: Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV
Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We’ve found critical vulnerabilities allowing us…
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range.
Indie Hackers is a wonderful community for founders, a vast ocean of shared knowledge and a place to showcase your product journey. A lot of people are sharing their products there along with the revenue, often verified by Stripe. We analyzed the available data to check how much revenue are those products making and what are the most money making categories!
Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we’d want a QC
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