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AI, bots and robots
- 2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track
- Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
- DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby
Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn. - Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one
- How I went about learning Rust
- Wandering Robots in the Wild
- “Learning The Elite Class: My experience at fancy parties”
Blockchain and decentralization
- Crypto-Assets and Decentralized Finance Through a Financial Stability Lens
- IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
- Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment
- Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
- I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards
- The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money
Woman computer scientist of the week
Joanne Pransky is an American robotics expert and futurist who provides professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices. She calls herself the «World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist» for her expertise on issues concerning the human/robot relationship. She is a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts, United States.
Cloud and architecture
- Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals
124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day - Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
Read about why we have decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS and what we are doing next. - Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling
- Cryptomator – Encrypt files on your cloud storage
- Building multi-architecture Docker images
- SaaS Tools That Get Things Done for Tech Startups
- Can I build my SaaS in no-code tools
- How the Colosseum Was Built and Why It Was an Architectural Marvel
The iconic Roman structure stood as the largest and most complex permanent amphitheater in the ancient world.
Development and languages
- Cissbury Ring: Neolithic flint-mines in the digital age
- Negatypes in Python: A type that is not some type
- Whatcha – social network for digital media
- Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
- Programming a Rogue-Like with Rust
- Bun (can become) the ideal JavaScript runtime
- A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines
- Functional programming is finally going mainstream
- Six programming languages I’d like to see
A few weird ideas for programming languages I came up with that it’d be «really» «cool» if someone made (wink) - A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x
- The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursuit of focus
- It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
Hiâââthank you for reading this article! Weâd love to talk to you about what youâre making in our C#-focused Discord for Godot game⦠- ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
We are working on a config language / DSL for building web apps that integrates with React & Node.js. A number of times we’ve been asked “Why are you bothering creating a new language for web app development? Isn’t Github Copilot\ soon going to be generating all the code for developers anyhow?*”. - Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution
- GitHop
- Kernel support for hardware-based control-flow integrity
- Integrating a Rust module into an Android app
- Comparing Rust and JavaScript
- Vala Programming Language
- Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses
A big chunk of Fuchsia-related code has been removed from Android, but Google’s operating systems are still set to be intertwined. - To Ruby from Python
Quote of the week
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Enterprises
- An intellectual starter kit
- Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption. - Microsoft researched what made employees happy, collaborate less, more autonomy
- NHTSA launches 37th investigation into Tesla after couple killed in crash
The authorities are looking into whether the automated features of the Tesla car were involved in the crash - Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse
- Spotify to Acquire Heardle
- Return Stack Buffer Underflow – Retbleed (Intel)
- Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent. - Implementing Microsoft REST API Guidelines Filter
- What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?
- Microsoft Validation OS
- Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent
- I made a Google sheet of local elections and it’s been removed from Google Drive
- Reddits pretzel-knot of moderation and anti-selfpromotion getting in way of IPO
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) adds support for Arm nodes
- Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla
- 30% of Google’s Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled
- Twitter Is Down
- Twitter experiences longest global outage in years
- Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
- Open-source authorization service based on Google-Zanzibar
- Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
- Danish Data Protection Agency bans Google Workspace for Municipalities
- Everything you need to know about breastfeeding and intelligence
Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover
Other news
- U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from several rankings in the current 2022 edition of Best Colleges after the university failed to respond to multiple requests that it substantiate data it had previously submitted. - Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
- No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists
- Clipboard integration between tmux, nvim, zsh, x11, across SSH sessions
- Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale
- Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold
- Fluxus – 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence
- Quantum Algorithms Conquer a New Kind of Problem
- What Is a Woman, Anyway? Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths
- Founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund 3AC go missing
- How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
- RISC-V Linux on ESP32
- Learn Something Old Every Day, Part VI: Backward Buffer Overwrite
- What I learned from trying to hang Socrates
- Doom hacker gets Doom running in Doom
- Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
- Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux
Sandboxing for Linux has never been easier. - Rocky Linux 9.0
- Payload – Cross-platform desktop app for LAN file transfers
- From idea to paying customer
- The 970-Ha-Jokes Payphone Project
- “Shit Academics Say” Twitter account hacked, Twitter Support refusing help
- Horses for Main Courses: Eating Horsemeat in France
- Interactive course about “everyday” data science
Throughout my career, I’ve collected techniques for making better decisions. In this interactive course, you will participate in my life stories, and learn data science tricks for optimizing your day-to-day life. You’ll make the perfect glass of lemonade using Thompson sampling. You’ll lose weight with differential equations. And you might just qualify for the Olympics with a bit of statistics.
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In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque.
Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources. – GitHub – rebuy-de/aws-nuke: Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.
Amplify UI simplifies building accessible, performant, and beautiful applications with cloud-connected capabilities, building blocks, theming, and utilities.
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms! – GitHub – hemanth/functional-programming-jargon: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
Golang SSR-first Frontend Library. Contribute to kyoto-framework/kyoto development by creating an account on GitHub.
I am currently porting an experimental language to Windows. This experimental language was built in C++ with LLVM, and relies heavily on GCC extensions like VLAs and Compound Statement Expressions, which basically made it impossible to build with MSVC (although I have a truly horrifying idea I may attempt later). Luckily, you can now build things on Windows with Clang, which solves a lot of problems. However, clang-cl simply compiles the code – it still uses the Microsoft C++ headers and links to the Microsoft C++ runtime.
Come for an introduction to programming the GPU by the lead architect of CUDA
Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode – GitHub – winterknife/PINKPANTHER: Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode
Bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript
âI canât remember anythingâ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn’t get much startup press
Amazon has been working on a Lord of the Rings TV show for years, and they seem determined that it eclipse anything ever attempted on TV before. The comp…
Most Linux-based operating systems are fairly large — usually well over a full gigabyte in size for the base install image. Tiny Core Linux, which clocks in at a svelte 22 MB download, just release…
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel’s network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
Credentials Dumper for Linux using eBPF. Contribute to citronneur/pamspy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rogers Telecommunications said its network was beginning to recover late on Friday after a 19-hourservice outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over its industry dominance.
Apparently, the first system breakdown of a driverless robot taxi fleet occurred. In San Francisco, at least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were spotted blocking the i…
ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about – built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements.
?? Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. – GitHub – felixrieseberg/windows95: ?? Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API. – GitHub – ForeignGods/Sorting-Algorithms-Blender: Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API.
Experts believe a successful digital ID system could help businesses to unlock value equivalent to 13 percent of a country’s GDP by 2030. With this in mind, the EU is set to launch its own digital wallet framework. Here’s an overview of the EU wallet
My airpods pro microphone is not working as expected when i connect mx master 3 and mx keys to the macBook pro intel 2019. Is there any solution for that?
A fast and lightweight native programming language – GitHub – titzer/virgil: A fast and lightweight native programming language
Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of the Google Maps guessing game.
Amazon is ramping up its anti-union tactics in Canada. But union organizers say Amazon’s American-style union busting won’t work in Quebec’s pro-labor environment.
The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.
Update 27/06/2022: The PocketReform has been officially announced! More information can be found at this page.
Seriously. Someone did this. Because… why not?
New government rules force health insurers to publicly disclose what they pay for just about every service. That information could help consumers and employers know whether they’re getting a fair d…
I’m happy to share that Tabnine is successfully automating 30% (and often >40%) of the code created by over 1,000,000 developers. I would like to thank our fantastic user community.
A year ago as a result of China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency mining facilities, Bitcoin (BTC) mining became easier and more profitable.
Bored & Hungry is a magnet for fans of Bored Ape NFTs and other crypto projects. While finding a tasty burger there is no problem, paying for it with crypto is another story. 
We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.
Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively – ramblings.md
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
Dolt – It’s Git for Data. Contribute to dolthub/dolt development by creating an account on GitHub.
New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims’ computers that led to their arrest.
Introduction Rootkits are dangerous pieces of malware. Once in place, they are usually really hard to detect. Their code is typically more challenging to write than other malware, so developers resort to code reuse from open source projects. As rootkits are very interesting to analyze, we are always looking out for these kinds of samples […]
? Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker. – GitHub – radian-software/straight.el: ? Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.
Two years ago, I learned a valuable lesson about creating good UX:
Councillors have agreed an investigation should be carried out into the roll-out of a four day week for council staff – with no reduction in pay.
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Cofounder
I cover risks inherent in USD Coin and tether USD. Thanks: I want to thank Mike from DirtyBubbleMedia for help with this piece Disclaimer: I currently hold short positions against $SI and $MSTR, wh…
The crypto market has not been kind to «investors» lately. The market has been near free-fall, and within the first quarter of the year, we’ve seen so many things going south about cryptocurrencies, and it seems almost all the promises that BitCoin and cryptocurrencies promised were a lie. So what a
Reselling software can mean recurring revenue and great profit margins. But how do you choose a niche and find your first customers?
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
We’re thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience.
Would you like to build a data dashboard in 9 lines of Python code? I will show you how to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook. The dashboard will present information about stock for selected ticker (data table and chart). The notebook will be published as a web application. I will use an open-source Mercury framework to convert Python notebook to interactive web application.
Don’t hate, iterate.
Traffic safety officials escalate and widen probe to 830,000 Tesla cars as they discover patterns suggesting Tesla’s Autopilot feature can encourage dangerous driving behavior.
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
Learn how alien intelligence connects to human intelligence through science and technology using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, the ruliad, rulial space, tiny spacecraft and the Wolfram Language.
Background Research on glucosamine shows anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits with minimal adverse effects. We aimed to explore the relationship between use of glucosamine and risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality based on data from the large-scale nationwide prospective UK Biobank cohort study.
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Hereâs how we solve them at Canva
In this episode Shahriar takes a look at one of the most advanced electrical test and measurement instruments ever created. The Keysight UXR-Series Real-Time…
Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Cloning in Python with MineRL
AI models consume massive energy levels, accelerating the climate crisis. Read how neuroscience-based techniques dramatically reduce AI’s energy footprint.
An increasing number of the machine learning (ML) models we build at Apple each year are either partly or fully adopting the [Transformer…
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
The company will reportedly give the billionaire access to a trove of data. It might not solve their dispute about spam. It might also lead to an entirely new fight.
Researchesrs at the Univeristy of Cornell anyzlized AI censorship tech designed to flag racist posts, finding that minorities are most frequent offenders.
The pandemic reshaped modern life in many ways. Over two years later, we still see ongoing shifts to urban centers. With remote and hybrid work here to stay, thriving careers in the tech industry do not depend on living in traditional technology capitals such as San Francisco, Seattle, or New York.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Apple announced their new 20 billion transistor M2 SoC at WWDC. Unfortunately, it’s quite a minor uplift in performance in some areas such as CPU. Apple’s gains mostly came from the GPU and video editing side of things. 
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no-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y – GitHub – jwilk/python-syntax-errors: no-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y
A Daily guide on live streaming, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, low latency audio/video, and real-time calls, and well as their similarities and differences.
Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A sm…
There is no pre-set maximum size, but that null might be coming from somewhere else.
Relates to the sale of digital electronic equipment; requires original equipment manufacturers to provide diagnostic and repair information.
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Keyless Git commit signing with Sigstore!
Germany is prepared to stump up over $5.5 billion in subsidies to secure the Magdeburg site for its $18.7 billion 2nm fab, reports Bloomberg. Intel’s plan
Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results – GitHub – iorate/ublacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
âEffective duopolyâ holds back Britainâs tech sector and restricts customer choice, says CMA
A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agencyâs hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?
Learn how you can use the Virtualization framework to quickly create virtual machines on your Mac. We’ll show you how to create a virtual…
Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.
A project-oriented online book about Haskell
A new study has revealed how removing a common air pollutant could lead to significant gains in crop yields.
âWhat we found is actually quite fundamental,â says MIT’s Mengjia Yan. âItâs a class of attack. Not one bug.â
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
In the context of “entrepreneurial decision making”, we are still far from understanding how entrepreneurs make decisions. Therefore understanding how entrepreneurs “think” and “do” is crucial to better understand rationality in entrepreneurial decision making. A study carried out by Nidthida Lin, Ralf Wilden, Francesco Chirico, Elahe Ghasrodashti, and Dawn R. DeTiennewith with three independent samples …
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Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.
Establishes a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions; provides that such operations shall be subject to a full generic environmental impact statement review.
A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python. Contribute to faif/python-patterns development by creating an account on GitHub.
A climate change what-if Over a few beers…Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies on
Before deleting your Twitter, Facebook or Instagram account, find out what others have to say about signing out for good.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a «super bad feeling» about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of the electric carmaker’s jobs, according to an email seen by Reuters.
5314 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit, was not allowed to give a presentation after employees called her «anti-Hindu».
Learn the fundamentals of typography through this gamified walkthrough with real-time feedback and logic-based principles.
I am reading Agner Fog’s optimization manuals, and I came across this example:
Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! – bob_cassette_rewinder/README.md at master · dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix — but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we’ll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and call them back.
We’ve made a bold decision not to anchor pay to employees’ physical location, no matter where they are in the world. We’re calling this “One Job, One Pay” (OJOP).
Learn to build powerful Deep RL agents in just 4 hours