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AI, bots and robots
- Beewise pulls in $80m investment for robotic beehives
- Learning math? Think like a cartoonist
- Solopreneurs Are Changing the Face of the Economy
- Exploring Neural Networks Visually in the Browser
- How Neuromancer formed the Cyberpunk Aesthetics
How Neuromancer from William Gibson birthed Cyberpunk - A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years
- Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. âCollecting more data often helps,» he says. «But if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.â - Birds Make Better Bipedal Bots Than Humans Do
- AI predicts if and when someone will experience cardiac arrest
Blockchain and decentralization
- PCIe Ethernet in Thunderbolt docks (how to avoid Realtek)
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto for an Eyeball Scan
- Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Welcome to Videoâs customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldnât have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoinâs anonymity.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Vicki Hanson FACM FRSE FBCS, is an American computer scientist noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2018 having served as its President from 2016 to 2018.
Cloud and architecture
- SPF Protected Spammers in the Public Cloud, Spamware to Spamtraps, SSH Groping
- “Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures, 2019 edition
- Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Altra Arm CPUs
- Intel took an AMD Zen microarchitecture presentation and turned it into a patent
- In Defense of Simple Architectures
- AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-In HTTPS Endpoints for Lambda
Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API Gateway and Application Load Balancer. But sometimes all you need is a […] - Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
- Denonia: The First Malware Specifically Targeting AWS Lambda
- Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
- AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
- Mutagen – Cloud-based development using your local tools
- Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’
Development and languages
- What are you doing, WordPress.com?
- Book Review: The Programmer’s Brain
- What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
- Digital models preserve game show history
- Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
- Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile
NGINX Open Source 1.21.4 introduces support for kernel TLS (kTLS), which boosts performance by significantly reducing the need to copy data between user space and the kernel. We provide complete instructions for enabling kTLS in NGINX and share results of our performance testing. - The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
This article is also available in Dutch Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. One that supported and enhanced the work you do, telling - Looking at Zig Programming Language
- pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
Fast, disk space efficient package manager - 35mm cinema film and digital audio
- We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
- Writing a NetBSD Kernel Module
- λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
- Entire website in a single JavaScript file
- Retype: A self-hosted and free alternative to gitbook
- You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/Await Considerations
- Use Git tactically
- The full Windows 95 launch event video is finally online
- The United States Digital Corps
The United States Digital Corps. Empowering early-career technologists to build a more effective, equitable government. - GitHub Text of government takedown notices as received
- 3D model file thumbnails for Windows Explorer
Quote of the week
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match
Enterprises
- Intel becomes the first to offer full AV1 support with its new Arc GPUs
- Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter
- Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
- There’s no way to report spam on Google Drive
- Netflix Should Sell Ads
- Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft
- Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
- Amazon’s Project Kuiper books 83 rockets to launch internet-beaming satellites
- Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
- The next Google
- Evaluating Graviton 2 for data-intensive applications: Arm vs. Intel comparison
- Twitter is adding an edit button
- Twitter Bluesky: A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. The conceptual framework we’ve adopted for meeting this objective is the «self-authenticating protocol.» - Redditle.com – For those of us who add ‘Reddit’ to every Google search
For those of us who add ‘reddit’ to every Google search - The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option:
Not a walled garden like Facebook or Instagram where you either don’t see any content at all or are bombarded with “sign up to continue” popups after scrolling down more than ten pixels. Not horribly confusing and overwhelming for people that don’t use it regularly like Reddit, be it the old or the bad design. - Stripe 2021 Business Update
- iFixit and Google Are Launching a Genuine Pixel Parts Program
- List of 3.9k Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
- Drone footage of Tesla factory
- Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
Other news
- How we secure Monzo’s banking platform
Our Security Infrastructure team introduces the principles we follow to build security in Monzo’s fast-moving engineering environment and how they work with other engineering teams to keep our customers and platform safe. - Women and their hair transformed South Korea
- Review: HP’s smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
- Regolith Linux
- Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas. - Learn about Concept Maps
- Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button
- Ride a Bird scooter. Have an accident. Pay a mighty price
- Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them - First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
- Sky Mavis Raises $150M to Help Reimburse User Losses Stemming from Hack
- Devs of bcachefs try to get filesystem into Linux again
- Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
- What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details. - Barclays Puts in Sensors to See Which Bankers Are at Their Desks
- You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement learning. Please star. ? – GitHub – AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL: FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement le…
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by
How can you tell when software uses the Neural Engine in an M1 series Mac? How much power does it use, and what is Espresso? Mysteries unravelled.
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
The following is the source code to Wipeout by Psygnosis, a futuristic racing game set in 2052, which ended up as a launch title for the PlayStation in Europ…
2k code solutions with clear explanation @ onelinerhub.com – Issues · Onelinerhub/onelinerhub
An experience report.
I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test.
Killed by Microsoft is the open source list of dead Microsoft products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Microsoft.
Google Workspace admins can no longer deactivate activity tracking for their users, Google says this is helping people.
developed for NYU Tandon’s Applied Cryptography course – GitHub – oconnor663/sha256_project: developed for NYU Tandon’s Applied Cryptography course
It saves weight, energy, and space
? I respect proton UI and aim to improve it. Contribute to black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix development by creating an account on GitHub.
Unprivileged sandboxing tool. Contribute to containers/bubblewrap development by creating an account on GitHub.
There is a terrifying and highly effective «method» that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments…
Wacom devices are being adopted in many Linux enterprise environments beyond the creative industry. Finance, banking, medical, and public sectors are commonly adopting Linux solutions with pen-based workflows.
All our inner workings exposed!
Due to bots buying out certain high-demand items, such as the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, we are now requiring a verified account with two-factor authentication, 2FA, enabled for purchase. We are worki…
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world’s smallest API-driven cloud – to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites
We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Windows to succeed – it’s a great OS that, despite it’s naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues.
Enemies is a cinematic demo showcasing Unity’s latest advancements for rendering high-end digital humans and implementing a strand-based hair solution.
Dedication to the cause
I wanted a way to have physical tickets from GitHub in front of me. One Epson printer, a Raspberry Pi, and some PHP later, I had a working system in place.
The government says the tech giant is hiding business documents by misusing attorney-client privilege.
Mercedes will accept full legal responsibility for the vehicle whenever Drive Pilot is active. The automaker hopes to offer the system in the U.S. by the end of 2022. 
A CPU Purpose-Built for Servers Running Terabytes of Data
Credit Kudos, a UK open banking startup that helps lenders make better decisions, has been acquired by US tech giant Apple.
Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers. Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to pay with either Spotify’s payment system… Read more »
Over a decade of annual screening, half of all women getting 3D mammograms will experience a false positive, a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open found.
We need to shift our focus from disrupting markets to creating them
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use
Restaurants say blue “order online” button saps profits, diverts customers.
My journey on finding and reporting databases with sensitive data about Fortune-500 companies, Hospitals, Crypto platforms, Startups during…
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15th March 2022 Being an experienced Twitter user is like being what comedian Jasper Carrott once said of Ed Doolan: “world-famous in Birmingham”. You have a great deal of knowledge abo…
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof.
Universal Analytics is sunsetting next year. Prepare now by moving over to the next generation Analytics solution, Google Analytics 4.
Contribute to google/h2e_technical_documentation development by creating an account on GitHub.
Project ‘Iliad’ put multiple layers of questions and offers between the main Amazon page and the final cancellation
The State Bar of California, which earlier said a «hack» led to a months-long online disclosure of 260,000 confidential attorney discipline cases, instead now blames the breach on an âunknown security vulnerabilityâ in its own database.
What happened to Mavis Beacon?
Partial Executer is a brand-new LLVM optimization pass that uses an Interpreter-like engine to prove some code will never be executed, making it safe to eliminate it. In this article, I will explain the ideas behind it, the engineering challenges, and the results of this work. LLVM basics Some basic understanding of LLVM internals will…
Firmware flash Samsung SSD or NVMe directly from Linux without needing broken Samsung ISO boot environment!
The antiparasitic drug has received attention from celebrities including Joe Rogan.
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Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
S.E.P.I.A. – Your own extendable, personal, intelligent assistant.
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
Anatomy of an AI System – The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)
Google Cloud Armor provides a rule-based policy framework that can be used by customers of the Google Cloud Platform to mitigate various types of common web application attacks. The Cloud Armor service has a documented limitation of 8 KB as the maximum size of web request that it will inspect. The default behavior of Cloud Armor in this case can allow malicious requests to bypass Cloud Armor and directly reach an underlying application.
This article is not intended to convince you to abandon your current antivirus solutions. In this post I would like to share my observations and ways to improve the effectiveness of Defender. You don’
For the past few months, we've been working hard to improve the Pull Request experience. One of the features we're most excited about: Pull Request File Tree. The new tree: Improves ease of…
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 – GitHub – microsoft/GW-BASIC: The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
Mandiant has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google.
Learn about using twitter.com on older browsers.
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Twitter is pushing users toward the algorithmic feed.
The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.
Twitter client for UEFI. Contribute to arata-nvm/mitnal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic fields, or laser beams).
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, March 5th 2022 and I can’t help myself, so here’s an edited and revised version of an imaginary conversation I had earlier…
DasherA is a rewrite of my Data General DASHER terminal emulator in Ada using the GtkAda toolkit and only Gtk3 elements. – dashera/LessonsLearnt.md at 10ab6e4ece8ea1c16ad055c063c5e743d89cd6bc · SM…
Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has grown to be very popular in public-key cryptographic systems, most popularly used in Bitcoin. ECC isâ¦
We are excited to add support for .NET 6 to Lambda. It’s fast to get started or migrate existing functions to .NET 6, with many new features in .NET 6 to take advantage of. Read the Lambda Developer Guide for more getting started information.
Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products ? – GitHub – RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives: Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS p…
Anyone can now provide additional information and context to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
Javascript can do a lot, but it’s really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let’s have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript (or a backend) – from animated diagrams to dark mode.
The most versatile way to manage containers locally – GitHub – afroisalreadyinu/miniboss: The most versatile way to manage containers locally
A GitHub repository was public-viewable We’ve recently become aware of an inadvertent private-to-public viewable GitHub repository that could have enabled unauthorized access to information about c…
Largely thanks to the tireless work of Iain Buclaw, the D programming language is part of GCC. As well as having access to an extremely potent set of compiler optimizations and a large group of tar…
Panasonic Corp said on Monday it will begin mass production of a new lithium-ion battery for Tesla Inc before the end of March 2024 at a plant in Japan.
A modern social platform for the book community. Finally, a book platform that’s worth writing home about. It’s about time, isn’t it?
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
Video-game developer Epic Games announced that it has bought Bandcamp, the online music store and community geared around independent musicians. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Fa…
Alphabet Inc’s Google from April 4 will require employees back about three days a week in some of its U.S., U.K. and Asia Pacific offices, its first step to end policies that allowed remote work because of COVID-19 concerns.
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Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released.
A new study finds that high in rainforest trees, insects live in ecosystems that vary wildly from the forest floor on up.
Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, will vote against ratification of tech giant Apple Inc’s management remuneration plan after an advisory firm urged investors to act, the fund’s manager said on Sunday.
Less than 4 years – that is how much time it took for Hristo Borisov, Boyko Karadzhov, and Konstantin Dzhengozov to turn their fintech solution
A new report from Seedcamp reveals average founder salaries in Europe. How much are your peers paying themselves?
Why the landslide loss for San Francisco’s school board is a victory for American meritocracy
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should â and can â be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.
Her method was meant for the public. Then it became a privilege.
A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful – GitHub – martinvonz/jj: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Prominent AI researchers should take accurate science communication more seriously.
By Maryam Clark, science writer Image: Okrasiuk/Shutterstock.com Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of dea…
AI DJ Project#2 Ubiquitous Rhythm is an improvisational DJ performance that uses AI to generate musi…
Intel unveiled BonanzaMine, its first-generation blockchain accelerator ASIC effort.
A minimal chat example using js-ipfs in the browser.
A federal grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment today charging the founder of BitConnect with orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme. BitConnect is an alleged fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform that reached a peak market capitalization of $3.4 billion.
No wonder Steam stopped taking cryptocurrency.
It is a good time to be in tech right now: soaring salaries, daily LinkedIn recruiter spam, people bootcamping their way into career switches to tech, remote work allowing you to work for a major tech company making triple digit salaries from the beach. It really feels like every single company is trying to recruit programmers nowadays, and doing whatever they can to get them.
We’re saying goodbye to the Bethesda.net Launcher this year. Starting in early April you’ll be able to migrate your games and Wallet to your Steam account. For more details on what this process will look like, read on. 
The government’s action is troubling enough, but what should really disturb us is the ease and invisibility with which it is being done. When we can’t see the consequences of government conduct, the risks of government misconduct increases.
The Windows 8 tablet experience organized its components as a collection of layers, with each layer stacked on top of the next one. For the purpose of today’s discussion, the important layers are the Start layer and the Apps layer: If you’re using an app,
A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications. – GitHub – microsoft/reverse-proxy: A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.
I released a new tool this week: google-drive-to-sqlite. It’s a CLI utility for fetching metadata about files in your Google Drive and writing them to a local SQLite database. It’s …
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they…
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I think I’ve come up with a novel hack for the challenge of getting your company to financially support the open source projects that it uses: reach out to the …
Scalapay lured in an all-star group of foreign investors, with China’s Tencent and New York’s Willoughby Capital leading the round
The government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country’s hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops, according two people involved in the project.
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