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AI, bots and robots
- TclTutor 3: Computer aided instruction package for learning the Tcl language
- Quantum complexity tamed by machine learning
- In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice
- AI is changing chemical discovery
- An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
- My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
A Home Assistant Love Story - Some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting
- Eric Schmidt plans to give A.I. researchers $125M
- AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
- Some argue that synthetic data can make AI systems better
- Difficult situation on campus. Traffic jam of automated food delivery robots
- ‘Simple’ AI Can Anticipate Bank Managers’ Loan Decisions to over 95% Accuracy
Blockchain and decentralization
- How Texas is becoming a Bitcoin mining hub
- A (joke) cryptocurrency where you get paid to scalp
- More Than Half of Bitcoin Investors Are in the Red, Study Says
- Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization
The - The Stacks 2.0 blockchain implementation in Rust
- Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow: How a Dream Life Turned into a Nightmare
My husband started a cryptocurrency empire that made us rich. When he died, I learned it was just a facade - Navigating Privacy on Public Blockchains
- Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared
Woman computer scientist of the week
Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American computer scientist, former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at George Washington University and first Senior Faculty Fellow of the North Carolina (NC) Study Center. She currently teaches at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Computer Science and the School of Information and Library Sciences.
Cloud and architecture
- Video Game Project Management Anti-Patterns
- All Google Cloud product in this periodic table
- AWS S3: Why sometimes you should press the $100k button
- Reversle – Find the words given Wordle pattern and the solution word
- How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare (and why you should)
Development and languages
- Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs
- State of Rhombus
- Automatic Musical Composition with Python
- Virtual machines with KVM on Pixel 6 and Android 13 DP1
- JavaScript Knowledge Map
- 20 Years of .NET
- Upcoming Python Features Brought to You by Python Enhancement Proposals
- WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP)
- What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory by Ulrich Drepper
- LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
- State of JavaScript 2021 is out
- State of JavaScript 2021
- Unikernels
- 3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently failing unit tests
- 1Password for SSH and Git
Introducing 1Password for SSH & Git (Beta), the single source of truth for all your SSH keys. With 1Password, you can: - Track down the JavaScript code responsible for polluting the global scope
- The Privacy Sandbox on Android
- The Harsh Truth of Video Games Programming
I’ve been interested in games programming since I started learning programming as a teenager more than 25 years ago (gasp!) I started with Qbasic and Gorillas.bas, but never understood the code. Of course, I didn’t get anywhere at the time, beyond very basic games. I wrote a simple Shoot - Programmable Filament
- C# Raw String Literal Proposal
- Deploy to DigitalOcean from Glitch
- GitBOM is a minimalistic scheme for build tools to build a compact artifact tree
- My Remote Mob Programming Experience
- Windows 11 settings rewritten in React Native
- Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
- GStreamer 1.20: Embedded and WebRTC lead the way
At the forefront of contributors for this latest release, our team’s work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC. - Faster Python calculations with Numba
Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library. - WebRTC support is being added to OBS
- How to write better scientific code in Python?
Quote of the week
XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.
— Heard from someone working at Microsoft
Enterprises
- Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
- My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
- Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […] - Google Search Is Dying
- Dutch foundation seeks consumer damages over Apple, Google app payments
Apple and Google face a potential class action lawsuit in the Netherlands over app store charges, after a foundation headed by Dutch entrepreneur Alexander Klöpping began gathering claimants. - Google Release Chrome OS Flex
- Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B
- Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users
MFA can protect your Office 365 accounts, but attackers are looking to compromise this security feature through new threats such as Push Notification Spamming. Learn more about MFA fatigue and how to mitigate attacks in this article. - The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Family’s Bank Accounts
https://gofund.me/8950f458 - Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent
- Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
- Works in Progress has joined Stripe
- Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub. - Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub. - Why can’t Google find answers though they are right under it’s nose?
- Logging at Twitter
How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way. - Why you should switch to Brave from Google Chrome
- Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors
- Netflix Announces 4 New Dave Chappelle Comedy Specials
- Google Maps ToS can be summarised as: Don’t use it
Other news
- Scientists create quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory
- Has Literature Ever Changed the Course of History?
- GhOSt: Fast and Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling
- Simula One – Linux VR Computer
- Facebook Pay
- The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman
- White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, fixed a major flaw that would have permitted an illegal and continuous creation of ETH tokens. According to sources, - Learn Rust with Too Many Linked Lists
- A Look at Low-Risk Ways to Learn Crypto
- Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
The first Android 13 developer preview may have felt a bit underwhelming, but there’s a hidden gem with full virtualization possible on hardware such as - GiveSendGo Has Been Hacked
- “A Pleasure to Burn”: We Are Closer to Bradbury’s Dystopia Than Orwell or Huxley
- Why Won’t Anyone Teach Her Math?
- Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack
- Blockfi agrees to pay $100M in penalties and pursue registration
- Andromeda Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game using HTML5, Canvas, Web Audio
- JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows
- San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam
- How SoftBank’s costly bet on the ‘internet of things’ backfired at Arm
- Duke University and IonQ Develop New Quantum Computing Gate
- Hello Many Worlds in Seven Quantum Languages
- In 2001, I said “I use Linux” to RMS’s face
- Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
The patient’s transplant in New York City could help researchers who are developing gene therapies to cure HIV. - GoIP-1 GSM gateway could be harnessed for phone fraud by hackers
- The Seductions of Clarity
- A new wave of Linux applications
With the start of the new year, we can see a new trend delineating Linux software. Phosh with its newbord libadwaita, KDE’s Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started. After all, even laptop screens are not too big - Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage
- Uniting the Linux random-number devices
- Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A
- Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux
- What I Learned During My Three Days Offline
Mostly, I use the internet to delay the rest of my life - Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99m pay package
- EU wants to completely ban anonymous payments with crypto assets
EU: There should be identification requirements for crypto-asset transactions in all amounts. Crypto transactions in Europe must be tracked. - A Saudi woman’s iPhone revealed hacking around the world
A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the worldâs most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world. - ‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity – no way to stop them
âZero-Clickâ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. Thereâs Practically No Way to Stop Them
Emerging evidence indicates that gut microbiota is important in the regulation of brain activity and cognitive functions. Microbes mediate communication among the metabolic, peripheral immune, and central nervous systems via the microbiota–gut–brain …
NWJS wrapper for a wider project. Contribute to dynamite-ready/movie-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.
I’ve been playing with GPT-3 to see if it can automatically write comedy that makes me laugh – spoiler alert: it can
Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.
Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!
Western Digital Corp said on Wednesday certain materials at two of its manufacturing units in Japan, operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corp, were contaminated and will result in reduced availability of flash storage devices.
SoftBank Group Corp has shelved its blockbuster sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp valued at up to $80 billion citing regulatory hurdles and will instead seek to list the company.
Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone, empowering merchants in the US to accept contactless payments.
Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
“We are often told of B.S.E or STEM students exploring the humanities to their heart’s content, but I feel that we rarely hear of students in the humanities being encouraged to take scientific classes.”
Despite the boasts of Google and OpenAI about their human-like chatbot models, algorithms lack the understanding needed for a true conversation.
It is my belief that you, the postgraduate students and job-seekers for whom the book is primarily meant will benefit from reading it; however, it is my hope that even the most experienced research…
Summary: In 2021 I learned Smalltalk, mostly using the lovely Pharo implementation. While the syntax of the language is quite nice, it…
After the Twitter space Q&A @logankilpatrick hosted yesterday on “The future of machine learning and why it looks a lot like Julia,” I thought it would be useful to accumulate some community responses to a few questions about the current state of machine learning in Julia: Where does ML in Julia really shine today? Where do you see the ecosystem outperforming other popular ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Flax, etc) in the near future, and why? Where is Julia’s ML ecosystem currently inferior in f…
PostgreSQL query planner is full of surprises, so a common-sense approach to writing performant queries is sometimes misleading. In this blog post, I’ll describe examples of optimizing seemingly obvious queries with the help of EXPLAIN ANALYZE and Postgres metadata analysis.
Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others.
Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is independent of any infrastructure. It exists – and is hundreds of years old.
When the AI Research SuperCluster is fully built it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, the Facebook parent says.
A U.S. company is suing B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner, saying orders against it are unreasonable and unenforceable as B.C laws do not apply to it.
Mathematics for Robotics. Contribute to michiganrobotics/rob501 development by creating an account on GitHub.
A low cost MRI scanner may have the potential to meet clinical needs at point of care or in low and middle income countries. Here the authors describe a low cost 0.055 Tesla MRI scanner that operates using a standard AC power outlet, and demonstrate its preliminary feasibility in diagnosing brain tumor and stroke.
Mobile ZK Puzzle Game with NFT rewards. Contribute to nalinbhardwaj/wordlines development by creating an account on GitHub.
On decentralization, servers and cryptography
Ongoing mining craze is actually affecting how some products are designed.
At a large company there are thousands of different internal URLs, from multiple development environments, workflow tools and HR systems…
Uncensorable, immutable microblogging platform that is completely decentralized and does not rely on any centralized systems, only the Handshake blockchain – GitHub – publiusfederalist/zooko: Uncen…
When I speak about the inefficiency of popular blockchains, or mention that we seem to be hurtling towards a 
I show how price manipulation to liquidate traders is done in cryptocurrency markets. I point fingers at people. Thanks to Coinstrats for allowing me to use their order book data for the analysis. …
Contribute to jaybobo/jaybobo development by creating an account on GitHub.
A public letter to Cloudflare to fix their snoopy vendor – hello-cloudflare/README.md at main · captn3m0/hello-cloudflare
Match Group (owner of Tinder/Hinge and 50+ other dating services) are suing
The maker of the popular game «PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds» says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company made rip-off versions of its game, and Apple and Google have refused to stop selling them.
How it took us almost five years and multiple failed projects to grow a sustainable and almost bootstrapped SaaS.
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of «the cloud». I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved
Our AWS CloudFront bill spiked to $2,457 in October 2021 from $370 in September. Switching to Hetzner saved us over 100x.
The pattern of green and black scales on an ocellated lizard can be described with the two-parameter Ising model for antiferromagnetic systems.
In a recent ruling, the Austrian data regulator declared the use of Google Analytics unlawful based on EU GDPR regulation. While the ruling is very specifically argued and worded, its implications go well beyond this particular case.
Game reviews to help you find good games that don’t trick you into addictive gaming patterns.
An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python – GitHub – seemoo-lab/opendrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
You shouldn’t ever lose your work if you’re using Git – GitHub – tkellogg/dura: You shouldn’t ever lose your work if you’re using Git
docs about ReDroid projects. Contribute to remote-android/redroid-doc development by creating an account on GitHub.
? Disintegrate your windows with style. Contribute to Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
Iceraven Browser. Contribute to fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser development by creating an account on GitHub.
We found that 5% of the 666 Python open source GitHub repositories we checked had the following three comma-related bugs caused by typos:
Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u…
Window.js is an open-source Javascript runtime for desktop graphics programming. – GitHub – windowjs/windowjs: Window.js is an open-source Javascript runtime for desktop graphics programming.
IPython is a powerful Python REPL that gives you tab completion, better tracebacks, multiline editing, and several useful features on topâ¦
It was developed in a secret lab and released, after which it spread rapidly. COVID? (maybe …). But I’m talking about the new PyFL interpreter. It’s finally available for the gene…
A tiny, reactive JavaScript library for structured state and tabular data.
Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. – GitHub – Textualize/rich: Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
Visual scripting framework for python – https://wonderworks-software.github.io/PyFlow – GitHub – wonderworks-software/PyFlow: Visual scripting framework for python – https://wonderworks-software.gi…
Development is rarely a linear process, and our commits tend to reflect this. Here you’ll learn about a git flow for faster PR reviews and an keeping your git history organized.
Windows 11’s nerfed taskbar is nowhere near as capable as Windows 10’s. Why did Microsoft remove so much functionality for an OS designed for work?
A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites.
What do you think about when writing a new function in Python? The function name, parameter names, optional/required parameters, and default arguments are all on the list. Here is a simple Python f…
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions – GitHub – dcmoura/spyql: Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions
The blockchain business model has made headlines for sensational ploys. But in quieter corners DAOs are forging a promising new ecosystem for digital startups.
The uncompromising code formatter.
An open-source tool for visual and modular block programming in python – GitHub – Bycelium/PyFlow: An open-source tool for visual and modular block programming in python
After 10 years of using WordPress as a CMS, as the platform moves to FSE – Full Site Editing – it’s time we said goodbye.
We’re excited to announce that Stripe’s VS Code extension for Sorbet is now
Background Almost two decades of research produced mixed findings on the relationship between celebrity worship and cognitive skills. Several studies demonstrated that cognitive performance slightly decreases with higher levels of celebrity worship, while other studies found no association between these constructs. This study has two aims: (1) to extend previous research on the association between celebrity worship and cognitive skills by applying the two-factor theory of intelligence by Cattell on a relatively large sample of Hungarian adults, and (2) to investigate the explanatory power of celebrity worship and other relevant variables in c
Tesla has begun building the next generation of Model Y with singular front and rear body castings.
The head of Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit, Lars Findsen, has been remanded in custody over his involvement in a case of «highly classified» information leaks, public broadcaster DR reported on Monday.
We welcomed the opportunity to participate in the White House Open Source Software Security Summit today.
My personal thoughts on the web and programming.
Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior
We have a video to accompany our recent Lenovo Vendor-Locking AMD Ryzen CPUs piece and a new suggested framework for AMD PSB in the future
Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoftâs Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud. REDMOND, Wash. and Santa Monica, Calif. â Jan. 18, 2022 â With three billion people actively playing games today, and fueled by a new generation steeped in the joys of interactive entertainment, gaming is now [â¦]
It appears that Intel’s partnership with TSMC is much larger than it first seemed; the implications for Intel as whole are massive.
Due to recent rulings on the GDPR, Google Analytics users are under fire
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ruled that Austrian website providers using Google Analytics are in violation of the GDPR. Find out what you should do if you are using Google Analytics.
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the ‘never-ending journey’ to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
Intel Corp said on Friday it would invest up to $100 billion to build potentially the world’s largest chip-making complex in Ohio, looking to boost capacity as a global shortage of semiconductors affects everything from smartphones to cars.
Europe’s second-top court on Wednesday rejected a 1.06 billion euros ($1.2 billion) EU antitrust fine handed down to U.S. chipmaker Intel twelve years ago for trying to squeeze out a rival.
Swiss bank UBS has agreed to buy U.S.-focused automated wealth management provider Wealthfront, which has more than $27 billion in assets under management, in an all-cash deal the two companies said was worth $1.4 billion.
Intel Processor Trace is a hardware technology that can record allprogram execution flow along with timing information accurate toaround 30ns. As far as I ca…
Researchers from the University of Illinois developed GPU-accelerated software to simulate a cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell.
Pradeo’s researchers discovered a malicious mobile application called 2FA Authenticator distributed on Google Play and installed by 10K+ users.
Farewell cruel world:
Understanding the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in cloud infrastructure, startup strategy, and the future of software.
Tesla Inc will recall 53,822 U.S. vehicles with the company’s Full Self-Driving (Beta) software that may allow some models to conduct «rolling stops» and not come to a complete stop at some intersections posing a safety risk.
More Twitter users will be able to downvote content soon
Tear-downs via CT scans. Monthly updates.
Our 8th most-read article of 2021.
Harsh lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
This post describes the inner workings of LatencyFleX, which is a set of libraries that achieves latency reduction for video games, made as a vendor-agnostic alternative to Nvidia Reflex.
A surprising new solution to Leonhard Eulerâs famous â36 officers puzzleâ offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.
In December 2021, we discovered a new multi-platform backdoor that targets Windows, Mac, and Linux that we have named SysJoker.
$ ssh jobs.hackclub.com. Contribute to hackclub/jobs development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the third part of its exclusive investigation, The Wire analyses the activities of a ‘Tek Fog’ operator who used the app to automate abuse and engineer Twitter trends to communalise public conversations on the platform and subject women reporters to abuse.
NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trickâuntil the company blocked their access.
We started a complex, continuous and not always linear operation, that is to migrate, where possible, most of the servers from Linux to FreeBSD. Here’s why.
Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.
A surge in identity theft during the pandemic underscores how easy it has become to obtain people’s private data. As hackers are all too happy to explain, many of them are cashing in on it.
Political attitudes that have become increasingly polarised could be prevented by the redistribution of wealth, a new study by the University of St Andrews suggests.
Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux – GitHub – bottlesdevs/Bottles: Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux
The killings have sparked massive protests by journalists around Mexico.
Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom’s attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.
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Wormhole has been hacked for about $320 million, or 120,000 ether — making it the second largest DeFi hack to date
Or how to play YouTube videos on you SONOS, easy and for free.
When I was young, I had a piggy bank. A piggy bank is incredibly secure. It’s fairly big – so it is hard to lose. It is brightly coloured – so you can find it easily. No one else …
Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configura…
Boston Dynamicsâ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
Python3 to Crystal Translation using Python AST Walker – GitHub – nanobowers/py2cr: Python3 to Crystal Translation using Python AST Walker
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it’s time for a proper Temporal API
English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers…
Long Now 10-second Intro animation Conceived by Alexander Rose, James Anderson and Chris Baldwin | Sound by Brian Eno The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have
I found that TLS registers are different in 64 bit Windows (GS) and Haiku (FS). NtCurrentTeb() mov %gs:0x30, %r13 static inline void** get_tls() { void** tls; __asm__ __volatile__ («movq %%fs:0, %0» : «=r» (tls)); return tls; } So I tried to implement setting GS base in kernel and got some success. Cmd is already working. No GUI yet. Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\win…
widevinedump has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Our hope is that this guide to Twitter will be useful to you, wherever you are in your Twitter journey.
I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. The world comes to life when I’m surrounded by ideas.
EDIT: I can’t change the title, but this appears to be more serious than a bad update. Read on…. —————————————————— Just wondering if any other…
Japan will compensate companies to keep secret patents with potential military applications under proposed legislation, the Nikkei reported on Sunday, without citing sources.
Normally, moving involves packing your goods and transporting them to a new location. However, one guy in San Francisco gave the phrase …
The only resource you need to read to learn about ASTs in Python, and the superpowers they give you.
United Airlinesand Spirit Airlines Inc are bumping up pay for on board staff as they scramble to keep schedules intact after U.S. airlines were hammered by a week of mass cancellations.
DeepMind’s model, with just 7 billion parameters, outperformed the 178 billion-parameter Jurassic-1 transformer on various language tasks.
By Emma Young. But timing matters: students only benefited if the second viewing was immediately before a test.
This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP – but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program. Background Suppose you want to support an artist and give the…
The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack.
A delightfully blockchain-free tool for licensing your art.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vetoed two proposals to offer bitcoin exchange-traded funds, dealing a blow to market participants who had hoped the agency would green light the effort after approving futures-backed bitcoin funds in October.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will suspend work with Alibaba Cloud as a cybersecurity threat intelligence partner after the firm reported a critical security flaw to Apache.
The Netherlands’ top competition regulator on Friday said Apple Inc broke the country’s competition laws and ordered changes to the iPhone maker’s App Store payment policies.
I’m sure many programmers, particularly web developers have heard of the RSA cryptography system. RSA is an asymmetric cryptography system, meaning that one key is used for encryption and the other for decryption. I’ve seen a lot of articles explaining the general principles of asymmetric cryptography, but I have not
Helping you find european alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SASS products.
Python Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible notebooks – GitHub – pathbird/poetry-kernel: Python Jupyter kernel using Poetry for reproducible notebooks
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Microsoft Team’s link preview feature is susceptible to spoofing and vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery. Team’s Android users can be DoS’ed and, in the past, their IP address could be leaked.
New documents detail how Chinese officials tap private businesses for online information campaigns, offering a rare glimpse into how China’s vast bureaucracy works to spread propaganda online.
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A Bell-like experiment that discriminates between real-number and complex-number multipartite quantum systems could disprove real quantum theory.
Japan’s Yamagata University says it has found a drug effective in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The Ethereum blockchain is essentially a transaction-based state machine. We begin with a blank state, before any transactions have happened on the network, and move into some final state when tran…
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You can operate Windows with key bindings like Vim. – GitHub – pit-ray/win-vind: You can operate Windows with key bindings like Vim.
The World3 model revisited in Python. Contribute to cvanwynsberghe/pyworld3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrame library completely written in Rust, using the Apache Arrow memory model. It exposes bindings for the popular Python and soon JavaScript languages. Polars supports a full lazy execution API allowing query optimization.
A comprehensive visual history of Microsoft Windows Control Panels from 1985 to 2021. See a gallery of the Microsoft Windows Control Panels evolution from the beginning to present day.
Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results – GitHub – iorate/uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
How do YouTube, Google Search, and Google Play instantly find what you want in the vast sea of web content? Try the demo and find out. Hint: it’s vector search.
Reddit Inc, whose message boards became the go-to destination for day traders during this year’s meme stock frenzy, said on Wednesday it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering with U.S. securities regulators.
Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis, ripping off its roof and causing 11-inch thick concrete walls longer than football fields to collapse on themselves.
A tweet was sent from PM Modi’s account with a URL falsely stating that India had officially adopted Bitcoin as the legal tender.
When the company went public this past week, ex-staffers learned something alarming: they were unable to sell the stock that they had waited years to trade.
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Semantic Search.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Real earnings turned sharply negative the last two months after eeking out gains over the summer.
Alexander the Great tread in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
The machine-learning techniques could benefit other areas of maths that involve large data sets.
Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain. – GitHub – ethereum/fe: Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain.
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead. 
A small-town effort to take a stand against Big Tech has turned into a national movement.
Shell scripting for serverless. Contribute to crucial-project/serverless-shell development by creating an account on GitHub.
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We can add suggesting and proving mathematical theorems to the long list of what artificial intelligence is capable of: Mathematicians and AI experts have teamed up to demonstrate how machine learning can open up new avenues to explore in the field.
In Firefox 95, we’re shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas
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Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
Amazon is avoiding supply chain chaos by making its own containers, chartering ships and leasing long-haul planes to get goods from China to the U.S. faster
Amazon’s logistics investment makes the company increasingly attractive to 3rd party merchants.
The U.S. securities regulator has opened an investigation into Tesla Inc over a whistleblower complaint that the company failed to properly notify its shareholders and the public of fire risks associated with solar panel system defects over several years, according to a letter from the agency.
Microsoft could move slower to ship better code, discontinue old features (like Apple), or get its customers to a good security baseline (like Google).
Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros ($1.28 billion) for alleged abuse of market dominance, in one of the biggest penalties imposed on a U.S. tech giant in Europe.
Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers. – GitHub – intoli/exodus: Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without contain…
Crypto exchange BitMart has reportedly been hacked for $100 million, according to security researchers PeckShield.
If you find yourself having to put C++ in the Linux kernel, this post offers some great experienced-based guidance to help you get going and to help you avoid some major problems.
The number of journalists jailed around the world set another record in 2021. Invoking new tech and security laws, repressive regimes from Asia to Europe to Africa cracked down harshly on the independent press. A CPJ special report by Editorial Director Arlene Getz. Published December 9, 2021 NEW YORK It’s been an especially bleak year…
In this week’s Maphead column, Ken Jennings explores the «Autonomous Monastic State» of Greece.