Gooooooood morning, World Wide Web!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Adventures in Drone Photogrammetry Using Rust and Machine Learning
- Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning - Lessons from a year of AI research
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team - Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels
- Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language
- Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon
- Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce
AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine - Researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring
- Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells
- Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’
- Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
Machine learning systems can now aid human intuition to create mathematical conjectures and proofs. - Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot – Unite.ai
- A Website for Learning Vim
- Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0
Blockchain and decentralization
- Mina: Cryptocurrency Protocol with a Succinct Blockchain
- Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
- Why Decentralization Matters
- The Rise of the Decentralized Startup
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lorraine Borman is an American computer scientist associated with Northwestern University who specializes in information retrieval, computational social science, and human-computer interaction. She was one of the founders of SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, and became its first chair.
Cloud and architecture
- Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
- A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture
- Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi
- An AWS Savings Plans Calculator
- Architecture in Music: looking inside musical instruments
- Anti-patterns when building container images
- AWS Graviton 3 Instances
- AWS Private 5g – 5G As a Service
AWS Private 5G is a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling private cellular networks on premises with integrated hardware and software. - AWS Redshift Serverless
- AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications
- AWS Outposts
- Release of AWS CDKv2 and Construct Hub
- “RISC V is a terrible architecture”
- AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
Development and languages
- Transcrypt – Python in the Browser
- BFree – a battery-free prototyping platform with CircuitPython for Adafruit
- GitHub Broken Download URLs
Hey Github, Something is broken with your download URLs. Previously working download URLs stopped working. Can you please fix this? This happens for many ports connecting to github. ===> Returni… - Calling Rust from Python using PyO3
speed up your Python using Rust - Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers
- Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation
- CPython’s main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly
- Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats
- Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library
- Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises
- Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
simple terminal UI for git commands. Contribute to jesseduffield/lazygit development by creating an account on GitHub. - GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”
Before Windows became a fact of life for most computer users, a scrappy upstart named GeoWorks tried taking Microsoft on. It failed, but it gave us AOL. - BetrFS: an in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage
- GitHub Copilot Labs
- Neko – Self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker and uses WebRTC
- Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1
- Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
- Organizing Virtual Offsites – Case Study from GitHub
- I built an online programming language
- Pybaobab – Python implementation of visualization technique for decision trees
- Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
How to be a pro programmer - Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control
- The big idea around unikernels
If the datacenter is the computer, then the cloud is its operating system — so let’s start treating it like one and stop micro-managing thousands of individual ones. - Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings
- Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables
- Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools
Quote of the week
UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.
— Doug Gwyn
Enterprises
- 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed
The Tesla Model Y seems like the complete package, but its active safety suite is so fundamentally flawed that the whole dish is completely ruined. - I resigned from Twitter
- Jack on Twitter: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter
- Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto
- Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data
- Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions? - Raspberry Pi Trading plans £370m+ stock market IPO
Will you invest in the UK’s best selling personal computer maker? - US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse
A regional director for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Monday called for a rerun of a union election at an Amazon.com Inc facility in Alabama, setting the stage for another high-profile organizing battle at the world’s largest online retailer. - Stripe applicants say that the company is rescinding offers after it makes them
The revoked offers are supposedly a result of «shifting business priorities» and staff reorganization. - Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife’s nudes online
- Google voluntarily de-lists The Pirate Bay
- Twitter photo-removal policy aimed at improving privacy goes into effect
- Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac instances brought the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. EC2 Mac instances […] - Podcast: Google’s ‘DeepMind’ Does Mathematics
- Google “20% time” volunteers has been working to rewrite Matrix
- Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships
- Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10
- Amazon’s Toll Road – How it funds its monopoly empire
- Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization
- “UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay
Other news
- William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
- Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL
- What I learned about interviewing
- Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise
- Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed
Backend developers on hackathons are not needed. You’ve heard that right. The main goal of the startup hackathons (or any other) is to validate the idea in a limited time that the product you build is needed by people in the room.
- Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home
- Father-son duo helped techies ‘hack exams’, earn top scores for big payday
A Delhi techie and a father-son duo from Gujarat used remote hacking skills to help at least 200 students & professionals cheat in online competitive exams and score high marks. - Metaphors we learn to program by
- US Should Create Strategy by End of ’22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste
- U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter. - An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
Today, I’m turning over Shtetl-Optimized to an extremely important guest post by theoretical computer scientists Boaz Barak of Harvard and Edith Cohen of Google (cross-posted on the windows o… - Game “While true: learn()” for free in Epic Store
- Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
India is looking to bar most private cryptocurrencies when it introduces a new bill to regulate virtual currencies in the winter session of Parliament, the government said late on Tuesday.
As most everyone knows by now, Wayfair is a major e-commerce company focused on furniture and home goods. What you may not be aware of are the many technical elements happening behind the scenes to ensure that 22 million products are delivered to you on time. This is an area I’m familiar with as I…
The cold war between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails.
The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]
Unbearably fast O(1) runtime type-checking in pure Python. – GitHub – beartype/beartype: Unbearably fast O(1) runtime type-checking in pure Python.
A year ago I wrote a post comparing .NET 5 performance with its predecessor on Fusion performance tests, and honestly, I was quite…
Git ls-files is 5 times faster than fd or find, but why?
Djinn Split Keyboard. Contribute to tzarc/djinn development by creating an account on GitHub.
This guide explains in detail how to create a tray icon app which communicates with a Windows Service over named pipes using .NET 6.
Building a modern front end in Django without reaching for a full-blown JavaScript framework. Choosing the right tools for the job, and bringing them into your project.
Top lenders, railway and NTT join trial run for blockchain-based e-money
A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming, a tribute to Dennis Ritchie's language – GitHub – agavrel/42_CheatSheet: A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution o…
VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1. Contribute to NattyNarwhal/vmwmouse development by creating an account on GitHub.
Vehicles from Tesla Inc and electric sport utilities from rival brands are among the least reliable models sold in the United States, a reflection of the risks of new technology, Consumer Reports said on Thursday.
GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo, allows anyone to create photorealistic masterpieces.
AMD cosies up to Samsung and becomes its first major 3nm customer, according to reports.
Google submits revised commitments to the CMA for the Privacy Sandbox
It’s like a Let’s Play, but for obscure software documentation.
Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web fundamentals to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience. People are gonna love using your stuff.
Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), calls Qatar’s reaction «absurd».
Everyone loves a comeback story.
A Docker image for Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4. – GitHub – hectorm/docker-qemu-win2000: A Docker image for Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4.
Have you ever been told that Python couldn’t be used for a project because it wouldn’t be fast enough? I have, and I find it a bit frustrating as big banks, YouTube, Instagram, and plenty of other places that are performance-sensitive still manage to select Python and be happy. And
To those who have been living under an anti-Microsoft-news rock for the last few days, .NET 6 and all of its associated goodies have arrived, bringing with it C# 10, performance improvements and a boatload of new features. Talk about .NET to anyone outside of the ecosystem (and some in
An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib – GitHub – rougier/scientific-visualization-book: An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplo…
Dask provides advanced parallelism for analytics, enabling performance at scale for the tools you love
A group of U.S. states led by Texas have filed an amended complaint against Alphabet Inc’s Google accusing the tech giant of using coercive tactics and breaking antitrust laws in its efforts to boost its already dominant advertising business.
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of
AMD has been working with Blender to improve support for GPU rendering in Cycles using the open source HIP API.
Weekly Top 10 lists of the globally most-watched TV and films on Netflix.
Windows 11 lets you choose your default browser, but it takes a lot of clicks and Microsoft sometimes forces you to use Edge, anyway. Firefox had a workaround, but Microsoft calls it “improper” and will soon block it.
Amazon has amassed a vast storehouse of consumer data. Internal documents reveal how it built a lobbying juggernaut that gutted privacy legislation in two dozen states.
Microsoft is rolling out a «Buy now, pay later» feature in Edge that splits online purchases into segments, powered by a third-party company.
As the year winds down, the Journal of Functional Programming gets ready to open a new chapter. From January, every article in JFP will be available under Gold Open Access. The published ‘version of record’ will be made available to all upon publication, and will be found from the journal’s homepage. Papers will be free […]
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
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…
IBM announced its new 127-quantum bit (qubit) ‘Eagle’ processor at the IBM Quantum Summit 2021, its annual event to showcase milestones in quantum hardware, software, and the growth of the quantum ecosystem. 
Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition – idea.md
It’s put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
It’s a big universe for a little rocket trying to find a home. Surprises! Danger! Fun! How far you can go before you explode, freeze or get eaten? Listen to great music while you try to beat your own score. 3…2…1…liftoff!
Play audio files from IPFS in Webamp
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning…
3D-printable hexagonal mirror array capable of reflecting sunlight into arbitrary patterns – GitHub – bencbartlett/3D-printed-mirror-array: 3D-printable hexagonal mirror array capable of reflecting…
Useful sed scripts & patterns. . Contribute to adrianscheff/useful-sed development by creating an account on GitHub.
Posted in r/firefox by u/Zagrebian • 1,038 points and 152 comments
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology.
Researching security incidents in the cryptocurrency field.
Article describing why applications based on DirectX 12 no longer work on 4th generation Intel graphics (codename Haswell)
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company’s case.
Scary new site tells Google users antitrust limits could «impact your business.»
Alphabet unit Google lost an appeal against a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for Europe’s competition chief in the first of three court rulings central to the EU push to regulate big tech.
Shares of Rivian Automotive Inc surged as much as 53% in its Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, giving the Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker a market valuation of more than $100 billion after the world’s biggest initial public offering this year.
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
Two years ago I told you about the then-new G4 instances, which featured up to eight NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances were designed to give you cost-effective GPU power for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications. Today I am happy to tell you about the new G5 instances, which feature up to eight […]
Amazon – the logistics expert the world has come to rely on for everything from groceries to furniture – abandoned an entire cart of packages meant for delivery to Forest Street in a Fernald Drive lobby on Wednesday. Amazon did not come back to redeliver them.
Nach Recherchen von Fakt und dem «Spiegel» könnte der Diebstahl von geistigem Eigentum durch SAP eine lange Tradition haben. Bereits von 1997 bis 2008 soll der Konzern in Kooperation mit Universitäten Entwicklungen von Mitbewerbern missbraucht haben.
On 19 October 2021, Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, announced the designation of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “terrorist organizations” under Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law 2016. The groups named are Addameer; Al-Haq; Defense for Children – Palestine; the Union of Agricultural Work Committees; Bisan Center for Research and Development; and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.
Linux system calls. Contribute to matheusmoreira/liblinux development by creating an account on GitHub.
If you’re on a version of Windows 11 that is build 22000 or greater, you can …
Some bondholders of cash-strapped China Evergrande Group have not received coupon payments by the end of 30-day grace periods at close of Asia business on Wednesday, sources said, pushing the developer again to the edge of default.
Hacker ‘Andrew,’ who had close ties with American intelligence services, accessed thousands of hotel reservations in Middle-Eastern countries. Booking.com did not report the data breach to customers or authorities.
Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures ?. How to defeat anti-bot system ? and get around browser fingerprinting scripts ?️♂️ when scraping the web? – GitHub – niespodd/b…
OKRs vs KPIs – learn how to measure success the right way for your SaaS product from a business perspective – with examples!
A Python Interpreter written in Rust. Contribute to RustPython/RustPython development by creating an account on GitHub.
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: Iâm moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHubâs next CEO.
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
A guest post by Abraham Sutherland on the danger to the digital assets industry if a provision in the infrastructure bill passes that would require crypto users to report names, addresses and social security numbers of the people they trade with to the government.
Threat actors are exploiting a security flaw in GitLab self-hosted servers to assemble botnets and launch gigantic distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, with some in excess of 1 terabit per second (Tbps).
A massive helper F# framework for making rapid prototyping with ASP.NET Core pleasant. – GitHub – RussBaz/WebFrame: A massive helper F# framework for making rapid prototyping with ASP.NET Core plea…
New iPhone privacy standards rocked digital advertising, raising some boats and lowering others. 
Tesla Inc is opening its charging network to other electric cars for the first time with a pilot program in the Netherlands, as the world’s most valuable carmaker looks to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream.
This video dates back to about 2010, and is the origin of the phrase «I’ve forgotten how to count that low» that was recently referenced in a blog post and o…
Employees protest against the Nimbus project, a joint initiative of Google, Amazon and the Israeli government. Several of them renounce the anonymity of the petition and at the same time reveal their Semitic nationality.
Temporary workaround for games with DRM software that can’t recognize 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor, causing games to crash or not load.
«The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.»
The story of teaching machines is deeply intertwined with Skinner’s psycho-technologies, which laid a foundation from which education technology has never entirely broken.
A Swiss court has upheld the appeal of secure email provider Proton regarding traffic monitoring and data retention.
An implementation of the exact same app in Firestore, AWS Datastore, PouchDB, RxDB and WatermelonDB – GitHub – pubkey/client-side-databases: An implementation of the exact same app in Firestore, AW…
Main software architecture patterns in a nutshell.
He criticizes Munger Hall as «a social and psychological experiment» with unknown consequences.
This reverts #22217.
Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.
Documentation for GitHub Copilot. Contribute to github/copilot-docs development by creating an account on GitHub.
In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also under legal threat. The good news: the Archive, with…
Cybersecurity experts fear that keyword warrants set a precedent for breaching the protection against unreasonable searches. Google, however, has defended their decision to respond to these warrants.
Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant’s ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers.
Payments company Stripe is putting up millions to be first in line for carbon-removal technology still being developed.
And the debug process leading up to it. Try it yourself!
Nearly 1,400 of Amazon’s police partners use Ring footage to harass Black and brown people, stoke racist fear, and expand police power. Support the call to EndRingPartnerships.com
Many of our customers are telling us they want to move away from proprietary database vendors to avoid expensive costs and burdensome licensing terms. But migrating away from commercial and legacy databases can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. When migrating your databases, you can automate the migration of your database schema and data using the AWS […]
[German]Brief information, which is already here with me since August 2021, but which I have not yet addressed in the blog. David Xanatos has pointed out to me that Microsoft is refusing to sign drivers for the new Process Hacker without giving any further reason. The whole thing is addressed on Gi
# 38% of my bug reports come from the Linux community My game – ΔV: Rings of Saturn (shameless…
Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020 that we found that he was targeted in 2018 by the Saudi Arabia-linked Pegasus operator that we call KINGDOM.
A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility written in Rust. – GitHub – nuta/kerla: A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility written in Rust.
It’s fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper- unless you want it to. The Mk IV supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.
Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einsteinâs theory of…
When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to a WSU study of Alaska Permanent Fund payments.
This is the third time C.R.E.A.M. Finance has been hacked this year.
Hi there! This is a guest post from Robert Mader, who contributed enormous improvements to Firefox’s graphics stack on Linux. TL;DR In the upcoming Firefox 94 release we will enable the EGL b…
Analogue OS is purpose built for exploring and celebrating all of video game history
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
World-renowned Hungarian psychologist, flow-theory architect Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, died at the age of 88 on Wednesday.
GitExplorer: Find the right git commands you need without digging through the web
Why am I writing this? For the last nine years, I've served as the Executive Director of the F# Software Foundation. Given the recent controversies, I have had quite a few people reach out to m…
Today we are releasing function pipelines, a new feature that allows you to analyze data by composing multiple functions in SQL – introducing a simpler, cleaner way of expressing complex logic in PostgreSQL.
This 4-episode German drama is based on the true story of ART+COM’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Google.
The rampant abuse of DMCA law is well known. In the latest, Google deletes over 3,000 articles of WheelsJoint from its search results, including the Tesla…
Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc’s chief executive Sunday, and accused the company’s top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, of either misleading Congress or possibly lying to it about Amazon’s business practices.
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
The Dutch government’s forensic lab said on Thursday it had decrypted electric carmaker Tesla Inc’s closely guarded driving data-storage system, uncovering a wealth of information that could be used to investigate serious accidents.
An online consultation for local citizens to express objections to Tesla’s huge factory near Berlin will be repeated, the regional environmental ministry said on Thursday, over concerns the process did not comply with regulations.
Right now CATL is Tesla’s sole supplier of LFP (LiFePO4) battery cells, but BYD seems to be the next on the list. According to Chinese media, Tesla has secured an initial order of…
Last Friday was my last day at Google. This article is a reflection on the last seven years of my life, thinking about what was important and what I’ll do differently in the future.
Startup creators once tended to take little or no remuneration as CEOs. Now, some are getting giant stock awards, making them among Americaâs best-compensated corporate chiefs.
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a