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AI, bots and robots
- We don’t ‘do’ learning. It does us
- An Introduction to AI Story Generation
- A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence
Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more - Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
- Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
- When America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot
Tougher (and more expensive) than Iron Man! - The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical
A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical. – GitHub – roboflow-ai/neuralhash-collisions: A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical. - Open Source Is Throwing AI Policymakers for a Loop
Machine learning isn’t just for big companies any more - 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo
This site is a proof of concept for NeuralHash collision attacks. - Google has killed Discord’s best music bot
- OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects
- When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling
Blockchain and decentralization
- Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
- Apple exec: ‘we are the greatest platform for distributing child porn’
- Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet
- Sweden must repay $1.6M in Bitcoin to convicted drug dealer
The Swedish government has to return about $1.6 million worth of bitcoin to a convicted drug dealer after the value of his illegally earned crypto soared while he sat in prison. - Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market
- Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
- Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
- Why observability requires a distributed column store
- Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE
Woman computer scientist of the week
Anna Catherine Gilbert is an American mathematician who works as the Herman Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She also holds a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan. Her research expertise is in randomized algorithms for harmonic analysis, image processing, signal processing, and large data sets.
Cloud and architecture
- George Mason professor wins Covid antibody lawsuit as vaccine exemption
- Test cross-architecture without leaving home
- Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos
- Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
- Pinterest Required to Spend $3B on AWS
- Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing
Man who tricked thousands of iPhone users into giving up their passwords admits he stole private photos and videos and shared them online. - Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021
- Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
Development and languages
- A Simple Interpreter in Python
- GitHub Issues-only project management
- Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX
- Pyret Programming Language
- TypeIt – A Versatile JavaScript Animated Typing Utility
- Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
Gitfs is a fuse file system that fully integrates with git - Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
- WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy
Windows File System Proxy – FUSE for Windows. Contribute to billziss-gh/winfsp development by creating an account on GitHub. - PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
- Conditionally setting your gitconfig
- Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
- Competitive Programming Is Useless
- An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot’s code contributions
- Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
- Influential books on Computer Science and programming
Most influential books on Computer Science/programming – GitHub – cs-books/influential-cs-books: Most influential books on Computer Science/programming - My Journey as a Self-Taught Programmer
- Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j
- Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python
- Aggregate streaming data in real-time with WebAssembly
Examples on how to use aggregate functions to calculate streaming sums, averages, and key-value updates. - Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game
- Nelua Programming Language
- Design a Camera with Python and PyRayT: Part One – Fotonix and Gizmos
- Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries. – GitHub – marceloprates/prettymaps: A small set of Python functions t… - ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation
- Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
- Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
- Portal Windows for Electron
- Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 ‘simplification’
- Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
Quote of the week
For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman
Enterprises
- Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store
Google made sure popular games stayed on the Play Store. - Intel Brings Chiplets to Data Center CPUs
- Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions
- The Tesla Semi Is an Engineering Failure
- Tesla is planning a “super long range” Model Y
Tesla is planning a “super long-range” Model Y according to documents filed with Chinese authorities. - Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
The search giant revealed it received 20,932 geofence warrants in three years. - Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
- Nvidia’s takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says watchdog
- Tesla Project Dojo Overview
- Google found guilty of infringing 5 of Sonos’ patents
Smart speaker maker Sonos just won its first victory in a year-long patent lawsuit against Google. - London civil servant’s bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
- OCaml at Bloomberg
- A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
Customer service on Amazon can’t compare to an independent bike shop. - The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas
- The Clickbaitification of Netflix
The streaming service has discovered the allure of clickbait. You won’t believe what happens next. - I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up
- Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” 1984, George Orwell Not long ago, those active in the SEO space may have noticed I got into a … Read more - S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
A South Korean parliamentary committee voted on Wednesday to recommend amending a law, a key step toward banning Google and Apple from forcibly charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases, the first such curb by a major economy. - A history of Google messaging apps: Will Google ever figure this out?
Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. - Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
- Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021
- A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80
- Apple has surpassed Facebook and Google in violating user trust
- How does Google Authenticator work?
- Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
- Google: ‘Reverse Warrants’ Becoming Law Enforcement’s Go-To Investigative Tool
- Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip
Other news
- A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe
- A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists
- The Shadowy Business of International Education
- Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
- Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system
- I’ve been programming since I was 10, but I don’t feel like a ‘hacker’
- Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
- James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79
- Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2020 and February 2021. The hacked activists included three members of Waad (a secular Bahraini political society), three members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, two exiled Bahraini dissidents, and one member of Al Wefaq (a Shiite Bahraini political society). - My dead dad’s journal
For some reason, when my brother told me our dad was dead, I immediately went and listened to my voicemails. He left me silly voicemails often and I wanted to hear his voice. I came across the last voicemail he ever left me, a month before. This one wasn’t - Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux – Ubuntu
- Free Machine Learning crash course from Google
- ‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
Legislation handing “extraordinary” new hacking powers to Australian authorities has sailed through Parliament with support from the Opposition, despite the government not implementing some of the recommendations from the national security committee. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) will now be able to access the computers and networks of those… - Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography
Toshiba Corporation is reporting a breakthrough involving a cutting-edge technology said to be «un-hackable.» The company says a research team has used quantum cryptography to securely send and store human genome data, calling the experiment a world first. - Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat - T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
- Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
- PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default. This page explains why that is important. An operating system in your best interests The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default, not Android. It is the only smartphone on the market today to ship with a fully-free and auditable operating system, from the ground up, that … - I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
After using Macs for fifteen years, I switched to Linux as my main operating system and I’m enjoying it. Here’s an introduction to Linux that may help you too. - Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
- Conversations on Quantum Gravity
- Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout
The award of more than five million Apple shares comes as Mr Cook marks a decade as the firm’s boss. - I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
- App store payments will have increased competition
- nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim – GitHub – nim-lang/nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim - Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education
- Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?
- The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
The service has reversed its ban on sexual content, but valid – and legal – forms of expression for sex workers are still under threat, says author Jillian C York
For the more than 5 million people in the world who have undergone an upper-limb amputation, prosthetics have come a long way. Beyond traditional mannequin-like appendages, there is a growing number of commercial neuroprosthetics—highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle signals and robotically mimic their intended motions.
Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX. – GitHub – AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX: Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX.
Can you verify that these two images collide? Here's what I see from following your directions: $ python3 nnhash.py NeuralHash/model.onnx neuralhash_128x96_seed1.dat beagle360.png 59a34eabe3191…
How to build your own AI art installation from scratch – GitHub – maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art: How to build your own AI art installation from scratch
Preimage attack against NeuralHash ?. Contribute to anishathalye/neural-hash-collider development by creating an account on GitHub.
NeuralHash is the perceptual hashing model that back’s Apple’s new CSAM (child sexual abuse material) reporting mechanism. It’s an algorithm that takes an image as input and returns a 96-bit unique identifier (a hash) that should match for two images that are «the same» (besides some minor perturbations like JPEG
Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Today, Tesla builds not only all-electric vehicles but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products.
Tesla announced that it is actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks. No, it’s not a joke. At its “AI Day” today, Tesla released many details about its progress to develop AI technology to power its […]
Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol. – GitHub – gitsrc/IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol.
Amazon S3 turned 15 earlier this year, and Amazon EC2 will do the same in a couple of months. Today we are celebrating the tenth birthday of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The First Decade Let’s take a walk through the last decade and revisit some of the most significant IAM launches: May 2011 […]
I’ve come to be somewhat known as a “math guy” in creative coding. It’s one of my impostor syndrome items because I’m really not any kind of expert in the field. I took Algebra and some Precalculus…
Take a rip-roarin’ tour through hundreds of PRs worth of performance improvements for .NET 6.
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.
Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.
User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don’t have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out any…
U.S. auto safety regulators on Monday opened a formal safety probe into Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) driver assistance system Autopilot after a series of crashes involving Tesla models and emergency vehicles.
«Alchemist» will be Intel’s first serious dedicated gaming GPU. 
Today we’re announcing a variety of new policies and updates to help keep kids and teens safe as they spend more time online.
Today, we are excited to announce preview availability of Amazon Genomics CLI, a tool for genomics and life science customers to process genomics data at petabyte scale on AWS enabling population level genetic studies, faster drug discovery, and more. In this blog, we take a brief look at how to use Amazon Genomics CLI with […]
Pixel 4a 5g and Pixel 5 are discontinued. As the launch of Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 pro is ready to be in the coming weeks, Google is making room for new devices
As the semiconductor industry sees a growing need for mature process nodes, speciality technologies […]
«We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred.»
Canada’s Advisory Committee on Open Banking has handed its three year investigation on the country’s potential for open banking.
Speaking during a conference call about the firm’s Q2 results, United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia outlined plans to accept crypto payments this 
A theoretical analysis suggests that quantum gravity effects might manifest themselves as detectable random fluctuations in the motion of freely falling bodies.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor ion Egypt. They say it dates back to the golden age of the pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago.
If you haven’t been following the action on Twitter, you may or may not have noticed I vanished from Facebook and Instagram. That was just the beginning. In this post I’ll run you throu…
“My habitual email checking was key to my problem,” this postdoc writes
They force you to look at the world the way an AI does
Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity.
An argument that it is time to re-think our approach to natural language understanding, since the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is implausible and both technically and theoretically flawed..
Utilizing recent advances in machine learning, we introduce a systematic approach to characterize neuronsâ input/output (I/O) mapping complexity. Deepâ¦
How did Ethereum become a system that looks more like the current financial system than anything revolutionary and just?
As political demonstrations show the world that Cubans are tired of dictatorship, Bitcoin is providing an option to peacefully protest and opt out of a broken system.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users’ entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the online iCloud service.
Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file – GitHub – seligman/aws-ip-ranges: Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file
Follows this logic for verifying a connection to Elasticsearch:
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
Traccar SMS Gateway for Android. Contribute to traccar/traccar-sms-gateway development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is in the public domain. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com (Prologue) BOOK I: GENESIS 1. Dark Satanic Mills (Interlude א: The Cracks In The Sky) 2. Arise To Spiritual Strife (Interlude ב: The Code of the … Continue reading →
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
Git password authentication is shutting down
Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker – GitHub – landaire/unfuck: Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker
? Compose Key for Windows. Contribute to samhocevar/wincompose development by creating an account on GitHub.
President Carlos Alvarado on Wednesday signed into law a project that seeks to attract remote workers to Costa Rica.
Mustafa Suleyman is now just two steps away from CEO Sundar Pichai
Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a company pay calculator seen by Reuters.
Next generation Intel C/C++ compilers are even better because they use the LLVM open source infrastructure. . I discuss what it means for users of the compilers, why we did it, and the bright future.
Talk about a magic trick. One moment, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was holding forth from behind his sturdy kitchen counter. The next, the kitchen and everything in it slid away, leaving Huang alone with the audience and NVIDIA’s DGX Station A100, a glimpse at an alternate digital reality. For most, the metaverse is something seen Read article >
They describe themselves as “apolitical” hackers who want to end Belarus’ “terrorist” regime and ensure equal rights for all. But the actions of Cyberpartisans, a group of Belarusian hackers who claim to have secured access to the passport data of millions of Belarusians, raise questions about…
Traditional MapReduce is a «batch» processing framework, but what if we could adapt MapReduce to real time data processing?
Hackers exploited Poly Network on DeFi exchanges Polygon, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Poly Network is a cross-chain protocol for swapping tokens across various blockchains.
In encoded messages, the hacker claimed to be «hacking for good.»
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
In my lifetime I’ve tried a dozen todo apps. In the beginning they all seem different, novel and special
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades. One of these new-but-actually-old ideas is the idea of a mechanical bricklayer, a machine to automate the construction of masonry walls.
Environmentalists have criticised the gas-fired mine but the company says it offsets its emissions.
The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden’s infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could…
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Str…
The video conferencing firm denies wrongdoing, but has agreed to boost security measures.
Contribute to langjam/langjam development by creating an account on GitHub.
To my surprise, I recently found out about 2 new additions to the list of high-level commands: git restore and git switch
Simple python source refactoring toolkit based on AST – GitHub – isidentical/refactor: Simple python source refactoring toolkit based on AST
Better font rendering for Windows. Contribute to snowie2000/mactype development by creating an account on GitHub.
At the risk of alienating most of the readership of this magazine, here is a confession. I hated Python for a very long time. My issue was not with the language per se, even though the indentation …
→ Listen to this story on Racket. “You just learn one thing, and that’s the browser,” quipped Bill Gates while showcasing the then-upcoming Windows 98. The empire that Microsoft had built piecemeal—software languages here, DOS and Windows there, Office and a software ecosystem tying it all together—was suddenly
The non-profit defender of software freedom has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of GitHub’s AI-driven coding assistant. 
Some of the now deleted comments accused Microsoft of being tone-deaf, while others harshly criticized Windows 11’s controversial hardware requirements. The company now tries to get the displeased owners of incompatible hardware back under control.
Google’s common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. – libphonenumber/FALSEHOODS.md at master · google/libphonenumber
JSKIDPIX v1.0.2021
A rare tear-feeding moth discovered in Brazil could help explain the bizarre behavior and whether it harms the birds.
[German]Owners of Microsoft Office 2010 who are still using this package should realize that this product has not only fallen out of Microsoft support, but can also no longer be re-activated in case of a fresh install. Microsoft seems to refuses now to activate the product after a re-install, as I h
The large battery fire that started at Moorabool on Friday has been brought under control.
The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May. 
4,149 votes and 468 comments so far on Reddit
Some allegations potentially center around accessing Google user or employee data.
The Official U.S. House website of Congressman Mark Takano of California District 41
In this post I discuss how you can upgrade a NAS Server by adding Thunderbolt 3 for lightning fast connectivity at 20 or 40Gbps. This particular implementation is specific to an Apple Mac Mini M1 an
This school year, tens of thousands of college students in the US and Canada will enjoy the convenience of mobile student IDs in the Wallet app.
Shooting glass beads across the inside of a satellite could probe the limits of quantum wave behaviour. Here’s how.
Learn programming tools fast. Then remember them.
The Valley Village resident said she had gone to the 101 overpass on Gower Street to distribute sandwiches and water to people living at the encampment.
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce. Triton makes it possible to reach peak hardware performance with relatively little
University of Surrey professor secures landmark after the UK, Europe and the US refused applications
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year.
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
If you are using Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) to access the AWS Management Console, web-based services such as Amazon Chime or Amazon Honeycode, or other parts of the AWS web site (AWS Documentation, AWS Marketing, AWS Marketplace, or AWS Support), it is time to upgrade to a more modern & secure browser such as […]
As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack – front-end, back-end…
I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended I have read https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/…
Please provide the following information qBittorrent version and Operating System 4.3.3, Windows 10 20H2, What is the problem Windows Security / Virus & threat protection – blocks / removes exi…
A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint. – GitHub – amirgamil/apollo: A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint.
The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit. At each step, you say either git bisect …
Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) by 2025.
From time to time Microsoft decides to block or even silently drop emails that are sent by my selfhosted email server. It’s always a pain and takes a lot of effort to deal with it. This time I decided to…Read more ›
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Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance types to favor those built on AWS Nitro System, and added “Networking” to the title. Let’s go back to the summer of 2006 and the launch of EC2. […]
A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.
Language learning app Duolingo Inc (DUOL.O) notched a valuation of $6.5 billion after its shares surged nearly 40% in the company’s Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, becoming the latest education technology startup to impress Wall Street.
A few months ago, after finally having received the new disks for our new Ceph cluster, we decided to benchmark them, so we could tune our cluster to get the best performance out of it, but that’s a story for another time.
As part of this year’s DEFCON AI Village, we’re trying something radical by introducing the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty competition. 
A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort. – GitHub – scandum/fluxsort: A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort.
The lie from ad tech is that there’s no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a âspeech neuroprosthesisâ that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.
The fast galley probably sank during an earthquake in the 100s BCE.
Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project – GitHub – erikgrinaker/toydb: Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project
IPFS-Less IPFS
While working on taproot support for transactionfee.info, it became apparent that there already exist a few Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs on mainnet. Anyone can spend these outputs, but they are non-standard and thus not relayed between nodes in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network. However, a mining pool can include non-standard transactions in their block. We cover the six P2TR outputs already present on mainnet and explain why the outputs can be spent by anyone before taproot activates.
Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spe
In the thirteen years since it was founded, Harvard University’s Nieman Lab has developed a reputation for thoughtful explorations of digital trends in journalism and incisive critiques of how reporters and editors go about their business. The Lab’s founder, Joshua Benton, and Harvard, are now facing scrutiny of their own. A former journalism professor has […]
A glimpse of the coming paradigm shift in how we do development
Making neural nets uncool again
Video editing with Python. Contribute to Zulko/moviepy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Two months ago my younger brother asked:-bhaiya I want to learn how to make a website, can you please help me.
Learn how to bring multithreaded applications written in other languages to WebAssembly.
In this blog post, Jean Yang talks about why there aren’t more «deep tech» developer tools startups. Jean debunks myths about lack of budget or developer buying power—and focuses on how we can all work together to use deeply technical solutions to solve major developer problems.
False MS Windows Defender positive of DeCSS DVD decryption software as a virus.
GitHubâs supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.
This is the story of how all non-admin users can read the registryâââand so elevate privileges and access sensitive credential informationâ¦
This weekend, Tesla started offering their long-awaited Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199/month. Along with the package, Tesla is offering a $1,500 hardware upgrade for early owners who have old hardware that is not capable of full self-driving tasks. The problem is, Tesla previously told those same owners that their cars were capable of full […]
The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to open its network of superchargers to other electric vehicles later this year, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter.
Unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers
ESP32 IoT processor supports up to 8MB PSRAM which makes it just enough to run a minimal version of Linux. There’s little practical application for it,
Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. But the ugly truth…
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances – GitHub – microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Hungarian targets include media owner Zoltán Varga and his acquaintances, the son and lawyer of former oligarch Lajos Simicska, and several investigative reporters.
Square now offers business banking for small businesses. ✓Manage Cash Flow ✓Checking & Savings Accounts ✓Small Business Loans
After a successful testnet deployement, the London upgrade is now ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. It will go live on block 12 965 000, which is expected between August 3-5, 2021. Client Versions In order to be compatible with the London upgrade, node operators will need to…
We have a much better understanding of physics than we do of consciousness. I consider ways in which intrinsically mental aspects of fundamental ontology might induce modifications of the known laws …
As citizens around the world are confronted with the severe curtailment of political, economic and cultural freedoms associated with COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and/or vaccine passports), new risks to economic freedom and prosperity are quickly emerging which citizens must be aware of and remain vigilant about. One of these risks which is developing with rapid pace are Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). According to a Bank of International S
Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Python for Excel is an O’Reilly book by Felix Zumstein.
? Hosting your own email forwarding service on AWS and manage it with Github Actions – edmundhung/maildog
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM. Contribute to diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz development by creating an account on GitHub.
The release of GitHub Copilot raises questions about potential copyright infringement and license compliance issues.
The original source for Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker’s 1981 masterpiece “Defender” has been put on GitHub this week! The source code can be assembled into an executable that you c…
Sundar Pichai says AI will change the world – and defends Google’s record on tax, privacy and data.
This is what people are fighting for.
France’s antitrust watchdog slapped a 500 million euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday for failing to comply with the regulator’s orders on how to conduct talks with the country’s news publishers in a row over copyright.
In the new report âThe Amazon Panopticon,â UNI Global Union catalogues the various methods Amazon uses to pile pressure on workers through extreme surveillance and monitoring.
12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All! Contribute to microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners development by creating an account on GitHub.
Software engineer Manu Cornet says Google went from being like Disneyland to like any other profit-driven company. 
Intel Corp (INTC.O) is in talks to buy semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc for about $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.
The Key Master game machine has been a target for years
To win first place at a hackathon, you need to combine multiple components… and that’s not always possible. Here’s how to make the most of your next hackathon without coming in ‘first place’.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform.
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