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AI, bots and robots
- AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain
- Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
A recent lawsuit has prompted Sci-Hub to stop uploading new papers. - Archive and genealogy of all Quake 1 bots
- The Future of Deep Learning Is Photonic
- AI Explorables: big ideas in machine learning, simply explained
- How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
- Killer Flying Robots Are Here. What Do We Do Now?
- The AI Wolf That Preferred Suicide over Eating Sheep
A private musing over an AI experiment gone wrong unexpectedly sparked off a culture and ethics debate in China. - AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones
- YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study
- Ideas in statistics that have powered AI
Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia, and Aki Vehtari, a computer science professor at Finland’s Aalto University, recently published a list of the most important statistical ideas in the last 50 years. Here, they break it down in easy-to-understand terms. - Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly. - Not school or homeschool, but modular learning
- We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI
A proposal to ban AI research by treating it like human-animal hybrids - Out of Africa’s midlife crisis: bottlenecks, crashes, and diversity
- Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support
Local Push
Receive push notifications without going through the internet, directly from your HA server and without affecting rate limits. You can read more about this in the documentation.
iOSReq…
- GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It
- Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs
- AIeyes: Walking simulator where the world is seen through a realtime neural net
Neural network walking simulator. (GAN/ pix2pix) - Fast modeling of turbulent transport in fusion plasmas using neural networks
Blockchain and decentralization
- Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
- Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive
- Bitcoin mining heating NY lake and emitting greenhouse gases
- Some locals say a Bitcoin mining operation is ruining one of the Finger Lakes
- “Like a Hot Tub” Bitcoin Mining Effect on Seneca Lake
- Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains
- TSB bans cryptocurrency amid fraud concerns with Binance and Kraken
- JanusGraph – Distributed, open source, scalable graph database
- “We’re all criminals now” – South Africa cryptocurrency users
â¦local South African tech writer Jan Vermeulen wrote an article on MyBroadband titled âMoving Bitcoin overseas from your wallet is a⦠- Explaining Blockchains to Developers
- Cryptocurrency Jokes Get Serious
- Deep in rural China, Bitcoin miners are packing up
- No more DSLs: Implement and deploy a distributed system with a single program
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns – jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension - Miniflare – Local simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
- New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more - Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
- Pentagon cancels $10B Jedi cloud contract
- Pentagon Scraps $10B Cloud Deal Award to Microsoft
- Apple’s “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication
Apple’s “iCloud Private Relay” breaks risk based authentication (RIBA). You should get rid of your RIBA process and start towards the passwordless journey. - Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma
- Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level
- I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse
- Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective
- Quest for “green” cement draws big name investors to $300B industry
- AWS Lambda Behind the Scenes
Development and languages
- Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
- Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions
- GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
- Abandoning GitHub
- Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices
- Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
Forensic Architecture’s Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group. - Geohot/twitchcore: A RISC-V core, first in Python, then in Verilog, then on FPGA
- Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL’d software?
- Terrible Programming Features from the Past
- Devlog – converting this WordPress site to Bedrock itself
- Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust + WebAssembly – Casey Primozic’s Blog - The Programmer’s Brain
Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code.
In The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition you will learn:
Fast and effective ways to master new programming languages
- GitHub Copilot giving outdated code
I have been trying to generate code with the help of GPT3 from few months now and recently got access to a better product called Github copilot.
Github Copilot is an VS Code extension which can autocomplete your code and also synthesize code by se… - Visual Python – open source visual Python code generator
GUI-based Python code generator. Contribute to visualpython/visualpython development by creating an account on GitHub. - Concepts for JavaScript developers to know
- GitHub Copilot generates valid secrets
- GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
- Git vs. Fossil: What you should have done vs. What you did
- Music for Programming
- Measuring memory usage in Python: it’s tricky
- The future of programming with certified program synthesis
- GitHub taking company wide wellbeing days July 5-9 and 6 Fridays in Jul/Aug
- Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone
- JSPatcher, a web-based visual editor to build JavaScript and WebAudio apps
- A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim
magit for neovim. Contribute to TimUntersberger/neogit development by creating an account on GitHub. - How to Migrate a Git Repository from GitHub to Bitbucket
- The Reason for Windows 11
- Programming Language Memory Models
- Programming Languages + Human-Computer Interaction: SPLASH 2020
- Flash your ESP32 from the browser using JavaScript
- macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel
Management of kernel extensions has changed significantly in Big Sur and later. This overview for users contrasts kexts with user-level extensions which are replacing them. - Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java
- Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Windows Flaw
Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that’s been dubbed «PrintNightmare,» a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft’s normal… - Open-source real-time transcription playground (React, Python, GCP)
- Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
- A simple lazy Python Calculation Engine (with spreadsheet demo)
Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub. - GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license
- A New Python Linter
- How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind
This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and… - Crypto Scammers Rip Off Billions as Pump-and-Dump Schemes Go Digital
- Git-power: emPOWer your commits with bespoke hashes
- Python Module of the Week
- Metaprogramming custom control structures in C
- F# Is the Best Programming Language Today
- A Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash
Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash – not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash - Advice on the privacy and personal data protection aspects of a digital euro
- SpacersJS – My first JavaScript Library for no-code tools
Speed reading skills to quickly comprehend new code
Techniques to unravel the meaning of complex code
Ways to learn new syntax and keep it memorized
Writing code that is easy for others to read
Picking the righ
Quote of the week
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
— John Carmack
Enterprises
- Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
- Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development
- You Need to Quit Twitter
- Leaving Google
- Tesla Says Autopilot Makes Its Cars Safer. Crash Victims Say It Kills
- Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says
- Welcome to dystopia: getting fired from your job as an Amazon worker by an app
- How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?
- One-on-one calls with your followers on Twitter
- Open 3D Engine Open Sourced by Amazon
- Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
- More Than 30 States Sue Google over ‘Extravagant’ Fees in Google Play Store
- Connect your bank account to Google Sheets
- Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
- Google Internal Comics
- Google “bought off Samsung” to limit app store competition, 36 states allege
- Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication
- German region to fine Tesla for illegal construction
- The Amazon Personal Games Policy Is Ridiculous
- Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan
- 80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
- Apple Maps. vs Google Maps
- A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot
- Is Amazon’s Stock Price Justified? What It Means If It Is
Other news
- PowerTOP – diagnose issues with power consumption and power management on Linux
For PowerTOP saving power on IA isn’t everything. It is the only thing! PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled these settings. PowerTOP User’s Guide - John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff literacy lessons
- On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others
- Iron Finance’s DeFi bank run – and how Mark Cuban got ‘rekted’
Iron Finance, once a DeFi darling, went from billions to bust in a day. Should investors have seen the crash coming? How stable are algorithmic stablecoins? - Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up
- Quantum Computing just got desktop sized
- Linux Rust Support
- Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996-Ish)
- Kaseya Hack: Incident Overview and Technical Details
- Strong quantum computational advantage using a superconducting quantum processor
- Wild birds learn to avoid distasteful prey by watching others
- What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?
- Armed Afghan women take to streets in show of defiance against Taliban
- China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide
- I learned that stadiums can have different ads depending on channel and country
- Juul, The e-cigarette company, bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to âproveâ that its product has a public benefit. - MIT OpenCourseWare
Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds. Free course notes, videos, instructor insights and more from MIT. - Programmers, Teach Non-Geeks the True Cost of Interruptions
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone whose job is in sales. A lot of the day is probably spent on the phone […] - Linux Audio Is Dead
- 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said on Sunday his banking business may begin using bitcoin, becoming the country’s first bank to start accepting the cryptocurrency.
The price of SafeDollar (SDO), an algorithmic decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin based on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain.
The internet nowadays is ephemeral. Layers upon layers of trusted 3rd parties are necessary to distribute content online. It requires ongoing maintenance and is susceptible to censorship or hostile takedowns. In this blog post, I describe the steps I took to host my blog in a trustless, permanent, and censorship-resistant way using the IPFS network and Ethereum blockchain.
A comprehensive list of books on Software Architecture. – mhadidg/software-architecture-books
A fun and tricky JavaScript quiz
The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft’s business.
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally
Don’t do it like GitHub Copilot!
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…
Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. But…
Windows 11 Home will now require both internet access and a Microsoft account in order to set up the PC. Nope.
Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM takeover via DHCP flood – gain root access by getting SSH keys added by google_guest_agent – irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec
Our Leadership Principles are more than inspirational wall hangings
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The recent shutdown of two Amazon delivery companies in Portland appears to be the first public example in the United States of such companies using their leverage to protest against Amazon. 
Apple and Intel will be the first customers for TSMC’s 3nm process, reports the Nikkei, with Intel securing the higher volume. The process is due to enter
Dozens of minimal operating systems to learn x86 system programming. Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 host in QEMU 2.10 and real hardware. Userland cheat at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-modu…
These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free.
Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers…
Twitter shares a technical analysis of its assessment for potential bias in its image cropping algorithm as part of its efforts to be more transparent around how it uses machine learning to improve pe
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
Itâs overratedâboth financially and emotionally
This Masterclass covers robots in fiction, robot arms used in manufacturing and the overarching concept of how robots are being used in the world.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held virtually at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today marked the official launch of Perlmutter – aka NERSC-9 – the GPU-accelerated supercomputer built by HPE in partnership with Nvidia and AMD.
Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Researchers explore how an amphetamine and a psychedelic help parasitic fungi spread their spores through insects’ doomed mating attempts
Experts say fatal flaws in the methodology of many machine learning papers make it hard to have faith in published claims.
In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up…
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to…
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics.
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PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency
TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which brings a myriad of improvements that have been theorized for years. But now that the Beacon chain has been running for a few months, we can…
NVIDIA announced today that it’s halving the hash rate for Etehereum cryptocurrency mining on the new GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards to make them less desirable for miners.
The Biden administration’s tax enforcement proposal would require that cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and would more than double the IRS workforce over a decade, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.
Elliptic follows the $7 Billion in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 and is still being laundered through darknet markets and privacy wallets
Police say they raided the building thinking they were going to find a cannabis farm.
A model checker for implementing distributed systems. – stateright/stateright
It is the first country in the world to make the move, following a proposal by its president.
Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology and built using the spare capacity all around us.
Attorney Jeremy Hogan gave his legal assessment of the top five cryptocurrencies naming Tether and Binance Coin as at risk.
This month the country announced plans to become the first nation to make the cryptocurrency legal tender.
API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single point of entry for all our apps and provides a
My newsletter Le Courrier du hacker (3,800 subscribers, 176 issues) is 3 years old and Mailchimp costs were becoming unbearable for a small project ($50 a month, $600 a year), with still limited revenues nowadays. Switching to the Open Source Mailtrain plugged to the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) will dramatically reduce the associated costs. …
An excerpt from Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance.
Fast & simple framework for building web applications – easafe/purescript-flame
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Bit-sync is a utility for synchronizing arbitrary data using the rsync algorithm in pure js – claytongulick/bit-sync
You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple II, an early 8-bit computer, at my elementary school. When I first met her, my turtle, she didn’t do much. […]
With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
What is Researchhub
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…
GitHub Awesome: Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub
I’ve got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements are
Burn it all down…for GDP growth!
The PYthoN General UnIt Test geNerator is a test-generation tool for Python – se2p/pynguin
The European Union (EU) is set to unveil plans for a bloc-wide digital wallet on Wednesday, following requests from member states to find a safe way for citizens to access public and private services online, the Financial Times reported.
This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things. Not guaranteed to catch everything. Review and tweak before running. Reboot aft…
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. – norvig/pytudes
I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given the integer 1000, you want 4. It is effectively the integer logarithm in base 10. On computers, you can quickly compute the integer logarithm … Continue reading Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
Abstract Syntax Tree is an extremely useful tool. It provides a tree representation of a source code, that can be traversed to parse the code while understanding the code’s language constructs. In this article, we explain how we have used ASTs to write IntelliPatch scripts that can…
You no longer need an iPhone or Mac.
Current version: v1.1.3 (released 2021-06-23, see release notes below.) Lockdown is a preventative measure for use against malware/ransomware attacks, which works by leveraging Windows Software Re…
Highlights
How to use aligned word vectors from fastText from to translate words from one language to another instantly.
Microsoft’s official Windows 10 support documentation has just added more fuel to the fire of rumors that quickly spreads around the upcoming big Windows
Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line – chriskiehl/Gooey
Recently I was doing some work decoding the new Galileo High Accuracy Service data. In short, this new service will allow Galileo (“European GPS”) users to achieve decimeter-level accuracy, which is nice. This “HAS” data is transmitted highly redundantly by making good use of Reed-Solomon encoding.
A new type of shell. Contribute to nushell/nushell development by creating an account on GitHub.
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, …
? Organic Maps is an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe founders. …
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
Give your developers flexible features for project management that adapts to any team, project, and workflow—all alongside your code.
C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables) – MichalStrehovsky/bflat
The last 12 months or so have been rough times for Google Stadia. Lawsuits, its main first-party development studio shutting…
Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics. – mikecao/umami
By segregating macOS background tasks on Efficiency cores, M1 Macs can run user apps unfettered on their Performance cores. And that feels really fast.
Microsoft has said that it investigated Mr Gates’ attempt in 2000 «to initiate an intimate relationship».
Michael Burry is long puts against 800,100 shares of Tesla or $534 million by the end of the first quarter.
High-resolution images of Israel and Gaza are available, so why not via public mapping tools?
Microsoft has open-sourced today a tool that can be used to build lab environments where security teams can simulate attacks and verify the detection effectiveness of Microsoft security products.
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Tomtop and Mpow are also caught up in an alleged attempt to trade products for fake positive reviews
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Xbox Touch Controls shine on the Surface Duo.
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A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that broaden the attack’s initial impact.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O)will buy MGM, the fabled U.S. movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.
Tech executives warned that democracy has to win the AI arms race, in a new BBC Panorama.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will officially step down from his role as chief executive on July 5, he announced during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday. 
Newer Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will no longer be labeled as having some advanced safety features after the automaker said it was removing radar sensors to transition to a camera-based Autopilot system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Wednesday.
Despite layoffs at Mountain View-based Loon LLC, displaced workers at the Alphabet moonshot that was created to bring the Internet to remote places are finding jobs with the tech titan, which owns …
A couple in Colorado was left shocked after Amazon delivered an empty box instead of the Sony a1 worth $7,000 that they ordered — and then refused to give them a refund. As reported by PetaPixel and The Denver Channel (skip to 1:03), Bill and Kelly Chiles ordered the Sony a1 back in mid-March and waited patiently for it to arrive. Upon delivery, they opened their package and were confused to find two boxes for the Sony a1, both of which were empty. Upon contacting Amazon, the company insisted that the product had been delivered and refused to offer a refund.
A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ that is anything but free.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it supports a proposed U.S. legislation to legalize cannabis at the federal level, and would drop weed-testing requirements for some recruitments.
Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.
A union-led group says Amazon’s injury rate is twice that of its closest competitor.
Full Changelog
Microsoft Round Island One has no employees except directors
Android 12 makes interest-based advertising obsolete to set off an irreversible collapse in Facebook’s ad ecosystem
US intelligence officials have found no evidence that unidentified flying objects encountered by US navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft but cannot explain what they are, a
At some point, the house of cards begins to topple over. It’s no secret that the x86 processor architecture is almost aged enough to collect a pension. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a c…
Nigerians are reporting they cannot access the site on their phones after the government suspension.
Google said it had agreed on changes to improve its online ad market after being fined by France’s competition watchdog.
Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though.
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AMD recently unveiled 3D V-Cache, their first 3D-stacked technology-based product. Leapfrogging contemporary 3D bonding technologies, AMD jumped directly into advanced packaging with direct bonding and an order of magnitude higher wire density.
By Alok Tiagi, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan, Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan
Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks.
Like IP addresses, FLoC IDs will not be entirely static. However, it is likely that the same FLoC IDs or range of IDs will be associated with someone.
Stripe Tax vous permet de calculer et de collecter la taxe de vente, la TVA et la GST sur vos transactions Stripe. Immatriculez-vous dans les pays appropriés et collectez automatiquement le montant de taxes exact.
Seattle – A 37-year-old Bothell, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 26 months in prison for securities fraud due to his insider trading activity, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.
Google’s experiment to hide parts of a site’s URL in the Chrome address bar (the Omnibox) has failed and has been removed from the browser earlier this week.
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By bringing Google Workspace to everyone, we’re making it easy for people to stay connected, get organized and achieve more together.
Stripe Identity vous permet de confirmer de manière programmatique l’identité de vos utilisateurs dans le monde entier afin d’empêcher les attaques des fraudeurs tout en fluidifiant l’expérience des utilisateurs légitimes.
The UK competition authority says it has launched an investigation into the mobile phone market.
Most of Amazon’s properties including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com and Zappos.com are preventing Google’s tracking system FLoC.
Back in November, Google announced that it would start testing end-to-end encryption in Messages for Android. After being limited…
Stripe Reader is an easy-to-use mobile card reader designed for fast, secure payments.
Stripe Terminal est un système de point de vente qui vous permet d’harmoniser vos canaux en ligne et hors ligne. Découvrez comment accepter des paiements par TPE avec le système de Stripe destiné aux points de vente.
Hello, Ubuntu repositories seems to be broken, specifically I am getting '404 not found' for any .deb from apt update Err:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20.04/prod focal/main amd64…
A look at Amazon’s culture of writing and reading
The cruelty is the point
Google sent me an email informing me that they will change the country associated with my account in 30 days. What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to change, the only difference will be in how my data is processed. Privacy alert! I found how to make a Country Association Inquiry to dispute this.
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This has been attempted multiple times before, but we’ve not seen it done at highway speeds or for such a long distance as in this video.
World-renowned technologists move into key leadership roles to accelerate Intel’s transformation.
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DeFi / Crypto – 2 for 1, thatâs Value DeFi – The first protocol to feature twice on the rekt leaderboard. First seven million, and now ten million dollars taken, as Value DeFi gets rekt cross-chains.
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that…
In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not…
The high-lift wing configuration of SE Aeronautic’s new SE200 also gives it short takeoff and landing potential.
Read writing from Donald G. McNeil Jr. on Medium. New York Times, 1976â2021. Global health beat 2002â2021. Last assignment: lead reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic. Donaldgmcneiljr1954@gmail.com.
Facilitating ransomware payments to sanctioned hackers may be illegal, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday, signaling a crackdown on the fast-growing market for consultants who help organizations pay off cybercriminals.
How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
Ida Nelson says lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together. «It’s something that we in Igiugig do constantly, like almost every day.”
An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise.
Learn how we build Outer Wonders for Linux using our custom game engine.
guidebook idea from http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=10882&page=1 – psenough/teach_yourself_demoscene_in_14_days
Nations demand the dissident’s release, after a MiG-29 escorts the Greece-Lithuania flight to Minsk.
Siemens acquires Supplyframe. We DM’ed Siemens and emailed our Hackaday / Supplyframe contacts to see if Siemens also acquired Hackaday and Tindie (we will update this post when/if we find ou…
Users across the world will be able to choose whether to hide the Like Counts on their app.
Betaljätten Klarna, som har 87 miljoner kunder globalt, har just nu stora tekniska problem. Användare av bolagets app såg andra kunders betalningar samt personuppgifter, innan den stängdes ned helt. Enligt vd:n Sebastian Siemiatkowski är haveriet självförvållat.Tillsynsmyndigheten Finansinspektionen, FI, har bett Klarna förklara vad som hänt. 
I’m drunk and I’ll probably regret this, but here’s a drunken rank of things I’ve learned as an engineer for the past 10 years. * The best way…
The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters.
More and more websites are relying on JavaScript for the interactions they provide. It enables pleasant experiences but also comes with undesirable effects:
Booking.com said on Friday that it will repay the 65 million euros it received in Dutch State aid, national broadcaster NOS said.
Martin Edwards et al. use data spanning from 1958â2017 from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey of the North Atlantic Ocean to examine krill distribution and abundance in conjunction with sea surface temperatures and show a 50% decline in surface krill abundance with no associated range shift. These data show that where the northern and southern distributions were previously separated by 8° of latitude, they are now separated by 4°, indicating a warming-induced range constriction.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Maybe …
Learn how to protect your SaaS applications with the SaaS CTO security checklist. Doing the basics goes a long way in keeping your company and product secure.
Well, never mind. I do have a problem with Tim Ferriss, just like I have a problem with anyone who touts the spiritual benefits of minimalism and simplicity, while holding a net worth that floatsâ¦
Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the brakes on dengue fever, trial finds.
Automaker also plans to offer video games that drivers can play while charging.
Python users who upgrade to recently released pyarrow 0.12 may find that their applications use significantly less memory when converting Arrow string data to pandas format. This article details some of what is going on under the hood, and why Python applications dealing with large amounts of strings are prone to memory use problems.
Mark Moore wants to bring well-made, affordable underwear to Pakistan – he just has to get past the men.
Starting this fall, I’ll be pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Here’s how I think Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through the program.
After a long and tough year, I’ve been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school students. Before the pandemic, I co-wrote a grant to teach Python programming to middle school students using Raspberry Pi computers. Like many other plans, COVID-19 put mine on hold for over a year. Fortunately, vaccines and the improved health in my state, New York, have changed the dynamic.
Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensing fees. If they don’t get paid, the…
The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in rev
Some fear the deduction is a problematic incentive that could entice businesses to pay ransoms against the advice of law enforcement. At a minimum, they say, the deductibility sends a discordant message to businesses under duress.
We’ve been hovering close to 100% for a while now but, with the staging-next merge a few days ago, it’s finally happened: https://r13y.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20210620180034/https://r13y.com/) If I’ve done everything correctly, the 21.05 ISO also passes the check on my machine, hoorray! Feel free to verify everything yourself; getting @grahamc’s r13y script running is trivial (I’d recommend running it inside a Docker container, though remember to enable sandboxing!) Next goal: 100% …
This article talks about DOGE branded as Ponzi by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneaopolis. Read CQ to learn more.
“No one knows exactly how much information was accessed, because the government has been kind of cagey about it.”
The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy.
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy.
Kobra is A Visual Programming language for ML
Stocks are in a frenzy. Cryptocurrencies now equal the value of U.S. dollars in circulation. Real estate is booming. And the Federal Reserve is still pumping stimulus into the economy.
The price of Bitcoin took a tumble after Elon Musk said Tesla would no longer be accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment method. Musk raised concerns about the climate impact of Bitcoin mining. 
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop…
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in «private» mode.
By Galit Michel, VP of Payments, Forter
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers.
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows. Contribute to microsoft/ebpf-for-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine. Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers.
Dr. Conrad Barski wanted a small, portable device for coding Lisp on the go and built the Lisperati1000 cyberdeck terminal for the job.
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
Consumer Reports measures owner satisfaction, and according to those results, it’s clear that the Tesla Model 3 is very satisfactory. Why?
Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, but data rights groups fear «discriminatory» algorithms are at work and want greater transparency.
L’azienda di Mountain View ha fatto lo sgambetto alla app JuicePass che permette di trovare e prenotare una colonnina di ricarica. In questo modo ha favori…
The company pledged to eliminate ads for sites that charge hefty fees for otherwise free or inexpensive services—but they continue
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
The complaints have «overwhelmed» the parent bank’s customer service.
200 roasts, £70,000 in revenue and 642 cans of Diet Coke later.
In this post, we use Auth0’s post-user registration hook and Courier’s automations feature to learn how to help a user sign up for your product.
Lima: Linux-on-Mac («macOS subsystem for Linux», «containerd for Mac») – AkihiroSuda/lima
Dr Fill , a computer program, has just won one of the most prestigious crossword competitions in the US.
Programming in logic can help you produce better optimized, more secure, bug-free code … if only you knew how to do it.
Why do cryptocurrency mines burn so much power? And how might mining power supply units (PSUs) be different from general-purpose PSUs?
Let engineers learn cloud without jeopardizing their personal well-being.
We’re excited to announce the alpha release of a new AWS SDK for Rust. AWS customers developing in Rust want a native Rust SDK so they can use the language constructs they are used to, and customers new to Rust want an SDK that behaves similarly to SDKs they have used in other language environments. […]
Instagram’s performance oriented fork of CPython. Contribute to facebookincubator/cinder development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here’s how we use them.
Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling).
WinBox is a professional HTML5 window manager for the web: lightweight, outstanding performance, no dependencies, fully customizable, open source! – nextapps-de/winbox
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur
Various gRPC benchmarks. Contribute to LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench development by creating an account on GitHub.
Internal report flagged lack of controls over access to seller data.
The wildly successful show expects hired photographers to work for exposure, not money.
A day after Brazil announced 11,000 square kilometers of annual deforestation, France, the EU’s biggest buyer of Brazilian soy flour, announced plans to become more self-sufficient on the commodity.
The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team uncovered an open ElasticSearch database exposing an organized fake reviews scam affecting Amazon.
Climate change and deforestation have transformed the ecosystem into a net source of planet-warming gases instead of a carbon sink
Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! – dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
Hello! I’m Masami Ueda, a music composer at PlatinumGames, here to write about some of my work on NieR:Automat […]
Procmon is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscal…
Among security professionals, a “drop box” is a device that can be covertly installed at a target location and phone home over the Internet, providing a back door into what might be an …
Mark Zuckerberg’s company is using fascinating scare tactics to get users to tolerate tracking.
Carbon Robotics’ Autonomous Weeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.
Report and source code detailing the AI Dungeon private adventure vulnerability – AetherDevSecOps/aid_adventure_vulnerability_report
When my kids were born, I immediately set up gmail accounts for each of them using their nicknames. I’d email observations to their accounts of their first everything, along with photos of moments captured on my mobile. As they grew, I sent audio messages of them reciting poems or silly stories in their raspy, caveman…
Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration – karmada-io/karmada
Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes – spaceuptech/space-cloud
In this post I want to explain a new deployment method I came up with while working on drwn.io.
A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
Google can and will permanently ban your Android app if Google thinks you’ve clicked on your own ads
GitHub Pages: Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() Header added to all pages sites
This is post # 24 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…
Today, GitHub can repack even the largest repositories we host in a fraction of the time it used to take. Here’s how we did it, and why.
Tesla admitted to California regulators that its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system, like Autopilot. Some say the name is misleading.
A good chunk of the tweets, which are now withheld from public view in India, criticised either the Centre’s handling of the pandemic or the recent Kumbh Mela gathering. 
Roku claims that Google is demanding preferential treatment for YouTube and YouTube TV.
Researchers say hundreds of preinstalled apps can access a log found on Android devices where sensitive contact tracing information is stored
Mighty makes Google Chrome faster and uses 10x less memory by streaming your browser from a powerful computer in the cloud.
App developers need fair and reasonable terms when dealing with app stores and better processes for the approval of apps to help address the consequences of Google and Apple’s power in the app market, the ACCC has found in a report released today.
Roku accused Google of making anti-competitive demands.
In Linux 5.13 ethtool gains an interface for querying IEEE and IETF statistics. This removes the need to parse vendor specific strings in…
Concerns raised after possible security flaws in mobile phone analysis technology used by Police Scotland emerge.
11 easy, dorky, & life-affirming ways to connect to others — according to an introvert.
The DFPI today finalized a settlement with San Francisco-based Lambda, Inc. which removes deceptive language from Lambda School’s student contracts. Read more …
A Maryland defense attorney has decided to challenge the conviction of one of his clients after it was recently discovered that the phone cracking product used in the case, produced by digital forensics firm Cellebrite, has severe cybersecurity flaws that could make it vulnerable to hacking. 
I just saw an announcement from November of 2020 in which the Federal Transit Administration proposes to study international best practices… in on-demand public transit. It goes without sayin…
Five years on YouTube. If you want to keep in touch, email me and ask to be on my mailing list: marina@thepianokeys.com. All links below:ð¹ LEARN JAZZ PIANO:…
Let’s explore how you can setup a hypervisor on any Linux host! We’ll dig into the libvirt/qemu/kvm stack with a focus on how these pieces interact with each other.
The animation studio’s artists are masters at tweaking light and color to trigger deep emotional responses. Coming soon: effects you’ll only see inside your head.
I wanted to be great at Guitar Hero. So I might have enlisted the help of robots and artificial intelligence…Music:Sayonara by Blue Wednesday – https://sou…
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
If social media is any indication, OpenCV AI Competition 2021 participants have really hit the ground running. The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Azure and Intel, features over 1000 developers on over 200 Phase 1 winning teams worldwide and our feeds are already buzzing with awesome videos and photos as teams take their first steps toward […]
id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute@Edge, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product. 
Just a small test with lists in cython. Contribute to 00sapo/cython_list_test development by creating an account on GitHub.
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop. – dotnet/maui
Company moved money in 2019, prior to it overhauling its global tax structure
Notice relating to the proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation. 
Stripe purchased 416 tons CO₂e in carbon removal from Charm in May 2020 , as our very first customer. That carbon is now permanently sequestered in geological storage.
The owner of the MailOnline site alleges the search engine has hidden links to its coverage on certain topics.
An Argentine internet user claimed realized ownership of the google.com.ar domain had expired Wednesday, April 21 and since it was available, he decided to purchase it for reportedly AR $ 540 (around the US $ 3.85 at the unofficial exchange rate) leading to a temporary shutdown of the search engine ending in “.ar”.
How I reduced Rust incremental debug build times on macOS from 14 seconds down to 4 seconds.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the heads of the Linux kernel dev team, has banned the University of Minnesota from further contributing as the latter had injected questionable patches for research.
A security researcher found two bugs that allowed him to find customers who had purchased John Deere tractors or equipment.
The countryâs cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?
Val Broeksmit, who shared his father’s internal Deutsche Bank documents with the FBI and news outlets, has gone missing in L.A.