Gooooooood morning, Crowd!!! 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
- Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
- Remove background from image using machine learning
- MLJ.jl: A Julia package for composable machine learning
- “Fevers of Curiosity”: Charles Baudelaire and the Convalescent Flâneur
- Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems
- Meta-Post on Meta-Learning
- Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files
- Europe seeks to limit use of high-risk AI in society
The rules are proposals and could take several years to become law. - Digidog, a robotic dog used by the police, stirs privacy concerns
- National Security Commission on AI Report
- GANcraft: Unsupervised 3D Neural Rendering of Minecraft Worlds
- Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
- Neurons might contain something within them
Neurons might contain something incredible within them.
Blockchain and decentralization
- CardanoCubes – Pokemon Red on the Cardano Blockchain
- Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency
The Senegalese-American singer has ambitious plans for “Akon City,” including conducting daily transactions using a digital currency. - Money corrupts; Bitcoin corrupts absolutely
- std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
C++ `std::unique_ptr` that represents each object as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain – zhuowei/nft_ptr - CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies may be coming
- HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrategy shares
- Coinbase’s listing may break records
But the success of the cryptoexchange is not guaranteed | Graphic detail - Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain
- Encore – Go framework for building distributed systems
The Go backend framework with superpowers. Contribute to encoredev/encore development by creating an account on GitHub. - Centralized Coin – A Centralized Coin
- Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum
OpenEthereum version: 3.2.1 Operating system: Linux Installation: built from source Fully synchronized: no Network: ethereum Restarted: yes Node issue after Berlin hard fork, not sync after block 1… - Bitcoin miners are buying power plants
- Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
Bitcoin tumbled more than 4% on Friday after Turkey’s central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets for purchases citing possible «irreparable» damage and transaction risks. - Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
- EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments
Yet again, we’re the ICANN registrar with another crypto-currency first: easyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin payments for all services.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights. During her 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped the space agency pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks.
Cloud and architecture
- Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
I’m evaluating new SaaS business ideas, and I wanted to share a little bit about exactly how I’m evaluating them. - UML model and code examples of GoF patterns in Crystal
- CloudBeaver – Database Management from Browser
- Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
- Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
- OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Today, we are introducing the OpenSearch project, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. We are making a long-term investment in OpenSearch to ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative functionality. This project includes OpenSearch (derived from […] - AWS EC2 Having Issues
- Man found to have defamed Singapore prime minister by sharing news article
- Architecture of a desktop-like SPA
Development and languages
- Wonkey Game Programming Language (v2021.04)
- The GraphQL API for WordPress is transpiled from PHP 8.0 to 7.1
- The Kitten Programming Language
- Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android
- Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keywords and concepts
Corbett discusses how Cree#, which began as a - Windows 10 taskbar is now pushing Microsoft Edge web apps
- Chrome zero-day released on GitHub (fixed on V8 but still works on latest)
- Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems
- Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment
a fun JavaScript game programming library & environment - The complete guide to working with strings in modern JavaScript
- Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
- In Python, «
- Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
Add WebAssembly, get performance. Is that how it really works? - Latino Programming Language
- Logica: Modern Logic Programming
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language. - One Letter Programming Languages
- New GitHub Themes for vs Code
New GitHub Themes for VS Code - Digital Audio 101: Playing Audio from a Microcontroller
- Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
- Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
- Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
- Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
JavaScript implementation of so-called Seam Carving algorithm for the content-aware image resizing and objects removal. Dynamic programming approach is applied to optimize the resizing time. - Battle of the Python Dashboarding Giants: Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Voilà vs. Panel
- Science and math flavored programming problems for beginners
Quote of the week
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
— Bill Gates
Enterprises
- Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
- Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions
- Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
- Microsoft in advanced talks to buy speech-recognition company Nuance
- Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
- NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google’s rules
- Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
Microsoft is trying to leapfrog competitors like Google and Amazon as they face record antitrust scrutiny. - Intel: Advances in silicon photonics can break the I/O “power wall”
- FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot
- NVIDIA announces GRACE CPU
- Establishing Twitter’s Presence in Africa
- CEO: Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months
The chief executive of Intel Corp (INTC.O) told Reuters on Monday the company is in talks to start producing chips for car makers to alleviate a shortage that has idled automotive factories. - Student’s physics homework picked up by Amazon quantum researchers
- Tesla drastically increases price of Solar Roof
- The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
- NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures
- Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities
Authorities have executed a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States - DuckDuckGo Announces Plans to Block Google’s FLoC
- General Availability of Aqua for Amazon Redshift
- Europe eyes strict rules for artificial intelligence
Non-compliant companies could face a fine of up to €20 million or 4 percent of turnover. - Don’t Use Google Chrome
Google has created a new tracking mechanism called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. It’s bad for privacy, which is why we’re now blocking it in the DuckDuckGo extension. - Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
To our shareowners: - Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time. - Bezos says Amazon needs to do better for employees in last letter as CEO
- Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams
- How to fight back against Google FLoC
Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer. - Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
The Federal Court has found that Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd (together, Google) misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018, in a world-first enforcement action brought by the ACCC. “This is an important victory for consumers, especially anyone concerned about their privacy online, as the Court’s decision sends a strong message to Google and others that big businesses must not mislead their customers,” ACCC Chair Rod Sims said. - Nobody is joining Google’s FLoC
- Twitter Down: Service Experiences Widespread Outage
- Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season
Other news
- Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Thursday that an Egyptian mission under the supervision of Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass discovered a city – dubbed the Rise of Aten – which had been under the sands for 3,000 years, dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III. The statement, which was shared on the […] - What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards?
- The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner – New Journalism given a new lease of life
- M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box
I love my new M1 Macbook Air. No fan but awesome performance. Working keyboard. And the feature of not having a touch bar is not only… - Big money bought the forests. Small timber communities are paying the price
- Using brain interfaces to learn about learning
- Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5
- A startup offering payment implants
- Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down
- Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
- Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions
- Learn C in Y Minutes
- ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite
- Update on beta testing payments in Signal
- Morpheus Turns a CPU into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
- FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks
- Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets
- $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
- An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
- RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel
- Build on Redis Hackathon
Experience the speed, simplicity, versatility, and fun of Redis. Register now to win awesome prizes! - “My Octopus Teacher” Defied Convention
- Understanding quantum computing through drunken walks
- FBI acts to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers
- Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
Reuters News (TRI.TO) on Thursday unveiled a new subscription website as part of a broad initiative to court business professionals. - The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux
- Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
Reuters News (TRI.TO) on Thursday unveiled a new subscription website as part of a broad initiative to court business professionals. - Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona
Pangolin Desktop UI shell, designed for dahliaOS, written in Flutter. - A ‘Worst Nightmare’ Cyberattack: The Untold Story of the SolarWinds Hack
- SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat
Our understanding of progress in machine learning has been colored by flawed testing data.
The pandemic is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.
One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said on Tuesday.
Rice University computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors.
Several months ago I submitted what appeared to be a security flaw to CloudFalre’s bugbounty program. According to them, this is not a…
Abusing CRLF, cache poisoning, and other misconfigurations for a no-interaction XSS against GitHub Private Pages.
Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.
#externals – Opening PHP’s #internals to the outside
The one to be proud of.
WebRTC Library for IoT/Embedded Device using C. Contribute to sepfy/pear development by creating an account on GitHub.
Python books free to read online or download. Contribute to pamoroso/free-python-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
With the latest version of the popular software, players can recognize city streets and feel shifts in the wind.
Netflix’s “current” federal income tax for 2020 was $24 million, which equals just 0.9 percent of the company’s pretax income for the year. This is another way of saying Netflix paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 0.9 percent in 2020. If the company paid the statutory rate, its tax bill would be $572 million.
The wait is over. Today Intel officially launched its 10nm datacenter CPU, the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, codenamed Ice Lake. With up
According to a study by the consultancy company Ampere Analysis published today by The Wrap, Netflix’s market share went from 29% at the beginning of last year to 20% now.
Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports …
I recently updated Pixel Wheels banner image on Google Play. That triggered a review of the game: shortly after the update I received a message telling me Pixel Wheels was «not compliant with Google Play Policies». What nefarious activity does the game engage in? Sneak on users? Mine bitcoins?
I learned writing from The Economist. Back home, it wasn’t easy to learn English. No one in my social circle was fluent in the language and I couldn’t afford a private tutor. The best I could do was to create my own syllabus. The kiosk near my house had, to my surprise, the newspaper
Lisa Irving says she faced harassment and rejection after being refused rides on 14 occasions.
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf. – sayanarijit/xplr
No matter what your field, learning efficiently (and well) is an indispensable skill. Here’s how.
White hat hackers demonstrated a Zoom vulnerability allowing a Remote Code Execution attack at the Pwn2Own event.
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person…
In a recent blogpost, Nick Grossman explains how Bitcoin acts as a batteryâââmoving electricity across time and space, from where it canâ¦
Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry.
Amidst the speculative boom for NFTs and crypto-currencies, one decentralized technology foundation is taking the long view by investing in deep history and the far future. Today, the Filecoin Foundation announced a 50,000 FIL grant to the Internet Archive – the largest single donation in the digital library’s 25-year history. “Holy Crow! This is a big […]
Discovery may explain escape of Capt Henry Every after murderous raid on Indian emperor’s ship
Introduction
Does Amazon make more money from ads than AWS? Quite possibly.
Spoiler alert. I do not hate submodules. I do how ever have an instant oh oh response when people mention they want to solve a problem with Git submodules. I think this comes from having most exper…
I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today…
? Never use print() to debug again. Contribute to gruns/icecream development by creating an account on GitHub.
Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffic sent by modern iOS and Android devices back to Apple and Google servers and found that Google collects around 20 times more telemetry data from Android devices than Apple from iOS.
Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime number so delicate that changing any of its infinite digits renders it composite.
Windows 95 was the ânext generationâ OS from Microsoft: redesigned UI, long file names support, 32-bit apps and many other changes. Someâ¦
Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud infrastructure that allowed cybercriminals to implant and abuse the company’s servers for illicit crypto-mining operations, a spokesperson told The Record today.
Intel gives a glimpse on Ponte Vecchio’s AI performance.
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
It comes after Amazon’s official accounts hit back at criticism of the company.
Deliveroo shares close well below their expected price after big investors’ attitude to company soured.
Here’s a snapshot of how we’re using AI to make Maps work better for you with a number of updates coming this year.
“In software, the difference between the average software developer and the best is 50:1; Maybe even 100:1.” Steve Jobs . The Best v.s The Average If you’re a software engineer, you would probably …
Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks’s «Culture» novels and the price of bliss.
âThese tweets are unnecessarily antagonistic (risking Amazonâs brand), and may be a result of unauthorized access,â read an employee help ticket.
PayPal Holdings Inc will announce later on Tuesday that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay at millions of its online merchants globally, a move that could significantly boost use of digital assets in everyday commerce.
Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview – akavel/up
The final reports on the testings of the «impossible engine» EmDrive show that it does not produce the previously claimed thrust.
never leave the comfort of your home row again
‘To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.’ Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of the social media platform.
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
Go is one of the most prominent general-purpose programming languages nowadays. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe, to name a few, have been using the language extensively. It’s the language of choice behind multiple cloud computing projects such as Kubernetes, and it’s steadily expanding towards numerous areas of software development. In this article, you’ll find resources to learn about Go and its ecosystem.
The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
Qualcomm ended support for the phone after Android 6, but Fairphone is still going. 
In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a
Has the addon been removed from the webstore? The URL listed here is responding with a 404 error. It's not coming up in search either. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanj…
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote with the right strategy, the right tactics, and most importantly, the right spirit to return Intel to success.
The firm now aims to supply others with processors made in factories based in the US and Europe.
If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.
A website made by the Knuckleheads’ Club to remember Google Reader, an old friend that was taken from us too soon.
A decision to shut down exploits being used by «friendly» hackers has caused controversy inside the company’s security teams.
Estimated dispatch in late April 2021 BODY Dimensions: 160.5mm x 76.6mm x 9.2mm Weight: 185 grams Build: Plastic Colour: Black SIM: Micro-SIM DISPLAY Type: HD IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size: 5.95 inches Resolution: 1440×720 pixels, 18:9 ratio PLATFORM OS: Manjaro with Plasma Mobile OS build Chipset: Allwinner A64 CPU: 64-bit Quad-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A-53 GPU: MALI-400MP2 MEMORY Internal Flash Memory: 16GB eMMC System Memory: 2GB LPDDR3 SDRAM Expansion: micro SD Card support SDHC and SDXC, up to 2TB CAMERA Main Camera: Single 5MP, 1/4″, LED Flash Selfie Camera: Single 2MP
The community around Linux phones is interesting. The phones do sell to a lot of people, but it seems a lot of those people come back to complain that Linux phones isn’t what they expected it is. For some reason all the distributions for the PinePhone are bending over backwards
The mere presence of your phone or apps like Gmail, Slack, and iMessage can decrease your ability to focus even when they don’t actually distract you.
According to RSF’s measures, world press freedom improved very slightly in 2019. However, the Covid-19 pandemic highlights and amplifies the multiple crises that threaten the right to free, independent, pluralistic and reliable information.
Abolishing platform immunity won’t do what anyone wants
Zoom Escaper is a simple tool to help you escape Zoom meetings and other videoconferencing scenarios. It allows you to self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others.
How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah’s Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Disregarding all of bitcoin’s shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better.
Plus! Security; Different Abstractions; Facebook Futurism; SPAC Apathy
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class.
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class.
A German man lost 10 Bitcoin to so-called giveaway scammers on Twitter and experts say scams are rising.
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit. Contribute to Defi-Cartel/salmonella development by creating an account on GitHub.
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C# – Ryujinx/Ryujinx
Context
WireGuard probably won’t make it into 13.0-RELEASE, but 13.1 seems very likely.
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos.
Tech industry be whilin.
A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-… stuff. – adamsitnik/awesome-dot-ne…
Q&A interview with John Kozubik, CEO, rsync.net.
ARKâs 2025 price target for Tesla is $3,000. ARKâs bear and bull case suggest it could be worth $1,500 and $4,000 per share, respectively.
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code to […]
An indie maker’s journey to ramen profitability
#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.
Twitter announces call for public input on approach to world leaders.
If you think we’re anywhere near fully autonomous cars, this video might convince you otherwise. 
Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. – harporoeder/ebpfsnitch
First Digital Bank, the first new bank in Israel since 1978, started operations on Sunday on a trial basis, and said it planned to open to the public later in 2021.
Just the first improv game site.
A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.
The best of Coursera found from analyzing all discussions on Reddit that mention any Coursera course.
Biologists have long held that a fetus needs a living uterus to develop. Maybe not anymore.
Surveys and a field experiment with Twitter users show that prompting people to think about the accuracy of news sources increases the quality of the news that they share online.
Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine. – Overv/outrun
First-year analysts have reported 95-hour working weeks plus poor physical and mental health.
A Vancouver woman who lost her phone in Harrison Lake in September is shocked and surprised that not only has it been recovered from the lake bottom, but that it still works.
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here’s why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
The most expensive version of Conway’s Game of Life – running on the Ethereum Blockchain – nialloc/GameOfLife
The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2020 was 741 kilowatt-hours.
The Bitcoin network may consume as much energy as all data centers globally, with an associated carbon footprint the size of London.
In this blog, I will show you how to use WebSockets support to build a fleet of serverless containers that make up a chatroom server that can scale a high number of concurrent connections (250,000 clients). 
A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.
Here’s what we’ve learnt about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.
Dolt – It’s Git for Data. Contribute to dolthub/dolt development by creating an account on GitHub.
Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript?
Apple is unveiling a multiyear programming partnership with women’s rights activist and youngest Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. – mortdeus/legacy-cc
A digital-only artwork by the American artist Beeple sold for $69,346,250 at auction at Christie’s on Thursday,
raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. – plausible/analytics
Google staff in the US who complain over racism were advised to take mental health leave, NBC reports.
Neeva is currently in beta with several thousand users.
Consumer group Which? staged a sting operation to investigate fake Google reviews in the UK.
The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.
Open-source enterprise software company SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been breached by a hacker earlier this week. 
Introduction | The Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning
A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.
Based on ultra low power STM32 MCU for daily hacking of access control systems, radio protocols. Compatible with Arduino IDE and PlatformIO.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows. Contribute to rbreaves/kinto development by creating an account on GitHub.
CBD normalizes levels and function of two proteins – TREM2 and IL-33 – key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improves cognition as it also reduces levels of the immune protein IL-6, associated with the high inflammation levels found in the di
In this work, we presented a simple experimental framework for interrogating purported measures of generalization.
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.
Could the cryptocurrency’s huge electricity consumption also sink it?
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of… | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.
Since the start of the year, the AWS Rust team has been drafting our charter and tenets. Charters and tenets are the framework AWS teams use to define our scope and priorities. The charter tells you what the team does, and the tenets tell you how the team will do it. Since one of our […]
Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning. Contribute to BillDietrich/fake_contacts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simple and reliable optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques in numerical discrete search spaces. – SimonBlanke/Gradient-Free-Optimizers
A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm – McYoloSwagHam/win3wm
Cosmopolitan build, single file that supports 6 operating systems!
My journey from not liking TypeScript to loving it
Power Fx low-code programming language. Contribute to microsoft/Power-Fx development by creating an account on GitHub.
The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negative infinity. If you compute the inverse of the positive zero, you get the positive infinity. If you compute the inverse of the negative zero, you get the negative infinity. It seems … Continue reading How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?
The U.S. government has asked Google to fork over granular data on how its search engine works and is monetized, seeking to prove that the internet giant is a monopoly.
The Final Report VIEW THE INTERACTIVE REPORT DOWNLOAD THE PDF REPORT VIEW PREVIOUS EVENTS The mandate of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s (NSCAI) is to make recommendations to […]
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
The Alphabet company said that it plans next year to stop using or investing in tracking technologies that uniquely identify web users as they move from site to site across the internet.
Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.
Payments giant PayPal is considering to acquire startup Curv, which offers secure storage for cryptocurrencies, for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Okta, whose software allows office workers to access their apps through a secure service, is buying one of its top competitors. 
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web…
Banned.h – deprecated C runtime functions. Contribute to x509cert/banned development by creating an account on GitHub.
PyTorch 1.8.0 Release Notes
Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss – jopohl/urh
The largest and oldest electric power cooperative in Texas filed for bankruptcy protection in Houston on Monday, citing a disputed $1.8 billion debt to the state’s grid operator.
Let’s sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL. – nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo
Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs
Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
tl;dr: be very careful when using AWS. Their UX can be highly inaccurate and it might cost you money. If it does, donât expect any supportâ¦
We are reaching another milestone with ProtonDB: we are very close to 7000 Windows games confirmed to be working out of the box with Proton on Linux. The charts says it all: Proton has been receiving many updates in the… 
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage group is exploiting…