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AI, bots and robots
- Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack. - Analog-Cartpole: A hybrid analog/digital reinforcement learning experiment
- DeepRobust- Pytorch Library for adversarial attack and defense in deep learning
- Shadowserver, the web’s bot containment unit, needs help
- Advanced Attack Toolkit, Fully Undetectable Rat / Botnet, and More
- PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos
- Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents
- The End of Starsky Robotics
In 2015, I got obsessed with the idea of driverless trucks and started Starsky Robotics. In 2016, we became the first street-legal vehicle⦠- Machine Learning Flashcards
- Another ‘Samuelson, 1948’ moment? Evidence from machine learning
- NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
A method for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views. - AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs
Making the design process faster and more efficient by generating 3D objects from natural language descriptions.
Blockchain and decentralization
Woman computer scientist of the week
Kathleen Nichols is an American computer scientist and computer networking expert. Nichols is the founder and CEO of Pollere, Inc, a network architecture and performance company based in California, US. Before founding Pollere, Nichols was VP of Network Science at Packet Design, where she was part of the founding team. Prior to Packet Design she was director of advanced Internet architectures in the Office of CTO at Cisco Systems.
Cloud and architecture
- Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider
- AWS Session Manager: less infrastructure, more features
Terraform modules that help you explore Okta and AWS Session Manager integrations – symopsio/terraform-okta-ssm-modules - Serverless eBook Using Gitbook, GitHub Pages, GitHub Actions, and Calibre
- The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
- NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
- A Review of Neverware’s Cloudready as a Possible Alternative to Chromebooks
- Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
- Detailed audit of Voatz’ voting app confirms security flaws
In an assessment of the voting app’s internal programming, paid for by Voatz, a security firm validated MIT researchers’ concerns, including the possibility that hackers could change votes cast through the app.
Development and languages
- Not all young people are ‘digital natives’
- Git Partial Clone lets you fetch only the large file you need
Work faster with this experimental Partial Clone feature for huge Git repositories, saving you time, bandwidth, and storage, one large file at a time. - Asm-dom, a minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA
- WebAssembly brings extensibility to network proxies
With the Istio 1.5 release we are happy to introduce WebAssembly (Wasm) extensions in Envoy, built with our long running collaborators Lyft and IBM. With partners like Solo.io deepening their engagement as well, we are excited to see the community and ecosystem developing around this segment of the open source world. - Transcendigital Imagination: Developing Organs of Subtle Perception
- Best Python Reference Ever
- Circle visualization of a number’s digits, like with π
- How to Evangelize a Programming Language
- How GitHub blocked me (and all my libraries)
- NPM Is Joining GitHub
We’re excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub. - WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows
- OpenVidu: Open-source, multi-platform, WebRTC videoconferences
- GitHub for mobile
Learn more about GitHub for mobileâincluding highlights of its core features and how to get started. - The 2,500 year old history of why Python’s all() returns True
- Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package from the GitHub releases page. Let’s dive into what’s new!
Mouse Input
The Terminal now supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications as well as Windows applications that use virtual terminal (VT) input. - Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications
In this short blog series, I will show you how to get up to speed with a Qt project using Visual Studio Code in more detail. - Lies, Damned Lies, and Averages: Perc50, Perc95 Explained for Programmers
- The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community is not necessary
- Being a programmer will make me a better doctor
- RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki
- A principled approach to system design and programming
- UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk
- GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions
“@github I woke up this morning and you shut off the Aurelia site, archived tons of our repos, and I can no longer access admin settings. You sited US trade sanctions and sent me a non-descriptive email with no remediation information. What is going on? This is devastating for us!” - Release to NPM and Docker Hub with GitHub Actions and Conventional Commits
- Math Symbols Explained with Python
Quote of the week
If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter how fast it doesn’t work.
— Mich Ravera
Enterprises
- Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19
Folding@home has new projects for the study of coronavirus - How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights
- Google: No national coronavirus site anytime soon, after Trump announcement
- Google, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing
Corporate America joined the fight against the spread of coronavirus on Friday, … - Employee Scheduling
- Our Experience with Stripe Atlas
- Google: COVID-19, How we’re continuing to help
- Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely
- Microsoft unveils full Xbox Series X specs with 1TB expansion cards
- Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business. - Remote Job Direct from Twitter
- Facebook, Reddit, Google, Twitter, YouTube joint statement on misinformation
- AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here
- Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
- Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand
- Coronavirus: Amazon suspends all non-essential shipments
- Tesla appears to defy Bay Area shutdown, plans to operate Fremont factory
- Software Engineering at Google
- Tesla is not essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order
- Tesla’s Fremont factory forced to shut down under shelter-in-place order
- Tesla Joins GM in Offer to Make Ventilators
- Netflix urged to slow down streaming to stop the internet from breaking (EU)
- Twitter broadly bans any Covid-19 tweets that could help the virus spread
- Netflix urged to slow streaming to prevent breaking the internet
- Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
The video-streaming giant wants to ease strain on internet service providers. - Amazon sellers ‘hijack’ listings to sell face masks despite new rules
- Levandowski agrees to plea deal over Google secrets
- Intel Video Shows How It Makes a 10nm Processor
- Google has completely canceled Google I/O 2020 due to Covid-19
Other news
- Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux
- A Godot re-implementation of SuperTux
A Godot re-implementation of SuperTux. Contribute to Alzter/TuxBuilder development by creating an account on GitHub. - A graph-based functional API for building complex sklearn pipelines
- NY hospitals pitch tents, nix surgeries to prepare for influx
- USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine would be exclusive to USA
- Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle
- List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities
- PIRL: Learn Image Representations Immune to Geometric Transformation
- Most airlines face bankruptcy by end of May, industry body warns
- One man lost his life savings in a SIM hack, you can try to protect yourself
- The Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26
- 3D printed door handle developed in effort to reduce spread of Coronavirus
- SoftBank Backs Away from Part of Planned WeWork Bailout
SoftBank Group is backing away from part of its planned bailout of WeWork, people familiar with the matter said, privately citing several regulatory investigations of the office-sharing company. - Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
- Legendary Wings – Reversing a 1980s Arcade Game
- Linux was first released to the world from here 17.9.1991
- Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
- Bank of America says the recession is already here
- Risky hack could double access to ventilators
The Neyman/Babcock method would allow more than one patient to use the same ventilator, but only if administered correctly. - Reducing UDP Latency
- IRS Delays Tax-Filing Date to July 15, Matching Payment Deadline
- New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services
- UK government to pay up to 80% of wages for employees not working
- NanoHack, an open-source 3D printed mask against Covid-19
Engineer friends often ask me: Graph Deep Learning sounds great, but are there any big commercial success stories? Is it being deployed in practical applications?
Google Research. Contribute to google-research/google-research development by creating an account on GitHub.
AMD processors from 2011 to 2019 impacted
There’s a little-known pattern in software architecture that deserves more
AI Platform Pipelines provides enterprise-ready infrastructure for deploying and running structured ML workflows, and pipeline tools for building, debugging, and sharing pipelines and components.
Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big three.
WetterOnline has won its case against Germany’s national weather service. The company sued the service over the anti-competitive nature of its free weather forecast app.
Months ago, when I heard that the legendary JS1k game jam would not be continuing, I talked it over with some other devs and decided to help fill the void we would host a 2k game jam on itch called…
Execute any script in a GitHub issue comment. Contribute to nwtgck/actions-comment-run development by creating an account on GitHub.
An opinionated Javascript framework that combines React, GraphQL, Prisma2, SQL, and lots more out of the box.
Avast JavaScript Interactive Shell . Contribute to taviso/avscript development by creating an account on GitHub.
Code, test & deploy with GitLab. Everyone can contribute!
Get a head start on your video app development with three new Twilio open sourced video collaboration applications for iOS, Android, and ReactJS for the Web.
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Together, we can help people build stronger communities – join us.
«I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime,» the man said.
Intel’s new ATX12VO spec eliminates 3.3-volt and 5-volt rails and rejiggers the balance of power in future PCs.
Twitter and activist hedge fund Elliott Management agreed to shake up the social-media company’s board but leave CEO Jack Dorsey in place.
Tesla announced that it produced its 1 millionth electric car — becoming the first automaker to achieve the milestone. Only a few years ago, many people didn’t believe that Tesla could produce electric vehicles in any meaningful numbers, but the automaker managed to ramp up three electric vehicle programs: Model S, Model X, and Model …
The Model 3 outsold some of the most popular luxury models in recent months. BMW, Mercedes and Audi risk missing the transition to electric cars.
Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will no longer add new features or evolve the language.
Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.
Payments on mortgages will be suspended across the whole of Italy after the coro…
Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux. Contribute to taviso/loadlibrary development by creating an account on GitHub.
A package that makes it trivial to create and evaluate machine learning pipeline architectures. – IBM/AutoMLPipeline.jl
Search and browse documents and data; find the people and companies you look for. – alephdata/aleph
A BuzzFeed News analysis of Clearview AI’s app for Apple’s mobile operating system found that the company had been violating the iPhone maker’s rules to distribute its apps to law enforcement agencies
The Strangler is an extremely effective technique for phasing out legacy systems over time. Instead of spending months getting a new system up to parity with the current system so that clients can…
Explore the model that shows why Sia storage will stay below $2/TB/Mo for the long term.
In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing software as I’ve used it in many of my projects, and which has turned out to be very successful.
Billionaire Paul Singerâs Elliott Management has taken a âsizable stakeâ and intends to âpush for changesâ, reports Bloomberg News
Intel refreshes its second-generation Xeon Scalable lineup mid-cycle with new mainstream dual-socket CPUs, improving the performance-per-dollar by as much as 2x over original SKUs.
Comparative genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2) receptor ACE2 in different populations
Practical JPEG Repacker. Contribute to google/brunsli development by creating an account on GitHub.
Founders, companies, and investors are rebelling against the investment banks — and taking matters into their own hands
In a 168% premium to its IPO share price in June 2015, Sophos stockholders now receive $7.40 per share, according to the company.
Note: we’ll update this post with new developments
I was spending way too much time staring at outdoorsy influencers on Instagram. So I downloaded the iNaturalist appâand stepped outside myself.
Almost all our computers are made of several processing cores. Thus it can be efficient to “parallelize” expensive processing in a multicore manner. That is, instead of using a single core to do all of the work, you divide the work among multiple cores. A standard way to approach this problem is to create threads. … Continue reading Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing.
It’s been five years since Dan Price took a massive pay cut so he could raise his employees’ salary — and he says the experiment has been a resounding success. 
Some months after a failed Kickstarter campaign with an ambitious €350k goal, German startup Volla has managed to raise more than €20k in a new campaign (still open for the next few hours) for their first Volla Phone. Volla Phone in German woods.This new smartphone aims at several niches,
‘Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.’
The man atop the world’s biggest tech fund paid for a campaign that included negative news stories, a concocted shareholder campaign and a sexual trap, people familiar with the matter say. A Misra spokesman said he didn’t orchestrate the effort.
Highly-available Distributed Fault-tolerant Runtime – bastion-rs/bastion
A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Damien Riehl, musician, programmer and copyright attorney, teamed up with programmer, Noah Rubin, to find a way to stop musicians getting sued for their music.
Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors – guardianproject/haven
Capturing ARKit scene (Like `react-native-arkit`) into WebRTC video stream – jhen0409/rn-webrtc-arkit-integration
Classic MS Paint in the browser, with extra features.
An experimental JavaScript toolchain. Contribute to facebookexperimental/rome development by creating an account on GitHub.
The news has just broken that Google’s Authenticator App can have its codes stolen by malware. I doubt Google will ever release a fix for this issue – their 2FA app hasn’t been up…
Python Cheat Sheet. Contribute to crazyguitar/pysheeet development by creating an account on GitHub.
Telling whether the product that arrived in your Amazon box is what you meant to order can be puzzling. Can you guess which ones of these are the imposters?
Twitter said it would suspend 70 accounts posting content supporting the Michael Bloomberg campaign in a pattern that violates company rules.
A deep dive into the performance implications of using Google Fonts (good and bad) and whether self-hosting is better.
Andrew Walz calls himself a «proven business leader» and a «passionate advocate for students.» Walz, a Republican from Rhode Island, is running for Congress with the tagline, «Let’s make change in Washington together,» or so his Twitter account claimed. 
DoChat is a Dockerized WeChat (盒装微信) PC Windows Client for Linux – huan/docker-wechat
CyberNews research analysts discovered 6 serious PayPal vulnerabilities and reported them. But instead of a bounty or thanks, we got punished by PayPal.
Japan’s entire school system, from elementary to high schools, will be aske…
An interactive ecosystem and evolution simulator written in C and OpenGL, for GNU/Linux. – connor-brooks/ecosim
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
With little training, neural networks create accurate emulators for physics, astronomy, and earth science
Anyone who’s been in full-time employment for at least six months is entitled to apply for the unpaid sabbatical.
art42.net showcases an infinite stream of unique AI art. Bookmark and collect the works you like!
Trax — your path to advanced deep learning. Contribute to google/trax development by creating an account on GitHub.
At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software. AI is showing remarkable progress on a range of difficult computer science problems, and the job of software develo…
The free images, uploaded courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, include animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and scientific research.
When tested in mice, the molecule treated the gastrointestinal bug clostridium difficile, a common killer of hospitalized patients.
In this article you will learn about Pattern Matching: Covers the proposals for C# 9.
An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier. Contribute to evanw/esbuild development by creating an account on GitHub.
Some time ago, I’ve come across a contemplation on the topic of necessity of operating systems. I’ve been doing sort of «research» about this for almost two years, so I’ve decided to write up central thoughts along with links to some relevant sources of information on this topic.
For the past little while, we have been tracking some interesting WebRender bugs that people are reporting in release. Despite best efforts, we have been unable to determine clear steps to reproduc…
In my last blog post I wrote about the power of D’s compile-time reflection and string mixins, showing how they could be used to call D from Python so easily it might as well be magic. As ama…
The React Framework. Contribute to zeit/next.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sam Kaufmann has been developing Windows games for a decade, so when Microsoft said it was cutting ad support for apps, he had to turn to his own ad network.
Google Station will wind down through 2020 and hand over operations to its partner Think WiFi.
Self-driving AI sends shivers through traditional supply chains
Days before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings are set to continue, WikiLeaks’ journalist Kristin Hrafnsson reports that the official WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked. «All attempts to get it reopened via regular channels have been unsuccessful,» writes Hrafnsson in a tweet. «It has been…
Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas) – amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
A non-official repository for downloading the lastest UAD components from Realtek FTP server. – alanfox2000/realtek-universal-audio-driver
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few…
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control o…
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Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control o…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Goo…
Hi, I’m the perplexed owner of an AMD Threadripper 3970X CPU on a GIGABYTE TRX40 Aorus Xtreme motherboard. I’m writing this thread as a kind of followup/answer to @DerAlbi’s post here (“3970X – Prime95 stability?”) and to my own thread over at Reddit (“Prime95 errors with AMD Threadripper 3970X build”). Sorry, I’m new here and I can’t use links in my post yet… TL;DR: It appears that several (many?) 3970X parts —and possibly 3960X and 3990X parts too— are unable to perform correct AVX2 computa…
The search-engine company is reluctant to surrender some documents sought by investigators looking into possible anticompetitive practices.
I am an amateur photographer, and I’ve sold cameras non-professionally on Amazon for over eight years as I’ve upgraded. That trend comes to an end with my
Paperd.Ink is a beautiful, hackable e-paper display which can be used at your desk to display calendar, reminders, to-do lists and many more things!
Paperd.Ink is a beautiful, hackable e-paper display which can be used at your desk to display calendar, reminders, to-do lists and many more things!
The reasoning behind the switch is two-fold. South Korea was looking to reduce its reliance on Microsoft and Windows and cut down on software licensing costs. 
?? Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws – dwmkerr/hacker-laws
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center arou…
Developed by Uber AI Labs, Generative Teaching Networks (GTNs) automatically generate training data, learning environments, and curricula to help AI agents rapidly learn.
Learn about synthesizers via Abletonâs interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
SSH over AWS SSM. No bastions or public-facing instances. SSH user management through IAM. No requirement to store SSH keys locally or on server. – elpy1/ssh-over-ssm
Learn how to make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.
The company said it is cutting jobs at its cloud-computing unit as part of a reorganization aimed at improving operations at the business that has become more central to parent Alphabet.
This Perspective describes the development and capabilities of SciPy 1.0, an open source scientific computing library for the Python programming language.
Discover the history of Git, based on interviews with Linus Torvalds, Johannes Schindelin, Jeff King and Tom Preston-Werner.
We want your feedback about GitHubâs new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages – marcpaq/b1fipl
Quibble – the custom Windows bootloader. Contribute to maharmstone/quibble development by creating an account on GitHub.
The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page.
Google says it will dramatically expand its Canadian work force. The announcement is a shot in the arm to a tech industry that’s quietly made Toronto-Waterloo the fastest growing tech region in North America.
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question answering, and summarization capabilities, to academics …
Walter Huang, who died in 2018 after his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier, had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on the same stretch of Silicon Valley freeway, according to NTSB documents.
Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Mundane chores take up our time and headspace. Bundling life admin into specific time slots – known as GYLIO – might be the ultimate act of self-care.
Valve has published the first release of a new branch of Proton 5.0, which is based on the experience of the Wine project and aims to provide Linux gaming applications created for Windows and presente…
November of 2008. I had more hair, a flip phone, and absolutely no idea what was coming. Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall en…
The coronavirus epidemic started one month earlier than is commonly reported and has yet to be brought under control, a new disease-transmission model created by University of Toronto researchers
How, where, and why do most people die behind the wheel of an automobile? Is there anything we can do to prevent deaths on the road?
A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets.
BY DANE KENNEDY The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a negative culture. This was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of…
Cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design. Contribute to fyne-io/fyne development by creating an account on GitHub.
Protect your System Security. Kernel Security Hardening. Kills whole Classes of Kernel Exploits. Linux Kernel Runtime Integrity Checking and Exploit Detection.