Gooooooood morning, Mortals!!! 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
- Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
Deezer source separation library including pretrained models. – deezer/spleeter - Robotics Development Environment with ROS in C++ and Python
Just a bunch of powerful robotic resources and tools for professional robotic development with ROS in C++ and Python. – Ly0n/awesome-robotic-tooling - Deep Learning in the Real World: Dealing with Non-Differentiable Loss Functions
- Siri, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa can be hijacked with $14 laser pointer
- Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
Jagged concrete protrusions span for miles along the Swiss Alps. They have been cheerily dubbed “Toblerone Lines” after the famous Swiss chocolate maker, but they have other names, too. More ominous monikers like “dragon teeth” may better fit their original function: to repel invading tanks and other vehicles in wartime. These lines represent some of - GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry
- Swarms of Microrobots Clean Up Radioactive Waste
- Learning Curves: How Simple Splines Help Designers Model Complex 3D Forms
- A.I. and the Future of Cheating
- In the Age of AI
- Trippy T-Shirt Makes You Invisible to AI
Blockchain and decentralization
- List of the biggest distributed/remote-first companies
- Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
- Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale
The series of $1,000 days that brought BTC to a record above $19,600 could have been the work of one entity, academic research shows. - Bitcoin as a Game
- Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
- One Tether Trader Didn’t Cause the Bitcoin Bubble
- File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution
File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., SOSP’19 Ten years of hard-won lessons packed into just 17 pages (13 if you don’t co… - Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
Distributed ACID transactions form the beating heart of CockroachDB. They allow users to manipulate any and all of their data transactionally, no matter where i
Woman computer scientist of the week
Paola Velardi is a Full Professor of computer science at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. She is an Italian scientist born in Rome, on April 24, 1955. Her research encompasses natural language processing, machine learning, business intelligence and semantic web, web information extraction in particular. Velardi is one of the hundred female scientists included in the database «100esperte.it». This online, open database champions the recognition of top-rated female scientists in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) area.
Cloud and architecture
- LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack
- The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
One year ago exactly, I wrote my first piece about a stablecoin called Tether. A year later, uh, wow: From legal action introduced last month: Leibowitz et al. versus iFinex et al., US District Court. A complaint is not the same thing as a conviction. But the complaints are mind-blowing. This is not just “we are upset that we lost our crypto money and we’d like to sue someone”. If these accusations are found by a jury to be true, or even approximately true, then it will immediately go straight to the Hall of Fame level of Largest Frauds of All Time. In terms of monetary evaporation, the accusations here are ten times the size of WeWork, - Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound
- Tools for faster back end development BaaS
- Facebook communication and lawsuit documents: 7000 pages leaked
- New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services
- Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous content
- Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds
Development and languages
- Fossjobs.net: jobs that improve and involve FOSS or open hardware projects
- Programming in 1969 An interview with a pioneer (my mum)
- WordPress usage worldwide
- Why to use ‘python -m pip’
- The Misunderstood Roots of FRP Can Save Programming
- Finding potential software vulnerabilities from Git commit messages
- Kotlingrad: A shape-safe DSL for differentiable programming
- ShareDrop – P2P File Transfer Using WebRTC
- Visual Studio online available for public preview
- Programmers can’t write algorithms without help
- What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python
- A New Digital Manifesto
- GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
- Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
- Unofficial Windows XP SP4
- The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP
- JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History
- TheForger’s Win32 API Programming Tutorial
- Relé – Make Google PubSub Integration Easier for Python Projects
- Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
Earlier this year, at its Build developers conference, Microsoft announced that it was working on a web-based version of its Visual Studio IDE. At the time, Visual Studio Online went into a private preview, open to a select number of developers. Now, at its Ignite conference, the company has opened… - What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? - Pythran – a compiler for Python scientific kernels – release
- NSW Digital Driver Licence
- Bypassing GitHub’s OAuth Flow with a Head Request
- My Decade as a Fugitive
«I avoided anything having to do with my old life.» - Gitlab’s Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns
Quote of the week
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
— Larry Bossidy
Enterprises
- Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
- Google are removing URLs entirely from the search results
258 votes and 147 comments so far on Reddit - Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge is getting a new logo, and it is…something. The new logo was revealed as part of a long treasure hunt carried out by Microsoft. - AMD, a chipmaking underdog, is having its day and nipping at Intel’s heels
And nipping at Intel’s heels - Microsoft Japan’s 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40%
As it turns out, not squeezing employees dry like a sponge is maybe a good thing. - Saudi Aramco: The message from the world’s biggest and wildest IPO
- Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
- Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales
The technology giant closed its offices in Japan on Fridays during the month of August 2019 - Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?
- How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
- Bringing Google Live Transcribe’s Speech Engine to Everyone
- Now Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil
- Stripe CLI
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
- The life and death of Google Flu Trends
- Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD
We checked the Intel performance strategy team’s latest benchmarks and found that they used an intentionally misleading test to back their claims - Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires
- Biometric YubiKey
At Microsoft Ignite, Yubico previews the first-ever and long-awaited YubiKey Bio. It is the first YubiKey that will support fingerprint recognition for secure and seamless passwordless logins. - Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia by accessing the company’s information on dissidents who use the platform, marking the first time federal prosecutors have publicly accused the kingdom of running agents in the United States.
One of those implicated in the scheme, according to court papers, is an associate of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA has concluded likely ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last year.
The case highlights the issue of foreign powers exploiting American social media platforms to identify critics - Google Open-Sources Cardboard
Open source Cardboard SDK and samples. Contribute to googlevr/cardboard development by creating an account on GitHub. - AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share: 7nm Makes Landfall as Price War Begins
- Tesla’s competitors find that going electric has its own set of problems
- AMD Q4:16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X
- Users fear for privacy after Google buys Fitbit
- After Google’s Fitbit deal, EU says worrying when firms targeted for their data
- Some Indian Twitter users are leaving for Mastodon
- Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
- Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
- Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint
- Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla’s lab in 1894
- Sweet Home Alabama Played on Tesla Coils
Other news
- German university finds misconduct by researcher who promoted cancer blood test
- Kexecboot: Linux-As-a-Bootloader implementation based on kexec
- PJON 12.0 – Networking freedom for hackers, makers and experimenters
PJON is a valid tool to quickly and comprehensibly build a network of devices for free without the need of a cloud service or a centralized platform you don’t fully control. – gioblu/PJON - Using dummy-hcd on Linux to play with USB gadgets
- A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
- Learn to Look Around Corners
- Time to do away with the UX discipline?
- Doodling can help you pay attention
- Woman registers period late on app, is instantly bombarded with baby related ads
- How to teach sensible elementary statistics to lower-division undergraduates?
- Journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
- Linux vs. open source Unix – Admin by accident
- Hacker Laws: Laws, Theories, Principles, Patterns Developers Might Find Useful
- U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year
A great deal of college tuition inflation has been driven by an enrollment strategy to dole out more institutional aid to a growing number of students. - Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers
- A woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia
Researchers have found a woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia even though her brain has developed major neurological features of the disease. - Free Online Courses from Top Universities
- Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille
- Whatsapp Attributes Hack of 1,400 Users to NSO Group Technology
- AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in ‘unlimited data’ pledge
- SoftBank Reveals $6.5B Loss from Uber, WeWork Turmoil
- Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk
- Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals
- Entanglement in controlling resolution and decoherence of quantum measurements
- We Asked People Around the World How They Feel About AI. Here’s What We Learned
- The Morality of Quantum Computing
- EFF is at a public hacking conference, publicly shaming individuals
- Enabling Hackerspaces with IPv6
- System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
If you’re making any project of sufficient complexity, you’ll need a
publish/subscribe
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern] server to
process events. This article will introduce you to Postgres, explain the
alternatives, and walk you through an example use case of pub/sub and its
solution.Postgres is an amazing relational database
If you aren’t too familiar with Postgres, it’s a feature-packed relational
database that many companies use as a traditional central d - Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game.
Iterations on revealing recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This «self-similarity» can be seen throughout nature, for example in a snowflake’s edge, a river network, the splitting veins in a fern, and the crackling forks of lightning.
The evaporation of a drop of American whiskey leaves a characteristic web-like pattern that isn’t observed in Scotch whisky and other distillates.
Unity’s Reflect is getting tested by major firms like SHoP Architects on projects like 9 Dekalb Ave.
Please remove the default partner_id from azurerm that was introduced in #4663. If no provider_id is specified, then no provider_id should be sent to Azure. Using the default "terraform" …
“Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods,” the former CEO allegedly said. Juul says the lawsuit is “baseless.”
A new extension for the Julia programming language for mathematical computing enhances the Julia compiler to generate native code for CUDA GPUs
A GUI framework for C# console applications. Contribute to TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework development by creating an account on GitHub.
Shhgit finds secrets and sensitive files across GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket code and Gists committed in near real time
JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days.
Factory resets aren’t helping. Neither are mobile antivirus solutions. Malware keeps reinstalling itself.
**2019-10-29 UPDATE:** The following email is going out to all GitLab users: Dear GitLab users and customers, On October 23, we sent an email entitled “Important Updates to our Terms…
Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. – github/gov-takedowns
El servicio, del que es dueño Microsoft, ha bloqueado el acceso al repositorio donde estaba alojado la web y el APK de la app para que la gente se la pudiera descargar
Acting president says new decree will prevent «digital republic» in Catalonia, while Catalan digital policy minister calls move «digital repression»
Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact.
Dozens of accounts were suspended without reason during rare anti-government protests, new research shared with BuzzFeed News shows.
Tesla has launched the third iteration of its solar roof tile for residential home use, which it officially detailed in a blog post on Friday and in a call with media. Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the call with some explanatory remarks on the V3 Solar Roof, and then took a number of questions. [&…
Bob Muglia introduces Steve Jobs in this PDC 1996 keynote. Steve Jobs was President of NeXT Corporation and talks about WebObjects as well as taking questions from some of the developers in the audien
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make…
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make…
From the newswire:Award-winning magazine and fast-growing science brand poised for growthAn investor group of super-fans has banded…
What lessons can we learn from old code that becomes unkillable?
“Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO”
“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…?”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday ardently defended Facebook’s controversial political advertising policy a little more than an hour after Twitter took a shot at its rival while announcing it will ban all political ads
“Breaking: Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion”
“I’m I the only one who finds, «Investing in improving structure,» leads to better feelings, decisions, and outcomes than, «Paying off technical debt»?”
What is a ket? How do traits work? Implementing a quantum computer simulator in Rust.
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of hel…
Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earl…
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America’s CEO, highlighted the firm’s decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call.
There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes unexpectedly. One particularly stiff expense is the cost of shifting data from one cloud providerâs servers to another provider, or to a companyâs own data center. The Information has learned just how …
Igloo is a software application for Microsoft Windows which automates common desktop support and systems administration tasks. Igloo uses Python and PowerShell to provide users with TCP scanners, Windows shortcuts, and a simplified command line that helps IT professionals reduce stress and improve t
A history of edits to the US Constitution as it has been amended. Written in markdown to match original formatting. – JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
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Google researchers say they have achieved milestone with number-generating computation
Recent advances in quantum computing have resulted in two 53-qubit processors
Platform power is a helluva a drug. Do a search on Google’s Play Store in Europe and you’ll find the company’s own Gboard app has an age rating of PEGI 3 — aka the pan-European game information labelling system which signifies content is suitable for all age groups. PEGI 3 m…
San Francisco is losing one of its most valuable tech startups as Stripe signs a lease in South San Francisco.
SuperGLUE is a new benchmark styled after original GLUE benchmark with a set of more difficult language understanding tasks, improved resources, and a new public leaderboard.
How about just: Former Facebook Microsoft engineer James Whittaker on how to fix the company
Google today announced one of the biggest updates to its search algorithm in recent years. By using new neural networking techniques to better understand the intentions behind queries, Google says it can now offer more relevant results for about one in 10 searches in the U.S. in English (with suppo…
Amazon was considered a front-runner for the cloud computing project before President Trump began criticizing the companyâs founder, Jeff Bezos.
This is the story of a summer project that started out of boredom and that evolved into something incredibly fun and unique. It is also the story of how that project went from being discussed on a por
The best user experiences are often found on the most boring interfaces. If you want your product to stand out above the rest, then be average.
First of all, as always my opinions are my own, not those of my employer. Since I have 2 children I was happy to learn that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries to get Disney+ streaming. So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices in my home run Fedora. I started up…
FireEye confirms that APT41 Group hacked TeamViewer; attackers might have accessed billions of devices : web application security IICS
NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowi…
Torrance resident Seth Shapiro has filed a federal lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the wireless provider’s employees helped hackers pull off a ‘SIM Swap’ hack that robbed him of $1.8 million, and he says chat logs from the arrested hackers prove it.
A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around, you’re no doubt asking? Well, f
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As the market continues to turn against the wave of highly valued venture-backed startups operating with little end in sight to their huge losses — Uber and WeWork being two prime examples — another startup is taking a proactive step to get ahead of the story, by cutting costs and restr…
A study looks at the question of what might distinguish men and women in the ways they view their ex-partners
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.
Is our age of ubiquitous smartphones and social media turning into an era of mass civil unrest? Two years after holding an independence referendum and unilaterally declaring independence in defiance of the Spanish state — then failing to gain recognition for la república and being forced to w…
Money can be only a short-term motivation / Make it “better” rather than “bigger” / Figuring out “enough” / Life is one shot
We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all using Rust. Rust has also seen lots of growth […]
Not too long ago the A2 motorway split the city of Maastricht in two. The internationally important road connection cut off the east of the city from the centre. The space where the road once was i…
Python Is Not A Great Programming Language. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
We started in .NET Core 1.0 with a very minimal API set that only included ~18K of the .NET Framework APIs. With .NET Standard 2.0, we tried to make it much more viable to share code between .NET F…
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work
“Please share this as widely as possible. Why should we have to police Amazon? This problem is ongoing since 2017. These counterfeits are shipped and sold by AMAZON, NOT A THIRD PARTY. This is not Marketplace. https://t.co/QSP65CWJ7O”
My Google account got suspended yesterday, I was like what the heck is going on. First I got an email from Google saying that I was using 3rd party app outside of Play Store to go around Youtube ad…
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use what they […]
Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules. The social media giant said it will not allow users to like, reply, share or retweet the offending tweets, but instead will let users quote-tweet to allow ordinary users to express their opinion…
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
Microsoft today announced two new open-source projects: Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that takes some of the complexity out of building microservices, and the Open Application Model (OAM), a specification that allows developers to define the resources their applications need to run on Kube…
Google devices chief Rick Osterloh said he believes anyone «in proximity» of a microphone-fitted smart device like Google Nest or Amazon Echo should be informed the devices are in use.
Microsoft just open sourced their data exploration tool known as SandDance: For those unfamiliar with SandDance, it was introduced nearly four years ago as a system for exploring and presenting dat…
The new Mac Pro is a long-anticipated development for Apple’s high end pro users, but it sure looks as if the company also created the machine for its own strategic benefit — specifically to help make its Metal API become a dominant standard for GPU-intensive software. That could have big implications for Macs, iOS devices, and Apple GPUs going forward, with history providing some insight into why this matters.
Alphabet -owned drone delivery spin-out Wing is starting to service U.S. customers, after becoming the first drone delivery company to get the federal go-ahead to do so earlier this year. Wing is working with FedEx Express and Walgreens on this pilot, and their first customers are Michael and Kelly…
One of China’s most brazen hacking sprees involved intelligence officers, hackers, security researchers, and company insiders.
Sears’s bankruptcy filing was supposed to give the troubled retailer a fresh start. But a year later, the chain is still struggling with many of the same problems it faced before it sought court protection.
There’s a language for talking about hot-button issues. And we’re not learning it.
Does anyone remember the Black Hat BCard hack in 2018? This hack has been documented extensively, most notoriously by [NinjaStyle] in his original blog post revealing the circumstances around disco…
Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still choose traditional teaching methods. This article addresses the long-standing question of why students and faculty remain resistant to active learning. Comparing passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental approach and identical course materials, we find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the increased cognitive effort required during active learn
In 2020, we will celebrate that many of the basic ideas behind the Deep Learning Revolution were published three decades ago within fewer than 12 months in our «Annus Mirabilis» 1990-1991
Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get started. 
The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s …
Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and industry practitioners. From the early academic outputs Caffe and Theano to the massive industry-backed PyTorch and TensorFlow, this deluge of options makes it difficult to keep track of what
Conducting a Twitter network analysis uncovers a widespread bot network targeting West Papua with pro-Indonesian Government content on major social platforms.
Distributed virtual private networks (dVPNs) are a new form of VPN with no central authority. In a dVPN, users are both VPN clients and relay/exit nodes as in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. While dVPNs make strong privacy claims, they also carry the risk that a user will inadvertently have their machine used to transmit potentially harmful or illegal network traffic. Several incidents have been reported [2] where unaware dVPN users have been (ab)used as exit nodes.
As a reminder, Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run on macOS Catalina. To make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS Catalina who continue to use older versions of software, we’ve adjusted the notarization prerequisites until January 2020.
IR-2019-167, October 9, 2019
I’m currently working on a logging project that was initially implemented using AWS Elasticsearch. Having worked with large-scale mainline Elasticsearch clusters for several years, I’m absolutely stunned at how poor Amazon’s implementation is and I can’t fathom why they’re unable to fix or at least
Introducing Streamlit, an app framework built for ML engineers
Billions of people worldwide access the internet only through their phones. But using a cheap smartphone comes with some serious trade-offs.
Google warns that some of the world’s most popular Android phones are vulnerable, including its own Pixel 2. An Israeli spyware dealer, NSO Group, is believed to have developed the hack.
Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia.
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the world and not just internally with employees.
Ontario-based company brings specialist battery manufacturing expertise to global EV giant amid talk of “Tesla’s secret battery lab”
Researchers at Googleâs security group Project Zero have found an active vulnerability in Android that affects several popular devices including the Pixel 2, Huawei P20 Pro, and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. A post from the security group suggests it found the bug last week, and attackers were exploiting it at that moment. The post notes …
Normally Norway is the biggest Tesla market in Europe. When the Dutch market absorbs nearly three times the Norwegian number of Model 3s, that is crazy.
Over the past year, I’ve built and grown 3 marketplaces in the event sector, all with a 95% SEO acquisition strategy.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Amazon.com’s bid to avoid…
Can you smell the doom and gloom?
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms in the southern cities of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay, as the …
One week after PayPal left the project
A 2017 cartoon from this post. For my fellow combinatorialists here is the link to the previous post on Kahn-Park’s result, isoperimetry, Talagrand, nice figures and links. Quick update (Sep…
Could you survive for an entire year without access to Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram or any other app?
Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform such numbers into indexes no larger than N? Suppose you have a hash table with a capacity N. Again, you need to transform your hash values (typically 32-bit … Continue reading A fast alternative to the modulo reduction
The 400 wealthiest Americans now pay a lower rate than the middle class.
System76, the Denver-based Linux PC manufacturer and developer of Pop OS, has some stellar news for those of us who prefer our laptops a little more open.
Fancy trackers and headbands are all part of a growing sleep-tech industry. I decided to put them to the test.
Researchers want to pave their own path. But the growing industry is still dependent on tech giants like Google and Microsoft.
After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention.
PayPal was one of several corporate backers of Facebook’s cryptocurrency project.
At its annual Surface hardware event in New York, Microsoft today announced the expected set of updates to its existing hardware lineup. The biggest surprise, though, was surely the announcement of the company’s dual-screen Surface Neo, which will go on sale before the 2020 holiday season. To…
Amazon’s new Sidewalk protocol and Apple’s experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it
DNS over HTTPS will make it harder for ISPs to monitor or modify DNS queries.
Remote teams configuration and combination. Learn the caveats and nuances of running a remote team and why internal communication is paramount to success.
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory show that Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other social and messaging apps have been blocked in Iraq by multiple internet providers as of …
The fashion and lifestyle site had something that Vice lacked: an audience made up largely of women.
They need facial scans of people with darker skin
Posted by Sara M. Butler; 17 August, 2018. Setting the Scene The period leading up to the expulsion of the Jews from England in July of 1290 was a time of mounting uncertainty for the Anglo Jewry. …
How is Python 2 supported in RHEL after 2020? How long will Python 2.7 be supported within Red Hat products? As per https://pythonclock.org the Python project is retiring development on Python 2 Jan 1st, 2020. What happens after this date? Python2 is available in an Application stream in RHEL8. Can you let me know what that means for the Python 2 lifecycle within RHEL8? Will Python 2 be available for the entire life of RHEL 8? Will Red Hat continue to provide bugfix/security errata to Python 2 after the EOL of the language?
In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that testosterone administration did not affect cognitive empathy, a measure of the ability to recognize another’s feelings and motivations. The finding calls into question the theory that the symptoms of autism are caused by a hyper-masculinized brain.
Lawyers representing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes said she hasn’t paid them for more than a year and probably never will, according to court records.
After working for weeks with Pythonâs data science stack and R I started to ask my self if there could not be a common intermediateâ¦
Guard is an AI that reads privacy policies for you and uncovers their hidden, filthy secrets.
“Estonian is popularly known as a difficult language to learn. The only other national languages it’s related to are Finnish and Hungarian.”
The image of bottle water as clean and pure is being challenged by a global investigation that found the water tested is often contaminated with tiny particles of plastic.
Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, discusses how we could achieve general intelligence—and why that might make machines safer.
Tax forms filed by OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to artificial intelligence specialists across the world.
TON will be the largest blockchain ever when it launches next month, but it’s not on regulators’ radars.
Weâre announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.
Carmen and Jon talk with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer (the creators of Go) about its origins, growth, influence, and future. This an epic episode that dives deep into the history and details of the how’s and why’s of Go, and the choices they’ve made along the way in creating this awesome programing language. 
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Police used drones to track down a man who evaded detection for almost two decades.
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In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
A leaked document highlights stories of abuse and retaliation against Google employees, told by the employees themselves.
Electric vehicle startup to raise $200m from chairman and Tencent
Reports that some AVID Users Macs would no longer boot. It now may be that a Google Chrome Keystone update modifies /var on NON SIP Protected Macs.
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Alphabet Inc’s Google will stop showing news snippets from European publish…
A Financial Times report revealed that Google achieved quantum supremacy. Is it now time to panic about encryption being broken, or do we have nothing to worry about?
WeWork’s parent The We Company on Monday filed to withdraw its initial publ…
Critics claim they try to suppress anti-Chinese views to keep lucrative Chinese students happy
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Rui Pinto ran a website called Football Leaks and won praise as a whistle-blower. Portugal’s authorities consider him a criminal.
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The 178-year-old tour operator failed to secure a £200 million rescue on Sunday, leading it to suspend its flights and bookings.
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As WeWork investors jousted over Adam Neumannâs future at the company he built, a parallel debate by WeWork executives and bankers has centered on just how deeply WeWork should cut costs to save its business.In recent days, a group of executives from WeWorkâs parent company and bankers have been …
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A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology.
The retailer fell victim to the eroding power of shopping malls and said it would cease operations in 40 countries and close up to 178 stores in the U.S.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.