Tech roundup 104: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Humans!!! 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

• Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning
• How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter
• Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI
  Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
• Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent
• AI Background Remover
• Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
  We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce. Triton makes it possible to reach peak hardware performance with relatively little
• Killing Robots and Just War Theory
• South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor
  University of Surrey professor secures landmark after the UK, Europe and the US refused applications
• After Neurodiversity
• Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch Covid. None of them helped
• The dark side of entrepreneurship

Blockchain and decentralization

• “Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation”
• Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It’s time to ban cryptocurrencies
• Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment
  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year.
• I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin’s heart

Cloud and architecture

• The SaaS Org Chart
• Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server
• CDN experiment: Free CDN shockingly faster than Amazon CloudFront in many cases
• IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
  IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
• Naval Architecture
  Interactive article explaining how ships float and maintain their stability.
• SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube
• Full-Stack React SaaS Boilerplate with Auth and Payment
• The Baked Data architectural pattern
• “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
• AWS Support for Internet Explorer 11 Is Ending
  If you are using Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) to access the AWS Management Console, web-based services such as Amazon Chime or Amazon Honeycode, or other parts of the AWS web site (AWS Documentation, AWS Marketing, AWS Marketplace, or AWS Support), it is time to upgrade to a more modern & secure browser such as […]
• Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation
• The Future of Work at Cloudflare

Development and languages

• Windows Command-Line Obfuscation
• How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
  As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack – front-end, back-end…
• Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool
• Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information
• Types versus sets in math and programming languages
• Jello: Print “jello ” in every programming language
• Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
  I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended I have read https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/…
• Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
• Taking Months to Bits: A calendrical journey into low-level programming
• Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
  Please provide the following information qBittorrent version and Operating System 4.3.3, Windows 10 20H2, What is the problem Windows Security / Virus & threat protection – blocks / removes exi…
• A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint
  A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint. – GitHub – amirgamil/apollo: A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint.
• Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
• Text2Code: Converts English queries into Python code
• Functional Programming in OCaml
• Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django
• Windows 96
  MIKESOFT presents you the latest version of Windows, WINDOWS 96.
• DigitalOcean Down?
• Drum Synthesis in JavaScript
• Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run
  The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit. At each step, you say either git bisect …
• Command line tools for productive programmers
  Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surpr…
• The Array Cast: A podcast about the array programming languages
• A Large-Scale Security-Oriented Static Analysis of Python Packages in PyPI
  Different security issues are a common problem for open source packages
  archived to and delivered through software ecosystems. These often manifest
  themselves as software weaknesses that may lead to concrete software
  vulnerabilities. This paper examines various security issues in Python packages
  with static analysis. The dataset is based on a snapshot of all packages stored
  to the Python Package Index (PyPI). In total, over 197 thousand packages and
  over 749 thousand security issues are covered. Even under the constraints
  imposed by static analysis, (a) the results indicate prevalence of security
  issues; at least one issue is present for abou
• What Does Saying That ‘Programming Is Hard’ Say, and About Whom?
• Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
• Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing
• Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages

Quote of the week

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

        — Sophocles, Ajax

Enterprises

• Hobson’s Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
• The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds A still life of bags, dirt, and plants
• Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
• Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X
• 16/30 Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
• Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it’s downright lethal
• Tesla Q2 2021 earnings release – Big profit beat
• Intel’s Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
• Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025
  Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) by 2025.
• Tesla second-quarter profits top $1bn even as it struggles to handle demand
• Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
  Posted by Jan Keller, Technical Program Manager, Google VRP  A little over 10 years ago , we launched our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VR…
• Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results
• Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – A Sad but True Story
  From time to time Microsoft decides to block or even silently drop emails that are sent by my selfhosted email server. It’s always a pain and takes a lot of effort to deal with it. This time I decided to…Read more ›
• No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities
• Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code
  First things first: if you are interested in advertising on Techdirt in a non-intrusive, non-obnoxious way, please contact us. We’d love to work with you on cool, innovative advertising and sponsorship that engages, instead of annoys, our…
• Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down
• Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
  Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance types to favor those built on AWS Nitro System, and added “Networking” to the title. Let’s go back to the summer of 2006 and the launch of EC2. […]
• Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees At U.S. Offices
• The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
  A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.
• Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
  Language learning app Duolingo Inc (DUOL.O) notched a valuation of $6.5 billion after its shares surged nearly 40% in the company’s Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, becoming the latest education technology startup to impress Wall Street.
• Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
• How to format text in Twitter using Unicode characters
• Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular data access in December
• Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver
  A few months ago, after finally having received the new disks for our new Ceph cluster, we decided to benchmark them, so we could tune our cluster to get the best performance out of it, but that’s a story for another time.
• Our Tesla Model 3 Hasn’t Delivered Big Savings in Maintenance Costs
• Google Translate pronounces ‘rooster’ in Spanish
• Fire breaks out at Tesla Big Battery
• Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
• Tesla Megapack Caught Fire at Victorian Big Battery Site in Australia
• 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
• Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
  As part of this year’s DEFCON AI Village, we’re trying something radical by introducing the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty competition.
• 300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire
• Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook
• PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed

Other news

• I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
• A Linux distro with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more
• Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing
• Reimagined toilets at a South Korea university transform human waste into biogas
• PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects
• Fluxsort: A stable adaptive partitioning comparison sort
  A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort. – GitHub – scandum/fluxsort: A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort.
• Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim
• Digitize MiniDV Tapes with Linux
• Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
• Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
• Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
• Citizen pays New Yorkers $25 an hour to livestream crime scenes
• Hastening Linux process cleanup with process_mrelease
  One of the fundamental invariants of computing is that, regardless of how
  much memory is installed in a system, it is never enough. This is
  especially true of systems with tight performance constraints, where every
  page of memory is allocated and in use, making it difficult to find
  more when it is badly needed. One way to make more memory
  available is to kill one or more processes, freeing their resources for
  other users. But that often does not work as quickly or reliably as users
  would like. In an attempt to improve the situation, Suren Baghdasaryan has
  proposed
  the addition of a system call named process_mrelease().
• Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
• Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
• Compilers as Teachers
• Dimensionality reduction in neural data analysis
• iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code
• Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
• Blogger has bad UX and it annoys me
• Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
  The lie from ad tech is that there’s no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
• Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database
• Undetectable quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations
  We show that free-space diffraction of photons distributes highly useful
  entanglement: the receivers of the propagated modes can do a distributed
  quantum computation using only linear optics and photon counting. The
  distributed computation requires classical communication between receivers,
  however, similar to standard measurement-based computation, that communication
  is of purely random outcomes and so can be indistinguishable from noise. The
  speculation in the title arises from the further observation that the natural
  way for a circumspect civilization to hide their photonic entanglement
  distribution is to use the thermal light already bein
• So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
• Common UI/UX mistakes devs make
• Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning
• Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
• Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel
• Murray’s jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
• Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor

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