Gooooooood morning, Society!!! 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
- Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
They force you to look at the world the way an AI does - The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades
Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity. - Throwing 99 bottles (of OOP) in the trash
- Generate art from any text with deep learning
- Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
- Machine learning won’t solve natural language understanding
An argument that it is time to re-think our approach to natural language understanding, since the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is implausible and both technically and theoretically flawed.. - Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt’s Big Treatise on AI Panned in Book Review
- U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls
- Single cortical neurons as deep as (5-8 layer) artificial neural networks
Utilizing recent advances in machine learning, we introduce a systematic approach to characterize neuronsâ input/output (I/O) mapping complexity. Deep⦠- Intro to Deep Learning
- I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death–so I had AI do it for me
Blockchain and decentralization
- Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic
- LightGBM vs. XGBoost: Which distributed version is faster?
- The Problem with Ethereum
How did Ethereum become a system that looks more like the current financial system than anything revolutionary and just? - Coinbase removes ‘backed by US dollars’ claim for USDC stablecoin
- Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
- The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
- Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution
As political demonstrations show the world that Cubans are tired of dictatorship, Bitcoin is providing an option to peacefully protest and opt out of a broken system. - Thousands of Coinbase users now reporting they cannot access their funds
Woman computer scientist of the week
Dianne Prost O’Leary is an American mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is the author of the book Scientific Computing with Case Studies.
Cloud and architecture
- Apple’s New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable
- Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
- Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD
- Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
- Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users’ entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the online iCloud service. - A novel approach to entity resolution using serverless technology
- MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3
- Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium
- AWS recruiter doesn’t want to show what’s new out there
- YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
- Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and Azure
- AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file – GitHub – seligman/aws-ip-ranges: Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file
Development and languages
- The unknown features of Python’s `operator` module
- Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
- Cleaning Up Git History
- Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
- Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong
- Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
Follows this logic for verifying a connection to Elasticsearch:
Before the first API request:Make an API request to /, inspect the response:
If call to / fails with 401 or 403 pass the check and … - Chatcontrol 2.0: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence in the EU
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU decided to let providers search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of fu
- addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
- Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway
Traccar SMS Gateway for Android. Contribute to traccar/traccar-sms-gateway development by creating an account on GitHub. - Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is in the public domain. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com (Prologue) BOOK I: GENESIS 1. Dark Satanic Mills (Interlude א: The Cracks In The Sky) 2. Arise To Spiritual Strife (Interlude ב: The Code of the … Continue reading → - Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
- Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
- New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU decided to let providers search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of fu
- Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
- AllStar: Continuous Security Policy Enforcement for GitHub Projects
- Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
- Jackson structured programming
- Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series
- Git password authentication is shutting down
Git password authentication is shutting down - Unfuck: A utility for deobfuscating Python 2.7 bytecode
Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker – GitHub – landaire/unfuck: Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker - Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
- The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python
- Cedro pre-processor
- Pythonic Monotonic
- How Google bought Android
- WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
? Compose Key for Windows. Contribute to samhocevar/wincompose development by creating an account on GitHub. - First step in making programming easier is to be concious of what makes it hard
- Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads
President Carlos Alvarado on Wednesday signed into law a project that seeks to attract remote workers to Costa Rica. - AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective
- GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages
Quote of the week
The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
— E. W. Dijkstra
Enterprises
- Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
- After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
Mustafa Suleyman is now just two steps away from CEO Sundar Pichai - Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare $1M Award
- Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
- Screw You, Microsoft Edge
- Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
- Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a company pay calculator seen by Reuters. - Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm
- Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
- Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts
- Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
Next generation Intel C/C++ compilers are even better because they use the LLVM open source infrastructure. . I discuss what it means for users of the compilers, why we did it, and the bright future. - Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses
- Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel’s Rebecca Weekly
- Twitter’s new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
- Google search led to arrest of cleared campaigner
- Activist raided by London police after downloading docs from Google
- Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed
Talk about a magic trick. One moment, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was holding forth from behind his sturdy kitchen counter. The next, the kitchen and everything in it slid away, leaving Huang alone with the audience and NVIDIA’s DGX Station A100, a glimpse at an alternate digital reality. For most, the metaverse is something seen Read article > - Tests Show All Driver Assist Systems Can Be Fooled, Not Just Tesla
- Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
- A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
- Amazon Installs Lockers on a Chicago Park’s Sidewalk
- Amazon will monitor workers’ keystrokes to ‘combat data theft’
Other news
- A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage – exposing the city’s excesses
- History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS
- Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
- Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck’s Linux OS
- Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials’ personal data
They describe themselves as “apolitical” hackers who want to end Belarus’ “terrorist” regime and ensure equal rights for all. But the actions of Cyberpartisans, a group of Belarusian hackers who claim to have secured access to the passport data of millions of Belarusians, raise questions about… - Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
- How to Hack APIs in 2021
- Why MapReduce is making a comeback
Traditional MapReduce is a «batch» processing framework, but what if we could adapt MapReduce to real time data processing? - Hackers steal over $600M, biggest in DeFi history
Hackers exploited Poly Network on DeFi exchanges Polygon, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Poly Network is a cross-chain protocol for swapping tokens across various blockchains. - Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
- What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity
- An Old Hacker’s Tips on Staying Employed
#1: Don’t Be a Jerk. (That is just a bonus tip, in case you don’t want to read past the subtitle) - Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
- US to introduce bill to force app stores to allow alternate payment systems
- Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M
In encoded messages, the hacker claimed to be «hacking for good.» - Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error Correction
- Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
- Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
- Machine Learning – A First Course for Engineers and Scientists
- Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
- Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
- Hackers detail vulnerabilities at agtech giants John Deere, Case New Holland
- ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online
- Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
