Gooooooood morning, Web!!! 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
- We don’t ‘do’ learning. It does us
- An Introduction to AI Story Generation
- Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
- Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
- The Myth of a Superhuman AI
- Google has killed Discord’s best music bot
- OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects
- When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling
Blockchain and decentralization
- Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
- Apple exec: ‘we are the greatest platform for distributing child porn’
- Coinbase plans to add $500M worth of crypto to its balance sheet
- Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market
- Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
- Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
- Why observability requires a distributed column store
- Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE
Woman computer scientist of the week
Anna Catherine Gilbert is an American mathematician who works as the Herman Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She also holds a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan. Her research expertise is in randomized algorithms for harmonic analysis, image processing, signal processing, and large data sets.
Cloud and architecture
- George Mason professor wins Covid antibody lawsuit as vaccine exemption
- Test cross-architecture without leaving home
- Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos
- Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
- Pinterest Required to Spend $3B on AWS
- Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021
- Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
Development and languages
- A Simple Interpreter in Python
- GitHub Issues-only project management
- Tikz.net – Graphics with TikZ in LaTeX
- Pyret Programming Language
- TypeIt – A Versatile JavaScript Animated Typing Utility
- Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
- PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
- Conditionally setting your gitconfig
- Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
- Competitive Programming Is Useless
- An empirical cybersecurity evaluation of GitHub Copilot’s code contributions
- Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
- My Journey as a Self-Taught Programmer
- Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j
- Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python
- Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game
- Nelua Programming Language
- Design a Camera with Python and PyRayT: Part One – Fotonix and Gizmos
- ReGit – A Tiny Git-Compatible Git Implementation
- Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
- Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
- Portal Windows for Electron
- Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 ‘simplification’
- Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
Quote of the week
For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman
Enterprises
- Intel Brings Chiplets to Data Center CPUs
- Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions
- The Tesla Semi Is an Engineering Failure
- Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue
- Nvidia’s takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says watchdog
- Tesla Project Dojo Overview
- London civil servant’s bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm
- OCaml at Bloomberg
- The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas
- I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up
- Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
- Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021
- A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80
- Apple has surpassed Facebook and Google in violating user trust
- How does Google Authenticator work?
- Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
- Google: ‘Reverse Warrants’ Becoming Law Enforcement’s Go-To Investigative Tool
- Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip
Other news
- A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe
- A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists
- The Shadowy Business of International Education
- Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
- Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system
- I’ve been programming since I was 10, but I don’t feel like a ‘hacker’
- Cloudflare: Warp for Linux and Proxy Mode
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
- James Loewen, Author of ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ Dies at 79
- Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux – Ubuntu
- Free Machine Learning crash course from Google
- T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
- Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
- Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
- Conversations on Quantum Gravity
- I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
- App store payments will have increased competition
- Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education
- Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?