Gooooooood morning, Net!!! 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
- Depression, social anxiety, and neuroticism related to phubbing in friendships
- ANA, JAL plan drone services to boost remote areas, own bottom lines
- Typical Gemini: On the “Selected Poetry” of Alexander Pushkin
- Kanye West AI in JavaScript (React and TFJS)
- Learning Almost Nothing About LLVM
- Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI
- Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation’s bank account
- Spread of Delta variant driven by both immune escape and increased infectivity
- Imaginary Numbers Protect AI from Real Threats
- Robot at 100
- Meris botnet can make 20m RPS
- Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
- A friendly introduction to machine learning compilers and optimizers
- A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good News for Humans
- Government audit of AI finds no AI
- KrebsOnSecurity Hit by Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
- The Availability of Rad Studio 11 Alexandria (Delphi)
Blockchain and decentralization
- Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why
- What if Bitcoin went to zero?
- IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting
- Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New
- Low Cost Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Router Board
- Arxiv.org on IPFS
- Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender
- El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union $400M a year
- Measure downloads and commercial adoption of any file you distribute
Woman computer scientist of the week
Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions.
Cloud and architecture
- Bit Patterns of Float
- We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth
- Soar Cognitive Architecture
- IBM Power10 Coming to Market: E1080 for ‘Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences’
- Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers
- KrebsOnSecurity hit by same IoT botnet that hit a record DDoS on Cloudflare
Development and languages
- How async/await works in Python
- Object-Oriented Programming in C (Quantum Leaps, LLC; April 2019)
- Send Email Directly from JavaScript
- Eolang, an Experimental Object-Oriented Programming Language Based on 𝜑-Calculus
- GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod: Choosing the Best Online Code Editor
- Auto-generate vanilla JavaScript alternatives for jQuery methods
- Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”
- Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
- Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
- GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
- GitHub Actions checkspelling community workflow GitHub_TOKEN leakage via symlink
- How JavaScript works: class static blocks and 6 proposed semantics
- Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps
- Shipping Clubhouse on Android in 10 Weeks
- Amtrak.js – A JavaScript library to interact with Amtrak’s tracking API
- A Minimal Image Viewer for Windows
Quote of the week
The standard rule is, when you’re in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply [to] software nowadays.
— Ron Minnich
Enterprises
- AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient
- Google introduces $50 4G smartphone to enable billions of people
- MetaMask now has over 8M users
- Russia asks Google to clamp down on Navalny′s ′Smart Voting′
- Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs
- Intel NUC P14E Laptop Element Features Intel NUC 11 Compute Element
- Notion Acquires Automate.io
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
- California Bill Passes, Giving Amazon Warehouse Workers Power to Fight Quotas
- Microsoft launches a personalized news service, Microsoft Start
- A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then raided his house
- Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers
Other news
- Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
- Linux block devices: hints for debugging and new developments
- Constructive Journalism Pays Off
- The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
- Bitwarden is now in Arch Linux community repository
- New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
- Zorin OS 16 is what a Linux desktop distribution should be
- New NTFS Read-Write Driver from Paragon Merged to Linux Kernel
- Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role
- An interactive 19-lesson course to master VSCode’s keyboard shortcuts
- Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
- Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China
- Linux implementation of Homa, a protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC
- The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
- Greedy AI Agents Learn to Cooperate
- ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B
- Deepfakes replace women on sextortion calls
- Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality
- HiFive Unmatched – A RISC-V Linux development platform
- 60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
- Apple’s effort to court ‘ethical’ hackers draws poor reviews
- GNU+Linux Laptops with Libreboot. Secure, Private. Free as in Freedom
- US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds
- Vivaldi Replaces Firefox as the Default Browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon
- Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
- A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convinced Professional Journalists
- Indra – Hackers Behind Recent Attacks on Iran
- Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed