Gooooooood morning, People!!! 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
- Leonardo, the Bipedal Robot, Can Ride a Skateboard and Walk a Slackline
- Neural Networks from Scratch
- Neuroscientists Claim to Have Pinpointed the Brain States Unique to ‘Team Flow’
- SampleVAE – A Multi-Purpose AI Tool for Music Producers and Sound Designers
- FugueSQL: SQL-ish for pandas, dask, spark
- Swarm: A resource-gathering game based on robot programming, written in Haskell
- Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells
- A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning
To help them explain the shocking success of deep neural networks, researchers are turning to older but better-understood models of machine learning. - Getting to the bottom of web map performance
- Hands-On Rust: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play
- What I wish I knew when learning F#
- Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Exploring Programmers’ API Learning Processes
- Why Can’t AI Detect Sepsis?
- China’s Robotaxis Hit the Road
- Minias – A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning
A mini x86-64 assembler for fun. Contribute to andrewchambers/minias development by creating an account on GitHub. - Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning
This blog post proposes an approach to crack Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) using machine learning. By cracking here, we mean that we can predict the sequence of the random numbers using previously generated numbers without the knowledge of the seed. We started by breaking a simple PRNG, namely XORShift, following the lead of the post published in [1]. We simplified the structure of the neural network model from the one proposed in that post. Also, we have achieved a higher accuracy. This blog aims to show how to train a machine learning model that can reach 100% accuracy in generating random numbers without knowing the seed. And we
Blockchain and decentralization
- Vibes.art Generative Art on Ethereum
- SQL for Distributed Systems
- JPMorgan’s Dimon blasts Bitcoin as ‘worthless’, due for regulation
- Ethereum Services Are Centralized
Read writing from Michael Gummelt on Medium. Building http://plato.io. Every day, Michael Gummelt and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. - Coinbase NFT: Create. Collect. Connect. Launching This Year
- Bitcoin Addiction Hospital
- LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents
- Bitcoin could trigger financial meltdown, warns Bank of England
- Why you’re paying Bitcoin’s energy bill
- Coinbase Digital Asset Policy Proposal
- Lockdowns Coincided with Record-Breaking Drug Overdose Fatalities
- Bitcoin: Who owns it, who mines it, who’s breaking the law
- A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source
- Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
Press (N)F(T) to pay respects.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator serving at present as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and served as the 2007 President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Cloud and architecture
- Web3 Architecture and How It Compares to Traditional Web Apps
- OSv Unikernel – Optimizing Guest OS to Run Stateless and Serverless Apps
- Scaling Indexing and Search – Algolia New Search Architecture
- AWS Lambda Cold Start Times
Let’s compare the performance of all supported runtimes + 2 custom runtimes (Rust and GraalVM). - Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP
Improving the way car crashes are reported in local media by using natural language processing to identify editorial anti-patterns that obscure the preventable nature of crashes. - Discuss: Google Cloud Spanner adds a PostgreSQL interface
- New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner
- Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
- M3O – An open source AWS alternative
- Extreme heat is broiling people in developing cities – Science – AAAS
- Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code
- Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel
- Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?
Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in my butt? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability.Amaz - Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad
- Stormah, cloud notes stored in your own Git repo
Development and languages
- Joys of Porting a Kernel to WebAssembly
- Amiga 68000 Hardware Assembly Programming
- Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM)
- Chip Player JavaScript: MIDI songs catalogue
- You Shouldn’t Become a Programmer
- The Acme User Interface for Programmers
- The Shocking Immaturity of JavaScript
- Understanding Python through its builtins
Python has a whole lot of builtins that are unknown to most people. This guide aims to introduce you to everything that Python has to offer, through its seemingly obscure builtins. - Attacking GitHub Organizations
- Senegal Programming Language
- We’ve been lied to: JavaScript is fast
- Network Programming with Go
- Windows Package Manager 1.1
- Videohash – Perceptual video hashing python package
- Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out
- Caribou – a GitHub app to help you manage technical debt
- Full WireGuard Support in ProtonVPN for Android
- Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
Saudi human rights activist and author Manal al-Sharif says Australians are complacent about the rapid growth in digital surveillance and the impact of tech and media monopolies on freedom of speech. Speaking on an Electronic Frontiers Australia webinar, Ms al-Sharif discussed the dangers of “surveillance capitalism” and the weaponisation of social media, along with the… - Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones
- Study reveals Android phones constantly snoop on their users
- .NET Foundation — Use of GitHub Enterprise #59
- Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
A dynamic language and bytecode vm. Contribute to janet-lang/janet development by creating an account on GitHub. - Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse
- Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat
- Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design
- Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet – GitHub – k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet - Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
- G7 finance officials endorse principles for central bank digital currencies
- A study of data collection by Android devices
- Study Warns Android Phones from Samsung, Xiaomi and Others Are Spying on Users
Quote of the week
{Ex-Cyber} some part of me desperately wants to believe that XML-RPC is some kind of elaborate joke, like a cross between Discordianism and IP Over Avian Carriers
Enterprises
- Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
- Microsoft Introduces EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
- Microsoft’s Experimental OS – Singularity
What would happen if we will write a new OS from scratch right now? can we do it better? can we improve security and robustness? can we prevent unexpected interactions between applications? “what w… - China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
- V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one
- Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
NVIDIA data scientists took three of the top spots in a brain tumor segmentation challenge validation phase at the prestigious MICCAI 2021. - Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
- Nvidia releases Alias-Free GAN code and pre-trained models, naming it StyleGAN3
Official PyTorch implementation of StyleGAN3. Contribute to NVlabs/stylegan3 development by creating an account on GitHub. - Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI
The AI expert, who joins Stanford HAI as a Distinguished Education Fellow, discusses building inclusive education and broadening access to students. - The Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a nervous breakdown
- Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, a New Nobel
Cynthia Rudin becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI - Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams
Microsoft might have hit a wall with Teams on Electron - Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
- Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
- Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products
- Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company
- Tesla officially launches its insurance using ‘real-time driving behavior’
Other news
- Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Lifehacks Stacks Exchange
- Bashcrawl: Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure
- Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels
- What we learn from twitch source code leak
- So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel?
There has been much discussion of using the Rust language in the Linux kernel (for example, here , here , and here ), at the Kangrejos Rust for Linux Workshop ( here , here , and here ) and 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference had a number of sessions on this topic, as did Maintainers Summit . At least… - Learn electronics technology, IT and fiber optics technology
- Why Does Quantitative Easing Benefit the Rich?
- Hacking YouTube with a MP4
- Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2021. - To catch a hacker in my home lab
Today I wanted to write a blog post to answer the questions to the Noabar scenario located here: A little background on what Noabar is, this is a Windows machine in my home lab that I attacked to c… - Quantum Annealing opens a new door to Simulation Hypothesis
- IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
This is the story of how I created a botnet of IPTVs to rickroll 10,000+ students for my senior prank. - Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent – and saved him
- Open Letter of Solidarity with the University of Sussex from UK Philosophers
Supporting Sussex in Supporting Academic Freedom - An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain
It was an email offering a discount on an electric toothbrush that began the sequence of events that ruined Anna’s life. - Save the Scribe: the women who worked with medieval manuscripts
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M
- Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year
- Theory of Computation ocw course (Sipser)
This course emphasizes computability and computational complexity theory. Topics include regular and context-free languages, decidable and undecidable problems, reducibility, recursive function theory, time and space measures on computation, completeness, hierarchy theorems, inherently complex problems, oracles, probabilistic computation, and interactive proof systems.
