Gooooooood morning, Population!!! 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
- The “Happy Birthday Chip” and Beam Robots
- Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
- Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can move 800 heavy boxes per hour
Boston Dynamicsâ Stretch can move 800 heavy boxes per hour - Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge
- From the File of Bad Ideas: Banning unknown drugs with «Machine Learning»
- Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3k years of robots
- Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI
- Alexa suggests 10-year-old put a penny on partially exposed plug
Blockchain and decentralization
- 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets
- Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined
- Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse
- Alexa tells girl to put coin in plug socket
- Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Rubin’s 2021 Bitcoin Advent Calendar
- Shard Manager: A generic shard management framework for geo-distributed apps
Woman computer scientist of the week
Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems. She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and is currently a member of the ACM Publications Board.
Cloud and architecture
- Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
- The Cost of Cloud
- Pixor: Real-Time 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds
- What does 2022 have in store for cybersecurity and cloud security specialists?
- Riot Games settles gender discrimination lawsuit for $100M
- Stupid Patterns
Development and languages
- JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
- Practicing Programming
- I found (and fixed) a vulnerability in Python
- OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto
- Py2cr: A Python3 to Crystal Translator
Python3 to Crystal Translation using Python AST Walker – GitHub – nanobowers/py2cr: Python3 to Crystal Translation using Python AST Walker - Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills
- Windows 2000 Modernization Guide
- Experimenting with brain-computer interfaces in JavaScript
- Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
- Prince of Persia in JavaScript
- Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it’s time for a proper Temporal API - Features of a dream programming language
- A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development
- Pre-Scheme: A Scheme Dialect for Systems Programming
- Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript
- Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number
- Google Apps Script for Gmail to filter and sort email from Gitlab
- Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I Using CT
- Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period
English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers… - Long Now Years: Five-Digit Dates and Y10K-Compliance at Home (02013)
Long Now 10-second Intro animation Conceived by Alexander Rose, James Anderson and Chris Baldwin | Sound by Brian Eno The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have - Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
- Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
- My progress in porting Wine
I found that TLS registers are different in 64 bit Windows (GS) and Haiku (FS). NtCurrentTeb() mov %gs:0x30, %r13 static inline void** get_tls() { void** tls; __asm__ __volatile__ («movq %%fs:0, %0» : «=r» (tls)); return tls; } So I tried to implement setting GS base in kernel and got some success. Cmd is already working. No GUI yet. Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\wine-6.23> Z:\Haiku\data\packages\win… - Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript
- Python module for parsing Apple Numbers .numbers files
- Will Digital Technologies Kill the Nation State?
- Finding your home in game graphics programming
Quote of the week
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
— Dave Parnas
Enterprises
- Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data
- This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes
- Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery
- «Widevine Dump»:Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix
- Cognitive and Interpersonal Features of Intellectual Humility
- Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
widevinedump has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. - Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business
- Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars
- How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate’s API
- Fiatjaf/nostr – a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
- A Guide to Twitter
Our hope is that this guide to Twitter will be useful to you, wherever you are in your Twitter journey. - Intellectual Loneliness
I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. The world comes to life when I’m surrounded by ideas. - Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
EDIT: I can’t change the title, but this appears to be more serious than a bad update. Read on…. —————————————————— Just wondering if any other… - The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to Long
Other news
- Real-Time Error Correction for Quantum Computing
- Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows
- Things I learned writing my first technical book
- Japan to pay companies to keep sensitive patents secret
Japan will compensate companies to keep secret patents with potential military applications under proposed legislation, the Nikkei reported on Sunday, without citing sources. - Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse
- Guy pays $400k to have his $2.6m house moved 7 blocks in San Francisco
Normally, moving involves packing your goods and transporting them to a new location. However, one guy in San Francisco gave the phrase … - Teaching Information Security
- GitHub – hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books: Books everyone should read
- Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?
- Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy
- System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems
- Learn Python ASTs, by building your own linter
The only resource you need to read to learn about ASTs in Python, and the superpowers they give you. - Wargames can help you to learn and practice security concepts through games
- I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible
- Women force change at Indian iPhone plant
- macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
- Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
- CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-of-Life
- Things I Learnt in 2021
- Spirit Airlines to triple flight attendant pay through Jan. 4
United Airlinesand Spirit Airlines Inc are bumping up pay for on board staff as they scramble to keep schedules intact after U.S. airlines were hammered by a week of mass cancellations. - Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
- Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022
- To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us
- Update on Linux hibernation support when lockdown is enabled
