Tech roundup 128: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Subscriptors!!! 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

• Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop
• Unlearning perfectionism
• Learning a Technical Subject
• Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text
• Connor Leahy on EleutherAI, Replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, AI Risk and Alignment
• Regulation of Neurotransmitters by the Gut Microbiota and Effects on Cognition
  Emerging evidence indicates that gut microbiota is important in the regulation of brain activity and cognitive functions. Microbes mediate communication among the metabolic, peripheral immune, and central nervous systems via the microbiota–gut–brain …
• Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
• Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox
• An AI program to check videos for NSFW content
  NWJS wrapper for a wider project. Contribute to dynamite-ready/movie-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Lessons from Learning Ada in 2021
• Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better
  Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.
• Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning
• Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
• Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source
• 15 of 23 Monkeys with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chips Reportedly Died
• Can GPT-3 AI write comedy?
  I’ve been playing with GPT-3 to see if it can automatically write comedy that makes me laugh – spoiler alert: it can

Blockchain and decentralization

• Attacks and fixes on distributed key generation protocols
• Bitcoin’s fungibility graveyard
  Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.
• BlockPaper – Centralized, paper-backed blockchain in my home office
• Matrix: An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• The Dark Side of Smart Contracts
• Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
• Two arrested for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5B in stolen cryptocurrency
• BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute
• Attacking an Ethereum L2 with Unbridled Optimism
• Testing Distributed Systems
  Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
• David Rosenthal on cryptocurrencies
  I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford’s EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers…

Cloud and architecture

• The Hypermedia-Driven Application (HDA) Architecture
• Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
• Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
  What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!
• Identify the Champion: An Organisational Pattern for Programme Commitees
• Lock-In and Multi-Cloud
• SSH into your private machines from anywhere, for free, using Cloudflare Tunnel
  SSH to machines in private networks using an SSH key, from anywhere in the world, using Cloudflare Tunnel.
• Moore’s Not Enough: New Laws of Computing
• Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating local laws”
• Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results
• AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks

Development and languages

• Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly finding files by name
• TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous programming framework
• Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
• Europe: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
• Scientific Programming Blog
• No-JavaScript Fingerprinting
• U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today’s digital world
• Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems
• Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
• Koda, a Typesafe Functional Toolkit for Python
• How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm
• Functional Programming in Elixir with Witchcraft
• Digital Advertising in 2022
• FP techniques that will help you write better JavaScript
• Western Digital says contamination impacting production at Japanese facilities
  Western Digital Corp said on Wednesday certain materials at two of its manufacturing units in Japan, operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corp, were contaminated and will result in reduced availability of flash storage devices.
• Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg
  .NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
• Making a Budget Pascal Compiler to WebAssembly
• A new programming language for high-performance computers
• Git in one image

Quote of the week

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

        — Andy Rooney

Enterprises

• Six-Letter DNA Alphabet Produces Proteins in Cells
• Google Chrome U2F API decommission: What the change means
• Tesla FSD Beta Crashes into Object
• Chip Red Pill: Arbitrary Code Execution Inside Intel Atom CPUs
• Reconfigurable perovskite nickelate electronics for artificial intelligence
• Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k
• Amazon raises base salary cap to $350k for corporate, tech workers
• Google pushes update to Lenovo Smart Display to disable viewing websites
• SoftBank’s Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO
  SoftBank Group Corp has shelved its blockbuster sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp valued at up to $80 billion citing regulatory hurdles and will instead seek to list the company.
• Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem
• Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers
• Stripe is partnering with Apple to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone
• Why Netflix Will Falter
• Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
• Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
• CNIL (France) decides EU-US data transfer to Google Analytics illegal
• AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
• Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
• Twitter is down 10.4% since IPO in 2013
• A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
• Google’s advertising tech targeted in European publishers’ complaint
• Microsoft’s Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
• Starting in 2023 Google is planning to wind down Google Currents
  What’s happening  Last year, we introduced Spaces , a dedicated place for organizing people, topics, and projects in Google Workspace. Since…
• Twitter seems to have some problems
• Building an Intelligent Emacs
  This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers.
• Google Image Search Tools not staying active with new searches: It’s a “feature”

Other news

• Forget about teaching kids to code
• Dllicious – shared object usage analysis on Linux
• I Used Linux-Based PinePhone Daily for a Year. Here’s What I Learned
• Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field
• Quantum friction explains strange way water flows through nanotubes
• CI for the Debian Linux kernel team
• “How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
• School Closures In 1918 Flu Had No Impact On Educational Or Career Attainment
  Abstract. During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–19 flu pandemic to assess the long-run consequences of closing schools on children. We find that the closures had no detectable impact on children’s school attendance in 1920, nor on their educational attainment and adult labor market outcomes in 1940. We highlight important differences between the 1918–19 and Covid-19 pandemics and caution against extrapolating from our null effects to moder
• Textbooks by the Faculty of the C.S. Department of Kansas State University
• Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
• Interesting Resources to Encourage Your Child to Learn to Code
• This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system
• U.S. university reverses decision to remove Olympic protest posters
• Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
  Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone, empowering merchants in the US to accept contactless payments.
• Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
• The unlimited storage that Google promised my university is being discontinued
• Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer
• Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job
• Safer entropy accumulation in Linux 5.18’s RNG
• Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism
• New web hacking techniques
  Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
• How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year
• A woman who can descend into the sea on one breath
• Why won’t anyone teach me math?
  “We are often told of B.S.E or STEM students exploring the humanities to their heart’s content, but I feel that we rarely hear of students in the humanities being encouraged to take scientific classes.”
• CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in the Linux Kernel
• Police hacking with Pegasus of key Netanyahu trial witness explodes into scandal

Autor: Javi López G.

Arquitecto/desarrollador, creativo, buscador de nuevas soluciones y modelos de negocio, crítico constructivo y ex muchas cosas Lee todas las entradas de Javi López G.