Tech roundup 129: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• TclTutor 3: Computer aided instruction package for learning the Tcl language
• Quantum complexity tamed by machine learning
• In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice
• AI is changing chemical discovery
• An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?
• My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
  A Home Assistant Love Story
• Some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting
• Eric Schmidt plans to give A.I. researchers $125M
• Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning
  Successfully controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with deep reinforcement learning.
• AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
• Some argue that synthetic data can make AI systems better
• Difficult situation on campus. Traffic jam of automated food delivery robots
• ‘Simple’ AI Can Anticipate Bank Managers’ Loan Decisions to over 95% Accuracy

Blockchain and decentralization

• How Texas is becoming a Bitcoin mining hub
• A (joke) cryptocurrency where you get paid to scalp
• More Than Half of Bitcoin Investors Are in the Red, Study Says
• Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization
  The
• The Stacks 2.0 blockchain implementation in Rust
• Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow: How a Dream Life Turned into a Nightmare
  My husband started a cryptocurrency empire that made us rich. When he died, I learned it was just a facade
• Navigating Privacy on Public Blockchains
• Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared

Cloud and architecture

• Video Game Project Management Anti-Patterns
• All Google Cloud product in this periodic table
• AWS S3: Why sometimes you should press the $100k button
• Reversle – Find the words given Wordle pattern and the solution word
• How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare (and why you should)

Development and languages

• Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs
• State of Rhombus
• Automatic Musical Composition with Python
• Virtual machines with KVM on Pixel 6 and Android 13 DP1
• JavaScript Knowledge Map
• 20 Years of .NET
• Upcoming Python Features Brought to You by Python Enhancement Proposals
• WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP)
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory by Ulrich Drepper
• LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
• State of JavaScript 2021 is out
• State of JavaScript 2021
• Unikernels
• 3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently failing unit tests
• 1Password for SSH and Git
  Introducing 1Password for SSH & Git (Beta), the single source of truth for all your SSH keys. With 1Password, you can:
• Track down the JavaScript code responsible for polluting the global scope
• The Privacy Sandbox on Android
• The Harsh Truth of Video Games Programming
  I’ve been interested in games programming since I started learning programming as a teenager more than 25 years ago (gasp!) I started with Qbasic and Gorillas.bas, but never understood the code. Of course, I didn’t get anywhere at the time, beyond very basic games. I wrote a simple Shoot
• Programmable Filament
• C# Raw String Literal Proposal
• Deploy to DigitalOcean from Glitch
• GitBOM is a minimalistic scheme for build tools to build a compact artifact tree
• Skip · A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
  A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
• My Remote Mob Programming Experience
• Against Pair Programming
  As effective as a backseat driver.
• Windows 11 settings rewritten in React Native
• Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
• GStreamer 1.20: Embedded and WebRTC lead the way
  At the forefront of contributors for this latest release, our team’s work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC.
• Faster Python calculations with Numba
  Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library.
• WebRTC support is being added to OBS
• How to write better scientific code in Python?

Quote of the week

XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.

        — Heard from someone working at Microsoft

Enterprises

• Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
• My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
• Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
• Google Search Is Dying
• Dutch foundation seeks consumer damages over Apple, Google app payments
  Apple and Google face a potential class action lawsuit in the Netherlands over app store charges, after a foundation headed by Dutch entrepreneur Alexander Klöpping began gathering claimants.
• Google Release Chrome OS Flex
• Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B
• Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users
  MFA can protect your Office 365 accounts, but attackers are looking to compromise this security feature through new threats such as Push Notification Spamming. Learn more about MFA fatigue and how to mitigate attacks in this article.
• Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit
  We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is Elastic Cloud.
• The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Family’s Bank Accounts
  https://gofund.me/8950f458
• Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent
• Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
• Works in Progress has joined Stripe
• Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
  Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
  Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Why can’t Google find answers though they are right under it’s nose?
• Logging at Twitter
  How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way.
• Why you should switch to Brave from Google Chrome
• Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors
• Netflix Announces 4 New Dave Chappelle Comedy Specials
• Thoughts on Intel software-defined silicon
  People are attracted to free software for a number of reasons, including
  price, overall quality, community support, and available features. But,
  for many of us, the
  value of free software is to be found in its ability to allow us to
  actually own and maintain control over our systems. Antifeatures in free
  software tend
  not to last long, and free drivers can often unlock capabilities of the
  hardware that its vendors may not have seen fit to make available. Intel’s
  upcoming «software defined silicon» (SDSi) mechanism may reduce that control,
  though, by taking away access to hardware features from anybody who has not
  paid the requisite fees.
• Google Maps ToS can be summarised as: Don’t use it

Other news

• Scientists create quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory
• Has Literature Ever Changed the Course of History?
• GhOSt: Fast and Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling
• Simula One – Linux VR Computer
• Facebook Pay
• The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman
• White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
  Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, fixed a major flaw that would have permitted an illegal and continuous creation of ETH tokens.  According to sources,
• Learn Rust with Too Many Linked Lists
• A Look at Low-Risk Ways to Learn Crypto
• Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
  The first Android 13 developer preview may have felt a bit underwhelming, but there’s a hidden gem with full virtualization possible on hardware such as
• GiveSendGo Has Been Hacked
• “A Pleasure to Burn”: We Are Closer to Bradbury’s Dystopia Than Orwell or Huxley
• Why Won’t Anyone Teach Her Math?
• Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack
• Blockfi agrees to pay $100M in penalties and pursue registration
• Andromeda Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game using HTML5, Canvas, Web Audio
• JDeploy – Deploy desktop Java apps as native bundles on Mac, Linux, and Windows
• San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam
• How SoftBank’s costly bet on the ‘internet of things’ backfired at Arm
• Duke University and IonQ Develop New Quantum Computing Gate
• Hello Many Worlds in Seven Quantum Languages
• In 2001, I said “I use Linux” to RMS’s face
• Woman appears cured of HIV after umbilical-cord blood transplant
  The patient’s transplant in New York City could help researchers who are developing gene therapies to cure HIV.
• Finality does not exist in payments
  Many people believe some transactions are final. The reality is a bit more complicated, and involves technical, social, and legal factors.
• GoIP-1 GSM gateway could be harnessed for phone fraud by hackers
• The Seductions of Clarity
• A new wave of Linux applications
  With the start of the new year, we can see a new trend delineating Linux software. Phosh with its newbord libadwaita, KDE’s Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started. After all, even laptop screens are not too big
• Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage
• Uniting the Linux random-number devices
• Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A
• Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux
• What I Learned During My Three Days Offline
  Mostly, I use the internet to delay the rest of my life
• Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99m pay package
• EU wants to completely ban anonymous payments with crypto assets
  EU: There should be identification requirements for crypto-asset transactions in all amounts. Crypto transactions in Europe must be tracked.
• A Saudi woman’s iPhone revealed hacking around the world
  A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.
• ‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity – no way to stop them
  ‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them

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