Gooooooood morning, Human race!!! 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
- Robots Get Some Inspiration from the Moai Statues of Easter Island
- Federated Learning with Formal Differential Privacy Guarantees
- Deep learning behind document processing
- The Uncanny Valley of Xenobots
- White Noise Improves Learning
- At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found
- Learning Standard C++ as the New Language
- Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
- Graphsignal – Machine learning profiler for training and inference
- Prepform – AI and spaced-repetition to optimize learning
- Face-to-face interaction enhances learning, innovation
Blockchain and decentralization
- Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and more
- Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency
Woman computer scientist of the week
Weili Dai is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the director, co-founder and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. As of 2015, she is listed as the 95th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Cloud and architecture
- Microsoft Flight Simulator’s cloud debut comes with upsides for devs
- Cloud Provider Performance Comparison – Perl and More
- Critical Cross-Account Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Automation Service
- Google Cloud to acquire Mandiant for $5.4B
- AWS’s us-east-1 region is experiencing issues
- Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet
- Cloudant/IBM back off from FoundationDB based CouchDB rewrite
Development and languages
- Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) – PC-Based Receivers and Software
- The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing
- Digital Health Rules
- Ryven – Flow-based visual scripting for Python
- Cooklang – Managing Recipes in Git
- MicropolisJS: A JavaScript clone of the original SimCity
- Sending notifications programmatically: let me count the ways
- Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing parts of the app
- Windows product stickers as an insight into the past
- First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript
- Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies
Quote of the week
I had a nightmare once in which I a had convinced a friend how wonderful C++ is. A while later he came back., and he was mad.[sic]
— Robin Rosenberg
Enterprises
- AMD Is Now Worth More Than Intel – and with Reason
- The Intel Core I3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
- Drawbacks of engaging with customer complaints on Twitter
- Google purchasing and expanding its Warsaw office for $700M
- Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction
- The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before
- Amazon Amp Live Radio App
- Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation
- Phases of Netflix’s real-time data infrastructure
- Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision
- Why do Google use location for language rather than browser settings?
- Google Maps Shadow Calculator
- Intel Finds Bug in AMD’s Spectre Mitigation – AMD Issues Fix
Other news
- Go Chainable: .map().filter().reduce() in Go
- NaTakallam – High-quality language services and courses delivered by refugees
- Linux from Scratch – LFS and BLFS Version 11.1 are released
- The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
- Most U.S. workers took an inflation pay cut in 2021
- How to Learn Anything
- AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals
- The Hacker’s Diet
- Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux kernel
- It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end
- Endurance: Shackleton’s lost ship is found in Antarctic
- Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica
- Booting ARM Linux the standard way
- RadixSpline: A Single-Pass Learned Index
- 2D Game engine and editor for Windows and Linux
- Things I hate about Rust, redux
- Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
- DNS resolution issue in Alpine Linux
- The Legendary Survival Story of Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Modern movies teach us awful lessons