Gooooooood morning, WWW!!! 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
- How the “Uber Economy” Is Killing Innovation, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship
We need to shift our focus from disrupting markets to creating them - Electric fields, not individual neurons, may hold information in memory: study
- Celebrate Tiny Learning Milestones
- Tiny magnetic robots capture pollutants and release them on demand
- How on earth I became an entrepreneur
- Programming Languages and Learning
- White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new locations
- How do you get out of the bottleneck?
- The New Neurasthenia: How burnout became the buzzword of the moment
- Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
- I’m writing an MMORPG game for learning programming
- Alexandria Search
- Christopher Alexander, 1936-2022
Blockchain and decentralization
- Cascading failures in large-scale distributed systems
- Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems
- Blockchains will maybe not destroy the planet
- A Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well in Texas
Woman computer scientist of the week
Margaret R. Fox was an American electronics engineer and computer scientist born in 1916. She was the Chief of the Office of Computer Information, part of the Institute for Computer Science and Technology of the National Bureau of Standards from 1966 to 1975 and was the first secretary of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies.
Cloud and architecture
- Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers
- Soar (Cognitive Architecture)
- Python Design Patterns
- The First Granny Square Pattern
- UK Network Operators Target iCloud Private Relay in Complaint to Regulator
- Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use - Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
Restaurants say blue “order online” button saps profits, diverts customers. - I Discovered Thousands of Open Databases on AWS
My journey on finding and reporting databases with sensitive data about Fortune-500 companies, Hospitals, Crypto platforms, Startups during… - It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code – Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
- Polylith is a functional software architecture at the system scale
- Terraform-AWS-modules/Terraform-AWS-eks transitions to non-free license
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Motivation and Contex… - Amazon’s new role-playing game can help you build your AWS skills
- Paaster – Secure by default end to end encrypted pastebin
- Serverless site analytics with Clojure nbb and AWS
- Accounting for SaaS and Swords
Development and languages
- Hubfs – File System for GitHub
- .NET Myths Dispelled
.NET will be celebrating itâs 21st birthday this year on February 14. Grab a cold one and letâs dispel 6 myths of modern .NET development! - Manim – Python library for creating mathematical animations
- A digital circuit simulator written in sed
- No-code is the future of programming. That’s great news for engineers
- Why am I building a programming language in private?
- Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page
- Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer
- Resurrecting a Dataman S4 PROM Programmer
- Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless you disable Chrome
- CSS-Tricks has been acquired by DigitalOcean
Hey hey! - The Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project
- Strype, a Python frame-based editor
- Cognition versus Programming: The Big Two – Why TDD?
- On Vintage Programming Books
A look at three relics of a not-quite-bygone era. In picture-listicle form. - C Isn’t a Programming Language Anymore
- Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas
- Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Codespaces, Git Operations, Issues
- Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
- Python finally offloads some batteries
- Building a blog from scratch in 2022 using Hugo, Docker and a bit of Python
- Python 3 Types in the Wild
- Gauge.js – A JavaScript animated gauge lib
Quote of the week
XML is like violence. Sure, it seems like a quick and easy solution at first, but then it spirals out of control into utter chaos.
— Sarkos in reddit
Enterprises
- A Wordle clone made in Google Sheets
- Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime
- Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority - Google Fi Illegally Bricked My iPhone 11 Pro Max
- AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips, Flagship $449 Ryzen 7 5800X3D Lands April 20
- Amazon Relocates Workers Due to Out-of-Control Violence in Downtown Seattle
- The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova” – and how to spot such fakes
15th March 2022 Being an experienced Twitter user is like being what comedian Jasper Carrott once said of Ed Doolan: “world-famous in Birmingham”. You have a great deal of knowledge abo… - Google Domains is out of beta
- Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube
- About Safety Mode and autoblock by Twitter
- Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof. - Google seems to have signed me up for Google Pay without asking
- Prepare for the future with Google Analytics 4
Universal Analytics is sunsetting next year. Prepare now by moving over to the next generation Analytics solution, Google Analytics 4. - Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland
- Amazon completes its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM
- Doctors often turn to Google Translate to talk to patients; want a better option
- Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator
Contribute to google/h2e_technical_documentation development by creating an account on GitHub. - Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project
Project ‘Iliad’ put multiple layers of questions and offers between the main Amazon page and the final cancellation - If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
Other news
- What I Learned from My First Rails Upgrade
- CA bar says attorney records leaked through database flaw, not hack
The State Bar of California, which earlier said a «hack» led to a months-long online disclosure of 260,000 confidential attorney discipline cases, instead now blames the breach on an âunknown security vulnerabilityâ in its own database. - Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished
What happened to Mavis Beacon? - My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
- My path to CS and opinions on CS Education
- Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education
- Birmingham’s invisible woman
- Hacking sum types with Go generics
- How to Learn Nix
- Cities should not pay for new stadiums
- UX Podcast Survey – vote for your favorite podcast to listen to in 2022
- CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach torture techniques
- Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars
- PartialExecuter: Reducing WebAssembly size by exploring all executions in LLVM
Partial Executer is a brand-new LLVM optimization pass that uses an Interpreter-like engine to prove some code will never be executed, making it safe to eliminate it. In this article, I will explain the ideas behind it, the engineering challenges, and the results of this work. LLVM basics Some basic understanding of LLVM internals will… - Can making employers share pay in job postings help fix the gender pay gap?
- Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics
- Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux
Firmware flash Samsung SSD or NVMe directly from Linux without needing broken Samsung ISO boot environment! - Firms Must Report Hacks to DHS in 72 Hours Under Law
- Teaching Kubernetes to Do Fractions and Multiplication on GPUs
- Hacking Hadoukens: Reverse Engineering a Street Fighter Two Cabinet
- Linux Perf Examples
- Does quantum mechanics need imaginary numbers?
- Linux on an M1 Mac
- Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18
- Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date
The antiparasitic drug has received attention from celebrities including Joe Rogan. - The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B
- Mariupol’s devastation: AP journalists document war’s toll
- I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want. - Edrys – an open-source remote teaching platform
- Asahi Linux Alpha Release
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
