Gooooooood morning, W3!!! 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
- Beewise pulls in $80m investment for robotic beehives
- Learning math? Think like a cartoonist
- Solopreneurs Are Changing the Face of the Economy
- Exploring Neural Networks Visually in the Browser
- How Neuromancer formed the Cyberpunk Aesthetics
How Neuromancer from William Gibson birthed Cyberpunk - A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years
- Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. âCollecting more data often helps,» he says. «But if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.â - Birds Make Better Bipedal Bots Than Humans Do
- AI predicts if and when someone will experience cardiac arrest
Blockchain and decentralization
- PCIe Ethernet in Thunderbolt docks (how to avoid Realtek)
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto for an Eyeball Scan
- Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Welcome to Videoâs customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldnât have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoinâs anonymity.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Vicki Hanson FACM FRSE FBCS, is an American computer scientist noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2018 having served as its President from 2016 to 2018.
Cloud and architecture
- SPF Protected Spammers in the Public Cloud, Spamware to Spamtraps, SSH Groping
- “Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures, 2019 edition
- Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Altra Arm CPUs
- Intel took an AMD Zen microarchitecture presentation and turned it into a patent
- In Defense of Simple Architectures
- AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-In HTTPS Endpoints for Lambda
Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API Gateway and Application Load Balancer. But sometimes all you need is a […] - Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
- Denonia: The First Malware Specifically Targeting AWS Lambda
- Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
- AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
- Mutagen – Cloud-based development using your local tools
- Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’
Development and languages
- What are you doing, WordPress.com?
- Book Review: The Programmer’s Brain
- What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
- Digital models preserve game show history
- Windows 11 may not be as popular as Microsoft had hoped
- Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile
NGINX Open Source 1.21.4 introduces support for kernel TLS (kTLS), which boosts performance by significantly reducing the need to copy data between user space and the kernel. We provide complete instructions for enabling kTLS in NGINX and share results of our performance testing. - The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
This article is also available in Dutch Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. One that supported and enhanced the work you do, telling - Looking at Zig Programming Language
- pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
Fast, disk space efficient package manager - 35mm cinema film and digital audio
- We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
- Writing a NetBSD Kernel Module
- λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
- Entire website in a single JavaScript file
- Retype: A self-hosted and free alternative to gitbook
- You Can Throw() Anything in JavaScript – and Other Async/Await Considerations
- Use Git tactically
- The full Windows 95 launch event video is finally online
- The United States Digital Corps
The United States Digital Corps. Empowering early-career technologists to build a more effective, equitable government. - GitHub Text of government takedown notices as received
- 3D model file thumbnails for Windows Explorer
Quote of the week
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match
Enterprises
- Intel becomes the first to offer full AV1 support with its new Arc GPUs
- Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter
- Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
- There’s no way to report spam on Google Drive
- Netflix Should Sell Ads
- Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft
- Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
- Amazon’s Project Kuiper books 83 rockets to launch internet-beaming satellites
- Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
- The next Google
- Evaluating Graviton 2 for data-intensive applications: Arm vs. Intel comparison
- Twitter is adding an edit button
- Twitter Bluesky: A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. The conceptual framework we’ve adopted for meeting this objective is the «self-authenticating protocol.» - Redditle.com – For those of us who add ‘Reddit’ to every Google search
For those of us who add ‘reddit’ to every Google search - The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option:
Not a walled garden like Facebook or Instagram where you either don’t see any content at all or are bombarded with “sign up to continue” popups after scrolling down more than ten pixels. Not horribly confusing and overwhelming for people that don’t use it regularly like Reddit, be it the old or the bad design. - Stripe 2021 Business Update
- iFixit and Google Are Launching a Genuine Pixel Parts Program
- List of 3.9k Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
- Drone footage of Tesla factory
- Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
Other news
- How we secure Monzo’s banking platform
Our Security Infrastructure team introduces the principles we follow to build security in Monzo’s fast-moving engineering environment and how they work with other engineering teams to keep our customers and platform safe. - Women and their hair transformed South Korea
- Review: HP’s smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
- Regolith Linux
- Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas. - Learn about Concept Maps
- Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button
- Ride a Bird scooter. Have an accident. Pay a mighty price
- Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them - First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
- Sky Mavis Raises $150M to Help Reimburse User Losses Stemming from Hack
- Devs of bcachefs try to get filesystem into Linux again
- Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
- What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details. - Barclays Puts in Sensors to See Which Bankers Are at Their Desks
- You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
