Gooooooood morning, Crowd!!! 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
- Towards a Learning-Based Query Optimizer
- Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice
Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use Attacks Synapses Long-term use of benzodiazepines has been linked to cognitive deficits according to Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich (LMU) researchers. Benzodiazepines are a class of medications that are used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders. While short-t - Fast Lane to Learning R
- Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement
For Immediate Release — IRVINE, CA, USA —
Software Freedom Conservancy announces it has succeeded in federal court with
its motion to have its lawsuit against Vizio, Inc. remanded back to Superior
Court in Orange County, California. Vizio, Inc. previously filed a request to
“remove” the case from California State Court into U.S. Federal
Court. - Alexander in the Bathysphere
- AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study
- AI and Machine Learning – The Basics
- AI generated Magic The Gathering cards
- Learning Car Speed Using Inertial Sensors
- Physics-Informed Machine Learning For Modeling Turbulence In Supernovae
- Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
- An AI system for solving crossword puzzles that outperforms the best humans
- Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II
Blockchain and decentralization
- Dog digs up haul of medieval coins in Poland
- The problem with Bitcoin miners
- $3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse
- Investors pull $7bn from Tether as stablecoin jitters intensify
- Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
Deus Finance’s stablecoin Dei is the latest stabelcoin to lose its 1-to-1 peg to the U.S. dollar. The coin is currently trading at $0.64 - Let’s build a distributed Postgres proof of concept
- The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked
- A simple tool to package and run distributed K8s application
Woman computer scientist of the week
Karen Petrie is a British computer scientist specialising in the area of constraints programming. She was awarded young IT practitioner of the year by the British Computer Society (BCS) in 2004, for work she carried out whilst on placement at NASA. She is currently a reader in the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Dundee.
Cloud and architecture
- Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
- From AWS Lambda and API Gateway to Knative and Kong API Gateway
- Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
- Nginx Modern Reference Architectures
- Eigr: Stateful Serverless in the Beam
Development and languages
- Executable Examples for Programming Problem Comprehension
- How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?
- Own Your Calendar and Contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
- Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database
- New DigitalOcean Pricing
- DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
- Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
- Sandbox-based isolation software for Windows NT-based operating systems
- Wazero: The zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers
wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers – GitHub – tetratelabs/wazero: wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers - OpenAI Codex Python to C++ Code Generator
- Professional Programming: The First 10 Years
- Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab
- I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
Do you think all Android phones are too big? I agree! We need to work together to convince someone to build a small Android phone again. - Steps towards debugging and resolving Android bootloops
- Forgit: A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactively
- Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark
- Textual – A TUI framework for Python inspired by modern web development
- Pull-based GitOps moving to Gitlab Free tier
- .NET 7 introduces Native AOT
- Animating Regular Expressions with Python and Graphviz
- Designing for non-rectangular browser windows
- Pikascript: An ultra-lightweight Python engine that can run in 4Kb of RAM
- Python Standard Library changes in recent years
- Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
Render mathematical expressions in Markdown - LiveKit – open-source, high performance WebRTC infrastructure
- ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records
- “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
Not All Heroes Wear Capes - Impacket – collection of Python classes for working with network protocols
- Programming Burnout
- Windows XP Delta Edition
Windows XP Delta Edition is a modification of Windows XP which aims to recreate the Windows XP Beta 2 aesthetic and bring back lost features, functions, and programs from previous versions of…
Quote of the week
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.
— Bertrand Meyer
Enterprises
- Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
- Crowdsource by Google
- Intel’s New Chimera: Alder Lake
- Intel can’t grow profits in a global chip shortage – where did it all go wrong?
- Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence
- I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it
- 19.42% of Active Twitter Accounts Are Fake or Spam
TL;DR – From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of five datasets including a variety of active (i.e. - Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision
- Researchers Demo Bluetooth Relay Attack Against Tesla
- Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto
Microsoft has been deeply rooted in Canada for nearly 40 years and our commitment to help grow Canada’s innovation economy has never been stronger. With the launch of our new headquarters, official opening of our Data Innovation Centre of Excellence and expansion of our regional presence, even more organizations of all sizes and sectors can leverage the power of cloud and data to accelerate their organization’s growth and drive new economic opportunity for Canada. - SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
- Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away
The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y employ a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based passive entry system. This system allows users with an authorized mobile device or key fob within a short range of the vehicle to unlock and operate the vehicle, with no user interaction required on the mobile device or key fob. This system infers proximity of the mobile device or key fob based on signal strength (RSSI) and latency measurements of cryptographic challenge-response operations conducted over BLE - Netflix lays off about 150 employees
- Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels
Last last month, a post from the relatively obscure Good e-Reader claimed that Amazon would finally allow the Kindle to read EPUB files. The story was picked up by all the major tech sites, and for… - Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL
- Google’s Subsea Fiber Optics
- Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google
- FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware
FairEmail
Open source, privacy friendly email app for AndroidSee here for a description:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/Downloads:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email#user-content-downloadsSee this XDA article for some…
- EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off the Play store
- Fastly acquires Glitch
- Computation reuse via fusion in Amazon Athena
- Google open sourced PSP (hardware cryptographic offload)
- Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case
- Fanless Intel J4125 4x I225 Virtualized Firewall Appliance Review
- Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and Other Intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine War
- Tesla Asking Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave
Other news
- The Woman Who Brought Female Representation to Games
- Linux for Networking Professionals
- Reducing Cognitive Load in Agile DevOps Teams Using Team Topologies
- Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
Maker of stereos and speakers doomed by market shift to streaming and smartphones - The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux
- Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
- Advanced Techniques for Reducing Emacs Startup Time
- VoCore – Coin-Sized Linux Computer
- Stealing checks worth millions and pwning a bank
- Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
Scientific Reports – Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives - Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy
- Tel-Aviv University Releases Long-Text NLP Benchmark Scrolls
- What rocks teach us about the human condition
- Walmart Anticipates a Store Manager Shortage Despite $200k-a-Year Pay
- Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional
- Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
- Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux
Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support. - We reduced 502 errors by caring about PID 1 in Kubernetes
- Sharing page tables with mshare()
- Direct observation of the dead-cone effect in quantum chromodynamics
- Teach Your Kids Poker, Not Chess
- More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments
- Fake Journal Club
- My Favorite Liar – a teaching technique
- The madness of reduced medical diagnostics
The puzzling movement reduce diagnostic tests because of harmful downstream treatments - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is now generally available (GA)
- Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
