Gooooooood morning, Hyperspace!!! 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
- Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible
- Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos
- By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
- An AI drew my picture
- Labrador’s robotic shelf for people with mobility issues
- ROS – Robot Operating System
- Cryptographic failures in RF encryption allow stealing robotic devices
- Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
- Build Your Own GitHub Copilot with Salesforce Codegen AI
- How to Take Your Learning to the Next Level
Blockchain and decentralization
- DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (Bitcoin) security
- Metastability and Distributed Systems
- Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
- SEC rejects Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application
- Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C
- ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list over OneCoin scheme
Woman computer scientist of the week
Allison Druin is an American computer scientist who studies human-computer interaction, and digital libraries, particularly focusing on children’s use of educational technology. She is a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associate Provost for Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Pratt Institute.
Cloud and architecture
- The Victim Cloud: Gullibility in the golden age of scams
- PyPI: Python packets steal AWS keys from users
- Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser
- Hetzner Cloud offers IPv6-only or no public IP at all
- Class Action Lawsuit Filed over California Gun Owners’ Data Leak
- ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against VICE has been dismissed
Development and languages
- Dangit, Git?
- Multi-gitter – CLI to update multiple Git repositories in bulk
- WebAssembly and C++
- Math on GitHub: Following Up
- Linx – Reveals invisible links within JavaScript files
- The JavaScript Specification Has a New License
- Get rid of Git submodules and never look back (now for GitHub users)
- Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks
- Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge
- The status of the book in the age of digital media
- 10 Years of Meteor: My experience with a pioneering JavaScript framework
- Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?
- Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
- Increased Subscription Pricing for IDEs, .NET Tools, and the All Products Pack
- GitHub incident – now resolved
- Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
- Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
- Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come
- Gradual Soundness: Lessons from static Python
- Software development from my Android phone at datacenter speeds
- A quick history of data fetching in JavaScript
- Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
- Logging in Python Like a Pro
- Google’s Android Automotive OS is coming to BMW cars next year
- Voyager Digital suspends trading, deposits and withdrawals
- There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
- Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecraft-Style Crafting
- Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition – The Open Access Version Online
- why I left Android Development after 10 years for Backend
Quote of the week
That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
— Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Oath of Fealty
Enterprises
- LaMDA’s Sentience Is Nonsense – Here’s Why
- Using the air as a wire – was Nikola Tesla right?
- The intellectual mistake of once-and-for-allism
- FCC asks Google, Apple to remove TikTok
- Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon
- Interview with the author of “Buy Now”, a book about Amazon
- Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results
- Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge
- Car wars: Analyst predicts GM, Ford will surpass Tesla EV sales by 2025
- Google will remove user location history for abortion clinic visits
Other news
- Quantum Zeno effect
- Stream thoughtful films with your public library or university card
- Linux commands for advanced hardware and system info
- Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
- Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease
- EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams
- A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
- TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less
- Volt, Australia’s first online-only bank, shuts down due to fund-raising woes
- Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- Even when you do succeed, sometimes it pays to try again
- What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?
- BMW is switching from Linux to Android Automotive next year
- The First RISC-V Laptop Announced with Quad-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux Support
- FDIC Failed Bank List
- RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets