Gooooooood morning, Horde!!! 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
- Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models
- Dependabot alerts paused for malware advisories
- Trane, an automated system for learning complex skills
- New York state buys robots for lonely elders
- Historical weather data API for machine learning, free for non-commercial
Get weather data for the past days, weeks or months - AI Forecasting: One Year In
- Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees into Spectators
- Microrobots can brush and floss teeth
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque. - What Is Machine Learning Anyway?
- Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Means
- Brain.js: GPU Accelerated Neural Networks in JavaScript
- Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots
- Making Things Think – AI Book
- Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story
Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. - Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
Blockchain and decentralization
- Improving distributed caching performance and efficiency at Pinterest
- Ethereum Energy Consumption
- GitDB, a distributed embeddable database on top of Git
- El Salvador’s Experiment with Bitcoin as Legal Tender
- Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
- No-Token apps: an alternate vision for the blockchain
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lixia Zhang is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her expertise is in computer networks; she helped found the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed the Resource Reservation Protocol, coined the term «middlebox», and pioneered the development of named data networking.
Cloud and architecture
- AWS Nuke – delete all resources associated with AWS account
Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources. – GitHub – rebuy-de/aws-nuke: Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources. - The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
- New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
- Cell-Based Architecture
- Architecture Decisions in Neon
- Amplify UI – Don’t just prototype. Connect your UI to the cloud
Amplify UI simplifies building accessible, performant, and beautiful applications with cloud-connected capabilities, building blocks, theming, and utilities.
Development and languages
- Functional programming jargon in plain English
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms! – GitHub – hemanth/functional-programming-jargon: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms! - Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices
- Kyoto framework is moving to sr.ht from GitHub
Golang SSR-first Frontend Library. Contribute to kyoto-framework/kyoto development by creating an account on GitHub. - The Windows Malloc() Implementation Is a Trash Fire
I am currently porting an experimental language to Windows. This experimental language was built in C++ with LLVM, and relies heavily on GCC extensions like VLAs and Compound Statement Expressions, which basically made it impossible to build with MSVC (although I have a truly horrifying idea I may attempt later). Luckily, you can now build things on Windows with Clang, which solves a lot of problems. However, clang-cl simply compiles the code – it still uses the Microsoft C++ headers and links to the Microsoft C++ runtime. - GitHub Code Search (Preview)
- IPL: Intuitionistic Programming Language
- Red Engine: modern scheduling framework for Python applications
- Give Up GitHub
- The Digital Dark Ages
- How CUDA Programming Works
Come for an introduction to programming the GPU by the lead architect of CUDA - No really, why can’t we have raw UDP in JavaScript?
- What Comes After Git
- Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode
Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode – GitHub – winterknife/PINKPANTHER: Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode - Windows’ Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
- Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig
Bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript
projects – all in Bun. Bun is a new JavaScript runtime with
a native bundler, transpiler, task runner and npm client built-in. - Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager
- An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
- Is your phone ruining your memory? A report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’
âI canât remember anythingâ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories? - Crypto broker Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy
- Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub. - Music for Programming
- Ruffle: WebAssembly Flash Player Emulator
- Zrepl on Rsync.net
- Programming with union, intersection, and negation types
- PyAlgoViz: Python Algorithm Visualizations done in Python running in the browser
- The Visual Studio Code Server
- APL and Array Programming
- Programming Fonts
Quote of the week
Most xml i’ve seen makes me think i’m dyslexic. it also looks constipated, and two health problems in one standard is just too much.
— Charles Forsyth
Enterprises
- Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically
- Watching an acquirer ruin your company
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn’t get much startup press - 40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
- Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS
- Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
- Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence
- Sadly, we can’t check the app permissions on Google Play anymore
- Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
Amazon has been working on a Lord of the Rings TV show for years, and they seem determined that it eclipse anything ever attempted on TV before. The comp… - EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
- Tesla is no longer the largest EV producer
- Space Force Launches New Intelligence Unit: Congress Voices Concerns over Growth
- LeCun’s 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence does not cite prior work
- Twitter Layoff Started Today
- Apple, Google, Facebook’s AV1 standards group under EU antitrust investigation
- Two people in Tesla killed after crashing into parked semi at Florida rest stop
- Heads Up: Microsoft to Ban Commercial Open Source from App Store
- Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
- Netflix to Its Techies: Shut Up
- Amazon has a book piracy problem
- Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay
- Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal
Other news
- Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- How did a woman with a missing temporal lobe become bilingual?
- Are Buy Now Pay Laters the Next Bubble?
- HAL Laboratory’s Three Arcade Ports
- Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women
- Quantum Mechanics and Tomb Raider
- Breast cancer drug trial: Woman given months to live told she is cancer free
- A Journey into the Linux Scheduler
- Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB
Most Linux-based operating systems are fairly large — usually well over a full gigabyte in size for the base install image. Tiny Core Linux, which clocks in at a svelte 22 MB download, just release… - Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel’s network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK. - HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground
- Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
- Credentials dumper for Linux using eBPF
Credentials Dumper for Linux using eBPF. Contribute to citronneur/pamspy development by creating an account on GitHub. - NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
- Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items
- Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size
- Solving Out of Memory Issues in Linux at Redpanda
- OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of Execution Flow
- School’s Out for Summer and Many Teachers Are Calling It Quits
- I made an app to help insomniacs learn how to sleep again
- Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
Rogers Telecommunications said its network was beginning to recover late on Friday after a 19-hourservice outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over its industry dominance. - Linux Sucks 2022
- I made a MIDI tool to teach me piano
- I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
- Why Linux Succeeded
