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
- AI Forecasting: One Year In
- Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees into Spectators
- 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
- 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
- The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
- New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
- Cell-Based Architecture
- Architecture Decisions in Neon
Development and languages
- Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices
- GitHub Code Search (Preview)
- IPL: Intuitionistic Programming Language
- Red Engine: modern scheduling framework for Python applications
- Give Up GitHub
- The Digital Dark Ages
- No really, why can’t we have raw UDP in JavaScript?
- What Comes After Git
- Windows’ Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
- Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager
- An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
- Crypto broker Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground
- Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
- 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
- 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