Gooooooood morning, You all!!! 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
- 2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track
- Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
- Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one
- How I went about learning Rust
- Wandering Robots in the Wild
- “Learning The Elite Class: My experience at fancy parties”
Blockchain and decentralization
- Crypto-Assets and Decentralized Finance Through a Financial Stability Lens
- IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
- Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment
- Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
- I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards
- The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money
Woman computer scientist of the week
Joanne Pransky is an American robotics expert and futurist who provides professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices. She calls herself the «World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist» for her expertise on issues concerning the human/robot relationship. She is a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts, United States.
Cloud and architecture
- Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling
- Cryptomator – Encrypt files on your cloud storage
- Building multi-architecture Docker images
- SaaS Tools That Get Things Done for Tech Startups
- Can I build my SaaS in no-code tools
Development and languages
- Cissbury Ring: Neolithic flint-mines in the digital age
- Negatypes in Python: A type that is not some type
- Whatcha – social network for digital media
- Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
- Programming a Rogue-Like with Rust
- Bun (can become) the ideal JavaScript runtime
- A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines
- Functional programming is finally going mainstream
- A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x
- The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursuit of focus
- Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution
- GitHop
- Kernel support for hardware-based control-flow integrity
- Integrating a Rust module into an Android app
- Comparing Rust and JavaScript
- Vala Programming Language
- To Ruby from Python
Quote of the week
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Enterprises
- An intellectual starter kit
- Microsoft researched what made employees happy, collaborate less, more autonomy
- Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse
- Spotify to Acquire Heardle
- Return Stack Buffer Underflow – Retbleed (Intel)
- Implementing Microsoft REST API Guidelines Filter
- What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?
- Microsoft Validation OS
- Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent
- I made a Google sheet of local elections and it’s been removed from Google Drive
- Reddits pretzel-knot of moderation and anti-selfpromotion getting in way of IPO
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) adds support for Arm nodes
- Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla
- 30% of Google’s Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled
- Twitter Is Down
- Twitter experiences longest global outage in years
- Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
- Open-source authorization service based on Google-Zanzibar
- Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
- Danish Data Protection Agency bans Google Workspace for Municipalities
Other news
- Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
- No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists
- Clipboard integration between tmux, nvim, zsh, x11, across SSH sessions
- Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale
- Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold
- Fluxus – 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence
- Quantum Algorithms Conquer a New Kind of Problem
- What Is a Woman, Anyway? Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths
- Founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund 3AC go missing
- How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
- RISC-V Linux on ESP32
- Learn Something Old Every Day, Part VI: Backward Buffer Overwrite
- What I learned from trying to hang Socrates
- Doom hacker gets Doom running in Doom
- Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
- Rocky Linux 9.0
- Payload – Cross-platform desktop app for LAN file transfers
- From idea to paying customer
- The 970-Ha-Jokes Payphone Project
- “Shit Academics Say” Twitter account hacked, Twitter Support refusing help
- Horses for Main Courses: Eating Horsemeat in France