Gooooooood morning, Multitude!!! 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
- Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves neurocognitive post-Covid functions, symptoms
- Logo and Learning
- DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales
- Crash – A real-time creative coding environment for robot arms
- The AI Battle Rages On
- Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad
I’ve been thinking about supplementing another language to Python for some time – mainly to cope with areas Python struggles with, or is a pain to use (which I’ll go over in a minute). I had used C/C++ some years ago, but don’t want to go back to them. C - Deep Learning Papers Are Kinda Bullsh-T
Explores the current standards for publishing deep learning papers, the details they lack, the challenges in reproducing them, and how to overcome them. - Quantum Virtual Machine to accelerate research and learning
Google announces its new Quantum Virtual Machine - Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)
- MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars
- You can be both dull and innovative
Blockchain and decentralization
- The Blockchain in a Historical Perspective
- An Overview of Distributed Caching
- Blockchain.com Cuts 25% Workforce Amid Crypto Bear Market
- Former Coinbase PM Charged in Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Tipping Scheme
- Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme
@kr stacked 761 sats posting https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme [11 comments] - Coinbase does not list securities. End of story
Woman computer scientist of the week
Nichole Pinkard is an associate professor of learning sciences and faculty director of the Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern. She is helping lead a collaboration with Apple and the Chicago Public School system to teach computer programming to teachers.
Cloud and architecture
- My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I’m sticking with AWS)
- Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime
- Jurassic Cloud
- Archive.org Seeks Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Filed by Publishing Companies
The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in our favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending. The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) […] - New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU
Critics fear the UK Data Protection and Digital information Bill could be incompatible with the GDPR regime in Europe. - Uber Pays Millions Resolving DOJ Lawsuit for Overcharging Disabled People
- Dutch schools must stop using Google’s email and cloud due to privacy concerns
- Formal CHERI: design-time proof of architecture security properties
- South Carolina bill outlaws websites that tell how to get an abortion
Development and languages
- Integer math in JavaScript
- Bun gets “bun:FFI” – call native libraries from JavaScript
- Git log is not a changelog
- Why Concatenative Programming Matters
- Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly?
WebAssembly, commonly abbreviated as Wasm, is a portable binary intermediate language that can execute on different platforms in a virtual machine. The intermediate language is compiled, either just-in-time (JIT) or ahead-of-time (AOT), to the machine code appropriate for the architecture. Many programming languages compile to WebAssembly, including C, C++, C# - The Slow March of Progress in Programming Language Tooling
- Over-engineering an RGB LED strip: let’s make a custom programming language
- JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example
- There’s 200 form builders, but none do what a programmer can, so I built my own
- Why Ruby Is More Readable Than Python
- Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)
- I built an app that helps JavaScript developers optimize their websites
- EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
The Council approves new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act. - Pretty maps in Python
- Arquero – data tables wrangling in JavaScript
- RawInputViewer – examine how games receive inputs from Windows
- Windows’ market share declined 17 percent in the past 10 years
Quote of the week
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don’t want people that aren’t really programmers programming, you’ll suffer for it!
— John Carmack
Enterprises
- Microsoft open sources Salus software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool
- Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
- Bloomberg B-Unit iOS App
- Netflix is in rough shape. This week will determine its future
- I’ve started using Mozilla Firefox and now I can never go back to Google Chrome
- Netflix Calculator – Ever wondered how much time you spend on Netflix?
- Spf13 is leaving Google
- Shouldibuytwitter.com – A tiny takeover arbitrage model for TWTR
- Intel Microcode Decryptor
- To download from Google Drive, you must enable 3rd party cookies
- Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google
- Brazilian Amazon lost 18 trees per second in 2021
18 trees lost per second from Brazilian Amazon in 2021, according to new report. Deforestation is up 20 percent. - I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google’s algorithm
A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits – GitHub – jawerty/myAlgorithm: A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits - What I Miss About Working at Stripe
- Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
- Stereokit – open-source mixed reality library by Microsoft
- Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
- Zendesk to Be Acquired
- Amazon to Acquire One Medical
- Google Play is reinstating the app permissions section
- Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter
- Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
- Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains
Hi, from Japan. We’ve been suffering from the spam pages on Google search results for almost half a year. A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that our site is not hacked. Our site is not hacked These links redirect to the Google Calendar spam malware pages via Cloudflare. ESET security software detects ‘JS/Adware.Sculinst’ malware. Our product name is used for their page titles. They’re… - A Clip from Stray Got Me Banned from Twitter
Somehow, posting a video clip of the cat game Stray on Twitter got me banned from Twitter, and I’m baffled as to how.
Other news
- The short, mysterious career of Deux Filles
- The high price we pay for social media
Sitting exams is unpleasant at the best of times, but my daughter believes she has extra cause to complain. Two of her A-level papers are scheduled for the same time, so she must take a break betwe… - Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone
- We demand data – The story of Lucid and eduction
- Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time
Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time as studies over the years show that being a part of a group can enhance happiness and life satisfaction - Prose.sh – A blog platform for hackers
a blog platform for hackers - Running WordPerfect for Unix on Modern Linux
- CLI tool for converting txn statements from Singaporean banks into a sane format
Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV – GitHub – ajensenwaud/dbs-tools: Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV - Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing
- Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
- 20 years of payment processing problems
Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We’ve found critical vulnerabilities allowing us… - I fixed journaling for myself
- What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range. - I Hacked My Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
- What I learned in the first year of starting a podcast
- UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits
- Be careful how you pay the bills
- Oracle is the #1 contributor to the core of Linux in 5.18
- Only 5% Indie Hackers products make $100k/year
Indie Hackers is a wonderful community for founders, a vast ocean of shared knowledge and a place to showcase your product journey. A lot of people are sharing their products there along with the revenue, often verified by Stripe. We analyzed the available data to check how much revenue are those products making and what are the most money making categories! - I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself embedded systems
- Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
- E-ZPass reduced infant mortality in surrounding areas when introduced
- The Perl Journal
- Raspberry Pi Pico Hack Unlocks Two Extra “Hidden” GPIO Pins
- You’re not wrong. The need for quantum computers remains ever so small
Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we’d want a QC - A Crack in the Linux Firewall
RandoriSec Offensive Security - European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
- Deadspin changed sports journalism
- Hacker Lab Is Closing
- I’ve now used Linux nftables for firewall rules and it went okay
