Gooooooood morning, Humans!!! 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
- Amazon sales of “Deep Learning with Python” are counterfeit
- Find compelling and comprehensible media for learning a language
- Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware acceleration in robotics
- In Experiment, AI Successfully Impersonates Famous Philosopher
- AI Coding with CodeRL: Toward Mastering Program Synthesis with Deep RL
- Rebellion at DataRobot over insider stock sales
Blockchain and decentralization
Woman computer scientist of the week
Jeanne Wenzel Ross is an American organizational theorist and principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), specialized in Enterprise Architecture, ICT and Management. She is known for her work on IT governance, and Enterprise architecture.
Cloud and architecture
- LLVM backend for m88k architecture
- AWS open sourced the AWS console design system
- Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
- Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime
- For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws
- Five Laws of Human Stupidity
- AWS us-east-2 outage
- TensorDock Core GPU Cloud – GPU servers from $0.29/hr
- IPv6 Only Cloud Server
- Undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water – Science – AAAS
- Binary Translators for Weak Memory Model Architectures
- Cfplot – Generate waterfall graphs of CloudFormation
- P2PCF – Low cost, low effort WebRTC signalling using Cloudflare workers
Development and languages
- Trading Crypto and Forex with JavaScript
- A self-contained AVR programmer using an Arduino Uno
- Search PDFs with Transformers and Python Notebook
- Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems
- New embedded programming language with C as a host language
- The Pop-11 Programming Language
- Google’s Switch to Android Is on the App Store
- Python is Actually Portable
- SDWM – Simple Dynamic Window Manager for Windows
- Smalltalk – Slang (direct mapping to C or JavaScript)
- Struct Endianness in Python
- Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits
Quote of the week
in aeronautical circles, it’s said that the f4 is proof that given enough thrust even a brick will fly.
linux is the f4 of computing?
— erik quanstrom
Enterprises
- Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon
- Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k
- The World That Twitter Never Made
- Mike Florio: Report Google Has Made a Bid for NFL Sunday Ticket
- Amazon’s Book Piracy Problem
- Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
- Intel Foundry Services Lands MediaTek, a Leading TSMC Customer
- Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing
- Why is it so hard to give Google money?
- Tesla ransoms car owner remotely by cutting 1/3 of their range
- Alphabet Q2 FY2022 Earnings
- Birdy – Twitter Profile A/B Testing
- Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant
- Google Maps launches Street View in India
- CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France
- Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
- TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business
- AMD’s Athlon 64: Getting the Basics Right
- Visualization of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Consumer Product Lines
Other news
- May Contain Hackers 2022 – Live Streams
- Porn use and men’s and women’s sexual performance
- SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall
- Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets
- Duct Tape Book Binding – Cheepo Delux
- The EU has quietly provided Morocco with powerful phone hacking systems
- What they don’t teach you about sockets
- I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
- PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch
- The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection
- TNBL: The Narrow Bank, or how you have no right to have safe deposits
- Self-Dialogue as a Journaling Strategy
- Upgrading what might be the oldest running Linux install
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Review
- Understanding modern Linux routing (and wg-quick)
- The Last Public Payphone Kiosk on the Streets of New York
- Please Save Hacker Lab
- Want to Start Hacking?
- Cocoa shown to reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness in real-life study
- Peer review reduces strength of claims of a wildlife market origin of Covid
- A complete guide to creating actually useful courses
- NIST announces preliminary winners of post-quantum competition
- How much did YouTube pay for 10M views?
- Linux RNG RFC Patch: implement getrandom() in vDSO
- Jitter a Git-based binary manager for Linux written in Nim