Gooooooood morning, Web!!! 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
- Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields
- Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
- As your priorities change, your Google calendar gets rearranged by AI
- Twitter’s former security chief says company lied about bots and safety
- Non-Machine Learning Image Matching with a Vector DB
- Glue – Pandas as a DAG (Now a web app)
- We used Elixir’s Observer to hunt down bottlenecks
- Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text
- Meta’s chatbot replying that Dutch politican is a terrorist
- AI and the Limits of Language
- MIT scientists discover neurons that light up whenever we see images of food
- Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia–All 6.5M Articles
Blockchain and decentralization
- Stress distribution and surface shock wave of drop impact
- Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
- Ethereum Development Documentation
- Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems
Woman computer scientist of the week
Joan Feigenbaum is a theoretical computer scientist with a background in mathematics. She is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. At Yale she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. Feigenbaum co-invented the computer-security research area of trust management.
Cloud and architecture
- SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
- Nvidia Hopper Architecture In-Depth
- People Are Demanding That Cloudflare Drop Kiwi Farms
- Why Is a British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?
Development and languages
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time
- Catching Sanitizer Errors Programmatically
- Digitizing 55,000 pages of civic meetings
- From a WebAssembly Perspective
- Accessing WebAssembly reference-typed arrays from C++
- M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than pricier Dell laptop
- Digital Products as a Side Hustle; a list of successful examples
- GitHub “allows” unauthorized users “merging” PRs, bypass write permission check?
- Are You a ‘Digital Nomad’? European Locales Want Remote Workers
- Build Android apps without an Android SDK using PicoLisp
- Copilot: Realtime programming language and runtime verification framework
- New BucketRateLimiter Python package to rate limit requests to APIs
- The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved
- In Germany digital signage to be reprogrammed so that it turns off after 10pm
- GitHub-Next
- NumWorks: An open-source graphing calculator (with Python and Rust support)
- O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want
Quote of the week
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
— Brian W. Kernighan, in the paper Unix for Beginners (1979)
Enterprises
- The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
- The Google Pixel 6a highlights everything wrong with the U.S. phone market
- Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google
- Twitter Tells Employees They Might Get Only Half Their Annual Bonus
- Google Chrome is getting an RSS feed reader on desktop
- Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story
- India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says
- Why Machines Will Never Rule the World – Artificial Intelligence Without Fear
- Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
- Lamda calculas using visual song maps of birdss
- Mudge’s redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure
- Amazon set to buy Electronic Arts
- Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources
- Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google
Other news
- Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements
- The hitchhiker’s guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG hacking
- Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
- Is there hope for Linux on smartphones?
- VC Website for Hackers
- Why women receive less CPR from bystanders
- Rust – A hard decision pays off
- France is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike
- Hacking Photosynthesis
- Poorly configured cloud technology makes 5G networks worryingly hackable
- Linux 6.1 Will Make It a Bit Easier to Help Spot Faulty CPUs
- White House Orders Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
- Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming
- Hackintosh: Run newer macOS on decades old Mac with OpenCore
- A new Linux handheld game console based on powerful ODROID-N2