Tech roundup 160: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Heads!!! 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

• Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of “BattleBots”
• AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender
  Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor – GitHub – carson-katri/dream-textures: Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor
• Morton Subotnick
• Solving Entry-Level Edge AI Challenges with Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano
• I made a site that easily lets you generate AI images using templates
  Where creativity comes to life.
• Effective immediately, Getty Images will cease to accept art created using AI
• Shasta: AI-powered audio recording and editing
  Next generation audio from Adobe is here. Record, transcribe, edit, share. Crisp and clear, every time.
• Tiny Swimming Robots Treat Deadly Pneumonia in Mice

Blockchain and decentralization

• WalletWatch – a social network for Ethereum wallets
• Bitcoin is not a store of value
• Distributed JMAP and IMAP Servers in Rust
• An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393k USD) to redox_OS
• Stablecoin Issuer Tether Ordered to Produce Documents Showing Backing of USDT
• Storage and transaction in mvSQLite, the distributed SQLite on FoundationDB

Cloud and architecture

• Steps to designing an embedded software architecture, Step 1
• How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
• Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator
  Create colorful low poly triangle patterns that can be used as wallpapers and website assets.
• Hot Chips 34: AMD’s Instinct MI200 Architecture
• Cloudflare Adaptive DDoS Protection
• Azure CTO: “It’s time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++”
• You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
  My home IP ended up on Cloudflare’s naughty list for six days. Most websites and many apps loaded slowly, partially, or not at all. Just had to wait it out.
• SFU, MCU, or P2P: What’s the Difference Between These WebRTC Architectures?
• AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
• Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering
• Technology Choices for My SaaS in Retrospect
• Cats and the Laws of Physics

Development and languages

• Gitui: Terminal UI for Git
  Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ? – GitHub – extrawurst/gitui: Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ?
• S6: A standalone JIT compiler library for CPython
• How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps
• Treasury recommends exploring creation of a digital dollar
• Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
• Algorithms for competitive programming
• I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly
  A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.
• Faster CPython 3.12 Plan
  Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update
• OpenZiti Python SDK
• Next steps for Rust in the kernel
  The Rust for Linux project, which is working to make it possible to write
  kernel code in the Rust
  programming language, has been underway for a few years, and there is a
  growing number of developers who feel that it is time to merge this work into
  the mainline. At the 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, Miguel Ojeda
  updated the group on the status of the project with the goal of reaching a
  conclusion on when this merge might happen. The answer that came back was
  clear enough: Rust in the kernel will be happening soon indeed.
• Send a GitHub webhook to a private URL
• Short Thoughts on Computers and Programming
• Rocketry – Modern scheduler to power your Python projects
  Modern scheduling library for Python. Contribute to Miksus/rocketry development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Ezno, a type checker for JavaScript and optimiser for React
• Pgsqlite: a pure Python module to import SQLite databases into Postgres
• A pair of Rust kernel modules
• Algorithms and data structures implemented in many programming languages
• Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work
• Aging programmer
  Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f…

Quote of the week

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.

        — David Gelernter

Enterprises

• The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
  The pair face a weak economy and powerful new rivals
• Censorship of our report on govt purchasing from Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet
• Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl
  A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads – a notification of a DMCA takedown request that has resulted in our website being removed from Google Search. In this email, Google summarized the takedown request (which can be viewed here) which accuses our company, Kapwing, of
• Understanding the Intel Optane Shutdown
• Intelligence and Radical Economic Attitudes
• Nvidia RTX Remix: Create and Share Rtxon Mods for Classic Games
• LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services
  A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and backends – GitHub – libredirect/libredirect: A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and back…
• Google Surveys Sunset
• Hotel Safety Tips from a Former Intelligence Officer
• First reported EMFI attack against an AMD desktop CPU
  EMFI has become a popular fault injection (FI) technique due to its ability
  to inject faults precisely considering timing and location. Recently, ARM,
  RISC-V, and even x86 processing units in different packages were shown to be
  vulnerable to electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) attacks. However, past
  publications lack a detailed description of the entire attack setup, hindering
  researchers and companies from easily replicating the presented attacks on
  their devices. In this work, we first show how to build an automated EMFI setup
  with high scanning resolution and good repeatability that is large enough to
  attack modern desktop and server CP
• Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
• Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory
• Ca Hwy 1 closed, shelter-in-place issued for Moss Landing (Tesla Megapack fire)
• Danish Data Authority: Usage of Google Analytics Illegal in Some Cases
• Meta and Google are cutting staff
• Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully
  The Danish Data Protection Agency has looked into the tool Google Analytics, its settings, and the terms under which the tool is provided. On the basis of this review, the Danish Data Protection Agency concludes that the tool cannot, without more, be used lawfully. Lawful use requires the implementation of supplementary measures in addition to the settings provided by Google.
• Amazon deletes top-rated review of Angela Saini’s ‘Superior’
• Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
  Google suffered a significant loss when a European court denied its appeal of an antitrust decision.
• Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
  The company wants to establish an open, royalty-free alternative to Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. The project is known internally as Project Caviar.
• On Adobe Acquiring Figma
  Week 53 of Founding Typogram
• TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes reading on Twitter easier
• Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting
• Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers
• Google Is Showing Ads to Sell Your Kidney for $1M in India
• I tried replacing Google with TikTok, and it worked better than I thought
• Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023

Other news

• Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
• The Viewpoint Diversity Crisis at Canadian Universities
• Gen Z never learned to read cursive
• Linux command line for you and me
• macOS Subsystem for Linux
• Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party
• Disentangling the facts from the hype of quantum computing
• What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake
• Introductory-level educational COBOL materials with modern tooling
• What I’ve learned from users
• UX Testing for Public Infrastructure
• Gray386Linux – Linux for 386 Machines
• Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
  A course to take your TypeScript skills to the next level!
• Daily ‘Breath Training’ can work as well as Meds to reduce high blood pressure
• Linux by No Starch Press Humble Bundle
• How Julia ODE Solve Compile Time Was Reduced from 30 Seconds to 0.1
• Parallel Economy: Censor-Resistant Payment Processing
• Quantum tunneling makes DNA more unstable
• Hacking anything with GNU Guix
• Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities
• Luxury Media
• PayPal closes account of UK’s Free Speech Union without explanation
  I interviewed Toby Young about this ironic and shocking case of censorship.
• Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts
• The road to Zettalinux
  Nobody should need more memory than a 64-bit pointer can address — or so
  developers tend to think. The range covered by a pointer of that size
  seems to be nearly infinite. During the Kernel Summit track at the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference, Matthew
  Wilcox took the stage to make the point that 64 bits may turn out to
  be too few — and sooner than we think. It is not too early to start
  planning for 128-bit Linux systems, which he termed «ZettaLinux», and we
  don’t want to find ourselves wishing we’d started sooner.
• GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images
  GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images

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