Gooooooood morning, Cyberspace!!! 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
- Software, not hardware, will drive quantum and neuromorphic computing
- Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this. - The Art of Logging. Are logs for humans? Or machines? Or both?
- Interior AI autofills photo of room with CG furniture/art
- Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
- Using machine learning to predict the leads that close
- Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
A reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero is used to discover efficient and provably correct algorithms for matrix multiplication, finding faster algorithms for a variety of matrix sizes. - Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
- The AI Scaling Hypothesis
- Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
- Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
- German rail operator says train disruption caused by sabotage
Blockchain and decentralization
- Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, discards 13M doses
- Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
Non-virtual money in a non-virtual world. - Apache Pegasus – A a distributed key-value storage system
Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance key-value store – GitHub – apache/incubator-pegasus: Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent… - The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
Woman computer scientist of the week
Molly E. Holzschlag is a U.S. author, lecturer and advocate of the Open Web. She has written or co-authored 35 books on web design and open standards, including The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web. In 1998, she was named one of the Webgrrls San Francisco chapter’s Top 25 Women on the Web.
Cloud and architecture
- You should have lots of AWS accounts
- Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
- Google picks South Africa for its first cloud region in Africa
- Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers
Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers – GitHub – maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker: Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
- Stateless – Evolving the architecture of Elasticsearch to simplify deployment
- Gcloud storage: up to 94% faster data transfers for Cloud Storage
gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.
Development and languages
- Great Works in Programming Languages
- mod_wasm: Run WebAssembly with Apache
- Highlights from Git 2.38
- PS5 4.03 Kernel Exploit
An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS5 on 4.03FW/4.51FW – GitHub – Cryptogenic/PS5-4.03-Kernel-Exploit: An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS… - The deception of “buying” digital movies
- Native port of Digital Research’s seminal 1977 operating system CP/M to the 6502
- Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
- CMSC 430: Design and Implementation of Programming Languages
- WebAssembly Is Not A Stack Machine
- From Pythonista to Rustacean
A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean – GitHub – rochacbruno/py2rs: A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean - What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?
- Take Advantage of Git Rebase
- Decision Trees in Python: Predicting Diabetes – Statistically Relevant
- Recursion got into programming: intrigue, betrayal, and advanced semantics
- I changed my mind about writing new JavaScript frameworks
- Patients can now access all their health records digitally
No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages. Under a new federal law, you can now get your health information digitally. - C Programming on System 6
- Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub
- Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance
Quote of the week
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
— Scott Adams
Enterprises
- Google “Pepper”: When a Brand Becomes More Popular Than the Meaning of the Word
- New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla
- Pelikan, Twitter’s framework for building caches
- Stadia died because no one trusts Google
- Tesla Vehicle Production and Deliveries for 3Q 2022
- Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia
- Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
- Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
- Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic
Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. - From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate
After a high flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job. - How fateful?
- Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
- Algorithmic Curation Impacts Media Exposure in Twitter Timelines
- The Fakoo Alphabet
- NVIDIA and nouveau
- Soso.ooo – Google Search Alternative
- Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account
- Musk’s trial hasn’t stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge
- Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
- All Twitter users in the US will start to see crowdsourced fact checks on tweets
- AMD Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- After cutting radar, Tesla now dropping ultrasonic sensors from its EVs
- Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens
- Intel, SiFive Demo High-Performance RISC-V on Intel 4
Intel, SiFive demonstrated high-performance RISC-V Horse Creek development platform on Intel 4 Process. - Candidate Insists Google Blocking His Website; He Requested It Not Be Indexed
Other news
- Penguincrab: Unsafe Wrapper for Linux Kernel Library in Rust
- The banker who caused the 1929 stock crash
At the outset of the Depression, Charles Mitchell was the most wanted banker in America. Today, his name’s largely been forgotten. - Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest – Running in Production with Scissors
- Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis
Land plants are green because their photosynthetic pigments reflect green light, even though those wavelengths hold the most energy. Scientists finally understand why. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model… - Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
- DIY Digital Room Correction with Linux
- “Please be our voice” – Message from students at Sharif University of Technology
- “Please be our voice” – Message from students at Sharif University of Technology
- Linux Kernel 6.0
- PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy
- PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy
- Not my fault but I gotta deal with it – how I learned about corporate firewalls
- Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back
- Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?
- How to move a running process into a tmux session
- Girls in Yoga Pants Explain the Higher Education Apocalypse
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux IP(8) Correctly Works
- Journalists – 2022 Midterm Elections – Legal Guide
- Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 to Avoid Damaging the Display
- New York University professor fired after students say his class was too hard
- Upgrade to Linux
- Managers with a business degree reduce employees’ wages, do not increase profit
- Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
- Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released…
