Gooooooood morning, People!!! 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
- Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI
- Linvo-Scraper: LinkedIn Automation Bot
- Truecaller launches new AI-powered voice assistant
- Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables
- What makes a champagne vintage great? Ask a deep learning model
- State of Data Science and Machine Learning 2022
- A Capitol Orchard: Botanical Networks and the Creation of a Japanese Neo-Europe
- Viam: Modern robotics platform
- AI Language Models Are Struggling to “Get” Math
- The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors
- A Summary of My Learnings on How to Find Startup Ideas
- Learning dynamic 3D geometry and texture for video face swapping
Blockchain and decentralization
- Verifying Distributed Systems with Isabelle/HOL, by Martin Kleppmann
- Find any smart contract on Cookbook
Woman computer scientist of the week
Nancy Ann Lynch is a mathematician, a theorist, and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the «Theory of Distributed Systems» research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Cloud and architecture
- CTO of Microsoft Azure: “Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again”
- New Patterns for Apps
- PostHog Cloud EU
- Researchers Develop Transistor-Free Compute-in-Memory Architecture
- Dutch hospital ZGT achieves digital sovereignty with Nextcloud
- Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture
- AWS Permission Boundaries for Dummies
Development and languages
- Simplified Piet interpreter written in Python
- Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance
- With seemingly endless data storage, people are ‘digital hoarding’
- Kuser_shared_data (Windows Data Structure)
- Back to Android (For the Time Being)
- Hegel – An advanced static type checker for JavaScript
- My book for programmers called “Junior to Senior” was published today
- GitHub Copilot exposes names in TODO comments
- Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
- California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles
- Pyffi – Use Python from Racket
- A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem
- Parallel narratives and media obsolescence as post-digital publishing practice
- Why your website should work without JavaScript
Quote of the week
Any program that tries to be so generalized and configurable that it could handle any kind of task will either fall short of this goal, or will be horribly broken.
— Chris Wenham
Enterprises
- Stripe is PayPal circa 2010
- The Google plasma globe affair of 2012
- RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years
- What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft
- Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
- Intel will lay off 20k employees
- Meta, aided by Apple and Google takes down an ad-free Instagram clone
- Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon Also Invest in the Companies’ Stocks
- The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
- Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation
- Tesla has lost more market cap in 30 days than any other company in history
- Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals
- Microsoft’s AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test
Other news
- Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part III: Constructivisting a Kingdom
- Updated PayPal Acceptable Use Policy
- Switching World to Renewable Energy Will Cost $62T, Payback Would Take 6 Years
- Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters
- Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
- Knock: Convert ACSM files to PDF/EPUBs with one command on Linux
- Should Linux set the new constant-time mode CPU flags?
- PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance”
- Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?
- Using flux to automate simple tasks
- Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries
- “Women are wonderful” effect
- P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators
- Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims
- PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
- Vite-plugin-ssr – Do-one-thing-do-it-well alternative to Next.js / Nuxt
- Beacown (Linux WiFi Exploit)
- Gitlab VSCode Extension Now Supports Locally-Hosted AI Completion with FauxPilot
- AT&T to pay $23M fine for bribing powerful lawmaker’s ally in exchange for vote
- We’re moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers