Gooooooood morning, Internet!!! 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
- Apparently I Am a Robot
- AI unmasks anonymous chess players, posing privacy risks
- Giant VR Robots Are Building Railways in Japan
- AI Sculpting
- Forward-Forward Algorithm, an Alternative to Backpropagation for Neural Networks
- DARPA: Neural Evidence Aggregation Tool
- $71 Coat Makes Wearers Invisible to AI Security Cameras
- Perhaps it is a bad thing that the leading AI companies cannot control their AIs
- Offline Voice Assistant on a Microcontroller with 192KB RAM
Learn how to create offline voice assistants like Alexa or Siri that run fully on-device using an STM32 microcontroller. - Orphaned neurological implants
- Data2vec 2.0: Highly efficient self-supervised learning for vision, speech, text
- Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?
Attached: 4 images
Well this has come to a head. In order to protest AI image generators stealing artists work to train AI models, the artists are deliberately generating AI art based on the IP of corporations that are most sensitive to protecting it.
Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?
Alt text: pictures contain images of AI generated images of Disney, Nintendo, DC, and Marvel characters.
- Machine Learning with Etnaviv and OpenCL
- I made a Slack bot that qualifies your sign-ups using GPT-3
- Beautiful Software: Christopher Alexander’s research initiative on computing
- Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
Miles Teller, best known for films like Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick, is reportedly being eyed to play the lead in the series - Mimosa – Collaborative brainstorming with AI suggestions
Blockchain and decentralization
- USDD/Tron near collapse: USDD stablecoin below $0.97, reserve collateral drained
- How much decentralisation is too much?
- Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B
Woman computer scientist of the week
Sally Floyd is an American computer scientist. Formerly associated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she retired in 2009. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.
Cloud and architecture
- The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin
- Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws
- Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch Overture Foundation for open map data
- Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules
Disentangle the dependencies between your packages. - DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time
- Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentially harmful
Development and languages
- Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
- Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
- Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language
- The 6.1 kernel is out
- What if you delete the “Program Files” folder in Windows?
- The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS
- Unovis: Data visualization for React, Angular, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript
A framework-independent data vis library for the web - Lesser-known JavaScript APIs
In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see what they are, where we should use them, and how to use them. - Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them
- Startups are building with the Julia Programming Language
- Potato Programming
- Pony Programming Language
:horse: Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language – GitHub – ponylang/ponyc: Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high per… - Userspace isn’t slow, some kernel interfaces are
- Noulith: A new programming language by the current Advent of Code leader
*slaps roof of [programming language]* this bad boy can fit so much [syntax sugar] into it – GitHub – betaveros/noulith: *slaps roof of [programming language]* this bad boy can fit so much [syntax … - Open-source motion capture data of elite-level baseball pitchers on GitHub
- The History and rationale of the Python 3 Unicode model for the operating system
- Python 3.11 Delivers
- Adding WebRTC support to OBS using Rust
Co-authored-by: Sean DuBois sean@siobud.com
Co-authored-by: DDRBoxman colin@recursivepenguin.com
First and foremost, thanks to the original author of the draft PR for webrtc Colin Edwards (DDRBoxma… - Codeberg launches Forgejo – Gitea fork
- Digital Work and Exploitation
- Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000
Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000 - WordPress testing official SQLite Support
- WebAssembly and Its Platform Targets
- Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier
apk.sh makes reverse engineering Android apps easier, automating some repetitive tasks like pulling, decoding, rebuilding and patching an APK. – GitHub – ax/apk.sh: apk.sh makes reverse engineering…
Quote of the week
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Enterprises
- Sign in with Google has been removed for your privacy
- NCC Group security audit for Google’s One VPN service
During the summer of 2022, Google engaged NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of VPN by Google One. VPN by Google One is a service that increases connection security and privacy to end users… - Mult.dev – zero-config alternative to Google Earth studio
- Academic Twitter, Just Leave
- Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain
- Tesla ordered to upgrade self-driving computer for free due to false advertising
- No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
- Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190M, say multiple sources
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million after raising over $300 million in funding. - ElonJet (on Facebook since removed from Twitter)
- Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful
The little data that is coming out of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta looks awful, and that’s putting it mildly. - Tesla Market Cap falls below $500B
- Twitter’s rules and policies now forbid live location information sharing
- Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
- Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
- Update on Vulkan video decoding vith open-source AMD driver RADV
- Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
- Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned
So early Black Friday sales happened last month and I picked up a Google Pixel 7 since my previous phone was nearing 6 years old and starting to… - The Twitter Files, Part Six
- Audon: Open-Source and Self Hosted Mastodon Spaces (Twitter Spaces Clone)
- Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news
- Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web
Other news
- Gender Inequities in Household Labor Predict Lower Sexual Desire in Women
- Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto
- Getting Started with Tmux
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It allows you to work with multiple terminal sessions at once.
Installation
It is really easy to install and there a ton of guides already out there, so I won’t cover - Linux Desktop Environments System Usage (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXQT, Cinnamon, Mate)
- Cosmic Rays Are Quantum Computers’ Kryptonite
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Linux Support and Performance Review
- SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in FTX
- What we can learn from vintage computing
- The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment
- The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment
- What the Hell Happened to PayPal?
- Martin Shkreli Reveals Paul Le Roux Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- Danske Bank pleads guilty to fraud on U.S. banks in multi-billion dollar scheme
- Operation Charlie: Hacking the MBTA CharlieCard from 2008 to Present
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s esteemed Stanford parents face their own reckoning
- Documentation/Process: Add Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model
- What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?
- Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com
9 Best Ecommerce UX Practices - Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation
On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation. - Twitter applies 7-day suspension to prominent journalists
- Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
- Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
Dual monitors using a laptop as a second display. This guide assumes that you are using a Debian based distro (X11 only). Both devices must be connected to the same network.
1. Define an output to be a used as a dummy monitor
a. The simple method: select an unused
- A Linux Evening
- Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may be reduced
- Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton, Mesa, and More
See except for the recent The Verge interview (see link in the comments) with Valve. >Griffais says the company is also directly paying more…
