Gooooooood morning, Persons!!! 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
- Factual AI Q&A – Answers based on Huberman Lab transcripts
- AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating
- Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio
- A swarm of robots built this tunnel
- Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings to ease staffing shortages
- Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning
- Do Simpler Machine Learning Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?
- Neural Search Frameworks: A Head-to-Head Comparison
Blockchain and decentralization
Woman computer scientist of the week
Margo Ilene Seltzer is a professor and researcher in computer systems. She is the emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she is the director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society.
Cloud and architecture
- Rarest clouds in the world appear over the SF Bay Area
- Beyond Repair – The potential downsides of right-to-repair laws
- Stable Diffusion 2 Depth Guided model: architecture photos from dollhouse
- How to visualize a system architecture using the C4 model?
- RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
- AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
- Cannabis is legal in most America but federal laws block businesses from banks
Development and languages
- Why doesn’t Windows use 64-bit virtual address space below 0x00000000`7ffe0000?
- Programming with Unicon
- Boring Python: Code quality
- Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
- Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
- The End of Programming
- Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction
- Python Malware Starting to Employ Anti-Debug Techniques
- Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers
Quote of the week
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
— Albert Einstein
Enterprises
- Reinventing backend subsetting at Google
- Paul Graham is leaving Twitter
- Twitter suspends pg’s account
- Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
- Twitter archiver: Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive
- Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
- Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3
- All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags
- Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis
- France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies
- Tesla shares tank after U.S. discounts doubled on key models
- How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work
Other news
- Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
- GNU/Linux shell related internals
- A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?
- Riot Games says Sam Bankman-Fried’s love of League of Legends hurts the brand
- Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
- Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
- Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable
- Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel
- Elon Musk’s $44B education on free speech
- UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown
- Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
- Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: Signed integer overflow
- Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
- Hacking Go’s runtime with generics
- A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
- The recent Bank of Japan meeting and its implications for markets
- Gut microbiome affects motivation to exercise in mice: study
- Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
- I trained ChatGPT on my childhood journal entries to talk to my inner child
- I failed 3 job applications, here’s what I learned
- Whoops: Linux’s Strcmp() for the M68k Has Always Been Broken
- Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF
- Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking
- Not Getting Hacked
- Linux /proc/pid/stat parsing bugs
- Grad student unions strike controversial deal with University of California
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail
- ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location
- Linux Kernel Ksmbd Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation
- “I drove for Lyft for a week and learned its business model is broken”
- Bankman-Fried’s Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’
- Managing tape drives and libraries with the Unix/Linux CLI
- Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers