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
- Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning
- Olivia: An open source chatbot build with a neural network in Go
ðââï¸Your new best friend built with an artificial neural network – olivia-ai/olivia - Up, up and away: immersive machine learning at Google
- US House of Representatives Hearing on the Dangers of Deepfakes and AI
âNo one knows what is true anymore.â From threats to everyday citizens to organized crime and national security issues, deepfakes could affect every level of society. The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held an open hearing to discuss possible countermeasures with leaders in law, foreign policy, and AI development. - Arsenic in Some Bottled Water Brands at Unsafe Levels, Consumer Reports Says
- Sustainability is now the biggest topic in the bottled water online conversation
- A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material - Learning Synths
Learn about synthesizers via Abletonâs interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds. - AI Models Predict Breast Cancer with Radiologist-Level Accuracy
IBM researchers published details of a new AI model that can predict the development of malignant breast cancer at rates comparable to human radiologists. - Innovations in Graph Representation Learning
- Tutorial: Building a Facebook bot with Vapor 3 and Swift, part I
- Robots ‘to replace up to 20M factory jobs’ by 2030
A huge acceleration in the use of robots will affect jobs around the world, Oxford Economics says. - A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen - Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut
- Fast.ai Part 2: Deep Learning from the Foundations
- Learning to Love the AI Bubble
- An Open Letter to Google and Apple: Stop Hindering Iranian Entrepreneurs
Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Iranâs budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software.
Blockchain and decentralization
- Generating Ethereum Address from Scratch
- Bitcoin Climbs to $10k as Memories of the Crypto Bubble Fade
- Learning to Build Distributed Systems
- Google’s Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems
Meaningful control of data in distributed systems. – project-oak/oak - Bottle: A Bitcoin Browser
- Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency. So Do Its Partners
- Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio
For a small group of bitcoin enthusiasts, the internet is a vulnerability. They’re using satellites, ham radios, and mesh networks to stay current on the cryptocurrency. - Snowden’s talk at Bitcoin 2019 conference
- Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value database in Clojure
A distributed database-system implementing an entity-attribute-value data-model that is time-aware, accumulative, and atomically consistent – Workiva/eva - Cruzbit: A simple decentralized peer-to-peer ledger
Woman computer scientist of the week
Amber Settle is an American computer scientist and professor of education and theory in the department of Computer Science at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She is known for her work in computer science education and her continuing service and leadership in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). She is currently serving as the elected chair of ACM SIGCSE, the premier international organization for computer science educators serving over 2700 members from more than 60 countries. Before being elected Chair, she served on the SIGCSE Board for six years, during which she acted as Treasurer for three.
Cloud and architecture
- Microsoft Bans Slack and Discourages AWS and Google Docs, and Use Internally
- Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies
- Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare
- Microsoft Bans Employees from Using Slack, Has AWS and Google Docs
- New AWS UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer
- Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture
- AWS Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol
- AWS Control Tower
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up [â¦] - Func.Farm browser extension creates serverless functions from snippets
- AWS introducing Service Quotas – View and manage your quotas and limits
Today we are introducing Service Quotas, a new AWS feature which enables you to view and manage your quotas, also known as limits, from a central location via the AWS console, API or the CLI. Service Quotas is a central way to find and manage service quotas, an easier way to request and track quota increases, [â¦] - AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring
- ‘Dark patterns’ are steering many internet users into making bad decisions
- Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
- Iron Ox is looking for a Software Architect to help build the future of farming
- AWS Glue/Athena/Redshift outage for the Last 3 Hours
- Programming Patterns I Like
- Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa
Googleâs private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
Development and languages
- The V Programming Language is open source
- Arima Model – Complete Guide to Time Series Forecasting in Python
Using ARIMA model, you can forecast a time series using the series past values. In this post, we build an optimal ARIMA model from scratch and extend it to Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) and SARIMAX models⦠- BlackHole – Fast, free and encrypted file transfer for Windows and Mac
- The T1 Programming Language
- A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera
- Guardscript – Detect any changes made to your JavaScript files
- DigitalJs: Digital circuit simulator in browser
Teaching-focused digital circuit simulator. Contribute to tilk/digitaljs development by creating an account on GitHub. - Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android
- Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python
- Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
- Introducing people.kernel.org
Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage… - Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving
- GitHub is running extra copies, indexed by Google
- The Programmers’ Stone
- Reinventing Firefox for Android
With Firefox Preview, weâre combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox’s own mobile browser engine — GeckoView — the same high-performance, feature enabling motor that fuels our Focus app. - I Am Developing Solely on a No-Brand Android 5.1 Tablet
- NPM 6.9.1 is broken due to .git folder in published tarball
Iâm running in to the same issue. After npm install -g npm@latest ⦠any subsequent attempts to re-install npm (downgrade) will fail [2019-06-27T18:17:33.971Z] + npm install -g npm@latest [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! path /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJS-LTS/lib/node_modules/npm [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! code EISGIT [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! git /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJ… - Gen: Probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen - Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers
Quote of the week
PHP is [the] Sarah Palin of programming languages.
— killerstorm
Enterprises
- You are not Google. You are not Netflix
- Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones
- Google CTF 2019
- Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region
- Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
A tech columnist’s latest privacy experiment found Google Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser â in a single week. - Google clears up AMP’s confusing URLs by hiding google.com
- What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business. - If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives
- Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
- This Is How Google Will Collapse
- Google spent ten years researching what makes the ‘perfect’ manager
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that canât be automated? - Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Microsoft OneDrive Has 60% Jump in Hosting of Malicious Files
- Google proposal: LLVM implementation of libc
- “Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”
- Fiuti.com – A tool to create Google Ads campaigns 20X faster
- Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. Itâs great for securityâbut not so great for your privacy.
- Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field
- Defining Public Interest on Twitter
- Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules
- How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’
Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes when it decided to help Chinese partners develop computer-chip technology. The deal sparked a prolonged battle with Washington over national security. - $499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE
- AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
- Freeing My Phone from Google
Other news
- Ants learn fast and don’t forget
- Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code
- Tech journalists troubled by Assange computer intrusion charge
The Trump administration’s decision to charge Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act has generated significant controversy. One legal expert described it as “crossing a “constitutional Rubicon.” CPJ warned that the indictment could be the opening salvo in a broader attack on First Amendment journalistic protections…. - Learn Modern SQL with PostgreSQL
- NASA Has Been Hacked
Following an audit by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, it has been confirmed that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) network, part of NASA, has been hacked and the Johnson Space Center has yet to restore all communications data because of continuing concerns⦠- Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks
Security researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of interest. The hackers have systematically broken in to more than 10 cell networks around the world to d⦠- I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
- Student Journalists Expose High School’s Use of Prison Labor
- Inside the West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers
Hacked by suspected Chinese cyber spies five times from 2014 to 2017, security s… - ‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation
Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a ‘vaccine’, increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a âweak doseâ of the methods behind disinformation. - What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
- FreeDOS’s Linux Roots
- Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet se… - A heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s, 30-bank robbery spree
- Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily?
- Microsoft’s Linux Kernel
The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) – microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel
