Gooooooood morning, World!!! 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
- New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning
- Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning
- All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks
- How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python
- Where we see shapes, AI sees textures
- Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce
- AI drives down cost and drudgery of routine patent work
- Robots.txt as a Security Measure?
- Robots and Firms
- Interpretable Machine Learning
- The Brilliant Rage of Alexander Herzen
- Learning World Graphs to Accelerate Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
- Striving for Simplicity in Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Statistics with Julia: Fundamentals for Data Science, ML and AI
Blockchain and decentralization
- A History of Decentralization
- Radix DLT – Decentralized Ledger Technology
- The Spanish Prisoner: On the Future of Libra and Bitcoin
- The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D
Woman computer scientist of the week
Maja J. Mataric is an American computer scientist and roboticist, and the Chan Soon-Shiong Chaired Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, a new field she pioneered, which focuses on creating robots capable of providing personalized therapy and care through social rather than physical interaction, through technologies aimed at aiding special needs populations including the elderly, stroke patients, and children with autism. She is also known for her earlier work on coordination of robot teams and robot navigation.
Cloud and architecture
- Cat Colors
- Ilograph – Interactive AWS Serverless Architecture Diagram
- ISPA Withdraws Mozilla Internet Villain Nomination and Category
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless
- Finally I decide to use Cloudflare – here are why
- Zebra Stripe Pattern Database
- Ratification of the RISC-V Base ISA and Privileged Architecture Specifications
- Location tracking API company shares serverless architecture with AWS
- Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera
- Court rules against Oracle in Pentagon ‘war cloud’ litigation
- Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda itself
Development and languages
- Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of
- Hub: Use GitHub from the Command Line
- A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
- “Only five people maintain Python-pip”
- Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows
- Logitech keyboards and mice vulnerable to extensive cyber attacks
- The new dynamic arrays in Excel with Python and xlwings
- More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions
- The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019
- Aceto: A programming language based on a 2D Hilbert curve grid
- Racket Is an Acceptable Python
- Denver Art Museum Digital Repository Project
- ASCII Art in .NET Code
- Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV
- Fastest Way to Load Data into PostgreSQL Using Python
- The Father of Digital Life
- QuickJS JavaScript Engine
- France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US
- Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android
- Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language
Quote of the week
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
— C.A.R. Hoare
Enterprises
- Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren’t for public viewing
- Google Gmail purchase history can’t be deleted
- The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar
- Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
- Amazon to Uber: From the lens of a software engineer
- The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix
- ‘Microsoft’s worst move in 30 years’ – MPN changes spark uproar
- Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms
- Google Acquires Elastifile
- Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
- Emergency Response to the Tesla Model 3
- Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
- Dear Google, I’m Blocking You from My Website
- Stripe’s API Is Down
- The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
- Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force
- Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update
- Google admits listening to Google Home recordings
- Who Needs Amazon HQ2? Not New York Real Estate’s Tech Boom
- Twitter was down
- Identifying Risky Counterfeit Intel Gigabit CT Network Adapters
- Google PDF Search: “not for public release”
- Nvidia’s DG-Net: Dress up people with different clothes/use as training data
Other news
- Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux
- How to Install InfluxDB on Ubuntu and Debian in 2019
- How to Unlearn a Disease
- “Essentials of Garbage Collectors” full course is now available
- Linux on STM32 Microcontrollers
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X Offer Incredible Linux Performance
- Public Highly Critical of State of Political Discourse in the U.S.
- U.S. women win the country’s 4th World Cup
- Linux 5.2 released: list of changes
- ARM Mali accelerators support in Linux 5.2
- Deutsche Bank staff sent home as 18,000 job cuts begin
- Blindsided by a Devastating Veto, Alaska University System Pleads for Lifeline
- New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing
- Australia’s anti-encryption laws being used to bypass journalist protections
- A Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement
- C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years
- The challenges of teaching software engineering
- Women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year
- Python consumes too much memory, or how to reduce the size of objects
- tmux Privilege Escalation
- Learn Like an Athlete
- US mayors adopt resolution to not pay hackers over ransomware attacks
- ‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi