AI, bots and robots
- The Rise of the Peer Review Bots
- Learning to prove theorems via interacting with proof assistants
- OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games
- A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning
- Machine learning primitives in rustc
- The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries
- Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware from 850k Computers
- Scurrying Roaches Help Researchers Steady Staggering Robots
- Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English
- Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Starsky Robotics Front-End Software Engineer-Teleoperations
- Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
Blockchain and decentralization
- Moscow’s blockchain voting system cracked a month before election
- Australian who says he invented Bitcoin ordered to hand over up to $5bn
- Portugal Tax Authority: Bitcoin Trading and Payments Are Tax-Free
Woman computer scientist of the week
Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She was the chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009 to 2014, and served as a senior associate dean from 2014 to 2016. In February 2017 she was named Dean of the School of Engineering. ACM conferred her with ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award to honor prominent women Computer Scientists for introduction of the fundamental concepts and architectures of active database systems in 2015. This award includes honorarium of $10,000
Cloud and architecture
- Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture
- iPaaS – Integration Platform as a Service
- Private cloud at home – no server needed, no complicated installation
- EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
- NextStep – Product to help SaaS companies improve conversion rates
- Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit
- FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript
- The Unum Pattern
Development and languages
- Environment and the programming language Self, part 4
- Steps to Protecting Your Digital Home
- Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming
- Programming shape using kirigami tessellations
- Salsify – video codec and transport protocol thats better than WebRTC
- Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing
- How Facebook Tracks You on Android
- The A-Z of Programming Languages: Interviews with programming language creators
- Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
- Useless Windows 10 Features
- Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal
- Unison (Programming Language)
- Mid or Senior Python Engineer
- If you must run Windows 10
- Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
- New Android Warning: 100M+ Users Installed App with Malware
- CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play
- Connective – Large-scale reactive programming in Javascript/Typescript
- Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook’s Android apps compromised
- Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
Quote of the week
The only places for icons is in a church, a burning church at that.
— mhat
Enterprises
- More Fires Now Burning in Angola, Congo Than Amazon
- Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games
- Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
- Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
- Tesla Model 3 Cost of Ownership Slightly Cheaper Than a Camry
- Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
- Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper
- Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
- Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)
- Reasons Not to Use Google
- Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic
- Google begins penalising domain leasing
- Netflix “13 Reasons Why” linked to 29% increase in teen suicides 1 month later
- Is Twitter Aiding India’s Quest to Silence Kashmiris?
Other news
- Quantum Air buys Bye’s electric airplanes
- PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands
- Federal fraud indictment: KU professor secretly worked for Chinese university
- Quantum Interference Between Light Sources Separated by 150M Kilometers
- FreeBSD’s Executive Director Calls for Linux and BSD Devs to Work Together
- I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job
- From Mac to Linux – the setup I’ve grown to love
- Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds
- The Women of ‘LIFE’ Magazine
- How to compile a Linux kernel in the 21st century – Opensource.com
- What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
- Linux package managers are slow
- You’re paying too much for business software
- Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com
- Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum
- I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
- Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform
- Coursera acquires Rhyme Softworks, an online platform for hands-on projects
- We Reduced Deployment Times by 95%
- Towards parallel Linux kernel test runs
- A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4
- From the Battlefield to ‘Little Women’
- DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees
- Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
- How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
- Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time
- The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925
- Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
- Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked