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AI, bots and robots
- Reuters uses AI to prototype automated video reports
- From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations
With little training, neural networks create accurate emulators for physics, astronomy, and earth science - Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs
Anyone who’s been in full-time employment for at least six months is entitled to apply for the unpaid sabbatical. - Rlpyt: A Research Code Base for Deep Reinforcement Learning in PyTorch
- Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop
- Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Explore an infinite stream of AI generated art
art42.net showcases an infinite stream of unique AI art. Bookmark and collect the works you like! - Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
Trax — your path to advanced deep learning. Contribute to google/trax development by creating an account on GitHub. - The New Business of AI
At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software. AI is showing remarkable progress on a range of difficult computer science problems, and the job of software develo… - JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
- Robot Localization in Maze Using Particle Filter
- Acmedns Authenticator Plugin for Certbot
- BBC Micro Bot
- Over 150K botanical illustrations enter public domain
The free images, uploaded courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, include animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and scientific research. - MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
- Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
When tested in mice, the molecule treated the gastrointestinal bug clostridium difficile, a common killer of hospitalized patients. - LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed
- Quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
- Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
Blockchain and decentralization
- Oracle VP: Data would be safer if most OSS distributed databases didn’t exist
- Coinbase Billionaire Brian Armstrong’s Plan to Make Crypto Safe for All
- Challenges with distributed systems
- Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes
Woman computer scientist of the week
Mary Jane Irwin is the Evan Pugh Professor and A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977. She is an international expert in computer architecture. Her research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.
Cloud and architecture
- A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies
- Retry pattern – A fundamental pattern for systems resilience
- Deploying your front end websites to s3 with cloudfront for fun and profit
- The Myth of Architect as Chess Master
- Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
- Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
- Intro To Pattern Matching – Covers C# 9
In this article you will learn about Pattern Matching: Covers the proposals for C# 9.
Development and languages
- On emulating hypervisors; a Samsung RKP case study
- ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go
An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier. Contribute to evanw/esbuild development by creating an account on GitHub. - Why Rust, or a Trip Report from My Satori with Rust and Functional Programming
- Reading and debugging other programmers’ code
- Implementing Function Overloading in Python
- Compiling PHP’s Eval() to .NET
- A Unikernel Firewall for QubesOS
- Max: A visual programming language for music and multimedia
- N26 customers feel betrayed by the German digital bank’s decision to quit the UK
- Schizophrenia Manifests as a GitHub Repo
- The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer
- 800K IPv4 addresses obtained illegitimately
- Programmer’s critique of missing structure of operating systems
Some time ago, I’ve come across a contemplation on the topic of necessity of operating systems. I’ve been doing sort of «research» about this for almost two years, so I’ve decided to write up central thoughts along with links to some relevant sources of information on this topic. - Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
For the past little while, we have been tracking some interesting WebRender bugs that people are reporting in release. Despite best efforts, we have been unable to determine clear steps to reproduc… - Web Programming in SWI Prolog
- A Windows feature which can result in bypassing User Group Policy
- Want to call C from Python? Use D
In my last blog post I wrote about the power of D’s compile-time reflection and string mixins, showing how they could be used to call D from Python so easily it might as well be magic. As ama… - GitHub Outage
- GitHub: Increased Error Rates
- Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax
- Byenow – A command-line Windows utility for faster folder removal
- A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
- Sweden starts testing world’s first central bank digital currency
- DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
- Panolens.js: A JavaScript Panorama Viewer
- Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
- GitHub Discussions Beta
The React Framework. Contribute to zeit/next.js development by creating an account on GitHub. - Gitlab is down
Quote of the week
Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore’s Law.
— May’s Law
Enterprises
- AutoFlip: An Open Source Framework for Intelligent Video Reframing
- Microsoft cut off game maker’s revenue stream, so he built his own replacement
Sam Kaufmann has been developing Windows games for a decade, so when Microsoft said it was cutting ad support for apps, he had to turn to his own ad network. - Google Maps shows different borders depending on which side you’re from
- Local bookstores have a new weapon in the fight with Amazon
- Don’t Use the Word ‘Did’ or Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You from Google
- Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa – three months after launch
Google Station will wind down through 2020 and hand over operations to its partner Think WiFi. - Insights – Open-Source Self-Hosted Business Intelligence Platform
- Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
Self-driving AI sends shivers through traditional supply chains - Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
- Marketers are panicking over Google’s plan to yank cookies from advertising
- Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange’s extradition hearing
Days before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings are set to continue, WikiLeaks’ journalist Kristin Hrafnsson reports that the official WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked. «All attempts to get it reopened via regular channels have been unsuccessful,» writes Hrafnsson in a tweet. «It has been… - Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas) – amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel - ThinkPads 2020 – X13 AMD – X1 Nano?
A non-official repository for downloading the lastest UAD components from Realtek FTP server. – alanfox2000/realtek-universal-audio-driver - Spotify ran the largest Google Dataflow job ever for Wrapped 2019
- How Spotify ran the largest Google Dataflow job ever for Wrapped 2019
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few… - Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
- Google Fonts Analytics
- Google Design Resources
- Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control o… - Stripe no longer returns Stripe’s fees when processing a refund
Consultez les frais de Stripe et nos informations sur la tarification. Découvrez nos frais de traitement pour les cartes de crédit, nos modèles de tarification et notre facturation à l’utilisation pour les entreprises. - Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
- An Amazon Scam: The Mofut Key Lock Box
- How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
- Google plans to move UK users’ accounts outside EU jurisdiction
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control o… - Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks US AG Barr
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Goo… - Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight
- AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
Hi, I’m the perplexed owner of an AMD Threadripper 3970X CPU on a GIGABYTE TRX40 Aorus Xtreme motherboard. I’m writing this thread as a kind of followup/answer to @DerAlbi’s post here (“3970X – Prime95 stability?”) and to my own thread over at Reddit (“Prime95 errors with AMD Threadripper 3970X build”). Sorry, I’m new here and I can’t use links in my post yet… TL;DR: It appears that several (many?) 3970X parts —and possibly 3960X and 3990X parts too— are unable to perform correct AVX2 computa… - Google resists giving up documents in investigation of anticompetitive practices
The search-engine company is reluctant to surrender some documents sought by investigators looking into possible anticompetitive practices. - Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome
- Researchers at McAfee tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH
- Amazon Let a Fraudster Keep My Sony A7R IV and Refunded Him $2,900
I am an amateur photographer, and I’ve sold cameras non-professionally on Amazon for over eight years as I’ve upgraded. That trend comes to an end with my - Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google services
Other news
- Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X
- The Quantified Employee: How Companies Use Invasive Tech to Track Workers
- SoftBank’s $375M Bet on Pizza Went Bad Fast
- Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display
Paperd.Ink is a beautiful, hackable e-paper display which can be used at your desk to display calendar, reminders, to-do lists and many more things! - Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display
Paperd.Ink is a beautiful, hackable e-paper display which can be used at your desk to display calendar, reminders, to-do lists and many more things! - A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python
- Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music
- South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
The reasoning behind the switch is two-fold. South Korea was looking to reduce its reliance on Microsoft and Windows and cut down on software licensing costs. - Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It’s hurting Android
- Things I’ve learned while setting up a GitHub repository
- Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
- Hacker Laws: Kernighan’s Law – You are not smart enough to debug it
💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws – dwmkerr/hacker-laws - IRS scams:A taxi driver saved an elderly woman from being scammed out of $25,000
- Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center arou… - Docker for Windows won’t run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
- Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three
- Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it
- Chinese Companies Say They Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Right Now
- Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
- Reducing Docker Image Size
- Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search
Developed by Uber AI Labs, Generative Teaching Networks (GTNs) automatically generate training data, learning environments, and curricula to help AI agents rapidly learn. - Governments are using charges of cybercrime to silence journalists
- Learn Synthesis in the Browser
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. - Professor Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
- The Bash Hackers Wiki
- Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
- Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study
