Tech roundup 65: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Clan!!! 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

• Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot
• Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning
• The File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
• The Mental Process of Learning Is More Complex Than We Thought
• AutoMLPipeline – Create and evaluate machine learning pipeline architectures
  A package that makes it trivial to create and evaluate machine learning pipeline architectures. – IBM/AutoMLPipeline.jl
• Aleph is a tool for indexing large amounts of both documents and structured data
  Search and browse documents and data; find the people and companies you look for. – alephdata/aleph
• Facebook Now Lets You Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Image Using AI
• Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics
• Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Differences in Learning Programming
• In Kaua‘I, Botanists Rediscover an Extinct Plant Once Mistaken for Another
• Artificial and biological neurons communicate over the internet 2020
• Automated code security assistant for developers
• The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
• Deep Learning Algorithms: The Complete Guide
• Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
  Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine
  learning systems. As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to
  train large neural networks with hundreds of millions of parameters to maintain
  enough capacity to memorize these volumes and obtain state-of-the-art accuracy.
  To get around the costly computations associated with large models and data,
  the community is increasingly investing in specialized hardware for model
  training. However, specialized hardware is expensive and hard to generalize to
  a multitude of tasks. The progress on the algorithmic front has failed to
  demonstrate a direct advantage over power

Blockchain and decentralization

• Enterprise Distributed Ledger Technology Platforms – Blockchain Technology
• Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI’s iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution
  A BuzzFeed News analysis of Clearview AI’s app for Apple’s mobile operating system found that the company had been violating the iPhone maker’s rules to distribute its apps to law enforcement agencies
• The ethereal art of fog-catching
• LibraryBox: Portable Private Digital Distribution
• India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading
• Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
• Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
• What Sets Us Apart: Filecoin’s Proof System
• Coinbase vs. Coinbase Pro

Cloud and architecture

• Why Cloudflare abandoned Intel for AMD for its latest servers
• ARMv8-A system semantics: instruction fetch in relaxed architectures
• Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
• Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled
• Crypton – Secure Anonymous SMS in the Cloud
• Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Receive the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Google Cloud charging for Kubernetes Clusters beginning June 2020
• AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer is a Strangler
  The Strangler is an extremely effective technique for phasing out legacy systems over time.  Instead of spending months getting a new system up to parity with the current system so that clients can…
• KUI – hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
• Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
  Explore the model that shows why Sia storage will stay below $2/TB/Mo for the long term.

Development and languages

• Programming trick questions
  Note: me telling you up front that these are trick questions rather gives the answers away in most cases, but oh well.

  Questions

  Question 1

  What’s the fastest way to sort a jumbled array, given that the array has length N and contains all the integers from 1 to N inclusi…

• .NET Core 3.0 will reach End of Life on March 3, 2020
• Revisiting stable-kernel regressions
• Android-x86 9.0-r1
• PRML Algorithms Implemented in Python
• Windows93
• Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics
• Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo
• Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
• ISalt: Interactive Salt Programming
• Please stop recommending Gitflow
• Nfstream: a network data analysis framework using Python
• Project Sandcastle: Android for the iPhone
• GitHub Collapsible Markdown
• A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git branching model”
  In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing software as I’ve used it in many of my projects, and which has turned out to be very successful.
• Pair Programming Economics
• JavaScript Variables: var and let and const
• Updating Dictionary in Python 3.9

Quote of the week

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

        — Rob Pike

Enterprises

• A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google’s Titan M chip
• AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update
• Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
  Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News
• Home was not where the heart was for the Enlightenment’s intellectuals
• Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices
  Intel refreshes its second-generation Xeon Scalable lineup mid-cycle with new mainstream dual-socket CPUs, improving the performance-per-dollar by as much as 2x over original SKUs.
• Genetic predisposition to acquiring Covid-19 (high Asians, lower Africans)
  Comparative genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2) receptor ACE2 in different populations
• google/brunsli: Practical JPEG Repacker (now part of JPEG XL)
  Practical JPEG Repacker. Contribute to google/brunsli development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications in June 2020
• Google’s ambitious push into gaming is floundering
• The End of the IPO as We Know It?
  Founders, companies, and investors are rebelling against the investment banks — and taking matters into their own hands
• Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”
• Sophos acquired for $3.9B
  In a 168% premium to its IPO share price in June 2015, Sophos stockholders now receive $7.40 per share, according to the company.
• Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers
  Note: we’ll update this post with new developments
• Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter
• Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition
• Google indexing DDG search results
• Twitter starts testing ‘Fleets,’ its version of Stories
• Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
• Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
  The scenario that Intel system architects, engineers, and security specialists perhaps feared most is now a reality. A vulnerability has …
• Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home
• The race to save Polesia, Europe’s Amazon
• AMD Is Determined to Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share
• GM’s new electric car battery tops Tesla’s

Other news

• Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
• iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature
  I was spending way too much time staring at outdoorsy influencers on Instagram. So I downloaded the iNaturalist app—and stepped outside myself.
• Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
  Almost all our computers are made of several processing cores. Thus it can be efficient to “parallelize” expensive processing in a multicore manner. That is, instead of using a single core to do all of the work, you divide the work among multiple cores. A standard way to approach this problem is to create threads. … Continue reading Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
• UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay
• Uyghurs for sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang
• Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape
• The Hacker Manifesto
• Payment Request API
• WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
  The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing.
• Seattle CEO who pays workers at least $70K US says it’s paying off
  It’s been five years since Dan Price took a massive pay cut so he could raise his employees’ salary — and he says the experiment has been a resounding success.
• Firefox 75 on Linux (Wayland) now to have WebGL and video hardware acceleration
• Connecting businesses and educators with advanced Hangouts Meet capabilities
• Koch is reducing energy consumption of AC Induction Motors by 1/3
• Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
• One small step for electrons, one giant leap for quantum computers
• Bypass Paywalls Clean
• Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban
• Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter
  Some months after a failed Kickstarter campaign with an ambitious €350k goal, German startup Volla has managed to raise more than €20k in a new campaign (still open for the next few hours) for their first Volla Phone. Volla Phone in German woods.This new smartphone aims at several niches,
• Reducing customer service call volume at Expedia
• Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Course
• Turn down the quantum volume
• Hacking up your own shell completion
• Indian bank’s meltdown takes out several popular services
• Electricity generation using quantum dots in glass

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