Gooooooood morning, Inhabitants!!! 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
- When the state shifted to e-learning, a rural school shifted to the copy machine
- Business Name Generator Powered by AI
- When to assume neural networks can solve a problem
- These zoo live cams let you hang out with pandas, giraffes, and other animals
The coronavirus may have us all safely social distancing and staying home, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop experiencing the world around us.… - Heineken WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick
- Cheeger Constant as a Measure of “Bottleneckedness”
- I turned my entrepreneur journey into a game
- Houseparty offers $1m reward for proof of sabotage
- A startup is building computer chips using real neurons
- How to Resolve a Conflict When Both Sides Are Right
- The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?
âThe greatest mathematician of the 20th centuryâ -Le Monde (2014) - Semi-Supervised Learning: 85% accuracy on CIFAR-10 with only 10 labeled images
Learn how to leverage unlabeled data using FixMatch for semi-supervised learning - The Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life
Blockchain and decentralization
- Quicksilver: Configuration Distribution at Internet Scale
- Opera to support sites using IPFS protocol
Is this the end of the DNS? No, but it is curious to see where this is going - Binance to acquire CoinMarketCap in $400M deal
- How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
Story time! Around twenty years ago, I was working as a reverse-engineer and cryptanalyst for AccessData while getting my Physics degree at BYU. It was the late 90s and early 2000s. The US governme…
Woman computer scientist of the week
Rebecca «Becky» Gurley Bace was an American computer security expert and pioneer in intrusion detection. She spent 12 years at the US National Security Agency where she created the Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection (CMAD) research program. She was known as the «den mother of computer security». She was also influential in the early stages of intelligence community venture capital and was a major player in Silicon Valley investments in cyber security technology.
Cloud and architecture
- Genetic Architecture of Gray Matter
- A Prometheus fork for cloud scale anomaly detection across metrics and logs
An open source Prometheus fork to support Zebrium Autonomous Monitoring using logs and metrics. - How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
- AWS Ground Station
AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure - Microsoft: Cloud services demand up 775 percent; prioritization rules in place
Microsoft is sharing more guidance around capacity limits it is putting in place for its cloud resources caused by higher-than-usual demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. - Build optimized Python AWS Lambda layers
- AsyncAPI – OpenAPI-like specification for event-driven architectures
- Finding the Right PaaS for Kubernetes
- Organic SaaS Growth: The Curiosity Framework
- Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale
- I’m building a SaaS for just one person
- CloudWright – Build apps in your own cloud
- Jitsi Architecture
- “Good Enough” Architecture
- Major Cloud, CDN Providers Join Secure Routing Initiative
- Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class
- A list of discounted SaaS products which you can use to fight Covid-19
- Azure Cracks, AWS Strong: Covid-19 Stress Tests the Cloud
- Build a serverless Zoom alternative in 5 minutes
- All of Slack’s core flaws require topic modeling to fix
- Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence, violate labor laws, critics say
Development and languages
- Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming
- Retina: A regex-based recreational programming language
- ConvTools – generates Python code of conversions, aggregations, joins
- RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for Python
Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python and C++ using the Levenshtein Distance – rhasspy/rapidfuzz - Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
- Ape – an easy-to-embed programming language in two C files
- Gitlab features that are moving to open source
- “C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
A long time ago, I wrote “Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?”. This was part 1 in a three part series. A year later, I got around to part 2, ““C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code”. It’s been five more… | Steve Klabnik | “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” – Emma Goldman - Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
The Eclipse Foundation – home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 350 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks. - Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with Git and YAML since 2014
- Beta for WARP for macOS and Windows
- Zoom Client Leaks Windows Login Credentials to Attackers
- How Dolt, a SQL database with Git-like functionality, stores table data
- We’ve created a visual live-programming environment for .NET
- Exploring constraint programming with CL’s Screamer
- Python for Non-Programmers
- How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
Manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript - Mediasoup – WebRTC Video Conferencing
- GitHub Is Down
- A quality checker for Python wheels
- CO2meter: A Python interface to USB CO2 monitor devices
- Best programming books of all-time
- Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler
- Run the unmodified iOS kernel image on the VIM3 development board
- Windows 10 Hosted App Model
In Windows 10 version 2004, we are introducing the concept of Hosted Apps to the Windows App Model. Hosted apps are registered as independent apps on Windows, but require a host process in order to…
Quote of the week
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Enterprises
- Maltego – open-source intelligence and graphical link analysis tool
- Warren Buffett has the cash to buy Tesla, Starbucks, or McDonald’s
- Google cancels its infamous April Fools’ jokes this year
- Host a web app on Twitter in a single Tweet
- Twitter removes two Bolsonaro tweets questioning virus quarantine
- Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protection and pay
- Recipes for automatic text summarization using Google BERT and Microsoft UniLM
- Amazon warehouse workers are walking out and Whole Foods workers are striking
- Amazon Fires Worker Who Led Strike over Virus
- Amazon Fires Employee Who Led Staten Island Strike
- Apple acquires Dark Sky
- Amazon struggles to find its coronavirus footing
- Google Ruined the Internet
Google has become a card card catalog that is constantly being reordered by an angry, misinformed mob. - Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon
- Toga – A better interface to your Google Sheets
- Write faster and better with Artificial Intelligence (AI writing)
- The Opium of the Intellectuals
- Google is shutting down Neighbourly
- Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses
- Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer
- Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
- Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports
- Google releases location data for 131 countries
- Google Is Tracking People’s Movements in Their Communities During Coronavirus
- Nvidia Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
- Thanks to Bookshop, indies stand a chance against Amazon
- Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
Distinguished engineer Martin Thomson explains how this problem occurred, the implications for people who might be affected, and how problems of this nature might be avoided in future. To get …
Other news
- How is the Linux kernel tested?
- A Woman in Black: The last judicial duel in France
- OneWeb Bankrupt
Negotiating Debtor-in-Possession Financing to Support its Ongoing Business and a Sale Process - Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial massacres
- Coronavirus: Belgian woman infected her cat
- Fixing the Desktop Linux Security Model
- Yale’s popular ‘happiness’ course is available free online
- A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and Tmux
- Free course from Yale University teaches happiness and positivity
Staying optimistic is important, and not just in these trying times. Luckily, you can now increase your happiness thanks to this free online course. - Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system
Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system. – tanrax/maza-ad-blocking - “Today I cut my pay to $0. I’m committed to laying off 0 of our employees.”
- WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6
- Linux 5.6
- A song that was constructed to reduce anxiety
- Awesome risk quantification
- (US) Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking
Courts have struggled to interpret the vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. - A reduction in seismic noise is a boon for geoscientists
- The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux
- Grupeer Suspends Payments to Investors
- Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom
- Puppeteer Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Automation
- A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past
- How We reduced our Google Maps API cost by 94%
Being a highly reliable commute partner to our customers, we at Cityflo take all kinds of measures to ensure high accuracy and predictability of our vehicle tracking system. Showing incorrect arrival time to our users will heavily hamper the experience that our users expect from us. - Unbuilt London: The “railway arcade” above the streets
Imagine if you will of streets lined with decorative arcades that protected Victorians from the weather and above their heads, a marvel of the age – a silent railway without steam. - Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m
- Technical Writing Course
- How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer
