Gooooooood morning, Information highway!!! 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
- The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future
- ‘Spot’: A Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat Covid-19 Patients
- Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough
- Moxie, a Social Robot That Helps Kids with Social-Emotional Learning
- Cliqz, privacy oriented search engine and browser shuts down – Learnings
- Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning
Blockchain and decentralization
- Key Visualizer: Observe distributed databases to discover the unknowns
- Plan9 – A Distributed Operating System
- PyTorch Distributed Training
- Debugging Distributed Systems
- Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
- Distributed transactions are Not Micro-services
- Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
Woman computer scientist of the week
Ayanna MacCalla Howard is an American roboticist and the School Chair for Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Endowed Chair in Bioengineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the director of the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab. Currently, she is the Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the Georgia Tech College of Computing.
Cloud and architecture
- Keystone: A lightweight multi-architecture assembler framework
- Opting in to Preview Builds with AWS ALBs
- List of Serverless Functions for JAMstack Apps
- IoT Dashboard – A live dashboard companion for AWS IoT
- Matching Binary Patterns with Erlang
- Google wants Australia to remove civil penalties from CLOUD Act-readying Bill
- Serverless CI/CD on the AWS Cloud
- How 3+ failures led to a $150k/month SaaS
Development and languages
- A ‘MacBook SE’ could destroy Chromebooks and Windows laptops in one fell swoop
- Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not
- Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
- Python 2 Is Dead
- Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler
- Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government’s contact tracing app
- GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub
- SICP written for Python
- Why can’t programmers design software?
- Google Credential Provider for Windows
- Better C – A subset of D Programming Language
- Programming Idioms
- Vidgear – A complete, cross-platform video processing Python framework
- WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
- Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
- Quantum JavaScript
- HashiCorp Vault Is Overhyped, as Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git Is Underrated
- Git Branch Naming Conventions
- Joy (Programming Language)
Quote of the week
Search all the parks in all your cities; you’ll find no statues of committees.
— David Ogilvy
Enterprises
- French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk
- Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google
- Intellectual Alchemists
- Google Will Require Proof of Identity from All Advertisers
- A Fight Against Amazon Becomes a State Matter in Quebec
- AMD vs. Intel 2020: Who Makes the Best CPUs?
- ‘Expert Twitter’ Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs
- Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
- Google inserts links to its Duo video chat app when users text about Zoom
- I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
- NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan
- Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
- Google Research Football
- Google Pixel Buds
- Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2020 Results
- MsQuic – QUIC Implementation from Microsoft
- WhatsApp eyes lending feature in India as Amazon rolls out Pay Later to tens of
- A thread of RTL(right-to-left)-language-induced GUI bugs
- Tesla Q1 2020 Update
- Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
- ‘Publisher’ Google ordered to pay $40k in damages for defaming Melbourne lawyer
- Intel’s flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
- Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking
- Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results
- Quantum scientist John Martinis explains why he resigned from Google
- Nvidia Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design
- US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
- Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla’s value
- A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk’s tweet on Tesla stock price
Other news
- A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code
- Quantifying and Time Tracking My Reading
- Why a Data-Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked
- US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat
- My Love and Hate Relationship with Hackathons
- Packaging LXD for Arch Linux
- FT journalist suspended over claims of Zoom eavesdropping
- Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
- CEO of SoftBank-backed Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
- Legislation proposes paying Americans $2k a month
- German state bailing Lufthansa out of bankruptcy with $10B
- Quantum autoencoders to denoise quantum measurements
- Building a scripting language and bytecode interpreter for education
- Daily Math Practice for grades 1 to 4
- Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs
- Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update
- Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password and more
- New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources