Gooooooood morning, Persons!!! 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
- Microsoft cutting MSN news production workers and replacing them with AI
- Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
- Winget Install Learning
- Semantic image synthesis and learning a generative model from a single image
- Shodan Dojo – Learning Shodan through katas
- Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
- Zyro – AI Powered Website Builder
Blockchain and decentralization
- Acme – A framework for distributed reinforcement learning
- Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
- Breaking the Solidity compiler with a fuzzer
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering at Rice University, and a professor of structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine. She is known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis.
Cloud and architecture
- Liquid Cities: Japanese architecture and science fiction
- Police act like laws don’t apply to them because of Qualified Immunity
- Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-Core VLIW on TSMC 28nm
- Ballparq – a small PaaS for Godot games
- Free software porting on the Elbrus architecture
- AWS SDKs include endpoints for secret region partitions
- Julialang Antipatterns
- Vote by Mail: Ballot Fraud Risk, State Laws and Trump’s Claims
- Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws
- Why Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
Development and languages
- Programming is boring art
- `fzf` * `Git` done right
- Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories
- Solid – A declarative JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- Userinterface.js – A small library to build front-end JavaScript applications
- MindSpore WebAssembly Backend
- Xfce switches to GitLab
- Janus WebRTC Server
- The 5.7 kernel is out
- Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer
- Perspective: Streaming Analytics via WebAssembly
- Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
- Is a trillion-dollars worth of programming lying on the ground?
- Ex-Enron CEO Skilling launching new digital marketplace for oil investors
- Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition
- Altair – A declarative statistical visualization library for Python
- Recognizing non-programming open source contributors
- J for C Programmers
- Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
- Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
- Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos
- Hands-On Scala Programming
- Useful Links for JavaScript Developers
- JavaScript: The First 20 Years
- An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript
- An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript
- Python+FontForge+Org: I made a font based on my handwriting
- Using Enumerated Types in Python
Quote of the week
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
— Erik Naggum
Enterprises
- Google Gave Away Our Business Listing to a Competitor, Our Fight to Get It Back
- Twitter, Reddit File Challenge of U.S. Social Media Registration Requirement
- We ditched Google Analytics
- Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure
- White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
- Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves
- Is Google censoring ‘Falun Gong’ voice typing?
- NSTM: Real-Time Query-Driven News Overview Composition at Bloomberg
- Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
- Fyifv: A Microsoft Urban Legend
- Twitter account reposting everything Trump tweets, suspended within 3 days
- Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data
- Analytics Without Google
- Amazon is sued over warehouses after New York worker brings coronavirus home
- GM plans electric van for business users in bid to pre-empt Tesla
- Google2Csv is a simple Google scraper that saves the results on a CSV file
- Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Design for Great Power Competition
- Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to Floyd claiming copyright complaint
Other news
- Operation of a silicon quantum processor unit cell above one kelvin
- Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?
- Dragon capsule runs on Linux, C++, Chromium UIs
- Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2020 edition
- Anonymous returns: Hacker group targets police and Trump administration
- MPWTest: Reducing Test Friction by Going Beyond the XUnit Model
- Linux 5.7
- How to Become a Hacker
- Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
- Anonymous hackers re-emerge amid US unrest
- NSA Exposes Tool Used by Russian Hackers
- Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
- Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
- Hacking the Planet With Notcurses: A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics
- Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees
- Regulators may punish Deutsche Bank for its Jeffrey Epstein ties
- Millions of Americans Skipping Payments as Wave of Defaults and Evictions Looms
- Linus rejects ‘beyond stupid’ AWS-made Linux patch
- Nand2Tetris Hack assembler implemented in Rust
- Learn coding to become a software engineer
- What Apple Learned from Automation: Humans Are Better
- BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses
- More than half of American retailers didn’t pay their rent in April and May
- Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap
- From Miss Universe to Indie Hacker with Isis Casalduc
- Switzerland’s lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19