Gooooooood morning, Human beings!!! 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
- Neural networks for geophysicists and application to seismic data interpretation
- Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants
Abolishing platform immunity won’t do what anyone wants - Zoom Escaper: self-sabotage audio, making your presence unbearable to others
Zoom Escaper is a simple tool to help you escape Zoom meetings and other videoconferencing scenarios. It allows you to self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others. - Learning Without Burnout
- ElegantRL: A Lightweight and Stable Deep Reinforcement Learning Library
- The auction that set off the race for AI supremacy
How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah’s Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. - Daves Old Computers – Robotic DVD Loader
- Exploiting machine learning Pickle files
- José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
- AI Can Now Debate with Humans and Sometimes Convince Them, Too
- Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks
- New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease
- One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing
- AI and Drug Discovery: Attacking the Right Problems
Blockchain and decentralization
- Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.
Disregarding all of bitcoin’s shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better. - Understanding Coinbase
Plus! Security; Different Abstractions; Facebook Futurism; SPAC Apathy - Bitcoin Is Dead – Tracking all notable Bitcoin skeptics since 2010
- Why Isn’t Bitcoin Banned Everywhere?
- India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders -source
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class. - IPFS Local Offline Collaboration Sig
- India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class. - GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken
- CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain
- Indian government is planning outright ban on cryptocurrency
- German man loses 400k GBP about $500k in Twitter Bitcoin scam
A German man lost 10 Bitcoin to so-called giveaway scammers on Twitter and experts say scams are rising. - Clio: A functional, distributed programming language that compiles to JavaScript
- Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
- Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets
- Clever trader earns $250k in 1 night wrecking exploitative practices on Ethereum
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit. Contribute to Defi-Cartel/salmonella development by creating an account on GitHub. - CFTC Orders Coinbase Inc. To Pay $6.5M Penalty
- Bitcoin Blackhole Effect
Woman computer scientist of the week
Gail Ann Williams has been the director of The WELL since 1998. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in the 1970s and got involved in political theater as both a creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe. She was a principal in their long-touring satirical show spoofing anti-feminist politics, Ladies Against Women, throughout the years of the Ronald Reagan presidency.
Cloud and architecture
- The Laws of Durability
- WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed German communications laws
- Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
- Legislative Performance Futures – Incentivize Good Laws by Monetizing the Future
- In Landmark Privacy Law, California Passes Regulation Banning “Dark Patterns”
- The architects who rebuilt Jojutla after a devastating earthquake
- Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP
- Google Cloud Networking reporting issues
- Double bongcloud: why grandmasters are playing the worst move in chess
- Open Application Model – An open standard for defining cloud native apps
- Great SaaS Demos Enabled by DevOps Tools
Development and languages
- Piracy, Overcoming Gravity, and the Digital Edition
- Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C# – Ryujinx/Ryujinx - A Programming Murder Mystery in Ruby
- Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages
- Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python’s tar compared to macOS tar?
Context
I’m compressing ~1.3 GB folders each filled with 1440 JSON files and find that there’s a 15-fold difference between using the tar command on macOS or Raspbian 10 (Buster) and using Python’s… - GitHub no longer supports this web browser
- JavaScript from 2001 on India’s largest private bank site
- Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
- Highlights from Git 2.31
- In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
WireGuard probably won’t make it into 13.0-RELEASE, but 13.1 seems very likely. - Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
- Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos. - GitHub Has a Permission Problem
- New SWAT drone smashes windows, opens doors, and negotiates with suspects
- GitHub, f ck your name change
Tech industry be whilin. - Interfaces and Protocols in Python
- Internet Archive ‘Legitimately Useful’ for Lending and Preservation
- Static website analytics with no JavaScript using GoAccess
- Ghost Kernel
- Awesome .NET Performance
A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-… stuff. – adamsitnik/awesome-dot-ne… - Correct Git commits with git-autofixup
- Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
Q&A interview with John Kozubik, CEO, rsync.net. - JamRTC – WebRTC for Live Musicians
- FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree
- The kernel has 6 separate ASN.1 parsers
- Drovio – Remote pair programming tool
- The Python Package Cache
- Ark predicts a $3T Tesla market cap by 2025, publishes valuation model on GitHub
ARKâs 2025 price target for Tesla is $3,000. ARKâs bear and bull case suggest it could be worth $1,500 and $4,000 per share, respectively.
Quote of the week
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it’s a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don’t.
Enterprises
- Tesla says “Full Self-Driving” software doesn’t make cars autonomous
- Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
- Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising
- Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code to […] - Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
An indie maker’s journey to ramen profitability - Google Photos circumvents iOS 14 photos privacy features
- How Amazon Crushes Unions
- Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
- Google Play store bans polyamory dating app
- Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google - If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Bets It Can Be Samsung
- Amazon Care to launch across U.S. this summer, offering access to medical care
- Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses. - Tesla on autopilot crashes into stopped Michigan police car
- Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
Twitter announces call for public input on approach to world leaders. - Twitter: Imperfect by Design
- Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” Beta Is Just Laughably Bad and Potentially Dangerous
If you think we’re anywhere near fully autonomous cars, this video might convince you otherwise. - New Intel “backdoor” – undocumented x86 instruction to alter microcode
- Amazon S3 Object Lambda
Other news
- A Medieval Woman Wore ‘Birthing Girdle’ to Protect Herself During Labor
- Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad
- Out of the Top Fifty Games on Steam, 70% Work on Linux
- Multigenerational LRU: more performant, versatile, straightforward than Linux’s
- Kotlin Compiler Crash Course
- JGen – Text-based journal generator
- EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall
Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. – harporoeder/ebpfsnitch - Israel’s first new bank since 1978
First Digital Bank, the first new bank in Israel since 1978, started operations on Sunday on a trial basis, and said it planned to open to the public later in 2021. - Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods
- Blender website under maintenance due to hacking attempt
- WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
- Learn How to Tie Knots
- Learnimprov – The oldest repository of improvisational comedy structures
Just the first improv game site. - A hacker got all my texts for $16
A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. - Immutable Linux desktop with OpenSUSE and Snaps
- Buildroot – Making Embedded Linux Easy
- Phrack Magazine
- Juxting – A Fountain of Ideas
- Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own
- Startup School’s “Aspiring Founders” track is reopening as a continuous course
- Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times
- The Best of Coursera from the Depths of Reddit
The best of Coursera found from analyzing all discussions on Reddit that mention any Coursera course. - Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up
- I self-learned to code at 30
- The Adventurous Seafaring Women of the Age of Sail, in Their Own Words
- Deducing This
- What’s under the hood of a quantum computer?
- Scientists Grow Mice Embryos in a Mechanical Womb
Biologists have long held that a fetus needs a living uterus to develop. Maybe not anymore. - Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
Surveys and a field experiment with Twitter users show that prompting people to think about the accuracy of news sources increases the quality of the news that they share online. - Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
- Arch Linux partners with Nitrokey to equip its staff with USB keys
- Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine
Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine. – Overv/outrun - The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
- “Expert” hackers used 11 zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users
- In a Phase III trial, Proxalutamide reduced mortality of Covid patients
- Hacker’s Guide to Numerical Analysis
- Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
First-year analysts have reported 95-hour working weeks plus poor physical and mental health.
