Tech roundup 91: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Information superhighway!!! 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

• Bottled Authors: The predigital dream of the audiobook
• A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning
  Hanie Sedghi, Google Research and Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Understanding generalization is one of the fundamental unsolved pr…
• Falling robots and human trust
• Dataflowr – Deep Learning DIY
• GeoGuessing with Deep Learning
• Parkinson’s gene may impair how new neurons are made throughout our lifetime
• Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI
• AI names colors much as humans do
• PlenOctrees for Real-Time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)
• Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute

Blockchain and decentralization

• Cryptography Behind the Top Cryptocurrencies
• The Blockchain Is a Dark Forest
• Distributed Systems: A free online class
• The operative system for a decarbonised, decentralised, digitised energy system
• Distributed – Live social chat app to help remote teams stay in sync
• Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin
• Ethernet and IP Networking 101

Cloud and architecture

• Ten thousand reasons to use Textpattern
• Pulling Bits from ROM Silicon Die Images: Unknown Architecture
• U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of the social media platform.
• MacBook Owners’ Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification
• How to price your SaaS product
• We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
  GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
• Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud
• AWS Aurora Serverless v2: architecture, features, pricing, comparison with Fauna
• Vercel Serverless Functions vs. Cloudflare Workers
• Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and lessons

Development and languages

• The Western Digital WD Black SN850 Review: A Fast PCIe 4.0 SSD
• The Magic Kernel
• Adoption of Mypy for Python type checking: 45% already use it, 40% don’t plan to
• Monty Python’s John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
• PyDisAss: A 6502 Disassembler in Python
• “Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It?” v2 Is Out
• The ecosystem of the Go programming language
  Go is one of the most prominent general-purpose programming languages nowadays. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe, to name a few, have been using the language extensively. It’s the language of choice behind multiple cloud computing projects such as Kubernetes, and it’s steadily expanding towards numerous areas of software development. In this article, you’ll find resources to learn about Go and its ecosystem.
• Gitlab 13.10 Released
• Crystal Programming Language 1.0
• Vim-gh-line: Vim plugin to open the current line on GitHub
• Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
• Hermes, a JavaScript engine optimized for React Native
  JavaScript engine optimized for React Native
• Programmer’s Poop NFT
• The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy
• Closing web browser windows doesn’t close connections
• The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
  The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
• Syntax Highlighting in a Webpage Without JavaScript
• WebRTC 1.0 telephony app using “hifi” Opus codec with up to 500kbs bitrate
• An Introduction to Typeclass Metaprogramming
• FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create
• WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos
• Programming quotes
• Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
• 1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
• How GitHub Actions renders large-scale logs
• Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
  Qualcomm ended support for the phone after Android 6, but Fairphone is still going.
• The Mercury functional programming language
• How to make Command Prompt launch from Start Menu directly into Windows Terminal
• BPF for storage: an exokernel-inspired approach
  The overhead of the kernel storage path accounts for half of the access
  latency for new NVMe storage devices. We explore using BPF to reduce this
  overhead, by injecting user-defined functions deep in the kernel’s I/O
  processing stack. When issuing a series of dependent I/O requests, this
  approach can increase IOPS by over 2.5$\times$ and cut latency by half, by
  bypassing kernel layers and avoiding user-kernel boundary crossings. However,
  we must avoid losing important properties when bypassing the file system and
  block layer such as the safety guarantees of the file system and translation
  between physical blocks addresses and file offsets. We
• AMA: Gaël Duval, founder of the de-Googled Android OS /e/

Quote of the week

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.

        — Pliny the Elder

Enterprises

• Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck Giga Casting machine
• Malfrats/xeuledoc: Fetch information about a public Google document
• Google for the Physical World
• Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage
• AMD Expected to Become TSMC’s Second Largest Customer
• 2/3rds of Google Searches Now End Without a Click
  In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a
• Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
• Intel’s New IDM 2.0 Strategy
• Robinhood is said to have filed confidentially for U.S. IPO
• Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
  Has the addon been removed from the webstore? The URL listed here is responding with a 404 error. It's not coming up in search either. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanj…
• The End of Tesla’s Dominance May Be Closer Than It Appears
• Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0
  New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote with the right strategy, the right tactics, and most importantly, the right spirit to return Intel to success.
• Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B
• Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia
  The firm now aims to supply others with processors made in factories based in the US and Europe.
• What happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
  If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.
• RIP Google Reader
  A website made by the Knuckleheads’ Club to remember Google Reader, an old friend that was taken from us too soon.
• Grow with Google
• Amdahl’s Law
• Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
  A decision to shut down exploits being used by «friendly» hackers has caused controversy inside the company’s security teams.
• Google’s got a secret
• Why Microsoft Wants Discord
• Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

Other news

• Iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank
• Redux Alternative
• What I learnt shopping for decent computer speakers
• YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives
• Turkey’s currency plunges after the head of the country’s central bank is fired
• Feeding beef steers with algae reduces enteric methane by over 80%
  The red macroalgae (seaweed) Asparagopsis spp. has shown to reduce ruminant enteric methane (CH4) production up to 99% in vitro. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Asparagopsis taxiformis on CH4 production (g/day per animal), yield (g CH4/kg dry matter intake (DMI)), and intensity (g CH4/kg ADG); average daily gain (ADG; kg gain/day), feed conversion efficiency (FCE; kg ADG/kg DMI), and carcass and meat quality in growing beef steers. Twenty-one Angus-Hereford beef steers were randomly allocated to one of three treatment groups: 0% (Control), 0.25% (Low), and 0.5% (High) A. taxiformis inclusion based on organic matter
• The price students pay for a prized IIT seat
• Project Pockit, a modular ARM computer runnig Linux
• Setting Up Arch Linux with KDE Plasma in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
• How Penny Arcade manages PAX tickets – and why your idea to fix them won’t work
• Construct Your Own Bayeux Tapestry
• 64-Bit Linux Return-Oriented Programming
• The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
• Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest
• Hacktivism, leaktivism and the future
• CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
• Donald Knuth’s Algorithm D, its implementation in Hacker’s Delight and elsewhere
• Learn about problems, not solutions
• PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
  Estimated dispatch in late April 2021 BODY Dimensions: 160.5mm x 76.6mm x 9.2mm Weight: 185 grams Build: Plastic Colour: Black SIM: Micro-SIM DISPLAY Type: HD IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size: 5.95 inches Resolution: 1440×720 pixels, 18:9 ratio PLATFORM OS: Manjaro with Plasma Mobile OS build Chipset: Allwinner A64 CPU: 64-bit Quad-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A-53 GPU: MALI-400MP2 MEMORY Internal Flash Memory: 16GB eMMC System Memory: 2GB LPDDR3 SDRAM Expansion: micro SD Card support SDHC and SDXC, up to 2TB CAMERA Main Camera: Single 5MP, 1/4″, LED Flash Selfie Camera: Single 2MP
• Canberra startup unveils world-first diamond quantum computer technology
• Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive
• Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets
• Do you want Linux phones?
  The community around Linux phones is interesting. The phones do sell to a lot of people, but it seems a lot of those people come back to complain that Linux phones isn’t what they expected it is. For some reason all the distributions for the PinePhone are bending over backwards
• Reproductive Problems in Both Men and Women Are Rising at an Alarming Rate
• Reducing database queries to a minimum with DataLoaders
• Does a case of top-notch Bordeaux taste different after being in Space?
• Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you
  The mere presence of your phone or apps like Gmail, Slack, and iMessage can decrease your ability to focus even when they don’t actually distract you.
• The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez
• What you can learn from old hard drive adverts
• The Bank of England unveils design of new £50 banknote featuring Alan Turing
  Governor Andrew Bailey unveils the design of the new £50 banknote featuring the scientist Alan Turing.
• Tony Hsieh Bankrolled His Followers. In Return, They Enabled His Risky Lifestyle
• 2020 World Press Freedom Index: A decisive decade for the future of journalism
  According to RSF’s measures, world press freedom improved very slightly in 2019. However, the Covid-19 pandemic highlights and amplifies the multiple crises that threaten the right to free, independent, pluralistic and reliable information.

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