Gooooooood morning, Bodies!!! 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
- MarioNette: Self-Supervised Sprite Learning
- Machine Learning Accelerates Cosmological Simulations
- Total Relighting: Learning to Relight Portraits for Background Replacement
- Advancing Sports Analytics Through AI Research
- Telegram bot provides time-based сurrency
- Learning Skeletal Articulations with Neural Blend Shapes
- Predicting the HN front page with deep learning
- Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy. - Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy. - Kobra – visual programming language for machine learning
Kobra is A Visual Programming language for ML - Neural Rendering: How Low Can You Go in Terms of Input?
- The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons
- Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam
Blockchain and decentralization
- What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?
Stocks are in a frenzy. Cryptocurrencies now equal the value of U.S. dollars in circulation. Real estate is booming. And the Federal Reserve is still pumping stimulus into the economy. - Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users over the past year
- Man Used Coinbase to Pay Hitman in Bitcoin for Wife’s Murder, FBI Says
- Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
- An analysis of Bitcoin’s throughput bottlenecks
- Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin
- Tesla suspends Bitcoin car sales over environmental impact
- Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact
The price of Bitcoin took a tumble after Elon Musk said Tesla would no longer be accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment method. Musk raised concerns about the climate impact of Bitcoin mining. - Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service
- Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars
- $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
- DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop…
Woman computer scientist of the week
Nancy Marie Amato is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on the algorithmic foundations of motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry and parallel computing. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She is currently a member of the steering committee of CRA-W, of which she has been a member of the board since 2000.
Cloud and architecture
- The first LATS database in the cloud
- Google faces $5B lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in «private» mode. - Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C
- Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2 this year
By Galit Michel, VP of Payments, Forter - A New Architecture for Plaid Link: Server-Driven UI with Directed Graphs
- Cloudflare on the edge
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics. - Csvbox.io – CSV import button for a web app, SaaS or API
- On the New Architecture of Location-Based Services
- Why Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers.
Development and languages
- How JavaScript works: 3 types of polymorphism
- Reticle: Virtual Machine for Programming Modern FPGAs
- So what’s wrong with 1975 programming?
- Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript
- Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
- Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3
- eBPF on Windows
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows. Contribute to microsoft/ebpf-for-windows development by creating an account on GitHub. - DigitalOcean vs. Linode
- An intro to Zig’s integer casting for C programmers
- BMC: Accelerating Memcached using In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing
- Writing a Programming Book in 2021
- Houdini – CSS is now extendable with JavaScript
Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine. Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers. - GitHub Graduation 2021
- Avoid Git LFS if possible
- The digital natives are not who you think they are
- The Lisperati1000 Is a Cyberdeck Terminal Dedicated to Lisp Programming
Dr. Conrad Barski wanted a small, portable device for coding Lisp on the go and built the Lisperati1000 cyberdeck terminal for the job. - Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub. - Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig
- Spearmint – JavaScript Test-Code Generator – New In-App Testing
- Pg8000 – Pure-Python PostgreSQL driver
- MPL Plotter – Python library to make technical plots more efficiently
- Programming and Writing
- Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo
- A Windows 7 web desktop recreation
Quote of the week
The X server has to be the biggest program I’ve ever seen that doesn’t do anything for you.
— Ken Thompson
Enterprises
- Google is going to turn on 2FA by default
- Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
- AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years
- ServiceNow to Acquire Lightstep
- ServiceNow acquires Lightstep
- Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
- NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn’t Have Been Using Autopilot
- Tesla Model 3 Owners Are the Happiest Car Owners, According to Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports measures owner satisfaction, and according to those results, it’s clear that the Tesla Model 3 is very satisfactory. Why? - An incomparable intellectual who fell through the cracks of history
- Amazon Echo will start sharing your Internet with neighbors in June
- Starting the World’s First V8 Powered Tesla
- A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
- CircleCI Acquires Vamp
- Benchmarking division and libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512
- Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, but data rights groups fear «discriminatory» algorithms are at work and want greater transparency. - Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance
L’azienda di Mountain View ha fatto lo sgambetto alla app JuicePass che permette di trovare e prenotare una colonnina di ricarica. In questo modo ha favori… - I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs
- Tesla owner arrested after riding in the back seat while it was on autopilot
- Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi
- Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban
The company pledged to eliminate ads for sites that charge hefty fees for otherwise free or inexpensive services—but they continue - Tesla Autopilot system was on during fatal California crash, more safety concern
- Create New Stripe Invoice with Invoice.new
Other news
- When Hackers Were Heroes
- Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
- Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking
- The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot. - Ontario teachers’ unions slam province for considering permanent online learning
- Beautiful Italian towns will pay you to work remotely
- Why flutter doesn’t deserve a place on the Linux desktop
- Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
The complaints have «overwhelmed» the parent bank’s customer service. - Praise for Alpine Linux
- AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher
- (Red Hat’s) 5 useless Linux commands
- A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux
- Experts suggest French insurer AXA’s plan to not pay ransomw will set precedent
- Verification = TCB/PB Reduction
- Discord’s new UX design is harmful to the visually impaired and colorblind
- Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing longest water channel of the ancient world
- Finance Giant Plaid Paid People $500 for Their Employer Payroll Logins
- QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized (“Low-Precision”) Simulations on the GPU
- Apple Robbed the Mob’s Bank
- A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13
- What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
200 roasts, £70,000 in revenue and 642 cans of Diet Coke later. - Learn Python the Right Way – Free Introduction to Python Book
- Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
- Three Things to Never Build Yourself: Auth, Notifications, & Payments
In this post, we use Auth0’s post-user registration hook and Courier’s automations feature to learn how to help a user sign up for your product. - Superdeterminism could reconcile quantum and relativity
- Lima: Linux-on-Mac
Lima: Linux-on-Mac («macOS subsystem for Linux», «containerd for Mac») – AkihiroSuda/lima
