Tech roundup 99: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• AI Mid 2021: Self Driving Car Meets Reality
• An Erlangen Programme to Establish the Geometric Foundations of Deep Learning
• Kickstarting AI for Code: Introducing IBM’s Project CodeNet
• Forced Entrepreneurs
• Unveiling our new Quantum AI campus
• Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
  Twitter shares a technical analysis of its assessment for potential bias in its image cropping algorithm as part of its efforts to be more transparent around how it uses machine learning to improve pe
• Google MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
  Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
• Are Angels More Likely Than VCs to Drive Entrepreneurial Experimentation?
• KotlinDL 0.2: Idiomatic Kotlin DSL for Deep Learning
• Dancing robots you can fling
• Deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory
• Robot paramedic carries out CPR in ambulance in UK first
• Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally
  It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally
• An English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience
• Nvidia DatasetGAN, Efficient Labeled Data for AI Training
• Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them
• Reverse engineering an AI spaceship game at DEF CON CTF
• Developers Turn to Analog for Neural Nets
• Neural Network Enabled Filmmaking
• Bottery by Google
• Drunk as a Lord: the Regency Bottle Men
• Introduction to Robotics
  This Masterclass covers robots in fiction, robot arms used in manufacturing and the overarching concept of how robots are being used in the world.
• A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
• The Leg at the Bottom of the Sea
• IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both
• Anthropic AI
• Fusebot: Build a free Discord bot with no sign up or server
• Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer
  A ribbon-cutting ceremony held virtually at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today marked the official launch of Perlmutter – aka NERSC-9 – the GPU-accelerated supercomputer built by HPE in partnership with Nvidia and AMD.
• Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers
• Cornell and NTT’s Physical Neural Nets Enable Arbitrary Physical System Training
• Create AI videos by simply typing in text
  Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
• Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly
• Neural Networks Emulate Any Guitar Pedal for $120
• Manicure robot in San Francisco is now painting nails in 10 minutes for just $8
• Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks
• Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
• Zombie Fungus Turns Cicadas into Horror-Movie Sex Bots
  Researchers explore how an amphetamine and a psychedelic help parasitic fungi spread their spores through insects’ doomed mating attempts
• 3D Printing with a Robot Arm
• Algorithmic Botany
• Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network
• Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc
• Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control
• Few-Shot Learning in Practice: GPT-Neo & ‘HuggingFace’ Accelerated Inference API
• Data Cascades in Machine Learning
• Language Learning with Netflix
• Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing a credibility crisis
  Experts say fatal flaws in the methodology of many machine learning papers make it hard to have faith in published claims.
• AndroidEnv: The Android Learning Environment
• Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online learning
• Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
• DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI
  Scientists at U.K.-based AI lab DeepMind argue true artificial intelligence will emerge from sticking to the principle of reward maximization.
• Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks
• Germany warns: AI arms race already underway
• A robot to replace the need for farmers to go inside the grain bin
• The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning
  We describe the new field of mathematical analysis of deep learning. This
  field emerged around a list of research questions that were not answered within
  the classical framework of learning theory. These questions concern: the
  outstanding generalization power of overparametrized neural networks, the role
  of depth in deep architectures, the apparent absence of the curse of
  dimensionality, the surprisingly successful optimization performance despite
  the non-convexity of the problem, understanding what features are learned, why
  deep architectures perform exceptionally well in physical problems, and which
  fine aspects of an architecture affect th
• Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
• McDonald’s AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law
• Fabricius uses machine learning to help translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
• RISC-V Evolving to Address Supercomputers and AI
• Neural.love: An AI-powered HD portrait generator
• Modelplace, the AI Model Marketplace by OpenCV
• New Machine Learning Gems for Ruby
  In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up…
• Do You Want AI to Be Conscious?
  People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to…
• Grobid: Machine learning for extracting information from scholarly documents
• Ethics of AI
• Where Are Pixels? – A Deep Learning Perspective
• 1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
  His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
• Deep reinforcement learning will transform manufacturing as we know it
• Advancing AI theory with first-principles understanding of deep neural networks
• Learning to love a rigid and inflexible language
• Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms
• Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just USD $2700
• Machine Learning Cohorts: A Synthesis
• Finding the Bottom Turtle
• Pee bottles, constant monitoring and ignoring stop signs: Driving for Amazon
• When tipping and smiling are both expected at work, so is sexual harassment
• Hyundai acquires stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
  Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics.
• The Walkman a.k.a. Vbug 1.5 robot
• Biases in AI Systems
• Regularization Is All You Need: Simple Neural Nets Can Excel on Tabular Data
  Tabular datasets are the last «unconquered castle» for deep learning, with
  traditional ML methods like Gradient-Boosted Decision Trees still performing
  strongly even against recent specialized neural architectures. In this paper,
  we hypothesize that the key to boosting the performance of neural networks lies
  in rethinking the joint and simultaneous application of a large set of modern
  regularization techniques. As a result, we propose regularizing plain
  Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) networks by searching for the optimal
  combination/cocktail of 13 regularization techniques for each dataset using a
  joint optimization over the decision on which re
• Why is AI hard and Physics simple?
• Machine learning automation from creating to using models in production
• Recreating the Missing Pieces of the Night Watch with the Help of AI
• Open Source Farming Robot
  Farming and gardening robots for home, educational, and commercial use. Premium Hardware · Worldwide Shipping · Drag and Drop Farm Designer · Step-by-Step Assembly Instructions · Own Your Food
• NATO is looking to connect with startups
• Berkeley Document Summarizer – learning-based, single-document summarization
• Robots could take place of pupils who cannot attend school in person

Blockchain and decentralization

• Bitcoin Is as Legitimate as Ice Cream
• Coin Carbon Cap – PoW cryptocurrencies ranked by energy efficiency
  PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency
• As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crash, this one is up more than 95%
• Infinitic (Apache Pulsar framework for building distributed applications)
• Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud
• Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
  TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which brings a myriad of improvements that have been theorized for years. But now that the Beacon chain has been running for a few months, we can…
• Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence
• Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
  NVIDIA announced today that it’s halving the hash rate for Etehereum cryptocurrency mining on the new GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards to make them less desirable for miners.
• Bitcoin Plummets Below 40K
• Coinbase Is Down
• Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day
• Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
  The blockchain beyond cryptocurrency world is full of potential use cases that would supposedly change the game. I touched on it in my last post with a supply chain management example. But the use case proposals go much further than that. Beyond the supply chain a lot of startups try to implement a use case around recording and transferring ownership of something. After all that’s what cryptocurrencies are all about, so why can’t we do that for everything. One example I’ve seen multiple times is recording ownership of art or luxury goods.
• Why Ethereum Will Win Store of Value
• U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS
• Ninjabot – A fast cryptocurrency bot implemented in Go
• U.S. Treasury seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers
  The Biden administration’s tax enforcement proposal would require that cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and would more than double the IRS workforce over a decade, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.
• On Ransomware and Cryptocurrency
• How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
  Elliptic follows the $7 Billion in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 and is still being laundered through darknet markets and privacy wallets
• Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants
• The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
• Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
• HashCow, BTC.TOP have halted China operations after Beijing crackdown on Bitcoin
• ‘Irresponsible’ London Underground Bitcoin Advert Banned
• Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity
  Police say they raided the building thinking they were going to find a cannabis farm.
• The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin
• ‘I lost millions through cryptocurrency addiction’
• It’s time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
• Wall Street struggles to sell Washington on Bitcoin for the masses
• Tangle data-structure – The lesser known blockchain alternative
• SpaceX launching an Ethereum node to the ISS
• Distributed Cloud Builds for Everyone
• Bitcoin’s Reliance on Stablecoins Harks Back to the Wild West of Finance
  To understand the weakness of stablecoins such as Tether, it is worth a quick history lesson from pre-Civil War American finance.
• El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
• Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems
  A model checker for implementing distributed systems. – stateright/stateright
• FoundationDB: A Distributed, Unbundled, Transactional Key Value Store
• Cryptocurrency Bear?
• Yatima: A programming language for the decentralized web
• DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside
• Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
• Why Can’t Computing at the Heart of Bitcoin Be More Useful?
• Bitcoin becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador
• The BitcoinLaw has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress
• El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender
  It is the first country in the world to make the move, following a proposal by its president.
• How to Start Disrupting Cryptocurrencies: “Mining” Is Money Transmission
• Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology
  Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology and built using the spare capacity all around us.
• Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design
• Raspberry Pi WiFi to ethernet bridge
• Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head
• El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin
• Dutch official calls for complete ban on Bitcoin
• Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies
• Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
• Why Gold and Bitcoin Are Popular
• Thailand bans meme coin and NFT: “no clear objective or substance or underlying”
• Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
• Nobody has found a use case for blockchain
• Legal expert says Tether and Binance Coin are likely picks for SEC lawsuit
  Attorney Jeremy Hogan gave his legal assessment of the top five cryptocurrencies naming Tether and Binance Coin as at risk.
• World Bank rejects El Salvador request for Bitcoin help
  This month the country announced plans to become the first nation to make the cryptocurrency legal tender.
• The collapse of the IRON stable coin
• In the last 7 days people created 23 new decentralized websites
• Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)
• A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
• South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6B in Bitcoin Exit Scam
• El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to up to 6M citizens
• Cryptocurrency buzz drives record investment scam losses
• Blockchain Is Puny
• Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol

Cloud and architecture

• Fullerton settles lawsuit against bloggers for publishing City Hall documents
• Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical architecture
• Drone Racing League Creates End-to-End Cloud Production
• On Establishing a Cloud Security Program
• Ampere announces their next CPU will use custom microarchitecture instead of ARM
• Apple, Google and Microsoft wage war on right-to-repair laws
• The Architecture of Uber’s API Gateway
  API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single point of entry for all our apps and provides a
• “Serverless” Phishing Campaign
• Using Kubernetes to rethink your system architecture and ease technical debt
• Scion – A Novel Internet Architecture
• Save 500€/Year Switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES
  My newsletter Le Courrier du hacker (3,800 subscribers, 176 issues) is 3 years old and Mailchimp costs were becoming unbearable for a small project ($50 a month, $600 a year), with still limited revenues nowadays. Switching to the Open Source Mailtrain plugged to the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) will dramatically reduce the associated costs. …
• Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture
• Bird Architecture
  An excerpt from Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance.
• The 31 Laws Of Fun
• Arm Announces New Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures
• Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Review
• Using the “X-AMZN-Trace-Id” Header for Request Tracing Through AWS Load Balancer
• Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering
• Convect – Instant Serverless Deployment of ML Models
• The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox
• Dark Patterns Hall of Shame
• A minimalistic Python wrapper to AWS DynamoDB
• The New York Times Uses the Dark Patterns It Derides
• Europe to US: Pass new laws if you want a data-transfer deal
• Cloudera taken private for $5.3b, acquires Datacoral and Cazena
• Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture
  Fast & simple framework for building web applications – easafe/purescript-flame
• Logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
• Computer chips are mercurial: Rare miscalculations frequent at cloud hyperscale
• Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID’ing readers
• Creating a serverless function to scrape web pages metadata
• Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation
• A Pattern Language
• AWS Frankfurt Status: Engineers are still not able to enter the affected part
• Ness – Deploy web sites to your AWS account
• Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users
• Redis at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers
• Apple’s iCloud+ “VPN”
• Open source HIPAA compliance benchmark for AWS
• Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind
• Architecture of the Playstation
  An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
• A Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation
• Redis server side if-modified-since caching pattern using lua
• Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture
• Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups
  In an ideal world, startups would be easy. We’d run our idea by some potential customers, build the product, and then immediately ride that sweet exponential growth curve off into early retirement. Of course it doesn’t actually work like that….
• The End of Marae – my attempt to build the AR cloud
• Database Architects: What Every Programmer Should Know About SSDs
• “Host” WordPress on Cloudflare for Free
• BigQuery row-level security
• How I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern
• AWS BugBust
• AWS has acquired Wickr
• Cloudproxy – hide your scrapers IP behind the cloud

Development and languages

• What does the future hold for Windows if it isn’t Windows 10x?
• Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except
• Bit-sync: synchronizing arbitrary data using rsync algorithm in pure JavaScript
  Bit-sync is a utility for synchronizing arbitrary data using the rsync algorithm in pure js – claytongulick/bit-sync
• Ward: Modern Test Framework for Python
• Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
  Jolie crystallises the programming concepts of service-oriented computing as linguistic constructs. The basic building blocks of software are not objects or functions, but rather services.
• Company Lets Celebrities Digitally Clone Their Voice So They Can Loan It Out
• Short Tutorial on Python’s ChainMap
• BPF for Storage: An Exokernel-Inspired Approach
• How necessary are the programming fundamentals?
• Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack
• Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
  You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
• CircuitPython
• A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
• Handling exceptions in Python like a pro
• The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages
• Parcel 2 Beta 3: 10x faster JavaScript compiler written in Rust
• Metaprogramming in Elixir
• Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)
  When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple II, an early 8-bit computer, at my elementary school. When I first met her, my turtle, she didn’t do much. […]
• Portable Python 3.9.5 for Windows (USB key, ext. drive) for schools/companies
• The Dunyazad Digital Library
• Why Clinical Laboratorians Should Embrace the R Programming Language
• Rust heads into the kernel?
  In a lengthy
  message to the linux-kernel mailing list, Miguel Ojeda «introduced» the
  Rust for Linux project. It
  was likely not the first time that most kernel developers had heard of the
  effort; there was an extensive discussion
  of the project at the 2020 Linux Plumbers
  Conference, for example. It has also been raised
  before on the list. Now, the project is looking for feedback from
  the kernel community about its plans, thus the RFC posting on April 14.
• Video uploads now available across GitHub
  With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
• Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository
• Parsing in JavaScript: all the tools and libraries you can use
• Writing Pythonic Rust
• Replit now supports every programming language
• Researchhub: GitHub for Science
  What is Researchhub
• So you want to build a generator (programming)
• Magit 3.0 Released
• Developing mobile digital key applications with ClojureScript
• Advances of the Hare programming language compared to C
• When Do Programmers Retire? Is 35 the End?
• Programming by Voice for Visual Studio Code
• Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
  Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
• I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal JavaScript)
• Functional Programming in Go with Generics
• V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler
• Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patches
• A six figure meme making job at a legit company
• WordPress 18
  Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…
• Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python
• Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub
  GitHub Awesome: Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub
• So, You Want to Become a Digital Nomad
• Windows 2000 Running in WebAssembly
• Pwned passwords, open source in the .NET foundation and working with the FBI
  I’ve got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements are
• Apple’s Auto Layout for JavaScript
• Security Issues with LastPass on Android
• Monty, Mongo tinified. MongoDB implemented in Python
• Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this
• NFT’s aren’t a harmless digital fad – they’re a disaster for our planet
• Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from Lua
• Returns to Scale in Broken Windows
  Burn it all down…for GDP growth!
• Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
• What every programmer should know about memory
• The faulty digital clock problem
• Pynguin – Generate Python unit tests automatically
  The PYthoN General UnIt Test geNerator is a test-generation tool for Python – se2p/pynguin
• EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for various services
  The European Union (EU) is set to unveil plans for a bloc-wide digital wallet on Wednesday, following requests from member states to find a safe way for citizens to access public and private services online, the Financial Times reported.
• reclaimWindows10.ps1
  This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things. Not guaranteed to catch everything. Review and tweak before running. Reboot aft…
• Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript
• GitHub Is Having Issues
• Stop overstimulating your mind with digital entertainment
• Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
  JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
• JavaScript and the next decade of data programming
• Huawei replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android
• Huawei officially replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android
• Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
• Why Python 4.0 might never arrive, according to its creator
• A Concrete Introduction to Probability (Using Python) (Norvig, 2018)
  Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. – norvig/pytudes
• Performance Booster with System.IO.Pipelines in C#
• From Competitive Programming to APL
• Popular Elitism In Programming
• Engineers Create a Programmable Fiber
• Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
  I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given the integer 1000, you want 4. It is effectively the integer logarithm in base 10. On computers, you can quickly compute the integer logarithm … Continue reading Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
• Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits
• Workspacer: A tiling window manager for Windows 10
• Mlatu, a Concatenative Programming Language
• Our Engineering Team Used Python’s AST to Patch 100,000s of Lines of Code
  Abstract Syntax Tree is an extremely useful tool. It provides a tree representation of a source code, that can be traversed to parse the code while understanding the code’s language constructs. In this article, we explain how we have used ASTs to write IntelliPatch scripts that can…
• Exploring Android Development on iPad
• A Random Walk Through Git
• UK’s Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital’s GP data slurp
• FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
  You no longer need an iPhone or Mac.
• Goa’s last typewriter repair shop defied the digital age
• Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, …)
• Deep JavaScript
• Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
  We’re excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
• A simple JavaScript notebook in one file
• Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software restriction policy
  Current version:  v1.1.3 (released 2021-06-23, see release notes below.) Lockdown is a preventative measure for use against malware/ransomware attacks, which works by leveraging Windows Software Re…
• Some funny engineering/programmer jokes
• Finding Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Windows Using Process Monitor
• Playwright (Test Automation Library) For .NET Is Now Stable
  Highlights

  Playwright for .NET v1.12 is now stable!
  The NuGet package has been renamed and is now available as Microsoft.Playwright.
  Ships with the codegen and trace viewer tools out-of-the-box

  B…

• Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust
  How to use aligned word vectors from fastText from to translate words from one language to another instantly.
• Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users
• Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in 2025
  Microsoft’s official Windows 10 support documentation has just added more fuel to the fire of rumors that quickly spreads around the upcoming big Windows
• Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript
• Rust from a JavaScript Perspective
• Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
• Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython
• Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
• Programmer’s Resignation from 1985
• Modern Python Developer’s Toolkit
• Skribilo: A Document Programming Framework
• Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
  Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line – chriskiehl/Gooey
• Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers
  Recently I was doing some work decoding the new Galileo High Accuracy Service data. In short, this new service will allow Galileo (“European GPS”) users to achieve decimeter-level accuracy, which is nice. This “HAS” data is transmitted highly redundantly by making good use of Reed-Solomon encoding.
  To work with this data, I attempted to learn more about Reed-Solomon and I found almost all explanations were useless to me – oodles of advanced math, but no guidance of how to use R-S in practice.
• Git for Computer Scientists
• How to Create NFTs with JavaScript
• DuckDuckGo for Android tricks users with global privacy control setting
• Stabel: A pure, concatenative and statically typed programming language
• AirDrop Anywhere – Making it work on Windows
• Gelidum – My Python library to freeze objects
• Coq mulls new name for programming language
• Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
• Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python
• GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
  A new type of shell. Contribute to nushell/nushell development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Textual: A Python Text User Interface with Rich as the Renderer
• A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That’s right, a WebAssembly CPU
• Why I Support the Haskell Foundation (retro on 15 years of Haskell programming)
• How to Write a Programming Book
• Python compiler written in Python to make standalone executables
  Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, …
• V0.16 – Gleam Compiles to JavaScript
• A Foray for Fun into Windows Fibers
• Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers
  ? Organic Maps is an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe founders. …
• .NET 6 Preview 5
• There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11
• Vespucci – OpenStreetMap Editor for Android
• BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes
• Saying Goodbye to Android 2.3 Gingerbread
• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
  We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
• Why did we ever think the first programming language didn’t matter?
• The Power and Poetry of Random Digits
• What every programmer should know about SSDs
  A blog by and for database architects.
• Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server
• OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads
  Fast detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, hikers and cyclists curated with love by MAPS.ME founders
• Digitising rural land records, one drone at a time
• Git undo: We can do better
• State of the Windows, part 2: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
  One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
• Kats: One stop shop for time series analysis in Python
  One stop shop for time series analysis in Python
• I wrote a book about Python
• IBM 5110 Emulator in JavaScript
• New GitHub Issues Beta
  Give your developers flexible features for project management that adapts to any team, project, and workflow—all alongside your code.
• P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing
• Microsoft announces Windows 11
• Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11
• Introducing Windows 11
• Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot
• Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
  C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables) – MichalStrehovsky/bflat
• Free antispy tool for Windows 10
• When it comes to Git history, less is more
• Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
  Home screen experience on your Android TV entertainment device.
• Turn any chessboard into a chess computer.(Python/Computer Vision)

Quote of the week

Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.

        — From the Agile Manifesto.

Enterprises

• Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses
  The last 12 months or so have been rough times for Google Stadia. Lawsuits, its main first-party development studio shutting…
• Twitter’s subscription service might cost $3 per month
• Tesla crash driver posted videos of himself riding without hands on wheel
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• Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM
• Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned content
• Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting with first-gen Nest Hub
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• Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your searches
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• Amazon acquires MGM for $8.45B
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• The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server
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• Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety features
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• Amazon offers ‘wellness chamber’ for stressed staff
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• Amazon changes TOS to let customers sue, after facing 75K+ arbitration demands
• Amazon backs marijuana legalization, drops weed testing for some jobs
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• Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
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• EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042
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• Linux-Kernel: Printk() Indexing
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• Volkswagen hack: 3M customers have had their information stolen
• Pakistan: A man trying to improve women’s underwear
  Mark Moore wants to bring well-made, affordable underwear to Pakistan – he just has to get past the men.
• I want to learn D3. I don’t want to learn Observable. Is that ok? (2019-2021)
• The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring the Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life
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• Hacking Bitcoin wallets with quantum computers could happen
• I teach Python on the Raspberry Pi 400 at the public library
  After a long and tough year, I’ve been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school students. Before the pandemic, I co-wrote a grant to teach Python programming to middle school students using Raspberry Pi computers. Like many other plans, COVID-19 put mine on hold for over a year. Fortunately, vaccines and the improved health in my state, New York, have changed the dynamic.
• US’ First Crypto Bank Reveals Date of Commencement
  

  In September 2020, Kraken became the first digital asset firm in the US to receive a bank charter — authorizing the company to operate as a bank. This makes Kraken Bank the first crypto bank in US history.

  David Kinitsky, the CEO of Kraken Bank, said in a Cheddar News interview that they applied for a bank charter in order to access traditional banking systems for their clients. This allows their US clients to bank seamlessly between digital assets and national currencies. It also offers digital asset custody, demand/deposit accounts, and wire transfer and funding services.

  Kinitsky remarked that Kraken Bank was created as part of

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  Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensing fees. If they don’t get paid, the…
• What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
• Forzak: A website that curates high-quality educational content
• The UX of video game tutorials
• IBM unveils first quantum computer in Germany
• Criminals are mailing hacked Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency
• Amazon will reduce dev. revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in AWS Credit
  The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in rev
• A compact quantum-computer that fits in 19-inch server racks
• From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer (Feat. Rust)
• Why more women identify as sexually fluid than men
• Can *YOU* blow a PC speaker using only a Linux kernel driver?
• Scientists Are Teaching Drones to Hunt Down Human Screams
• Adafruit interviews Siemens SupplyFrame, the future of Hackaday, Tindie and more
• ‘Undreamed Shores’ Review: The Women Who Changed Anthropology
• Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021
• Subset Vector Quantiser
• Uxn – Virtual AV Computer
• How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
• Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 Available Now
  Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
• Ransomware attack payments might be tax deductible, says US government
  Some fear the deduction is a problematic incentive that could entice businesses to pay ransoms against the advice of law enforcement. At a minimum, they say, the deductibility sends a discordant message to businesses under duress.
• Cyber-heists: The methods and menace of the new bank robbers
• Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
  There is strong evidence for brain-related pathologies in COVID-19, some of which could be a consequence of viral neurotropism. The vast majority of brain imaging studies so far have focused on qualitative, gross pathology of moderate to severe cases, often carried out on hospitalised patients. It remains unknown however whether the impact of COVID-19 can be detected in milder cases, in a quantitative and automated manner, and whether this can reveal a possible mechanism for the spread of the disease. UK Biobank scanned over 40,000 participants before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it possible to invite back in 2021 hundreds of pr
• Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible
  We’ve been hovering close to 100% for a while now but, with the staging-next merge a few days ago, it’s finally happened: https://r13y.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20210620180034/https://r13y.com/) If I’ve done everything correctly, the 21.05 ISO also passes the check on my machine, hoorray! Feel free to verify everything yourself; getting @grahamc’s r13y script running is trivial (I’d recommend running it inside a Docker container, though remember to enable sandboxing!) Next goal: 100% …
• The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
• Rocky Linux 8.4 GA
• Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank President
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• Pfizer to Pay $2.3B for Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History
• The Viewpoint Linux Distribution
• A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers
• California will pay off all past due rent
• Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off
• Subclassing in Python: Redux
• Hosted Monitoring: Evaluating InfluxDB Cloud and Grafana Cloud
• Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
• A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
• I won a month-long hackathon in 3 hours
• Pulling GitHub into the Linux kernel process
  There is an ongoing effort to «modernize» the kernel-development process;
  so far, the focus has been on providing better
  tools that can streamline the usual email-based workflow. But that
  «email-based» part has proven to be problematic for some potential
  contributors, especially those who might want to simply submit a small bug
  fix and are not interested in getting set up with that workflow. The
  project-hosting «forge» sites, like GitHub and GitLab, provide a nearly
  frictionless path for these kinds of one-off contributions, but they do
  not mesh well—at all, really—with most of mainline kernel development.
  There is some ongoing work tha
• What’s the most significant hack in history?
  “No one knows exactly how much information was accessed, because the government has been kind of cagey about it.”
• Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
• Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money
• Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games
  Little Red Dog Games is an indie game developer that primarily uses Godot to create games such as Deep Sixed, Precipice, and their latest game, Rogue State Revolution. To learn more about their…
• Teaching open-source software in North Korea
• Linux Kernel maintainer to Huawei: Don’t waste maintainers time
• Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
• Microsoft’s Introduction to Rust Video Course
• Gloss3D – an open source 3D Modeler for Linux and Windows
• Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail
  The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits

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