Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls
Autocar
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
Japanese firm reckons new tech is "difficult to operate intuitively" for functions such as air conditioning, moving against growing industry norm
FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363399A1.pdf
OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming https://obsproject.com/
Obsproject
Open Broadcaster Software | OBS
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? https://htmldom.dev/
Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/03/30/lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated-by-new-drug-in-early-tests/
Scope
Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
A study provides evidence that the drug azlocillin eliminates the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the onset of infection in lab mice and cultures.
Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/1/web/1
Apple Support
Hardware microphone disconnect in Mac and iPad
Learn about Hardware microphone disconnect in Mac computers and iPad.
Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/
The Citizen Lab
Move Fast and Roll Your Own Crypto
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses.
How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin https://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/how-i-recovered-over-300k-of-bitcoin/
reperiendi
How we recovered over $300K of Bitcoin
Story time! Around twenty years ago, I was working as a reverse-engineer and cryptanalyst for AccessData while getting my Physics degree at BYU. It was the late 90s and early 2000s. The US governme…
We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-making-it-14665
American Council on Science and Health
OMG! We Made One Gram of Remdesivir!
Two of the experimental coronavirus drugs, chloroquine, and hydroxychloroquine are a breeze to synthesize. But remdesivir, possibly the most promising candidate, is anything but. It's a royal pain.
New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems https://landing.google.com/sre/books/
Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming https://tryolabs.com/blog/2020/04/02/swift-googles-bet-on-differentiable-programming/
Tryolabs
Swift: Google's bet on differentiable programming
Google's plans on making Swift the first mainstream language with first-class language-integrated differentiable programming capabilities. What's so cool about Swift?
A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets
The Drive
This Man Owns The World's Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets
We talked to the owner of Air USA about probably the most incredible private aircraft purchase of all time and the future of his adversary business.
John Conway has died https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249038195880341505
Twitter
Colm Mulcahy
John Horton Conway has died. Sigh. One of the most unique mathematicians and human beings who ever lived. Five years ago he was game for this April Fool's prank blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/joh…
GitHub is now free for teams https://github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams/
The GitHub Blog
GitHub is now free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/
Blocks and Files
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording – Blocks and Files
Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into the channel. Alan Brown, a network manager at UCL Mullard Space Science…
Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2020/04/15/breakthrough-finland-accepts-demoscene-on-their-national-list-of-intangible-cultural-heritage-of-humanity/
Demoscene - The Art of Coding
Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity…
"Demoskene is an international community focused on demos, programming, graphics and sound creatively real-time audiovisual performances. [..] Subculture is an empowering and important part of identity for its members."
What Happened to Lee https://wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/
WIRED
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.
Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation https://www.axios.com/stripe-fundraising-600-million-1f1f38b6-fde6-4316-b111-2f3b0e868ab7.html
Axios
Digital payments platform Stripe raises $600 million and is valued at nearly $36 billion
Venture capitalists remain willing and able to invest big dollars in select companies.
A Taste of GPU Compute [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkAaplKBc4
YouTube
A Taste of GPU Compute
Presented by: Raph Levien
The GPU in a modern computer (desktop or mobile) has about an order of magnitude more raw general purpose computing throughput than the CPU, but is barely used except for games, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining, largely…
The GPU in a modern computer (desktop or mobile) has about an order of magnitude more raw general purpose computing throughput than the CPU, but is barely used except for games, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining, largely…
Learning to See in the Dark (2018) https://github.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark
GitHub
GitHub - cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark: Learning to See in the Dark. CVPR 2018
Learning to See in the Dark. CVPR 2018. Contribute to cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark development by creating an account on GitHub.