Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
NC State University News
Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
The design of "technical interviews" is hurting the tech sector.
Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-germanys-sec-dismissed-a-decade-of-warnings-about-wirecard-11594907212
WSJ
How Germany’s SEC Dismissed a Decade of Warnings About Wirecard
Germany’s top financial supervisor received detailed warnings about deceptive financial practices at Wirecard starting in 2008 but repeatedly declined to investigate the allegations, turning instead against the accusers.
NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client https://newpipe.schabi.org/
NewPipe
NewPipe - a free YouTube client
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/
Maraoz
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
maraoz's website.
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/06/systems-design-for-advanced-beginners/
Robert Heaton
Systems design for advanced beginners | Robert Heaton
This post is part of my Programming for Advanced Beginners series. Subscribe now to receive specific, actionable ways to make your code cleaner, every other week, entirely free.
LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/william-leonard-pickard-lsd/
Psymposia
LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard Has Been Released From Prison
LSD chemist and longtime drug war prisoner, William Leonard Pickard, was officially released from prison on July 27, 2020. Pickard had been locked down since 2000 and was slated to serve two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-meow-attack-has-deleted-almost-4-000-unsecured-databases/
BleepingComputer
New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases
Dozens of unsecured databases exposed on the public web are the target of an automated 'meow' attack that wipes data without any explanation.
Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/
Google Earth Timelapse https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/
Google
Timelapse – Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences…
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-regulator/australia-to-make-facebook-google-pay-for-news-in-world-first-idUSKCN24V3UP
Reuters
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around the world.
Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/monitoring-demystified-guide-logging-tracing-metrics
Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm
Bloomberg
Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm
Nvidia Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire Arm Ltd., the chip designer that SoftBank Group Corp. bought for $32 billion four years ago, according to people familiar with the matter.
TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance-exclusive-idUSKBN24X3SK
Reuters
Exclusive: TikTok's Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal - sources
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app, two…
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi/
Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule https://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm