Once I had a weird dream. I was walking down the street (maybe an evening stroll) when I suddenly noticed something flickered in the sky. Then it grew bigger and bigger as I stood there watching it curiously. It became clear after a few seconds, a UFO. I was so excited and shouted, “Finally!”. It came hurtling towards me (to land), and I started running. I experienced this entire scene in my dream, like watching a high-definition 3D movie. ...

I started Pnotions, my weekly newsletter, a couple of months ago. I composed the letters for eight weeks, publishing them on Sunday morning. I started composing the ninth letter, as usual, that week but couldn’t get through with it. Somehow, it turned into this boring task that I had to do. It was safe composing and publishing them. It felt safe. But I want to do something that excites and scares me, like writing this. ...

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

It was a very dark, stormy night (not really, but let’s assume). The Data team got a DNS issue. I worked with them earlier, so I took up the task. It was about two different services from two different regions trying to connect over a global AWS DNS service, Route53. I tried to connect them. I mean, I really tried. I googled and read/ investigated all the possible solutions. I read and applied the instructions from AWS documentation, and most importantly, Stack Overflow answers. ...

Goodnight 🥱 Technology 👾 The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type. 👾 Bitcoin drops below $20,000, Ether cracks $1,000 — what this means Bitcoin had finally broken $20,000 — dropping $1,200 in five minutes. I declare this bubble conclusively popped. 👾 Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second ...

I’m gonna install the iOS16 buggy beta on my phone and break its software, or maybe I will just sleep today 🥱 Technology 👾 Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements Highly-anticipated macOS Ventura, iOS 16, the M2 chip, a new MacBook Air, and much more. 👾 Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat What makes Symbiote different from other Linux malware that we usually come across, is that it needs to infect other running processes to inflict damage on infected machines. ...

Sup? 🦹🏻‍♀️ Technology 👾 Distrobox Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Distrobox uses podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice. 👾 Datadog finds serverless computing is going mainstream Datadog has found that serverless computing could be entering the mainstream with over half of all organizations using serverless on one of the three major clouds – Amazon, Microsoft and Google. ...

I have no idea what to write here 🤷🏻‍♀️ Technology 👾 Imagen - Pytorch Implementation of Imagen, Google’s Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch. 👾 Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion Broadcom is known for its chip business, designing and manufacturing semiconductors for modems, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth chips across multiple devices. VMware, which was owned by Dell until it was spun off last year, focuses on cloud computing and virtualization technology. 👾 Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered coding tool, will be free for students ...

Slow week madness 🦥 Technology 👾 Only DevSecOps can save the metaverse From a DevOps point of view, securing the metaverse depends on integrating security as a fundamental process. 👾 Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon’s lava tubes How? Founder tells The Register ‘Robots… lots of robots’ 👾 Introducing Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service Assured OSS enables enterprise and public sector users of open source software to easily incorporate the same OSS packages that Google uses into their own developer workflows. ...

Crazy tech week 🧐 Technology 👾 Google’s biggest announcements at I/O 2022 Here are the biggest announcements we saw on Wednesday. 👾 UST’s Do Kwon Was Behind Earlier Failed Stablecoin, Ex-Terra Colleagues Say Do Kwon, the CEO of Terra creator Terraform Labs, was one of the pseudonymous co-founders behind the failed algorithmic stablecoin Basis Cash, CoinDesk has learned. 👾 The crypto crash, in 10 charts On Twitter, users tell the story of Luna, Bitcoin, and Ethereum’s downfall in data visualizations. ...