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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
In late April 2022, it said it staved off a 15.3 million RPS HTTPS DDoS attack aimed at a customer operating a crypto launchpad.
👾 Internet Explorer Now Retired but Still an Attacker Target
Microsoft has retained the MSHTML (aka Trident) IE browser engine as part of Windows 11 until 2029, allowing organizations to run in IE mode while they transition to the Microsoft Edge browser.
👾 Quick look at Rosetta on Linux
Apple released RosettaLinux as part of the macOS Ventura preview. Let’s take a first quick look.
👾 The company behind PUBG shows off its ‘hyper-realistic’ virtual human
The company is teasing a “virtual human” named Ana, which it says will “help establish” its Web3 ecosystem.
Engineering
Infracost shows cloud cost estimates for Terraform. It lets DevOps, SRE and engineers see a cost breakdown and understand costs before making changes, either in the terminal or pull requests.
👾 Authentication between microservices: Is it really that hard?
A microservice architecture is all about services that invoke each other. But how do you keep that secure, making sure that only your own services can call each of your services? How do you authenticate?
👾 Kubernetes Timezone Controller
Kubernetes admission controller and a CLI tool to inject timezones into Pods and CronJobs
ssh no ports provides a way to ssh to a remote linux host/device without that device having any open ports (not even 22) on external interfaces.
👾 Appsmith
Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API.
Interesting reads
👾 Airdrop app makes MacBook notch useful
👾 The next time your program is ’not responding,’ (do not) try these steps
👾 Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are ’100% based on greater fool theory’
Crazy INTERVIEW of the week
🤖 Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
An interview with LaMDA.
Fun
