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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. ...

Oh yeah 💃🏻 Technology 👾 Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain Yuga Labs, the web3 company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, disrupted the entire Ethereum blockchain as a flood of users rushed to purchase NFTs representing virtual plots of land in its upcoming metaverse project, Otherside. 👾 Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What It Means for You If you don’t like marketers (or anyone else) knowing when and where you read your email, Apple’s feature will help you reclaim some privacy. ...

The first letter is shipped 🛸 Technology 👾 Cloudflare blocks 15M rps HTTPS DDoS attack Earlier this month, Cloudflare’s systems automatically detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack — one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record. 👾 Log4j Attack Surface Remains Massive Four months after the Log4Shell vulnerability was disclosed, most affected open source components remain unpatched, and companies continue to use vulnerable versions of the logging tool. ...