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The DNA that creates even something as "simple" as a single celled organism, let alone a mammal. 
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A group of iOS app developers concerned with Apple’s App Store policies has formed The Developers Union, an advocacy group that will push the company for “community-driven, developer-friendly changes.” That should lead to some Justice and Tranquility
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Though a comparatively minor release, C# 7.3 addresses some long outstanding complaints from C# 1 and 2. Or as the Windows team would have called it: C# 2017 Service Pack 3 Build 62122 Oscillating Ostrich (OK, that last bit might be Ubuntu)
Good to see they're still fixing stuff from 1.0
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A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies. OK, this "tiny house" movement has gone too far
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The demo involved a new AI assistant making phone calls to two businesses — a hairdresser and a restaurant — to make an appointment and book a reservation, respectively. Uhm, they uh, would never, ah, do anything like that, would they?
I'm surprised there wasn't confusion over, "12pm" as an appointment request.
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We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.5 month-doubling time. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate."
Sorry, had to re-use that one.
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"The word on the street is there’s definitely a shortage of people who can do data science" "Stand back! I'm going to try science."
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Bloomberg May 18: "Millions of Computers Are at Risk of Hacks That Crack Into Their Core" Jordan Robertson [^] Quote: The hacking technique Bulygin found exploits the Spectre vulnerabilities, initially unearthed by Google and other researchers and disclosed earlier this year. The tech giant discovered that millions of computers and smartphones could be compromised by Spectre, which takes advantage of glitches in how processors try to predict what data they believe users will need next, and fetch it in advance. Bulygin’s technique goes a step further by enabling hackers to read data from a particular type of firmware called system management mode memory. The code is linked to access rights that control key functions of the machine, including shutting down the central processing unit if the computer gets too hot or letting administrators configure the system. With access to the SMM memory, hackers can get essentially any data they want.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is under fire this week, accused of over-hyping “EFAIL”—a set of vulnerabilities in email encryption tools based on PGP, GPG and S/MIME. Security is complicated, part LCXXII
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The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. You are here
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And where was Wally? Did someone spot him?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We want privacy, but we also want the efficiency that comes with data processing and the scientific advances that result from big data analytics. Is there a way to serve both individuals and agencies? "Freedom is not about being comfortable. It’s about seizing and using opportunities, and using them responsibly."
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The browser is changing to flag the things that are dangerous, not the ones that are safe. Because they're all secure now?
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Google is breaking up its premium YouTube Red service into two new offerings: a YouTube Music streaming service, and a YouTube Premium for original video content Just in case you run out of free places for music and video
RedTube is not going to like the loss in traffic from people trying to get to YouTube Red.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: RedTube is not going to like the loss in traffic from people trying to get to YouTube Red.
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Embedded software engineers of the future will have a very different skillset from their traditional predecessors. They’ll know how to call an API to make the hardware do something, but they won’t know why or how it does it. I'll finish reading this after I get through all the IoT articles
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Randor wrote: This is how Godzilla was created[^]. He was a pissed-off old assembler programmer from the 1970's.
That explains the radioactive fire breath. Every old assembler programmer I knew survived on day/week-old coffee (in styrofoam cups) and smokes (at their desk, of course). 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'll finish reading this after I get through all the IoT articles
Which is why you fail.
The author's talking about low level devs who're half EE and have a really deep understanding of the hardware, at risk of being replaced by app developers who can muddle through with high level platforms and leave the busybox install on their Io(pwnd)T duhvice configured with an open unathenticated telnet shell with root access because it made things easier for them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Which is why you fail.
What a totally reasonable and measured reaction. 
I got what he was suggesting, I just don’t think it will happen, any more than the general development environment has destroyed the market for people that know how to code for their hardware. There are some, but it’s hardly an extinction event.
TTFN - Kent
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This week the Rust systems programming language is celebrating its third birthday. From "What's Rust?" to "Why Rust?" in only three years!
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"The language is expected to get stable SIMB support, procedural macros, custom allocators, lifetime system improvements and async/await"
This typifies what mostly drives me nuts with fanboy tech. It's proclaimed as perfect. You make pointed criticisms, but get shouted down. Then, when those very flaws are fixed, the very same fanboys suddenly agree that the changes were needed (and often deny they ever stated an opposing viewpoint. The worse even assert that this is the first tech with that feature, regardless of all evidence to the contrary.)
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Amen! But then suddenly it becomes the language everyone is tooling up to use because some C-level idiots read all the hype and redirect the IT department to use the newfangled stuff. 
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"This typifies what mostly drives me nuts with fanboy tech. It's proclaimed as perfect. You make pointed criticisms, but get shouted down."
While I absolutely concur with many new technologies, I have so far found the Rust community refreshingly friendly and realistic in these regards. They seem to acknowledge what the language lacks, indicate where the language is heading in their Roadmap, and willing to take on suggestions much more than most.
For example, I was aware of the lack of support for all the features listed very early on, and also aware that they were all on the Roadmap, or in experimental support state at present.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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JavaScript is now part of the toolkit of most working developers. What if network effects push it into being the first-ever truly dominant programming language? "It's the end of the world as we know it"
And I don't think I'd feel fine
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