August 2020 Archive
1741.
Pleroma 2.1 (pleroma.social)
1742.
Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy (github.com)
1743.
TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google (wsj.com)
1744.
The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old zip file (wired.com)
1745.
Effect of Exercise-Related Factors on the Perception of Time (frontiersin.org)
1746.
CMDR-DOS: Commodore DOS on FAT32 (pagetable.com)
1747.
Abolish the Police? Survivors of the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure (nytimes.com)
1748.
Epic vs. Apple: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for TRO [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
1749.
.NET Team Survey: Native AOT (github.com)
1750.
Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days? (orbitalindex.com)
1751.
Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky (nytimes.com)
1752.
Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well (venturebeat.com)
1753.
Mozilla Is Dead (kowabit.de)
1754.
Instagram Morphs into an Information Powerhouse (axios.com)
1755.
Altucher: NYC Is Dead Forever (jamesaltucher.com)
1756.
GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012) (software.intel.com)
1757.
Bliss: A language for systems programming (1971) [pdf] (www2.cs.arizona.edu)
1758.
BBC Master on Steroids (retrohax.net)
1759.
How to use the next-gen open-sourced .Avif image format, 50% smaller than JPEG (reachlightspeed.com)
1760.
Running a marathon was never crazier than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics (abc.net.au)
1761.
UC Santa Cruz Reinstates 41 Graduate Students After Months-Long Strike (vice.com)
1762.
Remains of 17th century bishop support Neolithic emergence of tuberculosis (shh.mpg.de)
1763.
A hidden network of 17th-century female spies (2019) (historytoday.com)
1764.
20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors (tomshardware.com)
1765.
Self – Fun Through Simplicity (selflanguage.org)
1766.
Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold (reddit.com)
1767.
Griffon: a desktop application development platform for the JVM (griffon-framework.org)
1768.
Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains (graphics.cs.uos.de)
1769.
Tesla Gets Crushed in Germany by EVs from Volkswagen, Renault, and Hyundai Group (wolfstreet.com)
1770.
Winklevoss 500k Bitcoin Argument (winklevosscapital.com)