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Tech
A mixed bag this issue covering everything from the slow death of Russia’s tech scene, a visual history of Android, GPT-4 in role-play games in role-play games in classified comment leaks. Erm, yes, you read that right.
How Russia killed its tech industry →
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease on his apartment in Moscow, withdrew his kids from kindergarten, and started a new life outside of Russia.
My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM →
My two oldest kids Taylor Anne and Liam, are 26 and 23 (respectively). My youngest son Tenzin is 15 years old. All of us are together at my house in Mexico City this week, and the discussion topic generating the most heat is OpenAI and GPT4.
Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats →
Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Ukrainian military positions, and a handwritten character sheet for a table-top roleplaying game.
Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 12 →
What a long, strange trip it's been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally — time and time again. Google's mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, has it ever evolved.
And finally…
The Most Spoken Languages In The World, Ranked →
There are over 7,000 languages in use across the globe, but for various reasons (like, for example, colonialism), some are spoken a lot more around the world than others.
A more sustainable internet with Chris Adams of the Green Web Foundation
Stories from Ukraine, IT Arena 2023: The future of airports, hiring, and education.
What is Developer relations with Richard Roger
Loris Degioanni of Sysdig
OSS Summit Linux Foundation Europe and Open Source metrics
OSS Summit Energy and Sustainability
Dragos Nedelcu of the Senior Dev
Molham Aref of RelationalAI, the AI coprocessor
IFA and Startup night Berlin 2023, slow but steady
Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax and what is music?
Elise Bently on TincyMCE and CKEditor, AI in the developing world
A greener web with Ines Akrap
Lab grown forks
Replacing people with machines that play Mad Libs with John Davenport
50 years of text adventures and 50 weeks of AI adventures
Open Source insights with Scarf and questioning AI
The life and death of AI
KubeCon EU 2023, back in business
MS-Wot?
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