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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.
Christian Nunciato - Pulumi in Action
Contentful with Paolo Negri
D&D and Teams with Karthik Nagarajan
KubeCon EU 2020
Robert Reeves of Liquibase
Tanmai Gopal of Hasura - Instant GraphQL APIs for your data
Confluent Cloud with Dan Rosanova
Detecting infections from X-Rays - Alexander Wong of COVID-Net
Interchain, Tech privilege and inclusion with Tess Rinearson
In-memory computing with Dale Kim of Hazelcast
Kubernetes as a Service with Spectro Cloud
Scalable Graph databases with TigerGraph
Decentralized entertainment with Breaker.io
Augmented AI with Chris Longstaff of Mindtech
Universal code search with Sourcegraph - Civilization, Lockdowns, and AmigaOS
Cybersecurity during a Pandemic - An interview with Critical Start
Peter Suma of Applied Brain Research, a new Hello World, and how games influence policy
Mobile engagement with mGage, why you should use Brave, ditch Discord and what actually is a URL
Computing history with Sinclair Target of two-bit history
Patrick McFadin talks Datastax and Cassandra, MIDI 2.0 and how do planes fly?
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