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Welcome to issue 109 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

Software being "Done" is like lawn being "Mowed". - Jim Benson

News

Penn Engineers Develop a New Chip Using a Deep Neural Network of Optical Waveguides That Can Classify Nearly 2 Billion Images Per Second
The study published in Nature explains how the chip’s many optical neurons are linked together using optical wires or “waveguides” to construct a deep network of many “neuron layers” that resembles the human brain. Information flows across the network’s layers, with each step assisting in classifying the input image into one of the learned categories. The pictures organized by the chip in the study were hand-drawn, letter-like characters. The researchers’ chip, which is less than a square centimeter in size, can recognize and classify a picture in less than a millisecond without using a separate CPU or memory unit.

Public Travis CI Logs (Still) Expose Users to Cyber Attacks
Team Nautilus found that many tokens of Travis CI users are exposed via an issue in its API which allows attackers to launch massive attacks in the cloud.

A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs.

Reading List

New UUID Formats
This document presents new Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) formats for use in modern applications and databases.

The race condition that led to Flexcoin bankruptcy
It’s hard to imagine that a race condition bug could lead to the bankruptcy of a given online service, isn’t it? This article shows you how a race condition led to the bankruptcy of Flexcoin in 2014.

How we think about browsers
Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience.

Graph Machine Learning at Airbnb
How Airbnb is leveraging graph neural networks to up-level our machine learning.

Is the Coding Interview on Crack? Why all tech screens should be open-book
Would you take a programming job where you weren’t allowed to use any reference material besides what you had in your head?

Rolling your own crypto
Everything you need to build AES(Advanced Encryption Standard) from scratch.

Uber’s Real-Time Document Check

Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

Symbiote Deep-Dive: Analysis of a New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat

Watch and Listen

The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
In the summer of 1976, the first generation of computer legends—top engineers, scientists, and software pioneers—got together to reflect on the first 25 years of their discipline at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. After a multi-year recovery and restoration process, here are never-before-seen video recordings of this unique event.

Managing Tech Debt
Technical debt, the “interest” you have to pay when working with software, can become overwhelming if not regularly dealt with. In this episode, Glenn Engstrand discusses a structured approach to managing tech debt in a microservices architecture. By taking a proactive, long-term approach, all stakeholders are able to talk about, plan for, and safely reduce technical debt.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

DNS Toys
dns.toys is a DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.

oncall
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration.

Lorien
Lorien is an infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity.

Sake
sake is a command runner for local and remote hosts.

Shotcut
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

OpenCost
Cross-cloud cost allocation models for Kubernetes workloads.

Wazuh
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments.

Toast
Containerize your development and continuous integration environments.

CeresDB
CeresDB is a high-performance, distributed, schema-less, cloud native time-series database that can handle both time-series and analytics workloads.

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