The Stack Overflow Podcast - Gaming PCs to heat your home, oceans to cool your data centers

Joe Biden just wants to ride his Peleton, but equipment connected to WiFi  with a camera and microphone can pose a real security risk.

If you've got a chicken coop or greenhouse that needs a little warmth this winter, maybe team it up with your gaming PC or bitcoin mining rig, which tend to give off a lot of heat.

Speaking of heat, we dive into datacenters that were sunk under the ocean in an effort to create more economically efficient and environmentally friendly computing.

Our favorite meme of the week, a Heroku app that puts a chilly Bernie Sanders anywhere in the world.

Our lifeboat badge winner is Lukas Kalbertodt, who answered the question: What's the most efficient way to insert an element into a sorted vector?

 

 

Big Technology Podcast - Under Biden, Bipartisan Vengeance On Social Media? A Conversation With Bradley Tusk

As Joe Biden takes office, big tech’s rough and tumble four years under Donald Trump will not come to an end. Democrats and Republicans, each for their own reasons, will now be looking to exact vengeance on the platforms. With some compromise, they may even get somewhere. 


Bradley Tusk, a VC who works with startups facing regulatory hurdles, has a few thoughts about what regulation the tech giants may face. Tusk joins the Big Technology Podcast to break it all down, starting with a bold prediction and ending with some thoughts about Andrew Yang’s candidacy for New York Mayor, which he is advising.

Security Unlocked - Under the Hood: Ensuring Firmware Integrity

How do we ensure firmware integrity and security? Join hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla and guest Nazmus Sakib, a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, to dive deeper and assess the complexities and challenges that come along with securing firmware - bootstraps and all!  

Megamind Bhavna Soman, a Senior Security Research Lead, joins us later in the show and we learn about her journey in optimizing AI and ML to improve efficiency in security and give the humans a break.  


In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • How Microsoft ensures firmware integrity and security 
  • How firmware is making it harder for attackers
  • Where AI and ML will take threat intelligence in the near future 


Some Questions We Ask:

  • What is firmware? 
  • Do we know where firmware attacks begin? 
  • What does the threat landscape look like for firmware? 
  • What part of ML should be automated better so that humans can shift to other tasks? 

 

Resources: 

Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Nazmus’s LinkedIn

Bhavna’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn


Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts


Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 


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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop

 Davit Buniatyan is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at UCL. He entered into his college years, excited about animation from seeing Pixar movies. He learned all about 3d models, graphics and rendering - but then found out there was no course or curriculum specially for animation. So he switched to comp sci, which ended up being perfect.


He is into swimming, tennis and shotokan - which is traditional Japanese karate. Along with these, he's been playing chess since he was 5 years old, and is an avid fan of the show Queen's Gambit on Netflix.


When he started in on his PHD at Princeton, he started working with large data sets to recreate neural networks. In doing so, he realized how much computational power was required to learn from even a small - large scale data set. With this, he set out to build a tool to make companies more efficient at learning from their data.


This is the creation story of Activeloop.


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Lex Fridman Podcast - #155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

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(2:29:53) – AI and creativity
(2:41:08) – Aliens
(2:56:51) – Mortality

PHPUgly - 219:Programming Pears

We continue the 2021 year with episode 219. This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk Open Source, Event Sourcing, a Cool New PHPStorm Extension and much more.

Show Links

* PHP Enumerations RFC - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enumerations

* How Parler’s Data Was Harvested – The New Stack - https://thenewstack.io/how-parlers-data-was-harvested/

* PhoneBurnerOpenSource - https://github.com/PhoneBurnerOpenSource/enum

* PHPStorm "Code With Me" - https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2020/12/phpstorm-2020-3-release/#code\_with\_me\_for\_collaborative\_development

* Security: Laravel 6.20.11, 7.30.2, 8.22.1 Released - The Laravel Blog - https://blog.laravel.com/security-laravel-62011-7302-8221-released

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Our stack is HTML and CSS

The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.

You can find out more about Vercel, which  recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future.

You can find more info on Next.JS here. It's a very active tag on Stack Overflow with dozens of new questions a day.

Our lifeboat badge for this episode goes to paxdiablo for answering the question: What does .split() return if the string has no match?