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In this episode, we talk about the resignation of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Apple’s new self-service repair announcement. Then we speak with Dustin Moody, a mathematician in the National Institute of Science and Technology’s Computer Security Division, about the looming threat of post-quantum cryptography.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Jack Dorsey Resignation Twitter Post
• Apple announces Self Service Repair
• The Future Is Now: Spreading the Word About Post-Quantum Cryptography
• DHS: Post-Quantum Cryptography

Dustin Moody

Dustin Moody is a mathematician in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Division, where he leads the post-quantum cryptography project. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2009. His area of research deals with elliptic curves and their applications in cryptography.

In this episode, we talk about a new Apple settlement and a big win for workers in Portugal. Then we speak with Nicholas Boucher, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge about new research into something they are calling a “Trojan Source” attack. And finally, we chat with Safia Abdalla, senior software engineer at Microsoft about new updates and features in the recently released .NET 6.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Apple to Pay $30 Million Over Store Workers’ Security Checks
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-13/apple-to-pay-30-million-over-security-checks-for-store-workers
• Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities
• Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet

Nicholas Boucher

Nicholas Boucher is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and a graduate of Harvard University. He performs research on the security of systems ranging from machine learning pipelines to compilers.

Safia Abdalla

Safia Abdalla is a software engineer working on open-source technologies at Microsoft and an open-source maintainer on the nteract project. When she’s not working on open source, she enjoys writing and running.

In this episode, we have an update about Facebook’s Facial Recognition system, and then we get into You.com, which calls itself “the world’s first open search engine.” Then we speak with Stephanie Eckles, software engineer at Microsoft and author of ModernCSS.dev about exciting new CSS updates that were just announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2021.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.
• AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M
• You
• Everything announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2021
• Modern CSS Solutions

Stephanie Eckles

Stephanie Eckles is the author of in-depth tutorials on ModernCSS.dev, and the creator of StyleStage.dev, SmolCSS.dev, and 11ty.Rocks. Steph has well over a decade of webdev experience that she enjoys sharing as an author, egghead and workshop instructor, Twitch streamer, and conference speaker.

In this episode, we talk about Facebook’s plan to shut down its Facial Recognition System, and a mass firing at a Russian payment services company fueled by AI productivity measurement tools. Then we speak with Scott Carey, enterprise technology journalists at InfoWorld, about how the growing complexity of modern software systems might be “killing” software developers.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch
• An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition
• Xsolla fires 150 employees using big data and AI analysis, CEO’s letter causes controversy
• Xsolla founder on mass layoffs and AI-based employee appraisal system: “Stories of fear sell better than those of hope”
• Xsolla former employee on layoffs and Agapitov’s character: “It’s like a small cult of personality, Perm style”
• Complexity is killing software developers

Scott Carey

Scott is a technology reporter at InfoWorld, where he covers software development and cloud computing.

In this episode, we talk about the explosive Facebook internal documents, a merger between Ruby Central and Ruby Together, and the short lived removal of .NET’s Hot Reload feature, which had a lot of developers frustrated and confused by the decision. Then we speak with Brigit Murtaugh, Program Manager II at Microsoft, and João Moreno, Principal Software Engineer for VS Code about how they created a new lightweight version of VS Code that can run fully in the browser.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal investigation
• Facebook's Lost Generation
• Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
• Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It
• DeepMind’s XLand, Android 12 Beta's Camera Switches, a Colorism Issue With Face Filters, and a Senior’s Robot Companion
• Ruby Together and Ruby Central, Coming Together
• Update on .NET Hot Reload progress and Visual Studio 2022 Highlights
• Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
• Is There an Echo Chamber?
• vscode.dev(!)

Brigit Murtaugh

Brigit Murtaugh is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, where she focuses on remote and web experiences, including the remote development extensions and VS Code for the Web.

João Moreno

João Moreno is a Principal Software Engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, where he focuses on UI, engineering, cross-plat releases and more recently, vscode.dev.

In this episode, we have updates about more Apple App Store drama, and Apple’s planned surveillance features to battle child sexual abuse material. Then we speak with Lydia X. Z. Brown, attorney, disability justice activist and policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, about a study that found that automated resume filter tools exclude millions from jobs, including those with disabilities. And then we speak with Craig Silverman, reporter at Propublica, about an investigative piece he co-authored that details how Facebook undermines its privacy promises on WhatsApp.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Japan Fair Trade Commission closes App Store investigation
• Apple: Expanded Protections for Children
• Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent
• How Opaque Personality Tests Can Stop Disabled People from Getting Hired
• Report – Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination?
• How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users

Lydia X. Z. Brown

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, strategist, educator, writer, and attorney working for disability justice and liberation. For over a decade, their work has focused on building solidarity-based communities and addressing the root causes of interpersonal and state violence targeting disabled people, especially those at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and violence.

Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada and then became the media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of disinformation and online manipulation. He joined ProPublica as a reporter in May 2021 to continue his investigative work.

In this episode, we talk about an the expansion of government facial recognition software and an Apple App store settlement. Then we speak with Yafit Lev-Aretz, assistant professor of law at Baruch College and the Director of Tech Ethics program at the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, about Apple scanning iCloud images and iMessages for child sexual abuse material. Then we speak with Anunay Kulshrestha, Princeton Computer Science doctoral candidate, whose team had built a similar child sexual abuse materal scanning system, about the potential privacy and cybersecurity risks that implementing such a system creates.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Facial Recognition Software: Current and Planned Uses by Federal Agencies
• System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
• Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions
• The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
• Apple: Expanded Protections for Children
• Opinion: We built a system like Apple’s to flag child sexual abuse material — and concluded the tech was dangerous
• Identifying Harmful Media in End-to-End Encrypted Communication: Efficient Private Membership Computation

Yafit Lev-Aretz

Yafit Lev-Aretz is an assistant professor of law at the Zicklin School of Business (Baruch College, City University of New York), and the ​​Director of Tech Ethics program at the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. Professor Lev-Aretz is a tech policy expert with over fifteen years of experience in studying and operationalizing the relationship between law, technology, and society.

Anunay Kulshrestha

Anunay Kulshrestha is a doctoral candidate in Computer Science at Princeton University, affiliated with the Center for Information Technology Policy. His research interests lie in applied cryptography and computer security, and their policy implications for privacy in today’s networked world. He is interested in understanding how cryptographic techniques can yield transparency- and accountability-enhancing privacy-preserving solutions to policy problems of trust.

In this episode, we speak with Cher Scarlett, software engineer at Apple, about her endeavor for salary transparency at Apple to battle pay disparity and the challenges she’s faced during this undertaking. And then we speak with Twitch streamer and moderator JustMeEmilyP, and Twitch moderator NLA about the proliferation of Twitch Hate Raids and the tools and resources they and others have built to fight against it.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Apple Pay Transparency Survey
• levels.fyi
• #ADayOffTwitch
• Hate Raid Response
• N_lasouris' Mass-Created Bots Detecting Program
• How to stop a hate raid

Cher Scarlett

Cher Scarlett a problem solver, creator, and innovator.

JustMeEmilyP

JustMeEmilyP (she/her) has been streaming on Twitch since 2019 after finishing her service in the USAF as a Weather Forecaster. Now, she’s enjoying full time streaming and moderating for her community, rollerskating, and enjoying life while advocating for others.

NLA

nlasouris (they/them) is a moderator for several communities on Twitch. While not a professional software developer, they have applied some data analysis and basic coding techniques to combat malicious bots since 2019.

In this episode, we talk about social media face filters perpetuating colorism, and about a new companion robot for the elderly. Then we talk about DeepMind’s new exciting AI training tool, XLand, with Max Jaderberg, senior staff research scientist at DeepMind. And then we speak with Suzanne Aitchison, software engineer and accessibility specialist here at Forem, about Android 12 beta’s “Camera Switches,” which lets users control their phone with facial expressions.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• How Digital Beauty Filters Perpetuate Colorism
• What beta testing a robot at age 81 taught me about friendship
• Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents
• Android’s latest accessibility feature lets you control your phone with facial expressions

Max Jaderberg

Max Jaderberg is a researcher at DeepMind leading the Open-Ended Learning team, driving the intersection of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems. His recent work includes creating the first agent to beat human professionals at StarCraft II, and creating algorithms for training teams of agents to play with humans in first-person video games.

Suzanne Aitchison

Suzanne Aitchison is a software engineer at Forem. She is passionate about accessibility and maintains a tutorials site for accessible web development (particularly with reference to React).

In this episode, we chat with Jason Rohrer, game designer and creator of Project December, whose GPT-3-powered chatbot has been used by people to talk to historical figures and personalities, and was even used by one person to talk to his late fiancé for closure.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Project December
• r/ProjectDecember1982
• The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.

Jason Rohrer

Since 2004, Jason Rohrer has designed, programmed, and released 19 games: Transcend, Cultivation, Passage, Gravitation, Perfectionism, Idealism, Police Brutality, Immortality, Regret, i45hg, Crude Oil, Between, Primrose, Sleep Is Death, Inside a Star-filled Sky, Diamond Trust of London, The Castle Doctrine, Cordial Minuet, and One Hour One Life.

In this episode, we talk about Oculus' new experimental API, which blends virtual reality with your real surroundings, and we get into the sudden boom of QR codes, and the security issues it brings. Then we talk about some potential ethical and legal issues regarding Github Copilot with Andres Guadamuz, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. Then we speak with Laure Wynants, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University Department of Epidemiology about why hundreds of AI predictive models built aid in the covid-19 pandemic fell short.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Mixed Reality with Passthrough
• QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
• GitHub CoPilot: Your AI Pair Programmer
• Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19: systematic review and critical appraisal

Andres Guadamuz

Andres Guadamuz is Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. His main research areas are on artificial intelligence and copyright, open licensing, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. Andres has published two books, the most recent is "Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation", and he regularly blogs at Technollama.co.uk.

Laure Wynants

Laure Wynants is interested in methods to handle heterogeneity between populations when developing and validating diagnostic and prognostic models, and in the utility of models in clinical practice. Her applied work includes models for gynecological cancers, hospital-acquired infections, and covid-19. Since March 2020, she leads an international consortium to systematically review models for covid-19, for which she has been awarded the Edmond Hustinx science prize. This review already has over 1300 citations and has been picked up by policymakers, including the European Commission and the WHO.

In this episode we talk about a major sexism and harassment suit against Activision Blizzard, and what might be one of the best websites on the internet, gail.com. Then we speak with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer at Purism, about their mission to make computers and phones focused on security and privacy, and what people should potentially beware of when using phones from independent phone producers such as the newly announced Freedom Phone.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Gail.com
• WIPO Case D2006-0655
• Activision Blizzard Sued Over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture, Harassment (1)
• Calif. Dep’t of Fair Emp. & Housing v. Activision Blizzard Inc.
• Freedom Phone Announcement
• Purism
• Freedom Phone

Kyle Rankin

Kyle Rankin is the Chief Security Officer at Purism, SPC, and the author of a number of books on security and infrastructure, most recently Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks for Pearson.

In this episode, we talk about a gunshot-detecting tech used by law enforcement, the new Steam Deck handheld gaming console, and an unprecedented move by NATO condemning China for a hack exploiting Microsoft's Exchange Server.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Gunshot-Detecting Tech Is Summoning Armed Police to Black Neighborhoods
• Nintendo Switch Gets New Rival With Valve’s Portable Steam Console
• U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks
• ReliaQuest
• CodeNewbie: What is cryptography and how to get into it, with Marcus Carey
• Tribe of Hackers: Blue Team
• Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses
• Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses
• Amnesty International
• The Citizen Lab

Marcus Carey

Marcus J. Carey is an Enterprise Architect at ReliaQuest where he does security research and product development. Prior to joining ReliaQuest, Marcus was the founder and CEO at Threatcare (acquired by ReliaQuest) and has 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Marcus has worked in penetration testing, incident response, and digital forensics with federal agencies such as NSA, DC3, DIA, and DARPA.

In this episode, we talk about an elaborate phishing hack, a questionable M1 security flaw, and the first autonomous lethal drones targeting humans. Then we chat with our producer, Levi Sharpe to give a behind the scenes look at how we make DevNews.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• BazaFlix: BazaLoader Fakes Movie Streaming Service
• M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State
• Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time
• One startup's quest to take on Chrome and reinvent the web browser

Levi Sharpe

Levi Sharpe is the senior podcast producer at Forem, currently making their CodeNewbie, DevNews, and DevDiscuss podcasts. Previously, he was lead podcast producer at Gizmodo Media Group, where he produced Lifehacker’s Webby-nominated podcast, The Upgrade, as well as Jezebel's DirtCast and Big Time Dicks podcasts. You can hear his sound design work on the narrative fiction podcast, Roommate From Hell, and the Webby award-winning comedy musical podcast, Propaganda.

In this episode, we talk about companies excluding the state of Colorado from remote opportunities due to the Equal Pay For Equal Work Act, NVIDIA making their graphics cards less desirable for cryptocurrency miners, and Twitters report on its investigation into its cropping algorithm, which many people criticized as having a racial and gender bias. Then we speak with James Eaton-Lee, former staff member at Freenode, and current staff member of Libera.Chat, which was created in response to entrepreneur and Crown Prince of Korea, Andrew Lee, taking control of Freenode, which led to a mass resignation of many of its staff developers.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Equal Pay For Equal Work Act
• Colorado Excluded
• NVIDIA cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX cards
• Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
• The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"
• resigning from freenode
• Libera.Chat

James Eaton-Lee

James is a staff member at Libera.Chat and was a Freenode staffer from 2007-2021. He has worked in tech for almost 20 years, and presently works in privacy and cybersecurity for an INGO.

This week we’re talking about cryptocurrency company CoinBase refusing to negotiate job offers and a blog post by the Babel core team titled, “Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?” which created a bit of a Twitter storm, and speak with Babel Core Maintainer Nicolò Ribaudo. Then we speak with Principal Engineer at Heroku and Rails Contributor Richard Schneeman, about what it’s like to work on Rails in the aftermath of Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson’s highly criticized blog post, which raised concerns about Rails' independence from its creator.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• How Coinbase is rethinking its approach to compensation
• Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
• Nicolò Ribaudo's Hacker News Post About Babel Running Out Of Money
• The room where it happens: How Rails gets made
• CodeTriage

Nicolò Ribaudo

Nicolò Ribaudo is an open source maintainer working on Babel and on many related projects. When offline, he's a math student in Turin, Italy.

Richard Schneeman

Richard Schneeman created and maintains CodeTriage.com, a tool for helping people contribute to open-source When he isn't obsessively compulsively refactoring code he spends his time reminding his kids to wash their hands.

In this episode, we talk about Apple’s AirTag security concerns, a US oil pipeline cyber attack and shutdown, and a shortage in semiconductors. Then we chat with Sanghyun Hong and Yigitcan Kaya Ph.D. students in Computer Science at the University of Maryland College Park, and co-authors of a research paper about how hackers could make AI networks consume much more energy than they already do.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Review | Apple’s AirTag trackers made it frighteningly easy to ‘stalk’ me in a test
• A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL
• Here’s the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown
• Biden Plans an Order to Strengthen Cyberdefenses. Will It Be Enough?
• The Chip Shortage Keeps Getting Worse. Why Can’t We Just Make More?
• A Panda? No, It's a Sloth: Slowdown Attacks on Adaptive Multi-Exit Neural Network Inference

Sanghyun Hong

Sanghyun's research interests lie at the intersection of computer security and machine learning. His current research focus is to study the computational properties of DNNs from a systems security perspective. He was invited as a speaker at USENIX Enigma'21, where he talked about practical hardware attacks on deep learning. He is also a recipient of the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.

Yigitcan Kaya

Yigitcan Kaya is a fourth year PhD student at University of Maryland. His research focus is on security risks and vulnerabilities of deep learning models, such as their sensitivity to malicious inputs or their tendency to memorize and leak private information. In the past, being inspired by neuroscience, he identified the overthinking problem in neural networks then proposed a generic solution to this problem.

In this episode, we talk about Basecamp’s mass resignations, the European Union saying Apple breaks antitrust laws, and Facebook's decision to continue the ban on Donald Trump's account. Then we chat with Jason Schreier, reporter at Bloomberg and the author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, and now Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, coming out May 11, 2021.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Facebook Oversight Board: Case decision 2021-001-FB-FBR
• EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
• How Basecamp blew up
• Basecamp resignations
• Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent, Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Jason Schreier

Jason Schreier is a video games at Bloomberg news, and the author of "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," and "Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry."

In this episode, we talk about the problematic blog post put out by Basecamp CEO and Co-founder Jason Fried, and we also get into how crypto currency miners are killing free CI. Then we chat with Hector Monsegur, security researcher and former blackhat hacker, about how University of Minnesota security researchers submitted security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel to show flaws in the approval process leading to a call for a ban on anything submitted by umn.edu emails. Finally, we speak with McKensie Mack, founder & CEO of MMG and a co-author of a report put out by the non-profit, Project Include, about how remote work is leading to more gender and racial harassment at tech companies.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Changes at Basecamp
• What really happened at Basecamp
• An Open Letter To Jason and David
• Crypto miners are killing free CI
• Remote work since Covid-19 is exacerbating harm: What companies need to know and do
• University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel

Hector X. Monsegur

Hector X. Monsegur is director of research at Alacrinet and a former black hat hacker.

McKensie Mack

Researcher, strategist, and digital organizer, McKensie leads the data-driven organization, MMG, which leverages mixed-methods research to transform culture and stop harm.

In this episode, we talk about WordPress blocking Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts tracking technology, a web app that received so much negative feedback from food bloggers it was taken down in less than a day, and The Bank of England and HM Treasury creating a joint task force to explore the possibility of creating a central bank digital currency in the U.K. Then we speak with Tim Swanson, founder and director of research at Post Oak Labs, and head of market intelligence at ClearMatics, as well as the author of the research paper, “Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare,” about the environmental impact of digital currency. Then we chat with Isedua Oribhabor, U.S. policy analyst at Access Now about their letter to Spotify on why the company should abandon their recent speech-recognition patent of a technology to detect emotion, gender, and age.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern
• Tech keeps trying to ‘fix’ recipe sites. Food bloggers wish they’d stop.
• Bank of England statement on Central Bank Digital Currency
• Access Now Letter To Spotify (Axios)
• RightsCon 2021
• Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

Tim Swanson

Tim Swanson is the founder and director of research at Post Oak Labs, head of market intelligence at ClearMatics, as well as the author of the research paper, “Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare,”

Isedua Oribhabor

Isedua is Access Now's U.S. Policy Analyst and Business and Human Rights lead. She works to promote human rights in the digital age, focusing on the responsibility of tech companies to respect human rights.

In this episode, we talk about companies rescinding job offers after they have been accepted. Then we speak with Nikolas Guggenberger, executive director of the Yale Information Society Project, about Justice Clarence Thomas arguing for categorizing some digital platforms as utilities and why this is a huge deal for the tech world. Finally, we chat with Jason Scott, co-founder of Archive Team, about their efforts to archive Yahoo Answers which is shutting down after 16 years.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Blind: Rescind
• Justice Clarence Thomas' Argument For Regulating Some Digital Platforms As Utilities
• Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
• Archive Team
• ArchiveTeam Warrior

Nikolas Guggenberger

Nikolas Guggenberger is the executive director of the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the intersection of law and technology, specifically platform regulation, antitrust, and privacy.

Jason Scott

Jason Scott is the co-founder of Archive Team who speaks passionately on the never-ending and critical saving of online history. He has been a video game art director, unix administrator, documentary filmmaker and public raconteur.

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Mesh, France’s ‘repairability index,’ and Framework’s 13.5 inch modular laptop and are then joined by Kerry Sheehan, US Policy Lead at iFixit, and Kevin Purdy, technology journalist at iFixit, the gadget teardown and repair guide site, whose CEO was consulted by the French government about the repairability index. Then we talk about a damning report from The Verge about rampant sexism and racism at Mailchimp, and are then joined by Jaime-Alexis Fowler, founder and executive director of Empower Work, a non-profit that connects you to professionals to help you handle workplace challenges.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• “You can actually feel like you’re in the same place”: Microsoft Mesh powers shared experiences in mixed reality
• Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal
• Introducing the Framework Laptop
• Apple Is Using France’s New Repairability Scoring—Here’s How It Works
• Mailchimp Employees Have Complained About Inequality for Years - Is Anyone Listening?
• Empower Work

Kerry Sheehan

Kerry Maeve Sheehan is the U.S. Policy Lead at iFixit, where she advocates for Right to Repair at the state and federal levels. She’s a graduate of Boston University School of Law and comes to iFixit from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, where she worked extensively on issues in intellectual property law and technology policy. She’s written on legal issues in technology for EFF’s Deeplinks blog, Slate, and The Hill.

Kevin Purdy

Kevin Purdy is a writer for iFixit. He previously wrote for Wirecutter, a New York Times publication, Lifehacker, and other sites.

Jaime-Alexis Fowler

Jaime-Alexis Fowler is the founder and executive director of Empower Work, a national nonprofit on a mission to build healthy, equitable workplaces. Empower Work provides the first free, confidential crisis text line for work issues. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, TechCrunch, Slate, Fast Company, and Forbes.

In this episode, we talk about the termination of Dr. Margaret Mitchell, founder and lead of the Google Ethical AI team, Australia’s law requiring Google and Facebook to pay news publishers, and concerns over Clubhouse security. Then we are joined by Rahat Chowdhury, co-founder of Whimser, to chat about the large funding rounds low-code platforms have been receiving, what this means for developers, and where these tools might fit in our own development.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Google tweaks diversity, research policies following inquiry
• On the Firing of Dr. Timnit Gebru
• Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Diverging With Google on Proposed Law
• Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In
• Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security
• Lets talk about the Clubhouse 'hack' which wasn't
• Creatio Looks To Go Big With Low-Code After $68M Raise

Rahat Chowdhury

Rahat is a second career developer who comes from a background in customer support management. He is a mental health advocate, entrepreneur, and teacher who enjoys spending his free time mentoring new developers.

In this episode, we talk about engineers unionizing with other workers at Medium, Epic’s MetaHuman Creator, a hacker who broke into a water system in Florida, and a security researcher who breached over 35 big tech companies leveraging something called dependency confusion. Then we are joined by Pierre Leclerc, co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio, and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal, to chat about the recent hack of the game studio CD Projekt Red, and what one can realistically do with stolen video game source code.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Medium Workers Union
• A sneak peek at MetaHuman Creator: high-fidelity digital humans made easy
• Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say
• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
• Cyberpunk and Witcher hackers auction off stolen source code for millions of dollars
• 6 Eyes Studio

Pierre Leclerc

Pierre Leclerc is co-founder of 6 Eyes Studio, and game developer of the tactical RPG, Fell Seal.

In this episode, we talk about Google AI Researcher Margaret Mitchell’s letter to the company about the firing of former AI Researcher, Timnit Gebru, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, and smartphone data that was given to The New York Times that was used to track Capitol rioters. Then we chat with Casey Lau, co-host of RISE, one of the Web Summit conferences, and host of the RISE Offstage podcast, to talk about how Clubhouse will impact the future of tech conferences, and what developers' place is within the Clubhouse ecosystem.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• On the Firing of Dr. Timnit Gebru
• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.
• AppTrackingTransparency requirement update
• How will Clubhouse impact the future of tech conferences?
• RISE

Casey Lau

Casey Lau is co-host of RISE, one of the Web Summit conferences, and host of the RISE Offstage podcast.

In this episode, we talk about Jeff Bezos transitioning from CEO of Amazon to executive chair of the Amazon board, Ford’s future Android integration, and what kinds of pricing models work for different tech products. Then we chat with Cameron Yick, software engineer at Datadog, and one of the creators of the NYC Vaccine List, a website with the aim of helping people find a COVID-19 vaccine in and around NYC.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
• Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google
• Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models
• What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system?
• NYC Vaccine List
• Find the COVID vaccine in your state
• Where can I get a vaccine?

Cameron Yick

Cameron is an engineer at Datadog and co-organizer of the NYC Data Visualization Meetup. He is also one of the creators of the NYC Vaccine List He writes and speaks about making public data useful, visual tools for thought, and creating conditions for Serendipity.

In this episode, we talk about International Google workers unionizing, a potentially more privacy-friendly alternative to Cookie tracking, and new web accessibility features on the White House website. Then we chat with Jacob Rogers, Senior Legal Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, about what we need to know about upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Exclusive: Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable
• Google says it may have found a privacy-friendly substitute to cookies
• Web Accessibility: Improvements on the White House Website
• Doubling down on open, Part II

Jacob Rogers

Jacob Rogers is senior legal counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.

In this episode, we talk about Apple’s WebExtensions API, and GitHub’s firing of a Jewish worker for using the word Nazi in reference to some of the rioters who attacked the US Capitol building on January 6th. Then we chat with Alex Gorowara, senior software engineer at Google, and spokesperson for the Alphabet Workers Union, to talk about the hundreds of Alphabet workers who have chosen to unionize and their mission. Finally, we speak with Max Zinkus and Tushar Jois, Doctoral Students in Applied Cryptography and Security at Johns Hopkins University, whose recent research found major weaknesses in both iOS and Android security mechanisms.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Safari 14 added WebExtensions support. So where are the extensions?
• GitHub: Update on an employee matter
• EXCLUSIVE: GitHub is facing employee backlash after the firing of a Jewish employee who suggested 'Nazis are about' on the day of the US Capitol siege
• Alphabet Workers Union
• Data Security on Mobile Devices

Alex Gorowara

Alex Gorowara is a Senior Software Engineer who has worked in Google Travel Engineering Productivity since finishing undergrad at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2015. In non-pandemic times, he enjoys LARP and choir singing.

Max Zinkus

Max Zinkus is a doctoral student in Computer Science under Matt Green at Johns Hopkins University. Max’s research explores novel ways to use cryptography to improve the privacy and security of computer systems we rely on every day.

Tushar Jois

Tushar Jois is a doctoral student studying computer science under his advisor, Avi Rubin, at Johns Hopkins. Tushar's research focuses on security and privacy for personal devices: protecting users and their everyday data from prying eyes.

In this episode, we talk about the mass indefinite ban of Trump on social media platforms, and AWS and the Google and Apple App Stores dropping Parler in the aftermath of the US Capitol’s siege by Trump supporters. Then we chat with Dave Gershgorn, senior writer at OneZero at Medium, who covers AI and its effects on society, about the conspiracy theory that antifa were embedded in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Finally, we speak with Monica Chin, writer at the Verge, about this year’s virtual Consumer Electronics Show.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• All the platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
• Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First
• Claims Antifa Embedded in Capitol Riots Come From a Deeply Unreliable Facial Recognition Company
• CES
• Platformer
• Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

Dave Gershgorn

Dave Gershgorn is a senior writer for OneZero, a technology publication from Medium. He covers artificial intelligence and surveillance.

Monica Chin

Monica Chin is a writer for The Verge covering computers. Previously, she has covered consumer tech for Mashable, Tom's Guide, and Business Insider.

In this episode, we about federal and state antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, and a new DNS technique backed by Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly called Oblivious DNS. Then we speak with Hector Monsegur, security researcher and former blackhat hacker, about a major hack against multiple government agencies. Then we chat with Penelope Phippen, tech lead at Stripe, and a Director at Ruby Central, about the release of Ruby 3.0.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
• U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
• U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Linked to Russia
• Ruby 3.0.0 Preview 2 Released

Hector X. Monsegur

Hector X. Monsegur is director of research at Alacrinet and a former black hat hacker.

Penelope Phippen

Penelope Phippen (she/her) is a multifaceted Rubyist who works as a Director at Ruby Central, is the creator of Rubyfmt, and was formerly a lead maintainer of the RSpec project. She frequently writes and speaks about about complex aspects of the Ruby grammar, and issues of social justice for trans people in computer science. She's sad that she can't hug every cat.

In this episode, we talk about Google’s move to put their own chips in Pixels and Chromebooks, and notable items in GitHub’s “State of the Octoverse.” Then we speak with Nathan Grayson, senior reporter at Kotaku and co-host of Kotaku’s Splitscreen, about crunch culture in game development and the differences between a company like Supergiant Games and CD Projekt Red, the maker of the newly released and highly anticipated RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. Finally, we chat with Julien Cornebise, an honorary associate professor at University College London and a former researcher with DeepMind, Google’s A.I. lab, about Google’s firing of Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, who said she was fired after she sent an email criticizing the company’s efforts to hire more minorities as well as biases in their A.I.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks
• Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs
• The 2020 State of the Octoverse
• The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations
• Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-Day Weeks Ahead of Launch
• Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
• We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.

Nathan Grayson

Nathan Grayson is a senior reporter at Kotaku who primarily focuses on streaming, labor, and PC gaming. He also cohosts the Kotaku Splitscreen podcast and is working on a book tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.

Julien Cornebise

Julien is a mathematician, scientist and coder, was the 5th research at DeepMind from 2012 working on their early algorithms, and co-created their Health Research team. He left in 2016 to start helping NGOs and charities with machine learning, and for that created in 2018 Element AI's "AI for Good" team and their London office. From ASMx86 to convergence theorems, from Google to Amnesty International and academia, he believes in depth and breadth, and that individual responsibility never dilutes in an organization: it multiplies. We must do better!

In this episode, we talk about Amazon Sidewalk, and SaleForce’s acquisition of Slack. Then we speak with Jerry Gamblin, Manager of Security and Compliance at Kenna Security, about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments this week about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has major implications for ethical hackers. Finally, we chat with Sara Golemon, Core Developer and Release Manager on the PHP team, about the new release of PHP 8.0.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
• Introducing Amazon Sidewalk
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• PHP 8.0 Released!

Jerry Gamblin

Jerry Gamblin is a security and compliance manager at Kenna Security. He is an influential security researcher and analyst, focusing on the enterprise network and application security with over 15 years of experience. His research has been presented on numerous blogs, podcasts, and security conferences. When not at work, his personal research focuses on IoT & embedded automotive systems.

Sara Golemon

Sara is a long-time contributor to the PHP language and is currently serving as the veteran release manager for PHP 8.0.

In this episode, we talk about a concerning security flaw in the Tesla Model X, and Twitter’s fleet rollout and subsequent rollback. Then we check back in with Sarah Maxwell, spokesperson for the Coalition on App Fairness, about Apple’s new reduced app store commission for certain developers. Finally, we chat with Kevin Miller, website lead at the COVID Tracking Project, about what has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of the pandemic.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
• Fleets: a new way to join the conversation
• Apple announces App Store Small Business Program
• Coalition for App Fairness
• The COVID Tracking Project
• RubyConf
• Tracking COVID with Ruby

Sarah Maxwell

Sarah Maxwell is the spokesperson for the Coalition for App Fairness. Prior to that, she was an executive at Blockchain.com for three years responsible for communications, expansion, and new business. Before crypto, she was also an early employee at Uber, where she led communications and policy helping to legalize ridesharing in the early days and was on the founding team for UberEATS. Over the course of her career, Sarah has worked on numerous presidential campaigns and for companies disrupting the status quo.

Kevin Miller

Kevin Miller is website lead at the COVID Tracking Project. He is a mountain saunterer, wave tumbler, bike rider, raft flipper, trail loser, and part-time computer starer. He writes applications focused on public good, engagement, and empowerment.

In this episode, we cover how Apple server problems caused slowdowns and crashes for app launching in all versions of MacOS, the rise of school districts being the targets of ransomware attacks, and GitHub reinstating youtube-dl, a program to download videos from YouTube and other video sites, after a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown. And then we chat with Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, Joseph Cox, whose piece titled, “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps,” shines a spotlight on the location data industry, and who is being targeted.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
• Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
• Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
• How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox covers privacy, hackers, and crime for Motherboard.

In this episode, we talk about about Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine’s effect on certain tech companies, and we get into Apple’s App privacy “nutrition labels.” Then we chat with Ish ShaBazz, iOS engineer and creator of Capsicum app about Apple's ARM-based Mac’s and other noteworthy announcements from this week's Apple event. Finally we speak with Peter Yoo, director of research at Synchron, Inc, about the first human trials of their Stentrode brain implant which allows users to control computers with their brain.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks got crushed on the positive vaccine news
• App privacy details on the App Store
• Apple Event — November 10
• Synchron
• Patients with Severe Paralysis Use Stentrode Brain-Computer Interface to Text, Email, Shop, Bank Online, First-in-human Study Reports
• Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery: Motor neuroprosthesis implanted with neurointerventional surgery improves capacity for activities of daily living tasks in severe paralysis: first in-human experience

Ish Shabazz

Ish Shabazz is the founder of Illuminated Bits, and an iOS Developer who supports other developers.

Peter Yoo

Peter Yoo is director of research at Synchron, Inc.

In this episode, we cover Raspberry Pi 400, Stripe Climate, and CodeSandbox's series A funding. Then we speak to Kaya Thomas, senior iOS engineer at Calm, about iOS’s new back tap feature, and other accessibility features on iOS that developers might not know about. Finally, we chat with CTO of GraphQL Editor, Artur Czemiel (Cha-mial), about the release of GraphQL Editor 3.0.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Raspberry Pi 400
• Stripe Climate
• CodeSandbox Secures $12.7M Series A Funding
• Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
• Apple: Human Interface Guidelines
• GraphQL Editor 3.0 - new release

Kaya Thomas

Kaya is a senior iOS engineer at Calm, formerly at Slack. She also writes and has spoken at conferences all around the world.

Artur Czemiel

Artur Czemiel is the CTO of GraphQL Editor, and CEO of Aexol.

In this episode, we talk about Oculus Quest 2 users being forced to link their account to a Facebook account, a fun use of the McDonald's API, Microsoft phasing out Internet Explorer with Edge, and some important tech-related issues on U.S. ballots. Then we be speak with Emily Kager, senior mobile android engineer at Mozilla, about a big controversy over Hacktoberfest. Finally, we chat with senior software engineer and Node.js TSC Member at Red Hat, Beth Griggs, and Michael Dawson, Node.js lead for Red Hat and IBM, about the release of Node v15.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Facebook’s Account Verification Leaves Some Quest 2 Buyers With ‘Paperweight
• Deleting Facebook Also Deletes Oculus Purchases And Account Information
• McBroken
• Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer
• The Markup: Tech on the Ballot in November
• Hacktoberfest
• Dominic Denicola: DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

Bethany Griggs

Beth Griggs is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and Node.js Technical Steering Committee Member. Her work includes contributing to the upstream Node.js project, to building tooling to support Node.js deployments to Kubernetes.

Michael Dawson

Michael Dawson is an active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC). He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, Release, as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). As the Node.js lead for Red Hat and IBM , he works with Red Hat's and IBM's internal teams to plan and facilitate their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and Google communities.

In this episode, we cover some updates about Ruby 3, OpenAI, and React 17's JSX Transform, and then a disconcerting data-sharing aspect from the exercise app, Strava. Then we chat with Alex Hanna, sociologist and research scientist working on machine learning fairness and ethical AI at Google, about Twitter’s algorithmic bias toward certain photos over others. And in light of all of the recent Apple app store battles with Epic Games, WordPress, and others, we speak with Sarah Maxwell, Coalition Spokesman for the Coalition for App Fairness, about the organization's efforts to make the app marketplace a more even playing field for developers.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Ruby 3
• OpenAI
• Introducing the New JSX Transform
• Strava: The New Human-Powered Era
• Coalition for App Fairness

Alex Hanna

Alex Hanna is a sociologist and research scientist working on machine learning fairness and ethical AI at Google. Her research centers on origins of the training data which form the informational infrastructure of AI and algorithmic fairness frameworks, and the way these datasets exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality.

Sarah Maxwell

Sarah Maxwell is the spokesperson for the Coalition for App Fairness. Prior to that, she was an executive at Blockchain.com for three years responsible for communications, expansion, and new business. Before crypto, she was also an early employee at Uber, where she led communications and policy helping to legalize ridesharing in the early days and was on the founding team for UberEATS. Over the course of her career, Sarah has worked on numerous presidential campaigns and for companies disrupting the status quo.

In this episode, we talk about a huge update to C++, TikTok’s algorithm and Oracle partnership, and NVIDIA’s Arm acquisition. We then chat with senior engineer at Forem and rotating co-host of DevNews, Vaidehi Joshi, about Google’s carbon footprint, and the environmental impact of our data.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• C++20 Approved
• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Oracle winning bid for TikTok’s U.S. assets
• Inside TikTok's killer algorithm
• It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40 Billion To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut
• Save Arm
• Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future
• The Cost of Data with Vaidehi Joshi
• Cloud Sustainability Console
• thecostofdata.dev
• The State of Data Center Energy Use in 2018

Vaidehi Joshi

Vaidehi Joshi is a software engineer, creator of the Base.cs blog series, and co-host of the Base.cs podcast.

In this episode, we talk about Microsoft’s new tech to combat deepfakes and Google’s Business Application Platform. We then chat with Fen Slattery, accessibility lead at Clique Studios, about Chrome 86, which has two new features that Chromium says will improve both the user and developer experience with the focus selector, and could be a big win for accessibility.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• New Steps to Combat Disinformation
• Google Business Application Platform
• Giving users and developers more control over focus
• Clique Studios
• Fenslattery.com
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
• WebAIM
• Accessibility Insights

Fen Slattery

Fen Slattery is accessibility lead at Clique Studios and a front end engineer in Chicagoland.

In this episode, we talk about Nvidia new graphics cards, Samsung’s mobile memory breakthrough, and a terrible TikTok trend. And then we speak with AJ Keller, co-founder of Neurosity, about Elon Musk's Neuralink pig demo.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Neuralink
• Neuralink Pig Demo
• Nvidia
• Photolithography
• Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
• Nvidia GeForce Special Event Livestream
• On Fiction & Neuralink
• A Message To TikTok Parents Who Use My Face To Make Their Kids Cry

AJ Keller

AJ Keller is the co-founder of Neurosity.

In this episode, we talk more about Apple’s ongoing App Store drama, a proposal to let Chromium talk to your local network, and Gitee, the GitHub of China. We also speak with Nathan Shively-Sanders and Orta Therox, engineers on the TypeScript team, about the newest version of TypeScript, version 4.0.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• TypeScript 4.0
• Gitee
• Chromium
• Raw Sockets API
• Intent to Prototype: Raw Sockets API
• WordPress
• Matt Mullenweg

Nathan Shively-Sanders

Nathan Shively-Sanders is an engineer at Microsoft working on the Typescript team. He's worked on compilers for almost 10 years, most recently on Javascript support in the Typescript compiler, and Definitely Typed.

Orta Therox

Orta Therox is an engineer on the TypeScript team with a long history of OSS.

In this episode, we talk about Atlassian’s remote work policy, Fortnite’s battle with Google and Apple, and Twitter’s new API. We then speak with Ashley Williams and Steve Klabnik, engineers on the Rust core team, about how recent restructuring and layoffs at Mozilla impact the future of the Rust programming language.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Atlassian
• Fortnite
• Fortnite
• Introducing a new and improved Twitter API
• Rust
• Laying the foundation for Rust's future
• RustConf

Ashley Williams

Ashley Williams is principal open source engineer at Apollo GraphQL and is a member of the Rust Core team and the Rust Foundation Project Group. She has created tools for the Rust ecosystem such as wasm-pack and cargo-generate, and has participated on the crates.io, community, infrastructure, and webassembly teams.

Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik is a member of the Rust core team, co-authored "The Rust Programming Language," and is an amateur sourdough baker.

In this episode, we cover Ruby 3 typing, GitHub running Ruby 2.7 in production, and Chrome DevTools CSS overview. We also speak with Jonas Downey, design lead at Basecamp, and co-creator of the Hello Weather app, about a Twitter thread he wrote titled, “Here’s a little tale about what it’s like to be an indie iOS developer working under Apple's 800-pound gorilla rule." Finally we chat with Dan Abramov, software engineer at Facebook, creator of Redux, and co-author of the Create React App. We’ll chat with Dan about React’s decision to release React 17 with no new features.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• GitHub
• React
• Basecamp
• The State of Ruby 3 Typing
• Ruby 2.7
• GitHub running Ruby 2.7 in production
• New in Chrome: CSS Overview
• Changing World, Changing Mozilla
• Here’s a little tale about what it’s like to be an indie iOS developer working under Apple's 800-pound gorilla rule...
• Hello Weather

Jonas Downey

Jonas Downey is a principal designer at Basecamp, and the design lead for HEY, Basecamp's new take on email. Jonas is also the co-creator of Hello Weather, the weather app for iOS, Apple Watch, and Android.

Dan Abramov

Dan Abramov is a software engineer at Facebook, creator of Redux, and co-author of the Create React App.

In this episode, we cover GitHub's new public roadmap, the hacker behind the recent Twitter hack that took control of a bunch of high profile accounts, and TikTok's plans to disclose their algorithm. We also speak with Pedro Cruz, developer advocate at IBM teaching, who is teaching developers how to use artificial intelligence and extended reality. He shares some reflections on whether OpenAI's powerful autocomplete program, GPT-3 is all it's cracked up to be, and more!

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• For Stickers!
• GitHub Public Roadmap
• Florida Teenager Is Charged as ‘Mastermind’ of Twitter Hack
• TikTok open algorithm press release
• OpenAI GPT-3

Pedro Cruz

Pedro Cruz is a developer advocate at IBM, teaching developers how to use artificial intelligence and extended reality.

DevNews is the second original podcast by DEV, a global community of software developers of all backgrounds and experience levels. DevNews is the news show for developers by developers, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie, and DEV senior engineers Josh Puetz and Vaidehi Joshi. Each season these experienced devs cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks.

Show Notes

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