The rare actually-interesting programming language pitch: Deploy code in 50ms. My favorite is "Every state of incomplete code in Dark has a valid execution semantics".
OpenZFS had a big release: 0.8.0. Long-awaited features aplenty and, perhaps more importantly, alignment on doing future development on ZoL first instead of illumos (RIP Solaris).
Semi-related: ["[T]the benefits of netting and risk margining [via the DTCC] enabled $326 billion in transactions to be financed with $8 billion in capital, meaning each dollar of capital from market participants secured $40 worth of gross transactions."](https://www.greenwich.com/steampunk-settlement-report-download) (via)
Since I'm writing this from KubeCon in Barcelona, I thought it would be apropriate to start off with a relevant link. I couldn't find one because computers are boring now so here's one about the other kind of container and associated hundred-ton robots.
We talked about encoding neural nets into pneumatics, now how about encoding neural nets in free-space optical networks? Or (Ok, they don't actually encode a neural net in this one but math is math, right?) in styrofoam and microwaves.
Good, yes please build a neural net to wirehead monkeys, I'm sure that won't come back to bite us in the ass in any way.
A computer vision article completely unrelated to the subsequent link: Adversarial Patches.
Ceph lets you embed arbitrary C++ into the OSD processes to push computation down to where the data is. Computation like, for example, Postgres query processing.
Speaking of C++, you know what it desperately needed? A JIT compiler.
Did you know that NASA runs a competition to build mining robots for use on Mars? Or that it has been going for ten years? Or that the Alabama Astrobotics team has won every single year, most recently with a fully autonomous run? Next up: robotic tunnel rats.
From the AAAAAAAAAAAAA department: The prospect of robotic tentacle monsters is unsettling enough even before building soft, pneumatic, EMP-proof brains for them. Why would you then jam the "squick factor" knob to 11 and tell me you could just index match the whole thing and have it be invisible under water?! I wonder how well ML models 3D print into fluidics...