Ten from the weekend 07/10: A few interesting reads that I came across

Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-operation-trojan-shield-an0m

2. How a fake job offer took down the world’s most popular crypto game: https://www.theblock.co/post/156038/how-a-fake-job-offer-took-down-the-worlds-most-popular-crypto-game

3. The Year in AI So Far: Massive Models and How to Use Them: https://future.com/the-year-in-ai-so-far-massive-models-and-how-to-use-them/

4. Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/nllb-200-high-quality-machine-translation/

5. How China’s relationship to Hollywood has shaped the movies: https://www.vox.com/23196838/china-hollywood-red-carpet-schwartzel

6. Amazon cancels, delays wave of warehouse plans as e-commerce demand cools: https://www.retaildive.com/news/amazon-cancels-delays-wave-of-warehouse-plans-as-e-commerce-demand-cools/626457/

7. FedEx to close data centers, retire all mainframes by 2024, saving $400m: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fedex-to-close-data-centers-retire-all-mainframes-by-2024-saving-400m/

8. Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/deep-hierarchical-planning-from-pixels.html

9. Talk-to-Edit: Fine-Grained Facial Editing via Dialog: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04425.pdf

10. Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Overview, Definition, and Architecture: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02302