Daily Tech News 16 May 2024

• Google is adding an AI feature to Android that will listen in on your calls and interrupt you. (Ars Technica)
  
  Specifically it will interrupt you if it thinks you are being scammed.
  
  Which, well, I don't need it since I never answer the phone.
  
  You don't need it.
  
  But there are certainly people who would benefit from this, and there's a slim chance that Google won't screw this up, so let's see what happens.
  
  
  
  

• Making a Postgres query 1000 times faster. (Mattermost)}
  
  Okay, yes, fine, but the answer was completely obvious.
  
  
  
• Swift sucks at web serving - or does it. (Wade Tregaskis)
  
  A little more in depth - particularly when the author finds bugs in the benchmarking tool - but if you're going to test thousands of simultaneous network connects you really should check that your computer allows you to make thousands of simultaneous network connections.
  
  
  
• Introducing F-UTF-8. (GitHub)
  
  F-UTF-8 is 100% UTF-8 compliant while being as annoying as possible.
  
  And while UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII and F-UTF-8 is compatible with UTF-8, F-UTF-8 is as far from compatible with ASCII as it is possible to be.
  
  
  
• Two MIT students stole $25 million from arbitrageurs on Ethereum in the span of twelve seconds in a combination front-running / transaction sequencing attack and then got caught because they didn't pay taxes on it. (Ars Technica)
  
  Oops.

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