The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

Music Transcription with Transformers

Concurrency in Julia

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Yo Thanks for everyone who wrote in with recommendations for fitness wearables. Also if you want to connect on LinkedIn, feel free to send me an invite and say hi! I enjoy connecting and chatting with subscribers. For me personally the web has facilitated some much needed socializing since the start of COVID. Crazy to think that was already pretty much 2 years ago (I was living in China at that time). In that same vein, we have a Discord server which occasionally hosts some conversations. Anyway, here's the issue. ==================================================================== The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor Published: 9 November 2021 Tags: javascript, infosec JavaScript is notorious for its lack of security, but I've never seen something like this before. In this concise article, Wolfgang Ettlinger demonstrates how an "invisible Unicode character hidden in JavaScript source code" can create a very difficult to spot backdoor in a simple express server. ==================================================================== Music Transcription with Transformers Published: 9 November 2021 Tags: machine learning There are a couple of different machine learning models that "[extract] symbolic representations of music from raw audio". One drawback is that they're all fairly specific to an instrument. In this article, the authors (too many to list, but can be seen at the top of the article) "highlight some of [their] recent advances toward more general music transcription systems". The article itself isn't super heavy, but it links to a couple of more detailed research papers. ==================================================================== Concurrency in Julia Published: 9 November 2021 Tags: julia Julia is a dynamically typed language with a focus on performance (not a usual combination). We've seen it used for developing a game in a previous issue, but this article by Lee Phillips focuses on its support for concurrency. Specifically, Lee dives into multithreading, distributed processing, and asynchronous multithreading. Want to help? Thank you for reading! If you enjoy the newsletter, I would really appreciate you helping me spread the word by forwarding this to your friends and colleagues! If you want to discuss or comment on this issue, head on over to this page at A Byte of Coding. You can also subscribe there if you're new! Have comments or feedback? Just reply to this email or hit me up on Twitter @AByteOfCoding. Email landed in your promotions tab? Please move it over to primary so you don't miss the latest issues in the future. Thanks for your Support!  Thanks to sponsors and supporters like Євген Грицай, Scott Munro, zturak, pek, Emil Hannesbo, and Joe Hill this newsletter is provided to you for free. If you'd like to also show your support and buy me a monthly meal, you can donate on the Patreon page. It's not necessary, but it lets me know that I'm doing a good job and that you're finding value in the content.

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