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Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-29 01:00:00

Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSAutoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI model serving: Performance validationNovember 26, 2025 Alberto PerdomoIn my previous blog, How to set up KServe autoscaling for vLLM with K

US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science.org: Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce. That exodus was only 3% of the 3

Tiny Musical Intervals

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-01-28 03:29:08

Music theorists have studied many fractions of the form 2i 3j 5k that are close to 1. They’re called 5-limit commas. Especially cherished are those that have fairly small exponents given how close they are to 1. I discussed a bunch here: • Well

Tiny Musical Intervals

Physics Phorums @ 2026-01-28 03:29:08

Music theorists have studied many fractions of the form 2i 3j 5k that are close to 1. They’re called 5-limit commas. Especially cherished are those that have fairly small exponents given how close they are to 1. I discussed a bunch here: • Well

Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 03:02:00

Apple quietly released its first update to iOS 12 since 2023 to keep iMessage, FaceTime, and device activation working on older hardware through January 2027. The update applies to legacy devices like the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6/6 Plus, and 2013-era iPads. Mac

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 02:25:00

Scientists have released DinoTracker, a free AI-powered app that identifies dinosaur footprints by analyzing shape patterns rather than relying on potentially flawed historical labels. "When we find a dinosaur footprint, we try to do the Cinderella thing a

AI Now Beats the Average Human in Tests of Creativity

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-28 02:06:17

A study tested several AI models and 100,000 people. AI was better than average but trailed top performers. The post AI Now Beats the Average Human in Tests of Creativity appeared first on SingularityHub .

SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 01:45:00

A data breach at SoundCloud exposed information tied to 29.8 million user accounts, according to Have I Been Pwned. While SoundCloud says no passwords or financial data were accessed, attackers mapped email addresses to public profile data and later attemp

Court Filing Claims Zuckerberg Blocked Curbs at Meta on Sex-Talking Chatbots for Minors

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-28 01:17:02

Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters: Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mex

Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 01:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court is taking up a case on whether Paramount violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing a user's viewing history to Facebook. The case, Michael Salazar v. Paramou

‘The Secret Fear of the Morally Depraved’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-28 00:36:54

Adam Serwer, reporting from the streets of Minneapolis for The Atlantic, “Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong” (gift link): The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all o

OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research

slashdot @ 2026-01-28 00:20:00

OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For

‘A CEO, Captured’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-28 00:06:55

Om Malik: Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Roy Blan

‘Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-28 00:02:49

MG Siegler: Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so. But it perhaps culminated this weekend when Cook went to a special private showing of the documentary Melania at the White House. Yes,

‘Whatever’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 23:48:42

Ben Terris, writing for New York Magazine: Fred Trump died in 1999 at age 93. He had, Trump said, a “heart that couldn’t be stopped” with almost no health conditions to speak of throughout his long life. “He had one problem,” Trump said. “At a certain

Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 23:40:00

Amazon has agreed to pay $309 million and provide additional remedies in a class-action settlement over claims that customers were wrongly denied refunds after returning items. Plaintiffs say (PDF) the deal delivers over $1 billion in total value, includin

Internal Messages May Doom Meta At Social Media Addiction Trial

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 23:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the first high-profile lawsuit -- considered a "bellwether" case that could set meaningful precedent in the hundreds of other complaints -- goes to trial. That lawsuit documents the case of

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 22:54:29

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Wine That Lights Up When It’s Gone Bad

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-27 22:30:00

A bottle of red, a bottle of white, just don’t pick a bottle with light The post Wine That Lights Up When It’s Gone Bad appeared first on Nautilus .

Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 22:25:00

Citigroup has rolled out mandatory AI training for all 175,000 of its employees across 80 locations worldwide, a sweeping initiative that CEO Jane Fraser describes as helping workers "reinvent themselves" before the technology permanently alters what they

Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 21:43:00

Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser that has spent two decades battling tech giants over control of the internet, is now turning its attention to AI and deploying roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to fund what president Mark Surma

Clawdbot Is Now Moltbot

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 21:34:36

From the footer on the project’s website: Moltbot was formerly known as Clawdbot. Independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic. Makes sense, to be honest, that Anthropic would object to naming it a homonym for Claude. One additional follow

Why Astronauts Quarantine Before—But Not After—Space Missions

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-27 21:32:54

Post-flight isolation ended decades ago when scientists no longer feared moon-derived diseases The post Why Astronauts Quarantine Before—But Not After—Space Missions appeared first on Nautilus .

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 21:02:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday. The tech giant said the new subscriptions will unlock more productivity and creativi

The Q4 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available!

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-01-27 20:51:17

We are pleased to announce the October/November/December 2025 issue of the FreeBSD Journal, focused on FreeBSD 15.0, is now available. This online publication provides the FreeBSD community with valuable insights and technical knowledge each quarter. This

Android Phones Are Getting More Anti-Theft Features

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 20:22:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google on Tuesday announced an expanded set of Android theft-protection features, designed to make its mobile devices less of a target for criminals. Building on existing tools like Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 19:57:15

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France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 19:45:00

France will replace the American platforms Microsoft Teams and Zoom with its own domestically developed video conferencing platform, which will be used in all government departments by 2027, the country said. From a report: The move is part of France's str

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 19:35:33

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 482 # Comments: 339

★ The Names They Call Themselves

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 19:12:56

*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime

Prism

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 19:03:10

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 478 # Comments: 288

Microsoft Was Routing Example-Domain Traffic To a Japanese Cable Company for Five Years

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 19:01:00

Microsoft has quietly suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined for example.com -- a domain reserved under RFC2606 specifically for testing purposes and not obtainable by any party -- to sei.co.jp, a domain belongin

ASF Plus One Newsletter: January 2026

ASF @ 2026-01-27 18:40:07

The first edition of Plus One for 2026 is here to cover major community events, recent project milestones, and the latest ASF projects to become Top-Level Projects. Don’t miss insights into how Apache Ozone scales to hundreds of petabytes, a first look at

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 18:32:05

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What Exactly Is a Superfood Anyway?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-27 18:30:00

Nutrition scholar Marion Nestle on the appeal of a made-up category The post What Exactly Is a Superfood Anyway? appeared first on Nautilus .

Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever

slashdot @ 2026-01-27 18:21:00

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday set their symbolic Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight -- the closest the timepiece has ever been to the theoretical point of annihilation since scientists created it during the Cold War in 1947.

Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 16:58:05

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Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-27 16:50:00

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a coding agent affects internal code quality by adding a feature using the agent, and seeing what hap

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 16:46:29

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Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 16:45:45

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 479 # Comments: 179

Hot Spring Bathing Doesn’t Just Keep Japanese Monkeys Warm

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-27 16:30:00

It also helps free them of parasites The post Hot Spring Bathing Doesn’t Just Keep Japanese Monkeys Warm appeared first on Nautilus .

What It’s Like to Get Undressed by Grok

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 16:07:07

Ella Chakarian, writing for Rolling Stone ( News+ ): On a recent Saturday afternoon, Kendall Mayes was mindlessly scrolling on X when she noticed an unsettling trend surface on her feed. Users were prompting Grok, the platform’s built-in AI feature, t

A digression on the design and implementation of Safe­Array­Add­Ref and extending APIs in general

old new thing @ 2026-01-27 16:00:00

The concerns when adding a feature to an existing API. The post A digression on the design and implementation of <CODE>Safe­Array­Add­Ref</CODE> and extending APIs in general appeared first on The Old New Thing .

A Computational Tsirelson’s Theorem for the Value of Compiled XOR Games

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-27 15:57:38

Quantum 10, 1987 (2026). Nonlocal games are a foundational tool for understanding entanglement and constructing quantum protocols in settings with multiple spatially separated quantum devices. In this work, we

Fast-forwarding quantum algorithms for linear dissipative differential equations

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-27 15:52:39

Quantum 10, 1986 (2026). We establish improved complexity estimates of quantum algorithms for linear dissipative ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and show that the time dependence can be fast-forwarded to

Empowering Customers: The Role of Confluent’s Trust Center

Confluent @ 2026-01-27 15:48:17

Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.

The age of Pump and Dump software

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 15:05:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 203 # Comments: 70

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 14:44:24

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1278 # Comments: 849

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 14:25:53

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 271 # Comments: 213

Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK

InfoQ @ 2026-01-27 13:45:00

This week's Java roundup for January 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, targeted for JDK 27; GlassFish Grizzly 5.0; the quarterly release of the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory; the

Análisis de ajedrez | Maurizzi, firme a los 18 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-27 13:12:12

El francés, de trayectoria muy sólida desde niño, lucha por el primer puesto en el torneo de Aspirantes de Wijk aan Zee

Quantum particle in the wrong box (or: the perils of finite-dimensional approximations)

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-27 12:34:30

Quantum 10, 1985 (2026). When numerically simulating the unitary time evolution of an infinite-dimensional quantum system, one is usually led to treat the Hamiltonian $H$ as an "infinite-dimensional matrix&

A lesson in coexistence

AEON @ 2026-01-27 12:00:00

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) - by Toby Green Read on Aeon

I made my own Git

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 11:55:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 340 # Comments: 152

OpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms

InfoQ @ 2026-01-27 11:10:00

OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life sciences environments. Both releases emphasize technical integration, interoperabilit

Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 10:38:59

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 330 # Comments: 218

Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

InfoQ @ 2026-01-27 09:00:00

Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access control from code using a verifiable, high-performance policy engine. Cedar support

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 08:06:25

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 211 # Comments: 73

Doing the thing is doing the thing

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 07:17:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 256 # Comments: 97

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 06:42:27

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 466 # Comments: 219

A list of fun destinations for telnet

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 04:24:13

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 292 # Comments: 105

The Talk Show: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 02:32:03

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show so we can both vent about MacOS 26 Tahoe. Sponsored by: Notion : The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain usi

Allocation Update - Q4 2025

Ethereum blog @ 2026-01-27 01:00:00

Q4 2025 closed out the year with exciting growth across the ecosystem! Dive into the projects and community initiatives we supported this quarter and see what our grantees have been building:...

Data-Oriented Programming for Java: Beyond Records

Inside Java @ 2026-01-27 01:00:00

Records, sealed classes, and destructuring with record patterns constitute the first feature arc of “data-oriented programming” for Java. After considering numerous design ideas, we’re now ready to move forward with the next “data oriented programming” fea

Sovereign AI architecture: Scaling distributed training with Kubeflow Trainer and Feast on Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-27 01:00:00

As AI becomes an engine of national competitiveness, the concept of sovereign AI—the capacity to operate AI systems free from external influence—is increasingly relevant, but the path to adoption is filled with challenges. A recent survey of over 900 IT le

Did Edison Accidentally Create a Vital Superconductor?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-27 00:46:49

In 1879, the inventor might have produced graphene, a crucial component of tech more than a century later The post Did Edison Accidentally Create a Vital Superconductor? appeared first on Nautilus .

Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-27 00:32:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 218 # Comments: 136

There’s a Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on MacOS 14 and 15

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-27 00:18:37

Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November: I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the Column View settings to automatically right size all columns individually and that setting would persi

Improving curl -J

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-01-27 00:01:39

We introduced curl’s -J option, also known as --remote-header-name back in February 2010. A decent amount of years ago. The option is used in combination with -O (--remote-name) when downloading data from a HTTP(S) server and instructs curl to use th

Nvidia Set to Supplant Apple as TSMC’s Largest Customer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 23:51:12

Kif Leswing, CNBC: Nvidia will become TSMC’s largest customer this year, according to analyst estimates and Huang himself. Apple is believed to currently be TSMC’s largest customer, mostly to manufacture A-series chips for iPhones and M-series chips f

[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 23:40:54

Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforc

Engineers Build “Bat Accelerator” to Crack Mystery of Stealth Navigation

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-26 23:30:00

Bats demonstrate yet another superpower that robots have yet to master The post Engineers Build “Bat Accelerator” to Crack Mystery of Stealth Navigation appeared first on Nautilus .

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-26 23:29:54

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 213 # Comments: 213

Airlines That Support Shared Item Location for Luggage With AirTags

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 23:10:43

Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors: Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at participating airlines. This way, if

Apple Introduces Second-Generation AirTags

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 23:02:55

Apple Newsroom: Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip — the same chip found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 — powers the new AirTag, making it easier to locate than ever before. Using haptic,

★ App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 22:49:45

The only apps in the top 10 not from Google or Meta are ChatGPT (#1) and TikTok (#4).

Workplace Loneliness Is Contagious

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-26 22:30:00

A new meta-review captures a troubling trend in workplace loneliness The post Workplace Loneliness Is Contagious appeared first on Nautilus .

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-26 22:09:19

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From the DF Archive: ‘Untitled Document Syndrome’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 21:32:46

Yours truly back in 2009, hitting upon the same themes from the item I just posted about TextEdit vs. Apple Notes: This, I think, explains the relative popularity of Mac OS X’s included Stickies application. For years, Stickies’s popularity confound

The Strange Paradox in the RFK Jr. Diet Guidelines

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-26 21:30:06

The new food pyramid defies decades of nutrition research—but one recommendation may align with some newer findings The post The Strange Paradox in the RFK Jr. Diet Guidelines appeared first on Nautilus .

‘TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 20:54:55

Perhaps at the opposite end of the complexity and novelty spectrum from Federico Viticci’s intro to Clawdbot is this piece by Kyle Chayka , writing at The New Yorker, from October: Amid the accelerating automation of our computers — and the prolife

Straight-Tusk Elephants Once Roamed Europe. And We Used Their Bones as Hammers

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-26 20:32:03

A 480,000-year-old battered bone is the earliest known flintstone hammer in Europe The post Straight-Tusk Elephants Once Roamed Europe. And We Used Their Bones as Hammers appeared first on Nautilus .

Do Non-Alcoholic Drinks Actually Help You Stay Sober?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-26 19:29:20

They can make cutting back feel easier, but they might also make sobriety harder The post Do Non-Alcoholic Drinks Actually Help You Stay Sober? appeared first on Nautilus .

Federico Viticci on Clawdbot

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-26 18:58:37

Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories: If this intro just gave you whiplash, imagine my reaction when I first started playing around with Clawdbot , the incredible open-source project by Peter Steinberger (a name that should be familiar to lon

Análisis de ajedrez | Gran partida de la mejor versión de Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-26 18:44:47

Contrariamente a la mala impresión que deja su irregularidad y algunos fallos posicionales graves, esta partida es digna del campeón del mundo

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-01-26 17:25:46

Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads

Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 5: Teaching Agents to Forget

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-26 17:09:12

Previously in this series: Agents eventually run out of context. When they do, they crash, and you lose everything mid-task. We’ve been running GPT-5 Codex since Part 1. It scores 0.58 on SWE-bench Verified. We tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 next, which sco

Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 5: Teaching Agents to Forget

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-26 17:09:12

Previously in this series: Agents eventually run out of context. When they do, they crash, and you lose everything mid-task. We’ve been running GPT-5 Codex since Part 1. It scores 0.58 on SWE-bench Verified. We tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 next, which sco

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-26 16:36:37

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis. The post Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

What’s the difference between Safe­Array­Access­Data and Safe­Array­Add­Ref?

old new thing @ 2026-01-26 16:00:00

Two ways of preserving the data. The post What’s the difference between <CODE>Safe­Array­Access­Data</CODE> and <CODE>Safe­Array­Add­Ref</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Announcing the Windows Workgroup

Swift blog @ 2026-01-26 13:00:00

We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup ! The primary goal is to ensure ongoing support for Swift on Windows, enabling users to develop Windows applications using the Swift programming language and its associated tools. The n

Gladiators on wheels

AEON @ 2026-01-26 12:01:00

For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Playing in flatland

AEON @ 2026-01-26 12:00:00

Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that? - by Elay Shech Read on Aeon

Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language

InfoQ @ 2026-01-26 11:11:00

Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage collection. Designed with developer ergonomics in mind, Rue leverages "inout" parameters

Google Releases Gemma 3 270M Variant Optimized for Function Calling on Mobile and Edge Devices

InfoQ @ 2026-01-26 11:00:00

FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents to "do more than just talk" and act. By Sergio De Simone

Meet the First Speakers Heading to KotlinConf 2026

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-26 10:58:20

With each KotlinConf, developers from around the world come together to learn from leading experts, explore the latest industry insights, and engage with the Kotlin community. KotlinConf’25 alone welcomed attendees from over 50 countries. KotlinConf’26 is

Meet the First Speakers Heading to KotlinConf 2026

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-26 10:58:20

With each KotlinConf, developers from around the world come together to learn from leading experts, explore the latest industry insights, and engage with the Kotlin community. KotlinConf’25 alone welcomed attendees from over 50 countries. KotlinConf’26 is

Aspire 13.1 Brings MCP Integration, CLI Enhancements, and Azure Deployment Updates

InfoQ @ 2026-01-26 09:49:00

Aspire 13.1 has been released as an incremental update that builds on the polyglot platform foundation introduced with Aspire 13. The release focuses on improving developer productivity through enhancements to the command-line interface, deeper support f

The end of the curl bug-bounty

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-01-26 08:24:41

tldr: an attempt to reduce the terror reporting. There is no longer a curl bug-bounty program. It officially stops on January 31, 2026. After having had a few half-baked previous takes, in April 2019 we kicked off the first real curl bug-bounty with the he

Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP

InfoQ @ 2026-01-26 03:30:00

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 19th, 2026, highlighting the first milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Integration; Spring Modulith; and Spring AMQP; along with the second mileston

Accessing Files Using Java With Samba JCIFS

Baeldung @ 2026-01-26 02:21:43

Learn to access Samba resources from Java, without mounting or mapping a network drive. The post Accessing Files Using Java With Samba JCIFS first appeared on Baeldung .              

Proxy Authentication in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-01-26 02:17:18

Learn how to configure proxy authentication using Java 11+ HttpClient, Apache HttpClient, Spring's RestTemplate, and Spring's WebClient. The post Proxy Authentication in Java first appeared on Baeldung .          

How to Execute Tests Selectively in TestNG

Baeldung @ 2026-01-26 02:13:09

Explore various approaches to executing a subset of tests in TestNG.  The post How to Execute Tests Selectively in TestNG first appeared on Baeldung .              

Disable Formatting in Eclipse

Baeldung @ 2026-01-26 02:07:30

Explore how to manage and selectively disable the Eclipse code formatter to fit specific development needs. The post Disable Formatting in Eclipse first appeared on Baeldung .              

Effect of Idempotence on the Performance of a Kafka Producer

Baeldung @ 2026-01-26 02:01:46

Explore the concept of idempotence, how it applies to Kafka producers, and its impact on performance. The post Effect of Idempotence on the Performance of a Kafka Producer first appeared on Baeldung .           &

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-26 01:00:00

European organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as finance, healthcare, and the public sector, have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital sovereignty. To help address these needs, Red Hat is pleased to an

How DTCC uses GitOps to accelerate customer value and security

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-26 01:00:00

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Brian Cook, (director, Kubernetes site reliability engineer Kubernetes security posture management), about how Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is navig

End-to-end security for AI: Integrating AltaStata Storage with Red Hat OpenShift confidential containers

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-26 01:00:00

Confidential computing represents the next frontier in hybrid and multicloud security, offering hardware-level memory protection (data in use) through technologies such as AMD SEV and Intel TDX. However, implementing storage solutions in these environments

Meh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-25 18:04:18

My thanks to Meh for sponsoring last week at DF. Meh puts up a new deal every day, and they do it with panache. As they say, “It’s actual, real, weird shit you didn’t know existed for half the price you would’ve guessed.” Don’t tell any of my other spon

Humans Could Have as Many as 33 Senses

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-25 16:00:00

Aristotle said there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made of five elements, and we no longer believe that. The post Humans Could Have as Many as 33 Senses appeared first on SingularityHub .

Enhancing A/B Testing at DoorDash with Multi-Armed Bandits

InfoQ @ 2026-01-25 14:00:00

While experimentation is essential, traditional A/B testing can be excessively slow and expensive, according to DoorDash engineers Caixia Huang and Alex Weinstein. To address these limitations, they adopted a "multi-armed bandits" (MAB) approach to optim

Análisis de ajedrez | La roca Erdogmus, de 14 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-25 10:50:21

Su estilo no emociona, pero su juego asombra; sobre todo, por su profundidad estratégica, con la que gana a un astro en esta partida

Two Missing Characters: How a Regex Flaw Exposed AWS GitHub Repos to Supply-Chain Risk

InfoQ @ 2026-01-25 08:28:00

AWS recently published a security bulletin acknowledging a configuration issue affecting some popular AWS-managed open-source GitHub repositories. Dubbed CodeBreach, the critical vulnerability could have resulted in the introduction of malicious code and

★ The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-25 01:14:52

A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

Fortunes and Geometric Means

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-24 17:56:33

I saw a post on X recently that said Bill Gates is closer to you in wealth than he is to Elon Musk. Mind blown. For round numbers, let’s say Elon Musk’s net worth is 800 billion and Bill Gates’ net worth is 100 billion. So if your net wo

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Powers Agentic Shopping

InfoQ @ 2026-01-24 17:50:00

Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enhance commerce on AI-powered platforms. UCP creates a common language for agentic shopping, enabling seamless interactions among consumers, businesses, and p

Proving you know a product

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-24 17:21:32

There is a way to prove that you know two numbers a and b, and their product c = ab, without revealing a, b, or c. This isn’t very exciting without more context — maybe you know that 7 × 3 = 21 — but it’s a building block of more interesting z

Análisis de ajedrez | El error como clase magistral

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-24 16:21:56

Aravindh yerra al elegir la casilla más segura para su rey; Sindárov lo aprovecha con maestría, pero falla en el remate

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 24)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-24 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Online Talks on Accessible Theorems!

Computational Complexity @ 2026-01-24 15:11:00

Bogdan Grechuk has written a book Landscapes of 21st Century Mathematics that came out in 2021. There is a revised version coming out soon. The theme is that he takes theorems whose statements can be understood and describes them in 5–10 pages. No proofs

Podcast CB SyR 542: Emergencia en la ISS, Artemisa II, IA generativa en matemáticas, burbujas galopantes y no hables mientras conduces

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-24 14:24:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 542 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Emergencia en la ISS; Artemisa; IA en Matemáticas; Burbujas; Distracción”, 22 ene 2026. […] La entrada Podcast

Expired Oracle Patent Opens Fast Sorting Algorithm to Open Source Databases

InfoQ @ 2026-01-24 08:00:00

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows how this 20-year-old approach can speed up sorting simi

★ Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-24 04:38:53

The unpolished version of the feature we have today only reiterates my belief that Tahoe is a mistake to be avoided. It’s a good idea though, and there aren’t even many of those in Tahoe.

Getting Started with Compile-Time Templates With Spring

Baeldung @ 2026-01-24 03:32:57

Explore different Spring libraries that we can use as compile-time templates. The post Getting Started with Compile-Time Templates With Spring first appeared on Baeldung .              

Implement the FizzBuzz Puzzle in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-01-24 03:24:07

Learn three ways of solving the FizzBuzz interview problem in Java. The post Implement the FizzBuzz Puzzle in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Scientists Turn Mysterious Cell ‘Vaults’ Into a Diary of Genetic Activity Through Time

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-24 02:14:03

Storing a cell’s genetic history can help scientists study cancer and how cells change over time. The post Scientists Turn Mysterious Cell ‘Vaults’ Into a Diary of Genetic Activity Through Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

OmniOutliner 6

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-24 01:59:23

Ken Case, on The Omni Group blog: The features noted above already make for a great upgrade. But as I mentioned last year , one of the interesting problems we’ve been pondering is how best to link to documents in native apps. We’ve spent some time re

Lolgato 1.7

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-24 00:36:58

Free Mac utility by Zendit Oy: A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software. Features: Automatically turn lights on and off based on camera activity Turn lights off

Sobre la resolución de problemas de Erdős usando inteligencia artificial generativa

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-23 22:51:06

Las redes sociales hierven con la resolución de problemas de Erdős usando inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa. Cada día se publican nuevas soluciones obtenidas  con ayuda de alguna IA. Por ello, […] La entrada Sobre la resolución de problemas

How a Tier‑1 Bank Tuned Apache Kafka® for Ultra‑Low‑Latency Trading

Confluent @ 2026-01-23 22:41:23

Learn how we tuned Apache Kafka® for ultra-low-latency, order-preserving trading pipelines at a tier-1 bank—with architecture details, key metrics, and proven configs.

Ramp Builds Internal Coding Agent That Powers 30% of Engineering Pull Requests

InfoQ @ 2026-01-23 19:00:00

Ramp has shared the architecture of Inspect. This internal coding agent has quickly reached about 30% adoption for merged pull requests in the company’s frontend and backend repositories. The fintech company shared a detailed technical specification. It

How to prove you know a discrete logarithm

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-23 17:51:33

In a high school math class, the solution to the equation bx = y is the logarithm of y in base b. The implicit context of the equation is the real numbers, and the solution is easy to calculate. The same problem in the context of finite groups is called t

VoidZero Announces Oxfmt Alpha with Rust-Powered Performance and Prettier Compatibility

InfoQ @ 2026-01-23 17:00:00

VoidZero has unveiled Oxfmt, a cutting-edge Rust-based code formatter that offers over 30x faster performance than Prettier for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Compatible with existing Prettier configurations, Oxfmt addresses developer needs for effi

Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public

YC @ 2026-01-23 16:59:00

Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they've built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contractors, for contractors. Congrats to Jabbok, Willy, and the EquipmentShare team on a huge

Playing the Percentages

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-23 16:44:11

Dr. Drang: For weeks — maybe months, time has been hard to judge this past year — Trump has been telling us that he’s worked out deals with pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices by several hundred percent. Commentators and comedians have poin

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-23 16:26:07

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea has some physicists wondering if we just spotted one. The post Monster Neutrino Co

DoorDash Applies AI to Safety across Chat and Calls, Cutting Incidents by 50%

InfoQ @ 2026-01-23 16:00:00

DoorDash deploys SafeChat, an AI-driven safety system for moderating chat, images, and voice calls between Dashers and customers. Using a layered text moderation architecture, machine learning models, and human review, SafeChat detects unsafe content in

C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit. C# says “We have scope_exit at home.”

old new thing @ 2026-01-23 16:00:00

You can wrap it in an IDisposable . The post C++ has <CODE>scope_exit</CODE> for running code at scope exit. C# says “We have <CODE>scope_exit</CODE> at home.” appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Ktor 3.4.0 Is Now Available!

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-23 15:05:30

Ktor 3.4.0 improves stability and addresses outstanding issues. Highlights include OpenAPI generation, Ztsd support for the compression plugin, duplex streaming for OkHttp, Structured concurrency integrations for the HTTP request lifecycle, and much more.

Ktor 3.4.0 Is Now Available!

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-23 15:05:30

Ktor 3.4.0 improves stability and addresses outstanding issues. Highlights include OpenAPI generation, Ztsd support for the compression plugin, duplex streaming for OkHttp, Structured concurrency integrations for the HTTP request lifecycle, and much more.

Exposed 1.0 Is Now Available

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-23 14:07:20

This is the first major release of Exposed – a huge milestone for both the project and the Exposed team! This release brings many new exciting features, the most requested being R2DBC support, as well as performance enhancements and bug fixes. Exposed 1.0

Exposed 1.0 Is Now Available

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-23 14:07:20

This is the first major release of Exposed – a huge milestone for both the project and the Exposed team! This release brings many new exciting features, the most requested being R2DBC support, as well as performance enhancements and bug fixes. Exposed 1.0

OpenCost Looks Back on 2025 Milestones and Charts a Roadmap for 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-01-23 13:00:00

The OpenCost project, an open-source cost and resource management tool hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has published a year-in-review reflecting on its progress in 2025 and outlining priorities for 2026. By Craig Risi

Computers can’t surprise

AEON @ 2026-01-23 12:00:00

As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer - by Richard Beard Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Lucha de calidad exquisita

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-23 10:45:12

Niemann y Abdusattórov, líderes del torneo en ese momento, se acercan mucho a la perfección en una pelea de mínimas ventajas

MacOS 26 Tahoe Broke Column View in the Finder

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-23 02:34:58

Jeff Johnson: Finder has four view modes, represented by the four consecutive toolbar icons in the screenshot below, if you can even call that free-floating monstrosity a toolbar anymore: Icons, List, Columns, and Gallery. My preference is columns vie

Issue 740

iOS Weekly @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

Want to use an agent, but without launching a terminal or an IDE? 🫨

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 25.0.1 Is Now Available!

Inside Java @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Zero trust workload identity manager generally available on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

We’re excited to announce the general availability of zero trust workload identity manager, a Red Hat solution that delivers universal, runtime-attested identities for workloads in your cloud-native deployments.Modern applications run across multiple clust

Northrop Grumman scales enterprise Kubernetes for AI and hybrid cloud with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

The journey to enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption can be a "wild, wild west" of disparate environments and challenging security for some organizations. That's the landscape Northrop Grumman faced in 2020. At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering, software e

Friday Five — January 23, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

Register today to unlock what's next at Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing and discounted group rates for your organization, so you can uncover opportunities for your business,

2025 recap: Top videos on Red Hat TV

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-23 01:00:00

In case you missed it, we rounded up the top 5 videos on Red Hat TV from 2025. Red Hat TV is a no-cost streaming platform featuring Red Hat customers, partners, and solution experts to help you build skills, gain insights, and get the tools you need to sta

Why Walmart Still Doesn’t Support Apple Pay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-23 00:19:56

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: When you use Walmart Pay, it’s incredibly easy for Walmart to build that customer profile on you. When you use Scan and Go, all of that same information is handed over. When you use Apple Pay or other payment metho

Trump Administration Shares Doctored Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 23:44:59

Violet Jira, reporting for NOTUS: The White House communications team posted a digitally altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was weeping during her arrest by federal

The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 23:33:05

Aaron “ Homeboy ” Tilley and Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas, and with a miserly gift-link policy): But there are also potential risks to making Federighi head of AI. Giving oversight of AI to him reflects Apple’s cautious app

The Information Says Apple Is Working on an AI Wearable Pin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 23:19:50

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas): Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones and wireless charging, according to people wi

Ternus Now Overseeing Design at Apple, Reports Gurman

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 23:03:27

Mark Gurman, reporting at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to include design work, solidifying his status as a leading contender to eventually succeed Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. Cook, who has led Apple

Jackass of the Week: Utah State Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 21:51:34

Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff, reporting for KSL News: SB138 , sponsored by Cullimore, R-Sandy, would make Android, the world’s most popular mobile device operating system, an official state symbol, joining the ranks of the official state c

Taegan Goddard: ‘There’s No Going Back’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 21:30:26

Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire, in a post that pairs perfectly with Om Malik’s re: velocity bestowing authority : The new Democratic argument isn’t about restoring guardrails. It’s about moving fast — and using power unapologetically — to

Om Malik: ‘Velocity Is the New Authority’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 21:25:58

Om Malik: That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke.

‘Inside Trump’s Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 20:24:55

The Wall Street Journal ( gift link ; News+ link ): When President Trump arrived in the snow-covered Swiss Alps on Wednesday afternoon, European leaders were panicking that his efforts to acquire Greenland would trigger a trans-Atlantic conflagration

🌟 GSoC 2026 is Here! Join Us for Another Year of Innovation 🌟

ASF @ 2026-01-22 20:10:23

Hello Community, We’re excited to announce that Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 has officially begun, and The ASF is planning to participate for the 21st consecutive year!  GSoC is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into

The Scale of ICE Protests in Minnesota

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-22 17:26:32

Margaret Killjoy, in a thread on Bluesky ( via Kottke ): I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the news calling Po

Powerful new developer tools increase the versatility of the Microsoft Quantum platform

Microsoft Quantum Blog @ 2026-01-22 17:00:00

Microsoft is committed to providing the tools that developers and scientists need to enable applications on quantum machines. The post Powerful new developer tools increase the versatility of the Microsoft Quantum platform appeared first on Microsoft

A simple helper function for attaching a progress handler to a Windows Runtime IAsync­Action­With­Progress or IAsync­Operation­With­Progress

old new thing @ 2026-01-22 16:00:00

It doesn't do much, but it saves typing. The post A simple helper function for attaching a progress handler to a Windows Runtime IAsync­Action­With­Progress or IAsync­Operation­With­Progress appeared first on The Old New Thing

Fragments: January 22

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-22 15:30:00

My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™ , a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thoughtworks consultants in their client work. I’m lookin

A Multilevel Framework for Partitioning Quantum Circuits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-22 13:33:24

Quantum 10, 1984 (2026). Executing quantum algorithms over distributed quantum systems requires quantum circuits to be divided into sub-circuits which communicate via entanglement-based teleportation. Naively m

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

Swift blog @ 2026-01-22 13:00:00

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can direc

Dissipation and non-thermal states in cryogenic cavities

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-22 12:05:23

Quantum 10, 1983 (2026). We study the properties of photons in a cryogenic cavity, made by cryo-cooled mirrors surrounded by a room temperature environment. We model such a system as a multimode cavity coupled

Sandcastles

AEON @ 2026-01-22 12:01:00

A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Dreams of the far Right

AEON @ 2026-01-22 12:00:00

Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong - by Agnieszka Pasieka Read on Aeon

Recurrence in discrete-time quantum stochastic walks

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-22 11:46:46

Quantum 10, 1982 (2026). Interplay between quantum interference and classical randomness can enhance performance of various quantum information tasks. In the present paper we analyze recurrence phenomena in the

Gibbs Sampling gives Quantum Advantage at Constant Temperatures with O(1)-Local Hamiltonians

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-22 11:03:19

Quantum 10, 1981 (2026). Sampling from Gibbs states – states corresponding to system in thermal equilibrium – has recently been shown to be a task for which quantum computers are expected to achieve super-polyn

Java Weekly, Issue 630

Baeldung @ 2026-01-22 10:44:10

Going beyond pattern matching in modern Java, concurrency improvements and evolving as a developer along with AI. A solid week :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 630 first appeared on Baeldung .             &#

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro, de 12 años, emula a Nimzóvich y Reti, padres del estilo hipermoderno

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-22 10:09:15

Las dos últimas victorias del argentino son modelos de ceder la ocupación del centro para atacarlo, aprovechando las debilidades creadas

How to Sign Quantum Messages

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-22 10:07:45

Quantum 10, 1980 (2026). Signing quantum messages has long been considered impossible even under computational assumptions. In this work, we challenge this notion and provide three innovative approaches to sign

Community

Computational Complexity @ 2026-01-22 09:57:00

I once had a provost who felt that academic departments hindered the university as they tended to silo the faculty. He would argue we should eliminate departments and that would increase cross-disciplinary work. That went nowhere of course. He missed a c

Mapping to String in Mapstruct

Baeldung @ 2026-01-22 07:52:46

Learn how to map different types of data to String using MapStruct. The post Mapping to String in Mapstruct first appeared on Baeldung .              

Rename Existing Field With Elasticsearch Mapping

Baeldung @ 2026-01-22 07:47:59

Learn how renaming fields in Elasticsearch usually requires recreating an index reindexing. The post Rename Existing Field With Elasticsearch Mapping first appeared on Baeldung .              

Thoughts: Mobile

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-22 03:00:00

Es ist recht früh am Morgen. Ich sitze auf einem nur mäßig bequemen Stuhl. Ich gucke an die Decke. Ein Mobile im Wartezimmer. Es dreht sich langsam. Sehr langsam. Ich weiß nicht, was die Formen darstellen sollen. Flügel vielleicht. Borkum wäre genauso gut

Separate feeds with Jekyll

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-22 02:00:00

As mentioned earlier, I now have thematically separated Atom XML files for the blog. Jekyll does not provide this by default, and to my knowledge the existing feed-generation plugin also does not allow separation by author. I made it very easy for myse

Inc. Honors MartianCraft as a 2025 Power Partner Award Winner

The Syndicate @ 2026-01-22 01:00:00

The annual list celebrates the nation’s top B2B organizations with a proven history of empowering entrepreneurs and driving business growth. San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2025 – Inc., the essential media playbook for the entrepreneurs

Restructuring the blog

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-22 01:00:00

I have finally completed something that had been on my to-do list for a long time. I know that there are people who are not interested in my personal texts—some are even bothered by them. At the same time, I really enjoyed writing those articles. The same

Announcing Rust 1.93.0

Rust blog @ 2026-01-22 01:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.93.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.93.0 with: $

Carrier Classes; Beyond Records - Inside Java Newscast #105

Inside Java @ 2026-01-22 01:00:00

This episode presents Project Amber lead Brian Goetz’s recent email “Data Oriented Programming, Beyond Records”, wherein he describes plans to improve Java’s data handling capabilities by introducing carrier classes, a generalization of records.

Understanding security embargoes at Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-22 01:00:00

Within Red Hat’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) framework, an embargo is a strictly-defined window of time during which a security vulnerability is known only to a small group of trusted parties before being made public, including the vulnerabi

[Sponsor] Meh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-21 23:23:45

Everything sucks. The whole world’s going to shit, especially our part of it, and it can feel like anything fun or silly is sticking your head in the sand. And yet. It doesn’t help to just be miserable. If you’re going to last, you’ve got to find your l

Gurman Scoops ‘Campos’, Apple’s Codename for a Chatbot-Based Siri in Next Year’s Version 27 OSes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-21 23:18:57

Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg (gift link): Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI

More From The Verge: ‘What a Sony and TCL Partnership Means for the Future of TVs’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-21 22:56:36

John Higgins, The Verge (gift link): As of today, Sony already relies on different manufacturing partners to create its TV lineup. While display panel manufacturers never reveal who they sell panels to, Sony is likely already using panels for its LCD

Sony’s TV Business Is Being Taken Over by TCL

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-21 21:29:43

Jess Weatherbed, at The Verge: Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware business , shifting it to a new joint venture with TCL. The two companies have signed a non-binding agreement for Sony’s home entertainment business, with TCL set to

Análisis de ajedrez | Juego espléndido de Niemann, líder junto a Abdusattórov

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-21 17:53:04

Tras salir de la apertura en una posición de doble filo, el estadounidense demuestra que sus piezas son preferibles, en un clase magistral

Mills ratio and tail thickness

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-21 16:27:57

The Mills ratio [1] is the ratio of the CCDF to the PDF. That is, for a random variable X, the Mills ratio at x is the complementary cumulative distribution function divided by the density function. If the density function of X is f, then The Mills ratio

How Animals Build a Sense of Direction

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-21 16:18:39

Researchers recorded the neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the coast of Tanzania. The post How Animals Build a Sense of Direction first appeared on Quanta Magazine

On the proper usage of a custom Win32 dialog class

old new thing @ 2026-01-21 16:00:00

You are replacing the window procedure, not the dialog procedure. The post On the proper usage of a custom Win32 dialog class appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-21 15:40:00

A conversation between Unmesh Joshi , Rebecca Parsons , and Martin Fowler on how LLMs help us shape the abstractions in our software. We view our challenge as building systems that survive change, requiring us to manage our cognitive load. We can do t

libcurl memory use some years later

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-01-21 15:25:04

One of the trickier things in software is gradual degradation. Development that happens in the wrong direction slowly over time which never triggers any alarms or upset users. Then one day you suddenly take a closer look at it and you realize that this are

Sigmas and Student

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-21 14:20:49

I saw something yesterday saying that the Japanese bond market had experienced a six standard deviation move. This brought to mind a post I’d written eight years ago. All probability statements depend on a model. And if you’re probability mode

The immortality paradox

AEON @ 2026-01-21 12:01:00

Most people live as though death is undesirable. But would immortality be a blessing – or an interminable curse? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Hamiltonian Property Testing

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-21 11:14:19

Quantum 10, 1979 (2026). Locality is a fundamental feature of many physical time evolutions. Assumptions on locality and related structural properties also underlie recently proposed procedures for learning an

Projective characterization of higher-order quantum transformations

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-21 11:08:09

Quantum 10, 1978 (2026). Transformations of transformations, also called higher-order transformations, is a natural concept in information processing, which has recently attracted significant interest in the st

Useful entanglement can be extracted from noisy graph states

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-21 11:02:40

Quantum 10, 1977 (2026). Cluster states and graph states in general offer a useful model of the stabilizer formalism and a path toward the development of measurement-based quantum computation. Their defining st

This Week in Rust 635

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