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slashdot @ 2026-02-26 23:00:00

Google has launched Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), a faster, more realistic image generation model that becomes the default across Gemini, Search, Lens, and Flow. TechCrunch reports: The new Nano Banana 2 retains some of the high-fidelity characte

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 22:42:15

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations. This enables iPhone and iPad to be used with classified information up to the NAT

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 22:20:00

New submitter sabbede shares a report from CNN Politics: A sprawling Chinese influence operation -- accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official's use of ChatGPT -- focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonatin

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 22:00:00

New survey analysis reveals a sense of national deterioration The post The Vibes Have Been Off in the US for Decades appeared first on Nautilus .

joecieplinski's blog @ 2026-02-26 21:49:16

Back in 2013 , I suggested the story of Steve Jobs would best be told as a 5-act opera, with the most crucial part of the story being Act III. Act III: The NeXT / Pixar years. Includes an initial period of Jobs not knowing what he wants to do. Then

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 21:40:00

Apple's iPhone and iPad running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer mobile devices cleared for NATO-restricted classified data. No special software or settings are required. MacRumors reports: Apple's devices are the first and only consumer

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 21:00:00

Long since flared out, echoes from the universe’s very first stars could be reaching us today The post The Birth of Light appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 20:20:00

Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS and Linux, bringing a new AI Settings section that lets users disable all of the browser's AI-powered features in one click and then selectively re-enable the ones they actually want, such as the local tr

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 20:00:00

And what that says about their prowess as communicators The post How Horses Make Two Sounds at Once appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-26 19:52:06

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through a single, simplified experience.

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 19:40:00

Speaking of the Citrini's blog post, which imagines a near-future AI-driven economic collapse, and which ended up help triggering the S&P 500's worst single-day drop in nearly two weeks on Monday, FT Alphaville decided to track how US stock markets hav

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 19:04:33

New book, shipping May 19, from author Geoffrey Cain: For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of t

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 19:01:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rectangles nested inside rectangles, but FPDS.gov is one of the most important resources for keeping tabs on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:50:08

Still feels a bit ridiculous to me that Markdown is now an editing mode in Notepad.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:36:26

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: An editor who works for YouTube’s biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It’s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:27:04

Edison Research: In 2015, AM/FM radio accounted for 75% of the time Americans spent with spoken-word audio sources. AM/FM radio was not only the most dominant spoken-word audio listening platform, but it was fully sixty-five percentage points higher t

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 18:20:00

A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading session on February 24 and sent the Nifty IT index down as much as 5.3% -- its worst single-day fall since Aug

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:14:58

Reuters: New York’s attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of “loot boxes.” In a

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 18:00:00

Their tiny scats are research and conservation gold The post How Poop Could Save the Giraffe appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 17:40:00

New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amount to a form of unregulated gambling, letting users "pay for the chance to win a rare virtual item of signi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 17:07:11

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slashdot @ 2026-02-26 17:03:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees wit

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 17:02:37

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Deepmind @ 2026-02-26 17:01:50

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 17:00:00

About 2 million years ago, they evolved to feed on Homo erectus The post Mosquitoes Developed a Taste for Human Blood Before We Existed appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 16:55:48

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes only changed records, supports incremental updates an

old new thing @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Using an Is­Dialog­Message extension point. The post Intercepting messages inside <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE>, installing the message filter appeared first on The Old New Thing .

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. From a report: The streamer first started cracking down on password sharing in the United States late last August. Subscribers are now able to add an additional out-of-household account fo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-26 15:53:53

El joven estadounidense alimenta la controversia, pero esta partida frente al campeón del mundo reconfirma su enorme talento

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:10:34

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Use Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) to automate Kafka migration with infrastructure generation, ACL and schema mapping, and offset-preserving data replication.

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q1 2026 release, including Queues for Kafka, new migration tooling KCP, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 15:00:00

EBay is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities. From a report: "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 13:52:50

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Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 13:07:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn't definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than mov

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 13:00:00

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row click events, IHostedService support in WebAssembly, environme

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 12:03:00

Thiago Ghisi explained how he guided managers and senior ICs to build a resilient leadership group beneath him in his talk Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations at QCon London. Regular syncs, expectation calibration, and alignment on broader goa

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:01:00

In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:00:00

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel - by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 11:40:45

TerminalPhone is a single, self-contained Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text communication between two parties over the Tor network. It operates as a walkie-talkie: you record a voice message, and it is compressed, e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 10:35:08

Hi HN, I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email: From: Aditya Subject: Mikołaj, think you'd like this [snip] Hi Mikołaj, I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we're building. [snip] I have also

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 10:00:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94% of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens. The purpose of the experimental project was not to show off AI coding, but to addres

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-26 09:42:29

The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia. We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much! curl up This is a cozy and friendly event that normall

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 09:00:00

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete for what is planned in version 1.0, setting the stage f

Baeldung @ 2026-02-26 08:58:00

Quick a busy, performance-focused installment this week :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 635 first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 07:01:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 05:00:00

Ich bin in meiner Kindheit lange nicht ins Kino gegangen. Es gab schlicht in meinem Heimatort keines. Ich glaube, mein erster Film im Kino war “Spaceballs”. Mit der Klasse. Was bin ich einigen Mitschülerinnen bis heute dankbar, dass sie sich damals nicht

slashdot @ 2026-02-26 04:30:00

Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 bugs in production open-source codebases -- but security

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 03:43:26

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The Endeavour @ 2026-02-26 02:10:37

The post A curious trig identity contained the theorem that for real x and y, This theorem also holds when sine is replaced with hyperbolic sine. The post Trig of inverse trig contained a table summarizing trig functions applied to inverse trig functions.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 02:00:00

TL;DR kill -9 -1 can send a lot of processes to their untimely demise and can blow up your system. Since Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, this is blocked as the new process flag PRIV_PROC_SENDTOALL allowing sending a signal to all is not set by default. If you

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 01:37:32

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain to command it. The telecom industry spent billions on the most sophisticated nervous system the world has ever seen in

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management and extends network automation frameworks to Cisc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

If you aren't currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved from a peripheral tool to the primary engine for transforming digital businesses, slashing operational complex

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:53:00

When re-hanging signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:52:42

Terry Godier, in a thoughtful essay on the design of RSS feed readers: There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:38:45

Emily Glazer, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: The billionaire said he met with Epstein starting in 2011, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. Gates said he was aware of some “18-month thing” tha

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 00:30:00

The body keeps the score The post The Surprising Benefits of Yo-Yo Dieting appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 00:16:40

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 00:02:58

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 00:00:00

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead, it focuses on security hardening, tightening encryption, refining network policy

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:53:08

Greg Knauss: People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst kind of true — it also misses the point. Industr

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 23:29:25

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:17:57

Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple’s version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-25 22:30:10

This recent archaeological find tells a chilling story The post Mass Grave of Women and Children Shows Brutality of Iron Age Culture appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 21:59:30

Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5 Google: When activated, Privacy Display changes how the pixels in your display emit light, making it harder or near-impossible to view the display at an off-angle. At its default setting, it definitely works, but the conte

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 21:29:37

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 21:16:47

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 20:54:14

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-25 20:32:08

New research sheds light on changing gene expression patterns in muscle cells The post Your Muscles Retain Memories of Strength and Weakness appeared first on Nautilus .

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 19:42:06

Please note that the information provided in this document is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project for 2026 to prepare the Foundation, th

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 19:28:37

This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions. A suite of tools that help with semantic code entities: A next-gen version control system ca

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 18:48:21

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-25 18:33:16

Philosopher Lucy Osler on the insidious appeal of AI Chatbots The post Why You’re More Likely to Develop AI-Psychosis than to Join a Cult appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 18:14:19

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 18:00:00

Warper 7.2 is a cutting-edge open-source React virtualization library utilizing Rust and WebAssembly for unmatched performance. With zero-allocation hot paths and O(1) circular buffer operations, Warper achieves 120 FPS even with 100,000 items. Its compa

ASF @ 2026-02-25 17:54:18

This month’s newsletter brings exciting opportunities to connect, learn, and stay informed across The ASF community. The Call for Presentations for Community Over Code 2026 is now open, and this year’s event includes a new co-located, standalone event, La

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 17:49:10

A mixed year.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 17:44:54

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 17:31:26

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-25 17:23:43

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism. The post The Man Who Stole Infinity first appeared on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 16:33:41

Jim Vorel, writing just yesterday for Jezebel: It can be hard to know what exactly to call the substances that are now found coating many major candy bars such as Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Almond Joy, Mr. Goodbar or Rolos. Food scientists refer to it a

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-25 16:00:00

… and shaking up our view of the universe 8.5 billion years ago The post Imaging the Most Far-Out Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Observed appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-25 16:00:00

Process the message before you let Is­Dialog­Message see it. The post Intercepting messages before <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE> can process them appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-25 15:56:00

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things . But some talks are worth a watch, and I do suggest this overview on how organizations are currently using AI by Laura Tacho. There’s various nuggets of

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-25 15:48:17

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 15:19:34

After writing a few days ago about the current brouhaha over the severe decline in the edibility of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups , and linking to Trader Joe’s shade-throwing description of their own , I of course had to try theirs. In the name of science,

AEON @ 2026-02-25 12:01:00

The meticulous preparation and fleeting ecstasy of elite high-diving captured in all its breathtaking shapes and sounds - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 12:00:54

I ran across an old article [1] that gave a sort of multiplication table for trig functions and inverse trig functions. Here’s my version of the table. I made a few changes from the original. First, I used LaTeX, which didn’t exist when the ar

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-25 11:49:54

Los argumentos en contra de la modalidad por su falta de armonía en la posición inicial son sólidos, pero hay partidas electrizantes

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 11:25:16

Written as part of the FreeBSD Project’s 4th Quarter 2025 Status Report, check out the highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through both technical and non-t

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 11:00:00

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a simple, machine-readable way to reach Google's official developer documentation. By Claudio M

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-25 10:20:00

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Bellos in Oxford. Among other things Bellos writes the Guardian Monday puzzle column . He gave me a copy of his latest book, Puzzle Me Twice , where the obvious answer is not correct. I got more right than wr

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-25 07:55:38

tldr: curl goes back to Hackerone. When we announced the end of the curl bug-bounty at the end of January 2026, we simultaneously moved over and started accepting curl security reports on GitHub instead of its previous platform. This move turns out to have

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 02:00:30

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 02:00:00

TL;DR In Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, beadm can mark a boot environment with a preserve policy, preventing accidental deletion via beadm destroy . This does not protect against manual zfs destroy operations. Preserve boot environments For certain syste

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 01:03:00

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders. The change affects six services, including the popular file-based v

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

Es war ja eine der Dichotomien in meiner Jugend. Grönemeyer oder Müller-Westernhagen. Kannte niemanden, der beides mochte. Oder niemanden, der es zugab. Ich hätte irgendwann beim Hören eines Grönemeyer-Lieds am liebsten auch zum ölgetränkten Lappen gegrif

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

Refactoring is not a technical clean-up activity. The choice to refactor is an economic decision about how you allocate human effort. Refactoring in this sense goes beyond cleaning up code—it includes improvements to architecture, operations, and decision

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather than relying on ad hoc, model-specific integrations, MCP defines a structured client–ser

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 00:33:41

Here is an identity that doesn’t look correct but it is. For real x and y, I found the identity in [1]. The author’s proof is short. First of all, Then Taking square roots completes the proof. Now note that the statement at the top assumed x a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 00:29:21

Jason Snell and Myke Hurley: We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2025 in depth, with our added opinions on every category. Jason chooses to be a rascal, and Myke tries to give ten out of five. Upgrade is always a good po

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-24 22:50:18

Scientists are co-opting seismic sensors to detect space debris streaking through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The post More Space Junk Is Plummeting to Earth. Earthquake Sensors Can Track It by the Sonic Booms. appeared first on SingularityH

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 22:49:10

Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea her

luajit @ 2026-02-24 22:13:15

Reported by Vladimir Davydov and Sergey Kaplun. #1441

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:35:12

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:27:07

Todd Bishop, writing at GeekWire: Paul Brainerd , who went on to coin the term “desktop publishing” and build Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Island,

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-24 20:26:11

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date. Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates For 12/1 to 12/31 the … Continue

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:18:42

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors back on February 12: In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times , FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (M

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:11:17

Laurene Powell Jobs, in her introduction to the newest publication from the Steve Jobs Archive: Among the books that mattered to Steve was Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet . I’m struck by this line from its pages: “Live the questions for now. Perhaps

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 20:00:00

Apple's Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text, and interact with apps by, e.g., reading messages, checking health data, and more

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-24 19:55:11

AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instag

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:49:52

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weat

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:01:28

Speaking of OpenClaw, here’s Scott Shambaugh: I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting library. At ~130 million downloads each month it’s some of the most widely used software in the world. We, like many other open source p

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-24 19:00:48

Today we’re providing an update on the tools available for developers to meet their age assurance obligations under upcoming U.S. and regional laws, including in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Updates to the Declared Age Range API are

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:53:15

Sam Altman, last week on Twitter/X: Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:42:24

Erin Griffith and Karen Weise, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): More than he did at any other major tech company, Mr. Epstein found success boring into the inner sanctums of Microsoft. Leveraging one connection into the next, he became pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:23:33

Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge (gift link): With Spencer’s retirement official, Microsoft is hitting the reset button on Bond’s Xbox strategy instead of embracing it further. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma is now promising “the return of Xbox,”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 17:19:23

Abby Haddican: Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For example, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon . To the untrained eye, Times New Resistanc

old new thing @ 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Intercepting the flow in your message loop. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-24 15:40:00

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these : primin

TED Blog @ 2026-02-24 15:00:20

The Audacious Project, the collaborative funding platform within TED, is thrilled to announce its newest cohort of grantee innovators. This new cohort extends the vital on-the-ground work of Audacious grantees on key global issues, including reducing the f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-24 14:24:59

El cubano Albornoz ganó el viernes un memorial en Pamplona en honor de un entrañable ajedrecista navarro, modelo de pasión infinita

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-24 13:09:04

Last spring I wrote a blog post about our ongoing work in the background to gradually simplify the curl source code over time. This is a follow-up: a status update of what we have done since then and what comes next. In May 2025 I had just managed to get t

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 13:00:00

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud. By Craig R

AEON @ 2026-02-24 12:00:00

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits - by Julian Baggini Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 11:16:00

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open s

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 09:00:00

Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle complex SRE tasks like context propagation. I

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you th

Physics Phorums @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you th

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of H

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-24 02:56:23

I was doing some research today and ran into a couple instances where part of one law was copied and pasted verbatim into another law. I suppose this is not uncommon, but I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t have that much experience comparing laws. I

Confluent @ 2026-02-24 02:30:25

Learn how to safely break off your first microservice from a monolith using a low-risk, incremental migration approach.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 02:00:00

Brent Simmons, last month: The big change from 6.2.1 is that it adopts the Liquid Glass UI and it requires macOS 26. (Note to people who aren’t on macOS 26: we fixed a lot of bugs in 6.2 and 6.2.1 knowing that many people might skip, or at least del

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 01:31:00

Norbert Heger: In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved. You’ll never guess what happened between the RC (release candidate) version and the actua

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury....

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Douglas Adams schrieb in “Lachs im Zweifel”: Alles, was es schon gibt, wenn du auf die Welt kommst, ist normal und üblich und gehört zum selbstverständlichen Funktionieren der Welt dazu. Alles, was zwischen deinem 15. und 35. Lebensjahr erfunde

Inside Java @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

This article analyzes why we need to look beyond GC pauses to enable maximal infrastructure efficiency and introduces the new Java API for GC CPU in OpenJDK 26. These capabilities empower engineers and researchers to quantify the collector's CPU overhead,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model should come with predictable outcomes, rather than uncertainty. Our third-party model v

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload migrations in the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11, included i

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-23 23:35:51

A new tool takes relatively few resources to chart algorithms' inner workings and steer their behavior. The post Researchers Break Open AI’s Black Box—and Use What They Find Inside to Control It appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:40:48

Trader Joe’s: Like their milk chocolate brethren on our shelves, our Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are made with real peanut butter that’s made with slowly roasted and ground Virginia peanuts. The luscious, smooth, rich, dark chocolate enveloping

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:28:14

Brad Reese, on LinkedIn last week : My grandfather, H. B. Reese (Who Invented Reese’s), built Reese’s on a simple, enduring architecture: Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Not a flavor idea. Not a marketing construct. A real, tangible product identity

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 20:20:23

John Coltrane’s song Giant Steps is known for its unusual and difficult chord changes. Although the chord progressions are complicated, there aren’t that many unique chords, only nine. And there is a simple pattern to the chords; the difficult

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-02-23 19:24:30

We’re introducing Strands Labs, a new Strands GitHub organization designed to give developers the ability to get hands-on with experimental, state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI development. The Strands Agents SDK – available for both Python and TypeS

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-23 19:20:41

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-23 17:56:24

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Ki

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-23 17:50:51

Muy pocos pueden exhibir una victoria sobre el multicampeón Kárpov tan contundente como esta del genial neerlandés antes de ser una gran estrella

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing, head-of-line blocking mitigation, adaptive auto-rebalancing, and

old new thing @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Sniffing the synchronous keyboard state is still not precise enough. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:35:29

Quantum 10, 2009 (2026). Quantum computing is deemed to require error correction at scale to mitigate physical noise by reducing it to lower noise levels while operating on encoded logical qubits. Popular quant

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:14:27

Quantum 10, 2008 (2026). Unitary designs are essential tools in several quantum information protocols. Similarly to other design concepts, unitary designs are mainly used to facilitate averaging over a relevant

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 14:00:00

TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual successor to TSLint, it offers near-instant diagnostics and fixes, levera

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:57:38

Quantum 10, 2007 (2026). We study the task of localizing multipartite entanglement in pure quantum states onto a subsystem by measuring the remaining systems. To this end, we fix a multipartite entanglement mea

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 13:50:12

Big moves in roots can correspond to small moves in chords. Imagine the 12 notes of a chromatic scale arranged around the hours of a clock: C at 12:00, C♯ at 1:00, D at 2:00, etc. The furthest apart two notes can be is 6 half steps, just as the furthest a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:35:42

Quantum 10, 2006 (2026). We propose modifying topological quantum error correcting codes by incorporating space-time defects, termed “time vortices,'' to reduce the number of physical qubits required

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-23 13:35:00

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security, has some advice on how to mitigate the risks. While there is no proven safe way to run high-permis

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:00:03

Quantum 10, 2005 (2026). In stochastic modeling, the excess entropy – the mutual information shared between a process's past and future – represents the fundamental lower bound of the memory needed to simu

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:01:00

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:00:00

Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness - by Carlos Santana Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 06:19:26

Learn that the 'elements were left unbound' Spring Boot exception is a deliberate design choice to enforce strict configuration correctness and prevents subtle runtime bugs. The post Resolving Spring Boot Exception: The Elements Were Left Unbound firs

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 05:00:00

iostat was enabled to show latency distributions in Solaris 11.4. However, there is another tool able to show latencies. The fsstat command got this capability as well with the -l option. With this tool you can check latencies from the perspective

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption. We want to see DeFi thr

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Mit 14 kann man also mit sozialen Netzwerken umgehen? Einfach so? So von einem Tag auf den anderen? Halte ich für eine gewagte These. Ich bin kein Vater, werde auch keiner mehr werden. Ich gebe zu, dass mir die schwierigen Seiten der Erziehung fremd si

Rust blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

We're launching a Rust Debugging Survey . Various issues with debugging Rust code are often mentioned as one of the biggest challenges that annoy Rust developers. While it is definitely possible to debug Rust code today, there are situations where it

Inside Java @ 2026-02-23 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...

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Sovereignty isn’t something that’s purely discussed in boardrooms in 2026—it’s a strategic initiative centered around business continuity and a way for organizations to reclaim autonomy, control, and choice across their technology stacks. However, sovereig

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a "soft" cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your developer platform will actually deliver business value.I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where companies

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:32:06

Explore the most practical ways to retrieve raw XML from SOAP messages in Java using SAAJ, JAX-WS, Apache CXF, or Spring Web Services. The post How to Get Raw XML From a SOAP Message in Java first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:25:57

Learn about Apache Spark executors and how to set them in both static and dynamic allocation modes. The post Set Amount of Spark Executors first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:22:07

Discover the security improvements that the JDK 24 release brings.  The post JDK 24 Security Enhancements first appeared on Baeldung .              

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-22 23:05:00

A commenter on  this post  asked for me (or anyone) to solve the problem without AI: A,B,C,D,E are digits (the poster said A could be 0 but I took A to be nonzero)  such that ABCDE + BCDE + CDE + DE + E = 20320. (CLARIFICATION ADDED

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-22 21:58:55

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “ Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry ”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 20:17:58

The previous post looked at the Bitcoin network hash rate, currently around one zettahash per second, i.e. 1021 hashes per second. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin block adjusts over time to keep the rate of block production relatively constant, around

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 19:30:40

When I first heard of cryptographic hash functions, they were called “one-way functions” and seemed like a mild curiosity. I had no idea that one day the world would compute a mind-boggling number of hashes every second. Because Bitcoin mining

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-22 19:05:37

El neerlandés inmortal fue un rival muy temible para todas las estrellas de su época, incluido Gari Kaspárov, a quien tumbó en esta vibrante lucha

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 02:00:31

I’ve written a couple times about Fibonacci numbers and certificates. Here the certificate is auxiliary data that makes it faster to confirm that the original calculation was correct. This post puts some timing numbers to this. I calculated the 10 m

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-21 19:40:42

Como es lógico en alguien que fue 2º jugador del mundo, el neerlandés buscó siempre que sus composiciones de finales tuvieran, además de enorme belleza, una gran utilidad práctica

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-21 19:13:13

I’ve written before about computing big Fibonacci numbers, and about creating a certificate to verify a Fibonacci number has been calculated correctly. This post will revisit both, giving a different approach to computing big Fibonacci numbers that

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-21 16:00:00

Computing Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 YearsGayoung Lee | Gizmodo “Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Ar

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Es gibt Jobs, die will man nicht haben. Kläranlagentaucher beispielsweise. Ich möchte diesem Beruf nicht nachgehen. Sicherlich gut bezahlt. Sicherlich interessant. Aber das Bad in den Abwässern einer Stadt erscheint mir nicht wünschenswert. Ein Beruf g

Inside Java @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Serialization has been a part of the Java Platform since the 1.1 release. While serialization brings with it a lot of utility and was key in Java's early success, it does have some pretty significant issues as well. In this episode of Stack Walker, we revi

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 17:00:09

Advanced best practices for running MongoDB Atlas Source and Sink Connectors on Confluent Cloud with high throughput, schema integrity, and production resilience.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

Compare seven enterprise AI evaluation platforms on deployment, compliance, and pricing to find the right fit for your organization in 2026.

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:01

The pocket reference guide for 2026/2027. The post The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Sniffing the asynchronous keyboard state. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements? The post What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-20 15:45:17

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds. The post Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-20 14:41:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 546 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cafeína; Cuántica y Números Complejos; Altruismo y Ética; Supernova”, 19 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 12:27:25

Quantum resistant cryptogrphy coming to JDK 27 The post Java Weekly, Issue 634 first appeared on Baeldung .              

AEON @ 2026-02-20 12:00:00

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-20 11:40:15

Fallecido este miércoles, activo en ajedrez hasta su último día, el neerlandés fue una gran estrella y deja una obra maravillosa

Swift blog @ 2026-02-20 11:00:00

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics , a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across p

brucknerite @ 2026-02-20 10:00:00

Imaginad la escena. Una pareja, chico y chica. Un coche. El capó levantado transmitiendo la señal universal de «avería». Él, fuera del coche, de pie, en la actitud que ordenan las leyes no escritas del patriarcado. Mira hacia las profundidades del motor co

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 02:00:00

There are actually several ways to restart a Solaris system. On one hand, there is what one might call the normal reboot. This is triggered with reboot -p . This reboot goes through the firmware respectively. Consequently, the reboot can also take a bit

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Es ist Samstag. Einkaufen, nicht nur für mich. Darf ich eigentlich auf dem Mutter-und-Kind-Stellplatz parken, wenn ich meine Mutter zum Einkaufen fahre? Der Kofferraum voll. Ich sitze wieder im Auto. Rückwärtsgang eingelegt. Ich schüttle den Kopf. Über Fu

Inside Java @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-20 00:29:06

Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport: IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV, which has taken over

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 00:28:34

Learn how to use IDs sorted by their generation times. The post Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers with Hypersistence TSID first appeared on Baeldung .              

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-19 23:57:31

I’ve been trying to write up some new ideas about Wick rotation for a long time now, keep getting stuck as it becomes clear at various points that I haven’t gotten to the bottom of what is going on. To … Continue reading →