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Like aliens
AEON @ 2026-11-04 12:01:00
Like living metaphors, these self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Dinosaur Blood Found In Fossils For the First Time
slashdot @ 2026-11-04 11:00:00
Researchers have confirmed the presence of intact biomolecules and mineralized red blood cells inside the 115-million-year-old fossilized bones of a juvenile Aratasaurus museunacionali from Brazil. The discovery challenges assumptions about how long blood-
Amazon ECS Gateway Arrives with Generated Hostnames and No Custom Domain Support
InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:49:00
AWS has released Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level ingress resource letting platform teams define networking once and application teams opt services in with a connector. Each service gets a generated hostname and routing is host-based, and neither the
Docker Urges Isolation and Governance for AI Agent Security
InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:00:00
Docker has published a guide to five security risks that arise when AI agents are allowed to browse, run code and call tools with limited human oversight. They argue that the autonomy that makes agents useful also makes conventional application security
Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans
slashdot @ 2026-11-04 07:30:00
Tuesday, November 3, was Election Day in the United States, and the results are (mostly) in: Democrats are projected to win control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms. The blue wave turned out to be more of a blue tsunami, ending Republican
Ukraine's Drone Strikes Spur Hasty Russian Plans For Underground Data Centers
slashdot @ 2026-11-04 04:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [S]tate-owned telecommunications company Rostelcom has raised the possibility of moving some Russian data centers underground in talks with the nickel and palladium mining company Norilsk, according to
iOS 27.3 Adds Vertical Tabs, Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari
slashdot @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
Apple is adding vertical tabs and an Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3. The December updates will also expand Siri's browser controls, including organizing tabs and clearing site-specific history, with a lat
Project Detroit: From Foreign Libraries to Foreign Language Runtimes
Inside Java @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard. Project Detroit paves a new way forw
Apple Begins Opening Siri AI to Developers
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:58:49
Apple Developer: Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their
iPad Mini (A20 Pro) Review Roundup
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:45:18
David Pierce at The Verge , on the Acoustic Display: It means the sound fires out of the front panel rather than from speaker holes. (Some TVs currently work the same way.) It doesn’t sound any better than before, maybe a tiny bit bassier, but it als
MKBHD on the New A20 Pro iPad Mini
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:25:25
Marques Brownlee describes the two color choices as “annoyingly, slightly not black and slightly not white,” which is apt. He digs the acoustic display enough that he can imagine Apple bringing it to a future high-end iPhone (like if they do a big redesig
EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules
slashdot @ 2026-11-04 00:00:00
An adviser to the EU's highest court says Google's Gemini may violate publishers' copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case be
Bethesda Confirms The Elder Scrolls 6 Is Called 'Sentinel'
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 23:00:00
During a video celebrating Bethesda's 40th anniversary, the studio officially confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI will be titled The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. "Thank you for 40 years of shared memories," wrote Bethesda in a separate tweet. "We can't wait
Firefox's New Mini Window Is Every Multitasker's Dream
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 22:05:00
Mozilla is testing a new Firefox Nightly feature called Mini Window that lets users pop an entire webpage into a small, always-on-top window stripped of most browser controls. "The idea behind the Firefox Mini Window feature is simple: allow users to move
Binance Says Hackers Used Fake Job Interviews, AI Tool to Steal $6.3 Billion In Crypto
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 21:00:00
Binance says hackers spent months infiltrating its systems through fake job interviews, a tampered developer tool and compromised internal AI tools before stealing $6.34 billion in crypto in the Oct. 29 attack. Co-CEO Richard Teng said Binance has replenis
Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Vertical Tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 20:26:41
Juli Clover, MacRumors: With iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, and macOS Golden Gate 27.3, Apple is making major updates to Safari. The browser is getting a Vertical Tabs layout, which can be used instead of the standard horizontal tab bar. It’s a change that pa
Fujifilm To Boost Tape Production 5x As AI Fuels Archiving Demand
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 20:01:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: mag
Google Launches LiteRT Tensor API for Building, Customizing, and Optimizing ML Models for On-Device
InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 20:00:00
Google has introduced the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight C++ API that allows developers to build, customize, and optimize machine learning models directly for on-device execution. According to Google, it combines the flexibility of native model authori
Siri AI is now open to all developers
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 19:00:20
Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their customers. Siri A
Google Will Turn Off Search For Schools That Reject AI
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 19:00:00
Google will disable AI tools by default for K-12 students early next year unless school administrators explicitly enable them, but schools that choose to block AI entirely will also lose student access to Google Search. The New York Times reports: Executiv
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Deepmind @ 2026-11-03 18:01:49
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
SUSE To Cut One In Ten Employees Because of AI
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 18:00:00
SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying "automation and AI" are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management
Vitest 5: Prioritises Performance with a Shared Vite Server, Trace View, and Stricter Test Defaults
InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 17:47:00
Vitest 5.0 focuses on speed, with reported gains of 8 to 25 percent in most setups and up to 53 percent in VM pools. It adds a vitest doctor command, Browser Mode Trace View, and vi.when. Defaults are stricter: clearMocks is true and unawaited async asse
Get ready with the latest beta releases
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 17:00:26
The beta versions of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, tvOS 27.3, visionOS 27.3, and watchOS 27.3 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 27.3 to take advant
MIT Researchers Used GPT-6 Astra To Edit Qwen's Open Weights Directly, Boosting Math Scores
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) reported today that they used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra language model to ra
The New York Times (et al.) Sues Brave for Copyright Infringement, Selling Scraped Content to AI Companies for Model Training
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:46:25
Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reporte
Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:40:34
After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even if Google were right, and the real issue is “closed” versus “open,” it is worthwhile t
QwaveMPS: An efficient open-source Python package for simulating non-Markovian waveguide-QED using matrix product states
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-03 16:01:24
Quantum 10, 2258 (2026). QwaveMPS is an open-source Python library for simulating one-dimensional quantum many-body waveguide systems using matrix product states (MPS). It provides a user-friendly interface for
How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage?
old new thing @ 2026-11-03 16:00:00
You just store it all in memory, in your own program. The post How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Chance Miller Reviews the New A20 Pro iPad Mini
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:51:14
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Unfortunately, the new iPad mini’s screen has one limitation: it doesn’t support ProMotion, or a 120Hz refresh rate of any kind. Instead, it’s still locked to 60Hz. This is an incredibly frustrating decision that I c
Fraction comparison trick revisited
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 15:41:25
A few years ago I wrote about a curious result: a/b is usually greater than c/d when a + d is greater than b + c. And “usually” means with probability 11/12. As stated in the post, you can make this statement rigorous by choosing integers up t
Apple’s Analyst Calls Have Been Scripted for Decades
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:39:03
Bloomberg opinion columnist Dave Lee : Apple investors and fans hoping to get an insight into the philosophy of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus on Monday were left sorely disappointed. The 51-year-old’s first earnings call was a timid affair,
Apple’s New iPhone Release Schedule Seems to Pay Off
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:30:40
Horace Dediu, tweeting yesterday on Apple’s results: iPhone grew at 17% sales which is amazing considering they did not launch the 18 or the Duo or the new Air in the quarter. The Duo didn’t launch until October, which is Q1 (in Apple’s financial
Euclidean, Spherical, and Projective Geometry
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 13:33:10
Spherical geometry is very tangible because we live on a sphere. Projective geometry seems much more exotic, and yet they’re closely related. To show how they’re connected, let’s go back to the origins of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclidea
LinkedIn Uses OpenTelemetry to Trace the Member Journey from Tap to Backend
InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 13:00:00
LinkedIn has built an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry platform that connects what members do in its iOS, Android, and web applications with the backend services processing those interactions. By Craig Risi
Podcast CB SyR 577: Nuevo planeta enano, errores en entrenamiento de IA, fragmentación de agujeros negros, habitabilidad química y retrovirus en chimpancés
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-11-03 12:25:50
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 577 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Planeta Enano; Errores en IAs; Romper Agujeros Negros; Habitabilidad Química; Virus y Monos”, […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 577: Nuevo
Cops Bust Botnet of 1.3 Million Android TV Boxes
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00
A coalition of security firms working with Japan's National Police Agency has disrupted a botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices across 200+ countries. "We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, depl
Believing and thinking
AEON @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00
The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon
How a programming might reinvent the projective plane
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 11:45:19
This post will show how a graphic programmer’s hack could lead to a rigorous definition of the projective plane. As mentioned in the previous post, we start by adding some “points at infinity” to Euclidean plane to take care of exception
Scrutinize our assessments
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-03 10:16:17
I recently blogged about how the curl project switched to doing all handling of vulnerabilities at severity LOW and MEDIUM in the public. Let me now describe how you can follow along this process and help out. Add your opinions, comments and assessments to
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran calidad relámpago (y II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-03 09:10:04
En una lucha trepidante, Sindárov no encuentra esta vez el estrecho camino para evitar la derrota ante Praggnanandhaa
China Publicly Discloses Plan For a Lunar Landing Within Three Years
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 08:00:00
At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, Chinese space officials publicly outlined the most detailed roadmap yet for landing astronauts on the Moon "before 2030." Ars Technica reports: China's lunar landings will involve a lunar-orbit rende
BYD Sold More EVs Last Month Than the US Did All Quarter
slashdot @ 2026-11-03 04:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: The world's leading EV maker is showing no signs of slowing down. BYD sold 490,168 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in October, up 11% from the prior year and the company's highest monthly total in 2026. BYD's b
Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-03 01:19:54
New AI tools could help more biologists experiment with problems once restricted to a handful of specialists. The post Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple Announces Record $114.5B Fourth-Quarter Results
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 01:10:53
Jason Snell, Six Colors: On Monday, Apple announced record fourth-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $114.5B, up 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 17.5%, Mac revenue was up 23.7%, and Services revenue was up 9.8%. Wear
Designing for sovereignty: Ethereum for digital public infrastructure
Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
Public services increasingly rely on digital systems that enable institutions to collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Such cooperation may involve government agencies verifying documents issued by other authorities, or humanitarian or
Announcing rustup 1.29.3
Rust blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new
Trustworthy AI starts with community governance
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
Developers are using AI to write code, generate tests, and ship features faster than ever. The tools are becoming more capable, and the amount of work they can perform is expanding quickly. As code generation accelerates, open source communities face an en
Moving Lightwell patches into production by orchestrating the release lifecycle
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
In this article:Vulnerability remediation requires more than just merging code: While opening a pull request (PR) updates a dependency, that's not the end of the process. Safely moving that change to production requires integration testing, change manageme
Future-proofing enterprise AI: The impact of post-quantum cryptography on Red Hat AI Enterprise
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
We are rapidly approaching an intersection of 2 generational technology shifts: The explosive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and the looming reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs). While AI is transforming how
Announcing Fedora 45
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 45, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 45 below and don't forget to make sure yo
[Sponsor] OurCal
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-02 23:43:59
“I didn’t see you put that in the diary.” Sound familiar? Shared calendars solved scheduling, not communication. OurCal connects any calendar, new or existing, to a group chat. Changes post there automatically, so nobody misses them. Because it’s a
OpenAI Conference at KITP
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-02 21:55:03
There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading ͛
Upcoming: New age rating content descriptors in App Store Connect
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-02 18:30:07
Starting November 16, 2026, App Store Connect will include new content descriptors to help ensure your app’s age ratings accurately reflect its features and are in accordance with local regulations. When completing the age rating questionnaire in App St
Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs
InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00
TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs. It enables PyTorch workloads to execute on TPU hardware with minimal code modifications, supporting eager and compil
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 8.0, JNoSQL, Endive, JReleaser, JBang, LangChain4j, Quarkus Almanac
InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00
This week's Java roundup for October 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 8.0; point releases of JNoSQL, Endive, JBang, JReleaser and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of JobRunr; beta releases of Hibernate ORM and Hiberna
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-11-02 17:45:48
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams alrea
Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-02 16:48:57
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Qu
Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
old new thing @ 2026-11-02 16:00:00
Wait, that's not him. The post Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Making peace with the projective plane
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-02 15:44:02
In my newsletter I give an introduction to the latest few posts and occasionally give some additional commentary. In my latest newsletter I wrote Projective space and homogeneous coordinates seemed like arbitrary abstractions when I was a student because
Uber Builds MCP Gateway to Govern Access to 800+ Servers and 5,000+ AI Agent Tools
InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 14:53:00
Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access
Jo Marchant: In search of now
AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:01:00
What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The self-making world
AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:00:00
Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon
Shopify Overexposed Scans GKE Ingresses and Cloud Run for Exposure
InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 10:00:00
Shopify has introduced Overexposed. This internal scanner locates Kubernetes Ingresses on GKE and Cloud Run services. It checks for those that are accessible from the internet without authentication. By Claudio Masolo
What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift migration advisor: Clearer reports and smarter planning
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00
Red Hat OpenShift migration advisor helps you assess your VMware inventory of virtual machines (VMs) and plan migrations to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Over the past few months, we’ve focused on making assessments easier to read and share, and more u
Sovereignty in the AI era: Choice, control, and autonomy
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00
For the past few years, AI felt like a high-stakes exhibition game. Teams across every industry were on the pitch experimenting with large language models, running rapid proofs-of-concept, and testing what was possible. That period of passive experimentati
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran calidad relámpago (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 23:04:25
Aunque Praggnanandhaa fue el más brillante, Sindárov supo aprovechar su oportunidad con suma eficacia
WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-01 22:22:56
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and th
A unified view of poles and polars
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-01 21:29:54
I wrote several posts on poles and polars a few days ago. First, I wrote about the dual of a spherical triangle, called the polar triangle. Then I wrote about poles and polars in plane geometry and briefly mentioned the extension to projective geometry. P
3SUM and APSP and ETH, Oh My!
Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-01 21:23:06
(Throughout this post I will assume that the recent results by OpenAI and Anthropic contain correct proofs of what they claim.) I wrote the following about 2 years ago but did not post it. It's dated, but that's the point. BEGIN DOCUMENT FROM TWO YEARS
Análisis de ajedrez | Alhaja relámpago de Sindárov
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 18:01:01
A tres semanas del duelo por la corona frente a Gukesh, el uzbeko gana un torneo relámpago de élite con una victoria espléndida sobre Nakamura
AWS Capacity Largely Sold out through 2027, with On-Demand Headroom Reserved
InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 09:03:00
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with part of 2028 already allocated, while the company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Practitioners discussing the remarks re
File Mover Express: AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for S3 File Transfers
InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 07:32:00
AWS has recently released File Mover Express, an open-source application under the Apache 2.0 license for transferring large files between local systems and Amazon S3. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it supports parallel transfers, automatic per
Cloudflare’s Post-Quantum GeoKey Manager Enters Closed Beta without Attribute-Based Encryption
InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 20:56:00
Cloudflare has moved a post-quantum rebuild of GeoKey Manager into closed beta, guarding geo-fenced keys with hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 instead of the attribute-based encryption used since 2022. Keys live only in kernel memory on verified regional ser
OpenBSD 8.0 Brings Expanded Hardware Support, Security Enhancements, and Virtualization Improvements
InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 18:00:00
OpenBSD 8.0 is a substantial upgrade bringing broader hardware compatibility, enhanced security, an expanded virtual address space, and support for modern architectures, including Intel Arc A-Series graphics support, ARM64 hibernation, RISC-V improvement
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 31)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-31 15:00:00
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 October 31) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, AI
InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 14:30:00
There was a flurry of activity during the week of October 19th, 2026, highlighting: first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring HAT
Análisis de ajedrez | Yi Wei sigue al acecho
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-31 13:17:48
Consolidado entre los mejores del mundo tras su paréntesis universitario, el chino se mantiene como un potencial candidato a la corona
Ecological Modeling Job
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09
One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based
Ecological Modeling Job
Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09
One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based
Kubernetes Confidential Containers Get Fortanix Attestation and Key Management
InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 09:18:00
Fortanix's CoCo integration connects workload attestation to decryption-key release for Kubernetes AI workloads. GPU-verification settings affect protection, while upstream Trustee and Azure Secure Key Release offer alternative routes to attestation-base
Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (Including The Talk Show)
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-31 00:30:54
Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late . Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering,
★ MacBook Pro Pricing and Configurations for M6, M5 Pro, and M5 Max
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 22:56:10
I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish writing my full thoughts on the redesigned hardware and displays for the PROLED XDR models.
The Only Good Easter Eggs Are Whole-Assed Easter Eggs
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:53:41
Marcin Wichary on the original iPod easter egg on Apple Music’s website 404 page: I am usually not a fan of easter eggs — most of them are poorly made — but this might be the best iPod recreation I’ve seen, and it’s an interesting thing to study:
How Harsh Vardhan Goenka became founding engineer #1 at Kalpa Labs
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:31:21
From ICPC World Finals to competitive programming clubs to building generalist audio models as the first engineer at a YC startup.
How Dylan Anderson became founding engineer at Adam
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:29:49
Dylan left Minnesota for San Francisco to build AI agents for CAD software as the first engineer at Adam (W25).
How Andrew HunzekerHesed became Employee #1 at 10x Science
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:27:50
A principal engineer left consumer-scale software to build AI-native scientific analysis tools as the founding engineer at 10x Science.
How Max Friedlander became founding operations at Petrarch
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:26:08
A math major who turned down safe internships to lead high-stakes deals at a YC S26 startup supplying data for frontier AI labs.
How David Mount became employee #2 (for the second time) at 10x Science
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:23:22
A veteran engineer finds his next act helping scientists discover cures, one amino acid at a time, at YC W26 startup 10x Science.
How Yair Alon went from building Portrait Mode at Google to founding researcher at Poetiq
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:21:48
After 10 years at Google Research and DeepMind, Yair Alon joined Poetiq to build an AI that improves itself.
GM to Pay $220 Million After Betraying Their Own Drivers’ Privacy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:18:56
Jonathan Stempel, reporting for Reuters: General Motors will pay $220 million to settle allegations that it illegally sold drivers’ private behavior and location data to brokers, who then sold the information to insurers that used it to set and somet
How Varsha Parthasarathy became engineer #1 at Flex — solving a problem she'd experienced
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:17:26
From Lyft's self-driving division to fixing HSA/FSA payments, Varsha joined Flex as its first engineer and built from scratch.
How Sherif Amer went from electronics engineer to employee #1 at Indemni
YC @ 2026-10-30 19:12:49
A layoff, two years of travel, and a self-taught pivot to software led Sherif Amer to become the founding engineer at Indemni.
Patrick Stewart Dies at 86
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 18:53:09
Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stew
Java Weekly, Issue 669
Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 17:16:14
Java 21 to 25 upgrades and lots of solid security releases. As expected after the weeks we've had :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 669 first appeared on Baeldung .
A New Map of ‘Empty’ Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-30 15:52:05
For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New Map of ‘Empty’
Speeding up planning decisions with AI
Deepmind @ 2026-10-30 15:18:30
Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times
The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted
old new thing @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00
Lots of rumors, little confirmation. The post The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted appeared first on The Old New Thing .
AI May Quickly Generate Ideas—but Teams of People Are Still More Creative
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00
How is AI affecting collaboration and creativity? Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to find out. The post AI May Quickly Generate Ideas—but Teams of People Are Still More Creative appeared first on SingularityHub .
Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Shipaton 2026 Winners, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2, and KotlinConf 2027
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33
Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is
Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Shipaton 2026 Winners, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2, and KotlinConf 2027
Kotlin news @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33
Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is
Análisis de ajedrez | Idea inmortal del siglo XIX
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-30 12:53:25
La solución de este final artístico parece imposible incluso después de un cálculo profundo; y ahí surge un recurso genial muy antiguo
Query Transformation in Spring AI Modular RAG
Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:51:20
Learn how to set up query transformation in Spring AI for retrieval augmented generation. The post Query Transformation in Spring AI Modular RAG first appeared on Baeldung .
Handle Forwarded Headers in Spring Boot
Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:42:54
Learn various strategies for handling forwarded headers in a Spring Boot application. The post Handle Forwarded Headers in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .
Macroscopic quantum coherence and entanglement in mechanical systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-30 11:13:12
Quantum 10, 2257 (2026). The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifyin
In praise of the dilettante
AEON @ 2026-10-30 11:00:00
A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age - by Jay Miller Read on Aeon
Issue 774
iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00
MacBook with Touch, more iPhone Duo, Australian App Store?, Going Closed-source, Feedler
JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes
Inside Java @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00
Now that the JDK 27 has been released, I thought it would be time to discuss interesting changes in OpenJDK’s stop-the-world collectors in the HotSpot VM once more.
How parental leave helped 2 new parents find their rhythm
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00
Becoming a parent brings so much excitement, and can have its fair share of challenges. At Red Hat, parental leave is designed so work isn't one of those worries. In 2025, we set an ambitious goal to implement a Global Paid Parental Leave policy, providing
Friday Five — October 30, 2026 | Red Hat
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00
Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red HatRed Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling inference and agent services. Rising token costs and sovereignt
Direct VM networking in AWS: Introducing BGP cloud connector on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00
When migrating virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud, virtualization engineers hit a familiar wall: how do you route traffic directly to a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization guest VM using that VM’s own IP address?OpenShift Virtualization has long offered a so
Apple Drops App Store Commission by a Whopping 4 Percentage Points in Taiwan
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 23:03:42
Apple Developer News: Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transac
A Health Update From Craig Hockenberry
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:57:21
Craig Hockenberry: If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week. Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of Word
Rolfe Winkler at The WSJ: ‘The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:44:11
Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. S
Análisis de ajedrez | El asombro se llama Shógdzhiev y tiene 11 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-29 18:54:44
El portento ruso, que brilla desde los 8, está a un paso de ser el gran maestro más joven de la historia
The Space Shuttle Discovery’s Starboard Side ‘s’ Is Upside Down
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 17:06:56
How Jason Snell beat me to linking to this, I don’t know. But like I said back in February , when it comes to signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”. ★
How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-29 16:11:57
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on
Adjustments to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-29 16:00:56
Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Ta
Bliki: LLM Voice
Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 15:28:00
Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read o
The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen
old new thing @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00
Then again, that is what they asked for. The post The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen appeared first on The Old New Thing .
CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body for the First Time
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00
The first patient received a dose of the high-precision gene editor in a new clinical trial for Wilson disease. Researchers hope it's a one-and-done fix. The post CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body for the First Time appeared first on
Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 14:50:00
TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people
Re-uploading quantum data: a universal function approximator for quantum inputs
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-29 14:19:24
Quantum 10, 2256 (2026). Quantum data re-uploading has proved powerful for classical inputs, where repeatedly encoding features into a small circuit yields universal function approximation. Extending this idea
x86/x64: Don't sink IR_CONV num.int with -O-dce.
luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:45:28
Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1537
x86/x64: Use scratch register for IR_TOBIT and IR_CONV u64.num.
luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:40:59
Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1536
Hills and mountains
AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:01:00
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The physics of getting fired
AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:00:00
Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon
Steven Levy on the New MacBook Pro, With, Yes, a Touchscreen
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 06:06:15
Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keybo
Episode 73 “Immutable Data Beyond Value Classes” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00
Recent and upcoming Java features (e.g. value classes, withers, and lazy constants) make it easier to define, construct, copy, and access immutable data
Why ITOps needs a governed automation foundation for AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00
Lately I hear many customers saying the same thing in different words—they added an AI layer to their environment, expected everything to get better, but haven't really noticed anything different yet.In practice, the addition I see first usually sits upstr
The Exponential Time Refutation
Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-28 20:15:04
In this week's big news (though it's only Wednesday), OpenAI announced a proof that the exponential-time hypothesis is false , with a Lean proof . Later Anthropic released their own paper . Ryan O'Donnell and Shiva Kintali posted follow-
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
Deepmind @ 2026-10-28 18:00:58
Say hello to Touch on Mac
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-28 18:00:55
Start getting ready for MacBook Pro with Touch today. Watch new developer videos, sign up for Group Labs, and check out new articles and resources. Explore now
How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-28 17:04:18
By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Guessing the Name: MacBook Studio?
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 16:58:45
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selec
Quantum Authenticated Key Expansion with Key Recycling
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:43:07
Quantum 10, 2255 (2026). Data privacy and authentication are two main security requirements for remote access and cloud services. While QKD has been explored to address data privacy concerns, oftentimes its use
Certified bounds on optimization problems in quantum theory
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:34:12
Quantum 10, 2254 (2026). Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in
A Counterexample to the Optimality Conjecture in Convex Quantum Channel Optimization
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:24:36
Quantum 10, 2253 (2026). This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture for the trace distance based optimal state transformation problem proposed by Coutts et al. [Quantum 5, 448 (2021)]. Th
Towards quantum computing Feynman diagrams in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:03:02
Quantum 10, 2252 (2026). We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of f
C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using make_self and immediately converting it to the projected interface
old new thing @ 2026-10-28 15:00:00
You are taking the scenic route. The post C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using <CODE>make_self</CODE> and immediately converting it to the projected interface appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Fragments: October 28
Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-28 13:55:00
Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And
The Unbalanced Group Theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-28 12:51:51
The classification of finite simple groups (CFSG) has been called the biggest theorem in mathematics. It is big, not necessarily in terms of its importance, but in the sense that its proof developed over the course of decades and thousands of pages of jou