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Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
slashdot @ 2026-09-30 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. This may not sound impressive in the age of the self-driving car until you realize that t
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 20
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-09-30 03:00:00
Geliehene Erinnerungen
Firefox Redesign Brings Round Tabs, New Themes, and Compact Mode
slashdot @ 2026-09-30 01:00:00
Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign across desktop and mobile, bringing rounded "bubble" tabs, a curved address bar, refreshed icons and colors, and a more consistent visual language across devices. Mozilla is also adding more themes and wallpapers
Microsoft Makes Linux Containers Native On Windows 11
slashdot @ 2026-09-30 00:00:00
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe fo
Mistral CEO Says US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence'
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 23:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Mistral Chief Executive Arthur Mensch has accused leading global artificial intelligence companies of using the debate over the safety of the technology as a cover-up for their "negligence." "The debate that w
This Robot Dog Crushed a Marathon Without Stopping to Recharge
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 22:19:08
The robot could potentially travel over 40 miles on a single charge, roughly three times further than other designs. The post This Robot Dog Crushed a Marathon Without Stopping to Recharge appeared first on SingularityHub .
McDonald's Reportedly Using AI to 'Dynamically' Price Its Burgers
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 22:00:00
McDonald's is reportedly using AI-powered pricing tools to recommend menu prices based on what customers near individual restaurants are willing to pay. Franchisees technically retain control over final prices, but some told Reuters they feel pressured to
Podcast CB SyR 572: Regeneración muscular, métodos numéricos semi-implícitos, 3I/ATLAS y premios Ig Nobel
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-29 21:59:28
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 572 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Especial Directo en Madrid/Tetuán”, 24 sep 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 572: Regeneración muscula
Amazon CloudWatch Omni Extends CloudWatch into the Agent Era
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 21:00:00
Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot applications and autonomous AI agents in a unified environment. By Sergio De Simone
500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 21:00:00
A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations scanned more than 500,000 faces, cost over 320,000 pounds, and produced just one alert with no arrests directly resulting from the technology. That one alert e
OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots'
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 20:00:00
In addition to the company's GPT-6.1 Astra announcement, OpenAI announced always-on AI agents called "Dots" that can proactively use a computer and connected apps to research, draft documents, write software and handle other tasks on a user's behalf. "Open
Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 19:00:00
Google says ChromeOS will keep receiving regular updates and security patches through mid-2034, after which qualifying newer Chromebooks will be able to migrate to the new Googlebook OS. 9to5Google reports: Starting with Chromebook updates, Google says tha
California Is Banning Public Officials From Making Memecoins
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 18:00:00
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2409, barring California public officials from issuing memecoins and prohibiting companies from listing memecoins that use a public official's image or likeness. Engadget reports: The governor's office pointed to
Follow-Up on my Spitballed Predictions for Apple’s October
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 17:08:19
Regarding my post yesterday speculating on how Apple’s October — seemingly set to be a big one — might play out, a friend asked if any or all of the new stuff might be released through Apple Newsroom announcements only. Good question. Let’s run through
Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved s
Destroy Any Website
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 16:29:28
Desktop only, and you definitely want sound on. With things like this I always start with Kottke.org. No idea why, because it’s quite possibly the last site on the entire web I’d want to see actually destroyed. (Well, second-to-last.) ★
Cloudflare Adds Configurable HTTP Vary Header Support to Prevent Cache Thrashing
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 16:14:00
Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Ope
As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended
old new thing @ 2026-09-29 16:00:00
Swearing is also poor form. The post As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Bliki: Sensible Default
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 15:43:00
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain
Fragments: September 29
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 14:41:00
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and
The State of Kotlin in 2026 Report
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29
In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t
The State of Kotlin in 2026 Report
Kotlin news @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29
In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t
Kubernetes Teams Get a Safer Way to See Their Own GPU Metrics
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 14:00:00
Adobe engineers have described an open-source approach for giving teams self-service access to their own Prometheus metrics in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, without exposing the shared metrics of other teams. By Craig Risi
Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 14:00:00
There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring
El Nino Bursts Through Temperature Record Months Before Peak
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 13:00:00
The current El Nino has already surpassed the highest Pacific temperature anomaly recorded in the modern era, reaching 3.05C above the 1991-2020 average months before its expected peak. The commonly used ONI measure is also on the verge of breaking the 201
Order Parameter Discovery for Quantum Many-Body Systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-29 12:47:12
Quantum 10, 2217 (2026). Quantum phase transitions reveal deep insights into the behavior of many-body quantum systems, but identifying these transitions without prior knowledge of order parameters remains a si
Don’t use the ‘C-word’
AEON @ 2026-09-29 12:00:00
A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label - by Matthew R Cooperberg Read on Aeon
Atlassian Rebuilds Metrics Pipeline Around OpenTelemetry at Massive Scale
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 11:00:00
Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SL
Cloudflare Worker Previews: Per-Branch Environments for Workers
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 11:00:00
Cloudflare has introduced Worker Previews. This feature allows each Git branch to have its own isolated, production-like environment for a Worker. Each environment has a stable URL. It also has its own configuration and unique state for each branch. Plus
Microbes Could Survive On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 09:00:00
New research suggests Enceladus may be an especially promising place to search for extraterrestrial life: microbes similar to those found near Earth's hydrothermal vents survived in lab conditions designed to mimic the Saturnian moon's subsurface ocean. A
New Features in Java 27
Baeldung @ 2026-09-29 08:55:30
Learn what's new in Java 27: which JEPS are final and which are still in preview. The post New Features in Java 27 first appeared on Baeldung .
Python Workers Reach GA on Cloudflare, with Questions About Cold Starts and Upstream Maintenance
InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 08:33:00
Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, built on PEP 783 and on socket syscalls implemented over the Workers connect API. The announcement carries no performance figures. A urllib3 maintainer questioned who supports the upstream work afte
Bananas That Don't Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the table. But such woes could soon be a thing of the past, with gene-edited bananas that keep their freshly pee
Bastardica
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 04:15:36
“A foundry for bastard web fonts.” The default is a version of Times New Roman but every 7th glyph is replaced with one from Arial, but you can dial up whatever bastardization you want. This is why I’m not at all worried about AI destroying the world. L
‘When Did Google Get So F-Ing Weird?’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:51:50
Sancho Panza: I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Kagi , the search engine I’ve been using for a few years now, gave me the exact sort of results to Panza
Joanna Stern Pokes the Pickle
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:42:00
If anyone could devise a funny way to measure battery life, it’s her. ★
‘Donald Decodes’ Interview Craig Federighi Regarding the iPhone Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:10:48
Apple executives seemingly did very few interviews after the iPhone event three weeks ago. The best, perhaps by far, is this 11-minute video with Craig Federighi by “Donald Decodes”, a Chinese language creator. His YouTube account only has 1,100 followe
Why Stolen Device Protection Makes Passwords Safer
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 02:43:51
Glenn Fleishman: Leaving Stolen Device Protection enabled does mean that you may have to wait an hour in some scenarios to manage aspects of your Apple Account, make changes to Face ID or Touch ID, change your device passcode, and a few other actions.
Why You Should Care About Green Coding
The Syndicate @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
Have you ever taken your phone out of your pocket and thought, “Why is my phone so hot?!” Maybe you actually said it out loud or dropped your phone from surprise. You might have also noticed that the screen was still fully lit, the phone
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal
Inside Java @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal
Why Red Hat is building an open foundation for enterprise agents with OpenClaw Enterprise
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
Applications are moving beyond predefined workflows toward agentic systems that can reason, use tools, interact with enterprise data, execute code, delegate work and collaborate with other agents to accomplish goals. This has driven the development of new
Red Hat delivers peak performance on Kubernetes and CPUs in MLPerf Inference v6.1
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
Red Hat is proud to announce our results from the industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.1 benchmark. This submission builds on our track record across recent rounds: In v5.1, we demonstrated cost-effective Llama-3.1-8B-FP8 inference with vLLM on NVIDIA H10
Balancing open science and data privacy with enterprise Red Hat OpenShift AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam on March 23—the high-energy "Day Zero" event of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2026—the stage was set for a deep dive into the intersection of cutting-edge technology and global safety. Francesco Giannocca
Agentic AI for network operations: Smarter decisions on proven automation
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00
Most telecommunications service providers already know how to manage changes to their network.They have established change windows, built approved playbooks, and used network automation over many years to make the process more reliable. The challenging par
China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 01:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the
Jeremy Stern’s Profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 00:41:40
Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and spend another few days in Palo Alto and San Francisco ahead of my interview with Zuckerberg, s
US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 00:01:26
A government-funded competition would award prizes for quantum computers that do useful work no supercomputer can touch. The post US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 appeared first on SingularityHub .
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2 Billion
slashdot @ 2026-09-29 00:00:00
AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, making it the chipmaker's second-largest acquisition and giving it a major foothold in "world models" that simulate 3D environments for robotics and other physically grounde
Muse, Instagram, and VLC Lookalike Rip-Offs in the Mac App Store
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 21:50:19
Jeff Johnson: In other words, Muse AI is a blatant copy of Muse from Meta, the latter of which is currently the #1 iOS App Store download in the United States. I don’t know where Muse AI ranks in the iOS App Store, but I do know that it’s currently th
Artifactory Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation Enable Authentication Bypass and Admin Access
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 21:00:00
Three Artifactory vulnerabilities under active exploitation enable authentication bypassing on Internet-accessible, self-hosted deployments, potentially allowing attackers to establish persistent administrator access in under five minutes. The exploits t
★ Spitballing Predictions for Apple’s October
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 20:43:48
Apple, in my experience, sticks to a very predictable schedule for review units.
Análisis de ajedrez | Ivanchuk apretó a Sindárov
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-28 19:35:35
Nadie, ni siquiera el aspirante al título mundial, puede jugar relajado ante el genial ucranio de 57 años
Duo-Man
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 18:35:02
Vidit Bhargava (developer of LookUp and Movie Buzz ): Duo-Man offers the complete walkman experience on the iPhone Duo. Open the Duo to pick and “insert” the cassette, Close the Duo to start listening. Yes, I actually recorded the button clicks a
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-28 18:14:54
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Am
Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-28 16:35:21
After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians. The post Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Maga
Radicle Discloses Critical Flaws Exposing Private Repositories in Plain Text
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 16:14:00
Radicle has identified two critical security vulnerabilities in its wire protocol, compromising confidentiality across all node releases. Attackers can access private repository data in cleartext and impersonate nodes. Due to architectural flaws, immedia
C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they get initialized multiple times
old new thing @ 2026-09-28 16:00:00
Only on first execution. The post C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they get initialized multiple times appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Meta’s ZGateway Cuts ZippyDB Connections 19x While Handling 1B+ Operations per Second
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 15:55:00
Meta has introduced ZGateway, a stateless proxy for ZippyDB that centralizes connection management, traffic routing, caching, load balancing, and admission control. The gateway handles more than 1 billion operations per second and about 40% of ZippyDB tr
Affect theory
AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:01:00
In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Paternity is poetical
AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:00:00
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us - by Daniel Swift Read on Aeon
A More Reliable Compilation Scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform Modules
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26
The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th
A More Reliable Compilation Scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform Modules
Kotlin news @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26
The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th
Uber Separates Scaling Intent From Execution on Kubernetes Platform
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 11:00:00
Uber has published a detailed account of its new ServiceScale controller, which allows multiple orchestrators to safely manage the scaling of the same Kubernetes workloads. The blog post, written by senior software engineers Egor Grishechko and Srikar Pa
Linear Completes 1,000-PR Migration From styled-components to Meta's StyleX
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 08:26:00
Linear completed the transition of its React applications from styled-components to StyleX, Meta's CSS-in-JS library, involving over 1,000 pull requests. This migration aimed to enhance performance and enforce stricter component boundaries. The shift res
AWS Introduces Foreign Key Constraints in Aurora DSQL
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 06:54:00
AWS recently announced that Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints, allowing applications to enforce referential integrity directly in the database, including CASCADE, SET NULL, and other referential actions. The addition addresses a long-stand
What is the point of AI-disclosure?
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-28 05:34:50
The STOC conference (and likely others) are requiring that a submission says how much AI was used. I can imagine the following options: 1) AI was used for proofreading and tightening prose (I think in this case you do not need to disclose). 2) AI was
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Hibernate, Quarkus, Gradle, Maven
InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 04:30:00
This week's Java roundup for September 21st, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of TornadoVM 7.0 and Groovy 6.0; point releases of GraalVM and Gradle; maintenance releases of Quarkus and GDK for Micronaut; the seventh release candidate of Mave
Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement
Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00
Glamsterdam follows the Fusaka upgrade, advancing Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes to gas pricing that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth. The Glamsterdam ne
Failing to solve Manic Miner with RL
Atomic14 @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00
Around 10 years ago Google DeepMind showed that you could use deep reinforcement learning to play video games . It’s something that I found fascinating at the time and wanted to try but never had the time to really look into it. With LLMs now being ab
Performance Improvements in JDK 27
Inside Java @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00
Notable performance improvements in JDK27
Why Red Hat is building secure agent onboarding
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00
Every enterprise AI conversation we’ve had this year ends in the same place. A team has an agent that works. It writes code, calls internal APIs, fixes its own mistakes. Then someone asks what happens when 1,000 of these run across the company, and the roo
Securing AI agents requires securing the systems around them
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00
Enterprise AI is changing from software that primarily generates information to software that can take action. AI agents can call APIs, invoke tools, access files and credentials, communicate over networks and interact directly with business systems. That
Análisis de ajedrez | La clave del oro uzbeko
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-27 22:24:37
Tras las tablas en el tercer tablero, los dos primeros estaban en posiciones inciertas; pero Madamínov logró la victoria decisiva en el cuarto
Mux: Turn Your Video Into Context
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:22:00
My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots — hosted AI workflows — turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, thro
Katie Notopoulos on Alexandr Wang’s ‘Faux-Hallmark Pap’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:21:43
Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang’s “Why We’re Building Muse” essay: This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about helping people “spending more time with family”
Google Rewrites Critical C Dependencies to Rust Using AI and Differential Fuzzing
InfoQ @ 2026-09-27 16:14:00
Google's security team developed a method to replace legacy C code in the giflib image-processing library with Rust, targeting inherent memory vulnerabilities. They utilised an automated migration process, ensuring compatibility and zero-day vulnerabilit
Java Weekly, Issue 665
Baeldung @ 2026-09-27 15:04:27
Performance in Java is always getting better. The post Java Weekly, Issue 665 first appeared on Baeldung .
Fool's Expertise
The observation deck @ 2026-09-27 02:00:00
I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang , which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of
Reelizer Returns
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 23:08:08
Back in 2011 I linked to Reelizer, a splendid archive of movie posters curated by Roger Erik Tinch . Reelizer went away for a few years, but Tinch has brought it back, seemingly better than ever. Huzzah. ★
Alexandr Wang: ‘Why I’m Building Muse’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 22:34:54
Alexandr Wang, blogging on X: Now imagine every person on earth with a second mind beyond their own. A general manager whose whole job is to find out what you want and make sure it happens. Someone that hears the half-sentence, “I feel like there’s so
Apple’s Other Recent ‘Duo’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 21:41:39
I keep mentioning Apple’s 1992 groundbreaking PowerBook Duo series as a precedent for the iPhone Duo’s name. But of course in 2020, Apple released the MagSafe Duo Charger, a wonderful Lightning peripheral for charging an iPhone and Apple Watch at the same
International Standard Paper Sizes
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 20:46:24
Markus Kuhn: In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of two (1.4142 : 1). In other words, the width and the height of a page relate to each other like the side and the diagonal of a square. This aspect r
Microsoft Took the ‘Copilot+ PC’ Brand Out Behind the Shed
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:53:14
Zac Bowden, Windows Central: In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called “Copilot+ PCs” that set the baseline for a new wave of AI-first computers, and launched with exclusive features that would not be ma
The Talk Show: ‘I’m Thinking X, Not X’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:21:38
Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one f
Análisis de ajedrez | Uzbekistán, cerca del oro
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-26 17:54:10
Con Sindárov recuperado de su derrota en 24 horas, la selección anfitriona afronta la última ronda con un punto más que India
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 26)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-26 16:00:00
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 26) appeared first on SingularityHub .
The @Find Annotation in Hibernate
Baeldung @ 2026-09-26 06:20:54
Learn about how to use the @Find annotation in Hibernate to generate a repository implementation using method query naming conventions. The post The @Find Annotation in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung . &
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview)
Inside Java @ 2026-09-26 02:00:00
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview)
Mr. Choyka Is Apparently Doing Well
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 01:50:45
A reader asked if this Gary Choyka who hit two holes-in-one in the same round of golf back in 2020 is the same Gary Choyka who was my history teacher 30+ years ago. Indeed it is. He looks good. (He was a hell of a basketball player too.) ★&nbs
Stock UI in MacOS 27 Eschews Clarity
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 22:54:34
“Thibault”, in post on Mastodon responding to Brent Simmons’s “stock Mac UI” post that I just linked to : It reminded me of my own explorations with the macOS design language, especially the modern title/toolbar which I believe is one of the most f
Brent Simmons on ‘Stock’ Mac UI
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 21:45:44
Brent Simmons: To recap: the reasons for using stock Mac UI are 1) user familiarity, which we’ve known for a while just isn’t a thing, and 2) hoping to be able to expend less developer effort, which we’ve seen can work against you. But there’s anoth
Some HEP-TH News
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-25 21:07:28
In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around …
Análisis de ajedrez | So abate a Sindárov
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-25 20:31:08
Aunque Uzbekistán vuelve a liderar en solitario a falta de dos rondas -con España 8ª-, el candidato al título mundial sufrió su 1ª derrota
★ I’ll Wait
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 20:16:47
I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot?
Regarding the Provenance of Charm Within Meta
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 19:07:33
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg Wednesday, after Meta’s 2026 Connect keynote (gift link): Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper in
Muse Looks Cute, but Looks Are Deceiving
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 18:38:39
Jason Aten, in a good follow-up to his previous column at Inc. ( the one where he described how Muse, running on his Mac, read his Messages database): The entire reason Muse is interesting is that it isn’t just a chatbot, but can actually do things f
I Was Not Blown Away by Eli Tan’s ‘I Was Blown Away’ Review of Meta Muse
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 16:41:29
Eli Tan, writing for The New York Times, “I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away” (gift link): For one final task, I asked Wren for a good way to spend that $44.99 it had saved me. At this point, it knew my life pretty well. I tho
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-25 16:40:26
The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3
old new thing @ 2026-09-25 16:00:00
Trying to figure out what the interloper was trying to. The post Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-25 16:00:00
There’s no shortage of fantastical possibilities, most involving the speculative concept of superintelligent AI. The post How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios appeared first on SingularityHub .
Servers in dawn-dusk orbit
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-25 13:45:31
Despite the predictions that no one would ever put build data centers in space, Google is starting on Thursday. Google’s prototype satellite will be one of 130 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter 18 mission on October 1. The server will follow a
Reasoning together
AEON @ 2026-09-25 12:00:00
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind - by Emilie Prattico Read on Aeon
25 years on Apple computers
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-25 09:57:21
Exactly on this day, September 25 2001, Apple shipped version 10.1 of their OS X operating system. The one they later would rename to macOS. Exactly twenty-five years ago today. Within all their fancy release presentations and videos there are barely no me
Performance Improvements in JDK 26
Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:21:31
Explore the most important performance improvements in JDK 26. The post Performance Improvements in JDK 26 first appeared on Baeldung .
A Guide to Structured Output in Spring AI
Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:15:12
Learn how to receive structured output from LLMs with Spring AI. The post A Guide to Structured Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .
Issue 769
iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
iPhone Duo Group Lab, McKinley, SwiftFairy, ArrangementView
The Limitations of Running a Workload Generator In the Same JVM as the System-Under-Test
Inside Java @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
When you evaluate a system with a garbage collector and want to understand its tail latency, you often see SPECjbb2015 or DaCapo used. While both offer corrective measures for coordinated omission, only SPECjbb2015 can run the workload generator and backe
Accelerating growth at Ecosystem Success Day 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
Red Hat's Ecosystem Success Day 2026 focused on exploring how open collaboration and innovation are reshaping customer value and fostering mutual profitability. The half-day event emphasized that speeding business growth relies heavily on a thriving networ
Partner recognition: Red Hat’s placement as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
We are proud to announce that Red Hat has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the fourth consecutive year.As enterprise IT organizations scale modern container infrastructure across diverse cloud environmen
Partner success: Leveraging Red Hat’s recognition in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
We are excited to share that Red Hat has been named a Leader again in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms!For our partners, this recognition is more than just a headline—it is a powerful tool to engage with your customers
Red Hat Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for server virtualization platforms
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00
Red Hat is proud to be named a Leader in the 2026 GartnerⓇ Magic QuadrantTM for server virtualization platform1. This recognition is driven by our completeness of vision and ability to execute, and we believe it is marking a significant milestone in the ev
Victoria Song on Meta Muse’s Cuteness
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 00:30:24
Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices. But the number-one reason why is that I am horribl
Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-24 22:58:46
Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified S
Joanna Stern Interviews Mark Zuckerberg
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:53:03
Great interview from Stern, as usual, seemingly conducted on the old set of Three’s Company . She opened by asking if AI is going to wipe out humanity, and I think Zuck whiffed by not simply laughing and saying no. She also directly asked his thought
Meta Connect Keynote 2026
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:30:01
Meta’s annual keynote yesterday was a tight 55-minute live event held on their campus in Menlo Park. I watched the whole thing this morning, before recording tomorrow’s episode of Dithering . (Which you should subscribe to.) It was a good keynote. Cons
Análisis de ajedrez | Alemania derriba a la invicta Uzbekistán en la 8ª ronda
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-24 19:51:19
Abdusattórov empató y Sindárov ganó, pero el tercer y cuarto tablero acusaron mucho la presión por el oro que se ha generado en su país
‘Apple Opens Apple Music Hall, a State-of-the-Art Live Music Venue in London’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:29:49
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhe
Ed Zitron’s AI Prediction Track Record
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:10:56
Dan Luu serves up some copiously documented claim chowder: After this point, most further predictions that I saw were either non-falsifiable or resolve in the future. Note that I didn’t attempt to catalogue statements that are nonsensical or were simp
A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-24 19:10:00
The AI-powered virtual cell tailors treatments for breast cancer based on samples of each patient's tumor. The post A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer appeared first on SingularityHub .
Copland D11E4, Emulated in Your Browser
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 18:47:16
Michael Steil: Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC. Playing around wit
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Deepmind @ 2026-09-24 18:20:39
Fragments: September 24
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 17:35:00
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into everything, careless
Healthy Feedback
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 16:10:00
Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise and
Truncation uncertainties for accurate quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-24 16:03:49
Quantum 10, 2216 (2026). The encoding of lattice gauge theories onto quantum computers requires a discretization of the gauge field's Hilbert space on each link, which presents errors with respect to the K
No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2
old new thing @ 2026-09-24 16:00:00
Another example to add to the list. The post No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Britain’s last great airship
AEON @ 2026-09-24 12:01:00
The remarkable engineering and tragic demise of the vessel that would end Britain’s dream to dominate the skies - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Where a land ethic blooms
AEON @ 2026-09-24 12:00:00
Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours - by Craig Maier Read on Aeon
Measuring a Quantum Measure Exceeding Unity
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-24 08:32:36
Quantum 10, 2215 (2026). The history based formalism known as Quantum Measure Theory (QMT) generalizes the concept of probability-measure so as to incorporate quantum interference. The resulting quantum measure
Episode 71 “Security in Java” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-09-24 02:00:00
Given how prevalent Java is on web servers throughout the internet, security in Java is of critical importance - there's the JDK itself, of course, but also the algorithms and features it offers to applications
Changes to App Tracking Transparency in the E.U.
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 01:41:46
Apple Developer: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the optio
★ The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 00:15:05
I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.
‘Prepare to Ship’ Is a Clever Software Solution That Allows iPhone 18 Pro Max to Ship With a Battery That Would Otherwise Exceed International Shipping Regulations
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 22:12:16
Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries a
App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 20:38:58
“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software
Análisis de ajedrez | Ding obsequia a Uzbekistán
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-23 19:55:14
El excampeón del mundo podría haber frenado el paseo militar de los anfitriones de la Olimpiada, pero jugó muy por debajo de su nivel
★ AppZapper 3000
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 19:31:23
Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is.
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 18:00:57
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 17:25:14
The New STOC Rules for the AI Era
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-23 17:18:39
The 59th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing takes place in Atlanta next June, part of the Federated Computing Research Conference . I don't usually do announcement posts but we need to talk about the Call for Papers (deadline November 2) wh
Super Intelligence, Indeed
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 16:22:09
President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to contro
Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-23 16:16:54
Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike first appeared on Quanta Magaz
Navigation with only addition, subtraction, and tables
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-23 16:11:52
In the novel Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a sailor asked Nathaniel Bowditch to teach him how to do navigational calculations, but the man only knows how to add and subtract by counting on his fingers. He had not heard of multiplication. Bowditch is surprised,
When working with Win32 FILETIME, don’t forget that you have std::chrono now
old new thing @ 2026-09-23 16:00:00
Let the library do the math for you. The post When working with Win32 <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>, don’t forget that you have <CODE>std::chrono</CODE> now appeared first on The Old New Thing .
How the West was fun
AEON @ 2026-09-23 12:01:00
Be it movie mythos or nostalgia for a ‘simpler’ time, there’s an undeniable allure in stepping into the American West - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Introduction to FitNesse – An Acceptance Testing Framework
Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:58:59
Learn how to use FitNesse to write an acceptance test for your Java application. The post Introduction to FitNesse – An Acceptance Testing Framework first appeared on Baeldung .
Introduction to Triton Java API
Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:48:14
Learn to use NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server in Java to do object detection in images. The post Introduction to Triton Java API first appeared on Baeldung .