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slashdot @ 2026-10-22 23:00:00

The Browser Company is shutting down its Arc browser on December 22 and encouraging users to migrate to Dia, its newer AI-powered browser for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. Thurrott reports: In the message explaining why it was sunsetting Arc, The

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-22 22:33:10

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hour

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 22:01:00

Moderna shares plunged as much as 25% after partial clinical trial data leaked for its personalized cancer vaccine developed with Merck, despite the full results showing promising outcomes for melanoma patients. Analysts attribute the selloff largely to in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 21:10:10

Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone D

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Longtime audio giant Bose announced on Wednesday that it's acquiring Skullcandy, the lifestyle brand known for its bass-heavy headphones. Skullcandy will remain a separate company within Bose's Premium Consum

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 20:49:38

Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Reg

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-22 20:00:08

Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-r

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 20:00:00

BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman likens the recently discovered PHP security vulnerabilities to an unexploded bomb, writing, "The PHP story feels like the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb -- I have never seen such a dramatic, public and global resp

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 19:00:00

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at professionals and small businesses that competes with Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots. Here's Anthropic's description of what it can do: Each morning, it sends you a short brief on the most important i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:55:41

Quantum 10, 2246 (2026). Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:50:45

Quantum 10, 2245 (2026). We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relie

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:43:48

Quantum 10, 2244 (2026). Mean-field Hartree theory is a central tool for reducing many-body dynamics to an effective one-particle evolution. This approximation has been employed when the Hamiltonian governing t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:32:18

Quantum 10, 2243 (2026). In this work, we examine the consequences of the existence of a finite group of matrix product unitary (MPU) symmetries for matrix product states (MPS). We generalize the well-understoo

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:26:22

Quantum 10, 2242 (2026). We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangl

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 18:16:00

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0 flaws that could enable remote code execution through SM

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-22 18:12:54

The API format that a growing number of model providers use to call language models now has a vendor-neutral home. Open Responses has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a project, bringing it under open governance alongside MCP and A2A. Based on th

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 17:12:10

A Python script that worked a few days ago wouldn’t work today. I suspect it might have something to do with my updating everything I could think of in response to recent security breaches. I got an error message that said error: The script contains

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Google is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company's deployment of its AI technology for military use. The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Goo

Deepmind @ 2026-10-22 16:30:24

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-22 16:29:41

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading U

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 16:01:55

You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secr

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly because AI-generated co

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A trio of papers showcases AI-designed molecular scissors and an upgraded tool that builds proteins atom by atom. The post This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 13:08:51

An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of poin

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 13:00:00

Airbnb is banning hosts from requiring guests to perform time-consuming checkout chores, including washing dishes, stripping beds, doing laundry, and taking trash off-site. The updated policy applies to reservations booked on or after November 20. The Verg

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:01:00

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:00:00

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 11:33:00

Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim and a name conflict with

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 11:00:00

Docker announced that Harbor, the open-source agent evaluation framework, now works with Docker Sandboxes. This change allows each evaluation task to run in its own microVM. So, instead of sharing a container, tasks are isolated for better performance

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 10:44:47

Quantum 10, 2241 (2026). We show that, for sudden quenches, the work distribution reduces to the statistics of the traces of powers of Haar unitaries, which are random unitary matrices drawn uniformly from the

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 09:41:00

A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build open-source replacements for seven Adobe applications, promoted them across Reddit with a projection of roughly 100% parity within a month, then told Hacker News the project was not anywhere close to ready. Its o

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader destinyland shares a report from CNN: The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, accord

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-22 07:46:34

Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. Just ignore it. Don’t let big AI control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl pr

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient. Researchers announced on Tuesday that they had administered the virus, know

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, previously scheduled for October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352), has been postponed. A new activation date has not been set. This update supersedes the schedule and activation instructions in the Hoodi testnet a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift uses TLS certificates across many platform components to establish trust and secure communications. As platforms grow and evolve over years of operation, managing these certificates consistently becomes increasingly difficult.For years, R

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Modern IT engineering organizations face a new reality: the mindset of people relying on “manual” work is simply no longer valid. Furthermore, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced an entirely new layer of complexity and urgency to

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Part 4 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the Layered Zero Trust Validated Pattern.Zero trust is easy to describe. The hard part is making it repeatable.Zero trust is often described succinctly in a memorable sentence

Inside Java @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

It's 2 AM Friday night when you get alerts your primary business application stopped responding and user tickets are piling up. For situations like these, you need to have already captured the data that can help you quickly get a sense of what's going wro

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 01:00:00

eBay plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of its workforce, as CEO Jamie Iannone moves to redirect resources toward the company's fastest-growing businesses. Reuters reports: The company had 12,300 employees at the end of last year. It also let go about 6%

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 00:59:14

It’s been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I’ve gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I’d want to buy and carry.

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 00:00:00

AMD has published Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver that allows users to adjust CPU power and current limits through a firmware interface exposed via sysfs. Phoronix reports: AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K posted the patches for

slashdot @ 2026-10-21 23:00:00

A CBC investigation found that more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips spanning 25 years were exposed in a breach of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform. About 850,000 records contained personally identifiable information, including addr

slashdot @ 2026-10-21 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We haven't heard many details about Microsoft's upcoming "Project Helix" gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will "play your Xbox and PC games." In a new wide-rangi

slashdot @ 2026-10-21 21:00:00

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez called it "one of the largest, if not the single largest

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-21 20:32:02

In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan Håstad of his switching lemma . I spent many hours decoding the notation and working through the messy conditional probabi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-21 20:00:36

Algunos necesitan un cojín para ver las piezas sentados, pero los conocimientos técnicos de los mejores del mundo de su edad son asombrosos

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 19:30:00

Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised, allowing attackers to forge certificates for any site. The keys were revealed due to low entropy, not through a known breach. Browsers blocked them using revocation lists,

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 17:16:51

The NIST elliptic curves have been in the news twice lately. A few days ago Anthropic posted a paper on the NIST curve seeds that I wrote about here. Now the curves are in the news again, this time over broken certificates. My post a few days ago was abou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-21 16:00:07

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-10-21 16:00:00

Too many requirements, some of which bring us full circle. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 15:45:00

Netflix has developed a workload attestation mechanism for Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR. The design combines AWS IAM identity with signed claims from Netflix’s control plane before issuing short-lived internal X.509 certificates, allowing mana

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-21 14:33:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 575 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Radioseñal; Peste; Dimensión Oscura; Tumores; Cristales de Tiempo”, 15 oct 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 575: Radioe

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 14:04:06

I was watching a video by John Higgins this morning about the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, one of the most famous passages in the Bible. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a t

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-21 12:51:00

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and ef

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

AEON @ 2026-10-21 12:01:00

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 12:00:00

Google DeepMind announced the global availability of SynthID Detector, a tool designed to help identify AI-generated content, including media created using AI tools from SynthID partners such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple support expected soon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 11:00:00

Cilium 1.20 has been released with broader Kubernetes Gateway API support, an extensible eBPF datapath and further work on sidecarless mutual TLS. The release also makes the newer netkit network device easier to introduce across Kubernetes fleets that ru

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 10:15:00

Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a cross-platform toolchain manager that installs and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user’s own directory without admin rights. It tracks channels such as latest, lts, preview, and daily, reads g

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-21 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 05:00:00

TornadoVM, an open-source heterogeneous programming framework for Java, has reached version 7.0. It automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs and provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java that can be used with any mainst

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

The agent problem at scaleAutonomous agents are powerful because they act. But when instructions are ambiguous, when tools don't behave as expected, or when a complex task takes an unexpected turn, the agent makes judgment calls. You can't expect an agent

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

New NVIDIA GPUs typically arrive before a standard enterprise Linux release can carry every driver, kernel change, and virtualization patch those systems need. The usual result is a bad choice: wait, or stand the first cluster up on an operating system the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.22 has achieved NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisor status for NVIDIA HGX systems, validating near bare-metal GPU performance for representative AI and accelerated computing workloads.What this means for customersYou no longer ha

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

Teaching a robot to perform its first task is thrilling, but turning that initial win into a repeatable, self-improving process capable of backing production fleets is a challenge. Communities like the one behind Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) have made t

Inside Java @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 543: Structured Concurrency

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-20 23:05:34

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial appeared first on SingularityHu

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-20 20:05:00

El subcampeón estuvo muy cerca del oro en la última ronda de los campeonatos que 715 participantes de 81 países han disputado en Roquetas de Mar (Almería)

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-20 19:03:38

Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary infrastructure on your behalf, with all resources created directly in your account.

ASF @ 2026-10-20 18:00:00

Apache Iggy™ is one of the ASF’s newest Top-Level Projects. In this Spotlight, the ASF spoke with PMC members Piotr Gankiewicz and Kranti Parisa about the engineering choices behind Iggy, the long road to clustering, and the community that has grown

YC @ 2026-10-20 17:30:50

Vin found Nowadays on Work at a Startup, saw a codebase he could fix, and joined as the first engineer. Now he builds AI voice tools and mentors the team.

old new thing @ 2026-10-20 16:00:00

PowerPoint presentation jargon. The post Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:48:54

Quantum 10, 2240 (2026). We study the error-correction properties of multi-mode Fock-state codes under amplitude-damping (AD) noise, focusing on the asymptotic regime in which the total excitation of the code s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:35:21

Quantum 10, 2239 (2026). We consider the problem of testing and learning from data in the presence of resource constraints, such as limited memory or weak data access, which place limitations on the efficiency

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 15:09:38

All your B2B customer data. In that nice California sunnn. Early access now!  ★ 

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 14:49:19

Quantum 10, 2238 (2026). We introduce a numerical framework for reliably estimating conditional von Neumann entropies, a central quantity in device-independent quantum cryptography and randomness generation. Ou

InfoQ @ 2026-10-20 14:00:00

GitHub has released Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.15.0, introducing reliability, scalability, and observability improvements for organisations running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes. By Craig Risi

AEON @ 2026-10-20 12:00:00

Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-20 08:09:42

The curl project has decided to alter its vulnerability disclosure program procedure and starting October 26 2026, we insist that all vulnerability reports submitted to us that are deemed to be severity LOW or MEDIUM should instead be submitted as issues i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 03:12:26

Barack Obama, in a 430-word essay: It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is d

Rust blog @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.2. 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 1.29.2 Thi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

Chat, batch, and agentic traffic can run on the same graphics processing unit (GPU) without the chatbot waiting for the batch job to complete. Built on llm-d flow control and generally available in Red Hat AI 3.5, priority-aware serving decides which reque

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

Deploying AI at the edge is both rewarding and challenging. In previous articles, you've seen how to optimize and package your edge AI models and how to execute them to fulfill common use case requirements at the edge, but there's more.In this article, we'

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

When Delta Air Lines' Developer Experience team started measuring its Net Promoter Score (NPS), they faced a brutal reality: It was very low. Two years later, after deploying cloud development environments (CDEs) to more than 1,200 developers, that same te

Inside Java @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

Java’s code reflection API, developed in OpenJDK Project Babylon, opens a new path to targeting foreign programming models directly from Java—including GPUs. This talk introduces the Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit (HAT), a Java parallel programming fra

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:36:15

Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote : I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior airline executives over the years, and I find that their knowledge about competitors

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:27:21

Greg Joswiak, on X: Can’t wait to pro and tell next week. Juli Clover, MacRumors : Rumors suggest Apple is planning to debut the new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen display, an M6 entry-level MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, an iPad mini with an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:04:04

No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like pre-ordering, at the crack of dawn, a new iPhone form fac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 23:15:57

Anthony D’Alessandro, reporting for Deadline: Dan Lin is out as film boss at Netflix in a move that has been largely speculated for weeks. Insiders at the streamer have denied that Lin and even Bela Bajaria were on the chopping block, but here we are.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 22:00:00

This week's Java roundup for October 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 28; the October 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Gatherers4j, Yupiik Fusion, Google ADK for Java and Google ADK for Kotlin; and

YC @ 2026-10-19 20:58:11

Ryder flew to SF for a work trial, moved furniture in a Mystery Machine bus, and decided to stay. Here's what building from day one looks like.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 20:05:38

Fred Potter, on LinkedIn: So if you ever meet someone who tells you, “At Apple, I’m the one who did this,” take it with a grain of salt. They were probably part of the team that made it happen, and that’s already something to be proud of. Sometimes,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-19 19:58:32

Using a system called BootLoops, scientists produced 36 papers in three months. Paired with experts, the tool could pollinate ideas across fields. The post New AI Tool Could Help Scientists Make ‘Rare’ Cross-Disciplinary Leaps appeared fir

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 18:32:06

Joe Flint and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles with slowing growth and customer engageme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 18:17:14

Andrew Chow, writing for Time: Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John Ternus’ hands are shaking. On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who have

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-19 17:40:26

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-19 17:34:59

Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became somet

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-19 16:55:22

Splitting N! into N factors is trivial. It’s defined as the product of N integers, the integers 1 through N. Can you still split N! into N factors if you put a minimum size requirement on the factors? You can’t split 3! into three factors unle

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 16:37:00

Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determin

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 16:30:00

JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 or 26 must adapt to the R_X exception type parameter, ExecutionException w

old new thing @ 2026-10-19 16:00:00

An interrupt is not a fault. The post Why do we need <CODE>ud2</CODE> when <CODE>int 6</CODE> is right there? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-19 14:00:43

About 14% of English words can be spelled by stringing together chemical symbols. For example, sarcasm can be written S Ar Ca Sm using the symbols for sulfur, argon, calcium, and samarium. How would you write a program to determine whether a word can be w

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-19 12:50:00

El español Tabuenca y el lituano Nainys mantuvieron una lucha excelente y trepidante en la primera mesa de la octava ronda en Roquetas

AEON @ 2026-10-19 12:01:00

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 12:00:00

Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model designed to make semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) more efficient while optimizing performa

AEON @ 2026-10-19 12:00:00

Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-10-19 10:00:00

Un diluvio de bazofia cae, impenitente, sobre la cultura humana. Diluyéndola. Llevándola a la media y al conformismo. ¿No es eso lo que pretendían los totalitarismos del siglo pasado, solo que «bien hecho»?

Inside Java @ 2026-10-19 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 546: Adaptive Heap Sizing for ZGC

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:53:00

Ruben Bolling’s long-running Tom the Dancing Bug is one of my favorite comic strips. I’ve been a huge fan since the early 1990s, when I started reading it in alternative newspapers. (Newspapers were sort of like websites, excepted they were printed daily

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:45:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Login looks simple until you’re building password resets, email verification, MFA, social providers, session management, and the enterprise SSO your first big customer asked for last week. WorkOS AuthKit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:20:06

Verizon, in a post headlined “Switch to Verizon and Get the New iPhone Duo Now. No Trade-In Needed.”: Verizon will support iPhone Handoff, giving customers the flexibility to use a single Verizon phone number seamlessly across two compatible iPhone mo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 23:58:33

Mark Gurman, today, in his weekly Power On column for Bloomberg (gift link): Without a serviceable version of the new assistant, Apple couldn’t deliver the experience it had envisioned. That left the hardware ready to go, but the software nowhere near

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 23:26:32

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting, wrongly, for The Information in January this year (paywalled; here’s MacRumors’s summary ) Apple’s pin joins a growing portfolio of AI-powered products the tech giant has under development, including AirPods equipp

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-18 22:50:42

So what to make of OpenAI and the future of Math? Here are some points I've either: thought of myself or heard from a human or read from an AI. Throughout this post I use the term AI to mean an AI system that produces mathematical results.  I decli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 22:04:44

The Financial Times: Apple had originally promised delivery of the Duo by October 23, but within hours of orders opening, delivery times through Apple’s website had slipped into late January. US mobile carriers also saw delivery times for new orders p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 21:34:45

Manton Reece: All I can come up with is that Apple doesn’t want you to buy the wall-mounted version unless you’re really sure that’s what you need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might buy it based on price, then be unhappy bec

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 21:17:01

I do see some political content in my feed on X. For example, this extraordinary video posted by Abdul El-Sayed, who seems poised to become the next junior senator from Michigan. You should watch it. It’s so good you might suspect the questioner was a pla

luajit @ 2026-10-18 20:34:57

Reported by Max Rottenkolber. #1492

Baeldung @ 2026-10-18 19:55:03

Learn to create a custom advisor that inspects the model's response before Spring AI ChatClient hands it back to the user. The post Safeguarding LLM Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-18 14:32:49

El líder del Campeonato de EEUU conduce al talento emergente de 16 años a un final muy delicado de reyes y peones, para doblegarlo

Baeldung @ 2026-10-18 09:13:23

JDK 28 is shaping up nicely. And an interesting harness experiment. The post Java Weekly, Issue 668 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 02:55:42

Stephen Nellis and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting Wednesday for Reuters: An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple ​sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account and later made a presentation about the unreleas

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-17 19:37:22

Megan Paragua llama la atención en el Campeonato Femenino Absoluto de EEUU por su profunda comprensión estratégica

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 19:25:13

There’s a real “*Why do we need this?*” question here and I don’t think Apple’s video answers it, at all. You need to think you want it if you’re going to buy it. And even if you already had a HomeView set up, I’m not sure how often you’d use it instead of

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-17 17:39:06

NIST published a set of elliptic curves for cryptography in 2000. The seeds for the curves were supplied by the NSA, and cryptographers suspected the agency may have installed backdoors in the curves. And not without reason: the NSA did insert a backdoor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 16:06:18

Glenn Fleishman: I wondered what the entry-level, initial price of each Apple TV box at introduction was, from the March 2007 original to the Apple TV 4K (4th generation) announced October 13, 2026, adjusted for inflation. So I charted it. I suppo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 03:22:34

Re: my post today on the still-vaporware Tesla Roadster and Benedict Evans’s maxim that “Elon Musk is a bullshitter who delivers”, a reader sent me this YouTube short of Charlie Munger’s answer to a question at Daily Journal’s 2020 shareholder meetin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 03:00:00

Apple Developer News: As outlined in our App Review Guidelines, pornographic material has long been prohibited on the App Store — this includes apps that generate nudity or sexually explicit imagery, such as “nudification” apps that create sexually ex

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 02:37:01

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday at the “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco announced that Apple TV will now cost $69, discounted from its regular price of $99. The new price for the s

Inside Java @ 2026-10-17 02:00:00

A critical bug in JDK 27 and how it was fixed, some conference news, and how JDK 28 is shaping up

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 01:34:03

Mark Zuckerberg, on X: Muse Spark Open — weights releasing today — runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple. John Ternus, replying : Congrats to the team! Amazing to run a model of Muse Spark Open’s caliber and

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-16 23:48:23

Después de 30 años creando a muy alto nivel, el español alcanza el título de Maestro Internacional en Composición

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 22:53:42

From the NetNewsWire blog: The latest version of NetNewsWire for iOS supports iPhone Duo, which is very much a novel iPhone with toolbars running up the side and all kinds of behavior. How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 22:11:23

If you think Musk is either completely legitimate and trustworthy or an utter fraud, you are wrong. He has led his companies to extraordinary accomplishments, *and* he has made promises based on complete bullshit. He is a shameless bullshitter who *sometim

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-16 22:05:42

The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. App Review Guidelines Before You Submit: Added links to additional documentation. 1.2: Clarified app content and app types that a

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-16 22:00:56

The App Review Guidelines are a core part of the safe and trusted experience that the App Store strives to offer users around the world — and the foundation of that trust is clear standards that are consistently enforced. As outlined in our App Review G

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 19:01:22

From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound truth to Pascal’s saying that every human has a god-shaped hole in their heart, and it’s important to understand that many of these f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 17:19:28

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: If you were hoping to surprise someone with an iPhone Duo for Christmas, you might be out of luck, as Apple’s online store in the U.S. is already showing an estimated shipping date of January 25 for all configurations follo

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-16 16:37:07

This post began as a thread on X last night. I’ve edited the thread to turn it into a blog post, making some additions and corrections. I’m watching 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The movie opens saying the monolith is located at the Lagrange

old new thing @ 2026-10-16 16:00:00

Getting the results back out. The post C++ futures part 5: <CODE>std::<WBR>future</CODE> and <CODE>std::<WBR>shared_future</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-16 16:00:00

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close? The post The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-16 15:25:08

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared o

AEON @ 2026-10-16 12:00:00

Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination - by Catharine Edwards Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 03:18:29

At the old pre-June prices, you could buy a 128 GB Apple TV and a pair of HomePod Minis for $350 ($150 + $100 + $100). Four short months later, with today’s new models, that combination would cost $600 ($300 + $150 + $150).

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

HomeView arrives, actor reentrancy explained, and tests that keep AI-generated code in check

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

Update — October 22, 2026: The October 26 Hoodi activation has been postponed, including the scheduled gas-limit increase to 200M. The schedule and activation instructions below have been superseded. See Glamsterdam on Hoodi Postponed for details and opera

Inside Java @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 545: Faster Startup and Warmup with ZGC