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Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 06:23:05

Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? Enter auth.md. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protect

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world's oceans are under "severe and accelerating" pressure from human activities, with the rate of sea-level rise double that of a decade ago, according to a damning assessment from the United Nat

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 03:37:27

Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as p

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 01:00:00

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO, "setting it up for what may be the most highly anticipated market debut in recent history and a massive payday for early investors," reports CNN. The decision follows recent IPO announcements from Anthropic and S

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 00:00:00

Last Thursday, Wired reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into software installed on millions of phones. In a follow-up report, Wired says the tech giant has now removed the face-recognition-related

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-08 23:56:59

A planetary defense system would blunt solar storms with hundreds of tons of gas. Emerging heavy-lift rockets could deploy it in under two months. The post Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms appeared first on SingularityH

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-08 23:27:12

This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet pro

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 23:00:00

Microsoft executive Matt Booty says future Xbox exclusivity will be decided "case-by-case," with Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution remaining Xbox console exclusives while major multiplayer, live-service, and previously promised PlayStation relea

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from AppleInsider: Apple has unveiled its next Mac operating system, macOS Golden Gate, with Apple promising better performance, the improved Siri, and more. [...] On the surface, macOS Golden Gate is not as significant

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 21:00:00

At WWDC 2026, Apple announced a new "Siri AI," describing it as a more conversational, personalized, and systemwide assistant that can understand on-screen context and interact with apps while relying on on-device processing or Private Cloud Compute. The r

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:20:01

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms and create even more unique, intelligent experiences in your apps and games with major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services. The latest SDKs bring incredible new features

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:19:33

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on ex

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:18:33

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated term

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 20:00:00

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta-owned communications app WhatsApp says it recently detected and disrupted a spear-phishing attempt linked to spyware company NSO Group. The attack is allegedly in defiance of a court order that bars the sp

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 19:00:00

Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 19:00:00

Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, giving the browser a more cross-platform path for GPU-accelerated video playback beyond Linux's long-running reliance on VA-API. Phoronix reports: Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the V

Baeldung @ 2026-06-08 18:34:00

Learn how Codename One handles layouts, navigation, styling, and general functionality to enable cross-platform development via Java and Maven. The post Introduction to Cross-Platform Java Development With Codename One first appeared on Baeldung .

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 18:25:00

Bending Spoons, the Italian app studio behind acquisitions like Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL, has filed to go public in the U.S. after growing into a subscription-heavy app conglomerate with more than 500 million monthly active users. T

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-08 17:17:08

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in mathematical research. The post How Terry Tao Be

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 17:00:00

Jeff Bezos is backing Flourish, a new "neuro AI" startup with $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, that aims to reinvent AI by studying the brain's architecture and building systems that learn continuously while using far less pow

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 16:37:00

Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with off

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 16:33:52

Quantum 10, 2130 (2026). We analyze the task of estimating a multi-parameter unitary belonging to the $SU(2)$ or $SU(1,1)$ groups, in a two-bosonic-mode scenario and investigate the scaling of the precision in

old new thing @ 2026-06-08 16:00:00

Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks. The post Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 15:45:00

This week's Java roundup for June 1st, 2026, features news highlighting: JDK 27 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 28 Expert Group; the GlassFish Arquillian Connectors Suite for Jakarta EE TCKs; point releases for Infinispan and Kotlin; main

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 15:37:08

Quantum 10, 2129 (2026). Recent work highlighted the importance of higher-order correlations in quantum dynamics for a deeper understanding of quantum chaos and thermalization. The full Eigenstate Thermalizatio

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 14:00:00

Google says Gemma 4 12B is "designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop", further noting that the new model can be combined with Google AI Edge to "build and experiment locally, on everyday machines". This integration allow

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 13:49:12

Quantum 10, 2128 (2026). Entanglement witnesses (EWs) are a collection of observables that can characterize separable states and, experimentally, estimating EWs can verify entangled states. In this work, we sho

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 13:35:00

InfoQ celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have published a walk-through of the trends InfoQ called early, where they sit on the adoption curve today, and how that curve may evolve over the next decade. By InfoQ

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 13:34:46

Quantum 10, 2127 (2026). Classical shadows provide a versatile framework for estimating many properties of quantum states from repeated, randomly chosen measurements without requiring full quantum state tomogra

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 13:34:00

Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby's package hosting site "exploit a narrow window," according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata. So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it's b

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 12:47:15

Quantum 10, 2126 (2026). The study of quantum reference frames has received renewed interest over the last years, leading to the parallel development of non-equivalent frameworks by different communities. We cl

AEON @ 2026-06-08 12:01:00

The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-08 12:00:00

The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress - by Miguel Ohnesorge Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 11:08:00

Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, its Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D. The platform powered the development of Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with 1,000x reliabilit

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 10:00:00

Microsoft announced Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026, a new SKU at auto.azure.com packaging workflows, AI agents, knowledge services, and model access into a managed SaaS experience. Agents integrate via agent-loop orchestration, Foundry agents, and m

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 10:00:00

HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.15, introducing dynamic module sources, a formal deprecation mechanism for variables and outputs, a new inline type conversion function, type constraints for output blocks, and native Windows ARM64 support. The release

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 09:49:00

Rocicorp has released Zero 1.0, a stable version of its sync engine after two years of development. This update introduces a schema change hook for Supabase and includes bug fixes. Zero operates by pairing a client library with a read-only Postgres cache

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 09:34:00

A burglar took a self-driving Waymo taxi to rob a San Francisco yoga studio this past January, reports TechCrunch — "and police have still not caught them." Even the police officer assigned to the case thought it would be easier to solve, notes The

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 06:34:00

Reuters reports: Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:47:03

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Mux is what developers reach for when they need to do more with video. Video files are packed with data and context waiting to be unlocked. Mux Robots are AI workflows that unlock that data inside your vi

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 03:34:00

"When Hugo Parra was arrested last year on felony charges, his pleas of innocence fell on deaf ears," reports the Times of San Diego: San Diego police had a description of the Alfa Romeo car he was riding in [but no license plate number] and a witness wh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:30:00

Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:00:00

Alberto Romero: AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually religious.” If God exists, the only coheren

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no lon

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

There is a growing realization across the industry that we've reached an AI tipping point.For the last couple of years, the conversation has been dominated by the question of what is possible with AI. Today, that question has shifted to, "now that we have

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

For the millions of visually impaired individuals worldwide, the lack of access to trained guide dogs represents a severe accessibility gap. While robotic alternatives exist, they have historically been limited by high costs and short battery life due to t

Inside Java @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

slashdot @ 2026-06-08 01:27:00

Italian fashion house Prada "unveiled on Sunday the inner-layer garment set to be worn by NASA astronauts heading to the moon," reports Reuters. "The body-hugging suit, created in collaboration with Houston-based space infrastructure developer Axiom Spac

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-07 22:19:52

The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread …

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 22:14:45

Kepler solved his eponymous equation M = E − e sin(E) by finding a fixed point of E = M + e sin(E). So guess a value of E and stick it into the right hand side. Then plug that value into the right hand side again. Kepler said a couple iterations should be

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-07 21:29:06

(In 2008 I wrote a survey of some of the known sum-product theorems, see  here . Avi Wigderson has a great slide-set on sum-product theorems and their applications---the slides are on Avi's webpage of talks he has given (all the talks are excellent)

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 21:06:36

An earlier post discussed how to solve Kepler’s equation M = E − e sin(E) using a sine series. You could also solve Kepler’s equation using a power series, which Lagrange did in 1771. Both approaches express E as a function of e and M, but fro

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-07 19:00:00

U.S. beekeepers lost a record 55.6% of their colonies in 2024-25, yet the total number of managed honey bee colonies has barely moved in 15 years.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-07 18:58:48

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 June 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 18:34:26

I ran across a cranky formula for π based on physical constants here and decided to play around with it. The source describes λ as “wavelength (chosen in the microwave region)” and I thought perhaps you could chose a value of λ to make the equ

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-07 14:23:11

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 561 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B,iVoox C], titulado “Feynman; CNIO; Bacterias; Dante; Metales; Agujeros Negros”, 04 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 561:

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-07 10:26:46

Esta vibrante y maratoniana pelea de Keymer y Firouzja en la penúltima ronda fue la partida más emocionante del Norway Chess

InfoQ @ 2026-06-07 08:25:00

AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving teams greater fl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-07 02:49:15

Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog: After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how freeing it felt. It

Inside Java @ 2026-06-07 02:00:00

The Java programming language is evolving fast. In this talk, we’ll summarize many of the recent changes that have appeared as well as look ahead to directions and features that are in development and will appear in future editions.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 22:04:06

Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links): We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes. We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Dragga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 21:56:01

Josh Marshall: In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. T

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-06 20:46:02

The previous post very briefly said that the integral representation for Bessel functions was motived by solving Kepler’s equation. This post will go into more detail. Kepler’s equation There are multiple ways to describe the position of a pla

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-06 13:55:28

Crecido en su autoestima después de tres victorias consecutivas, el astro indio, de 20 años, logró la cuarta y el triunfo más importante de su carrera

InfoQ @ 2026-06-06 06:55:00

Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared lock, drop the

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 23:44:49

Warning: if you follow this blog, you’ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now. There’s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this ̷

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:46:56

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April: I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes + comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:24:58

Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X: But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the T

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-05 21:15:11

You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippe

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 20:03:10

There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has also given talk

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-05 18:42:12

La mejor partida de la multimedallista y nonacampeona de España fue la victoria sobre la azerbaiyana Fatalíyeva, 3ª de la lista inicial

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-05 18:00:00

Atmospheric CO2 hit a record 432 ppm in May 2026, but the deeper story is the pace: CO2 is now piling up about 3 times faster than it did in the 1960s.

Baeldung @ 2026-06-05 17:34:50

No doubt about it, AI is changing what it means to work in Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 649 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 17:26:29

Yours truly, last August: I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels more like something Perplexity

InfoQ @ 2026-06-05 16:37:00

OpenAI details Codex Windows sandbox architecture, showing how SIDs, ACLs, restricted tokens, and dedicated sandbox accounts enable safe execution of autonomous coding tasks. The design balances isolation with real developer workflows and shows how OS se

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-05 16:21:19

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. The post Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? first ap

old new thing @ 2026-06-05 16:00:01

Not doing the reading. The post The back cover of <I>C++: The Programming Language</I> also raises questions not answered by the front cover appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2026-06-05 16:00:00

Math is hard. Let's go counting! The post Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-05 16:00:00

The findings could lead to new treatments for multiple neurodegenerative diseases. The post Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-05 14:04:28

Yesterday I wrote a post showing that the trapezoid rule evaluates the integral very efficiently. But how do we know what the exact integral is for comparison? If you ask Mathematica, it will tell you the integral equals −2π J1(1) where J1 is a Bessel fun

InfoQ @ 2026-06-05 14:00:00

Dropbox has unveiled Nova, an internal platform designed to orchestrate and operationalize AI coding agents across the company's engineering workflows. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-06-05 14:00:00

Netflix has shared details about Service Topology. This internal system creates and updates a live dependency graph for thousands of microservices. It helps engineers see how services connect and resolve issues more quickly. The system merges three separ

InfoQ @ 2026-06-05 11:00:00

LiteRT-LM brings native support for Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters, enabling up to 2.2x faster inference. The framework is expanding beyond Kotlin and C++ adding support for new Swift and a JavaScript APIs. By Sergio De Simone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 02:43:33

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules . Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own vir

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

WWDC is once again upon us. For Apple developers, it marks one of the busiest and most exciting weeks of the year as new SDKs, frameworks, tools, and platform updates arrive all at once. Beyond the keynote there will be a steady stream of

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

WWDC 2026 week: Apple's AI credibility test, developer wishlists, SwiftUI animation timing, Core Data + Observation, and Swift concurrency deep dives.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

It's no secret that IT operations is a complex area. Teams face demanding workloads, where many tasks have to be completed quickly. Objectives typically focus on smooth and resilient operations, and enabling fast innovation to support organizational needs.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

At the OpenShift Commons Gathering in Amsterdam on March 23—a Day Zero event for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026—attendees got a deep look into the engine room of 1 of Turkey's largest private banks. Emirhan Bilge Bulut, an Expert System Engineer at G

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

Amazon Linux 2 reaches end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2026. If your migration isn't already underway, the window to move deliberately rather than reactively is narrowing. Migrating business-critical workloads to a supported operating system (OS) takes real

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

We’re moving beyond simple prompts. The next frontier is agentic AI: autonomous systems that don’t just talk, but act across your enterprise. But as we move into this era, I’m hearing a consistent concern from our customers: How do we adopt these agents wi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

InfoWorld - IBM and Red Hat want to become the ‘security clearinghouse’ for open source applications in the enterpriseInfoWorld looks at IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by 20,000 engineers to act as an AI-powered securit

Inside Java @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 538: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Third Preview)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-05 00:17:05

The gap between what AI can do in biology and what governance systems are prepared to handle is growing. The post AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity. appeared first

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 00:05:05

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you sho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:42:35

All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider , Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 M

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:25:27

Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link): This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO Sa

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 22:12:11

One reason people study Latin is that it is the ancestor of many modern languages. English derives from West Germanic languages, not from Latin, but much of English vocabulary, perhaps as much as 60%, derives from Latin, either directly or indirectly thro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-04 21:10:16

El actual poseedor del trono sigue en una baja forma alarmante a cinco meses de su defensa contra Sindárov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:43:47

Peter Borg: Lingon makes scheduling apps, scripts, shortcuts, and commands feel simple. Create a task in minutes, run it on a schedule, and stay in control. Lingon helps you run whatever you want whenever you want without living in Terminal. Schedul

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:10:19

Loren Brichter , back in 2020: Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process) [1] , and made my whole computer slow

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 19:29:26

Two months ago Google launched a new native Mac app for Gemini. I’ve been trying it, on and off, since. It’s ... not bad. Certainly better than Claude’s Electron shitbox. But the Gemini app isn’t all that good, either. I’m sticking with ChatGPT, which rem

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 19:18:40

Several posts lately have looked at the function f(x) = cos(sin(x) + x). This post will look at the function from a different angle. It’s a smooth function with period 2π. For reasons I wrote about here, this means that the trapezoid rule should fin

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-04 18:00:00

A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-04 16:12:35

The podcast returns with 12 all-new episodes that explore the biggest questions in basic science and mathematics. The post More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on Quanta Maga

old new thing @ 2026-06-04 16:00:00

Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition. The post Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 15:48:56

I was thinking more about the cosine approximation to the Gaussian exp(−z²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(z) + z))/2 that I wrote about last week. The two expressions above are close along the real axis but not along the imaginary axis. If z = iy, the right side grows m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 15:43:26

Jason Snell at Six Colors, looking ahead to WWDC next week: These days, I’m getting emails pitching me for an endless stream of new Mac apps. It’s quite remarkable because there was a period five or ten years ago when it seemed like all app developmen

tecosystems @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

Sogrady @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

ASF @ 2026-06-04 15:00:00

Apache® Livy, a REST service for Apache Spark™, becomes a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE –  June 4, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apachy Livy has becom

Swift blog @ 2026-06-04 12:00:00

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup ! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:26:50

I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:23:25

Back in 2011, when he was a tech columnist at The New York Times, Nick Bilton figured out that Apple was soon going to launch an Apple branded-television set, with no remote control. You’d just talk to it. This made no sense of course, as I pointed out .

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

In the dynamic digital landscape of the Middle East, we are seeing a shift from AI experimentation to production-ready innovation. This transition is becoming a key factor in driving national competitiveness and economic resilience across the region.The op

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

Telecommunications (telco) service providers face a landscape of massive operational complexity. As they adopt 5G standalone architectures and multivendor radio access networks (RANs), they must manage billions of events across hundreds of thousands of net

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 01:19:28

Scott Pelley, in a statement posted on Instagram (which I’ll quote in full, as the original is locked behind a dickwall if you’re not signed in to an Instagram account): There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday traditio

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-04 00:37:29

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plu

Swift blog @ 2026-06-03 23:45:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 23:32:52

Paramount’s “Press Express” page promoting 60 Minutes still lists all eight correspondents from the 2025–2026 season, the program’s 58th. (Perhaps they fired the person responsible for keeping the cast page up to date.) In the order they appear on Paramou

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-03 21:58:03

Yesterday, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt delivered her last annual State of the Sciences Address . Overall the talk basically calls us to adapt to the new reality that industrial and foundation support for research has taken a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:49:56

Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum: In a formal letter to Mr. Pelley, which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Bilton wrote that the correspondent had been “terminated for cause effective immediately.” The letter is a must-read. No sum

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:39:13

Joanna Stern, on YouTube: People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing b

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-03 19:00:22

Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. As previously announced , this includes age

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-03 18:00:00

U.S. gas prices jumped nearly 60% since January in the 2026 oil crisis, but adjusted for inflation they sit below the 1981, 2008, and 2022 peaks.

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-03 17:13:24

Suppose you run across the power series for the exponential function and decide to code it up. Good idea: you’ll probably learn something, though maybe not what you expect. Maybe you decide a tolerance of 10−12 is good enough, and so you sum the ter

TED Blog @ 2026-06-03 17:00:13

The interstitial program of TED2026 was a mixed celebration of the acutely human and the purely robotic. We were brought back to basic tenets of human connection through the rhythmic dance piece “Nemesis”; an animated short where music is the thread tying

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-03 16:34:29

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” The post Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. first appeared on Quanta

old new thing @ 2026-06-03 16:00:00

We've seen this before. The post Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-03 16:00:00

A new process for mining lithium-rich rock could slash costs and pollution—and decentralize global lithium production. The post Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip. appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-03 14:38:48

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 560 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “OVNIs; Cetáceos; Sag A*; IA en Matemáticas; Arqueoastronomía Solar”, 28 may 2026. «La […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 560: OVNIs de Trump

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-03 14:00:13

Apple Developer Centers are dedicated spaces designed for in-person developer sessions, labs, workshops, and appointments across a wide range of Apple technologies and platforms. With locations in Cupertino, Shanghai, Bengaluru, and Singapore, these p

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-03 13:31:43

La kazaja es, ante todo, una competidora feroz, más allá del talento imprescindible para llegar a la élite y triunfar

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

Kotlin news @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-03 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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 23:54:43

James Pero, summarizing for Gizmodo this paywalled report by Jyoti Mann for The Information: But, wait, there’s more: in addition to the fall releases, The Information reports that Meta also has a pair slated for December, codenamed “Mojito VIP.” Th

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-02 23:26:52

The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:48:08

One more bit of “ metaverse fever dream ” follow-up. The one company in the field that Nick Heer doesn’t mention is Apple, makers of the best-known (albeit not best-selling) virtual reality headset. Think and say what you want about the Vision platform

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:42:33

A follow-up point from my post yesterday linking to Nick Heer’s blockbuster “ The Metaverse Fever Dream ”. In particular, the connection Heer draws between the rise of “metaverse” hype and the pandemic. I always sort of knew that metaverse hype roughl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 21:53:47

Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a s

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-02 21:22:35

Praggnanandhaa aprovecha el ansia por ganar del noruego y le derrota por 2ª vez en una semana con un juego muy consistente

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-02 21:09:49

From April 24–26, the FreeBSD community held its first regional hackathon in the Frankfurt area (Germany). The three-day event brought together 25 attendees, including seasoned project committers and guests interested in learning more about the FreeBSD co

Microsoft Quantum Blog @ 2026-06-02 20:30:00

Majorana 2 contains qubits that are 1,000x more reliable than those in our previous quantum processing unit. This rapid progress, enabled by AI, has cut our timeline in half for delivering a scalable quantum computer—now anticipated by 2029. The post M

tecosystems @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

Sogrady @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-02 19:00:00

Across 40 OECD economies, the countries that log the most annual hours have the lowest output per hour. Why working longer rarely means producing more.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 18:10:24

Jason Zweig, back in 2018: My father , who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking for

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-02 17:50:09

Join us in celebrating these extraordinary apps and games. Meet the 2026 Apple Design Award winners

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 17:08:12

Neil Panchal, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Of all the dickovers, the dickover that blueballs you with some first-time buyer incentive. “Sign up and get 10% discount, new accounts only”, the dickover boasts. Never understood why you’d ever penalize

old new thing @ 2026-06-02 16:00:00

Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-02 11:21:00

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more prod

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-02 10:16:58

Quantum 10, 2125 (2026). We construct a local decoder for the 2D toric code using ideas from the hierarchical classical cellular automata of Tsirelson and Gács. Our decoder is a circuit of strictly local quantu

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of