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slashdot @ 2026-11-06 12:00:00

Blue Origin has unveiled a third stage called GS3 for its New Glenn rocket, designed to deliver satellite constellations directly to geostationary orbit and support heavy-lift missions to the Moon and deep space. The company also announced Northstar, a new

AEON @ 2026-11-06 12:00:00

The cosmos has become a lab for the Big Questions in physics. Along the way, we’ve lost sight of its glorious messiness - by Dylan Jow Read on Aeon

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

AWS has made Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available in two regions. The service proves exploitability by running real exploits in a sandbox, then opens fixes as pull requests. Published pricing charges per finding processed as well as per

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 10:40:19

Quantum 10, 2261 (2026). The work here enables a cost scaling of $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T ^{1+o(1)} {\rm log}^2 (1/\epsilon)}{\varepsilon}\right)$ and maximum depth $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T^{1+o(1)} {\rm log} (

InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 10:00:00

OpenBao has released version 2.7, adding read scaling for PostgreSQL-backed deployments, support for external hardware security module (HSM) and key management service (KMS) keys, and post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. The release also introduces con

InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 10:00:00

GitHub has made workflow dependency lockfiles for GitHub Actions generally available on October 28, 2026, two weeks after the feature entered public preview. Workflows can maintain clear tag and branch references. By Claudio Masolo

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 09:00:23

Quantum 10, 2260 (2026). We introduce a framework to upper bound the entanglement content of a bipartite quantum state from its spectrum alone. Using linear maps and their inverses, we derive rigorous constrain

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

The FAA announced today that it is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control systems at more than 400 facilities. Engadget reports: They'll be replaced by a more modern system called Enterprise -- Information Display System (E-IDS), which i

InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 07:06:00

Edera announced Object Capability Bounded Authority, a security model that separates an AI agent's or MCP server's required authority from the credentials behind it. Hypervisor-enforced capabilities limit agents to specific actions without storing secret

slashdot @ 2026-11-06 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic -- so full, in fact, that it seems to be changing the color of t

Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00

In the previous weeks Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely on certain invariants. These invariants are broken by EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 which rework how much gas is charged for certain operations

slashdot @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00

Joe_Dragon shares a report from TechCrunch: Applebee's has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee's mobile app,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00

Smart Talks with IBM: The $5 Billion effort to help secure the world’s shared softwareProject Lightwell commits $5 billion and aims for 20,000 engineers to help secure open source software. Malcolm Gladwell talks with Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson among cybe

slashdot @ 2026-11-06 00:00:00

"OpenAI has published a new National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, apparently in response to the Blue Wave Midterm Elections," writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. "Instead of moving into communities like a juggernaut, they say

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back!  Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP).  The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola

Kotlin news @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back!  Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP).  The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 23:00:00

A newly disclosed OpenSSH flaw dubbed "*sshole" can allow attackers to log in to password-disabled accounts on certain musl-based Linux systems simply by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes. "Apparently certain varieties of musl Linux (Alpine, Open

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 22:31:04

Salon, in an unsigned goodbye post: Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them. Salon helped demonst

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 22:00:00

According to Bloomberg, Apple is cutting employee AI spending limits to reduce costs, lowering some engineers from $300 to $200 per day and considering limits as low as $100, with some teams capped at $25. Employees are also being encouraged to use cheaper

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 21:27:05

From Instagram’s Edits blog: I’m Brett Westervelt, and I lead the Edits app. In just over a year, 50 million people have made Edits part of how they bring ideas to life, and we’re excited to expand what Edits can do for creators. Today we’re bringin

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 21:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader bbsguru shares a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, secur

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 20:05:00

Discord is replacing Electron with a desktop client built fully in Rust, which the company says should significantly reduce the app's notoriously high resource usage while improving performance and memory safety. "We've been early adopters of Rust since 20

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 19:00:00

Motorola's $1,600 Signature 27 will become the company's first smartphone to support the security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS that completely strips out native Google services and telemetry at the OS level. To help justify the price, Motorola equipped

Deepmind @ 2026-11-05 18:05:16

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 18:00:00

Paraguayan President Santiago Pena resigned Thursday amid mass protests and impeachment threats following the collapse of Ueno Bank, a major digital lender with close ties to his administration and more than 60% of the country's adults as customers. Regula

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-05 17:15:00

En una partida muy didáctica sobre el doble filo de las ventajas de espacio, el gran maestro español exhibe su profundidad de conceptos

InfoQ @ 2026-11-05 17:00:00

Google has announced the public preview of streaming support for API Gateway, extending its traditional request-response model to support applications requiring real-time communication. According to Google, this is particularly relevant for AI applicatio

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 17:00:00

theodp writes: That Was Then: The Imagine Cup competition, Microsoft explained in a 2003 press release, "seeks to provide students [aged 16-and-up] around the world with resources to use technology and Web services to solve everyday problems [...] Imagine

InfoQ @ 2026-11-05 16:56:00

Leapwork Play adds requirement traceability and approval workflows around portable Playwright tests. Full governance and audit capabilities require an enterprise package. By Mark Silvester

old new thing @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00

It doesn't really handle that case. The post You shouldn’t change the style of a Win32 static control after it has been created appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00

Rather than relying on text alone, the algorithm looks for clues in a paper’s reasoning. The post Science Is Littered With AI Slop. A New Detector Could Filter It Out. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-05 15:11:00

Many organizations adopting data mesh and data products face a common challenge. They may be tasked with building a self-service platform for data products and data mesh from scratch, or they may have an existing platform that suffers from low adop

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-05 13:41:52

Quantum 10, 2259 (2026). In this paper, we introduce post-selection games, a generalization of nonlocal games where each round can be not only won or lost by the players, but also discarded by the referee. Such

Swift blog @ 2026-11-05 12:30:00

The Swift project once again participated in Google Summer of Code in 2026, pairing newcomers to open source with mentors to build new features for Swift and its ecosystem. This year, we ran three projects, all of which were completed successfully:

InfoQ @ 2026-11-05 12:11:00

In banking, open source can earn trust by running real workloads, as Marcy Paramonova and Stéphane Cusin explained in their talk Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe. Deploying Kubernetes was the easy part; the hard

AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:01:00

In Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, low-paid labour fuels the driverless future of the Global North - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 12:00:00

NASA has unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft "designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies." From a press release: The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control te

AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:00:00

I need order and routine – just as much as I crave excitement and variety. What’s life like with both autism and ADHD? - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 08:00:00

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion over nine years to settle claims from as many as 120,000 people who say they were sickened by PFAS-contaminated groundwater near military bases, airports and other locations where firefighting foam was used. The Ass

slashdot @ 2026-11-05 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bun Cha TV, handing out the first prison terms we've seen since the country's piracy crackdown began earlier

Inside Java @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00

Recent and upcoming Java features (e.g. value classes, withers, and lazy constants) make it easier to define, construct, copy, and access immutable data

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00

Modern enterprise development runs on open source. With this reliance, securing the open source software supply chain has reached a critical inflection point, especially as AI-assisted vulnerability discovery accelerates the speed and volume of CVE disclos

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00

Building and deploying enterprise applications is no longer just about launching containers—it’s about managing the entire software lifecycle with a focus on security, intelligence, speed, and predictability. As a result, modern development teams must meet

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00

The product and engineering teams behind Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console are always working on ways to improve the user experience. Recently, we delivered a simplified and more customizable presentation that works the way our users do, and this article covers

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-05 00:34:52

You can now migrate existing Apache Hive datasets in Amazon S3 to fully managed Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 Tables, with no pipelines to build or compute to provision, while production workloads keep running.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-04 21:36:39

Las masas de infantería avanzando con vigor suelen parecer arrasadoras, pero existen muchos matices que esta partida ilustra

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-04 20:18:19

Waking up today to the news that US democracy seems to be on its way to recovery has changed my mood dramatically. All of a sudden I’m an optimist. The US will be all right. Even if the French do … Continue reading →

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-04 19:55:52

The system, MAI-DxO, was not only more accurate, but it also spent much less on tests to make its diagnoses. The post Microsoft’s Medical AI Is Over Twice as Good Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors appeared first on SingularityHub .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-04 17:45:09

When the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the Millennium Prize Problems back in 2000, we joked that if you proved P = NP, you wouldn't only get the $1 million prize for solving P v NP, but you would get $7 million since you could use P = NP to solve

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-04 17:00:56

Reduce cancellations with retention messages that remind subscribers of your subscription's value as they decide whether to cancel. Retention messages appear in the cancellation flow and can include text, images, or a special offer. In App Store Conne

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:55:22

Learn about Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, multi-tenancy for CPC, Tableflow for Google Cloud, and other Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and WarpStream updates.

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:53:00

Compare streamhouse and lakehouse data architectures, learn which workloads each one fits and how they complement each other.

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:52:47

A Streamhouse is a data architecture that continuously captures, processes, governs and serves current business state and context across distributed systems, making them available to applications, AI agents, and analytics.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-04 16:32:52

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. The post New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 16:15:51

This striking map from Apple News tells the story of the magnitude of the shift since 2024. The late Lindsey Graham, on Twitter back in May 2016 (punctuation sic ): If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. T

old new thing @ 2026-11-04 16:00:00

The problem with documentation written by people who know the feature too well. The post There are things with ranks, but it’s not always clear what the ranks mean appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 15:56:47

Aaron Zitner, reporting for the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal: Rarely in American politics has a president traded away so much political support so quickly. The losses that Republicans suffered on Tuesday marked one of the most decisive r

InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 15:36:00

Inkitt built a one-shot pull request creator that automates small, low-risk code changes from task intake to draft PR creation. Its event-driven orchestrator persists workflow state, coordinates short-lived coding agent containers, bounds retries, and en

AEON @ 2026-11-04 12:01:00

Like living metaphors, these self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:49:00

AWS has released Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level ingress resource letting platform teams define networking once and application teams opt services in with a connector. Each service gets a generated hostname and routing is host-based, and neither the

InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:00:00

Docker has published a guide to five security risks that arise when AI agents are allowed to browse, run code and call tools with limited human oversight. They argue that the autonomy that makes agents useful also makes conventional application security

This Week in Rust @ 2026-11-04 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

The Syndicate @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

If you’ve spent any amount of time with Claude Code on a project for Apple’s various platforms, then you’ve probably hit a wall. Claude is genuinely good at Swift. It understands SwiftUI, it can reason through Swift Concurrency, and it’ll

Inside Java @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard. Project Detroit paves a new way forw

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

Enterprise applications rarely break because of custom business logic; instead, the issue is often related to changes in underlying open source dependencies. When a high-severity vulnerability is found in a third-party library, organizations face a difficu

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

Data residency rules and sovereignty mandates often determine where a workload is allowed to run. To meet those requirements and keep the platform your teams know and trust, Red Hat is expanding its commitment to digital sovereignty. Red Hat OpenShift Cont

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:58:49

Apple Developer: Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:45:18

David Pierce at The Verge , on the Acoustic Display: It means the sound fires out of the front panel rather than from speaker holes. (Some TVs currently work the same way.) It doesn’t sound any better than before, maybe a tiny bit bassier, but it als

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:25:25

Marques Brownlee describes the two color choices as “annoyingly, slightly not black and slightly not white,” which is apt. He digs the acoustic display enough that he can imagine Apple bringing it to a future high-end iPhone (like if they do a big redesig

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 20:26:41

Juli Clover, MacRumors: With iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, and macOS Golden Gate 27.3, Apple is making major updates to Safari. The browser is getting a Vertical Tabs layout, which can be used instead of the standard horizontal tab bar. It’s a change that pa

InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 20:00:00

Google has introduced the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight C++ API that allows developers to build, customize, and optimize machine learning models directly for on-device execution. According to Google, it combines the flexibility of native model authori

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 19:00:20

Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their customers. Siri A

Deepmind @ 2026-11-03 18:01:49

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 17:47:00

Vitest 5.0 focuses on speed, with reported gains of 8 to 25 percent in most setups and up to 53 percent in VM pools. It adds a vitest doctor command, Browser Mode Trace View, and vi.when. Defaults are stricter: clearMocks is true and unawaited async asse

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 17:00:26

The beta versions of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, tvOS 27.3, visionOS 27.3, and watchOS 27.3 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 27.3 to take advant

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:46:25

Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reporte

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:40:34

After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even if Google were right, and the real issue is “closed” versus “open,” it is worthwhile t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-03 16:01:24

Quantum 10, 2258 (2026). QwaveMPS is an open-source Python library for simulating one-dimensional quantum many-body waveguide systems using matrix product states (MPS). It provides a user-friendly interface for

old new thing @ 2026-11-03 16:00:00

You just store it all in memory, in your own program. The post How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:51:14

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Unfortunately, the new iPad mini’s screen has one limitation: it doesn’t support ProMotion, or a 120Hz refresh rate of any kind. Instead, it’s still locked to 60Hz. This is an incredibly frustrating decision that I c

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 15:41:25

A few years ago I wrote about a curious result: a/b is usually greater than c/d when a + d is greater than b + c. And “usually” means with probability 11/12. As stated in the post, you can make this statement rigorous by choosing integers up t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:39:03

Bloomberg opinion columnist Dave Lee : Apple investors and fans hoping to get an insight into the philosophy of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus on Monday were left sorely disappointed. The 51-year-old’s first earnings call was a timid affair,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:30:40

Horace Dediu, tweeting yesterday on Apple’s results: iPhone grew at 17% sales which is amazing considering they did not launch the 18 or the Duo or the new Air in the quarter. The Duo didn’t launch until October, which is Q1 (in Apple’s financial

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 13:33:10

Spherical geometry is very tangible because we live on a sphere. Projective geometry seems much more exotic, and yet they’re closely related. To show how they’re connected, let’s go back to the origins of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclidea

InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 13:00:00

LinkedIn has built an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry platform that connects what members do in its iOS, Android, and web applications with the backend services processing those interactions. By Craig Risi

AEON @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00

The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 11:45:19

This post will show how a graphic programmer’s hack could lead to a rigorous definition of the projective plane. As mentioned in the previous post, we start by adding some “points at infinity” to Euclidean plane to take care of exception

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-03 10:16:17

I recently blogged about how the curl project switched to doing all handling of vulnerabilities at severity LOW and MEDIUM in the public. Let me now describe how you can follow along this process and help out. Add your opinions, comments and assessments to

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-03 09:10:04

En una lucha trepidante, Sindárov no encuentra esta vez el estrecho camino para evitar la derrota ante Praggnanandhaa

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-03 01:19:54

New AI tools could help more biologists experiment with problems once restricted to a handful of specialists. The post Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 01:10:53

Jason Snell, Six Colors: On Monday, Apple announced record fourth-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $114.5B, up 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 17.5%, Mac revenue was up 23.7%, and Services revenue was up 9.8%. Wear

Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Public services increasingly rely on digital systems that enable institutions to collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Such cooperation may involve government agencies verifying documents issued by other authorities, or humanitarian or

Rust blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Developers are using AI to write code, generate tests, and ship features faster than ever. The tools are becoming more capable, and the amount of work they can perform is expanding quickly. As code generation accelerates, open source communities face an en

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

In this article:Vulnerability remediation requires more than just merging code: While opening a pull request (PR) updates a dependency, that's not the end of the process. Safely moving that change to production requires integration testing, change manageme

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

We are rapidly approaching an intersection of 2 generational technology shifts: The explosive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and the looming reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs). While AI is transforming how

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 45, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 45 below and don't forget to make sure yo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-02 23:43:59

“I didn’t see you put that in the diary.” Sound familiar? Shared calendars solved scheduling, not communication. OurCal connects any calendar, new or existing, to a group chat. Changes post there automatically, so nobody misses them. Because it’s a

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-02 21:55:03

There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading ͛

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-02 18:30:07

Starting November 16, 2026, App Store Connect will include new content descriptors to help ensure your app’s age ratings accurately reflect its features and are in accordance with local regulations. When completing the age rating questionnaire in App St

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs. It enables PyTorch workloads to execute on TPU hardware with minimal code modifications, supporting eager and compil

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

This week's Java roundup for October 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 8.0; point releases of JNoSQL, Endive, JBang, JReleaser and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of JobRunr; beta releases of Hibernate ORM and Hiberna

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-02 17:45:48

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams alrea

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-02 16:48:57

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Qu

old new thing @ 2026-11-02 16:00:00

Wait, that's not him. The post Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-02 15:44:02

In my newsletter I give an introduction to the latest few posts and occasionally give some additional commentary. In my latest newsletter I wrote Projective space and homogeneous coordinates seemed like arbitrary abstractions when I was a student because

AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:01:00

What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:00:00

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 23:04:25

Aunque Praggnanandhaa fue el más brillante, Sindárov supo aprovechar su oportunidad con suma eficacia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-01 22:22:56

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and th

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-01 21:29:54

I wrote several posts on poles and polars a few days ago. First, I wrote about the dual of a spherical triangle, called the polar triangle. Then I wrote about poles and polars in plane geometry and briefly mentioned the extension to projective geometry. P

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-01 21:23:06

(Throughout this post I will assume that the recent results by OpenAI and Anthropic contain correct proofs of what they claim.) I wrote the following about 2 years ago but did not post it. It's dated, but that's the point. BEGIN DOCUMENT FROM TWO YEARS

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 18:01:01

A tres semanas del duelo por la corona frente a Gukesh, el uzbeko gana un torneo relámpago de élite con una victoria espléndida sobre Nakamura

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-31 15:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 31) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-31 13:17:48

Consolidado entre los mejores del mundo tras su paréntesis universitario, el chino se mantiene como un potencial candidato a la corona

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-31 00:30:54

Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late . Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 23:56:10

I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish writing my full thoughts on the redesigned hardware and displays for the PROLED XDR models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:53:41

Marcin Wichary on the original iPod easter egg on Apple Music’s website 404 page: I am usually not a fan of easter eggs — most of them are poorly made — but this might be the best iPod recreation I’ve seen, and it’s an interesting thing to study:

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:31:21

From ICPC World Finals to competitive programming clubs to building generalist audio models as the first engineer at a YC startup.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:29:49

Dylan left Minnesota for San Francisco to build AI agents for CAD software as the first engineer at Adam (W25).

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:27:50

A principal engineer left consumer-scale software to build AI-native scientific analysis tools as the founding engineer at 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:26:08

A math major who turned down safe internships to lead high-stakes deals at a YC S26 startup supplying data for frontier AI labs.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:23:22

A veteran engineer finds his next act helping scientists discover cures, one amino acid at a time, at YC W26 startup 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:21:48

After 10 years at Google Research and DeepMind, Yair Alon joined Poetiq to build an AI that improves itself.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:18:56

Jonathan Stempel, reporting for Reuters: General Motors will pay $220 million to settle ​allegations that it illegally sold drivers’ private behavior and location data to brokers, who then sold the information to insurers that used it to set and somet

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:17:26

From Lyft's self-driving division to fixing HSA/FSA payments, Varsha joined Flex as its first engineer and built from scratch.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:12:49

A layoff, two years of travel, and a self-taught pivot to software led Sherif Amer to become the founding engineer at Indemni.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 18:53:09

Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stew

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 17:16:14

Java 21 to 25 upgrades and lots of solid security releases. As expected after the weeks we've had :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 669 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-30 15:52:05

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New Map of ‘Empty’

Deepmind @ 2026-10-30 15:18:30

Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times

old new thing @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

Lots of rumors, little confirmation. The post The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

How is AI affecting collaboration and creativity? Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to find out. The post AI May Quickly Generate Ideas—but Teams of People Are Still More Creative appeared first on SingularityHub .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-30 12:53:25

La solución de este final artístico parece imposible incluso después de un cálculo profundo; y ahí surge un recurso genial muy antiguo

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:51:20

Learn how to set up query transformation in Spring AI for retrieval augmented generation. The post Query Transformation in Spring AI Modular RAG first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:42:54

Learn various strategies for handling forwarded headers in a Spring Boot application. The post Handle Forwarded Headers in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .