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Secret Documents Reveal Donors Behind $330 Million for Trump’s Ballroom — Apple and Nvidia Top the List at $25 Million Each

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-15 18:11:12

Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, reporting for The Washington Post ( News+ link ; Archive.today link ): A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project

Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity

Deepmind @ 2026-10-15 18:08:03

Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

Instagram Modernized Its UI with an AI-Native Architecture, Cutting Token Costs by 33%

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 18:00:00

Instagram Direct migrated its Android UI from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native UI codebase that is easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain. According to Instagram engineers, the migration re

Complexity and Lean

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-15 17:21:35

In the OpenAI Math Drop some papers have Lean proofs, others don't, including L = RL = BPL. Why is it hard to formalize results on complexity classes? Let's consider an example, Lautemann's proof that BPP is in \(\Sigma^p_2\). It's a beautiful proof bec

Google Summer of Code 2026 With the Kotlin Foundation: Recap

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-15 17:03:05

Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open-source ecosystem through hands-on projects and mentorship. This year, two projects successfully re

Uber Begins Self-Driving Robotaxi Trial In Manchester

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Uber has begun a trial of autonomous vehicles on the streets of Manchester as it looks to bring robotaxis to cities around the UK. The first self-driving cars are operating, using the technology of its

The Oldest Living Land Animal Is 194. DNA May Now Reveal the Secret to His Longevity.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-15 16:00:00

Jonathan the giant tortoise was born when Darwin was still a young man. Youthful gene activity may account for his exceptionally long life. The post The Oldest Living Land Animal Is 194. DNA May Now Reveal the Secret to His Longevity. appeared first o

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-15 15:40:13

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Qu

When Software Meets Hardware

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-15 15:25:00

When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles remaine

Rare Event Simulation of Quantum Error-Correcting Circuits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-15 14:08:13

Quantum 10, 2237 (2026). We describe a practical approach for accessing the logical failure rates of quantum error-correcting (QEC) circuits under low physical (component) failure rate regimes. Standard Monte C

Optimizing Software Workflow: Exploring Fundamental Impacts in Technology

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 13:33:00

Software only has value when shipped; faster release cadence matters. Development, deployment, and operations require different thinking, metrics, and investments. There are four impacts in tech: product success, compute capacity, engineering capacity, a

Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 13:00:00

Bank of America hired 1,000 outside contractors to help patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos. The effort added hundreds of millions of dollars in third-quarter expenses. CNBC reports: In an interview af

The secrets of Hohle Fels cave

AEON @ 2026-10-15 12:01:00

Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Grafana Tempo 3.1 Adds Query-Based Trace Redaction and Sampling-Aware TraceQL Metrics

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 12:00:00

Grafana Labs has released Tempo 3.1, the first minor update to the 3.0 architecture. It adds TLS and additional SASL mechanisms to the Kafka client, lets operators redact traces with a TraceQL query instead of a list of trace IDs, and introduces an exper

The ladder of knowledge

AEON @ 2026-10-15 12:00:00

What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it - by Alexander V Gheorghiu Read on Aeon

What Makes a Great KotlinConf Proposal?

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-15 11:11:39

The KotlinConf 2027 Call for Papers is now open! We invite developers from across the Kotlin community to bring their ideas, experiences, and expertise to the stage in Kraków. Do you have a Kotlin lesson or discovery that could help other developers? Perha

What Makes a Great KotlinConf Proposal?

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-15 11:11:39

The KotlinConf 2027 Call for Papers is now open! We invite developers from across the Kotlin community to bring their ideas, experiences, and expertise to the stage in Kraków. Do you have a Kotlin lesson or discovery that could help other developers? Perha

Un tren nuevo para Cercanías

brucknerite @ 2026-10-15 10:00:00

Dando envidia: no hace mucho tuve la ocasión de «estrenar» un tren de la serie 453 en un viaje charter entre las estaciones de Chamartín y Atocha Cercanías por el túnel de Recoletos.

Análisis de ajedrez | Joven estrella con matices

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-15 09:04:13

El gran potencial de Woodward a los 16 años choca con lagunas estratégicas, quizá por una influencia excesiva de los chips

Mini Organs Launching to Space For Study On Aging

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 09:00:00

Researchers from Mount Sinai, NASA, and Space Tango have launched miniature human hearts and brains to the International Space Station to study how microgravity and radiation affect organs and potentially accelerate aging. "If people are going to be living

When to use a decision model instead of an LLM

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-10-15 06:45:00

Artificial Analysis just benchmarked decision models against LLMs. Split by task, the results show where decision models win and where an LLM is still worth paying for.

Utah Teapot

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-15 06:00:00

Von Friesland in die Welt

Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Schools and libraries from around the U.S. pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to drop the idea of ending E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year program that connects students and library visitors

Red Hat Summit 2027 call for proposals is now open

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

Red Hat is headed back to Boston for our annual keystone event – Red Hat Summit! We’re building an agenda of technical and non-technical content for our experienced audience and looking for our community of experts — customers, partners, and associates — t

Open Source Security Signals | Q3 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

Vulnerabilities are easy to count. Meaningful risk is harder to measure.Open source has become the foundation of modern software because it works. Shared innovation, transparent development, global communities, and broad reuse let software advance at a sca

How Does Java Fit Into the World of AI—and How Can It Become an Even Better Fit?

Inside Java @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

In this video, we discuss why Java is already a good choice for AI and how existing and future Java platform features can make it even stronger. We explore developments across the language, libraries, and runtime, including OpenJDK Projects Amber, Babylon

Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 01:00:00

Eight US states, including Kansas, Arizona, and Montana, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT encourages children to harm themselves. The states are seeking changes to how the company's products interact with young users and the forfeiture of profits ge

Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 00:00:00

"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin. A public preview of the threat detection app extends its enterprise security platform beyond servers to developer workstations running distributions such a

[Sponsor] WorkOS AuthKit: Auth for Your App, Free Up to 1M Monthly Active Users

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-14 23:03:43

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. AuthKit lets you: Offer SSO, MFA, passkeys, passwords, email

Epic Games' New Vibe-Coded Launcher Is 46% Faster Than Steam

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 23:00:00

Epic has launched a preview of a new AI-generated Games Launcher that it says cold-starts 46% faster than Steam. Neowin reports: Epic commissioned a third-party company to benchmark this new launcher in its current Preview build versus the Steam client on

The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-14 22:58:01

The Department of Justice, yesterday: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the King

US Tech Giants Warn Europe That Data Sovereignty Requirements Could Cost $128 Billion

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 22:00:00

A study commissioned by CCIA Europe, whose members include Amazon, Google, and Meta, estimates that the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose 115 billion euros ($128 billion) in costs over a decade as governments and companies migrate wor

Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-14 21:30:48

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors, is natively available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel.

Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 21:00:00

Google has made Android's phone-number verification opt-out, automatically verifying and associating a device's phone number with every Google account signed in on that phone, including secondary and work accounts. Android Authority reports: As spotted in

Análisis de ajedrez | Que nunca nos falte Rapport

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-14 20:09:12

Siempre le ha faltado algo para aspirar a la cumbre, pero se mantiene cerca y exhibe mucha creatividad

Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate Through IoT Devices

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AI company Anthropic is warning that advances in small AI models could soon usher in a new era of self-replicating malware that's capable of infecting smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, and a wide range o

LaTeX package for Pascal-like triangles

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 19:58:07

When I wrote about the harmonic triangle yesterday, I displayed the triangle left-aligned using fixed-width text because that was easier than producing the format you usually see for Pascal’s triangle and related triangles. 1 1/2 1/2 1/3 1/6 1/3 1/4

Google Play Now Lets Anyone Build Private, Vibe-Coded Apps That Run On Android

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 19:00:00

Google Play is adding support for private personal Android apps, allowing users to build an app with tools like Google AI Studio and run it on their own devices without publishing it publicly to the Play Store. "These personal apps won't show up in Google

Thoughts: Die Farbe der Zukunft

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-14 18:00:00

Warum die Zukunft oft blau ist

Netflix Cuts About 6% of Jobs In Biggest Layoffs Since 2022

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 18:00:00

Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 6% of its workforce, in its largest round of cuts since 2022. The company says its business remains strong, but it is facing growing pressure from YouTube, TikTok, and other rivals. Reuters reports: The bulk

Dutch Tax Authorities Cancel Microsoft 365 Cloud Rollout, Turn Toward Open Source

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundatio

Build your slide template

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-14 16:20:00

Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reusable palette, the essentials of typography, including serif, sans

Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-14 16:04:05

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

ASF @ 2026-10-14 16:00:00

Introducing Apache Auron™, Apache Reqsign™, and Apache ResilientDB™ Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home for open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign,

Meta Extends Confidential Computing to AI Glasses with Private Processing

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 15:57:00

Meta has extended Private Processing to AI glasses, using confidential VMs, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, OHTTP routing, and TEE-based storage to process AI workloads and persistent user context in the cloud.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Subversion® 1.15, Featuring “Pristines On Demand” for Large-File and Large-Repository Workflows

ASF @ 2026-10-14 15:00:00

New feature cuts local working-copy storage requirements by up to 50%, extending Subversion’s long-standing strength in version control for huge repositories and huge files Wilmington, DE –  October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), t

A generalization of the Pythagorean theorem

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 13:11:11

G. D. Chakerian [1] discovered the following generalization of the Pythagorean theorem. Take any triangle and attach squares to each side. From each triangle vertex, extend a line perpendicular to the opposite side and extend the line through the square,

KotlinConf Recap: Lessons from Verifone’s Architect on Kotlin in Mission-Critical Payments

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-14 13:03:00

Yuri Geronimus’s four-year-old son once asked him what his job was. Yuri told him he writes books: books that describe what he wants to change in the physical world. His son didn’t fully get it.  Neither would most engineers: if you unders

KotlinConf Recap: Lessons from Verifone’s Architect on Kotlin in Mission-Critical Payments

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-14 13:03:00

Yuri Geronimus’s four-year-old son once asked him what his job was. Yuri told him he writes books: books that describe what he wants to change in the physical world. His son didn’t fully get it.  Neither would most engineers: if you unders

Anthropic Reinvents Source Control As Claude Floods the World With Code

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 13:00:00

Anthropic says Claude-generated code has scaled so quickly that its existing Git-based infrastructure could not keep up. In response, the company built a custom centralized source-control system called Scion, along with AI-assisted review and search tools.

Into the fire

AEON @ 2026-10-14 12:01:00

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Poe, Bessel, and Drones

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 12:00:22

What’s a connection between Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel? Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum describes a pendulum with a semicircular blade being lowered on a cable. This is an interesting variation on the usual harmonic osci

A curl audit by Aisle

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 11:02:43

Over the last year or so, multiple engineers at Aisle have spent a lot of time and energy while pointing their AI powered tooling at the curl source code. This has resulted in no less than thirty-five published curl vulnerabilities and CVE Ids. Today, we m

Google Antigravity SDK Adds Local Model Support for Greater Token Efficiency and Code Privacy

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 11:00:00

Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based models for higher-level tasks. This ap

Approach to optimal quantum transport via states over time

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-14 09:46:10

Quantum 10, 2236 (2026). We approach the problem of constructing a quantum analogue of the immensely fruitful classical transport cost theory of Monge from a new angle. Going back to the original motivations, b

Skydance's Discovery+ Prices Increase By Up to 20%

slashdot @ 2026-10-14 09:00:00

Discovery+ has raised prices for new subscribers, increasing its ad-free plan from $10 to $12 per month and its ad-supported plan from $6 to $7. The hike comes shortly after Paramount Skydance acquired Warner Bros. Discovery. Ars Technica reports: The new

Cloudflares Newly Acquired Vite+ Reaches 1.0 with GitLab CI Support, Hooks, and tsup Migration

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 08:15:00

VoidZero has launched Vite+ 1.0, the first stable version of its JavaScript toolchain. It features a command line tool for managing Node.js, package management, and frontend development from a single configuration file. Enhancements include CI integratio

A UAF turned RCE

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 08:11:02

In the curl 8.23.0 release we shipped a fix for one of the worst vulnerabilities in curl in a long time. We grade it severity HIGH. It is known as CVE-2026-92392 with the title HTTP/2 upload Use-After-Free. This post explains the bug, what the problem can

curl 8.23.0

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 08:01:43

Release presentation Numbers the 277th release4 changes42 days (total: 10,929)281 bugfixes (total: 14,770)476 commits (total: 40,084)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 312)0 new curl command line option (total

Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection

Deepmind @ 2026-10-14 04:00:14

Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.

Top 5 operators for Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

In the 1980s, the spreadsheet was considered such a valuable tool that would make buying a computer just to run it worthwhile. The term coined to describe such an application was a killer app. Is there an equivalent for Red Hat OpenShift? When it comes to

One SoC. Two worlds. Zero compromise: How Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System and DXC AMBER come together in a mixed-criticality software-defined vehicle solution

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

At ELIV 2026 in Baden-Baden, Red Hat and DXC are showcasing a software-defined vehicle (SDV) platform that brings together AD/ADAS and digital cockpit workloads on a single high-performance compute platform, with Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System providi

How to patch application vulnerabilities without upgrading

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

Summary Most enterprise applications cannot be fixed simply by upgrading to the latest version of an impacted library.Lightwell delivers backported security fixes at your exact production library versions with cryptographically signed artifacts and SBOM in

AI tokenomics: Balancing open-weight and frontier models for optimal ROI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

Why airlines don't fly all-first-class planes and what it teaches us about AI strategyAirlines learned very early that they can't optimize a profitable route selling every seat as first class. Instead, the aircraft has multiple cabins, and the airline size

Advancing NetOps-as-Code: Strategic momentum, enhanced security, and multimode automation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

The 3rd quarter of 2026 has shown that network automation isn’t just a "nice to have," but rather a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments. Organizations are moving away from manual Day 2 operations and ad h

Everyday JSON in Java

Inside Java @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

JSON is ubiquitous in modern software, and many use cases are just too small to justify adding external dependencies. To address these everyday use cases, a new JEP proposes a simple, incubating API for parsing, navigating, and generating JSON documents-b

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-14 00:00:09

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features and updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms. Section 3.2: Update

Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely

Deepmind @ 2026-10-13 21:43:07

EuroBSDCon Trip Report – Federico Angelilli

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-10-13 19:44:12

This year, I had the great opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code for the FreeBSD Project. After my proposal for “Live-patching for the FreeBSD kernel” was accepted, I worked for three months to make the first revision of the subsystem an

EuroBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Yan-Cheng Chen

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-10-13 19:34:29

This summer, I started an internship with FreeBSD Taiwan, and my mentor, Li-wen Hsu, recommended that I attend EuroBSDCon. He said it is a good chance to make connections and get familiar with the community, as I had also started my master’s degree in the

Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 19:00:00

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration be

Liverworts

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-13 18:09:07

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the climate crisis and how it’s part of a larger collapse of ecosystems, like how insect biomass in Germany has declined by 75% in the last quarter century, how large predatory fish biomass declined by 90%

Liverworts

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-13 18:09:07

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the climate crisis and how it’s part of a larger collapse of ecosystems, like how insect biomass in Germany has declined by 75% in the last quarter century, how large predatory fish biomass declined by 90%

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Deepmind @ 2026-10-13 18:01:58

AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-13 17:59:06

Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran bac

Apple HomeView

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-13 16:52:24

Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView , designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in

The Craft of Practitioner Voice

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-13 16:06:00

A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style. How the writer shows up in the p

Quantum Walks on Arbitrary Spatial Networks with Rydberg Atoms

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-13 16:04:06

Quantum 10, 2235 (2026). Rydberg atoms provide a highly promising platform for quantum computation, leveraging their strong tunable interactions to encode and manipulate information in the electronic states of

C++ futures part 2: The mental model for std::promise, std::packaged_task

old new thing @ 2026-10-13 16:00:00

Building things out of the state. The post C++ futures part 2: The mental model for <CODE>std::promise</CODE>, <CODE>std::packaged_task</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Radical New Tactic Would Stop Deadly Cancers Before They Start

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-13 16:00:00

Cancer interception aims to prevent abnormal growths from developing into tumors. The post Radical New Tactic Would Stop Deadly Cancers Before They Start appeared first on SingularityHub .

Sampled-Based Guided Quantum Walk: Non-variational quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-13 15:46:12

Quantum 10, 2234 (2026). We introduce SamBa-GQW, a novel quantum algorithm for solving binary combinatorial optimization problems of arbitrary degree with no use of any classical optimizer. The algorithm is bas

Harmonic triangle

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-13 15:45:18

Pascal’s triangle is the most famous triangular arrangement of numbers. I’ve written about other numerical triangles, such as Bell’s triangle and the trinomial triangle. There’s another well-known triangle that somehow I never hear

Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-13 15:35:00

Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 un

ZCS Command Injection via SNMP Handlers Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 15:13:00

A critical remote command execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, identified as CVE-2026-73570, poses risks by allowing unauthorized access to mailbox data and credentials. This flaw, stemming from improper input sanitization, has been

Production Patterns for Agents, Evals, and LLM Costs: QCon AI New York 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 14:00:00

Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16) has confirmed sessions from engineers shar

AWS Reworks EventBridge Custom Buses for Enterprise-Scale Event-Driven Architectures

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 14:00:00

AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented. By Craig Risi

x86: Fix math.floor()/ceil() argument check.

luajit @ 2026-10-13 12:14:15

Thanks to RaphaelIT7. #1532

Deskilling the body

AEON @ 2026-10-13 12:00:00

We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending - by Melanie Challenger Read on Aeon

Convencerse de lo contrario

brucknerite @ 2026-10-13 10:00:00

No importa la red social, los mensajes poco agradables pueden llegar cuando menos se los espera. Que acierten en una cuestión en la que uno está equivocado (las gafas inteligentes) es, después de todo, una suerte.

Análisis de ajedrez | David Antón pasa de los 2.650 puntos Elo (y II)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-13 09:14:00

Aún lejos del techo que alcanzó en 2020, el gran maestro español exhibe una gran calidad en las partidas de sus últimos torneos

Cloudflare’s OHTTP Gateway Refuses to Decrypt Requests That Arrive through Cloudflare

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 08:44:00

Cloudflare has opened a closed beta of its OHTTP Gateway, a managed endpoint that decrypts Oblivious HTTP requests for an origin. The design choice drawing attention is a refusal: the Gateway will not decrypt requests arriving from Cloudflare Workers or

A slightly faster slimmer curl

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-13 08:07:10

Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes. When the team gets a new set of charts, graphs and plots that visualize something, li

Leseliste

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-13 02:00:00

Ein Blick in mein Regal

What’s old is new: Lightwell discovers novel zero-day vulnerability in core Java framework

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-13 02:00:00

Enterprise IT runs on decades-old foundational code. The prevailing assumption around these mature components is that if code has been sitting untouched in production for ten years without breaking, it must be safe. Libraries like the Eclipse Implementatio

How AI is defining the ‘new’ architect

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-13 02:00:00

For decades, enterprise architecture focused on diagrams and system designs. Today, AI and autonomous agents are shifting the paradigm by automating technical execution—generating code and infrastructure in minutes. Thinking ahead to the future, this will

Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-13 00:34:47

AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.

This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-12 19:44:24

The technology could one day decode dreams—or reveal our most private thoughts. The post This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | David Antón pasa de los 2.650 puntos Elo (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-12 19:10:58

El mejor jugador español confirma su buen momento con un juego de alta calidad en las tres primeras rondas de la Liga Alemana

Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-12 18:43:46

Mary Alyce Stephens (née Neader), posting on Cringely’s Facebook account: Hello, this is Mary Alyce, Bob’s wife. I am coming to you with immense sadness to let you know that Bob passed away. His obituary follows. His family is not requesting anything,

Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-12 16:20:30

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? The post Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? first appeared on Quanta Maga

C++ futures part 1: The mental model

old new thing @ 2026-10-12 16:00:00

Managing a value that is produced later. The post C++ futures part 1: The mental model appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

InfoQ @ 2026-10-12 15:57:00

Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability, rollback capacity,

Categorical models of logics

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-12 15:04:09

A few days ago I wrote about topological models of modal logic. If you find general topology more familiar than modal logic, this correspondence could be helpful. If you think the motivation for general topology is evident but the motivation for modal log

The 2026 curl team

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-12 14:40:27

The curl security team happens to also double as the curl core team. The small group of people who assess security reports and take project decisions. The exact set of participants in this team of course vary over time, as this is a volunteer membership ro

React 19.3: Adds a browser() API, Giving Client-Only Rendering a First-Class Name

InfoQ @ 2026-10-12 12:52:00

React 19.3 was released on September 9, introducing several features including the react-dom browser() API. This API allows components to opt out of server-side rendering, addressing issues with components that rely on client-specific data. It provides a

Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock

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

This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty 20.0.0.10; point releases of Tornad

Africa’s cultural landmarks: tombs of Buganda kings

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

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Is everything conscious?

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

If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason - by Sam Kimpton-Nye Read on Aeon

GitLab 19.4 Adds Goal-Driven Agents and Tighter Cost Controls

InfoQ @ 2026-10-12 11:00:00

GitLab has released version 19.4 of its DevSecOps platform, adding a goal-driven mode to GitLab Duo CLI, three hosted open-weight models, a larger set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and more detailed controls for AI spending. By Matt Saunders

Developer-first innovation: Reducing technical debt with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-12 02:00:00

Managing software teams means balancing 2 conflicting priorities: developers want freedom to pick their tools, while leadership needs security and stability. When every team runs a different operating system (OS) distribution, developers end up spending v

Structured Concurrency Looms

Inside Java @ 2026-10-12 02:00:00

Structured Concurrency is the next major feature from Project Loom. In this session, we will explain the motivation and design of structured concurrency, show how to use it effectively, and discuss the lessons learned as the feature evolved. We'll also lo

★ X Once Again Marks the Spot

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-11 23:05:33

If you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

La marabunta de demostraciones matemáticas de OpenAI

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 21:32:21

OpenAI publicó el 6 de octubre de 2026 en GitHub un catálogo con 722 artículos con demostraciones matemáticas agrupadas en 372 familias de problemas. Se han intentado resolver unos 4000 […] La entrada La marabunta de demostraciones matemáticas de

Apple Only Started Suggesting iOS 26 Users Upgrade to 27 Three Days Ago

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-11 21:02:38

Joe Rossignol, on Thursday: Starting today, iPhone users still running iOS 26 will see iOS 27.0.1 as the prominent software update in the Settings app under General → Software Update, with iOS 26.7.1 now relegated to a smaller “Also Available” section

Francis en «Oscilador Armónico»: Solitones. Historia de una onda solitaria

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 20:19:11

Alberto Aparici @CienciaBrujula y Antonio Rivera @MeteoLP me entrevistaron para el podcast «Oscilador Armónico» sobre mi tema de investigación, los solitones. Te recomiendo disfrutar de “Solitones: Historia de una Onda […] La entrada Francis en «

Conjectures that I thought would not be proved in my lifetime....were

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-11 18:48:42

Lance blogged on the OpenAI solutions to many problems  here  and also created a website of the TCS-related problems OpenAI claims to have solved  here . Terry Tao seems to have had an infinite number of guest bloggers talking about AI and

El problema del milenio de Navier–Stokes y la traducción de Lean a lenguaje humano

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 15:09:44

La solución de OpenAI del enunciado con forzamiento del Problema del Milenio de la ecuación de Navier–Stokes está escrita en Lean (un lenguaje de programación que permite la verificación automática […] La entrada El problema del milenio de Navier

Podcast CB SyR 574: Compuestos aromáticos de silicio y premios Nobel de ciencias de 2026

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 13:59:58

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 574 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “EST; Silicio Aromático; Premios Nobel”, 08 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 574: Compuestos aromático

Análisis de ajedrez | Liang, otro as de EEUU

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-11 12:31:17

Miembro de la selección nacional en la reciente Olimpiada, todo indica que pronto estará en la élite mundial

Pragmatic Magic in Rust

AHL's blog @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

In Rust, there’s this idea of specialization , roughly the ability to specialize , say, a trait implementation based on whether or not a type implements some other trait. Effectively, test whether a type implements a trait and take action based on that.

Java - The Year of the Runtime!

Inside Java @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

As AI coding agents make language syntax less central, runtime performance and operability become increasingly important. This keynote explores why Java’s JVM and standard library are well suited to this shift: newer JDKs continually improve performance,

My top picks for Interop 2027

Sara Soueidan – Blog @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

I love the Web platform, and it’s a privilege that we, the web community, get a chance to influence what browser makers work on every year. For the second year in a row, Firefox has created a page that allows us to rank the Interop 2027 features that

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro muy brillante para Lu, de 16 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-10 19:30:03

Invicta en las once partidas de la Olimpiada Femenina, la joven estrella china firmó esta obra maestra de ataque contra la Defensa Francesa

Sunnny

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-10 18:11:45

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring this week at DF. How can B2B software be so friggin’ delicious? Find out when early access launches on Monday, October 19.  ★ 

‘Proof-of-Human’

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

Benjamin Mayo (on X, of course), commenting on Apple promoting behind-the-scenes footage showing that the embroidered “Welcome Home” logo for next week’s keynote/experience was stitched by hand: There needs to be a name for this phenomenon where every

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 10)

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

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 10) appeared first on SingularityHub .

La hiperproductividad con IA de Nicholas G. Polson (Universidad de Chicago)

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-10 13:47:57

Supongo que ya lo sabes. Nicholas G. Polson (Universidad de Chicago) ha sido noticia en The Washington Post. Pero no lo ha sido por la excelencia de sus contribuciones científicas. […] La entrada La hiperproductividad con IA de Nicholas G. Polson

Building Graph-Based Workflows With Spring AI Alibaba

Baeldung @ 2026-10-10 03:04:27

Learn how to use Spring AI Alibaba to implement and maintain your prompt orchestration logic. The post Building Graph-Based Workflows With Spring AI Alibaba first appeared on Baeldung .              

Java Weekly, Issue 667

Baeldung @ 2026-10-09 17:26:39

Spring + Jev, and the real use of unit testing. The post Java Weekly, Issue 667 first appeared on Baeldung .              

How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-09 16:03:07

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his visionary ideas. The post How Does Life Unfo

One way of thinking about access specifiers in C++/WinRT implementation types

old new thing @ 2026-10-09 16:00:00

Mapping them to concepts from C# and the now-defunct C++/CX. The post One way of thinking about access specifiers in C++/WinRT implementation types appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-09 16:00:00

Exoskeletons have advanced rapidly, leading to the emergence of numerous devices with commercial and clinical applications. The post The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton appeared first on SingularityHub .

We’ve Always Copied Nature. Now We Can Search It.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-09 15:59:00

Humans have looked to the natural world for technological inspiration for millennia. AI and rapidly improving biotechnology are giving us new ways to explore four billion years of evolutionary experiments. The post We’ve Always Copied Nature. Now We Ca

Barbara Ward’s vision

AEON @ 2026-10-09 12:00:00

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals - by Or Rosenboim Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Didáctica sencillez de Chéron

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-09 11:56:42

La técnica para resolver posiciones muy simples en apariencia también tiene algo de arte, como demuestra el célebre teórico francés

Issue 771

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-09 02:00:00

Time in app is the wrong number, life after Device Hub, and iPhone Duo screenshots get a deadline

AI and Chiral Fermions

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-09 00:59:56

It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist now on a one-year visiting position at OpenAI, put …

Let’s Check In on Trump’s Blog

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-09 00:52:35

An actual post from the sitting president of the United States: The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DO

Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-08 21:30:36

David Smith, last week: Been really interesting to watch the iOS 27 adoption curve over the first two weeks. Clearly on a different path than previous years. Still steadily growing, at a similar rate to the ‘steady growth’ phase of most years, but wit

Joz Announces ‘Welcome Home’ Keynote Coming Tuesday, 13 October

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-08 21:00:09

It’s almost like you can predict the timing of such things , if you pay attention to Apple’s consistent patterns.  ★ 

This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-08 20:24:21

The Paper2Agent system could make it easier to understand papers, reproduce results, and generate hypotheses. The post This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Carissa Yip, plata brillante

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-08 19:08:37

EEUU se quedó sin medalla en la Olimpiada Femenina, pero su primer tablero sí subió al podio y firmó esta magnífica victoria

What's new in Swift: September 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-10-08 19:00:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. The Vapor web framework recently turned ten and celebrated with Vapor Week! We’ve invited one of the authors of Vapor as this m