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slashdot @ 2026-08-24 13:34:00

Gluons are the quantum 'Gorilla Glue' involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for "glueballs", exotic particles predicted by this theory of the strong interaction — the only type o

brucknerite @ 2026-08-24 10:00:00

For All Mankind es una serie donde nos muestran lo malos que son los soviéticos, pero Star City, su spin-off, nos lleva al otro lado del Telón de Acero para que veamos… lo malos que son los soviéticos (gracias, Héctor, excelente resumen). Habrá spoilers,

slashdot @ 2026-08-24 09:34:00

The long legal battle over ownership of Linux "is closer than ever to ending," reports the Register, "after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn't valid, and that time has expired for further action." In 2021, an heir to SCO

slashdot @ 2026-08-24 06:34:00

A Pew Research senior data scientist analyzed 500,000 English-language webpages from the past five years with an AI detection tool to estimate how many were likely written or edited by AI: Of all the pages in this sample, 10% show significant signs of

slashdot @ 2026-08-24 04:31:00

3,346 backers pledged $1,198,844 on Kickstarter to build the (modular) handheld Linux computer, the Mecha Comet. It's slightly bigger and heavier than your smartphone, with a 4-inch AMOLED display and loaded up with things like microphones, speakers, a SIM

InfoQ @ 2026-08-24 04:30:00

JDK 27, the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its first release candidate phase featuring a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Security Library and J

slashdot @ 2026-08-24 01:53:00

It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions — charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. But it operates with 98 qubits — making it the largest trapped

InfoQ @ 2026-08-24 00:50:00

Cloudflare recently open-sourced Cloudflare OS. It allows enterprise teams to output work artifacts grounded in enterprise knowledge, know-how, and provisioned connectors, automate repetitive workflows with optimized token cost (with AI assistance only w

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 23:59:00

A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget: Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 22:59:00

This week OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT exclusively designed for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, reports CTV, "saying this version came with stronger protections around content related to mentions of suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexua

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 20:53:00

"Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack," reports the Telegraph. More details from the BBC: The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system, but the Department for Energy Secu

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 20:40:57

Special functions often have arcane names that not very helpful without some context. The previous post goes into some reasons for this. This post will expand on a point at the end of the post about “modified” functions. Things are given their

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 20:00:00

Google is introducing HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler and development toolchain designed to make encrypted computation easier to deploy. In particular, HEIR can compile pre-trained AI models built for co

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 19:56:03

Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered independently multip

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 19:38:00

Slovakia acquired speed cameras to modernize its traffic control-- but there was a surprise. Tom's Hardware cites this story from the Risky Bulletin Newsletter: Unfortunately, the country's national security service, the NBU, has discovered that the camer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-23 19:36:28

John Moltz, in his weekly members-only column for Six Colors (no gift links, but Moltz’s column is worth the subscription in and of itself): This week Anthropic announced that in order to identify AI from human-generated content it would be waterm

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 18:34:00

"There is still no sign of economy-wide job destruction," says economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Working with researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Brynjolfsson has determined an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely, reports the Washington Post, "even tho

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 17:34:00

"It began life just a year after SimCity 4's 2003 launch," writes the blog PCGamesN. "Now, over 20 years later, it's still going strong with the arrival of Network Addon Mod update 50." The SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, or simply 'NAM' among the community,

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 16:34:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 13:34:00

Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America's grids "are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in," with supplies straining for the necessary equipmen

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 10:43:00

OVHcloud will raise prices from September, with 2026-edition gaming servers up 87 percent and other recent servers 40 to 59 percent. Founder Octave Klaba says memory cost six times more in June than a year earlier, as RAM suppliers shifted capacity towar

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 09:34:00

Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a "None of the above" option. The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions b

slashdot @ 2026-08-23 06:33:00

Retraction Watch reports: A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers. Th

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 06:04:00

Security researcher Christopher Domas developed skitter-creek-bath-salts, an open-source hardware security tool that disrupts CPU privilege boundaries by manipulating memory controller translation registers. This allows unprivileged software to access pr

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-23 05:32:25

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The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 02:01:10

Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane. If you wanted to be more accurate, you’d need to take into account the fact that the o

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-23 02:00:00

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Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:26:23

Learn why sometimes Jackson can't construct an instance of LocalDate or LocalDateTime and how to fix the error it throws. The post How to Fix Jackson JSON Parse Error Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate first appeared on Baeldung .

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:20:24

Learn how to use Testcontainers integration to spin up Microcks inside a JUnit5 test. The post API Mocking and Testing With Microcks first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:16:19

Learn how to use the InetAddressFilter class in a Spring-based application to limit the address that an HTTP client can call. The post HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:11:36

Learn how to use the db-scheduler library to store, manage and execute persistent scheduled tasks in Java. The post DB-Scheduler: A Persistent, Cluster-Friendly Scheduler for Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 20:14:16

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 18:47:10

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked a

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-22 17:34:11

There’s a pizza shop near my home with a sign out front that says “Coming Soon.” When I drove by it this morning I thought about how you would model the time until an event happens that is “coming soon.” Suppose I look at the

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 17:01:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for automated workloads. Kitesurf runs browser components in isolated WebAssembly/Rust environments on Cloudflare Workers and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing tools such

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 16:54:07

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:18:29

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring the Daring Fireball weekly newsletter this week to promote their Agent Registration. Agents are hitting your signup flow and they’re bouncing off a browser login that was designed for humans. Every one that gives up is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:12:07

Toby Sterling, reporting for Reuters: The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision revie

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 16:08:19

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 15:31:34

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 15:24:06

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 14:07:06

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Baeldung @ 2026-08-22 13:26:18

A clear Hibernate speedup and a new JSON API coming to Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 660 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 11:49:14

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 11:00:00

At LinkedIn's scale, relying solely on human reviewers or simply putting an off-the-shelf AI reviewer in front of GitHub is not an effective way to manage PRs. To address this, LinkedIn engineers built a multi-agent AI code review platform that understan

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 10:00:00

AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructure provisioning. Unlike traditional benchmarks, it uses real resources in disposable AWS accounts, scoring agent per

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 08:32:00

VoidZero has launched the beta of Vite+, a unified web development toolchain. It combines runtime, package management, and essential frontend tools under a single command. Vite+ supports various projects and is open source. The platform enhances workflow

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 08:16:57

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 01:18:40

Microsoft’s iPhone app for OneDrive has long supported creating three new document types via a big “+” button right in its file viewer: Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It recently came to my attention that they’ve added a fourth document type, and they even ga

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-22 00:29:00

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 21:51:54

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 21:51:48

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 21:34:55

Walmart: When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part. And one of the moments where that matters most is at checkout. We want customers and mem

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-21 20:53:26

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 20:36:34

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-21 20:25:19

In a new study, mice recovered their memories by regrowing brain connections lost during artificial hibernation. The post We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 19:45:41

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 18:25:25

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 18:09:11

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 17:17:04

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-21 16:53:32

For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. The post ‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 16:31:52

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 16:09:00

Cloudflare, Astro, AI agents, GitHub Actions, issue triage, agentic AI, software architecture, open source, developer tools, AI automation, automated testing, human in the loop, agent workflows, GitHub, software engineering, AI software development, bug

old new thing @ 2026-08-21 16:00:00

Applying our principles. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-21 15:45:00

Del principio al fin de esta impresionante partida, las piezas del escandinavo funcionan como una orquesta en perfecta armonía

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 15:36:58

Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch last week: Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social netwo

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-21 15:29:17

When Jim Huang Chen began his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation, he was only finishing his first year as a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. A few months later, he had spent the summer working inside the FreeBSD codebase, co

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-21 15:14:28

A few weeks ago I wrote about the number system used in labeling spreadsheet columns. Labels run from A through Z, then AA through AZ, etc. This looks a lot like base 26, but it’s not quite the same. It has no analog of zero. If Z were like zero, Y

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 14:52:47

Mike Masnick, in a thread on Bluesky: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because they use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel th

InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 14:00:00

Cloudflare has recently detailed how it is using AI to transform internal engineering standards from passive documentation into an actively enforced control system across the software development lifecycle. By Craig Risi

Deepmind @ 2026-08-21 13:59:48

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

AEON @ 2026-08-21 12:00:00

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it - by Sarah Berg Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 11:55:00

Microsoft has made the Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server generally available, offering a hosted endpoint into work items, repos, and pipelines with nothing to install. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Cursor cannot connect yet because Entra lacks s

InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 10:41:00

Security researchers at Wiz recently examined S3-compatible object storage services across six popular neoclouds, revealing significant security gaps compared to Amazon S3. While S3 has become the de facto standard for object storage, most services lack

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 05:03:08

Bluesky and Threads both pull the same trick: When you take a screenshot on iOS of an individual tweet, they replace the “Follow” button in their user interface with their logo. Tim Marinin noticed this in the Bluesky app, got curious, and because they pu

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

AI judgement, observability, SwiftPM traits and package registries

Rust blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single chan

Inside Java @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that the named group information is included in the jdk.TLSHandshake JFR event.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

As automation practices mature, the workflows they need to support naturally grow more complex—there are more teams, trigger types, decision points, and AI recommendations to account for. Automation orchestrator is a composable workflow canvas for Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

For a network that helps the financial community securely exchange payment instructions representing the equivalent of the world's GDP every 3 days, security isn't just a concern, it's the number one priority. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Praveen Siddu, Senior

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

AI teams struggle because data, experiments, models, and deployments often live in separate systems. The DagsHub AI quickstart for Red Hat OpenShift AI gives teams a way to manage dataset versioning, annotation, experiment tracking, model registry, and dep

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

Why proprietary software isn’t a retrospective trend but a trap for failureThink proprietary software is more secure because its code is hidden? In the AI era, that assumption is dangerously outdated. AI tools can now expose vulnerabilities in closed syst

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-20 18:58:03

Caruana había desarrollado una gran confianza en sí mismo tras varias partidas contra el noruego, quien le demostró que era excesiva

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 17:12:16

Thanks to the DMA’s sprawling scope, complexity, and overreach, Apple came out of this conceding only 4 percent of the App Store’s 30 percent commission, and no reduction at all to the 15 percent for subscriptions after the first year.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-20 16:56:20

AI is like a genie. The way in which algorithms grant our wishes may make us regret letting them out of the bottle. The post Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-20 16:04:40

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. The post Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

old new thing @ 2026-08-20 16:00:00

Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-20 15:48:43

I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art

Swift blog @ 2026-08-20 15:45:00

Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than reg

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:04:00

Vercel has released Next.js 16.3, featuring significant updates since version 16.0. Enhancements include reduced memory usage during development, accelerated build times, and improved type checking. Instant Navigations introduces faster, client-like resp

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:00:00

InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-20 13:09:54

Quantum 10, 2196 (2026). The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity

AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:01:00

A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:00:00

The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous - by Eliran Arazi Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 04:28:03

Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Earlier this week, a developer version of a Mac computer software update accidentally included references to several upcoming Apple products, including a video of the AirPods with cameras in action. [...] But the product chal

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Le

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate p

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.98.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

Since Java moved to a six-month release cadence with JDK 10 in March of 2018, there has been a question if it was practical or possible for organization to keep up with such a release cadence.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

The telecommunications industry is considering one of its most consequential security debates in decades. Amid growing network complexity, 1 narrative argues that proprietary software is inherently more secure than its open source counterparts. Its central

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

In Part I and Part II of this series, we explored why efficient inference is becoming an economic necessity and why sovereign AI requires infrastructure independence. But who should build the infrastructure that powers AI?AI infrastructure influences far m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 23:39:47

It’s 2026 and an important, much-used app from Apple doesn’t offer basic list sorting controls that would have been a glaring omission 40 years ago. This was a completely solved problem decades ago, when computer RAM was measured in *kilo*bytes.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:30:00

TL;DR Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months. It isn’t really a gap in technology. It’s a gap in what different people think software

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:15:00

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-19 19:12:23

The authors found most of the scenarios they investigated resulted in lower emissions, including cases where the gas car was barely a year old. The post Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds appeared first on Si

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 16:52:59

Sara Fischer, Axios: Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with NBC News to exclusively power all of its programmatic, or automated, display advertising sales, CEO Adam Singolda tells Axios. Worked out great for Apple with Apple News. They stru

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-19 16:16:03

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. The post Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time f

old new thing @ 2026-08-19 16:00:00

Just use the callable directly. The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-19 15:52:21

In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't work on, or think d

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-19 15:20:48

El campeón flojeó en su defensa de la corona ante Anand, pero ganó el asalto decisivo desde una posición muy inferior

AEON @ 2026-08-19 12:01:00

The sorrows and redemptions of visitors who mailed their ‘souvenirs’ back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:58:53

Quantum 10, 2195 (2026). There have been significant recent advances in constructing theoretical and practical quantum error correcting codes that function well as quantum memories; however, performing fault-to

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:26:52

Quantum 10, 2194 (2026). Entanglement plays a crucial role in quantum information science and many-body physics, yet quantifying it in mixed quantum many-body systems has remained a notoriously difficult proble

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:07:24

Quantum 10, 2193 (2026). Quantum phase estimation is an important routine in many quantum algorithms, particularly for estimating the ground state energy in quantum chemistry simulations. This estimation involv

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 06:30:16

Agents are hitting your signup flow and bouncing off a browser login built for humans. Every one that gives up is a signup you never see. WorkOS Agent Registration turns that traffic into signups. Enroll via the dashboard and AuthKit publishes an auth

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-19 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 Endeavour @ 2026-08-19 02:22:36

A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area. For odd n, the solution is what you might expect: a regular n-gon. I would expect this to b

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Erste Erfahrungen mit dem Ubiquiti Unifi 5G Max

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Last time I built a detector that counts four-letter runs (n-grams) and tells you whether Claude Opus 5 wrote something. It works well - about 91% on text it has never read. It has one obvious hole: it only knows one robot (Claude Opus 5). Paste Chat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

AI is entering the era of large-scale, distributed, agentic systems. Applications coordinate multiple models, tools, and services, process millions of requests, and demand enormous amounts of computer capacity. At the same time, infrastructure costs contin

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Many believe that building models is the most challenging thing in AI, but managing the data that powers those models is equally difficult. We’ve all been there: a model's performance shifts or a data analysis yields inconsistent results, and you’re left w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:39:40

Joe Flint, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:23:45

Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple , the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 20:49:17

Paresh Dave and Aarian Marshall, reporting for Wired ( News+ link in case Wired hits you with their paywall): The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to P

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-18 19:24:25

El triunfo del noruego en el Mundial de Rápidas de 2014 no fue tan arrasador como en otros; pero esta partida es magnífica

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 18:03:32

Stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian, under the splendid headline “Dickovers, Baggravation and Botiquette: 18 New Words to Describe Our Tech Hellscape”: The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer,

ASF @ 2026-08-18 18:00:00

What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks throu

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 17:54:57

The imbalance conjecture is now a theorem. James Alexander Schreib and Yousof Yavari posted a proof last week. What does the conjecture theorem say? Start with a graph G with no edge between two nodes of the same degree. Then for every edge, calculate the

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-18 17:04:00

Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard wo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:38

Apple is making changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. The changes reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business t

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:32

Attachment 14 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been added to specify updated terms for apps in the European Union, including alternative distribution, alternative payments, and business terms. These terms will go into effect on Octo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 16:54:28

Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:11

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:10

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot

old new thing @ 2026-08-18 16:00:00

A contingency plan. The post Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-18 15:58:41

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech professionals who want to walk through

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 15:42:06

Suppose you have a planet in an elliptical orbit around a star. The math is identical for any light object orbiting a heavy object, such as a moon or satellite orbiting a planet, but we’ll call the heavy object a star and the light object a planet.

luajit @ 2026-08-18 15:01:31

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 14:32:38

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button. Nice. But these changes can’t improve fast enough for me — I am impa

AEON @ 2026-08-18 12:00:00

Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 05:37:14

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Confluent @ 2026-08-18 04:20:00

Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, UDFs, and PTFs while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 02:55:13

I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts su

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked . The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key nudges the ge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Large language model (LLM) API costs have a way of sneaking up on a business. What begins as a promising chatbot prototype often transforms into an invoice nightmare as users consume tokens at an unpredictable rate.A significant portion of these costs stem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

The AI industry is shifting its attention from training models to running models more efficiently. Enterprise AI applications generate millions of inference requests as they coordinate multiple models, tools, and agents. Inference is the process where a tr

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-18 00:42:15

For communities in the crosshairs, every extra hour counts. The post DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:55:29

The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago . Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:43:50

The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief executive Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkk

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-17 23:27:36

This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable t

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-17 18:02:36

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Founda

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-17 17:11:17

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appea

old new thing @ 2026-08-17 16:00:00

The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t