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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 23:00:00

AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge reports: AMD launched its FSR 4.1 update for Radeon RX 9000-s

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

Google is beginning to replace traditional support articles with "Ask Google Help," a Gemini-powered interface that summarizes documentation and lets users troubleshoot through a chatbot. 9to5Google reports: "Ask Google Help" will display a condensed versi

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 21:00:00

New court records reportedly show that DHS targeted Stop Cop City activist Samuel Tunick at an Atlanta airport because he was under investigation for suspected "terrorist activities." However, the CBP officers told him instead that they wanted to search hi

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

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. Linuxiac points out that it marks the "61st release of the secur

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 19:00:00

Security researchers say Meta's Muse AI assistant exposed thousands of users' shared conversations because conversation titles were placed in subdomains that could be discovered through public DNS records. Meta has since suspended the sharing feature while

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

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

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

The Trump administration has banned DeepSeek AI from most US civilian federal agencies, ordering the removal of the Chinese company's models and technology developed using them. The Department of Homeland Security did not specify the security threats behin

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The data center develop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 13:00:00

Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might not receive sufficient grid power until the early to mid-2030s. "Its departur

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 09:00:00

Japan has successfully launched its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scheduled to arrive in August 2027, "MMX will become the first spacecraft to land on and return samples from Phobos for study back on E

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies announced Monday. Utility company American Electric Power

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When large open weight models first captured attention, the industry was faced with a challenge. Powerful open models were becoming available, but technologists lacked an open inference serving system that could run them efficiently. Having spent years bui

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

The technologies that shape computing don't have to be built behind closed doors. Some of the most important foundations of modern software - from operating systems to cloud infrastructure - have grown through open source, where communities can collaborate

slashdot @ 2026-10-20 01:00:00

joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA prog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has signed a letter of intent with manufacturer Key Tronic and

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-19 23:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) t

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

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

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets,

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

Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline "Pro and tell." 9to5Mac reports: Rumors say Apple has a slew of new produ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 11:00:00

Continuous integration provider Buildkite has introduced pipeline-scoped secrets and new Model Context Protocol tools for validating pipelines, diagnosing failed builds and repairing webhooks. The company has also added Linux arm64 support to its GitHub

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

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

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

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 under a go-live license, supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. The release adds incremental CBOR reading, experimental post-quantum cryptography APIs, file-based app directive improvements, NuGet pac

InfoQ @ 2026-10-19 08:31:00

NestJS version 12 has been released, transitioning core packages to ESM and adding Standard Schema validation. It updates the CLI and introduces an observability SDK. Key changes include project generation choices between CJS and ESM, improved validation

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

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-19 02:00:00

Organizations running mission-critical workloads face a fundamental challenge: how to take advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's performance and economics without sacrificing the stability, security, and multicloud consistency that enterprise operatio

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-19 02:00:00

The patch was ready in days. It took months to ship. Why?I hear that question in nearly every customer conversation about vulnerability management. The honest answer is rarely “We didn’t know about it.” It’s “We knew, but getting it into production took lo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-19 02:00:00

If you're a platform engineer, you've likely lived this: your team has assembled a toolchain for CI/CD, monitoring, security scanning, GitOps, and networking. Each tool does its specific job well, but over time, you realize you’re spending more hours maint

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reported by Max Rottenkolber. #1492

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-18 17:00:00

Google has replaced its long-standing Python type checker, Pytype, with Pyrefly, an open-source tool originally developed by Meta. The decision was driven by Pyrefly's advantages, including faster and more accurate type checking, and lower infrastructure

InfoQ @ 2026-10-18 16:29:00

AWS recently announced the preview of the Well-Architected Agent, a service that analyzes environments against Well-Architected best practices and provides prioritized recommendations across cost, security, performance, and reliability. The AI agent can

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-18 07:30:00

On October 24, AWS will operate its European Sovereign Cloud without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone, with a team of EU residents and the region’s own hardware and software. AWS says neither of the two systems being severed is operation-c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-17 08:28:00

Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is an open-source project with over 200K GitHub stars that connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA. The project lets developers inspect compiled binari

InfoQ @ 2026-10-17 08:00:00

Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the analytical database DuckDB. Co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team under AWS. The acquisition aims to enhance the development and reach of DuckDB while maintaini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 21:00:00

Google researchers open sourced EnvHarness, a framework that dynamically adapts agent-training environments to an agent's weaknesses without modifying the agent, environment, or evaluation system. According to the researchers, this approach can improve b

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 17:22:00

Zod is a TypeScript-focused schema validation library that recently released versions 4.5 and 4.6. Key updates include schema compilation for faster data parsing, significant memory usage reductions, and new validation features. The library supports effi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following its activation on Sepolia on October 6, the Glamsterdam network upgrade is now scheduled for the Hoodi testnet. Glamsterdam advances Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes t

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

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway is now generally available (GA) as part of the Red Hat Connectivity Link 1.5 release, and natively integrated into the Red Hat AI portfolio. This follows a successful technology preview, and expands Red Hat's enterp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

Open Source Security Signals | Q3 2026Red Hat's inaugural Open Source Security Signals report examines how the ecosystem identifies meaningful risk, remediates vulnerabilities, and delivers reusable fixes. Drawing on Lightwell data, it models how one share

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-15 19:47:00

curl started out GPL licensed, as direct inheritance from its httpget days, but in October 1998 we switched to the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In 2001, we added the MIT license as an additional license to optionally use in addition to MPL. We made curl d

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

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

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

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

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

Kotlin news @ 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

old new thing @ 2026-10-15 16:00:00

Providing the case that the C++ language won't do. The post C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread <CODE>std::async</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Von Friesland in die Welt

Rust blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Warum die Zukunft oft blau ist

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

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

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,

old new thing @ 2026-10-14 16:00:00

Doing things later in different ways. The post C++ futures part 3: The mental model for <CODE>std::async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

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

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,

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

This article was written by an external contributor. 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

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

This article was written by an external contributor. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-14 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

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.

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

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