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slashdot @ 2026-07-19 18:34:00

Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset-tracking service Lansweeper. That's more than one in six, The Register points out. A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, fallin

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 17:34:00

Solar car maker Aptera has "officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide," reports Electrek: We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera solar

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 16:34:00

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too high to let AI become increasingly closed. "In the 1980s

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-19 16:27:01

Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj and Thomas Thierauf. The post will try to explain three main thing

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 16:18:38

Pelea sin escudos entre dos grandes luchadores hasta que el estadounidense cae en una profunda celada del indio

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 16:04:21

Ya no es sólo un talento precoz muy excepcional, de 15 años, sino un rival temible, incluso para la élite mundial

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 15:40:31

Ni siquiera las dos damas del bando defensor pueden evitar la victoria blanca en esta obra de arte de Martin Minski

Baeldung @ 2026-07-19 14:18:31

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 655 first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 13:34:00

CNBC reports: The automotive industry's increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector... Its use represents "a unique national security

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 12:34:58

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-19 12:16:00

Google's AlphaEvolve reached general availability on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, turning the DeepMind research project into an evolutionary code optimization service. Evaluators run client-side so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-19 11:58:21

Todos los modelos son falsos, aunque algunos son útiles. El objetivo de las gerociencias es estudiar los mecanismos biológicos asociados al envejecimiento para retrasar, prevenir o revertir el deterioro asociado […] La entrada Un supuesto límite

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 10:57:31

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slashdot @ 2026-07-19 09:34:00

A new study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco "adds to growing research linking increased social media use to detrimental effects on attention, memory and cognition," reports the Washington Post: The study followed more than

InfoQ @ 2026-07-19 07:59:00

AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization.

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 05:34:00

Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, "just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage." That discovery

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 03:34:00

"OpenAI has finally confirmed reports that its latest family of large language models can accidentally delete files," reports InfoWorld, "while stressing that such incidents are rare and should be viewed as 'honest mistakes.'" Reports of the flagship LL

Baeldung @ 2026-07-19 03:30:22

Learn how to map your entities correctly in Hibernate to avoid getting an AnnotationException The post Solving org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Illegal Attempt to Map a Non Collection first appeared on Baeldung .        

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 03:29:19

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 02:38:17

I think maybe John Ternus is more of a “*Hey, what* would *Steve have done here?*” kind of guy. What would Steve Jobs do with this OpenAI situation? He’d go to war.

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 02:17:00

France's regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games "announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket," reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site "could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or aro

Inside Java @ 2026-07-19 02:00:00

JDK 27 entered RDP1, Valhalla's JEP 401 is being merged into JDK main, join our hackathon, and more

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 01:24:26

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slashdot @ 2026-07-19 01:17:00

This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary — and how

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 00:47:59

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 00:17:00

Reuters reports: Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 00:13:39

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slashdot @ 2026-07-18 21:50:00

"Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]: Th

slashdot @ 2026-07-18 20:46:00

"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register: Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is

slashdot @ 2026-07-18 19:34:00

In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC: "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 19:32:40

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John Carlos Baez @ 2026-07-18 18:35:13

Maxwell’s equations are invariant under Lorentz transformations. The usual equations of fluid flow are not! Like the rest of Newtonian mechanics, they’re invariant under Galilean transformations like So, if we simply slap these two theories tog

Physics Phorums @ 2026-07-18 18:35:13

Maxwell’s equations are invariant under Lorentz transformations. The usual equations of fluid flow are not! Like the rest of Newtonian mechanics, they’re invariant under Galilean transformations like So, if we simply slap these two theories tog

slashdot @ 2026-07-18 18:34:00

Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015. But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN. It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth... NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went int

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 18:12:08

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slashdot @ 2026-07-18 17:34:00

Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege u

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 17:32:04

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-18 16:14:51

Quantum 10, 2165 (2026). In this work, we study the complexity of graph-state preparation in a general model of quantum algorithms that allows measurements in the computational basis, single-qubit Clifford oper

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 16:04:42

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-18 16:00:00

Now generally available, Pinecone Nexus is a "knowledge engine" for AI agents that transforms enterprise data into a structured layer agents can query directly. It enables teams to ingest and curate business context once for all, making it reusable acros

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-18 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 July 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-18 15:45:57

Quantum 10, 2164 (2026). Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in dimens

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 15:00:52

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 14:50:00

La vida terrestre usa los azúcares como fuentes y reservas de energía (glucosa, glucógeno y almidón), como parte de los ácidos nucleicos (ribosa en ARN y desoxirribosa en ADN) y […] La entrada Se detecta un azúcar con cuatro carbonos (eritrulosa)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-18 13:12:46

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 12:09:18

En la era de la computación cuántica de escala intermedia y con ruido (NISQ, por Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum), la ventaja cuántica se muestra como ventaja de escalado. Solo se ilustra […] La entrada La primera ventaja cuántica por escalado e

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 10:47:32

Microsoft Quantum intentó convencernos de que Majorana 1 era un ordenador cuántico topológico basado en estados de Majorana de energía cero (MZM). No lo logró con sus cúbits basados en […] La entrada Microsoft vuelve a la carga con Majorana 2, qu

InfoQ @ 2026-07-18 09:28:00

DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection and compression, along with improved support for large a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-18 02:33:15

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month : Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn Tech. I AM NO

Inside Java @ 2026-07-18 02:00:00

From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, Java's journey is one of radical innovation, strategic pivots, and enduring community strength.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-18 01:47:16

Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the reco

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 23:20:04

Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 23:08:39

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music: Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99) Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99) Apple One: Individual:

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 22:27:53

Wired, back on May 15: OpenAI says it’s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says that Codex is increasingly powering its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-17 21:57:06

The AI company says a new finding about how Claude works echoes an influential theory of consciousness. That doesn't prove the AI is itself conscious. The post Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right? ap

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 21:48:53

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: In that light, we can see the dilemma. But there were also probably about a dozen better ways to do this roll-out — as highlighted by how fast they’re fixing these things — and they just missed the mark. While they und

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 21:10:43

Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineering lead who’s taking the most public credit for this and thus probably deserves the most blame, on Twitter/X: Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great feedback on the new ChatGPT desktop app (which we didn’t ge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 20:13:16

Linus Torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they ca

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 19:31:11

Speaking of BBEdit , version 16 dropped just before WWDC, and adds a slew of nifty improvements, headlined by vastly expanded support for Shortcuts. You can also search for text in images , use the W3C HTML syntax checker, and of all things, use vi keyb

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 19:05:20

Sean Malseed — “Action Retro” on YouTube — created a Markdown editor for the original Macintosh. Source code on GitHub ; intro video on YouTube . It’s written in C, not Pascal, and uses the modern Retro68 GCC-derived compiler. I absolutely love that

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-17 18:59:13

La tecnología CFET (Complementary Field-Effect Transistor) apila en vertical transistores nMOS y pMOS para aumentar la densidad lógica y alcanzar la escala subnanométrica. Todavía en estado preindustrial, IBM, imec y […] La entrada Hacia los tran

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 18:55:59

Joanna Stern explains why this emoji is correct today: 📅. (This one too: 📆)  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 18:12:31

Quick follow up to the previous two posts on ICD-10 codes and HCPCS codes. This post uses Python’s squarify library to create treemaps visualizing how many codes begin with each letter. Here’s the treemap for HCPCS codes. And here’s the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 17:53:16

Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Here’s Google’s full statement on withdrawing its proposed modifications to Judge Donato’s permanent injunction, via Google spokesperson Dan Jackson: We’ve agreed with Epic to withdraw our motio

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-17 16:31:05

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. The post Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind firs

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 16:02:52

Since I revisited my old post on ICD code matching, I thought I’d revisit by post on HCPCS codes too. HCPCS stands for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, and is pronounced “hick picks.” When most people say HCPCS, they technicall

old new thing @ 2026-07-17 16:00:00

It's fixed, but the fix isn't getting there. The post Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-17 15:29:40

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of t

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-17 15:29:40

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of t

InfoQ @ 2026-07-17 14:00:00

A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native ecosystem that already powers modern distributed appl

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-17 13:39:01

Cada cuatro años intento predecir los nombres los matemáticos que serán galardonados con la Medalla Fields. Por desgracia, este año no tiene ningún sentido hacerlo. ¡Se han filtrado dichos nombres! […] La entrada Se filtran los nombres de las Med

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 13:26:19

Seven years ago I wrote a post about regular expressions to match diagnosis codes. I wanted to revisit that post looking at speed and error rates. Regular expressions usually do not exactly match what you’re looking for and nothing else. They have e

InfoQ @ 2026-07-17 12:00:00

Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation and its own isolation-group system, which relies on the Odin container orchestration platform. This way, it

AEON @ 2026-07-17 12:00:00

Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know - by Ananya Palivela Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-17 11:00:00

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring security through a "harness" around agents, and adopti

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 04:01:37

The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. Under the EU’s Batte

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-17 03:53:55

During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections. Following this year’s meeting, we are pleased to welcome Dave Cottlehuber to the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors. Take a minute to read this interview with Dave to l

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-17 03:32:52

FreeBSD Community member and former Core Representative, Dave Cottlehuber, was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board during the Annual Meeting on June 15, 2026. We sat down with Dave to learn more about his history with FreeBSD and what he’s most lookin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 02:17:35

Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I love the web too much to let that nonsense bury links to real websites m

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Apple sues OpenAI, SwiftUI environment footguns, and Xcode’s MCP tools without an agent

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Your agent works. I know it does. You built it on LangChain or CrewAI or something custom, you tested it against real scenarios, and it handled them. The problem isn't the agent. The problem is everything around it.In "Why good AI agents fail in production

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Achieving infrastructure efficiency and controlling compute costs is a continuous effort. While traditional machine pools are effective for steady workloads, scaling diverse applications often requires balancing cloud utilization with the effort spent manu

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

InfoWorld - Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 tackles cloud costs, AI workloadsInfoWorld looks at Red Hat OpenShift 4.22, the latest version of Red Hat's hybrid cloud application platform. The release focuses on cutting cloud infrastructure costs, simplifying operat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Red Hat is pioneering the use of agentic AI to shift vulnerability management from volume to precision. By combining the security-hardened foundation of Red Hat OpenShift with advanced AI frameworks from NVIDIA, we're delivering actionable security intelli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 01:28:09

Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web . (We don’t (yet?) have an RSS feed that you can put in your podcast player for these occasi

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-17 01:03:59

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. The post Is AI Making Us Dumber? appeared first on Singular

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-16 23:22:38

El vietnamita dominó de principio a fin al durísimo Bluebaum, convirtiendo ventajas mínimas en una victoria inapelable

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-16 22:01:14

See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started out with us again shuffling around where we parked our

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 21:44:47

OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week: “While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in fair competition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever they choose, and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 21:34:13

David Ingram, reporting for NBC News (which recently added a paywall without gift links, alas): Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was trade secret theft. But emails r

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 21:00:00

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four ag

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 20:07:28

Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the Parakeet blog: It’s worth noting that some of the platform’s best icons look worse, while some of the platform’s worst icons look better. Ultimatel

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 19:45:59

Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they spent “low hundreds of millions” to purchase the TBPN YouTube show ? In

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-16 19:29:21

If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as us

TED Blog @ 2026-07-16 18:00:13

On June 13, 2026, more than 1,500 people gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States at TED Democracy Philadelphia: Founding Futures. Democracy may have weathered some hard years recently — with rising partisan tension, fr

old new thing @ 2026-07-16 16:00:00

Inferring the code's history. The post Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-16 15:25:00

When people think of legacy modernization, most folks aren't imagining the target environment will be Java 8. But this was the challenge facing Nik Malykhin when he needed to run a Java 1.5 codebase on today's hardware. His early use of LLMs gave

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 13:09:00

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 12:17:00

A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructur

AEON @ 2026-07-16 12:01:00

In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-16 12:00:00

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe - by Anton Cebalo Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-16 11:58:37

Quantum 10, 2163 (2026). We introduce a new characterisation of determinism in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC). The one-way model consists in performing local measurements over a large entangled stat

Deepmind @ 2026-07-16 11:30:42

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

ASF @ 2026-07-16 07:20:06

By Chia-Ping TsaiALC Taipei Lead [Figure 1] Long-time Apache Kafka contributors Jiunn-Yang and Chih-Yuan introducing ALC Taipei’s contributions to open-source veterans Brian Behlendorf and Justin McLean Introduction With the globally renowned Comput

Rust blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. 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 1.97.1 is as

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

For CIOs across the Middle East Africa, keeping systems online is the foundation of customer trust. As public sector institutions and private enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, maintaining this operational uptime is the top priority. In

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

Before anything reaches production, you have to test it, validate it, and sometimes learn about it from scratch. All 3 of these steps are necessary to have a properly running environment but your window to complete them is almost always shorter than expect

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

Enterprises want absolute clarity on their IT footprint: they want to know exactly what software is running, where it’s running, and how those deployments align with subscription entitlements. For many organizations, Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and subscr

Inside Java @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

As long as value classes are a preview feature, they can’t generally be adopted in the JDK libraries (which are not compiled with `--enable-preview`). However, we felt it was important for this JEP to provide users with a “starter kit” of some value class

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 01:02:54

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a se

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:52:22

Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo: The new language could simply accommodate the availability of Apple-owned services on the web and through third-party devices and operating systems; the Apple TV app, for instance, is available on smart TVs, streaming de

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:48:20

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In a newly published Apple Advertising Services policy, effective as of July 14, 2026, the iPhone maker shares its rules for advertising on Apple Maps. Notably, it prohibits the broad category of home services businesses, li

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:35:18

Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial intelligence service on iPhones in the country, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-15 23:10:16

Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background — it just takes someone willing to show up and talk about why this project matters. Whether that’s presenting at a local meetup or bringing FreeBSD into a

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-15 22:51:23

Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fields Medal winners. This year there won’t be much surprise, since evidently someone found … Co

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-15 22:07:14

If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over the name tags we wrote yesterday t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-15 19:33:52

El vietnamita, de visión estratégica muy profunda, demuestra con alguna frecuencia por qué se mantiene en la élite durante casi toda su carrera

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-15 17:24:33

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use. The post Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-15 16:55:50

Herman Chernoff passed away on July 6, 5 days after turning 103. Ravi Boppana wrote a guest post about Chernoff's life for his 100th birthday.  Let me talk about his most famous work, the Chernoff Bounds themselves. If you have a coin

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 16:25:00

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on executio

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 16:07:46

Quantum 10, 2162 (2026). We present a two-step protocol for quantum measurement tomography that is light on classical co-processing cost and still achieves optimal sample complexity. Given measurement data from

old new thing @ 2026-07-15 16:00:00

Watching the bits disappear. The post The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:46:28

Quantum 10, 2161 (2026). The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. Thi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:29:55

Quantum 10, 2160 (2026). The preparation of quantum many-body systems faces the difficulty that in a realistic scenario only few control parameters of the system may be accessible. In this context, an interesti

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 13:04:00

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and ro

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 12:40:54

Quantum 10, 2159 (2026). We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By

AEON @ 2026-07-15 12:01:00

What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 09:26:06

Quantum 10, 2158 (2026). The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) tackles combinatorial optimisation problems by encoding their solutions into the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian prepared by a

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-15 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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Red Hat AI 3.4 is officially available. While it is packed with incredible engineering milestones, business leaders care less about the underlying code and more about one critical question: How does this platform help scale the business?For organizations c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Edge computing environments present distinct hurdles as companies move processing capabilities nearer to where data is generated. Customers across industries, especially in retail, industrial, and telecommunications sectors, are increasingly demanding high

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Every company that depends on physical operations is dealing with the same set of problems today. The infrastructure that was built years ago demands changes faster than operations teams can adapt. Repetitive tasks done by humans at high speed produce erro

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 00:00:00

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 23:48:06

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress. The post Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body appeared first on SingularityHub .

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-14 22:25:28

On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty people in a meeting room

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-14 19:11:24

El estadounidense de origen ruso, primer cabeza de serie, cumple el pronóstico y lo hace con un juego de muy alta calidad en varias partidas

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-14 16:24:12

I’ve been thinking about ICD-10 codes; they come up a lot in my work. The ICD-10-CM standard is divided into 21 chapters, which generally correspond to the first letter of a code. However, a chapter may contain blocks beginning with more than one le

old new thing @ 2026-07-14 16:00:00

Please, tell me more. The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:40:00

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dyn

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:00:00

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieve

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-14 14:51:00

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describ

Baeldung @ 2026-07-14 14:19:11

Learn how to retrieve the current Java process ID using ProcessHandle , RuntimeMXBean , and legacy approaches across different Java versions. The post How Does a Java Program Get Its Own Process ID first appeared on Baeldung .    

AEON @ 2026-07-14 12:00:00

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future - by Ali Rıza Taşkale Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-14 07:02:00

Paper is a professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs and fewer translations between what you design and what ships. Paper works both ways: code to design, and design to code.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers minds from across Ethereum and beyond: builders, researchers, maintainers, organizers, and anyone curious a

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 01:10:32

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 20:13:57

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages bet

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 18:18:20

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builde

Baeldung @ 2026-07-13 17:25:40

Learn how to log HTTP request and response bodies using a Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor. The post How to Get The RequestBody and ResponseBody in HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 17:24:53

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings , on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consis

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-13 16:22:22

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-07-13 16:00:00

Guard pages all the way down? The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-13 14:51:00

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of

Deepmind @ 2026-07-13 14:37:28

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-13 13:49:35

La teoría general de la relatividad predice un arrastre de los sistemas de referencia inerciales (frame-dragging). En un campo gravitacional débil y rotación lenta, como en el entorno de la […] La entrada LARES-2 y LAGEOS miden el efecto Lense–Th

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:01:00

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:00:00

We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-13 09:06:50

Aún es posible innovar con gran brillantez en los primeros movimientos, como demostró Castellanos en la 8ª ronda del abierto pirenaico

Rust blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Another six months have passed since our last development update , and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "Code"

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-13 00:49:37

The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrated by Robert J Lewis, (I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News,  here .) has an appe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 00:17:54

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, and weeks of infrastructure b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 23:18:24

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times , included in iOS Dev Weekly , inspired May’s edition of the Swift Blog Carnival , and was

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:51:16

These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in clarity, everywhere. Today we live in an age when it’s degrading in clarity, everywhere.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:48:09

Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov: The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see. Why care about every frame? It builds trust. Users can’t see the code, so UI is the only way for them to

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 21:26:29

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how the posterior mea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 20:04:05

Guilherme Rambo: Apple ships the fm command-line tool in macOS 27, which can be used to run inference with the local system model or Private Cloud Compute from Terminal or scripts. You know what else can run command-line tools? Mac apps! 😃 I deci

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 19:48:14

Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignore previous information or new information. How much should new data c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:45:57

Elon Musk , linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”: He takes scamming to a whole new level Sam Altman : homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters Mus

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:19:36

After linking to Stacks , his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of clicking around the rest of Jeff Halter’s website, and fell upon Lunacy: Created by Ben Haller and released in the early ’90s as part of the Maci

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-12 19:16:23

El bicampeón absoluto de Baleares, de 15 años, comparte el 5º puesto de 511 participantes en el Open de Benasque