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AWS Blog @ 2026-07-20 18:37:34

Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-20 18:27:36

Ben Thompson, on the hype regarding Kimi K3, at Stratechery: This is a point that bears repeating: because U.S. open weight model makers must follow the frontier labs’ terms of service, they (1) are worse than Chinese alternatives and (2) end up disti

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

Researchers at Louisiana State University have created a room-temperature quantum material made from a thin gold film on glass, patterned with microscopic slits that act like artificial atoms. "We call this robust transport. These quantum states carry info

Baeldung @ 2026-07-20 17:55:06

Learn how the Selenium click() and submit() methods differ, how they work under the hood, and why click() is the recommended approach for modern web automation. The post Selenium Webdriver submit() vs click() first appeared on Baeldung .

slashdot @ 2026-07-20 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: One of the founding members of The Document Foundation and handler of LibreOffice's PR and media relations, Italo Vignoli, took to the LibreOffice blog to call out Microsoft's practices with its Offi

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-20 16:35:21

The volume of a sphere of radius r is V = 4πr³ / 3 and the surface area is A = 4πr² and so the ratio of volume to area is V / A = r / 3. Surprisingly, the same ratio holds for all regular solids if r is the radius of the largest sphere […] The post

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-20 16:33:31

I’ve written several posts about using Claude or ChatGPT to generate Prolog or Lean code to solve a chess puzzle. I didn’t think Grok would be up to the task, though I didn’t try it. I’ve heard good things about Grok 4.5, so I gave

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-20 16:13:28

La segunda estrella producida por el ajedrez iraní -tras el emigrado Firouzja- realiza un profundo sacrificio de pieza a largo plazo

old new thing @ 2026-07-20 16:00:00

The easy case is easy. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-20 15:53:00

DoorDash has developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform built on Envoy and Valkey to reduce redundant service-to-service requests across its microservices architecture. Operating within DoorDash’s service mesh, the platform serves over

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 15:28:33

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-20 15:00:00

InfoQ has opened enrollment for three five-week online certification cohorts starting in August, each led by a senior practitioner applying QCon talk frameworks to participants' own work: architecture with Luca Mezzalira, engineering leadership with Mich

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 14:45:55

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-20 14:21:44

Quantum 10, 2167 (2026). Quantum Zeno dragging enables the preparation of common eigenstates of a set of observables by frequent measurement and adiabatic-like modulation of the measurement basis. In this work,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 14:14:08

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-20 14:14:07

Quantum 10, 2166 (2026). Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pave the way for implementing quantum algorithms that offer quantum advantages over their classical counterparts. Due to the intrinsic no

slashdot @ 2026-07-20 13:34:00

James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars' series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about "a heavily a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 12:30:40

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-20 12:04:00

AWS released Loom, an open-source reference platform on AWS Labs for governing AI agents at scale. Built on Strands Agents and Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, it implements RFC 8693 token exchange for identity propagation through delegated actor chains, confi

AEON @ 2026-07-20 12:01:00

A 1979 doc examining the life and ideas of B F Skinner, with a focus on his radical, controversial behaviour experiments - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-20 12:00:00

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’ - by Carlos Noreña Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 10:13:36

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slashdot @ 2026-07-20 09:34:00

Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China's leader, Thailand's king, or Saudi Arabia's crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press. That's "a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday," their article

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 06:45:15

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slashdot @ 2026-07-20 06:20:00

ZDNet reports on June's Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled "Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed." Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote that

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 04:51:16

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slashdot @ 2026-07-20 04:15:00

The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley's "winners" whose financial security suddenly "evaporated" as their workforce "pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts," creating a transformed job market. "Her ex-husba

slashdot @ 2026-07-20 02:50:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stopped ac

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 02:16:50

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Inside Java @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of deprecated Java launcher options.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

Long before LinkedIn, my professional network consisted of the Yellow Pages and a landline. At the age of 15, I had the brainwave (and the audacity) to cold call every business I could find until I landed my 1st job. After making around 25 calls, a local s

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

The telecommunications industry is witnessing a shift in domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI). Following the success of the first iteration of the GSMA Open Telco AI initiative, the industry is entering its next phase with the announcement of Open

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

Healthcare payer organizations are navigating a complex intersection of rising member expectations, strict regulatory mandates, and aging technology infrastructures. Modernizing these environments to accelerate claims adjudication and improve the member ex

slashdot @ 2026-07-20 01:09:00

"If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake," reports Bloomberg. "Not so in a robotaxi..." Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi's speakers as he rode hom

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-20 00:31:11

My thanks to Paper for sponsoring last week at DF. Paper is a new professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs, translations, and layers of abstraction between what you design and

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-20 00:03:11

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 23:18:10

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slashdot @ 2026-07-19 23:04:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: A federal judge has halted California's groundbreaking "Truth in Recycling" law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take

InfoQ @ 2026-07-19 22:00:00

GenPage is a generative AI system developed by Netflix to replace its traditional multi-stage recommendation pipeline by directly generating personalized user homepages. GenPage leverages user history and request context as a prompt to produce the entire

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-19 21:30:17

Suppose you want to search for a list of words. If you’re using grep, you can add the -f flag provide a file of regular expressions, and you can add the -F to tell it that the regular expressions are in fact just words. I did something like this a c

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 21:13:29

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slashdot @ 2026-07-19 21:05:00

"Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com: The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spo

slashdot @ 2026-07-19 19:49:00

"A humanoid robot lost its head," reports Newsweek, "during the world's first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots." The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 19:18:57

9to5Mac: Brazilian users browsing the App Store rankings in categories such as Navigation, Travel, and Weather have noticed a growing number of poorly made games appearing among the top results, many of them featuring AI-generated illustrations of ani

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 18:45:17

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The Endeavour @ 2026-07-19 18:41:48

Squares, high and low Let p be an odd prime number. Then half the numbers from 1 through p − 1 are squares and half are not. That is, for half of numbers 1 ≤ k < p, the equation x² = k mod p has a solution. The traditional name for these numbers is [&

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 18:02:25

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 16:41:16

I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think. My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families

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 .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 13:48:18

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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 13:14:38

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 12:03:23

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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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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-19 10:44:57

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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.

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 .        

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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