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.NET 11 Preview 1 Arrives With Runtime Async, Zstandard Support, and C# 15 Features

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 10:00:00

NET 11 Preview 1 is released, featuring Runtime Async as the headline change, moving async method handling from the compiler into the runtime itself. The preview also brings CoreCLR WebAssembly work, native Zstandard compression, C# 15 collection express

US Particle Accelerators Turn Nuclear Waste Into Electricity, Cut Radioactive Life By 99.7%

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 08:00:00

Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS) that use high-energy proton beams to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived isotopes. "The process also generates significant he

Cloudflare Introduces Local Uploads for R2 to Cut Cross-Region Write Latency by 75%

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 07:57:00

Cloudflare has recently introduced Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. The new feature optimizes write performance for globally distributed users without changing bucket location, reducing cross-region write latency. By Renato Losio

NASA Eyes March 6 To Launch 4 Astronauts To the Moon On Artemis II Mission

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: NASA could launch four astronauts on a mission to fly around the moon as soon as March 6th. That's the launch date (PDF) that the space agency is now working towards following a successful test fueling of its b

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 03:02:00

Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 02:25:00

Users say Pinterest has become flooded with AI-generated images and heavy-handed automated moderation, with artists reporting wrongful takedowns and their hand-drawn work mislabeled as "AI modified." As the company doubles down on AI features and layoffs,

Meta's Metaverse Leaves Virtual Reality

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 01:45:00

Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, "explicitly separating" its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positi

Cyber Stocks Slide As Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Code Security'

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 01:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model. Crowdstrike Holdings was the among the biggest decliners, falling

Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 00:20:00

Goldman Sachs has launched an "S&P ex-AI" index (SPXXAI) that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI, offering investors a way to "hedge their exposure to the AI trade," reports Axios. From the report: "Excluding 'AI enablers' from the passive

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 23:50:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 234 # Comments: 92

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 23:40:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cour

Phil Spencer Retiring After 38 Years At Microsoft

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 23:00:00

Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the company. "Meanwhile, Xbox President Sarah Bond, "long thought by many both inside and outside of Microsoft to be Spencer's heir apparent, has resigned," repo

Turn Dependabot Off

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 22:25:41

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 357 # Comments: 91

Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 22:20:00

Microsoft pulled a year-old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Harry Potter books from a Kaggle dataset -- incorrectly marked as public domain -- and use them to train AI models on

OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 21:44:00

OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Google an

Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders'

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 21:05:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the ch

The Farmer Who Glimpsed a Rare Volcanic Birth

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Dionisio Pulido watched as Paricutín tore through his fields—suddenly, scientists flocked there from around the globe The post The Farmer Who Glimpsed a Rare Volcanic Birth appeared first on Nautilus .

Apache Kafka 4.2.0 Release Announcement

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.

AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 20:25:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: When will AI movies start showing up in theaters nationwide? It was supposed to be next month. But when word leaked online that an AI short film contest winner was going to start screening before feature presentations i

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 20:19:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 435 # Comments: 190

New Theory of Learning Upends the Lessons of Pavlov’s Dog

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 20:00:00

Maybe we don’t need so many reminders to remember something after all The post New Theory of Learning Upends the Lessons of Pavlov’s Dog appeared first on Nautilus .

How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 19:45:00

Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slowing that exodus by bundling the very apps that once threatened to replace them. Charter added

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 19:42:21

Related: Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog - - Feb 2026 (168 comments) Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? - - Jan 2026 (69 comme

Facebook is cooked

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 19:25:07

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 881 # Comments: 509

OpenAI Launches Frontier, a Platform to Build, Deploy, and Manage AI Agents Across the Enterprise

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 19:00:00

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents, designed to make AI agents reliable, scalable, and integrated into real company systems and workflows. By Sergio De Simone

An Unlikely Culprit Causes Lower Blood Sugar at Higher Altitudes

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 19:00:00

A scientific mystery seemingly solved The post An Unlikely Culprit Causes Lower Blood Sugar at Higher Altitudes appeared first on Nautilus .

PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months

slashdot @ 2026-02-20 19:00:00

PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. From a report: The incident affected the PayPal Work

Keep Android Open

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 18:58:51

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1256 # Comments: 480

How Energy Politics Played Out on the White House Roof

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 18:00:00

The quick removal of Jimmy Carter’s futuristic solar panels echoes more recent feuds over renewables The post How Energy Politics Played Out on the White House Roof appeared first on Nautilus .

Beyond Zero-Ops: Architectural Precision for MongoDB Atlas Connectors

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 17:00:09

Advanced best practices for running MongoDB Atlas Source and Sink Connectors on Confluent Cloud with high throughput, schema integrity, and production resilience.

Top AI Evaluation Tools for Enterprises in 2026

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

Compare seven enterprise AI evaluation platforms on deployment, compliance, and pricing to find the right fit for your organization in 2026.

Home Really Is Where the Heart Is

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

It’s an idea we create over time that gets imprinted in the brain The post Home Really Is Where the Heart Is appeared first on Nautilus .

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 16:27:38

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1316 # Comments: 1066

The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:01

The pocket reference guide for 2026/2027. The post The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance appeared first on The Old New Thing .

“Hell Heron”: New Dinosaur Species with a Head-mounted Sword Discovered in Africa

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

The dramatic find sheds new light on the diversity of spinosaurs The post “Hell Heron”: New Dinosaur Species with a Head-mounted Sword Discovered in Africa appeared first on Nautilus .

Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Sniffing the asynchronous keyboard state. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements? The post What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research appeared first on SingularityHub .

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 15:48:34

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 362 # Comments: 233

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-20 15:45:17

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds. The post Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machi

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 15:03:06

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 632 # Comments: 217

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 14:51:04

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 693 # Comments: 175

Podcast CB SyR 546: Café y demencia, mecánica cuántica con números reales, estimulación cerebral del altruismo y colapso directo de una estrella

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-20 14:41:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 546 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cafeína; Cuántica y Números Complejos; Altruismo y Ética; Supernova”, 19 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 14:22:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 279 # Comments: 78

Grinning During Sex Isn’t Contagious, But It Does Require Tempo

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 14:00:00

A new study of bonobos shows that they grin during vigorous socio-sexual interactions The post Grinning During Sex Isn’t Contagious, But It Does Require Tempo appeared first on Nautilus .

jQuery Releases v4: First Major Version in Almost 10 Years

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 13:30:00

jQuery 4 has launched, celebrating 20 years of innovation in web development. This major update modernizes the library by removing legacy code and outdated browser support while ensuring simplicity and performance. With enhanced compatibility for modern

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 13:04:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 290 # Comments: 317

OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 13:00:00

The OpenTelemetry open-source observability project recently published a comprehensive guide titled "Demystifying OpenTelemetry" aimed at helping organizations understand, adopt, and scale observability using the OpenTelemetry standard. By Craig Risi

Java Weekly, Issue 634

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 12:27:25

Quantum resistant cryptogrphy coming to JDK 27 The post Java Weekly, Issue 634 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Going-against-the-grainers

AEON @ 2026-02-20 12:00:00

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Adiós al insigne Timman (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-20 11:40:15

Fallecido este miércoles, activo en ajedrez hasta su último día, el neerlandés fue una gran estrella y deja una obra maravillosa

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 11:32:52

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 695 # Comments: 398

Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0: Process-Level Monitoring

Swift blog @ 2026-02-20 11:00:00

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics , a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across p

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 10:02:05

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 693 # Comments: 356

¡Échale grasa!

brucknerite @ 2026-02-20 10:00:00

Imaginad la escena. Una pareja, chico y chica. Un coche. El capó levantado transmitiendo la señal universal de «avería». Él, fuera del coche, de pie, en la actitud que ordenan las leyes no escritas del patriarcado. Mira hacia las profundidades del motor co

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 09:52:17

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 207 # Comments: 36

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 05:15:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 212 # Comments: 95

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 04:05:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 517 # Comments: 460

JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 03:30:00

JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 10 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Java Language Specification, Securi

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 02:28:47

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 312 # Comments: 136

Reboots

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 02:00:00

There are actually several ways to restart a Solaris system. On one hand, there is what one might call the normal reboot. This is triggered with reboot -p . This reboot goes through the firmware respectively. Consequently, the reboot can also take a bit

Thoughts: Parkplatz

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Es ist Samstag. Einkaufen, nicht nur für mich. Darf ich eigentlich auf dem Mutter-und-Kind-Stellplatz parken, wenn ich meine Mutter zum Einkaufen fahre? Der Kofferraum voll. Ich sitze wieder im Auto. Rückwärtsgang eingelegt. Ich schüttle den Kopf. Über Fu

Small models, big impact: The future of scaling enterprise AI agents

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is no

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We no

Friday Five — February 20, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push tow

Episode 46 “Java’s Plans for 2026” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT c

IMAX and Apple Collaborate to Screen F1 Races Live in Theaters

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-20 00:29:06

Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport: IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV, which has taken over

Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers with Hypersistence TSID

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 00:28:34

Learn how to use IDs sorted by their generation times. The post Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers with Hypersistence TSID first appeared on Baeldung .              

Osterwalder-Schrader

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-19 23:57:31

I’ve been trying to write up some new ideas about Wick rotation for a long time now, keep getting stuck as it becomes clear at various points that I haven’t gotten to the bottom of what is going on. To … Continue reading →

The Missing Pieces of the Donner Party Narrative

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 22:00:00

People have only recently included Indigenous voices in the story The post The Missing Pieces of the Donner Party Narrative appeared first on Nautilus .

We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-19 21:56:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 510 # Comments: 531

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-19 20:55:11

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 496 # Comments: 535

Is a Strictly Enforced Fishing Ban Saving the Yangtze?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 20:00:00

Ecologists detect promising, early signs of river recovery The post Is a Strictly Enforced Fishing Ban Saving the Yangtze? appeared first on Nautilus .

How to Future-Proof Architectures With Continuous Availability Via Hybrid & Multicloud

Confluent @ 2026-02-19 19:58:55

Learn how to design future-proof architectures for hybrid and multicloud environments, balancing portability, resilience, and long-term flexibility.

The Dark Side of the Illicit Pet Frog Trade

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 19:00:00

Where’d you get that frog? The post The Dark Side of the Illicit Pet Frog Trade appeared first on Nautilus .

Análisis de ajedrez | Perlitas del ‘freestyle’ (y II)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-19 17:41:56

Las posiciones iniciales con alfiles en los rincones son de las más controvertidas de la modalidad y pueden originar partidas tan convulsas como esta

Java to Kotlin Conversion Comes to Visual Studio Code

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Java to Kotlin Conversion Comes to Visual Studio Code

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

Deepmind @ 2026-02-19 17:06:14

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Reducing Onboarding from 48 Hours to 4: inside Amazon Key’s Event-Driven Platform

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events with millisecond latency, improves schema governance, automates cross-account routi

Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog

old new thing @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Summarizing the flow. The post Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog appeared first on The Old New Thing .

This ‘Machine Eye’ Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Running on a brain-like chip, the 'eye' could help robots and self-driving cars make split-second decisions. The post This ‘Machine Eye’ Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes appeared first on SingularityHub .

Fragments: February 19

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 15:42:00

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe . I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design , since its very earliest days, having the good fortune to be a sounding board for Eric Evans when he wrote his seminal

Bliki: Host Leadership

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 14:57:00

If you've hung around agile circles for long, you've probably heard about the concept of servant leadership , that managers should think of themselves as supporting the team, removing blocks, protecting them from the vagaries of corporate life. That's ne

How a Small Enablement Team Supported Adopting a Single Environment for Distributed Testing

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 12:23:00

Po Linn Chia presented how they re-used a single development environment to deploy multiple service versions for testing their distributed system in her presentation "No QA Environment? No Problem" at Dev Summit Boston. A small enablement team, cultural

If I told it: an imperfect portrait of ChatGPT

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:01:00

Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Books and screens

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:00:00

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - by Carlo Iacono Read on Aeon

Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 11:55:00

Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation results from model repositories. By Daniel Dominguez

One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-19 05:41:38

A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live immersive sports broadcasting

Watching LLMs Think

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Many years ago, when I was younger and thought a PhD sounded like a sensible life choice, I started one. Early on, a lecturer gave me a piece of advice that stuck: “Don’t watch the program run.” He meant the long jobs. Training a neural net. Runn

Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026

Rust blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 , same as in the previous two years. If you're not eligible or interested in participating in GSoC, then most of this post likely isn't releva

Production-ready: Red Hat’s blueprint for 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the intersection of complex technology challenges and open source-based, community-driven innovation. Over the last few year

Innovation is a team sport: Top 10 stories from across the Red Hat ecosystem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an architect scaling a global fleet, the most impactful stories are those where expertise and coll

Towards Better Checked Exceptions - Inside Java Newscast #107

Inside Java @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Java's checked exceptions are both an integral part of the language and one of its most contested features. Whether their introduction was a mistake and whether they should all be turned unchecked are frequently discussed topics but since the former is not

Paul Ford: ‘The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 22:15:10

Paul Ford, in an op-ed for The New York Times (gift link): All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingl

Análisis de ajedrez | Perlitas del ‘freestyle’ (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-18 18:07:15

La modalidad más moderna obliga a un cuidado extremo en la apertura, como demuestra esta didáctica miniatura de Aronián sobre Sindárov

Apache Geode 2.0: Revival, Reinvention, and the Road Ahead

ASF @ 2026-02-18 18:00:00

By: Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks ahe

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-18 17:09:15

Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals. The post The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell first appeared on Quanta Magazine

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Deepmind @ 2026-02-18 17:01:38

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

Fragments: February 18

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-18 16:53:00

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced Rachel Laycock and I to do a quick video. We’re often asked if this even

Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer?

old new thing @ 2026-02-18 16:00:00

I guess it could, but why bother? The post Could <CODE>Write­Process­Memory</CODE> be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Joe Halpern (1953-2026)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-18 15:25:00

Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was a leader in the mathematical reasoning about knowledge. His paper with Yoram Moses,  Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Envir

GitHub Agentic Workflows Unleash AI-Driven Repository Automation

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 13:00:00

Recently launched in technical preview, GitHub Agentic Workflows introduce a way to automate complex, repetitive repository tasks using coding agents that understand context and intent, GitHub says. This enables workflows such as automatic issue triage a

Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels

AEON @ 2026-02-18 12:01:00

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 08:23:00

Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived context, and continuous evaluation to support enterprise AI at scale. By Matt Foster

This Week in Rust 639

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-18 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

Apple Invites Media to Special ‘Experience’ in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 01:08:45

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three major cities around the world. It is simply described as a “special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information about what it may entail. The invit

Protocol Priorities Update for 2026

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

We introduced Protocol last June which organized our work around three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX. A lot has happened since then! In this post, we want to share what we accomplished last year, how our thinking has evolved,

Simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux provisioning in image builder with new Red Hat Lightspeed security and management integrations

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

Last November, we announced that Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, the next evolution of our predictive analytics service. While the name is new, the mission is the same: Provide you with powerful, AI-powered insights that help you work faster, s

Red Hat Learning Subscription Course reimagines virtual training

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

Virtual training, which flexibly delivers live, instructor-led learning, has become a core component of modern IT skills development. As demand for scalable, role-relevant training has grown, virtual training has become a trusted way to accelerate onboardi

How llm-d brings critical resource optimization with SoftBank’s AI-RAN orchestrator

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it’s no longer just about whether they can run AI and radio access network (RAN) on the same hardware – it’s about how they manage AI at scale.

Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 00:02:00

Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access Engine implements a credit waterfall to prevent user inter

Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-17 23:56:48

The self-spreading CRISPR tool increased editing efficiency roughly three-fold compared to older versions. The post Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus appeared first on SingularityHub .

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: KotlinConf ’26 Updates, New Releases, and More

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: KotlinConf ’26 Updates, New Releases, and More

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 19:49:55

At least according to Apple’s own numbers from the App Store, iOS 26 adoption is pretty much exactly in line with the rates for iOS 18 and 17.

How to Force Restart an iPhone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 18:20:01

Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on , try forcing it to restart. Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When

Ciencia para todos T08E07: Avances frente al cáncer y el legado clínico de Emilio Alba

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-17 16:55:56

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E07, «Avances frente al cáncer de páncreas y el legado clínico de Emilio Alba, en el Día Mundial contra el Cáncer», 3 feb 2026 [154:02 […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E07: Avances frente al cáncer y el l

Bliki: Agentic Email

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 16:39:00

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the us

A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-17 16:03:33

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers. The post A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Microspeak: Escrow

old new thing @ 2026-02-17 16:00:00

Final build, final, final, final 2, ship this one. The post Microspeak: Escrow appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | Caruana también brilla en el Mundial ‘freestyle’

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-17 15:53:57

Subcampeón del mundo en 2018 y entre los diez primeros ahora mismo en todas las modalidades, el estadounidense reconfirma su enorme talento

Moonshot AI Releases Open-Weight Kimi K2.5 Model with Vision and Agent Swarm Capabilities

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 15:00:00

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 and Gemini. It also features an agent swarm mode, which can direct up to 100 sub-agent

Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education

Deepmind @ 2026-02-17 14:42:20

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

Harness Engineering

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 14:33:00

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI's recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context engineering, architectural constraints, and garbage colle

Leapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 13:00:00

Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort remain decisive factors in how far teams are willing to trust automation. By Craig Ri

OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 12:45:00

OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces. The App Server now powers every Codex experience, inc

Mexistentialism

AEON @ 2026-02-17 12:00:00

The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence - by Carlos Alberto Sánchez Read on Aeon

Compile-Time Conditions in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-02-17 05:16:55

Learn how compile-time constants can approximate the behavior of compile-time conditions for simple cases and how we can rely on more type-safe solutions to handle complex cases. The post Compile-Time Conditions in Java first appeared on Baeldung .

[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 01:01:00

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

Reingedrängelt

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Zwei schwarze Punkte. Auf gelbem Hintergrund. Ein Schnabel dazwischen. And then there were four. Und alles, weil ich einem Kanarienvogel nicht in die Augen gucken und mit ihm ins Tierheim fahren konnte. Um ihn einfach abzugeben. Die Verantwortung loswer

Announcing the Platform Team at EF

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship

Ethereum Protocol Studies 2026

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content tracks in cryptography, lean consensus and zkEVM, plus a new self-paced learning platform. The program kicks off February 23rd. Visit epf.wiki to get started. Ethereum Protocol Studies (EP

Redefining automation governance: From execution to observability at Bradesco

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

At Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil and Latin America, the ability to scale is crucial. Automation plays a central role in this journey, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has become the foundation supporting thousands of

Introducing Red Hat build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-ready local container development environments

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

The "works on my machine" problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their shift to cloud-native practices, a critical gap has emerged: The tools developers use on their local

Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3

Inside Java @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

JEP 527 is now integrated into JDK 27! This feature enhances the security of Java applications by implementing hybrid key exchange algorithms for TLS 1.3. By combining quantum-resistant ML-KEM with traditional elliptic-curve algorithms, the JDK implementat

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-17 00:12:37

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering wo

This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-16 22:56:12

Scientists find coordination between key brain waves breaks down in people under anesthesia. The post This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away appeared first on SingularityHub .

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 22:25:23

AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs.

Visualizing orbital velocity

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-16 22:24:45

The shape of a planet’s orbit around a star is an ellipse. To put it another way, a plot of the position of a planet’s orbit over time forms an ellipse. What about the velocity? Is its plot also an ellipse? Surprisingly, a plot of the velocity

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 18:28:52

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every fe

Análisis de ajedrez | La consistencia de Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-16 16:33:44

En esta partida ‘freestyle’, tan compleja como interesante, Abdusattórov tuvo primero ventaja, luego pudo forzar el empate y al final perdió

Get ready with the latest beta releases

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-16 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 26.4 beta to take a

It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files

old new thing @ 2026-02-16 16:00:00

Is it really a trick when reading the file is the purpose of the program? The post It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Snow line

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:01:00

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The snowball effect

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:00:00

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon

ESP32-C3 0.42 OLED

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

I’ve ended up with a bunch of these nice little ESP32-C3 modules . I’m a bit late to the party with them, so other people have done a lot of heavy lifting working out how to drive the display. I followed this blog . The only thing I didn’t quite l

WorkOS Pipes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:39:14

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect s

Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:37:04

Joanna Stern (last week): After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can

Assigning Open Problems in Class

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-15 21:16:00

I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: 1) Do you tell the students the problems are open? YES- it would be unfair for a student to work on something they almost surely won't get. NO- Some Open Problems are open becaus

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen también gana el Mundial ‘freestyle’, pero roza la derrota en la final ante Caruana

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-15 21:10:24

El noruego añade un nuevo trono a su larga colección con tremendos apuros: tres empates y una victoria desde una posición casi desesperada

Race between primes of the forms 4k + 1 and 4k + 3

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 20:19:08

The last few posts have looked at expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares. This is possible if and only if p is of the form 4k + 1. I illustrated an algorithm for finding the squares with p = 2255 − 19, a prime that is used in cryptography. It i

Thoughts: Tina

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

Vorwort Dieser Text ist der letzte Text, der aus der Dekonstruktion eines sehr langen Dokuments entstanden ist, das ich neben meinem Text zu meiner Herzoperation geschrieben habe. Entstanden aus einem Absatz in einem anderen Artikel. Es ist der Text,

Turning an ESP32 into a Thermal USB Webcam

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

In a previous project , I made an ESP32 pretend to be a USB webcam. This time, I wanted to do it properly - turn it into a real USB webcam with a real camera. I also wanted to push things a bit further - I’ve got an I2C thermal camera module - wh

Wagon’s algorithm in Python

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 00:06:41

The last three posts have been about Stan Wagon’s algorithm for finding x and y satisfying x² + y² = p where p is an odd prime. The first post in the series gives Gauss’ formula for a solution, but shows why it is impractical for large p. The

Finding a square root of -1 mod p

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 23:07:05

If p is an odd prime, there is a theorem that says x² = −1 mod p has a solution if and only if p = 1 mod 4. When a solution x exists, how do you find it? The previous two posts have discussed Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a

subscribe() vs assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:52:34

Discover the differences between subscribe() vs assign() methods in Kafka. The post subscribe() vs assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer first appeared on Baeldung .              

A Guide to Deep Java Library

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:49:26

Learn about Deep Java Library (DJL), an engine-agnostic machine learning framework developed by AWS. The post A Guide to Deep Java Library first appeared on Baeldung .              

Finding a non-square mod p

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 22:35:54

The previous post briefly mentioned Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares when it is possible (i.e. when p = 1 mod 4). Wagon’s algorithm requires first finding a non-square mod p, i.e. a number c such tha

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 14)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-14 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 February 14) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Mundial rápido de ‘freestyle’

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-14 13:10:37

Lo interesante, para la mayoría de los aficionados, de la modalidad más moderna empieza en el medio juego, cuando la posición se parece a las clásicas