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Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 18:00:00

Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: "We wil

Naively summing an alternating series

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-03 17:13:24

Suppose you run across the power series for the exponential function and decide to code it up. Good idea: you’ll probably learn something, though maybe not what you expect. Maybe you decide a tolerance of 10−12 is good enough, and so you sum the ter

Reconnecting to humanity: The interstitials of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-06-03 17:00:13

The interstitial program of TED2026 was a mixed celebration of the acutely human and the purely robotic. We were brought back to basic tenets of human connection through the rhythmic dance piece “Nemesis”; an animated short where music is the thread tying

Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Phone by Google wants to combat the "growing threat of impersonation scams" and protect Android users against "sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks" with fake call detection. [...] Fake call detect

Inside Google’s System for Coordinated A/B Testing Across Its Global Service Fleet

InfoQ @ 2026-06-03 16:54:00

Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, and configuration propagation across distributed services. The approach enables consistent measurement acr

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-03 16:34:29

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” The post Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. first appeared on Quanta

Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-03 16:00:00

A new process for mining lithium-rich rock could slash costs and pollution—and decentralize global lithium production. The post Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Podcast CB SyR 560: OVNIs de Trump, asimetría en cetáceos, S301 orbita Sgr A*, conjetura de la distancia unitaria y evento solar extremo en siglo XII

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-03 14:38:48

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 560 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “OVNIs; Cetáceos; Sag A*; IA en Matemáticas; Arqueoastronomía Solar”, 28 may 2026. «La […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 560: OVNIs de Trump

Apple Developer Centers are expanding to Berlin

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-03 14:00:13

Apple Developer Centers are dedicated spaces designed for in-person developer sessions, labs, workshops, and appointments across a wide range of Apple technologies and platforms. With locations in Cupertino, Shanghai, Bengaluru, and Singapore, these p

Análisis de ajedrez | El vigor de Assaubáyeva

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-03 13:31:43

La kazaja es, ante todo, una competidora feroz, más allá del talento imprescindible para llegar a la élite y triunfar

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 13:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn't just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a

Kotlin 2.4.0 Released

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

Kotlin 2.4.0 Released

Kotlin news @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 09:00:00

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation's $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves,

Node.js Moves to One Major Release Per Year, Starting with Node 27

InfoQ @ 2026-06-03 08:40:00

Node.js will change its release schedule starting with version 27 in October 2026, moving from two major releases per year to one. All releases will become Long-Term Support (LTS), removing the distinction between odd and even versions. An Alpha channel

Microsoft's Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial se

The future of AI demands a hybrid foundation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-03 02:00:00

Every day, I talk to IT executives, commercial leaders, and partners who are facing the exact same pressure: How do we move from AI experimentation to true enterprise production?If you glance at the tech headlines today, you’d think the answer is simple. T

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-03 01:43:12

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Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 01:00:00

A new Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and published on June 2, 2026, warns that AI could undermine mathematics by flooding the field with plausible but flawed proofs, weakening attribution, shifting incentives, and givi

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-03 00:55:33

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 284 # Comments: 77

European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm

slashdot @ 2026-06-03 00:00:00

The European Parliament is replacing Google with French search engine Qwant as the default on in-house computers, citing digital sovereignty and privacy concerns. Politico reports: As of Thursday June 4, "Qwant will replace Google as default search engine

Meta Reportedly Has a Slew of New Smart Glasses Planned for This Year

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 23:54:43

James Pero, summarizing for Gizmodo this paywalled report by Jyoti Mann for The Information: But, wait, there’s more: in addition to the fall releases, The Information reports that Meta also has a pair slated for December, codenamed “Mojito VIP.” Th

End of Civilization News

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-02 23:26:52

The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of w

Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 23:00:00

Russia's FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording conversations, and activating microphones or cameras. "Thi

Apple, the Anti-‘Metaverse’ VR Company

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:48:08

One more bit of “ metaverse fever dream ” follow-up. The one company in the field that Nick Heer doesn’t mention is Apple, makers of the best-known (albeit not best-selling) virtual reality headset. Think and say what you want about the Vision platform

The Metaverse Was Snake Oil for Isolation

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:42:33

A follow-up point from my post yesterday linking to Nick Heer’s blockbuster “ The Metaverse Fever Dream ”. In particular, the connection Heer draws between the rise of “metaverse” hype and the pandemic. I always sort of knew that metaverse hype roughl

CT scans of BYD car parts

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 22:30:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 367 # Comments: 189

Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 22:00:00

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac will reportedly drop into "reduced functionality mode" on July 13, 2026, when a license-validation certificate expires, leaving perpetually licensed apps able to open files but not edit or save them. Slashdot reader j

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 21:56:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 205 # Comments: 103

Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 21:53:47

Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a s

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 21:39:25

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 207 # Comments: 57

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 21:27:40

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 900 # Comments: 569

Análisis de ajedrez | El colapso de Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-02 21:22:35

Praggnanandhaa aprovecha el ansia por ganar del noruego y le derrota por 2ª vez en una semana con un juego muy consistente

Recap of the April 2026 Frankfurt Area FreeBSD Hackathon – Sven Ruediger 

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-02 21:09:49

From April 24–26, the FreeBSD community held its first regional hackathon in the Frankfurt area (Germany). The three-day event brought together 25 attendees, including seasoned project committers and guests interested in learning more about the FreeBSD co

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 21:00:00

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, an experimental always-on AI "autopilot" agent for Microsoft 365 that can operate across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts, browsers, and external apps via MCP. "Autopilots stay active in the background

MAI-Code-1-Flash

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 20:47:07

Launching seven new MAI models: Comments URL:

Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies To Give Government Early Access To Models

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. The order

The G7 on Open Source vs Open Weights

tecosystems @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

The G7 on Open Source vs Open Weights

Sogrady @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 19:09:04

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 212 # Comments: 138

The countries that work the most hours produce the least per hour

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-02 19:00:00

Across 40 OECD economies, the countries that log the most annual hours have the lowest output per hour. Why working longer rarely means producing more.

Adafruit Pauses Blog After Demand Letter From Flux.ai's Lawyers

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 19:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader Matt_Bennett shares a blog post from Adafruit: Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, amo

Coreutils for Windows

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 18:55:11

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 208 # Comments: 222

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 18:40:16

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Three Ways to Get Paid

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 18:10:24

Jason Zweig, back in 2018: My father , who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking for

User-Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back In a Big Way

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 18:00:00

New EU battery rules taking effect early next year are pushing tech makers toward user-replaceable batteries in products like headphones, e-readers, handheld consoles, laptops, and possibly earbuds. But carve-outs for smartphones and tablets may mean repla

Introducing the 2026 Apple Design Award winners

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-02 17:50:09

Join us in celebrating these extraordinary apps and games. Meet the 2026 Apple Design Award winners

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 17:29:05

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 350 # Comments: 54

The First-Time-Buyer-Discount Dickover Scheme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 17:08:12

Neil Panchal, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Of all the dickovers, the dickover that blueballs you with some first-time buyer incentive. “Sign up and get 10% discount, new accounts only”, the dickover boasts. Never understood why you’d ever penalize

GitHub Copilot Users React To New Usage-Based Pricing System

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many Gi

Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm

old new thing @ 2026-06-02 16:00:00

Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 15:56:46

Earlier I posted in a “Who wants to be hired?” thread, looking for a place where I could apply my experience in hospitality, food tech and automation. A couple hours later I received an email: “Hi Ilia, I saw your comment on the June Who’s Hiring thread.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 15:24:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 395 # Comments: 270

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 14:00:03

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 300 # Comments: 163

OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption

InfoQ @ 2026-06-02 14:00:00

OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale. By Craig Risi

Google Requests Permission to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes In California and Florida

slashdot @ 2026-06-02 13:00:00

Google has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years. The effort is part of the company's Debug program, which uses Wolbachia-infected males to reduce populations of disease-sp

Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 12:00:56

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 648 # Comments: 267

Stop Ruining It

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 11:52:42

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 271 # Comments: 131

Why Janet? (2023)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 11:34:31

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 464 # Comments: 244

Love systemd timers

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 11:34:11

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 371 # Comments: 253

Fragments: June 2

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-02 11:21:00

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more prod

Show HN: Eyeball

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-02 11:04:49

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 251 # Comments: 79

A local automaton for the 2D toric code

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-02 10:16:58

Quantum 10, 2125 (2026). We construct a local decoder for the 2D toric code using ideas from the hierarchical classical cellular automata of Tsirelson and Gács. Our decoder is a circuit of strictly local quantu

Interview with Micah Zarin

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of

Interview with Micah Zarin

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of

Google Workspace CLI: Unified Command-Line Tool Built for Humans and AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-02 08:33:00

Google has released a new CLI for Google Workspace, offering a unified interface for various services like Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Built in Rust, the tool dynamically adjusts to API changes and features over 100 bundled skills. It requires Node.js an

[Sponsor] Mux — Video for Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 03:45:43

Mux is what developers reach for when they need to do more with video. Video files are packed with data and context waiting to be unlocked. Mux Robots are AI workflows that unlock that data inside your video for summarization, caption translation, moder

How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have the Answer

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-02 02:59:55

A huge analysis of gene expression across species revealed genetic hallmarks of aging and could accelerate anti-aging treatments. The post How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have the Answer appeared first on SingularityHub .

‘The Metaverse Fever Dream’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 02:24:39

Nick Heer, at Pixel Envy, last week published a remarkable essay surveying — with copious receipts — the rise and fall of “metaverse” hype: The obsession with the metaverse seems to have solidified in Silicon Valley after Matthew Ball published an e

Launching the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

Rust blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

If you want to financially support the development of Rust, please consider donating to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. A few months ago, the Rust Foundation announced the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Proje

OpenShift Virtualization 4.21: Removing complexity from your virtual machine networking workflow

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces highly anticipated networking design flows to simplify network management. Tailored to VM network requirements, this complete workflow lets you more efficiently create networks, configure them on specific no

Fragnesia and friends: When page cache vulnerabilities keep coming back

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Copy-Fail (CVE-2026-31431) and how Red Hat OpenShift’s defense-in-depth approach prevented container escape despite a vulnerable kernel. I spent time actively trying to break out of an OpenShift container, achieved root

AI in production at the industrial edge: A repeatable path with Red Hat and Intel

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

Industrial teams are eager to implement AI in critical locations: on factory floors, at logistics hubs, in remote field operations, and as the intelligence driving robots. However, a significant number of such projects fail to move past the pilot phase. Th

Accelerate autoscaling inference in Red Hat AI with Everpure

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

As agentic systems become common in the enterprise, it's clear to anyone concerned about sovereignty in AI factories: Inference is the hard part to scale.One of the many benefits of a sovereign cloud is agency in how you accomplish your operations. Soverei

Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI

Inside Java @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

JFR simplifies troubleshooting and profiling by capturing detailed JVM event data—and with the JFR Streaming API, you can access those insights in real time. But what if you could go further and stream live JFR data straight into an AI system to enhance mo

‘If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 01:31:54

Hamilton Nolan, writing at How Things Work: There are only a few reasons why you might be hired for a prestigious job that you are obviously not qualified for. One is “they have recognized you for the genius that you are.” The urge to conclude that th

Introduction to Alibaba Nacos

Baeldung @ 2026-06-02 00:08:16

Learn what Alibaba Nacos is, how to set it up, and how to use it for service discovery, centralized configuration management, and coordination in distributed applications. The post Introduction to Alibaba Nacos first appeared on Baeldung .  

Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-01 23:33:28

OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock's high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token prici

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 23:30:00

This week's Java roundup for May 25th, 2026, features news highlighting: lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; the eighth milestone

‘We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 22:05:17

Om Malik: The Adventures of Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881, aimed at Italian children in the way the 19th century aimed things at children, full of suffering, consequence, and moral instruction delivered through catastrophe. The pupp

Análisis de ajedrez | Coito mental interrumpido

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-01 21:44:16

So concede el empate a Gukesh con una ventaja de casi 20 minutos en una posición muy complicada

Apache Kafka 4.3.0 Release Announcement

Confluent @ 2026-06-01 19:13:13

Apache Kafka 4.3, a release powered by 25 new KIPs. Apache Kafka 4.3 includes first-class support for preserving record headers in Kafka Streams

U.S. World War II veterans are fading from living memory

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-01 19:00:00

Of the 16.4 million who served in World War II, the VA projects about 31,000 U.S. veterans are still alive in 2026, nearing zero by the early 2040s.

Claude Code Adds Dynamic Workflows for Parallel Agent Coordination

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 18:55:00

Anthropic introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new capability for Claude Code designed to handle complex software engineering tasks by coordinating large numbers of AI agents within a single workflow. The feature allows Claude to dynamically create orchestra

Amazon Made AI Podcasts for Products

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 18:41:51

Katie Notopoulos, a month ago at Business Insider: Amazon has launched a new feature that uses AI to generate a short, podcast-like audio segment where two “hosts” discuss the merits and reviews of a specific product. I think it could be one of th

Summing the Reciprocals of Primes

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-01 17:20:33

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, but very slowly. The sum of the reciprocals of the first 100 primes is 2.106… The sum of the reciprocals of the first 1,000 primes is 2.457… For the first 10,000 it’s 2.709… And it

Summing the Reciprocals of Primes

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-01 17:20:33

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, but very slowly. The sum of the reciprocals of the first 100 primes is 2.106… The sum of the reciprocals of the first 1,000 primes is 2.457… For the first 10,000 it’s 2.709… And it

The Dirt That Refused To Die

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-01 16:44:57

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began. The post The Dirt That Refused To Die first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 on AWS, Aurora MySQL with Kiro Powers, and more (June 1, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-01 16:25:33

In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops I’ve been delivering. Last week I was back at it, this time in Denver for a two-day AI-DLC workshop, where I helped faci

Shopify Reports 15X Faster Graphql Execution with Breadth First Engine

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 16:25:00

Shopify introduced GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution. The redesign improves large-scale GraphQL performance with up to 15x faster field execution, 6x lower GC overhead, and +4s P50 laten

All systems glow

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-01 16:00:22

WWDC26 is just one week away. Get ready for five days of technology, creativity, and community — all online and free. Learn more

BadHost Vulnerability Exposes AI Agents, Evaluators, and LLM Gateways

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 16:00:00

BadHost is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in the widely used Python web framework Starlette, with 325 million weekly downloads. The flaw allows attackers to use malformed HTTP Host headers to bypass path-based access controls and acc

The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern”

old new thing @ 2026-06-01 16:00:00

Modern this and that. The post The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Odd Scenarios about Research Claims and Authorships

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-01 15:02:03

 Odd Scenarios about Research Claims I blogged about OpenAI's achievement of having AI solve a math problem  here . My post had a few comments about authorship of such results. Lance had a post about co-authorship and AI  here There are

It’s not just Taylor series

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-01 14:42:12

There is still active discussion on X about the approximation exp(−x²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(x) + x))/2 and some are saying this can just be explained by Taylor series: the series for the two sides differ for the first time at the x6 term, so that’s why yo

Bringing Goodnotes to the web with Swift and WebAssembly

Swift blog @ 2026-06-01 14:00:00

Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through We

A Practical Protocol for Quantum Oblivious Transfer from One-Way Functions

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 13:54:59

Quantum 10, 2124 (2026). We present a new simulation-secure quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocol based on one-way functions in the plain model. With a focus on practical implementation, our protocol surpas

Subscribe by email

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-01 13:01:26

Readers have subscribed to this blog via email almost from its beginning in 2008, but how they have subscribed has changed several times. I’ve used several services to provide email subscription that have come and gone. For the past two years I̵

A Trailing Slash Bypassed AWS API Gateway Authorization

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 11:55:00

A security researcher found that adding a trailing slash to AWS HTTP API paths bypassed Lambda authorizer authentication entirely, enabling unauthenticated wire transfers at a fintech. The root cause is a path normalization mismatch between HTTP API's gr

Quantum Cellular Automata on Symmetric Subalgebras

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 10:01:22

Quantum 10, 2123 (2026). We investigate quantum cellular automata (QCA) on one-dimensional spin systems defined over a subalgebra of the full local operator algebra – the symmetric subalgebra under a finite Abe

How to Solve the Sock Merchant Problem in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-06-01 09:59:55

Explore two approaches to solving the Sock Merchant Problem in Java. The post How to Solve the Sock Merchant Problem in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Squeezing Enhancement in Lossy Multi-Path Atom Interferometers

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 09:49:33

Quantum 10, 2122 (2026). This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formali

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2026: Tuesday June 9

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 03:59:00

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you sho

exe.dev

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 03:55:40

My thanks to exe.dev for sponsoring last week at DF (with a very cool graphic ad  — just love the way it looks). exe.dev is a cloud for the agent era — it gives you a pool of VMs with SSH, root, and web auth by default. Secrets injected at the network

Take Two

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 02:15:44

Mark Gurman, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ) Kelsey Peterson, the Apple AI employee who introduced the never-launched Siri revamp in 2024, just started at OpenAI — so we’ll be getting someone new next month for Attempt 2 at WWDC. Pretty sure we were

Stop managing, start orchestrating: Streamlining catalyst operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-01 02:00:00

Modern enterprise networks demand speed, consistency, and absolute resilience. Relying on manual, time-consuming network management tasks is no longer a viable strategy for organizations seeking true operational efficiency. To overcome these bottlenecks, I

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen se desquita de Firouzja con un juego impecable

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-31 21:10:40

Después de tres derrotas en cinco rondas, el ‘número uno’ vence al líder, quien le había ganado en la ronda inaugural

Waiting for Complex Page With JavaScript to Load in Selenium WebDriver

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:27:48

Explore various strategies for waiting until a JavaScript-heavy page is fully loaded in Selenium WebDriver. The post Waiting for Complex Page With JavaScript to Load in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung .       

Guide to Subagent Orchestration in Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:19:02

Learn how to build a subagent orchestration system using Spring AI and Spring AI Community Agent Utils. The post Guide to Subagent Orchestration in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Embedding HTML UIs in MCP Servers With Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:16:19

Learn how to build a Spring AI MCP server, connect it to Claude Desktop, and embed interactive HTML UIs directly inside AI chat conversations. The post Embedding HTML UIs in MCP Servers With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .    

Another Gaussian approximation

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-31 18:15:49

The function (1 + cos(x))/2 gives a fair approximation to the Gaussian density exp(−x²) You can make the approximation much better by raising it to a power. The function ((1 + cos(x))/2)4 gives a good lower bound and ((1 + cos(x))/2)3.5597 gives a good up

DuckDB Quack: Client/Server Protocol over HTTP for Multi-User Analytics

InfoQ @ 2026-05-31 13:17:00

DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was previously mostl

Spot checking polynomial identities

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-30 23:06:49

If a polynomial identity holds at a few random points, it’s very like true. We’ll make this statement more precise, but first let’s look at some applications. You may want to test an identity that naturally presents itself as a statement

Análisis de ajedrez | So aplasta a un débil Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-30 21:32:53

El noruego olvida sus propios análisis en las horas previas, se lanza a ganar cuando estaba peor y cae de forma inapelable

Arm Open-Sources Metis, an AI Security Framework Outperforming Traditional SAST Tools

InfoQ @ 2026-05-30 21:00:00

Arm has open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework designed to autonomously uncover complex software vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional pattern-based tools, Metis applies semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides

Meta Is Launching Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Subscriptions for ‘Fun Features’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 17:34:02

Sarah Perez, reporting for TechCrunch: Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, a

Daniel Jalkut on AI

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 17:27:20

Daniel Jalkut, on Mastodon (cross-posted to Bluesky and Threads ): My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. I concur with this take completely. ( Sidenote: The diff

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 30)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-30 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 May 30) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Yours Truly on TBPN Yesterday

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 14:28:10

Fun show, good questions I thought.  ★ 

Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage

InfoQ @ 2026-05-30 12:03:00

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Rai

How Meta Rebuilt Data Ingestion for Petabyte-Scale Reliability

InfoQ @ 2026-05-30 08:01:00

The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques like reverse s

Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-30 01:24:39

Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining on lithium in consistency and fast charging. The post Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ What Is a Dickover?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-29 22:58:56

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newslet

Análisis de ajedrez | Pelea de gladiadoras

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-29 19:12:37

Jiner Zhu, estrella emergente del ajedrez femenino, y Assaubáyeva, subcampeona del Candidatas, disputaron una lucha trepidante

Java Weekly, Issue 648

Baeldung @ 2026-05-29 19:00:42

Getting to value classes and mechanically enforced security in this era of AI. A solid week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 648 first appeared on Baeldung .              

One Group, Clearly, Is Deranged

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-29 18:22:10

Paul Krugman, describing a few striking data visualizations: YouGov’s surveys subdivide Republicans into those who do and those who don’t support MAGA — and the economic views of these two groups are very different. A remarkable 65 percent of non-MAGA

Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3

old new thing @ 2026-05-29 16:00:00

A variation where we try only once. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-29 15:54:11

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the surprising power of ordinary “classical” machines. The post Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Requir

Online (one-pass) algorithms

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-29 14:24:30

Canonical example The sample variance of a set of numbers is defined in terms of the sum of the squared distances from each point to the mean. So it would seem that you first need to calculate the mean, then go back and compute the squared differences fro

From Pentagons to Pentagrams

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

From Pentagons to Pentagrams

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

AI-Assisted Migration Tool Helps Teams Move from ingress-nginx to Higress in Minutes

InfoQ @ 2026-05-29 14:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has highlighted a new AI-assisted migration approach that enabled engineers to migrate 60 ingress-nginx resources to Higress in roughly 30 minutes, demonstrating how artificial intelligence is increasingly being appl

Bosonic content of three-fermion highest-spin states

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:31:23

Quantum 10, 2121 (2026). A rigorous characterization of the information content of any highest-spin three-fermion wave function is presented. It is based upon a formal decomposition of the wave function into a

Exact distinguishability between real-valued and complex-valued Haar random quantum states

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:14:38

Quantum 10, 2120 (2026). Haar random states are fundamental objects in quantum information theory and quantum computing. We study the density matrix resulting from sampling $t$ copies of a $d$-dimensional quant

Artist of sympathy and cruelty

AEON @ 2026-05-29 12:00:00

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon

GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning

InfoQ @ 2026-05-29 10:30:00

GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running daily “auditor” and “optimizer” agents. A token-usage.jsonl artefact and an Effective Tokens metric help

On the dynamical Lie algebras of quantum approximate optimization algorithms

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:45:14

Quantum 10, 2119 (2026). Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) have emerged as a valuable tool in the study of parameterized quantum circuits, helping to characterize both their expressiveness and trainability. In part

Efficient classical computation of the neural tangent kernel of quantum neural networks

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:31:21

Quantum 10, 2118 (2026). We propose an efficient classical algorithm to estimate the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) associated with a broad class of quantum neural networks. These networks consist of arbitrary uni

Catalytic entanglement transformations with noisy hardware

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:16:34

Quantum 10, 2117 (2026). The availability of certain entangled resource states (catalyst states) can enhance the rate of converting several less entangled states into fewer highly entangled states in a process

Issue 752

iOS Weekly @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

WWDC26 anticipation builds alongside deep dives into SwiftData, custom layouts, and open-source AI agent tooling.

Is digital sovereignty illusory without open source and a trusted supply chain?

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

For a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or VP of Infrastructure, the term "digital sovereignty" often arrives as a regulatory burden to support a collection of acronyms like DORA (the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act), NIS2 (the updated Network and Info

Friday Five — May 29, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI EraIBM and Red Hat committed $5 billion to Project Lightwell, deploying over 20,000 engineers and advanced AI. This enterprise clearinghouse actively identifies and remediat

Beyond VM migration: What comes after the lift-and-shift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

I've had this conversation dozens of times with infrastructure teams. They've just finished, or are deep into, a VM migration off a legacy hypervisor. The hard part is nearly done. Or, so they think.Here's the thing most people don't talk about: migration

10 essential reads to optimize performance, security, and ROI in the AI era

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

As enterprise IT organizations push deeper into operationalizing AI, the conversation has shifted from theoretical capability to hard execution metrics. Whether your team is talking with customers about scaling large language models (LLMs) on restricted lo

Customer Intelligence Hub: A Single Pane of Glass for Customer Insight and Action

Confluent @ 2026-05-29 00:49:56

Unify customer data with AI-powered insights. Customer Intelligence Hub helps GTM teams detect risk, uncover growth, and act faster with real-time context.

An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-28 23:19:02

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The post An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians appeared first on SingularityHub .

Introducing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub for generative AI-based SRE resilience journey

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-28 21:29:55

AWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and org

Análisis de ajedrez | Esta vez, Carlsen tumbó a Gukesh en Noruega

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-28 21:10:43

Un año después de la derrota más dolorosas de su vida, el ‘número uno’ doblegó con las piezas negras y mucha claridad al campeón del mundo

Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-28 20:26:16

AWS rebuilt Amazon OpenSearch Serverless from the ground up for agentic AI and dynamic workloads. Get instant autoscaling and up to 60% cost savings.

How chess openings rose and fell, 1850 to 2026

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-28 19:00:00

A streamgraph of 1.2 million master-level games shows the King's Pawn losing ground, the Queen's Pawn rising, and the Sicilian taking over after 1945.

Footage From the LA-Houston MLS Match That Apple Shot Using iPhone 17 Pro Cameras

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-28 18:51:57

I’m not sure if this link works outside the US, but Apple TV’s MLS Wrap-Up show has highlight from the LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo FC match they shot exclusively using iPhone 17 Pros . Follow the link, choose “English”, and then choose “Full Replay” —

ASF Plus One Newsletter: May 2026

ASF @ 2026-05-28 18:00:00

From the rise of Apache Iceberg and the modernization of Apache Geode, to a behind-the-scenes look at the rebuild of Apache STeVe v3, this month’s Plus One highlights how open collaboration continues driving innovation across the ASF ecosystem. We’re also

curl up 2026 summary

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-28 17:25:02

Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome. We find inspiration, we share experiences, we learn from each other and we dream and plan of future endeavors and t

How We See the Beautiful, Violent Sun

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-28 16:16:52

Over hundreds of years, increasingly sophisticated instruments have revealed — and continue to reveal — the secrets of our star. The post How We See the Beautiful, Violent Sun first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Researchers Publish Method to Surveil Web Page Visitors by Analyzing Their SSD Activity

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-28 16:11:03

Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica: The technique, laid out in a research paper , exploits a side channel , a form of leak resulting from physical manifestations such as electromagnetic emanations, data caches, or the time required to complete a

Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2

old new thing @ 2026-05-28 16:00:00

Just let each person take turns trying. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Life recombined

AEON @ 2026-05-28 12:01:00

In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Flickering Enlightenment

AEON @ 2026-05-28 12:00:00

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon

The Day My Heart Stood Still

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-28 07:00:00

Chapter overview

How to Fix the Communications link failure Error in Java Applications With MySQL

Baeldung @ 2026-05-28 04:00:36

Learn how to troubleshoot the "Communications link failure" error in Java/MySQL applications, typically thrown as CommunicationsException. The post How to Fix the Communications link failure Error in Java Applications With MySQL first appeared on B

Turning K-L divergence into a metric

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-28 03:35:54

Kullback-Leibler divergence Kullback-Leibler divergence is defined for two random variables X and Y by K-L divergence is non-negative, and it’s zero if and only if X and Y have the same distribution. But it is not a metric, for reasons explained her

Announcing Rust 1.96.0

Rust blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.96.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.96.0 with: $

Episode 59 “Java *is* Memory Efficient” [AtA]

Inside Java @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

Java's use of memory, often chided for being excessive, is actually a strength as it trades more memory use for fewer CPU cycles, a tradeoff it can only make due to its moving garbage collectors.

Fragments: May 27

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-27 21:40:00

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented program

Análisis de ajedrez | Este no es el verdadero Magnus Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-27 21:29:09

Relajado en exceso, sin el ‘instinto asesino’ que le define, el noruego cayó también ante Praggnanandhaa, en la 3ª ronda

Podcast CB SyR 559: Masa del bosón W, tormentas geomagnéticas en aviación, neuroplasticidad en hibernación, entrenando instintos con el córtex visual y hueco de masas en agujeros negros

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-27 19:08:07

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 559 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “CMS; Aviación; Hibernación; Neuroplasticidad; Inestabilidad de Pares”, 21 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR

The Misery Index Stopped Predicting the National Mood

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-27 19:00:00

By the misery index the U.S. economy is unremarkable, yet consumer sentiment is at an all-time low. That breaks a 40-year link no single number explains.