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eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 23:00:00

eBay and several former executives have agreed to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner, the newsletter writers targeted in a 2019 corporate harassment campaign that involved threats, surveillance attempts, and deliveries of live insects and other distu

Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 22:00:00

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has "found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that is in pervasive use throughout the internet," reports The New York Times. Researchers said the model discovered novel attacks against weakened ve

Donate to GrapheneOS

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 21:06:10

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 202 # Comments: 59

GitHub Introduces Default "Cooldown" Policy for Dependabot Version Updates

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 21:00:00

Instead of immediately opening pull requests when newer dependency versions are released, Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting upgrades, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious releases are identified and removed before they can be int

Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets, was prevented from enforcing the law by a federal court ruling just days before the ban was scheduled to take effect. But while Minnesota w

Deflock Casa Grande

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 20:41:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 239 # Comments: 85

DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses'

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 20:00:00

DEF CON has banned "Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities," with no exceptions being made even for those with prescription versions. "Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them," DEF CON said. The Register reports: [The conference's of

GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 19:00:00

GrapheneOS is defending its duress-password feature after an environmental activist used it to wipe his Pixel phone during a U.S. Customs search and was later indicted for allegedly destroying property under government control. The nonprofit says the opera

Substack writers, you need a website

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 18:58:31

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 305 # Comments: 168

Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 18:22:51

Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 18:02:07

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 275 # Comments: 113

Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 18:00:00

The review embargo has lifted for the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, and the consensus across the board is that it is a massive leap forward in terms of build quality and battery life. The main issue reviewers complained about is the sky-high price, with the

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 17:48:34

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Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Claude is exposing a wealth of users' chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized

Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 16:58:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 416 # Comments: 131

Inverse factorial improved

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 16:11:30

A couple years ago I wrote about how to compute the inverse of factorial. I used that code in writing the previous post because the post required solving the equation ⌊log2(n!)⌋ ≥ b given b. That is, given a number of bits b, find the smallest value of n 

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 15:12:01

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 486 # Comments: 219

The Orchestrator's Tax

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 15:10:00

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that c

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 14:32:00

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit

Cryptographic Keys and Decks of Cards

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 14:13:17

The previous post looked at the idea of storing a cryptographic key in the order of a deck of cards. A deck of 52 cards can store 225 bits of data because ⌊log2(52!)⌋ = 225. Here ⌊x⌋ is x rounded down to the nearest integer. If we want to store bigger key

Grafana Assistant Expands to More Than 30 Data Sources

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 14:00:00

Grafana Labs has expanded the capabilities of Grafana Assistant, enabling its AI-powered observability assistant to query and correlate data across more than 30 different data sources through natural language. By Craig Risi

A partition function framework for estimating logical error curves in stabilizer codes

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-28 13:47:12

Quantum 10, 2175 (2026). Based on the mapping between stabilizer quantum error correcting codes and disordered statistical mechanics models, we define a ratio of partition functions that measures the success pr

Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 13:00:00

Arizona State University has launched a 120-credit bachelor's degree in content creation that teaches video, podcasting, branding, analytics, media law, and social strategy. For their capstone, students are "expected to build a real social media account an

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 12:52:30

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 255 # Comments: 110

The light narrows

AEON @ 2026-07-28 12:00:00

My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code - by Wes Brown Read on Aeon

Remix 3 Beta Preview Ditches React for a Web-Standards Full-Stack Framework

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 11:02:00

Remix 3 is a full-stack web framework that moves away from React, focusing on web platform primitives. It integrates routes, request handlers, and UI components into a single structure, utilizing a forked Preact for the frontend. Unlike previous versions

KotlinLLM is Going Open Source 

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

KotlinLLM is Going Open Source 

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 09:44:24

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 758 # Comments: 198

AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 09:14:00

AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable th

Uber’s Zero Growth Stack: Scaling Services, While Optimising Infrastructure and AI Cost

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

Uber's "Zero Growth Stack" focuses on scalable infrastructure that separates capacity growth from business demand, reducing hardware needs while enhancing service scaling. Central to this is garbage collection optimisation. Additionally, generative AI is

Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 09:00:00

A new analysis of 89 major geological events over the past 260 million years found evidence that mass extinctions, volcanic eruptions, ocean crises, and other upheavals may cluster around a roughly 27.5-million-year cycle. The cause remains unknown, with p

A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 04:37:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 308 # Comments: 132

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 04:18:53

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 302 # Comments: 114

[Sponsor] Introducing Agent Fone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:31:54

Every phone now ships with an assistant. You ask, it answers. Lame. We built a phone that writes software instead. The app idea you’ve had in your notes for years. The side hustle you will never get around to building. The weird thing only you would want.

‘Always Choose the Good Soap’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:13:55

Jason Snell: Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products ar

Substituting IP address evaluation with hardware-rooted sovereign zero trust

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent years. These demands have been generally addressed by fragile, costly, and outdated models based on IP ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 10 is coming to Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

Every OpenShift admin knows the calculus. A new Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ships with capabilities you want: better hardware support, updated crypto policies, kernel improvements. But adopting it has always meant adopting it everywhere. Your hardware

Mastering the AI era: Integrating frontier operations into your technology operating model

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

Organizations can no longer rely on static operating models. AI capabilities expand daily, reshaping what humans and machines can do together. To capture that potential safely and at speed, companies need a new organizational capability: frontier operation

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 28: jlink cacerts plugin

Inside Java @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a new plugin being added to the `jlink` command-line tool for adding cacerts.

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 01:21:37

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Hiding data in permutations

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 01:08:59

The latest issue of Paged Out! has an article by Stephen Hewitt “An off-line backup of your cryptographic key using playing cards.” The idea is to use a deck of 52 to store a 128-bit cryptographic key. To erase the key, shuffle the deck. Hewit

Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 01:00:00

YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. "The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment li

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 00:37:52

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 00:10:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 380 # Comments: 227

Our position on open-weights models

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-28 00:03:49

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1142 # Comments: 1667

Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028

slashdot @ 2026-07-28 00:00:00

Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell "voice, messaging, data, and emergency services," similar to Starlink's partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalst

Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative

slashdot @ 2026-07-27 23:00:00

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI sy

Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-27 22:58:17

A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. The post Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All appeared first on SingularityHub .

Forth

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-27 22:15:50

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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects

slashdot @ 2026-07-27 22:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other 'AI' tools will no longer b

China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools

slashdot @ 2026-07-27 21:00:00

According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-27 20:15:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 333 # Comments: 147

Canceling "Hey"

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-27 19:37:02

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MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-27 18:52:22

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 237 # Comments: 110

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-27 18:49:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 333 # Comments: 227

★ Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:32:51

Putting themselves in customers’ shoes today, how many ads do Apple’s executives want stuck in the results when they search for an app in the App Store?

WorkOS MCP

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:30:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP se

Análisis de ajedrez | El alfil-fénix de Chigáev

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-27 18:20:51

A dos meses de su debut en una Olimpiada de Ajedrez con la bandera española, el gran maestro ruso firma una victoria modélica

Counting permutations with roots

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 18:03:44

My post from yesterday on permutation roots ends with a Mathematica code for finding the probability that a permutation of n elements has a kth root. This is done by finding the coefficient of xn in the generating function I wanted to say more about this,

Printing floating point numbers in binary

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 17:34:05

It’s well known that you can convert the base 16 (hex) representation of an integer to the base 2 (binary) representation by simply converting each digit from hex to binary. For example, CAFEhex = 1100 1010 1111 1110two I imagine it’s less wel

Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 6 With Language and Framework Updates

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 17:09:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. C# adds extension indexers and built-in union support types. ASP.NET Core brings async validation, automatic CSRF protection, and OpenAP

AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-27 16:54:41

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. W

A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-27 16:40:59

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet. The post A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6

old new thing @ 2026-07-27 16:00:00

Exception-safety, the invisible bug. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: Simple JSON API, JEPs for JDK 28, Oracle CPUs, Embabel 1.0, Azul Payara, Helidon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 15:00:00

This week's Java roundup for July 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: two JEPs proposed to target for JDK 28; new JEPs 540 and 541, Simple JSON API (Incubator) and Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal, respectively; the July 2026 Critical Patch U

In search of the northern cassowary

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:01:00

Join the search for the elusive cassowary, a big bird that plays an outsized role in maintaining its rainforest home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The taming of Black thought

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:00:00

Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance - by Takeshi Morisato Read on Aeon

Netflix Details Its In-House LLM Serving Platform with Triton and vLLM

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 09:33:00

Netflix has described the production lessons behind bringing LLM inference into its internal serving platform, including the challenges of supporting different model sizes, hardware requirements, and rapidly evolving inference engines. By Matt Foster

HTTP Message Signatures with curl

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-27 08:55:03

The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatur

TanStack Table V9 Beta: Tree-Shakable Features, TanStack Store State, and Lower Memory Usage

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 07:45:00

TanStack Table V9 is a beta release of a headless UI library for creating tables in various JavaScript frameworks. It features improved state management, memory usage, and extensibility. The notable change is an opt-in feature model, allowing developers

Strengthening the open source defense layer: Red Hat joins NVIDIA in the Open Secure AI Alliance

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-27 02:00:00

As AI capabilities advance, they transform the security landscape in real time. To address these challenges at scale, no single company can act in isolation. We must bring together our respective expertise across the industry. That is why Red Hat is proud

How leading companies are turning AI vision into business value

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-27 02:00:00

I’m fortunate that I get to speak with hundreds of customers every year. These enterprises span the technology adoption curve—some who thrive on the leading edge, and others who prefer being as risk-averse as possible. But the AI era—ever-churning and burs

Building the future: Core concepts of Red Hat’s agentic software development life cycle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-27 02:00:00

When integrating AI into your software development processes, the methodology you use to build software is as important as the models themselves. At Red Hat, we believe the true value of AI emerges when it is integrated into transparent, scalable, and reli

Would Erdos have been happy with the resolution of the Erdos Unit Distance Problem? How to find out?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-26 23:01:08

Let's say there is a statement in math T that you wonder whether it's true or false.  You may even make a conjecture of which way it goes. Do you have a rooting interest?  I may think T is true, but if someone proves T or proves NOT(T) my main c

Permutation roots

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-26 22:32:02

Let σ be a permutation on n elements. If there is a permutation τ such that applying τ twice has the same effect on the list of elements as applying σ once, we say σ = τ² and τ is a square root of σ. If we let our n elements be the integers 0 […] T

exp_q

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-26 20:20:36

The function expq(x) is defined by taking the power series for exp(x) and keeping only the terms whose index is a multiple of q. For example, exp2(x) keeps only the even-numbered terms in the exponential power series and so equals cosh(x). In general, The

Requiem for a Field?

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-26 20:15:44

Kevin Hartnett posted the following Friday: My profile of @Jacob_Tsimerman, published the morning he won the Fields Medal, and hours before he announced he’s going to @OpenAI, reads like a requiem for a field. While I’m trying to not spend R

Análisis de ajedrez | El desastre de Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-26 14:02:41

El vigente campeón del mundo, de 20 años, ha perdido 19 puntos en el torneo de Chennai y es ahora el trigésimo del escalafón

AI-Enabled Security Researchers Discover How a Crafted Video Can Provide Attackers Access to Your PC

InfoQ @ 2026-07-26 11:09:00

JFrog Security Research revealed "PixelSmash," a vulnerability in the FFmpeg media framework, allowing for Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service attacks. Present for sixteen years, it affects numerous applications using the MagicYUV decoder. Exploi

Amazon EKS Adds Kubernetes Version Rollback within 7 Days of an Upgrade

InfoQ @ 2026-07-26 08:04:00

Amazon EKS has recently introduced support for Kubernetes version rollbacks, letting practitioners revert a cluster's control plane to its previous Kubernetes version within 7 days of an upgrade if issues arise. The feature reduces the risk of in-place c

We have proof automation now

ImperialViolet @ 2026-07-26 02:00:00

I've long had a soft spot for dependently-typed languages like Coq Rocq and Lean. They offer the possibility of a type system capable of encoding and enforcing arbitrarily subtle invariants. The sort of thing that, in regular languages, ends up (at best

Application Startup Tracking in Spring

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 21:15:03

Learn how to track and analyze Spring application startup with ApplicationStartup , BufferingApplicationStartup , FlightRecorderApplicationStartup , and custom startup steps. The post Application Startup Tracking in Spring first appeared on Baeld

Introduction to Apache Causeway

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 21:11:34

Learn about Apache Causeway by using it to build a domain-driven asset management application, including a generated UI, REST API, persistence, and business rules. The post Introduction to Apache Causeway first appeared on Baeldung .   &#

FFI: Fix widening semantics for 64 bit arithmetic.

luajit @ 2026-07-25 20:53:11

Thanks to Frityet. #1492

‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 20:15:12

Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their bo

Java Weekly, Issue 656

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 20:06:00

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 656 first appeared on Baeldung .              

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 19:44:13

The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its oblig

Análisis de ajedrez | El tercer iraní sube mucho

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-25 19:34:12

Tabatabaei, de 25 años, se consolida en la élite tras un ascenso lento pero muy consistente en el último lustro

Court Grants SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Google Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 19:27:19

Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the cou

Apple Maps to Power Navigation Experience for Ford’s New EVs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 18:21:00

Apple Newsroom: Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK. Coming to Ford’s UEV Platform in 2027, this integr

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 18:06:52

Teddy Rosenbluth, reporting for The New York Times: On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set last year , when mea

bIRC — A New Native IRC Client for Mac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 17:39:51

For a long time the best native Mac IRC client was Textual , but although Textual still works, it’s been sunset by the author. Not to fear, however. Fredrik Blank just launched bIRC: Creating an IRC client in 2026 is not something that will pay t

1,500 curl authors

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-25 16:29:28

It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository holds the accumulated efforts from 1,500 separate an

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-25 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Excel column numbering

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-25 15:37:30

I was working with a wide spreadsheet from a client the other day and I had to convert between Excel column labels and column numbers. I had never paid attention to how Excel labels columns and implicitly thought it was base 26 using letters rather than d

AI Root Cause Analysis Shifts from Model Reasoning to Context Engineering

InfoQ @ 2026-07-25 11:00:00

Engineers are increasingly arguing that modern LLMs can already reason through root cause analysis once given correctly prepared context, shifting the hard problem to the pipelines that correlate telemetry. A Coroot experiment across eleven models offers

How Zalando Built an In-Process Client-Side Load Balancer for One Million Requests per Second

InfoQ @ 2026-07-25 08:43:00

The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more predictable latency, a drop in infra

Thock

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-07-25 02:00:00

Tastatur und Flasche auf Jörgs Schreibtisch. Als das Wasser floss.

Pairing In-Process and Hosted Embeddings for Java MCP Tool Development

Inside Java @ 2026-07-25 02:00:00

Discover why a Java MCP tool can benefit from both in-process and hosted embeddings: in-process embeddings keep development, testing, and conformance fast and reliable, while external provider-backed embeddings offer production-quality semantic scoring be

Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-24 23:47:42

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. The post Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 22:57:20

Ultimately, when you install a content blocker extension, you take responsibility for any overzealousness in what they block.

Coiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 20:51:29

Speaking of dickovers , here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic: Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining . Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marke

Dickover of the Week: Tomtoc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 18:43:43

Here’s a real gem that a reader sent me. Tomtoc is a maker of laptop bags and sleeves. Visit their homepage and, of course, you’ll get a dickover asking you to join their mailing list “for exclusive updates and get a chance to win a free tech pouch ever

Sixers Sign LeBron James

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 18:40:00

The betting odds for the Sixers to win the NBA championship went from 20-1 to 10-1. Here’s James on Twitter/X , explaining his decision: This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this

The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 17:44:11

Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion : Try the p

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5

old new thing @ 2026-07-24 16:00:00

Making sure to use the non-agile delegate non-agile-ly. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Invaders! is back: rescued from a forgotten Bitbucket account

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-24 14:00:00

Fresh from resurrecting Tanks! Mayhem , I went digging for the other game I wrote back in the early App Store days: Invaders! , a 2009 Space Invaders homage for the iPhone. It wasn’t a straight clone - the aliens teleport in, some of them carry bubble s

Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in its Cloud Tender

InfoQ @ 2026-07-24 12:42:00

Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners

Signal then storm

AEON @ 2026-07-24 12:00:00

Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped - by Stephani Sutherland Read on Aeon

El arcoíris desde el infrarrojo cercano hasta el ultravioleta

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-24 10:20:52

Imagina que eres un cíborg con ojos biónicos capaces de ver desde el infrarrojo (IR) hasta el ultravioleta (UV). ¿Cómo verías el arcoíris? Un artículo en Applied Optics ha calculado […] La entrada El arcoíris desde el infrarrojo cercano hasta el

Análisis de ajedrez | El arte del recontragolpe

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-24 09:43:21

El excelso compositor Martin Minski vuelve a deleitar, esta vez con una cascada de recursos tan sorprendentes como bellos

Jotai v2.20: Reworks Store Building Blocks for High-Throughput Performance and Sets the Stage for v3

InfoQ @ 2026-07-24 08:26:00

Jotai v2.20.0 has been released, focusing on improved performance for high-throughput scenarios. Key changes involve adjustments to internal building blocks and addressing previous performance regressions. While the API for everyday use remains unchanged

Sponsor Success at Apache: Google and Apache Iceberg

ASF @ 2026-07-24 04:49:35

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is home to more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, all powered by a vibrant, global community of contributors. Among these projects, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data architecture,

Meta Compute, Neoclouds and the Future of the AI Infrastructure Market

tecosystems @ 2026-07-24 03:54:37

Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that “it may make sense, in some cases” to consider renting out its existing infrastructure. This confirmed an earlier report, again from Bloomberg, about the new business unit, “Meta Compute.” Th

Meta Compute, Neoclouds and the Future of the AI Infrastructure Market

Sogrady @ 2026-07-24 03:54:37

Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that “it may make sense, in some cases” to consider renting out its existing infrastructure. This confirmed an earlier report, again from Bloomberg, about the new business unit, “Meta Compute.” Th

Issue 760

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Claude Code gets an iOS Simulator, SwiftData sync gets more practical, and Xcode 27 keeps getting better.

Jenseits der Komponentenkiste

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Leben mit hohen Komponentenpreisen

Tanks! Mayhem is back: 16 years later, in your browser

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Back in 2010 I wrote a tank game. It started life as a competition entry to win a laptop from HP by writing something for the Palm Pre (remember those?), got ported to the iPhone and iPad, and ended up on the App Store as Tanks! Mayhem , a Battlezone-sty

Gain stronger pod isolation on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift with OpenShift sandboxed containers

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

If you are running containerized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift, then you already benefit from industry-leading process isolation. Security context constraints (SCC) restrict what pods can do, SELinux enforces mandatory access controls, cgroups limit resou

Friday Five — July 24, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering Salt Lake City 2026Register for the in-person Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors

Beyond the blind spots: Defeating frontier AI model threats in your application development process

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Looking back a few months ago, it's wild to think about how much things have changed in the world of cybersecurity. Not long ago, running a few outdated application runtimes, pushing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) patches to "next month's sprin

Achieve high scalability using Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-24 02:00:00

Whether you’re managing a few dozen servers or a massive, distributed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) estate, Red Hat Satellite's architecture is engineered for growth. As an infrastructure expands, relying on a single, centralized Red Hat Satellite Server

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-23 22:48:40

The incident is a first and signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity. The post OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face appeared first on SingularityHub .

Bond Movie Filming Locations Map

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 21:35:45

“From a Bond fan to Bond fans worldwide.” Nice work.  ★ 

★ The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 21:08:57

The obvious truth is that Apple’s ads just plain suck. They are not good at advertising-based services. And it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re not good at advertising-based services, because the incentives for advertising-based services are in direct

John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 19:45:41

Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways ,

John Dvorak Drops Dead at 80

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 19:10:47

William Gallagher, AppleInsider: Legendary technology columnist, pundit, author and podcast host John C. Dvorak has died, age 80. He is survived by his wife Mimi Dvorak. Today Dvorak is best known for co-hosting the “No Agenda” podcast with Adam Cur

Flighty New Connection Assistant Feature

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 17:41:25

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Flighty’s new Connection Assistant feature includes step-by-step information for your specific connection. This includes things like terminal changes, security checkpoints, passport control, and more. Connection Assistant also

Generating Diagrams From Java Code

Baeldung @ 2026-07-23 17:40:59

Learn how to generate UML and architecture diagrams from Java code using static analysis, Spring Modulith, and AI-powered workflows to improve code reviews and documentation. The post Generating Diagrams From Java Code first appeared on Baeldung .

Análisis de ajedrez | Gloeckler, el delfín alemán

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-23 17:13:50

Tiene 15 años y brilla desde niño de manera regular; acaba de ganar el prestigioso Abierto de Maestros de Biel (Suiza)

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:53:45

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The post How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? first appeared on

Fields and Abacus Medals 2026

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:20:31

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories.

A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:18:20

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path first appeared on Quanta Magazine

An almost periodic function

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-23 16:04:34

This post takes a more abstract view of the previous post. That post looked at the concrete question of whether a number ever has the same sine in radians as in degrees. The relation between radians and degrees is irrelevant except that π/180 is an irrati

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4

old new thing @ 2026-07-23 16:00:00

Optimizing the context check. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 15:55:53

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. The post Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

All the Queens houses

AEON @ 2026-07-23 12:01:00

To the trained eye, the personalised homes of Queens, NYC, evoke everything from a Venetian streetscape to a Chinese temple - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The savage bites back

AEON @ 2026-07-23 12:00:00

Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism - by Sofía Cándano Read on Aeon

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement and state discrimination measures

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 11:10:48

Quantum 10, 2174 (2026). An ensemble of product states is said to exhibit “quantum nonlocality without entanglement” if it cannot be optimally discriminated using local operations and classical communication (L

Pilot-Wave Simulator: Exact Classical Sampling from Ideal and Noisy Quantum Circuits up to Hundreds of Qubits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 11:06:05

Quantum 10, 2173 (2026). Quantum circuit simulators running on classical computers offer a vital platform for designing, testing, and optimizing quantum algorithms, driving innovation despite limited access to

Hoare meets Heisenberg: A Lightweight Logic for Quantum Programs

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 10:16:49

Quantum 10, 2172 (2026). We show that Gottesman's (1998) semantics for Clifford circuits based on the Heisenberg representation gives rise to a lightweight Hoare-like logic for efficiently characterizing a

Yo quise escribir un libro

brucknerite @ 2026-07-23 10:00:00

De cómo estuve tres años escribiendo texto para un proyecto de libro como escarabajo pelotero que recoge bosta para crear una bola más grande que él mismo. Y de cómo fracasé con el debido estrépito, que fue flojo.

Episode 63 “AI Solutions with Spring AI 2.0” [I/O]

Inside Java @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

Tips on deterministic agents, MCP servers and skills, prompt engineering, and where Java's richness for AI solutions stems from.

Fable 5 refuta la conjetura del jacobiano

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-22 19:00:01

El matemático Levent Alpöge trabaja en Antropic desde que abandonó la Universidad de Harvard (fue Junior Fellow entre 2021 y 2025). El pasado domingo 19 de julio, para disfrutar de […] La entrada Fable 5 refuta la conjetura del jacobiano fue esc

Complexity Class of the Week: \(L_2^P\)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-22 16:45:41

Back in the 90s when I was a young professor at the University of Chicago, we would have a Complexity Class of the Week  where I would take some interesting complexity class, write down on a white board everything we knew about it with some open pro

Análisis de ajedrez | La elegancia de Abdusattórov

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-22 16:22:36

Quien hasta hace poco era la gran estrella uzbeka, superada ahora por Sindárov, sigue exhibiendo su muy profunda comprensión del ajedrez

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3

old new thing @ 2026-07-22 16:00:00

The object that actively refuses to be marshaled. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-22 16:00:00

Researchers could use lab-grown sperm to develop infertility treatments or, more controversially, make babies. The post Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Deepmind @ 2026-07-22 15:38:54

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

A complete theory of the Clifford commutant

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 14:49:24

Quantum 10, 2171 (2026). The Clifford group plays a central role in quantum information science. It is the building block for many error-correcting schemes and matches the first three moments of the Haar measur

Jordan Triples and the Standard Model

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-07-22 14:36:44

I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez,

Jordan Triples and the Standard Model

Physics Phorums @ 2026-07-22 14:36:44

I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez,

When sine of x degrees equals sine of x radians

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-22 14:17:11

Ordinarily the sine of x radians and the sine of x degrees are very different numbers. Having your calculator in radian mode when it should be in degree mode, or vice versa, results in a major error. But sometimes it doesn’t matter. A trivial exampl

Integrating Local LLMs with Spring AI Using LM Studio

Baeldung @ 2026-07-22 13:24:54

Learn how to use a locally hosted chat model and an embedding model with Spring AI in LM Studio. The post Integrating Local LLMs with Spring AI Using LM Studio first appeared on Baeldung .             &#

Controller-decoder system requirements derived by implementing Shor’s algorithm with surface code

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 13:23:16

Quantum 10, 2170 (2026). Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is regarded as the most promising path to quantum advantage. The success of QEC relies on achieving quantum gate fidelities below the error threshold of t

How to Fix MySQL java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value

Baeldung @ 2026-07-22 13:19:39

Learn how to diagnose and fix the java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value error in MySQL. The post How to Fix MySQL java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value first appeared on Baeldung .           &

Can cells think?

AEON @ 2026-07-22 12:01:00

Inside the lab of a biologist who is seeking to understand intelligence by focusing on problem-solving, not neurons - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Non-commutative optimization problems with differential constraints

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 10:57:51

Quantum 10, 2169 (2026). Non-commutative polynomial optimization (NPO) problems seek to minimize the state average of a polynomial of some operator variables, subject to polynomial constraints, over all states

Quantum state preparation with optimal T-count

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 09:11:45

Quantum 10, 2168 (2026). How many $T$ gates are needed to approximate an arbitrary $n$-qubit quantum state to within error $\varepsilon$? Improving prior work of Low, Kliuchnikov, and Schaeffer, we show that th

BSDCan 2026 Travel Report – Novković

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:54:13

This year, I had the great privilege of receiving the FreeBSD Foundation travel grant to attend BSDCan. The conference informally kicked off with the traditional gathering at the Father & Sons bar near the 90U residence on Tuesday. The first day of th

BSDCan 2026 Travel Report – Patrick McEvoy

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:48:02

The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine. The requested DevSummit 2 question microphone system kept our running around to a minimum and fit the two rows of DMS

BSDCan 2026 Trip Report – ShengYi Hung

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:40:54

I’m really grateful to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my trip to BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa. The conference ran for four days — two days of DevSummit, then two days of the main conference, with many interesting talks throughout. For me, it’s

This Week in Rust 661

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-22 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

★ European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-22 00:49:03

What the EC is dictating to Google is just breathtaking in scope.