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slashdot @ 2026-10-30 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Trading has resumed on Polymarket's flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the pre

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red HatRed Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling inference and agent services. Rising token costs and sovereignt

slashdot @ 2026-10-30 00:00:00

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Utah to defend its claimed exclusive authority over federally registered prediction markets, as the state files (PDF) 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders for allegedly violating an

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 23:00:00

Binance is investigating a potential hack after more than $2 billion in crypto was drained from one of its wallets into a new external account, with Blockaid estimating nearly $3.3 billion was moved. "Our teams are aware of reports of a potential securit

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 22:40:28

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 22:03:42

Apple Developer News: Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transac

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 22:00:00

Slashdot readers Cpt_Kirks, eklektic, sconeu, and Vrallis share the unfortunate news of Patrick Stewart's passing. Longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said Stewart died Wednesday at the age of 86 at his home in Los Angeles following "a brief and poignan

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: American spy agencies had gathered striking intelligence. A top executive at a Singapore-based data center company was under scrutiny for possibly steering advanced Nvidia A.I. chips to China. An

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 20:57:21

Craig Hockenberry: If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week. Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of Word

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 20:44:11

Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. S

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 20:41:39

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 20:00:00

Google's OAuth Platform has recently introduces support for Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (DPoP), an OAuth 2.0 security mechanism designed to mitigate token theft and replay attacks. By Sergio De Simone

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 20:00:00

Yesterday, Google reported its Q3 results that showed searches made through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to $63.25 billion. The news sent Alphabet shares plunging, with Be

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 19:00:00

Canada is joining the European Union's supercomputing network to give Canadian companies, startups, and researchers access to European computing resources for AI development. The partnership aims to strengthen AI cooperation and reduce dependence on US tec

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-29 18:54:44

El portento ruso, que brilla desde los 8, está a un paso de ser el gran maestro más joven de la historia

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 18:43:48

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 18:00:00

DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion as it expands beyond restaurant delivery and deeper into the U.S. grocery market. The deal, expected to close in late 2027 or the first half of 2028, could face regulatory scrutiny over further

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 17:42:17

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 17:00:00

Reddit is overhauling its homepage with separate "For You" and "Following" feeds, with the former combining posts from subscribed communities and algorithmic recommendations based on users' interests and activity. The Verge reports: It's a big shift for th

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 16:53:03

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 16:17:00

QA Agent is a new source-available Playwright library for agentic browser regression testing. The agent associates test instructions expressed in natural language to actions on the user interface, caches those when appropriate for faster CI replays, rema

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-29 16:11:57

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 16:06:56

How Jason Snell beat me to linking to this, I don’t know. But like I said back in February , when it comes to signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-29 16:00:56

Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Ta

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 16:00:00

Slashdot reader fjo3 shares an article from Wired: The internet must be put out of its misery. Any rational observer can admit that the current iteration of the web -- and the social fabric woven there -- is not what they signed up for. Symptoms of advance

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 15:57:55

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 15:28:00

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read o

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 15:13:21

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old new thing @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

Then again, that is what they asked for. The post The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

The first patient received a dose of the high-precision gene editor in a new clinical trial for Wilson disease. Researchers hope it's a one-and-done fix. The post CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body for the First Time appeared first on

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 14:50:00

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 14:40:04

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-29 14:19:24

Quantum 10, 2256 (2026). Quantum data re-uploading has proved powerful for classical inputs, where repeatedly encoding features into a small circuit yields universal function approximation. Extending this idea

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 13:41:56

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luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:45:28

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1537

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 12:41:18

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 12:41:00

IT is responsible for about 2 - 4% of all global emissions, and electricity use at Microsoft and Google has climbed because of AI, according to their own reports. Sustainability ought to be a top-level architectural concern. Some recommendations are: use

luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:40:59

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1536

InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 12:00:00

Who authorizes an agent’s actions, and how should teams manage growing context costs? The QCon AI New York 2026 program committee shares six session picks that tackle these questions, alongside open-source inference, agent standards, and audio AI. By A

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 12:00:00

Alphabet shares fell nearly 10% after Google disclosed that searches through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to $63.25 billion. The Register reports: Alphabet on Wednesday re

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 11:44:49

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AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:01:00

A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:00:00

Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 10:58:00

Anthropic has published how the Claude Code team reviews code now that Claude writes roughly 90% of it, including a claim that nobody keeps a complete mental model of the codebase. The post documents a pull request that ran more than fifty review rounds

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

Datadog has released Scout, a model trained to investigate production problems. It runs inside Bits Investigation, the company's AI SRE product, where it can pick up an alert, look through telemetry and suggest what caused the problem. Datadog engineers

InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 08:14:00

Cloudflare has recently launched a beta Web Search API through AI Gateway. Available through REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, it provides unified logging, access controls, and billing, and supports bring-your-own-provider keys. By Renato Losio

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 08:08:50

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 08:00:00

A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica reports that Ole Bielfeldt "beat out 1,802 other entries haili

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 07:47:28

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 05:06:15

Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keybo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 04:33:42

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 04:30:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TechCrunch: In an email blast to customers titled "Protecting your finances in the Al World," Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside

Inside Java @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Recent and upcoming Java features (e.g. value classes, withers, and lazy constants) make it easier to define, construct, copy, and access immutable data

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Lately I hear many customers saying the same thing in different words—they added an AI layer to their environment, expected everything to get better, but haven't really noticed anything different yet.In practice, the addition I see first usually sits upstr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Sovereignty debt is emerging as a critical board-level liability across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The concept of technology debt is not new. It has challenged organizations through successive technology cycles, from data analytics to public cloud ado

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 00:00:00

An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. "There's no more point in giving you a little React challenge t

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 23:00:00

A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS's Okta login system, reveals phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting relatio

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-28 20:15:04

In this week's big news (though it's only Wednesday), OpenAI announced a proof that the exponential-time hypothesis is false , with a Lean proof . Later Anthropic released their own paper . Ryan O'Donnell  and Shiva Kintali  posted follow-

Deepmind @ 2026-10-28 18:00:58

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-28 18:00:55

Start getting ready for MacBook Pro with Touch today. Watch new developer videos, sign up for Group Labs, and check out new articles and resources. Explore now

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-28 17:04:18

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 15:58:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selec

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:43:07

Quantum 10, 2255 (2026). Data privacy and authentication are two main security requirements for remote access and cloud services. While QKD has been explored to address data privacy concerns, oftentimes its use

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:34:12

Quantum 10, 2254 (2026). Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:24:36

Quantum 10, 2253 (2026). This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture for the trace distance based optimal state transformation problem proposed by Coutts et al. [Quantum 5, 448 (2021)]. Th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:03:02

Quantum 10, 2252 (2026). We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of f

old new thing @ 2026-10-28 15:00:00

You are taking the scenic route. The post C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using <CODE>make_self</CODE> and immediately converting it to the projected interface appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 14:53:00

Airbnb extended its Chronon feature platform with Push Mode and Near Real-Time Model Transform to update sequence-based recommendation embeddings within seconds. The architecture reduced embedding staleness from nearly two days to under a minute and impr

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-28 13:55:00

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-28 12:51:51

The classification of finite simple groups (CFSG) has been called the biggest theorem in mathematics. It is big, not necessarily in terms of its importance, but in the sense that its proof developed over the course of decades and thousands of pages of jou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 11:36:06

Quantum 10, 2251 (2026). We investigate optimal metrological protocols for phase estimation in the presence of correlated dephasing noise, including spin-squeezed state sensing strategies as well as parallel an

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 11:30:00

Microsoft's latest monthly security update addresses 1415 vulnerabilities across multiple products. One vulnerability affecting Windows Shell has been exploited in the wild, while 85 are classified as critical. Affected products include Windows OS, Offic

AEON @ 2026-10-28 11:01:00

Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 10:32:00

Google has opened a Chrome origin trial for the Email Verification API, a WICG proposal that lets the browser confirm email ownership without sending a message. Gmail is the first provider. Developers add form hints and validate a signed token server-sid

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-28 09:59:00

En la 2ª ronda del Europeo rápido para ciegos, el español ganó una partida tan corta como sustanciosa y vibrante, que confirmó su momento dulce

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 09:57:00

Cloudflare has put Quicksilver, the internal key-value store behind nearly every request it serves, into private beta as a Workers KV mode. Reads resolve in 1.62 ms at p99 against 287 ms for classic KV. The constraints decide the use case: 10,000 keys, o

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-28 05:00:00

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

YC @ 2026-10-28 03:59:08

Alex Lee left his own startup to join Magic Patterns as founding engineer — and built a slide deck feature in a weekend.

Inside Java @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

Get an overview of the Secure Coding Guidelines for Java and best practices. Examples will be provided to show insecure practices that may lead to security vulnerabilities. Learn how to avoid issues by applying the guidelines. We'll also cover recent upda

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

IT leaders today must balance core operations to run smoothly while rapidly transforming infrastructure to drive new business value. From navigating budget constraints and complex multicloud environments to accelerating developer productivity and integrati

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

For an enterprise, AI sovereignty starts with this primary requirement: Retain control of its own data and infrastructure. But as organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it in real business processes, control over the models themselves h

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:19:39

Apple Newsroom yesterday: With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:00:04

Apple Newsroom, with software news for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” week: Apple today introduced transformative updates to Apple Creator Studio , the powerful collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of modern creators

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 22:24:20

Even if you’re a decent designer (or believe yourself to be), it’s liberating not to have a say in the matter. Constraints are sometimes freeing.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-27 21:50:16

By chilling roundworms, scientists traced a molecular pathway hinting at one way cold might extend lifespan. The post Study Could Help Explain Why Colder Body Temperature Extends Lifespan in Many Species appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:59:47

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple on Wednesday will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring touch-enabled OLED displays with thinner bezels, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a lighter and slightly thinn

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:44:10

Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good . Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1700 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:03:08

An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing

Deepmind @ 2026-10-27 17:01:38

Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:00:46

Apple Newsroom’s “Pro and Tell” announcement week continues: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 , delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business user

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 16:51:46

Quantum 10, 2250 (2026). We provide the first systematic technique for deriving witnesses of contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios. More specifically, we show how linear quantifier elimination ca

old new thing @ 2026-10-27 15:00:00

Hurry up and wait. The post Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:53:18

Quantum 10, 2249 (2026). Engineering the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is fundamental to the design of quantum systems. Automating Hamiltonian design through gradient-based optimization can dramatically accel

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:38:36

Quantum 10, 2248 (2026). Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps in the argument for classical hardness of GBS is the so-cal

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-27 13:22:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 576 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Entropía; Neandertales; Tesla; Exoplaneta; Agujeros Negros; Eirenesfera”, 22 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB S

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-27 13:13:21

If you have an expression in n Boolean variables, how long does it take to find out whether some assignment of values to the variables makes the expression true? There is an obvious upper bound: you can find out in 2n steps by exhaustive search, trying al

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 13:00:00

Uber has introduced Normalized Compute Units (NCUs) to make CPU allocation more consistent across its highly heterogeneous server fleet. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 12:25:00

Anthropic recently detailed how it migrated its monorepo from Git to Scion. Scion is a source control system that moves repository operations to the server side and uses content-addressed storage and tiered caches for agent and CI workloads. The design s

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-27 11:04:12

El ciego español, de 35 años, de origen venezolano, es a la vez campeón del mundo y de Europa en ajedrez clásico, además de sus medallas en rápidas

AEON @ 2026-10-27 11:00:00

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 10:00:00

Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 08:34:00

Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 01:30:08

Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link): Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-27 01:12:40

OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of p

Inside Java @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the introduction of value classes and strict fields

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), enterprise IT is undergoing a fundamental shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer restricted to isolated sandboxes or pilot projects. Autonomous AI agents, embedded software-as-a-service (SaaS) fe

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

Agentic AI deployments are accelerating across enterprises. Recent research from the Cloud Security Alliance shows 70% of organizations now have AI components in production, yet 82% lack real-time visibility into AI runtime behavior. Furthermore, only 21%

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 00:54:26

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-26 23:41:53

It's widely believed AI's inner workings are largely inscrutable. A former OpenAI researcher now says this narrative could be wrong. The post Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought appeared first on Sing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 21:03:53

Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. Wh

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 19:39:32

The previous three post have been part of a series on geometric duality. The traditional but somewhat mysterious terminology is the pole of a line and the polar of a point. As explained here, the terminology was first coined in the context of spherical ge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 19:04:34

Pros: OLED display, nano-texture option, A20 Pro chip, thinner and lighter. Cons: no Face ID, no ProMotion.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 18:00:11

Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed . Lock the screen. I mentioned in my r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 16:04:10

If you’ve got or get a Duo and don’t try this out, you’re not hooked up right. Update: But as Cabel Sasser notes , though incredibly fun, this was clearly made by a young Claude-aided developer who never used any of these actual old computers. Let’

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-26 16:02:24

A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the poi

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-26 15:54:29

A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-10-26 15:00:00

Mimicking the operation more accurately. The post Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 13:04:54

This blog is the main place I write, but I also use other platforms, either to write new content or to announce blog posts. X (née Twitter) I have a several X accounts, one personal account (@JohnDCook) and several specialized accounts (@CompSciFact, @Alg

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:01:00

A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:00:00

From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can - by Azize Aslan Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-26 09:50:52

El checo, autor de esta espléndida victoria, es ahora el 3º mejor de su edad, tras el turco Erdogmus y el estadounidense Woodward

Rust blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund or sponsor the RustNL Maintainers Team To fund specific features and improvements, sponsor fundable Rust Project Goals To fund individual contributors, donat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

New tools can find potential flaws faster than teams can assess and fix them. When a serious flaw is discovered, the central challenge is ensuring maintainers, distributors, and operators receive the clear information and time necessary to defend their use

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

If you followed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this edge AI machine learning operations (MLOps) series, you've seen how a model goes from training and optimization through packaging, signing, and deployment across an edge fleet. We've reached a point where

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

Many enterprise AI conversations start with the same question: Which model should we use? With models becoming more and more commoditized, the big differentiator is whether your data is ready for any model or any agent to use.The stakes are higher now that

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:50:00

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring last week at DF. Sunnny’s pitch to B2B companies is simple: you store valuable customer information across a myriad of systems, making it hard to get a simple overview. Sunnny consolidates your customer data, cleans it,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:47:57

Some guy on Reddit (with an illustration video): Saw this online, tried it, and it works beautifully. Basically, I registered the lowest part of my right index finger. That part of the finger sits naturally when you go to swipe up at the phone. This

Emilian Bold @ 2026-10-25 21:41:32

There's an interesting phenomenon I've noticed and I'm not sure I have a good word for it. One has various ideas jumping around in their head. Some of them are little pearls, beliefs big and small that seem significant and some of which may be quite old.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-25 21:30:49

(Lance and Bill did a vidcast about the OpenAI Document Drop. See  here . My spellcheck thinks that vidcast and OpenAI are not words.)   The Metric TSP problem is TSP where, for all vertices \(x,y,z\),         

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 20:45:05

The previous two posts have been about polar triangles. The first used a polar triangle to derive a theorem, and the second showed how to compute polars using linear algebra. But what exactly is a polar triangle and why is it called that? Poles and polars

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-25 20:37:30

El gran maestro polaco muestra su profundidad estratégica con un sacrificio de pieza nada obvio a medio plazo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 20:03:13

Special guest: Joanna Stern. Special topic: The iPhone Duo. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfast item per box for one year, while supplies last, with code talkshow50off . Notion : The coll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 19:09:19

Speaking of Johnnie Manzari, he wrote a post yesterday marking the 10 year anniversary of Portrait Mode: Initially, Portrait mode was seen as a giant math problem. You’d do disparity calculations on the two sensors and output a depth map. The problem

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-25 12:00:00

Ein letzter Spaziergang mit Henry

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:01:55

The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar tr

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:28:20

I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles

Inside Java @ 2026-10-25 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:15:00

Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video ), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier, even compared with competing f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:08:17

Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters: CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a video ​posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A kno

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 23:10:06

Jay Peters, The Verge: The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 22:47:28

Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he sp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 21:15:45

I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values . Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-24 18:39:18

Kuandykuly, campeón del mundo de su edad con 10,5 puntos en once partidas, muestra una consistencia muy excepcional

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:50:02

It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary . Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:03:44

Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-24 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 October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Inside Java @ 2026-10-24 02:00:00

As has been widely reported, the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. This page summarizes how to check whether your runtime is at risk and mitigation actions.

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-23 18:58:32

Agents spend much of their time waiting on tools. A coding agent may start a build that runs for twenty minutes, a triage agent may wait hours for the next pull request on a repository, and an assistant may wait until the next morning for an approval. Most

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 18:52:56

Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube ): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-23 18:20:11

La bella danza de los corceles en este final artístico de Rusz tiene además un gran valor didáctico para el buen manejo de este tipo de posiciones

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-23 16:54:10

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 16:42:06

Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it t

old new thing @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

It cleans up at the wrong time. The post Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-23 12:40:44

Quantum 10, 2247 (2026). Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently,

AEON @ 2026-10-23 12:00:00

Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon

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

En mi trabajo de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles hemos empezado a montar unos vídeos divulgativos sobre la evolución de diferentes tecnologías ferroviarias. Este es el primero, sobre las traviesas.