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

Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSAutoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI model serving: Performance validationNovember 26, 2025 Alberto PerdomoIn my previous blog, How to set up KServe autoscaling for vLLM with K

slashdot @ 2026-01-14 03:02:00

"Since the United States reopened its embassy in Cuba in 2015, a number of personnel have reported a series of debilitating medical ailments which include dizziness, fatigue, problems with memory, and impaired vision," writes longtime Slashdot reader smoot

slashdot @ 2026-01-14 02:25:00

Meta is shutting down three acquired VR studios as part of Reality Labs layoffs and a strategic pivot away from VR content toward AI-powered smart glasses. UploadVR reports: Meta shut down Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard's Wrath),

slashdot @ 2026-01-14 01:45:00

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), giving victims of sexually explicit AI deepfakes the right to sue the individuals who created them. The Verge reports: The bill passed with u

slashdot @ 2026-01-14 01:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The global technology sector eliminated some 244,851 jobs in 2025, according to a report from RationalFX. The U.K.-based financial services company says the worldwide downsizing reflects how companies

slashdot @ 2026-01-14 00:20:00

BrianFagioli writes: Wine 11.0 has officially landed, wrapping up a year of development with more than 6,000 code changes and a broad set of upgrades that touch gaming, desktop behavior, and long-standing architectural work. The biggest milestone is the co

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-14 00:00:00

A radical shift in understanding psychosis The post Delusions Are Often Not-So-Delusional After All appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 23:40:00

After widespread backlash over its 2022 decision to remove JPEG-XL support, Google has quietly restored the image format in the latest Chrome/Chromium codebase. Phoronix reports: Back in December they merged jxl-rs as a pure Rust-based JPEG-XL image decode

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 23:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple today introduced a new Apple Creator Studio bundle that offers access to six creative apps, as well as exclusive AI features and content, as part of a single subscription. In the U.S., pricing is se

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 22:57:32

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-13 22:44:52

“Generative biology is moving drug discovery from a process of chance to one of design.” The post AI-Designed Antibodies Are Racing Toward Clinical Trials appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 22:21:00

Prosecutors in Taiwan issued an arrest warrant [non-paywalled source] for the chief executive officer of the Chinese smartphone company OnePlus, stepping up the island's efforts to block China's tech players from recruiting Taiwanese talent. From a report:

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-13 22:00:00

Jurassic mudstones reveal how the heavens impact Earth The post How Jupiter and Saturn Dictate Earth’s Oil Deposits appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 21:45:43

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slashdot @ 2026-01-13 21:44:00

Electric vehicles are more likely to be fixed at the roadside than petrol or diesel cars despite public fears to the contrary, according to new breakdown data from the AA. From a report: New research from Autotrader and the AA, carried out in December amon

Baeldung @ 2026-01-13 21:40:44

Discover a few approaches to printing assertion results into logs with JUnit. The post How to Print JUnit Assertion Results first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 21:04:00

Analyst Ben Thompson, sharing the experience of watching an NBA game on the Vision Pro: When I started the broadcast [on Apple Vision Pro's immersive view of the Bucks vs. Lakers NBA game] I had, surprise surprise, a studio show, specially tailored for the

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-13 20:36:58

The crash might have radically transformed the lunar interior The post An Asteroid Impact May Explain Our Lopsided Moon appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 20:22:00

Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an "eyes off" conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US. From a report: As first reported by German publication Handelsblatt, the revised S-Class will not have the

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 19:44:00

The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement to unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network. From a report: The change will make it harder for people t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 19:35:52

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-13 19:27:26

Apple Newsroom: Apple today unveiled Apple Creator Studio , a groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade power into the hands of everyone, building on the essential role Mac, iPad, and iPhone play in the lives of

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 19:04:00

America's largest power-grid operator, PJM, which delivers electricity to 67 million people across a 13-state region from New Jersey to Kentucky, is approaching a supply crisis as AI data centers in Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley" consume electrici

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 18:25:00

Python Software Foundation: We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation's work, with an emphasis on Py

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 18:05:43

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Deepmind @ 2026-01-13 18:00:18

Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 17:47:39

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 17:41:40

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-13 17:40:01

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E06, «Encuentros con la Ciencia celebra su vigésima segunda edición con conferencias sobre neuropsicología, cáncer y cambio climático», 13 ene 2026 [14:22 min], del programa […] La entrada Ciencia para todos

slashdot @ 2026-01-13 17:20:00

Scott Adams, who kept cubicle denizens laughing for more than three decades with Dilbert, the bitingly funny comic strip that poked fun at the absurdity of corporate life, died Tuesday. He was 68. From a report: His death was tearfully revealed by his firs

InfoQ @ 2026-01-13 17:00:00

QCon London 2026 returns March 16–19 with 15 tracks for senior leads. Key sessions cover system integration via MCP, AI engineering, and debugging distributed systems. Explore modern security, Staff+ insights, and performance optimization with peer-led a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 16:49:27

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 16:35:09

Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into some

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-13 16:32:27

A primatologist explains why monkeys aren’t monsters The post What “Primate” and Other Slasher Monkey Movies Get Wrong appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 16:18:43

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 16:03:58

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InfoQ @ 2026-01-13 16:00:00

Uber Engineering outlines its platform-led mobile analytics redesign, standardizing event instrumentation across iOS and Android to improve cross-platform consistency, reduce engineering effort, and provide reliable insights for product and data teams.

old new thing @ 2026-01-13 16:00:00

Finding the correct clipping parent. The post Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-13 15:59:00

Jim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that both of these are important, and we need to manage the tension between them. We can do this by t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-13 15:52:57

La española de origen iraní, 2ª en los Mundiales Rápido y Relámpago de 2018, intenta superar los cambios en su vida

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-13 15:48:34

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 has been released! We’re continually developing our multiplatform APIs and expanding support for Jetpack libraries commonly used on Android. Here are the highlights of this release: Get Started with Compose Multiplatform For a

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-13 15:48:34

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 has been released! We’re continually developing our multiplatform APIs and expanding support for Jetpack libraries commonly used on Android. Here are the highlights of this release: Get Started with Compose Multiplatform For a

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-13 15:47:58

Compose Hot Reload has just been promoted to stable with our 1.0.0 release. We worked hard to build a technology that is easy to use and well-integrated into existing tools while also requiring zero configuration from users. The tool is bundled with Compos

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-13 15:47:58

Compose Hot Reload has just been promoted to stable with our 1.0.0 release. We worked hard to build a technology that is easy to use and well-integrated into existing tools while also requiring zero configuration from users. The tool is bundled with Compos

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 15:14:18

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 14:46:34

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ASF @ 2026-01-13 14:12:43

On behalf of the Conference planning team, I am pleased to announce that The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) will be hosting the next European Community Over Code event October 11-14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Community Over Code is the annual c

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 13:39:03

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InfoQ @ 2026-01-13 13:00:00

LangGrant has launched the LEDGE MCP Server, a new enterprise platform designed to let large language models reason across complex database environments without directly accessing or exposing underlying data. By Craig Risi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 12:19:01

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InfoQ @ 2026-01-13 11:00:00

Google has released Conductor, a new preview extension for Gemini CLI that introduces a structured, context-driven approach to AI-assisted software development. The extension is designed to address a common limitation of chat-based coding tools: the loss

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-13 09:27:09

Previously in this series: In the previous installment, we saw how to set up tracing, which brings us to two new questions: What should we experiment with based on the information this tool provides? And what parts of our agent could we improve using its o

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-13 09:27:09

Previously in this series: In the previous installment, we saw how to set up tracing, which brings us to two new questions: What should we experiment with based on the information this tool provides? And what parts of our agent could we improve using its o

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 07:42:49

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 06:16:10

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-13 02:00:00

Here’s what was in the air during the so-called “Boring Billion” The post A Billion-Year-Old Piece of Sky Locked Within Ancient Salt Crystals appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-13 01:00:54

Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch: “We’ve structured this entire business around being a sustainable, profitable, and hopefully, long-running enterprise, but not a startup,” Migicovsky told TechCrunch on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-13 01:00:00

The technology landscape is shifting rapidly, and at the heart of this change is a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of partners. Today, we are excited to introduce Kevin Kennedy as vice president of the Global Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat.Kennedy steps in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-13 00:30:05

Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforc

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-13 00:05:04

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-13 00:03:08

Here’s an illustrated follow-up regarding the absurdity of MacOS 26’s “looks like they’re rounded off like a child’s toy but actually they’re still rectangles with corners” windows. If you turn on always-visible scrollbars (which you should) and scroll to

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-13 00:00:00

New research reveals spaceflight is literally mind-bending The post Astronaut Brains Change Shape in Space appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-12 23:47:20

Elon Musk, in a tweet responding to Google’s announcement of their deal to provide Gemini to Apple for use in Apple Intelligence: This seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that the also have Android and Chrome I’m su

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-12 23:36:16

The skin could allow machines to dynamically blend into their surroundings or be used to create adaptive displays and artwork. The post Sci-Fi Cloaking Technology Takes a Step Closer to Reality With Synthetic Skin Like an Octopus appeared first on Si

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-12 23:31:39

Eddy Cue, in a rare bylined post on Apple Newsroom: The numbers reflect the incredible enthusiasm of our customers, whether it’s downloading an exciting new app or game, watching the hottest new show with family and friends, listening to their favorit

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-12 23:30:07

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest book, The Giant Leap The post Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-12 23:30:02

Life is already busy making its transition to being interplanetary The post We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-12 23:00:00

It’s all a matter of timing The post How Brain Waves Shape Your Sense of Self appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-01-12 22:00:00

They’re actually what sets her apart from her worker bees The post Take a Look at the Hairy Mouthparts of a Queen Bee appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-12 21:26:47

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Confluent @ 2026-01-12 21:06:36

Learn how to build a custom Kafka connector from scratch with our step-by-step guide. Simplify data streaming with tailored solutions for your business needs.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-01-12 20:57:37

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Kotlin Blog @ 2026-01-12 20:33:14

Thank you to everyone who participated in Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin! Once again, it was a joy to see so many of you sharing solutions, cheering each other on in Slack, and keeping the holiday coding spirit alive. This year, we kicked things off with fi

Kotlin news @ 2026-01-12 20:33:14

Thank you to everyone who participated in Advent of Code 2025 in Kotlin! Once again, it was a joy to see so many of you sharing solutions, cheering each other on in Slack, and keeping the holiday coding spirit alive. This year, we kicked things off with fi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-12 19:35:50

CNBC: The multi-year partnership will lean on Google’s Gemini and cloud technology for future Apple foundational models, according to a joint statement obtained by CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology

TED Blog @ 2026-01-12 19:00:46

This January, TED is introducing TEDLaw, a new training experience designed to help lawyers step back from constant urgency and reconnect with the judgment, values and human insight that define meaningful legal practice. Legal work has always required rigo

AWS Blog @ 2026-01-12 18:39:47

At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution list, consider creating an AWS Free Tier account to receive up to $200 in credits and hav

ASF @ 2026-01-12 18:01:36

Wilmington, DE – January 12, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced the availability of Apache Geode® 2.0. Geode 2.0 represents one of the most significant modernization ef

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 18:00:00

Microsoft's TypeScript 7, codenamed Project Corsa, transforms the compiler with a complete rewrite in Go, achieving up to 10x faster builds and reduced memory usage. With strict mode enabled by default, this update enhances type safety while maintaining

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-12 17:27:34

old new thing @ 2026-01-12 16:00:00

Preventing the cursor from pointing to nothing. The post Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-12 15:58:22

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies. The post Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions first appeared o

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-12 14:23:41

Muchos cuerpos del cinturón de asteroides principal (entre Marte y Júpiter) son montones de escombros (rubble piles) que no pueden rotar demasiado rápido sin fragmentarse, la llamada barrera de giro […] La entrada El observatorio Vera C. Rubin de

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-12 13:41:29

The previous post contained an interesting observation: Is it true more generally that for large n? Sorta, but the approximation gets better if we add a correction factor. If we square both sides of the approximation and move the factorials to one side, t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-12 13:16:49

El joven astro indio de quien menos se habla gana el torneo rápido de Calcuta y termina 2º en el relámpago

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-12 13:00:39

A few days ago I wrote two posts about perfect shuffles. Once you’ve cut a deck of cards in half, an in-shuffle lets a card from the top half fall first, and an out-shuffle lets a card from the bottom half fall first. Suppose we have a deck of 52 ca

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 11:24:00

AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3 Tables, the update aims to eliminate data silos and enable Zero-ET

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 11:00:00

Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and debug AI agents, and devise mitigation strategies against security issues like jailbreaks, halluc

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 10:00:00

Cloudflare has eliminated manual configuration errors across hundreds of production accounts by implementing Infrastructure as Code with automated policy enforcement, processing approximately 30 merge requests daily while catching security violations bef

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 08:55:00

A new industry benchmark aimed at systematically evaluating the factual accuracy of LLMs has been released with the launch of the FACTS Benchmark Suite. Developed by the FACTS team in collaboration with Kaggle, the suite expands earlier work on factual g

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-12 03:52:53

Shit’s getting real, folks.  ★ 

InfoQ @ 2026-01-12 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and Java Operator SDK. By Michael Redlich

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-12 01:00:00

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no sign of slowing. Teams that cannot keep up risk falling behind. However, there is a way to stay ahead

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-12 01:00:00

The Argo CD Agent is now Generally Available with the release of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.19. Organizations using Kubernetes and OpenShift have widely adopted the GitOps methodology to manage clusters and applications, with Argo CD being the leading open

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-12 01:00:00

After much anticipation, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes in AWS GovCloud is now authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls in accordance with the Rev 5 authorization path. This means that customers are now able

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-12 01:00:00

In today’s IT world, change is not coming; it is here. Hybrid cloud, automation, and AI are transforming how organizations operate, and the pace shows no sign of slowing. Teams that cannot keep up risk falling behind. However, there is a way to stay ahead

Computational Complexity @ 2026-01-12 00:55:00

  1) Smells Like... Something In many TV shows having to do with murder (and there are plenty of them), I’ve heard the following exchange:         His breath smells like bitter almonds. So he was poisoned with cyanide They’re

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-11 22:25:00

My thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring last week at DF. Copilot is a personal finance app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and they’ve always deeply believed in the value of embracing the design idioms and technical features of truly native apps for Appl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-11 22:24:47

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), and Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico), in a letter addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai: Your app stores’ policies are clear. Google’s terms of service require apps to “prohibit users from

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-11 22:20:39

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio 012 del podcast Café de Ganimedes, spin-off de Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox; Spotify; Apple], titulado “El Café de Ganimedes. Ep 012», 10 ene […] La entrada Podcast Café Ganimedes 012: Navidad ganimediana,

InfoQ @ 2026-01-11 15:10:00

AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The feature provides visibility into unencrypted traffic, supports enforce

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-11 12:00:00

For quite some time now (since Solaris 11.0 to be exact) accounts in Solaris are created with UP in the password field. This is short for “uninitialized password”. However there is a relatively new change (introduced in SRU 78) that you can’t log in to th

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-11 10:29:53

Cuando el controvertido y muy irregular estadounidense está en forma, sus victorias suelen ser arrasadoras, como esta frente a Praggnanandhaa

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-11 04:00:00

Ich schrieb ja schon über die Entkörperlichung von Musik . Die physische Folgenlosigkeit, wenn man Musik über Streamingmedien hört. Die Entkörperlichung des gedruckten Wortes erscheint noch viel deutlicher. Ich blickte danach auf mein Regal und sah di

Inside Java @ 2026-01-11 01:00:00

Dive deep into the Java Virtual Machine and discover how it masterfully balances static analysis with dynamic execution. John Rose explores what makes the JVM both powerful and efficient, from theoretical computer science to real-world optimization techniq

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-10 23:59:19

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 540 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Satélites y Colisiones; Embarazo; Sahelantropus; Supersólidos”, 08 ene 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-10 22:04:26

Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.

InfoQ @ 2026-01-10 22:00:00

Claude Code's creator Boris Cherny described how he uses it at Anthropic, highlighting practices such as running parallel instances, sharing learnings, automating prompting, and rigorously verifying results to compound productivity over time. By Sergio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-10 20:31:07

Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic (gift link), on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and the first year of the second Trump presidency: We have been watching indecency triumph in the public sphere on and off for more than 10 years now,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-10 20:10:13

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 January 10) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-10 17:05:21

When I wrote about how Primecoin uses prime chains for proof of work, I left out a detail. To mine a new Primecoin block, you have to find a prime chain of specified length that starts with a number that is a multiple of the block header hash. According t

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-10 14:56:54

I mentioned bi-twin prime chains in the previous post, but didn’t say much about them so as not to interrupt the flow of the article. A pair of prime numbers are called twins if they differ by 2. For example, 17 and 19 are twin primes. A bi-twin cha

InfoQ @ 2026-01-10 13:45:00

NVIDIA has released a set of open models, datasets, and development tools covering language, agentic systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and biomedical research. The update expands several existing NVIDIA model families and makes accompanying training

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-10 13:32:19

The title of this post has a double meaning. We will look at chains in the sense of number theory and in the sense of cryptocurrency, i.e. Cunningham chains and blockchains, that involve prime numbers. Cunningham chains A chain of primes is a sequence of

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-10 11:25:39

El ídolo nacional indio termina 2º, tras su joven compatriota Nihal Sarin, en el torneo de Calcuta, y asciende al 9º del mundo

InfoQ @ 2026-01-10 08:36:00

MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, potentially leadin

Baeldung @ 2026-01-10 04:17:15

Learn how to address a rare case where we need to ensure element uniqueness when querying their indexes. The post Obtain Index of a Given LinkedHashSet Element Without Iteration first appeared on Baeldung .         

Baeldung @ 2026-01-10 04:13:25

Learn about the causes of the Public Key Retrieval is not allowed error when working with MySQL in a Java application and ways to fix or work around it. The post Fix the Java-MySQL Connection Exception: Public Key Retrieval is not allowed first ap

Baeldung @ 2026-01-10 04:09:53

Setting the Content-Length header in Spring MVC's ResponseEntity is straightforward, but it should be done explicitly and only when required. The post How to Set Content-Length Header in ResponseEntity in Spring MVC first appeared on Baeldung . &#

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-10 04:00:00

(Dieser Text ist eine überarbeitete und erweiterte Version eines Gedanken, den ich vor einiger Zeit auf Mastodon zum Ausdruck brachte) Es war im September, noch vor der persönlichen Zäsur. Ich sah einige Screenshots des Spiels „Uridium“. In meiner Ju

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-01-10 02:55:06

Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geometry is not separate from physics. He later published this

Physics Phorums @ 2026-01-10 02:55:06

Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geometry is not separate from physics. He later published this

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-01-09 22:33:49

Un supersólido combina un flujo superfluido (con viscosidad cero) y un orden cristalino (una modulación periódica de la densidad que rompe la simetría de traslación). En marzo de 2025 se […] La entrada Un supersólido de polaritones en un cristal

luajit @ 2026-01-09 17:34:15

Note: this is not a vulnerability! minilua is only used during the LuaJIT build process. It only runs controlled and static Lua code (DynASM), which is entirely contained within this repo and does not trigger the undefined behavior. This change is solely

luajit @ 2026-01-09 17:26:13

Thanks to Michael Fisher. #1423

luajit @ 2026-01-09 17:18:03

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-09 16:45:54

A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, researchers have found a slew of new candidates in simpler versions of the problem. The post Using AI, Mathematicians Fi

old new thing @ 2026-01-09 16:00:00

Looking at child objects. The post Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-09 16:00:00

There's a case to be made that Earth's life arrived on meteorites from Mars. Here's the evidence for and against. The post What If We’re All Martians? The Intriguing Idea That Life on Earth Began on the Red Planet appeared first on SingularityH

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-09 15:47:26

Ben Cohen, writing last week for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): One rainy day 40 years ago, Moylan was headed to a meeting across Ford’s campus and hopped in a company car. When he saw the fuel tank was nearly empty, he stopped at a gas pump. Wh

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-09 14:01:39

Suppose you have a set of k hash values, each n bits long. Can you compress the set into less than kn bits? It’s not possible to compress a list of hashes into less than kn bits, but you can hash a set into fewer bits. Suppose you have a set of 230,

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-09 13:21:30

La única manera de evitar una coronación fracasa, pero ahí empieza la maravillosa solución de Ryabinin

AEON @ 2026-01-09 12:00:00

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death - by Irus Braverman Read on Aeon

Computational Complexity @ 2026-01-09 11:24:00

I'm posting from Oxford University where I will be spending the "Hilary Term" (through late March) as a visiting fellow at Magdalen College. If you are relatively local, reach out if you'd like to connect. I plan to get back into research after thirteen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-09 05:14:38

Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Threading the needle between adding new bells and whistles to Apple’s products while watching the bottom line has defined the careful, low-profile style of Mr. Ternus, who join

Baeldung @ 2026-01-09 04:23:43

Learn how to set the JVM options for the command-line Kafka tools. The post Setting the JVM Options for Kafka Tools first appeared on Baeldung .              

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-01-09 04:00:00

Ich mag die Musik von Reinhard Mey. Er ist ein sehr scharfer Beobachter seiner Umgebung. Aber ich habe meine Probleme mit seinem Lied „Meine Söhne bekommt ihr nicht“. Kein Ziel und keine Ehre, keine Pflicht, sind’s wert dafür zu töten und zu sterbe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-09 02:11:33

The ACLU: Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is a constitutional right — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties. However, there is a widespread, continuing patt

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-09 02:10:33

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately 24 months. Apple Card users can continue to enjoy the award-winning experience of Apple Card, which in

iOS Weekly @ 2026-01-09 01:00:00

Alternate browser engines come to the Japanese App Store, but what will it take to see this in use? 🤔

Inside Java @ 2026-01-09 01:00:00

As a new year begins, turn your focus to boosting your Java application performance by applying Leyden-related features added in recent JDK releases. This article guides you on how to use Ahead-of-Time cache optimizations in your application, thereby minim

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-09 01:00:00

Red Hat Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA to Pair Enterprise Open Source with Rack-Scale AI for Faster, Production-Ready InnovationRed Hat and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration to launch Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA, a specialized platform de

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-09 00:02:35

Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired ( News+ link , in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-08 23:20:47

Maybe “next year” meant “next next year”? (They’re still accepting $100 deposits for pre-orders .)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-08 21:01:13

Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.

InfoQ @ 2026-01-08 19:00:00

Introducing TanStack AI: a revolutionary, framework-agnostic toolkit empowering developers with unparalleled control over their AI stack. This open-source release features a unified interface across multiple providers and ensures type safety with innovat

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-08 18:24:15

El argentino, de 12 años, pierde esta partida, pero lo hace tras exhibir un impresionante arsenal de recursos creativos

tecosystems @ 2026-01-08 16:04:30

Many years ago, a large European bank spoke to analysts after its first transition from purely physical hardware into virtual machines. While expressing overall satisfaction with the move, its enthusiasm was clearly tempered. When pressed on the hesitant e

Sogrady @ 2026-01-08 16:04:30

Many years ago, a large European bank spoke to analysts after its first transition from purely physical hardware into virtual machines. While expressing overall satisfaction with the move, its enthusiasm was clearly tempered. When pressed on the hesitant e

old new thing @ 2026-01-08 16:00:00

It's old and rather simple, but we like simple. The post Using Active Accessibility to find out where the Windows caret is appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-01-08 16:00:00

The treatment converted the liver into an immune cell "nursery" that pumped out greater numbers of healthy T cells. The post Aging Weakens Immunity. An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-08 15:32:02

Quantum 10, 1961 (2026). Self-testing identifies quantum states and correlations that exhibit nonlocality, distinguishing them, up to local transformations, from other quantum states. Due to their strong nonloc

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-08 14:55:00

My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a unique male vocalist. more…

Martin Fowler @ 2026-01-08 14:29:00

Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice . Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in using it for implementing new features Developers using it for 59% of thei

AEON @ 2026-01-08 12:01:00

A dazzling visualisation of how the body’s specialised proteins repair damaged DNA by using an intact copy as a template - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-01-08 12:00:00

How the persecuted Vietnamese philosopher became one of the first theorists of the divide between colonised and coloniser - by Rory O’Sullivan Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-08 09:06:36

Quantum 10, 1960 (2026). We introduce a new framework for quantifying the complexity of quantum channels, grounded in a suitably chosen resource set. This class of convex functions is designed to analyze the co

The observation deck @ 2026-01-08 01:00:00

Recently, the New Stack had a piece excerpting some of my conversation with Gergely Orosz . In introducing me in the piece, Joab Jackson writes "Cantrill has had a knack at being at the right place at the right time." While this is objectivel

Inside Java @ 2026-01-08 01:00:00

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-08 01:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administrators and developers have long relied on a specific set of tools to diagnose issues, combined with years of accumulated intuition and experience. But as environments grow more complex, the cognitive load requ

Red Hat blog @ 2026-01-08 01:00:00

In the previous articles, we discussed how integrating AI into business-critical systems opens up enterprises to a new set of risks with AI security and AI safety [link], and explored the evolving AI security and safety threat landscape, drawing from leadi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-01-08 00:41:39

This 2021 post from Jason Fried is a good chaser to his “ The Big Regression ” this week (which I linked to yesterday ): Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possi

Baeldung @ 2026-01-07 21:58:32

Another quick one as we're getting 2026 started. Some very useful insights into architecture. The post Java Weekly, Issue 628 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-01-07 21:39:35

Como si fuera un veterano, el adolescente presiona, maniobra y termina doblegando nada menos que al excampeón del mundo relámpago Leinier Domínguez

Quantum Journal @ 2026-01-07 19:40:31

Quantum 10, 1959 (2026). There has been a recent surge of interest within the field of quantum foundations regarding incorporating ideas from general relativity and quantum gravity. However, many quantum inform

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-01-07 16:23:04

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world. The post Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge

old new thing @ 2026-01-07 16:00:00

You'll have go to a larger scope. The post How can I find out where the Windows caret is? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

ASF @ 2026-01-07 15:00:00

Apache HertzBeat™, Apache Teaclave™, and Apache Training™ join growing roster of ASF Top-Level Projects Wilmington, DE –  January 7, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today annou

The Endeavour @ 2026-01-07 14:58:01

Here’s something I’ve wondered about before: are there good mnemonics for chemical element symbols? Some element symbols are based on Latin or German names and seem arbitrary to English speakers, such as K (kalium) for potassium or Fe (ferrum)

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

For a tar player, each strum offers a connection with Iranian classical music, some of which was lost after the revolution - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-01-07 08:06:55

Download curl from curl.se! Release presentation Numbers the 272nd release5 changes63 days (total: 10,155)391 bugfixes (total: 13,376)758 commits (total: 37,486)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)0 new cur

This Week in Rust @ 2026-01-07 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