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Climate 'Feedback Loops' Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world's forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global hea

Friday Five — September 11, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container ManagementRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinforces OpenShift’s abil

Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 01:00:00

Apple's new Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 are drawing privacy concerns because they can process nearby conversations without explicit consent from everyone involved. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a c

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 00:00:00

Anthropic says it has disrupted several cases this year in which scientists used Claude for biological research that could potentially aid bioweapons development. "In a report describing misuses of its A.I. models, Anthropic said it could not determine whe

Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-10 23:18:30

Startup Isar Aerospace delivered a payload of satellites to orbit on its second try. Rivals in Germany and Spain are hot on its heels. The post Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit appeared first on SingularityHub .

Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 23:00:00

Android is rolling out a system-level way to securely transfer passwords and passkeys between credential managers, eliminating the need to export passwords as unencrypted text files or manually recreate passkeys. The feature initially supports Google Passw

Apple’s OS 27 Updates Will Be Released on Monday, 14 September

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 22:15:52

9to5 Mac has the iOS 27 release notes too. I haven’t spent much time using Golden Gate, but I’ve been using iOS 27 full-time ever since WWDC. It’s in excellent shape for a .0 release. Now I need to think about how long I want to still hang onto MacOS

ABC Show Won't Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Commu

Building an Agentic SOC on a Stream

Confluent @ 2026-09-10 21:19:05

Discover how our security team built an automated multi-agent investigation pipeline that scaled alert triage throughput using a continuous streaming architecture.

What’s New in Jackson 3?

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 21:10:48

Learn what's new in Jackson 3, how it differs from Jackson 2, and what you need to do in order to migrate from Jackson 2.x to the new version. The post What’s New in Jackson 3? first appeared on Baeldung .         

OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street Junior Bankers

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 21:02:00

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a Wall Street-focused version of ChatGPT Work developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore that can research companies, analyze financial data, and build presentations using the company's latest and most ad

HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 20:50:56

Learn how HttpClient API supports HTTP/3 now, and how to set your apps to use HTTP/3. The post HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

IMDb Adds 'Digital Creator' Profiles For the First Time

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 20:00:00

IMDb is introducing "Digital Creator" as a new professional category on IMDb and IMDbPro, giving streamers, vloggers, influencers, video essayists, and other online creators a "dedicated way to represent [their] work and connect with audiences, industry pe

OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 19:49:00

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. By Daniel Dominguez

Joanna Stern on the iPhone Duo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 19:29:30

One thing I learned from this video is that I’m way, way too careful when playing with the hands-on area demo units. I handle them like museum pieces; Stern treats them like hot dog buns.  ★ 

Automattic's Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 19:00:00

Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee depa

I have a theory that software drives people insane

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 18:13:42

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Introducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the background

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-10 18:01:44

Give an agent a task actually worth delegating and you’ll be waiting a while. Ask it what needs your attention this morning and it has to read your mail, your messages, and your task list before it can answer. Then it stops halfway, because one step needs

Neki – Sharded Postgres

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 17:43:49

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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 17:29:47

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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 17:29:30

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Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 17:27:22

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The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during itsSeptember hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster S11 chip, new health and f

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-10 16:27:36

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof f

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 16:09:31

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Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 15:39:53

I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now. Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 15:39:16

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Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 15:07:14

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Bayesian OCR

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-10 14:32:31

The Greek letter β (beta) and the German letter ß (eszett) look similar, especially in some fonts. Now suppose an OCR program sees some character that could be a beta or could be an eszett. It could calculate some kind of distance between between the pixe

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 14:18:06

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Europe May Finally Have Found a Space Entrepreneur Who Is Meeting the Moment

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 13:00:00

French entrepreneur Helene Huby is emerging as one of Europe's most ambitious space leaders, with The Exploration Company raising a record $450 million Series C as it develops the Nyx cargo capsule, a crewed spacecraft, and a reusable heavy-lift rocket. Hu

Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 12:29:00

Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the

The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 12:13:59

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The Chinese room

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:01:00

Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Medieval mental health

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:00:00

Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon

Sparse quantum state preparation with improved Toffoli cost

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:50:51

Quantum 10, 2208 (2026). The preparation of quantum states is one of the most fundamental tasks in quantum computing, and a key primitive in many quantum algorithms. Of particular interest to areas such as quan

Streaming Belief Propagation on Mixed-Alphabet Tanner Graphs for Practical Quantum Memory

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:37:47

Quantum 10, 2207 (2026). Reliable quantum memory under circuit-level noise requires decoders that can process syndrome information continuously and at a rate comparable to its generation. In practical quantum e

Solving the Nonlinear Vlasov Equation on a Quantum Computer

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:28:17

Quantum 10, 2206 (2026). The practical applicability of a recent Carleman-linearization-based quantum algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with quadratic nonlinearities is investigated f

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 11:04:14

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Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 09:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers found

IETF Publishes RFC 10008, Adding the QUERY Method for Safe Requests With a Body

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 08:27:00

In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, introducing the QUERY method to HTTP, the first new standard HTTP verb since 2010. QUERY enables developers to send richer query filters in the request body while maintaining cacheable, safe, and idempotent sem

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 08:11:05

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CPython Officially Adds RISC-V Support As a Tier 3 Platform

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 07:05:00

The Python core development team has officially recognized RISC-V as a Tier 3 platform in CPython, following extensive community collaboration on its implementation. Ongoing efforts aim to enhance integration into the continuous testing pipeline and move

OpenAI might have stolen another major proof

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 06:19:48

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All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 06:04:38

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Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amid industry soul-searching about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated b

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 03:58:00

I've always wanted to make a visualization where the speed of light was scaled down to human speeds, so that we could intuit relativistic effects with everyday objects. Here is the first version of it! Comments URL:

Episode 69 “Declassifying Java 27” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Java 27 is set to be released on September 15th, let's review what's coming!

Insights-client updates standardize RHEL package management

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems connected to Red Hat Lightspeed, you're likely familiar with insights-client, the tool responsible for reading system information and reporting it to Red Hat Lightspeed's hosted services.Starting with R

Closing the loop: From network policy intent to verified reality

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Part 3 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern.Kubernetes NetworkPolicies are one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—security primitives available to platform engineers. Th

Build a compliance assistant with AutoRAG and Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you run AI platforms for a bank, an insurer, or anyone else living under a stack of regulations, you already know the use case everyone asks for first: let our compliance and risk teams ask questions against our own policy documents and get an answer th

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 01:49:29

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Get ready for iPhone Duo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:05:23

Start getting ready for iPhone Duo today. Watch new videos, sign up for Group Labs, and take part in Q&As on the Apple Developer Forums. Explore now

App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:00:38

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence,

Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 01:00:00

Google plans to invest at least $15 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland through 2028, its largest single investment in Europe. The company also signed a 22-year power agreement with Finnish utility Fortum and said it will explore business models that c

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-10 00:22:53

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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-10 00:01:47

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

Apple's New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn't AI

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 00:00:00

Apple is introducing a new "Reference Image" mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that uses the camera sensor to digitally sign captured data and create an "unalterable" version of a photo, giving users a way to verify what the camera actually saw before

Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI 'Could Kill All Humans'

slashdot @ 2026-09-09 23:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the BBC: A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade. Evan Hubinger sa

A Modest Proposal

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-09 20:26:16

The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’l

iPhone Duo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-09 20:17:06

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Meta's Recipe for Building Agents as "Organizational Second Brains"

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 20:00:00

Meta describes how an AI agent can be designed to capture the logic and expertise of domain experts, rather than simply storing documents or retrieving relevant information. The system, dubbed an "organizational second brain", was built for a specialized

Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-09 18:21:00

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

Navier-Stokes and Lean

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-09 17:32:18

I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book  The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI . And then yesterday OpenAI announced a solution to Navier-Stokes, one of the Millennium problems.

A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:59:48

The idea of using computers to assist with proofs is not new. The first major computer-assisted proof was published in 1976, the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The authors reduced the proof of the four color theorem t

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-09 16:44:13

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? f

AI is an intelligence multiplier

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:17:20

A rising tide may lift all boats, but the AI tide lifts some boats much more than others. By all accounts, the best programmers have had the biggest productivity boost from AI. And top tier mathematicians are using AI to settle long-standing mathematical

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

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

It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 14:43:36

Yesterday OpenAI announced a proof that settled a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations from fluid dynamics. The announcement has created a lot of buzz, as one would expect. But there’s an aspect of OpenAI’s work that I have

Podcast CB SyR 569: Telescopio espacial Roman, neurolingüística, materia oscura en LZ y neutrinos en XENONnT, y principio de equivalencia en cuántica

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-09 13:56:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 569 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Roman Telescope; Neurología; Materia Oscura; Principio de Equivalencia en Cuántica”, 03 sep 2026. […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 569: Te

Making revisions

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

Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Reaches GA with Licensing Details Unpublished

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 10:54:00

Microsoft has made Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid generally available. Session hosts run on customer hardware through Azure Arc while brokering stays in Azure. The Hybrid service license is unpriced, Windows Server support requires RDS CALs with Software A

Breaking the Orthogonality Barrier in Quantum LDPC Codes

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-09 10:00:06

Quantum 10, 2205 (2026). Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known

vim.async's Addition Modernizes Neovim’s Async Architecture for Better Stability

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 08:06:00

Neovim has introduced a structured concurrency library in its Lua standard library via the vim.async namespace. This framework provides a standardized method for managing async workflows, addressing issues related to task management and error propagation

This Week in Rust 668

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-09 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

★ The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 02:55:53

One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.

Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community mem

The Lightwell reality check

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

We’ve been talking with business leaders about Lightwell for the past few months, and the conversation always starts with enthusiasm. AI-driven exploits are moving at unprecedented speeds, and enterprise security teams are feeling a level of urgency we hav

Red Hat sponsors the OpenClaw Foundation to advance an open future for production AI agents

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

In July, the OpenClaw Foundation was announced with Red Hat joining as a sponsor to bring open, more secure infrastructure to autonomous AI agents. OpenClaw has quickly become a premier open source autonomous agent framework, and Red Hat’s involvement aims

Red Hat AI 3.5: Scaling and governing AI agents in production

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

Enterprise teams have moved past early experimentation. Pilots succeed, prototypes impress, and individual teams deliver initial results. The challenge every platform engineering and ITOps team hits next is much harder: operating AI with the same operation

Rafay and Red Hat publish joint reference architecture for sovereign AI cloud as a service

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

Red Hat has published Sovereign AI Cloud as a Service, a joint reference architecture built with Rafay for telecommunications providers, sovereign cloud operators, and NeoClouds that want to turn distributed GPU infrastructure into a governed, self-service

Accelerating post-quantum security migration with Red Hat Certificate System

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

The realities of quantum computing and its inevitable impact on enterprise cryptography are already taking shape:Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been post-quantum cryptographically (PQC)-capable since the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) in 2025.H

‘Modern Day Typographer’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 00:57:00

There are good Elle Cordova videos, and there are great ones. ( Last mentioned here for her “ Fonts Hanging Out ” trilogy.)  ★ 

Build full-stack AWS applications in minutes with AI-powered scaffolding

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-08 23:24:59

AI assistants can stand up an app or website that runs on AWS in minutes. Getting to a production-ready version you would put in front of real customers is still the hard part. Security, observability, type-safety, and resilience are non-negotiable for pro

Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life?

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-08 19:33:08

Elderly mice on the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide aged slower and lived longer, mimicking the longevity effects of caloric restriction. The post Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life? appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro brilla en Madrid

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-08 19:23:57

Aún con 12 años, el argentino es el mejor del mundo de su edad y sigue firmando hermosas victorias

Navier-Stokes in the news

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-08 17:26:08

There are rumors that a long-standing math problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, has been solved. The problem concerns technical properties of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations [1], a set of equations that describe the dynamics of fluid fl

Fragments: September 8

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 17:22:00

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not

★ SuperDuper 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 16:55:20

SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

Deepmind @ 2026-09-08 16:00:15

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

HashiCorp Packer 1.16 Adds Native SLSA Provenance Generation and Verification for Machine Images

InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00

HashiCorp has released Packer v1.16.0, adding native support for generating, signing, and verifying SLSA provenance attestations for every image the tool builds. The release provides teams with a secure, tamper-proof record of how a machine image was mad

A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95

old new thing @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00

For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the <CODE>winstart.bat</CODE> file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Do you even need a presentation?

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 15:42:00

Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more

GitLab Warns That AI Agent Sandboxes Are Only as Secure as Their Network Access

InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 14:00:00

GitLab warns that isolating an AI coding agent in a sandbox does not necessarily make the agent safe. In a new security analysis, the company describes an internal evaluation in which an AI agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a vulnerable package pro

Our eloquent hands

AEON @ 2026-09-08 12:00:00

Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done - by Alison Bashford Read on Aeon

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-08 10:43:52

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Prob

Does ICANN Open the Door on Identity Theft by Dropping 3rd Level .name Domains Registrations?

InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 10:08:00

Neil Fraser's disclosure highlights a regulatory change affecting the .name top-level domain. Following ICANN's approval, Verisign will eliminate third-level registrations due to declining usage. This affects about 22,000 registrants and raises security

The Situation at Columbia XXXVII

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-08 03:46:35

Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this

The context wall: What happens when your AI agent hits the GPU memory ceiling

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-08 02:00:00

Every model has a physical limit to how much it can hold in active memory at once. When production workloads hit that limit, they hit the context wall, and the failure is silent.An AI model's context window is the amount of text it can hold and reason over

[Sponsor] Glyphs 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:16:26

Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge glyph sets, explore variable vector designs with complex higher-order interpolation. Build and man

Trackables 1.5

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:01:27

Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:09:27

The Onion: The Onion: How did you get into the entertainment industry? Ellison: I remember going to the movies as a kid, and when the houselights went down and that hush fell over the crowd, I’d think to myself: I’d like to build a massive propaga

McKinley 1.0

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:00:00

Crackerjack new Mac app for creating and editing custom SF Symbols , from developer Amy Worrall: McKinley is an all-in-one studio for drawing and annotating SF Symbols. It bundles vector tools with knowledge of the SF Symbols structure, so you can ed

Matt Birchler’s Folding iPhone Predictions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 21:59:36

Matt Birchler: So, yeah, I do think that, especially this year, unit sales will far lag behind the 18 Pro models, the normal iPhone 18, and probably the Air 2 and 18e. I think they will lag next year as well for similar reasons. I don’t know if this w

Ngram error rate

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-07 20:35:45

The Online Etymological Dictionary gives the following etymology for grok: grok (v.) “understand empathically,” 1961, an arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book “Stranger in a Strange

★ And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 18:31:55

What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-07 16:48:42

As an antidote to the overwhelmingly depressing news of the world, I highly recommend reading the new article in the New York Times about this mathematical result. There have been some articles about this earlier in places like Scientific American …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-07 16:24:08

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-

Netflix Moves toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30,000+ Streaming Jobs

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 16:06:00

Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler for more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level approach addresses limitations of Netflix’s cluster level autoscaler for complex, stateful pipelines. Net

Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous?

old new thing @ 2026-09-07 16:00:00

Imagining how to report a memory allocation failure for a sparse page. The post Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin 2.4.20 Released

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

Kotlin 2.4.20 Released

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 12:09:00

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone

The planet is… up to something

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:01:00

An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Continental divide

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:00:00

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Un formato divertido

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-07 11:22:23

Partidas rápidas con sistemas de puntuación que estimulan la combatividad generan partidas tan trepidantes como esta

CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian for its Accelerator Controls Infrastructure

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

CERN engineers announced a shift from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian for its accelerator control systems. This decision stems from Red Hat's tightening compiler mandates, which threatened legacy hardware. The transition, focused on 2,200 specializ

vlt 1.0 Ships as a Drop-in npm Replacement with Phased Installs, Graph Queries, and Malware-Blocking

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 08:31:00

vlt, created by the original npm team, has launched version 1.0 as a drop-in replacement for npm. It features phased installations to prevent automatic script execution, a queryable dependency graph with over 60 selectors, and hosted registries that bloc

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 6, JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Yupiik Fusion

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 31st, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 6.0; point releases of JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Kotlin Toolchain and Yupiik Fusion; and maintenance releases of Micronaut

EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, o

EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Pr

Rust debugging survey 2026 results

Rust blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey , in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what pro

MCP Logging in Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-09-07 01:19:21

Learn about MCP logging in Spring AI, both in an MCP server and a client. The post MCP Logging in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments In reply to Hayrullah. Hey,

Meta AI Has a Native Mac App Now, and It Seems Decent

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 22:44:27

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit an

WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:06:27

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay kee

Matt Haughey: ‘The Car Industry A/B Tested Selling a Car With and Without CarPlay and the Results Are Not Shocking’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:04:12

Matt Haughey: One case in point is the Honda Prologue EV. It’s a partnership between Honda and Chevrolet, where the Prologue is basically a Chevy Blazer EV with Honda badges, slight visual differences in the sheetmetal and interior, but all the underp

Trump Administration Launches Rip-Off Video Games at Arcade.gov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:51:09

A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and, most notably , Tetris (the one where you “build a wall” to keep border-crossing migrants out) — the copyright to which i

Gurman on Schiller’s Departure and Ternus’s Goals for the App Store

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:00:01

Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable. Unlike Maestri, he still had a real job: The veteran executive ran the App Store and Apple Events. The App Store portion alone is no joke. I

Dickover of the Week: Slashdot Put One in Their RSS Feed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:30:00

How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into an RSS feed via iframes in the entry bodies?  ★ 

Litterbox: Safari Extension for Viewing X Tweets

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:19:31

In the wake of Nitter/XCancel’s demise , here’s a delightful new Safari extension from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur fame): But sometimes people still post X content. Maybe you want to see Gruber roast Google Design . Maybe you want to see posts by

Análisis de ajedrez | Sindárov sigue muy consistente

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-06 17:03:06

A diez semanas del duelo por el título mundial contra el desdibujado Gukesh, el uzbeko es el 4º del escalafón a los 20 años

The E6 Root Polytope

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

The E6 Root Polytope

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

Java Weekly, Issue 662

Baeldung @ 2026-09-06 11:25:19

The three Loom pillars and, more importantly, the tooling. Plus IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 getting close. The post Java Weekly, Issue 662 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 21:42:43

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simp

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 5)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-05 20:27:05

Computing Why Everyone in Quantum Computing Is Buzzing About Google’s Move Into ‘Neutral Atoms’Adam Bluestein | Fast Company “Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived.... The post This Week’s Awesome

Proof of the rank-trace theorem

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-05 19:04:13

The previous post discussed the motivation for and application of the rank-trace theorem. This post will give a proof. Suppose A is a real symmetric matrix. The rank-trace inequality says where tr is the trace operator, the sum of the elements along the d

‘Bob and Van’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 18:08:24

Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass

Análisis de ajedrez | El genio chico gana al mayor

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-05 10:47:31

Esta trepidante pelea podría haber sido mucho mejor, pero los 57 años de Ivanchuk cobraron su factura ante los 15 de Erdogmus

Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Replacing Shantanu Narayen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 02:05:47

Annie Palmer, CNBC: Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year. Chakravarthy, who most recently served as president of Adobe’s customer exper

The revolt of the reader

The observation deck @ 2026-09-05 02:00:00

Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not onl

NBA Brings the Hammer on the Clippers — $30 Million Fine, 5 First-Round Draft Picks, and Steve Ballmer Is Banned for a Year

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 01:23:34

Mike Vorkunov, reporting for The Athletic (gift link): The NBA levied the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday after a year-long investigation determined that they circumvented the league’s sal

Análisis de ajedrez | Un Ave Fénix que galopa

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-04 22:32:18

Un final artístico del israelí Michael Pasman que aúna belleza, utilidad práctica y gran valor didáctico

Apple Fixed ‎TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 22:04:47

I wrote two weeks ago about how the v4.3.0 update to TestFlight (released on July 21) broke the sort order for apps in the sidebar. Apple yesterday released v4.3.1, with these helpful release notes: This update includes stability improvements and bu

Vinted

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 21:55:45

Remarking on MapQuest taking the #1 spot in the App Store (in the wake of their decision to ignore President Trump’s fiat renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America”), I mentioned yesterday that I’d never heard of Vinted, the #3 app. (A day later and Map

Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-04 21:08:33

A new system allows agents to orchestrate complex experimental processes and extends Anthropic's reach into the physical world. The post Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment appeared first on SingularityH

★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 20:07:18

It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.

What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-09-04 18:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 18:15:43

Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 mill

Richard Stearns (1936-2026)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-04 16:45:10

Richard Stearns (right) and Juris Hartmanis in May 1963. The main theorem from their seminal paper is on the blackboard. Stearns sent Lance this picture to help  celebrate the 50th anniversary of the paper . Richard Stearns died on Aug

Computing a lower bound on matrix rank

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-04 16:16:16

Suppose you want to know the rank of an n × n matrix A, the number of linearly independent rows of A, or equivalently the number of linearly independent columns. There are at least three difficulties. Difficulties in computing rank First of all, rank is n

What happens if you change a window class’s GCL_CB­WND­EXTRA?

old new thing @ 2026-09-04 16:00:00

You're changing the value for future windows. The post What happens if you change a window class’s <CODE>GCL_<WBR>CB­WND­EXTRA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Upend the trickle-down

AEON @ 2026-09-04 12:00:00

Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon