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NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 18:00:00

Axios reports that the NSA is using Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model despite the Pentagon insisting the company poses a "supply chain risk." Axios reports: The government's cybersecurity needs appear to be outweighing the Pentagon's feud with An

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-20 17:53:21

Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager,

Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-20 17:02:08

Open source infrastructure depends on more than new features. It also depends on the steady, often unseen work of identifying risks, improving processes, and making systems easier to maintain over time. That is exactly what the Beach Cleaning Project set

Robots Beat Human Records At Beijing Half-Marathon

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds -- significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Ja

Designing Memory for AI Agents: Inside Linkedin’s Cognitive Memory Agent

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 16:59:00

LinkedIn introduces Cognitive Memory Agent (CMA), generative AI infrastructure layer enabling stateful, context-aware systems. It provides persistent memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural layers, supporting multi-agent coordination, retrieval

Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n

Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n

More on Newton’s diameter theorem

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-20 15:50:33

A few days ago I wrote a post on Newton’s diameter theorem. The theorem says to plot the curve formed by the solutions to f(x, y) = 0 where f is a polynomial in x and y of degree n. Next plot several parallel lines that cross the curve at n points a

Pretext.js Bypasses DOM Layout Reflow, Enabling Advanced UX Patterns at 120 FPS

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:59:00

Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like infinite lists, masonry layouts, and scroll position

Subagents in Gemini CLI Enable Task Delegation and Parallel Agent Workflows

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:26:00

Google has introduced subagents in Gemini CLI, a new capability designed to help developers delegate complex or repetitive tasks to specialized AI agents operating alongside a primary session. By Robert Krzaczyński

Videos Catch Amazon Delivery Drones Dropping Packages From 10 Feet in the Air

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 13:34:00

There's been a few complaints about Amazon's drone delivery service. "The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air," reports the New York Post, "rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing." One examp

The engineering method

AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:01:00

How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Google ADK for Java 1.0 Introduces New App and Plugin Architecture, External Tools Support, and More

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00

Google's Agent Development Kit for Java reached 1.0, introducing integrations with new external tools, a new app and plugin architecture, advanced context engineering, human-in-the-loop workflows, and more. By Sergio De Simone

Fuel for thought

AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00

A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations - by Hannah Critchlow Read on Aeon

Quantum recurrences and the arithmetic of Floquet dynamics

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-20 10:38:15

Quantum 10, 2074 (2026). The Poincaré recurrence theorem shows that conservative systems in a bounded region of phase space eventually return arbitrarily close to their initial state after a finite amount of ti

Caer con estilo

brucknerite @ 2026-04-20 10:00:00

La degradación gradual o controlada es una técnica de diseño empleada frecuentemente en ingeniería cuando se desea proteger la función principal del sistema a expensas de otras, consideradas secundarias. Pero ¿se usa en todos los casos en los que se deberí

Zoom Partners With Sam Altman's Iris-Scanning Company To Offer Callers Verifications of Humanness

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 09:34:00

Zoom "has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), " reports Digital Trends, "to add real-time human verification inside meetings." Zoom is now inviting organizations to join the beta version of th

Fly swatter

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-20 08:45:00

New approach to block potentially malicious requests with less collateral damage

Brave Browser Introduces 'Origin', a Pay-Once 'Minimalist' Browser

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 06:34:00

The Brave browser "has introduced Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its browser that removes built-in monetization features like Rewards and other extras tied to its business model," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli" The stripped-down browser is

Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster - But Loses Satellite

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 04:50:00

SpaceNews reports: Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable "off-nominal" orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its fligh

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE 12, Spring Framework, Micrometer, Camel, JBang

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for April 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs; point releases of Apache Grails, Apache Camel and JBang; maintenances of Spring Framework that include resolutions to CVEs; first release candidates of Spring Da

The power shift: Why the future of the electric grid will be software-defined

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Continue the grid modernization conversation at Red Hat Summit OT automation, industrial safety, predictive MLOps and more… The electric grid is no longer just a feat of physics and copper; it’s becoming a sophisticated data engine. For decades, substation

Proving open source is ready for the industrial edge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

For years, the industrial sector has operated under the assumption that the core of a factory, the real-time control system, must remain a locked, proprietary environment. We've often accepted these restricted systems as a requirement for the deterministic

Integrating Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike for enhanced malware detection coverage

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Today’s cybersecurity teams need proactive defense mechanisms to meet modern threats as the threat landscape continues to evolve and change. We're excited to announce a significant advancement for our customers: the integration of Red Hat Lightspeed with C

From RAG to agentic AI: When models stop answering and start acting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.

Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 01:49:00

After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR: The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no r

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 23:57:00

Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of parti

Is the Iran War Driving a Surge of Interest in Electric Cars?

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 21:34:00

In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% hig

Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 20:51:43

Marc Malkin, Variety: Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her political thriller series “The Savant.” [...] “Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain to

Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 20:34:00

NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later

WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 19:37:01

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines it

Motorola Sues Social Media Platforms and Creators in India

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 19:34:00

"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..." The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTub

Análisis de ajedrez | Antón cae del podio del Europeo cuando aspiraba al oro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-19 18:55:19

Tras un torneo magnífico, que incluye esta victoria muy brillante, el español perdió en la última ronda

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 18:34:00

"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data

HP Will Discontinue 'HP Anyware' Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 17:34:00

kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. "Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continu

Disney Creates Its Own IMAX for 'Avengers: Doomsday' After Losing Screens to 'Dune: Part 3'

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 16:34:00

Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Thoug

Can the 'Attention Liberation Movement' Foment a Rebellion Against Screens?

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 13:34:00

The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life." D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at

Google’s Aletheia Advances the State of the Art of Fully Autonomous Agentic Math Research

InfoQ @ 2026-04-19 06:38:00

Google announced Aletheia, an AI using Gemini 3 Deep Think that solved 6/10 novel math problems in the FirstProof challenge. Aletheia also scored ~91.9% on IMO-ProofBench, signaling a significant shift in automated research-level proof discovery without

How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code

Inside Java @ 2026-04-19 02:00:00

This video explores generics, JVM internals, and the road to Valhalla generics...

Podcast CB SyR 554: Inocentadas de 1 de abril, marcas auriñacienses, señales SETI y transporte de antimateria

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-18 21:05:05

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 554 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Papers de Broma; Signos; Memristores; SETI; Antimateria”, 16 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 554

★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 19:52:56

Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.

Marc Barceló gana el Mundial Rápido sub-10

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-18 19:19:25

El español, aún con 9 años, sigue engrosando su lista de grandes éxitos con la resiliencia como principal virtud

Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 18:48:37

Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with 32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” on

Gaussian distributed weights for LLMs

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 16:49:27

The previous post looked at the FP4 4-bit floating point format. This post will look at another 4-bit floating point format, NF4, and higher precision analogs. NF4 and FP4 are common bitsandbytes 4-bit data types. If you download LLM weights from Hugging

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 18)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 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 April 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 13:31:00

AWS has announced the general availability of DevOps Agent, a generative AI–powered assistant designed to help developers and operators troubleshoot issues, analyze deployments, and automate operational tasks across AWS environments. By Renato Losio

Pulumi Adds Full Bun Runtime Support

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 10:00:00

Pulumi has announced that Bun is now a fully supported runtime for Pulumi, going beyond its previous role as merely a package manager option. With the new release of Pulumi 3.227.0, developers can set runtime: bun in their Pulumi.yaml and have Bun execut

Effect v4 Beta: Rewritten Runtime, Smaller Bundles and Unified Package System

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 09:00:00

Effect v4 beta, a TypeScript framework for building applications, features a complete rewrite of its core fiber runtime, offering reduced memory usage and smaller bundle sizes. The new release consolidates ecosystem packages under a single version number

4-bit floating point FP4

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 03:08:54

In ancient times, floating point numbers were stored in 32 bits. Then somewhere along the way 64 bits became standard. The C programming language retains the ancient lore, using float to refer to a 32-bit floating point number and double to refer to a flo

Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:43:35

Apple Design: Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can be irritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion of your app. Consider allowing at least a week or two between requests, prompting again after people demonstrate add

Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:31:16

I wrote yesterday: And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current  — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized. On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded : Review prompts are the difference between a gre

Norwegian Man Cured of HIV by His Brother’s Stem Cells

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 00:44:39

Fewer than 10 people worldwide have eradicated the virus with stem cells. But this case was special—no one knew his brother's cells carried a protective mutation until transplant day. The post Norwegian Man Cured of HIV by His Brother’s Stem Cell

AsiaBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Saikeo

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-18 00:06:41

I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days at the National Taiwan Normal University from March 19–22, 202

Schroedingers Honeypot

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-17 21:03:00

How to use Fail2Ban to block potentially malicious requests and still reduce logging of PII

Au revoir: Day 5 of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-04-17 21:00:10

After 11 extraordinary years in Vancouver, TED’s time in our beloved British Columbia conference home is up. To celebrate the final day of TED2026, thinkers, doers and legends — mainstays of the TED community and newcomers alike — came together to cr

Análisis de ajedrez | El pundonor de Caruana

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-17 19:28:33

El estadounidense luchó hasta la última ronda, donde firmó esta partida modélica, a pesar de que ya estaba descartado varios días antes

Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-04-17 18:22:37

A couple weeks ago I gave at talk in Marseille on the general topic of Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors. I’ll make a few comments here on the content of the slides. The idea of the talk was to explain … Continue reading →

C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 17:00:00

The C++26 standard draft is now complete, reports Herb Sutter, long-time C++ expert and former chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. The finalized draft introduces reflection, enhances memory safety without requiring code rewrites, adds contracts wit

Meta Reports 4x Higher Bug Detection with Just-in-Time Testing

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 16:49:00

Meta introduces Just-in-Time (JiT) testing, a dynamic approach that generates tests during code review instead of relying on static test suites. The system improves bug detection by ~4x in AI-assisted development using LLMs, mutation testing, and intent-

Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-17 16:25:21

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things. The post Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundam

Forgotten message from the past: LB_INIT­STORAGE

old new thing @ 2026-04-17 16:00:00

Preallocating memory to avoid quadratic behavior. The post Forgotten message from the past: <CODE>LB_<WBR>INIT­STORAGE</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

CNCF Warns Kubernetes Alone Is Not Enough to Secure LLM Workloads

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 14:00:00

A new blog from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation highlights a critical gap in how organizations are deploying large language models (LLMs) on Kubernetes: while Kubernetes excels at orchestrating and isolating workloads, it does not inherently unders

Java Weekly, Issue 642

Baeldung @ 2026-04-17 12:45:25

Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 642 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 12:16:00

Anthropic has introduced a new Code Review feature for Claude Code, adding an agent-based pull request review system that analyzes code changes using multiple AI reviewers. By Daniel Dominguez

The invention of the soul

AEON @ 2026-04-17 12:00:00

Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something sacred - by Nicholas Humphrey Read on Aeon

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl across Enterprises

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 08:54:00

AWS released Agent Registry in preview as part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a centralized catalog for discovering, governing, and reusing AI agents, tools, and MCP servers across organizations. The registry indexes agents regardless of where th

Wonder in a complex world: Day 4 of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-04-17 03:30:29

What does it take to find hope when everything feels fractured? Day 4 of TED2026 leaned into the messy, meaningful work of creating a better world, one connection at a time. Hear from the speakers who rose to the top of the TED Idea Search and the thinkers

App Store Reviews Are Busted

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-17 03:00:26

Terry Godier: For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average . In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review . [...] You will see a lot of 4 star

Freecash Was More Like Scamcash

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-17 02:10:09

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch : If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve more than likely encountered ads for Freecash. The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in r

Issue 748

iOS Weekly @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

What’s your position on LLM-generated pull requests in open source projects? 🤖

Confidential Containers workshop on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Learn interactively

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are

The zero touch future: Enabling Telstra’s path to a fully autonomous, self-healing network

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommun

MCP security: Containerization and Red Hat OpenShift integration

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

In our previous 3 articles, we laid the groundwork for a protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem by analyzing the current threat landscape, implementing robust authentication and authorization, and exploring critical logging and runtime security m

Friday Five — April 17, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

InformationWeek - Red Hat CIO Marco Bill: Resource control is key for AI sovereigntyRed Hat CIO, Marco Bill, explains why a comprehensive inventory of data, infrastructure, and architecture is essential for maintaining security, ensuring regulatory compli

Colliding With Reality, Indeed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 22:39:05

Anton Troianovski, reporting for The New York Times under the headline “Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality”: President Trump is trying to cast his Iran war as all but over, a done-and-dusted success. But after years of trying

How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 22:09:07

The Associated Press Stylebook, on Threads: We updated our style for telephone numbers in 2024 to drop parentheses. We now recommend the form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (from the United States), the country code, the city code

Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 21:27:00

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The change began rolling out a few weeks ago, and user frustration is mounting. On Reddit, there’s a growing thread of Netflix subscribers saying they are canceling their subscription because of this change to the Apple TV ap

Apple Pay Express Mode for Transit, When Used With a Visa Card, Is Vulnerable to Scam Tap-to-Pay Readers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 20:43:44

Juli Clover, MacRumors: The process requires the victim to have Express Transit Mode enabled for payments, and a Visa card linked for those payments, among other steps. As it turns out, it’s a Visa-related security loophole rather than an iPhone issue

AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 20:08:00

AWS recently introduced S3 Files, which lets users mount an Amazon S3 bucket and access its data through a standard file system interface. Applications can read and write files using standard file operations, while the system automatically translates the

Industries Most Exposed to AI Are Not Only Seeing Productivity Gains but Jobs and Wage Growth Too

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-16 19:33:34

New technologies rarely leave work untouched. They also rarely eliminate the need for human contribution altogether. The post Industries Most Exposed to AI Are Not Only Seeing Productivity Gains but Jobs and Wage Growth Too appeared first on Singular

Bonus Thought Regarding the Name ‘iPhone Ultra’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 17:26:03

One more thought re: the item I posted this week speculating on what Apple will name their much-rumored two-screen folding iPhone this year. If they do name it “iPhone Ultra”, I think Apple using that name for the folding iPhone will imply that they h

Rory Goss’s Accessibility Story

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 17:00:49

Feature story and short film, well worth watching, from Apple: One winter day in January 2024, 16‑year‑old Rory Goss experienced something jarring while in construction class at Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School in Newry, Northern Ireland. He c

Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-16 16:49:33

AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic's most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock's next generation inference engine, pu

Introducing Koog Integration for Spring AI: Smarter Orchestration for Your Agents

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-16 16:01:57

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides Spring Boot starte

Introducing Koog Integration for Spring AI: Smarter Orchestration for Your Agents

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-16 16:01:57

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides Spring Boot starte

What’s up with window message 0x0091? We’re getting it with unexpected parameters

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

Trespassing on system messages. The post What’s up with window message <CODE>0x0091</CODE>? We’re getting it with unexpected parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Apache Kafka®, Flink SQL, and More

Confluent @ 2026-04-16 14:54:11

Confluent Platform 8.2, built on Apache Kafka 4.2, delivers GA Queues for Kafka and Flink SQL, plus updates to Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, Unified Stream Manager, CFK, and Ansible.

Machine Learning and Complexity

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-16 14:45:00

At Oxford I focused my research and discussions on how we can use the tools of computational complexity to help us understand the power and limitations of machine learning. Last week I posted my paper How Does Machine Learning Manage Complexity? , a firs

Newton diameters

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-16 14:02:13

Let f(x, y) be an nth degree polynomial in x and y. In general, a straight line will cross the zero set of f in n locations [1]. Newton defined a diameter to be any line that crosses the zero set of f exactly n times. If f(x, y) = x² + y² − 1 then the zer

Clifford-Deformed Compass Codes

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 12:10:52

Quantum 10, 2073 (2026). We can design efficient quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes by tailoring them to our choice of quantum architecture. Useful tools for constructing such codes include Clifford deformati

Evolution of Paris

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:01:00

The evolution of Paris across millennia – from Celtic fishing village to world capital – in three animated minutes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Join the dots

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:00:00

Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? - by Jenny Greene Read on Aeon

Quantum convolutional channels and multiparameter families of 2-unitary matrices

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 10:07:08

Quantum 10, 2072 (2026). Many alternative approaches to construct quantum channels with large entangling capacity were proposed in the past decade, resulting in multiple isolated gates. In this work, we put for

Diversity Methods for Improving Convergence and Accuracy of Quantum Error Correction Decoders Through Hardware Emulation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:51:50

Quantum 10, 2071 (2026). As quantum computing moves toward fault-tolerant architectures, quantum error correction (QEC) decoder performance is increasingly critical for scalability. Understanding the impact of

Quantum stick-slip motion in nanoscaled friction

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:37:53

Quantum 10, 2070 (2026). Friction in atomistic systems is usually described by the classical Prandtl-Tomlinson model suitable for capturing the dragging force of a nanoparticle in a periodic potential. Here we

Resolving PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:30:58

Learn about the PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class which is a common yet avoidable issue in Java regular expressions The post Resolving PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class first appeared on Baeldung .     &

Getting a Cron Expression From Database for a Spring Boot Scheduled Job

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:22:02

Explore two ways to get a scheduled job's cron value from a database in Spring Boot. The post Getting a Cron Expression From Database for a Spring Boot Scheduled Job first appeared on Baeldung .            

So Close to Getting It

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 03:00:35

David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sang ): Sofa 5 . A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to

Health, wealth and AI: Day 3 of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-04-16 03:00:07

Day 3 of TED2026 is a tour de force, exploring the history of sound on Earth, innovations in personal and public health and the cutting-edge technology shaping our future. The day’s sessions included talks curated by listening champion Julian Treasur

Sofa 5.0

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 02:36:05

Shawn Hickman: A show you started last month. A book on your nightstand. A game you keep meaning to get back to. Finding something new is easy. Remembering where you left off is the hard part. Sofa 5 helps you keep track of this stuff. Progress ring

ETH Rangers Program Recap

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

In late 2024, the Ethereum Foundation, together with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL), launched the ETH Rangers Program, an initiative to provide stipends for individuals doing public goods security work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The

Announcing Rust 1.95.0

Rust blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.95.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.95.0 with: $

Meet the latest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeConEU, we celebrated a few Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the Red Hat OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’

AI optimization: 7 powerful techniques you can use today!

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

That GPU you're running? You're most likely not using it to the fullest.

Episode 55 “You Must Avoid Final Field Mutation” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

With JDK 26 / JEP 500 starting to prevent final field mutation through reflection, it is important that Java projects stop employing that practice.

Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 21:54:17

Lisa Melton, who ran the team that created Safari, regarding her interactions with Steve Jobs: When Steve asked you a question? You didn’t ramble and, whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. If you didn’t know, you just said that you didn’t kn

AsiaBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Minsoo Choo  

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-15 21:17:28

I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the FreeBSD Developer Summit and the final two days to the main c

Análisis de ajedrez | Vaishali retará a Wenjun Ju

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-15 19:27:13

De las seis que aún podían ganar el torneo a falta de una ronda, la india no ha sido la más brillante, pero sí la más regular y mentalmente fuerte

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech

Deepmind @ 2026-04-15 18:03:19

Our newest audio model introduces granular audio tags that give you precise control to direct AI speech for expressive audio generation.

★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 17:40:02

The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad.

The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-15 16:47:25

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. The post The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Screen Zooming on iOS and iPadOS

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 16:34:44

Steven Troughton-Smith: If you want to pixel-peep on iOS or iPadOS, it also has the Zoom accessibility setting, and can be controlled via touch, keyboard, or trackpad. It works for display mirroring too, and has other options like a minimap and HUD (‘

Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the Wait­For­Single­Object returning?

old new thing @ 2026-04-15 16:00:00

Maybe it didn't really exit. The post Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the <CODE>Wait­For­Single­Object</CODE> returning? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Operational interpretation of the Stabilizer Entropy

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:38:41

Quantum 10, 2069 (2026). Magic-state resource theory is a fundamental framework with far-reaching applications in quantum error correction and the classical simulation of quantum systems. Recent advances have s

Sampling (noisy) quantum circuits through randomized rounding

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:17:23

Quantum 10, 2068 (2026). The present era of quantum processors with hundreds to thousands of noisy qubits has sparked interest in understanding the computational power of these devices and how to leverage it to

Impromptu

AEON @ 2026-04-15 12:01:00

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Spectral Gaps with Quantum Counting Queries and Oblivious State Preparation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 09:23:18

Quantum 10, 2067 (2026). Approximating the $k$-th spectral gap $\Delta_k=|\lambda_k-\lambda_{k+1}|$ and the corresponding midpoint $\mu_k=\frac{\lambda_k+\lambda_{k+1}}{2}$ of an $N\times N$ Hermitian

Non-Markovian thermal reservoirs for autonomous entanglement distribution

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 08:53:10

Quantum 10, 2066 (2026). We describe a novel scheme for the generation of stationary entanglement between two separated qubits that are driven by a purely thermal photon source. While in this scenario the qubit

This Week in Rust 647

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-15 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

Bold ideas, big stakes: Day 2 of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-04-15 03:00:23

What does the future actually look like — and who gets to build it? Day 2 of TED2026 didn’t shy away from the big questions. From the promise and peril of AI to the potential of solar-powered, offline educational tools, these sessions brought togethe

AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-15 01:54:47

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Int

Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 00:06:18

Molly White, at Web3 Is Going Just Great: After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a genuine L

Malala Yousafzai on what she’s learned about changing the world

TED Blog @ 2026-04-15 00:00:53

Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despa

On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:46:17

Tim Hardwick, last week at MacRumors: Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station . In a new post on Weibo, the oft-accurate leaker claimed that

Speaking of Tips

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:19:29

The Houston Chronicle: Kristin Tips, the longtime presiding officer of the embattled Texas Funeral Service Commission, is no longer on the board. “Governor Abbott appreciates Kristin Tips’ service,” Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, said in

Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:07:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing . Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac

Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 22:25:18

Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “ malicious practices ” of spam policies, leading to pot

Guest Post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory Director, on the NSF budget.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

 Guest post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory director (though not affiliated with the NSF now) on the White House NSF budget for FY 2027. --------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues A week ago the White House released the NSF

security.txt and Jekyll

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

How to implement a security.txt with Jekyll

Amazon to Acquire Globalstar, Announces Agreement With Apple to Continue Service for iPhone and Apple Watch

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:34:29

Amazon: Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon Leo to add direct-to-device (D2D) services to its low Earth orbit satel

John Calhoun on Steve Lemay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:26:25

Speaking of John Calhoun , he chimed in on a Hacker News thread last month regarding his experience working with Steve Lemay at Apple: I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when I was an engineer, he was a young, new design

One Shot Just Crushed Three Deadly Autoimmune Diseases

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-14 20:41:54

A woman battling the conditions went from "two handfuls of pills" and blood transfusions daily to medication-free. The post One Shot Just Crushed Three Deadly Autoimmune Diseases appeared first on SingularityHub .

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2026

tecosystems @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2026

Sogrady @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

Análisis de ajedrez | Giri no doblega a Sindárov

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-14 18:48:20

El neerlandés pretendió ganar sin arriesgar, y tuvo que firmar el empate que hacía campeón a Sindárov en menos de cuatro horas

Richard Moss’s 2010 Interview With John Calhoun on the Origins of Glider

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 18:20:23

Richard Moss, back in 2010: John Calhoun’s Glider games hold a special place in the history of Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which produced a ridiculous amount

Intersecting spheres and GPS

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-14 16:08:36

If you know the distance d to a satellite, you can compute a circle of points that passes through your location. That’s because you’re at the intersection of two spheres—the earth’s surface and a sphere of radius d centered on the satell

Glider Is Back in the Mac App Store

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 16:03:44

John Calhoun, on Bluesky (and also a new blog ): I re-made Glider some years back for MacOS/iOS. It broke at some point (perhaps an Apple change for Retina displays?) so I pulled it from the App Store. (Claude looked at the code — found some minor

TED podcast “WorkLife” returns with new host, Molly Graham

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 16:00:17

WorkLife is back — and entering a new chapter. The TED podcast is bringing in a brand-new host — community and company builder Molly Graham — to explore the lessons about work no one teaches you. Molly Graham has spent nearly two decades inside fast-growin

Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk?

old new thing @ 2026-04-14 16:00:00

Not a direct line to Bill Gates's office. The post Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Fragments: April 14

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-14 15:16:00

I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there host Gergely Orosz interviewed Kent Beck and myself on stage . The video runs for about half-an-hour. I always enjoy nattering with Kent like this, and Gergely pushed into som

TED, Khan Academy and ETS announce new institute to reimagine higher education for the AI age

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 15:00:35

Today at TED2026 in Vancouver, the nonprofit organizations TED, Khan Academy and ETS announced a joint plan to launch the Khan TED Institute, a new higher education collaboration designed for an AI‑driven era. The Khan TED Institute aims to prepare learner

Finding a parabola through two points with given slopes

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-14 14:19:42

The Wikipedia article on modern triangle geometry has an image labeled “Artzt parabolas” with no explanation. A quick search didn’t turn up anything about Artzt parabolas [1], but apparently the parabolas go through pairs of vertices wit

You’ve lived this life before

AEON @ 2026-04-14 12:00:00

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly - by Mark Higgins Read on Aeon

Hijos del optimismo

brucknerite @ 2026-04-14 10:36:35

Ya tocaba esta crítica, constructiva y a ratos entusiasta, del libro recientemente publicado por María Álvarez (editorial Debate). Un texto necesario en estos tiempos oscuros. Pero ¿cuándo no lo fueron?

7 things we learned at day 1 of TED2026

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 03:00:07

It’s time for TED! TED2026 marks a pivotal milestone: our final conference in our beloved Vancouver venue before embarking on TED’s next chapter. To open the conference, TED’s Chris Anderson and Helen Walters welcome TED Vision Steward Sal Khan

Steven Soderbergh Twice Pitched James Bond Projects

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 02:30:46

The Playlist: The first pitch, he said, goes back to 2008, and it was already pretty radical by Bond standards. “I had pitched in 2008 the idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh said. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fi

The ripple effect of an idea

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 02:25:58

At TED, we say that ideas change everything. And it’s the people behind these ideas who make TED the powerful community it is. Each talk sparks something: a new question, a shift in perspective, a feeling that lingers longer than expected. Those who hear t

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 25.1.0 Is Now Available

Inside Java @ 2026-04-14 02:00:00

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Apple Frames 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 01:55:46

Federico Viticci: Today, I’m very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete rethinking of the shortcut that is not

Memory, They Say, Is the First Thing to Go

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 01:46:10

Welp, turns out I wrote an entire post about the Control-scroll zoom-in-and-out feature all the way back in 2006, when it was a new feature in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Somehow, between 2006 and last year, I completely forgot about it. I don’t think it helps

Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-14 00:33:30

The technology harnesses the brain's own blood chemistry to assemble soft, light-controlled electrodes around neurons. The post Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice appeared first on SingularityHub .

[Sponsor] WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 23:18:07

Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines its blast radius. The winners in enterprise AI won’t

Tahoe Nitpick of the Day: ‘Reduce Transparency’ Makes Layers Harder to See, Not Easier

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 22:56:15

Tuomas Hämäläinen, on Mastodon: We’re at Mac OS 26.4 and seems like the accessibility toggles should be way more considered than they are. Here’s a comparison between “Reduce transparency” off and on. How does it make sense that turning this setting

John Martellaro, RIP

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 21:49:32

Bryan Chaffin, two weeks ago: John Martellaro was good man. He was not only a better man than me, he was one of the best people I knew. It is with a heavy heart that I tell you Mr. Martellaro passed away today. He rose to the rank of Captain in the

Análisis de ajedrez | Giri, un sabio miedoso

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-13 21:12:00

El neerlandés, siempre en la élite, es de los mejor preparados y de comprensión estratégica más profunda, pero no arriesga

Marcin Wichary Visits the Large Scale Systems Museum

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 21:09:13

I’d never before heard of this museum , but now that I’ve seen Wichary’s photos, I want to go. Unsurprisingly , a lot of his shots are details of vintage keyboards. I keep pausing on this one , a “ RE-START ” key with the word broken across two lines.

A Hierarchy of Spectral Gap Certificates for Frustration-Free Spin Systems

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:45:55

Quantum 10, 2065 (2026). Estimating spectral gaps of quantum many-body Hamiltonians is a highly challenging computational task, even under assumptions of locality and translation-invariance. Yet, the quest for

The Integral Decimation Method for Quantum Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:26:50

Quantum 10, 2064 (2026). The solutions to many problems in the mathematical, computational, and physical sciences often involve multidimensional integrals. A direct numerical evaluation of the integral incurs a

Quantum simulation algorithms based on quantum trajectories

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:16:11

Quantum 10, 2063 (2026). Quantum simulation has emerged as a key application of quantum computing, with significant progress made in algorithms for simulating both closed and open quantum systems. The simulatio

Swap Network Augmented Ansätze on Arbitrary Connectivity

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:04:01

Quantum 10, 2062 (2026). Efficient parametrizations of quantum states are essential for trainable hybrid classical-quantum algorithms. A key challenge in their design consists in adapting to the available qubit

Efficient and high-performance routing of lattice-surgery paths on three-dimensional lattice

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 19:47:57

Quantum 10, 2061 (2026). Encoding logical qubits with surface codes and performing multi-qubit logical operations with lattice surgery is one of the most promising approaches to demonstrate fault-tolerant quant

MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 19:43:16

Marcin Wichary, at Unsung: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, and then turn on “Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.” Then, at any moment, you can hold Control and swipe with two fingers (or use a scroll wheel) up or down to zoom the e

A circuit-differentiation framework for Green’s functions on quantum computers

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 19:37:24

Quantum 10, 2060 (2026). We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our propo

FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With Staff’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 18:56:46

Hannah Murphy, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, but Ars Technica has a no-paywall syndicated copy ): The company recently began prioritising a Zuckerberg AI character, three of the people said. The Meta chief is personally involved in

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-13 18:16:20

In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with