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slashdot @ 2025-09-15 02:40:00

RestOfWorld.org reports on "a global crisis nobody anticipated when governments started subsidizing electric vehicles..." "EVs can lose almost half their driving distance when temperatures drop, and the billions spent on improving technology have failed

slashdot @ 2025-09-15 01:37:00

Last year Amazon's robotaxi service Zoox held a training session for 20 Las Vegas firefighters, police officers, and other first responders, reports the Washington Post, calling it "a new ritual for emergency workers across the country, as autonomous vehic

slashdot @ 2025-09-15 00:10:00

"There has never been a successful, widespread malware attack against iPhone," notes Apple's security blog, pointing out that "The only system-level iOS attacks we observe in the wild come from mercenary spyware... historically associated with state actors

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 22:34:00

The oldest person living in Japan is 114 years old, reports the BBC. But "The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced." Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the nu

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 21:15:24

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slashdot @ 2025-09-14 20:34:00

"When residents of Equatorial Guinea's Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn't expect the swift end to their internet access..." rep

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 19:34:00

America's Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon and Google misled advertisers placing ads on their websites, reports Bloomberg, and specifically whether the two companies "properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads." The FTC is se

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-14 19:33:16

El muy polémico estadounidense vence claramente a Praggnanandhaa en la penúltima ronda del Gran Suizo y es uno de los cinco líderes

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 18:34:00

Many coral reefs "have now turned ghostly white," reports CBS News — and "a major culprit is climate change." SFGate adds that more than 50% of the world's coral reefs have been lost, mostly over the past 10 years, according to coral reef scientist

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 17:34:00

TechCrunch reports: Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massi

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 16:34:00

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere," reports ScienceAlert. "In exciting new JWST observations, the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e shows hints of a gaseous envelope

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 16:04:16

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-09-14 14:39:41

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 523 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “TVE; TMT; Hunos; Vacunas; Gravitondas”, 11 sep 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada Po

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 13:37:33

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slashdot @ 2025-09-14 13:34:00

"Facebook users who filed a claim in parent company Meta's $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal may soon get a payment," reports CNN, since "on August 27, the court ordered that settlement benefits be distributed." It's been

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-09-14 12:19:07

He participado en el episodio 009 del podcast Café de Ganimedes, spin-off de Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox; Spotify; Apple], titulado “El Café de Ganimedes. Ep 009», 09 sep […] La entrada Podcast Café Ganimedes 009: Legio Nona Hispana, aguje

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 09:34:00

They stole a woman's phone in Barcelona. Unfortunately, her husband was security consultant/penetration tester Martin Vigo, reports Spain's newspaper El Pais. "His weeks-long investigation coincided with a massive two-year police operation between 2022 a

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 09:00:44

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slashdot @ 2025-09-14 05:34:00

TIOBE attempts to calculate programming language popularity using the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And the eight most popular languages in September's rankings haven't changed since last month: 1. Python 2. C++ 3. C 4.

slashdot @ 2025-09-14 03:34:00

After its six-year journey to Saturn's moon Titan, Dragonfly's rotorcraft lander "will fly like a large drone," explains its web page, spending three years sampling multiple landing sites to characterize Titan's habitability and look for "precursors of the

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 02:19:52

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Atomic14 @ 2025-09-14 02:00:00

Fixing the Arcade Handheld – Voltage Regulators, Dead Batteries, and a Bit of Soldering In my last post, I showed how this little arcade handheld from AliExpress had completely died. The screen was blank, the battery was flat, and the power circuitry h

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 01:50:25

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slashdot @ 2025-09-14 01:18:00

Paramount and Comcast's NBCUniversal are joining Microsoft in telling employees "they could face consequences if they don't return to the office more frequently," reports the Washington Post: NBCUniversal sent a memo to its employees telling them to retur

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 01:16:40

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slashdot @ 2025-09-14 00:18:00

Last week Steam and other major storefronts crashed, reports the Guardian, including Nintendo's eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. They were all "unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critical

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-14 00:01:35

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-13 23:55:42

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daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-09-13 22:37:52

Developers Day is a recent annual Swedish gala organized by the Stockholm-based company Developers Bay. This is its third year running. They have an ambition to highlight and celebrate Swedish software developers (or perhaps it is developers based in Swede

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-13 20:39:17

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-13 19:57:33

El joven alemán confirma la excelente impresión que dio en torneos ‘freestyle’ y encabeza el Gran Suizo a falta de dos rondas

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-13 19:20:21

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Baeldung @ 2025-09-13 16:36:48

While JPQL projections solve many cases, sometimes we need more flexibility, like mapping complex DTOs, restructuring query results, or post-processing the entire result set. Hibernate's former answer for this is ResultTransformer. Hibernate 6, however,

Baeldung @ 2025-09-13 16:32:32

Explore how to execute setup code once before all tests across multiple classes in JUnit 5. The post Run Code Before All Tests in All Classes in JUnit 5 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2025-09-13 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 13) appeared first on SingularityHu

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-13 15:47:38

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InfoQ @ 2025-09-13 14:11:00

During AI Week 2025, Cloudflare announced Application Confidence Scores, an automated assessment system that is designed to help organizations evaluate the safety and security of third-party AI applications at scale. By Renato Losio

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-09-13 11:28:30

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AWS Open Source News @ 2025-09-12 21:41:49

Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to bui

Baeldung @ 2025-09-12 20:01:57

A quick tutorial on custom, stateful bean validations with the built-in validator in Spring Boot. The post Build Stateful Custom Bean Validation with Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .             &#

Baeldung @ 2025-09-12 19:57:25

Explore how to create and configure a custom ObjectMapper for Jersey applications using Jackson. The post Custom ObjectMapper with Jersey and Jackson first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-12 19:23:28

El portento turco está a un punto de los líderes en el Gran Suizo a falta de cuatro rondas tras derrotar a uno de los grandes

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-09-12 18:57:17

Have you given a talk before – maybe at a meetup, online event, or a smaller conference – and wondered if you’re ready for a bigger stage like KotlinConf? This supportive and practical webinar is designed for people from underrepresented groups in te

Kotlin news @ 2025-09-12 18:57:17

Have you given a talk before – maybe at a meetup, online event, or a smaller conference – and wondered if you’re ready for a bigger stage like KotlinConf? This supportive and practical webinar is designed for people from underrepresented groups in te

AWS Blog @ 2025-09-12 18:30:25

AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.

YC @ 2025-09-12 18:00:00

We’re thrilled to announce that Ankit Gupta is joining YC as our newest General Partner. Ankit has already worked with dozens of YC founders as a visiting partner in recent batches. He has a rare blend of deep machine learning expertise and firsth

old new thing @ 2025-09-12 16:00:00

You can put your own object in the surrogate first. The post How can I convert a third party in-process server so it runs in the COM surrogate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-09-12 16:00:00

I asked an AI agent to play the role of me, an Oxford lecturer on media and AI, and teach me a personal master’s course, based entirely on my own work. The post I Got an AI to Impersonate Me and Teach Me My Own Course—Here’s What I Learned About the Fu

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-09-12 15:38:25

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos. The post A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the His

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-12 15:00:31

Yesterday I wrote about a triangle inequality discovered by Paul Erdős. Let P be a point inside a triangle ABC. Let x, y, z be the distances from P to the vertices and let p, q, r, be the distances to the sides. Then Erdős’ inequality says x + y + z

InfoQ @ 2025-09-12 14:31:00

Vercel has rolled out the AI Gateway for production workloads. The service provides a single API endpoint for accessing a wide range of large language and generative models, aiming to simplify integration and management for developers. By Daniel Doming

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-12 12:59:40

Let D be the unit disk in the complex plane and let f be a univalent function on D, meaning it is analytic and one-to-one on D. There is a simple way to compute the area of f(D) from the coefficients in its power series. If then The first equality follows

AEON @ 2025-09-12 12:00:00

Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work - by Lynn Hallarman Read on Psyche

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-12 11:50:00

Probably not The post Can I Give You Some Advice? appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-12 11:50:00

What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve The post Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age? appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-09-12 10:00:00

Next.js 15.5 has landed, delivering faster builds and powerful server-side middleware. Key highlights include the Turbopack bundler, which boosts compilation speed by 2x to 5x, and Node.js middleware enhancements. TypeScript improvements enhance develope

Baeldung @ 2025-09-12 03:33:31

Discover what's new on Spring Boot and Spring Framework. The post Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 – What’s New first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-09-12 03:28:46

Learn how to make Spring Data and Hibernate work with partitioned tables. The post PartitionKey in Hibernate: A Practical Guide for Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-12 03:08:41

Ted Dunning left a comment on my post on random sampling from a triangle saying you could extend this to sampling from a polygon by dividing the polygon into triangles, and selecting a triangle each time with probability proportional to the triangle’

iOS Weekly @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

It’s not as flashy as a vapour chamber, but it’ll keep you safer! 🦺

Rust blog @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

We received multiple reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users (from the rustfoundation.dev domain name), mentioning a compromise of our infrastructure and asking users to authenticate to limit damage to their crates. These emails are m

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

From communal effort to legal mandateThe world runs on open source. From the applications you use daily to the critical infrastructure powering our society, open source software is ubiquitous. However, this widespread adoption has brought with it an escala

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

Enterprise technology leaders face a central challenge: building the future while managing the present. This requires a dual focus: a clear, forward-looking vision for what's next and the ability to execute and deliver results today, at scale, across the

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

Today's IT leaders face intense pressure to accelerate innovation while managing a complex mix of technologies. They are faced with the challenge of integrating AI, modernizing legacy systems and controlling costs within a complex hybrid cloud that spans

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-12 02:00:00

Diginomica - US AI Action Plan, part 3 – how to be fast, sustainable, and efficient. Just don’t call it ‘green’!America’s AI Action Plan emphasizes speed, scale, and efficiency through deregulation, faster permitting, and infrastructure build-out. It prom

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-11 23:41:02

Plane geometry has been studied since ancient times, and yet new results keep being discovered millennia later, including elegant results. It’s easy to come up with a new result by proving a complicated theorem that Euclid would not have cared about

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-09-11 22:38:26

For a long time now fundamental theoretical physics has been suffering not just from a slowdown in progress, but from a sort of intellectual collapse (I wrote about this here a while back in the context of “epistemic collapse”: the … Con

Computational Complexity @ 2025-09-11 22:34:00

(After I wrote this post Lance tweeted a pointer to a great talk by Ronald de Wolf with more examples, and also examples of quantum proofs, see  here .) I was teaching the prob method for lower bounds on Ramsey Numbers (see my slides  here ).

Singularity Hub @ 2025-09-11 21:43:51

An extensive brain map shows how regions collaborate during complex decision-making. The post In a First, Scientists Record Decision-Making as It Happens Across a Whole Mouse Brain appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2025-09-11 20:30:00

Google DeepMind has introduced EmbeddingGemma, a 308M parameter open embedding model designed to run efficiently on-device. The model aims to make applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and text classification accessible

AWS Blog @ 2025-09-11 20:06:05

AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the Lambda de

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-11 19:20:47

El prodigio turco Gurel, de 16 años, tumba al campeón en la 7ª ronda y lo envía al puesto 84 del Gran Suizo a falta de cuatro

ASF @ 2025-09-11 16:59:47

Last year we shared that The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF) would be evolving its corporate logo and brand system to better represent our enduring ethos of community over code. Today, we are proud to unveil the new ASF logo.  Why an Oak Leaf? The

Baeldung @ 2025-09-11 16:26:06

AN interesting and insightful take on the modern use of passkeys, and vulnerability detection in IntelliJ IDEA. The post Java Weekly, Issue 611 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-11 16:19:00

Quantum 9, 1857 (2025). Many promising quantum applications depend on the efficient quantum simulation of an exponentially large sparse Hamiltonian, a task known as sparse Hamiltonian simulation, which is funda

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-11 16:10:22

Quantum 9, 1856 (2025). We present BAE, a problem-tailored and noise-aware Bayesian algorithm for quantum amplitude estimation. In a fault tolerant scenario, BAE is capable of saturating the Heisenberg limit; i

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-09-11 16:09:29

How, exactly, can category theory help modeling in public health? I wrote a paper about this with two people who helped run Canada’s COVID modeling, together with a software engineer and a mathematician at the Topos Institute: • John Baez, Xiaoyan Li

Physics Phorums @ 2025-09-11 16:09:29

How, exactly, can category theory help modeling in public health? I wrote a paper about this with two people who helped run Canada’s COVID modeling, together with a software engineer and a mathematician at the Topos Institute: • John Baez, Xiaoyan Li

old new thing @ 2025-09-11 16:00:00

The overload resolution happens before the compiler knows what it's going to be used for. The post Why can’t <CODE>std::apply</CODE> figure out which overload I intend to use? Only one of then will work! appeared first on The Old Ne

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-11 15:48:58

If you have a triangle with vertices A, B, and C, how would you generate random points inside the triangle ABC? Barycentric coordinates One idea would be to use barycentric coordinates. Generate random numbers α, β, and γ from the interval [0, 1]. Normali

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-11 15:39:16

Quantum 9, 1855 (2025). Highly correlated biphoton states are powerful resources in quantum optics, both for fundamental tests of the theory and practical applications. In particular, high-dimensional spatial c

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-11 14:46:07

Quantum 9, 1854 (2025). We consider the extent to which a Trotterized time evolution implemented on a quantum computer is altered by the presence of decoherence. Given a specific set of assumptions regarding th

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-11 14:36:44

Quantum 9, 1853 (2025). $\sf{StoqMA}$ characterizes the computational hardness of stoquastic local Hamiltonians, which is a family of Hamiltonians that does not suffer from the sign problem. Although error redu

InfoQ @ 2025-09-11 13:03:00

Bruno Rey suggested thinking about career growth in circles: self, team, company, and customers. Success comes from understanding broader impacts, embracing compromise, and acting fast, especially in startups. He advised seeking mentors for honest feedba

AEON @ 2025-09-11 12:01:00

Zooming into the molecular level, this dazzling animation shows how the biological clock is set to zero to form new life - by Aeon Video Watch on Psyche

InfoQ @ 2025-09-11 12:00:00

Microsoft has launched Azure Service Groups in public preview, a new feature designed to simplify resource management and administration. Acting as a flexible, tenant-level container, Service Groups allow users to organize Azure resources from anywhere w

AEON @ 2025-09-11 12:00:00

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy - by Katie Ebner-Landy Read on Psyche

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-11 11:52:00

Can humanizing scientists help win back public trust? The post Scientists Are People, Too appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-11 11:50:00

As ocean acidity grows, it’s eating into their gnashers The post Shark Teeth Are Crumbling appeared first on Nautilus .

brucknerite @ 2025-09-11 10:00:00

Me entero por Elisabet Roselló, fundadora del think tank Postfuturear, de la existencia de una convocatoria de participación pública del MITECO destinada a recoger propuestas que podrían acabar sintetizadas en el proyecto de Pacto de Estado frente a la Eme

InfoQ @ 2025-09-11 10:00:00

OpenAI launched gpt-realtime and the Realtime API, enabling production-ready AI voice agents with end-to-end speech processing, lower latency, and natural speech delivery. New features include SIP phone support, image input, MCP server integration, and i

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-11 02:00:00

In today's business, success isn't just about playing the game–it's about having the right strategy to win. Like a top team constantly adapting its formation to a changing opponent, organisations are grappling with complex IT environments, rising costs,

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-11 02:00:00

Modernizing your infrastructure often involves optimizing resources. One such approach is to converge virtualization and container platforms. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a powerful solution, allowing you to run virtual machines (VM) and conta

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-11 02:00:00

If you're building on Red Hat OpenShift, then your mission is likely the same as countless systems administrators: Provide a consistent, reliable application platform that spans from your data center to the public cloud. But as many platform teams have dis

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-11 02:00:00

Red Hat helps organizations embrace AI innovation by providing a comprehensive and layered approach to security and safety across the entire AI lifecycle. We use our trusted foundation and expertise in open hybrid cloud to address the challenges around AI

Sara Soueidan – Blog @ 2025-09-11 02:00:00

Kevin and I been planning this podcast for months and our schedules finally aligned and we made it happen. We originally planned to chat for a bit… but we had so much fun that almost two hours flew by without us noticing 😅 We covered:

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 19:48:00

Ben Thompson has a wonderful take on yesterday’s event and what it says about Apple overall: Apple, to be fair, isn’t selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better,

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 19:09:52

Apple Newsroom posts: Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max Introducing iPhone Air, a powerful new iPhone with a breakthrough design Apple debuts iPhone 17 Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 11, featuring groundbreaking he

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 19:04:36

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): President Trump on Thursday led leaders of the world’s biggest technology companies in a version of his cabinet meetings, in which each participant takes a turn thanking and praising him, this time for his efforts

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 18:49:37

Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR): Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-10 18:44:31

El juvenil francés tumba al consagrado Vachier-Lagrave en una lucha trepidante y demuestra la fuerza de dos peones pasados y ligados

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 18:31:21

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors: For the first time, every model in Apple’s latest flagship iPhone 17 lineup features a base 256GB storage capacity, up from the lowest 128GB option in the iPhone 16 series. The regular iPhone 17 now comes in 256GB and 512GB st

Baeldung @ 2025-09-10 18:23:29

Learn how handling incorrect values or "non-values" is a tricky art and heavily depends on what we plan to do with the numbers. The post Handling “non-value” doubles in Java first appeared on Baeldung .          

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-10 17:50:03

El neerlandés Anish Giri, de 31 años, vuelve al 10º puesto del mundo tras un periodo de crisis, con partidas tan instructivas como esta

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-09-10 16:00:38

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. The post Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ first appeared on Quanta Magazi

old new thing @ 2025-09-10 16:00:00

It's more of a "Very strongly recommended" than a "Required". The post The documentation says that CompanyName version information is required, but my program seems to work without it, so how required is it? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-10 13:55:53

George Marsaglia was a big name in random number generation. I’ve referred to his work multiple times here, most recently in this article from March on randomly generating points on a sphere. He is best remembered for his DIEHARD battery of tests fo

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-10 13:27:59

Unicode 17.0 was released yesterday. According to the announcement This version adds 4,803 new characters, including four new scripts, eight new emoji characters, as well as many other characters and symbols, bringing the total of encoded characters to 15

AEON @ 2025-09-10 12:01:00

Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball - by Aeon Video Watch on Psyche

InfoQ @ 2025-09-10 12:00:00

Honeycomb has launched its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP), giving developers real-time access to observability data inside IDEs and AI tools like GitHub Copilot. Available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace, it removes the need for self-hosting

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-09-10 11:54:07

The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out, delivering important changes for web development. Kotlin/Wasm is now Beta, with improvements to exception handling in JavaScript interop, npm dependency management, built-in browser debugging support, and a new shared sour

Kotlin news @ 2025-09-10 11:54:07

The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out, delivering important changes for web development. Kotlin/Wasm is now Beta, with improvements to exception handling in JavaScript interop, npm dependency management, built-in browser debugging support, and a new shared sour

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-10 11:50:00

Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it The post Rogue Wave Mystery Solved appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-10 11:50:00

Their habitat is disappearing as humans encroach The post Where Will the Sloths Go? appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-10 11:50:00

They are fond of cuddle balls and rear their children for years The post These Carnivorous Bats Are Softies appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-10 11:50:00

Learning to look past indifference and into the mystery of life The post Why I Became a Birdwatcher appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-09-10 10:30:00

Uber has published details on their approach to controlling rollouts of large-scale changes across monorepos that serve thousands of microservices, addressing one of the key challenges in continuous deployment at massive scale. By Claudio Masolo

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-09-10 08:08:21

Written as part of the FreeBSD Project’s 2nd Quarter 2025 Status Report, check out the highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through both technical and non-t

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-09-10 07:58:59

Written as part of the FreeBSD Project’s 1st Quarter 2025 Status Report, check out the highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through technical a

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-09-10 07:49:32

Welcome to one of the more feature-packed curl releases we have had in a while. Exactly eight weeks since we shipped 8.15.0. Release presentation Numbers the 270th release17 changes56 days (total: 10,036)260 bugfixes (total: 12,538)453 commits (total: 36,0

This Week in Rust @ 2025-09-10 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

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-10 04:34:34

Dan Moren: There were no doubt some shouts of joy when Apple mentioned it had a new version of its MagSafe Battery, but if you want one of those to boost your phone’s longevity, be aware: it’s an iPhone Air exclusive. The key’s in the name “iPhone Ai

Rust blog @ 2025-09-10 02:00:00

Two months ago, we launched the first Rust Compiler Performance Survey , with the goal of helping us understand the biggest pain points of Rust developers related to build performance. It is clear that this topic is very important for the Rust community,

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-10 02:00:00

Red Hat has formed a collaboration with Great Wave AI to make AI more usable for organisations of all sizes.Red Hat has a bold vision to help enterprises bridge their existing world and the new world of AI: supporting any model, on any accelerator, on any

Red Hat blog @ 2025-09-10 02:00:00

To CIOs and CISOs overseeing critical production systems, AI can seem chaotic: It’s a dynamic, constantly evolving ecosystem, where current certifications and standards may not apply the same way, if at all. But AI can’t be ignored - properly implementing

Singularity Hub @ 2025-09-10 01:10:10

Scientists want to know if a biohybrid robot can form a long-lasting biological “mind” to direct movement. The post This Crawling Robot Is Made With Living Brain and Muscle Cells appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-09 22:44:41

The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers c such that iterations of f(z) = z² + c remain bounded. But how do you know an iteration will remain bounded? You know when it becomes unbounded—if |z| > 2 then the point isn’t coming ba

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-09 17:11:24

Bech32 is an algorithm for encoding binary data, specifically Bitcoin addresses, in a human-friendly way using a 32-character alphabet. The Bech32 alphabet includes lowercase letters and digits, removing the digit 1, and the letters b, i, and o. The Bech3

old new thing @ 2025-09-09 16:00:00

Lean into the pattern. Don't try to cross it up. The post A suggestion to people who assign nicknames to meeting rooms appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-09-09 14:00:09

iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26 will soon be available to customers worldwide — which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of Apple’s broadest design update ever. Build your apps and games

InfoQ @ 2025-09-09 14:00:00

System Initiative recently released its AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform, aiming to offer DevOps teams a new way to manage infrastructure through natural language. By Craig Risi

AEON @ 2025-09-09 12:00:00

The current theory for the origin of the Universe is remarkably successful yet full of explanatory holes. Expect surprises - by Jim Baggott Read on Psyche

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-09 11:50:00

A radar system is set to map near-Earth objects as they fly by The post Meet the Asteroids Next Door appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-09-09 11:50:00

Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them? The post When Nature Burst Into Vivid Color appeared first on Nautilus .

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-09-09 08:57:52

One of these mantras I keep repeating is how we in the curl project keep improving, keep polishing and keep tightening every bolt there is. No one can do everything right from day one, but given time and will we can over time get a lot of things lined up i

Baeldung @ 2025-09-09 07:31:42

Learn different methods to read a StringBuilder instance line by line and understand their advantages and drawbacks. The post Read StringBuilder Line by Line in Java first appeared on Baeldung .            

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-09 02:53:30

The previous post reported that a study found a 95% confidence interval for the the area of the Mandelbrot set to be 1.506484 ± 0.000004. What was the sample size that was used to come to that conclusion? A 95% confidence interval for a proportion is give

Inside Java @ 2025-09-09 02:00:00

Learn about all API additions between Java 21 and Java 25: scoped values, stream gatherers, class-file API, foreign function and memory API, Javadoc additions.

Singularity Hub @ 2025-09-09 01:08:42

Thanks to AI and an electrode-studded cap, participants controlled a robotic arm with just their thoughts. The post An AI Copilot Quadrupled the Performance of This Wearable Brain-Reading Device appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-09-08 22:12:57

The two latest posts have been about the Mandelbrot set, the set of complex numbers c such that iterations of f(z) = z² + c remain bounded. It’s easy to see that the sequence of iterates will go off to infinity if at any step |z| > 2.

InfoQ @ 2025-09-08 21:45:00

Hugging Face has released AI Sheets, an open-source application designed to let users build, transform, and enrich datasets using AI models through a spreadsheet-like interface. The tool, available both on the Hub and for local deployment, allows users t

AWS Blog @ 2025-09-08 19:20:32

Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practit

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-09-08 19:09:57

Is category theory being co-opted? These authors think so: • Esteban Montero and Brandon Baylor, Category theory is being co-opted, Holon Substack, 7 September 2025. Category theory offers a powerful new way of viewing the world… if we embrace

Physics Phorums @ 2025-09-08 19:09:57

Is category theory being co-opted? These authors think so: • Esteban Montero and Brandon Baylor, Category theory is being co-opted, Holon Substack, 7 September 2025. Category theory offers a powerful new way of viewing the world… if we embrace

Daring Fireball @ 2025-09-08 18:47:00

I loved watching this. My takeaway: don’t just say what it does, explain how it does what it does.  ★ 

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-09-08 18:45:04

El estadounidense Mishra, de 16, doblega al indio con un sacrificio de pieza en plena apertura para dejar el rey en el centro

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-09-08 17:11:33

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons. The post Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2025-09-08 16:00:00

Airbnb has developed Impulse, an internal load testing framework to improve microservice reliability and performance. It enables distributed, large-scale testing and lets teams run self-service, context-aware load tests integrated with CI pipelines. By s

old new thing @ 2025-09-08 16:00:00

The catastrophic risk of bricking a computer. The post Why didn’t Windows 95 simply special-case the laptops that locked up when it executed the <CODE>HLT</CODE> instruction? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2025-09-08 14:54:00

When I first became a professor I had it all planned out, I would do research, teach and supervise students, get tenure and do more research, teach more courses, and supervise more students for the rest of my life. But once I got tenure, instead of feeling

InfoQ @ 2025-09-08 13:00:00

This week's Java roundup for September 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 517 proposed to target for JDK 26; TornadoVM releases GPULlama3.java 0.2.0; the September 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Apache

AEON @ 2025-09-08 12:01:00

Archival VHS footage from the post-Soviet era documents a shifting world, with poignant echoes in the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Psyche

AEON @ 2025-09-08 12:00:00

A shrub meant to end hunger now chokes Kenya’s farmlands. It’s a parable of how visions of progress can outgrow their promises - by Samuel F Derbyshire Read on Psyche

Quantum Journal @ 2025-09-08 10:55:31

Quantum 9, 1852 (2025). We propose a systematic framework to construct a $(d+1)$-dimensional stabilizer model from an initial generic d-dimensional abelian symmetry. Our approach builds upon the iterative gaugi

brucknerite @ 2025-09-08 09:31:24

¡Ya lo tenemos aquí de nuevo! El próximo día 19 de septiembre, en el palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao, celebraremos el decimoquinto aniversario del evento Naukas Bilbao, con un impresionante programa de charlas de divulgación, espectáculo y buen rollo en gener

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-09-08 09:10:50

This was the title of my keynote at the Open Source Summit Europe 2025 conference in Amsterdam that I delivered on August 25, 2025. The giants, as in fact large parts of modern infrastructure, stand on the shoulders of Open Source projects and their mainta