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Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 22:54:34

“Thibault”, in post on Mastodon responding to Brent Simmons’s “stock Mac UI” post that I just linked to : It reminded me of my own explorations with the macOS design language, especially the modern title/toolbar which I believe is one of the most f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 21:45:44

Brent Simmons: To recap: the reasons for using stock Mac UI are 1) user familiarity, which we’ve known for a while just isn’t a thing, and 2) hoping to be able to expend less developer effort, which we’ve seen can work against you. But there’s anoth

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-25 21:07:28

In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around …

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-25 20:31:08

Aunque Uzbekistán vuelve a liderar en solitario a falta de dos rondas -con España 8ª-, el candidato al título mundial sufrió su 1ª derrota

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 20:16:47

I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot?

slashdot @ 2026-09-25 19:34:00

"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com. Yankovic's asteroid was championed by planetary scientist Allison McGraw joine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 19:07:33

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg Wednesday, after Meta’s 2026 Connect keynote (gift link): Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 18:38:39

Jason Aten, in a good follow-up to his previous column at Inc. ( the one where he described how Muse, running on his Mac, read his Messages database): The entire reason Muse is interesting is that it isn’t just a chatbot, but can actually do things f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 16:41:29

Eli Tan, writing for The New York Times, “I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away” (gift link): For one final task, I asked Wren for a good way to spend that $44.99 it had saved me. At this point, it knew my life pretty well. I tho

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-25 16:40:26

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

InfoQ @ 2026-09-25 16:14:00

Perplexity has migrated its search infrastructure from Amazon DynamoDB to CobbleDB, an internally developed key-value store in Rust. This change reduced latency and costs associated with handling large document batches. The new architecture supports high

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-25 16:00:00

There’s no shortage of fantastical possibilities, most involving the speculative concept of superintelligent AI. The post How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-09-25 15:04:00

Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings "jumped 90% to $256.9 million," reports Investing.com, "while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $4

InfoQ @ 2026-09-25 14:58:00

AWS details how the latest Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol-level sessions, sticky-session requirements, and session storage for remote MCP servers. The change enables independent request routing and simpler horizontal scaling while

InfoQ @ 2026-09-25 14:00:00

Grafana Labs has published a practical approach for monitoring Cypress test suites by converting test results into Prometheus metrics and sending them to Grafana Cloud. By Craig Risi

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-25 13:45:31

Despite the predictions that no one would ever put build data centers in space, Google is starting on Thursday. Google’s prototype satellite will be one of 130 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter 18 mission on October 1. The server will follow a

InfoQ @ 2026-09-25 13:00:00

QCon AI New York has confirmed 23 sessions covering agent authorization, production guardrails, shared inference infrastructure, and the evaluation of AI systems after deployment. By Artenisa Chatziou

AEON @ 2026-09-25 12:00:00

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind - by Emilie Prattico Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-09-25 10:34:00

"F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google's Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app," reports The Register. Though they also note "a big banner acr

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-25 09:57:21

Exactly on this day, September 25 2001, Apple shipped version 10.1 of their OS X operating system. The one they later would rename to macOS. Exactly twenty-five years ago today. Within all their fancy release presentations and videos there are barely no me

InfoQ @ 2026-09-25 07:49:00

Vercel Labs has introduced scriptc, an experimental compiler that converts TypeScript into small native executables without relying on Node, V8, or a JavaScript engine. It uses the TypeScript compiler for type checking and can output C or WebAssembly cod

Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:21:31

Explore the most important performance improvements in JDK 26. The post Performance Improvements in JDK 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:15:12

Learn how to receive structured output from LLMs with Spring AI. The post A Guide to Structured Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-09-25 06:04:00

Google has synthesized "expressive face-to-face experiences" for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They're now offering a Live Avatar "with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid turn-taking" for Google Enterprise accounts wanting "engaging cu

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

iPhone Duo Group Lab, McKinley, SwiftFairy, ArrangementView

Inside Java @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

When you evaluate a system with a garbage collector and want to understand its tail latency, you often see SPECjbb2015 or DaCapo used. While both offer corrective measures for coordinated omission, only SPECjbb2015 can run the workload generator and backe

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors, security has to hold up against a published baseline—not a general claim that systems are “secure.” The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) defines that baseline in Security Technical Impl

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

AI quickstarts are a catalog of ready-to-run, industry-specific use cases for your Red Hat AI environment. Each aims to provide a simple and practical way to solve real-world problems using AI on enterprise open source infrastructure. This quickstart takes

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

The blueprint for scalable enterprise security in the age of AIThroughout this series, we will unpack how Red Hat can help customers implement a layered security defense, from the operating system (OS) foundation to autonomous AI agents, ensuring enterpri

slashdot @ 2026-09-25 01:34:00

404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired for using AI to train the AI: That's not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI firing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 00:30:24

Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices. But the number-one reason why is that I am horribl

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-24 22:58:46

Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified S

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:53:03

Great interview from Stern, as usual, seemingly conducted on the old set of Three’s Company . She opened by asking if AI is going to wipe out humanity, and I think Zuck whiffed by not simply laughing and saying no. She also directly asked his thought

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:30:01

Meta’s annual keynote yesterday was a tight 55-minute live event held on their campus in Menlo Park. I watched the whole thing this morning, before recording tomorrow’s episode of Dithering . (Which you should subscribe to.) It was a good keynote. Cons

slashdot @ 2026-09-24 21:04:00

"Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes," reports the Washington Post. They cite their past investigations "based on thousands of pages of police an

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 21:00:00

With the upcoming introduction of the foldable iPhone Duo, iOS developers will need to adapt their apps to ensure they work correctly across the new device's outer display, larger inner display, and partially folded states. Developers will also need to a

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-24 19:51:19

Abdusattórov empató y Sindárov ganó, pero el tercer y cuarto tablero acusaron mucho la presión por el oro que se ha generado en su país

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:29:49

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:10:56

Dan Luu serves up some copiously documented claim chowder: After this point, most further predictions that I saw were either non-falsifiable or resolve in the future. Note that I didn’t attempt to catalogue statements that are nonsensical or were simp

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-24 19:10:00

The AI-powered virtual cell tailors treatments for breast cancer based on samples of each patient's tumor. The post A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 18:47:16

Michael Steil: Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC. Playing around wit

Deepmind @ 2026-09-24 18:20:39

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 17:35:00

Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into everything, careless

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 17:00:00

InfoQ has opened enrollment for a new five-week certification program covering engineering team design, delivery flow, AI-enabled work, and metrics, facilitated by InfoQ editor and podcast co-host Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou

slashdot @ 2026-09-24 16:34:00

"The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing," writes the Associated Press. "If managed poorly,

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 16:14:00

Security researcher Patrick Wardle revealed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse desktop client for macOS. This flaw lets unprivileged software manipulate the assistant's extensive permissions, compromising input confidentiality and account

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 16:10:00

Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise and

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-24 16:03:49

Quantum 10, 2216 (2026). The encoding of lattice gauge theories onto quantum computers requires a discretization of the gauge field's Hilbert space on each link, which presents errors with respect to the K

old new thing @ 2026-09-24 16:00:00

Another example to add to the list. The post No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 13:09:00

A platform is a collaboration system, not infrastructure. Culture follows structure: platform teams can build open support sessions, create super user awards for contributing developers, and establish shared open standards to grow an engineering mindset.

slashdot @ 2026-09-24 12:04:00

Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series "is expanding to Linux," Qualcomm announced today, calling it one

AEON @ 2026-09-24 12:01:00

The remarkable engineering and tragic demise of the vessel that would end Britain’s dream to dominate the skies - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-24 12:00:00

Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours - by Craig Maier Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-24 08:32:36

Quantum 10, 2215 (2026). The history based formalism known as Quantum Measure Theory (QMT) generalizes the concept of probability-measure so as to incorporate quantum interference. The resulting quantum measure

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 08:02:00

Canvas UI is an open-source component library created by David Haz, utilizing the experimental HTML-in-Canvas API. It features 35 components that render GPU effects on live page content while maintaining accessibility. The library integrates with multipl

InfoQ @ 2026-09-24 07:50:00

Apple has published the design of Reference Image, an iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that signs pixel data at the sensor and develops it in Private Cloud Compute under an Apple signature. Developers on Hacker News and Reddit challenged what it proves, raising

slashdot @ 2026-09-24 07:34:00

OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to resea

slashdot @ 2026-09-24 03:04:00

Ars Technica reports: Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that too

Inside Java @ 2026-09-24 02:00:00

Given how prevalent Java is on web servers throughout the internet, security in Java is of critical importance - there's the JDK itself, of course, but also the algorithms and features it offers to applications

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-24 02:00:00

We’re looking for the 2027 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year! This award is more than just a title; it's a testament to the impactful work and dedication that all Red Hat Certified Professionals bring to the open source ecosystem. Every winner use

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-24 02:00:00

Any modern IT strategy has to address the security risks fueled by AI. In the wake of headlines about powerful frontier AI models autonomously breaching security controls, IT operations and security leaders responsible for risk across hybrid environments a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 01:41:46

Apple Developer: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the optio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 00:15:05

I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 22:34:00

More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert. Whatever happened to those barrels? Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 22:12:16

Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 20:38:58

“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-23 19:55:14

El excampeón del mundo podría haber frenado el paseo militar de los anfitriones de la Olimpiada, pero jugó muy por debajo de su nivel

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 19:31:23

Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is.

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 18:04:00

TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in

Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 18:00:57

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 17:25:14

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-23 17:18:39

The 59th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing takes place in Atlanta next June, part of the Federated Computing Research Conference . I don't usually do announcement posts but we need to talk about the Call for Papers  (deadline November 2) wh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 16:22:09

President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to contro

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-23 16:16:54

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike first appeared on Quanta Magaz

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 16:14:00

Graphify is an open-source tool designed to convert codebases and unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs. Launched in April 2026, it addresses challenges of multi-file reasoning for AI coding assistants. Recent updates have enhanced parser fea

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-23 16:11:52

In the novel Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a sailor asked Nathaniel Bowditch to teach him how to do navigational calculations, but the man only knows how to add and subtract by counting on his fingers. He had not heard of multiplication. Bowditch is surprised,

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 16:00:00

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second. By

old new thing @ 2026-09-23 16:00:00

Let the library do the math for you. The post When working with Win32 <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>, don’t forget that you have <CODE>std::chrono</CODE> now appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 15:22:00

Cloudflare redesigned the in-memory representation of its Big Pineapple DNS cache, reducing the per-entry footprint by 56% and freeing roughly 100 TB of working-set memory across its fleet. The Rust-based changes also increased cache insertion throughput

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 13:34:00

August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance: The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally... [

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 12:36:00

In a JetBrains interview, Zig creator Andrew Kelley expanded on the project’s formal ban on AI contributions and the motivation behind its migration off GitHub to Codeberg: automated code submissions decrease codebase quality and weaken the social constr

AEON @ 2026-09-23 12:01:00

Be it movie mythos or nostalgia for a ‘simpler’ time, there’s an undeniable allure in stepping into the American West - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 09:04:00

Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:58:59

Learn how to use FitNesse to write an acceptance test for your Java application. The post Introduction to FitNesse – An Acceptance Testing Framework first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:48:14

Learn to use NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server in Java to do object detection in images. The post Introduction to Triton Java API first appeared on Baeldung .              

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-23 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

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 05:55:47

Learn how to upgrade the Spring Framework version in a Spring Boot application by understanding dependency management, selecting a compatible Boot release, and verifying the resolved dependencies with Maven. The post Upgrading Spring Framework Version

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 04:34:00

U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intell

Inside Java @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a new JavaDoc tag `@note` to highlight the presence of additional information in API documentation.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The convergence of enterprise IT and physical computing is accelerating. As artificial intelligence transitions from purely digital environments into autonomous systems, industrial automation, and smart edge devices, the software foundation behind these sy

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

As organizations accelerate their cloud transformations, IT teams often find themselves trapped between 2 worlds—managing mission-critical legacy virtual machines (VMs) in isolated silos while simultaneously attempting to build cloud-native applications on

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The cluster is up. The team celebrated. A year later, the same 5 applications you migrated at launch are still the only workloads running on it. Developers are confused about what's expected of them. Operations is buried in manual processes and don’t have

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

Despite substantial investments in observability tools and automation, IT operations teams still spend critical incident response minutes context-switching across dashboards, copying data into chat channels, and evaluating whether a potential fix is safe t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The rise of generative AI promised a silver bullet, but for most enterprises, especially banks, digital transformation remains a slow, complex, and costly endeavor. Early reports suggested massive developer productivity gains. But when AI is applied to com

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 00:51:09

Bill McCool, writing at Dieline: This past Wednesday, lettering artist, designer, and author Jessica Hische took to Threads to announce that she had worked alongside Meta’s team to create the icon and logotype for their agentic AI, Muse. Acknowledgi

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-23 00:23:14

Amazon CloudWatch Omni is the next evolution of CloudWatch — unified observability that brings your applications and AI agents into one reimagined experience, with auto-discovered topology, natural language queries, and AI-guided investigation powered by A

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-23 00:21:13

Learn how Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads. Trace, evaluate, and experiment with AI agents across any framework—directly from your IDE or a standalone web experience—using open s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 23:26:24

Jason Aten, writing for Inc: Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were ha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:51:12

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: The number one response I’ve gotten to my thoughts on Meta’s Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of “I will never trust Meta with my data.” But the number two response is arguably more interesting (and re

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:43:32

Todd Bishop, reporting at GeekWire: Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers, after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to voluntarily exclude the e-commer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:12:41

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5 Mac on Friday: Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. Muse by Meta only launched this month , although the a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 21:25:52

Apple Developer: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-22 20:41:15

The boy, whose liver cancer had spread to his lungs, suffered no dangerous side effects and remained cancer-free a year later. The post Three-Year-Old Boy’s Metastatic Cancer Disappears After Two Shots of Experimental Cell Therapy appeared first

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-22 18:31:39

Picture this: an AI agent is answering a question about a patient population. To do it, the agent calls a tool, and the tool queries a clinical database. IAM has already given the green light — the agent can invoke this tool. OAuth scopes checked out. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 17:44:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live. Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible cus

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-22 16:01:30

A couple days ago a friend told me about the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a fictional account of the life of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838). I’ve been listening to the book on Audible, and apparently it’s only lightly fictionalized. Bowditch w

old new thing @ 2026-09-22 16:00:00

Right-clicking and shift-clicking. The post A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-22 12:19:37

Sus logros como adolescente son incluso mayores que los de Carlsen a la misma edad en algunos aspectos, y su juego asombra

AEON @ 2026-09-22 12:00:00

When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more - by Eric Leas Read on Aeon

Rust blog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership C

Inside Java @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

The Helidon team is pleased to announce Helidon 27, the first release under the Tip-and-Tail model used by OpenJDK.

Secret Weblog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

The feeling when you slow down.

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-22 01:13:22

Suppose you want to solve a triangle. You know two sides and the angle between them. Then you can solve for the third side using the law of cosines. Now suppose you want to solve a big triangle, a triangle on the surface of the earth so large that the cur

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 01:04:15

Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots, hosted AI workflows, turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, through one API call, with no model hosting to maintain

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 00:52:44

I first recommended Strategery back in May 2009 , including a link to Friedman’s review at Macworld . I described it thus: Strategery is a beautiful $2 Risk-like strategy game for the iPhone. Lots of fun and the gameplay has a great feel. Still

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 23:52:50

Joanna Stern, on X: GM has confirmed it is NOT rolling phone projection to GM EVs. Instead this announcement is specific to JUST their new gas powered light-duty pickups, which have always supported Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 23:23:01

MLB: Comerica Park has had several alternate identities since it became the Tigers’ home in 2000. Some have called it Comerica National Park for its spacious dimensions. Some fans simply came to call it Comerica, or abbreviated it to CoPa, as they gre

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-21 20:22:48

La tremenda fuerza de la selección anfitriona no se limita a los astros Abdusattórov y Sindárov, sino que abarca a todo el equipo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:37:16

Sofia Schwarzwalder, reporting for The Seattle Times: Since turning 50, the Mariners legend has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, launched eight homers at the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby this summer and, most recently, tossed a 127-pitch shutout

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:31:58

Glenn Fleishman: Recent protectionist changes by the European Union further effectively exclude U.S. small businesses like mine from selling to EU customers. It’s a little complicated, but it has to do with how tax and customs fees are collected and e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:20:56

David Pogue: The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling. I used the beta-test version all sum

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 18:53:06

Matthew Butterick: So let’s not take the bait. Nor overcomplicate. We needn’t spin our collective wheels spitballing answers to big-picture, long-term Al-policy questions. We don’t know enough yet. The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big Al nee

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-21 18:11:24

Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself sc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 16:57:12

Seth Godin back in 2014: You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure this. (Vis-à-vis my sidenote over the weekend about Apple refusing to publish mAh battery specs f

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-21 16:12:36

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. The post How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution first appeared on Quanta Ma

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 16:08:35

Quantum 10, 2214 (2026). We study quantitatively the interplay between entanglement and non-stabilizer resources in violating the CHSH inequalities. We show that, while non-stabilizer resources are necessary, t

old new thing @ 2026-09-21 16:00:00

Being wary of how people use it and how it interacts with other types. The post What’s the highest legal <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>? Is it safe to use? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-21 14:44:05

Todos los años me hago eco de los Premios Ig Nobel y no podía ser de otra forma este año 2026. La ceremonia de la trigesimosexta entrega de premios se […] La entrada Premios Ig Nobel 2026 fue escrita en La Ciencia de la Mula Francis .

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:01:00

As Indonesia builds a new capital city, the race is on to preserve the sounds of the rainforest before they vanish forever - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:00:00

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain - by Massimo Pigliucci Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 11:08:14

Quantum 10, 2213 (2026). The possibility of nonclassicality in networks unrelated to Bell’s original eponymous theorem has recently attracted significant interest. Here, we identify a sufficient condition for b

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 10:20:41

Quantum 10, 2212 (2026). Efficiently implementing Clifford circuits is crucial for quantum error correction and quantum algorithms. Linear reversible circuits, equivalent to circuits composed of CNOT\xspace gat

Baeldung @ 2026-09-21 06:05:19

Learn the fundamentals of Solon, including its architecture, dependency injection, configuration, HTTP handling, persistence, and testing, and see them in practice by building a REST API with MyBatis-Flex and H2. The post Introduction to Solon first

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:49:55

Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline: The release of The Savant is back on. A year after Apple TV put the thriller starring Jessica Chastain on hold three days before it was slated to premiere on Sept. 26, 2025, the streamer has rescheduled it fo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:37:18

I genuinely enjoyed that Sara Eisen laughed a little when introducing me as having written a 5,000-word review of the iPhone 18 Pro.  ★ 

Rust blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/ , allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is po

Inside Java @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation within the JVM is essential to Java's performance and plays a central role in ongoing OpenJDK projects such as Valhalla, Leyden, and Panama. JIT compilation is constantly evolving to support the evolution of the Java languag

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-20 21:13:11

The following conversation is fictional. --------------------------- ALICE: (Looking over a student's record.) Hmm, let's see. She wants to work in quantum computing. She's had the year-long quantum sequence in the physics department and has taken a cou

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 19:53:31

El irregular y controvertido portento cae ante Svane y provoca la derrota de su selección ante Alemania en la 5ª ronda de la Olimpiada

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:35:31

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week — a big week — at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:30:00

Natalie Neff, Autoweek: General Motors is reversing course after having begun to remove Apple CarPlay from its vehicles, showing off instead a redesigned infotainment interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups that melds the sma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 17:35:55

He takes the same “ this is pretty much exactly what Apple used to label an ‘S’ year ” angle I did, so, unsurprisingly, I think his review is spot-on. Brownlee emphasizes one point that I should have, but didn’t: according to Apple’s published specs, the

Baeldung @ 2026-09-20 09:55:45

A better spec-driven development and the brain as example architecture. The post Java Weekly, Issue 664 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 08:47:56

El ucranio, genio y figura a los 57 años, cayó ante Caruana tras un sacrificio a largo plazo, correcto pero innecesario

The observation deck @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to pa

Inside Java @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 401: Value Objects (Preview)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 18:29:00

Splendid video. Love that Stalman shot photos side-by-side with a film SLR using Kodak Portra 400, for comparison to Apple’s new film-look Photographic Styles.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 17:37:39

Austin Mann: I’m here at the beautiful Dunton River Camp in southwest Colorado, where I’ve spent the last week testing the new camera and features on the iPhone 18 Pro. Beyond the variable aperture and Pro Controls, Apple also built in a bunch of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 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 September 19) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-19 03:17:36

Nothing grows exponentially forever. What appears to be an exponential curve often turns out to be some sort of S curve, such as a logistic curve. Suppose you’re collecting data on the left side of the curve. If there’s even a small amount of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 00:11:54

The system, designed by Stanford researchers, identified which drugs are more likely to succeed in trials and even proposed a cancer treatment a major drugmaker later landed on too. The post Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug