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Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories

slashdot @ 2026-08-15 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one

Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead

slashdot @ 2026-08-15 01:00:00

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned last week amid allegations of plagiarism and questions about his academic record, has been found dead at age 41 in London. The BBC reports: Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea

Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network

slashdot @ 2026-08-15 00:00:00

Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specif

France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 23:00:00

France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President E

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 22:52:44

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PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 21:03:20

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Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 21:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of a

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 20:00:00

A federal judge has ordered Google to remove what he called "anticompetitive friction" that makes rival Android app stores harder to find and install. The order is part of the remedies stemming from Epic's antitrust victory, which already requires Google t

★ You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 19:16:15

The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.

Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 19:00:00

President Trump has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on heavier and "sensitive" drones, including models over 55 pounds or equipped with docking stations or thermal imaging. "Those include commercial models from DJI and others used for operations like power l

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 18:45:49

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Google’s ‘Material 3’ Design Write-Up Is 93.3 Percent Embarrassing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 18:33:55

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 18:12:52

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France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 18:06:49

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Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 18:00:00

Apple is proposing to charge U.S. developers up to 15% when users leave an app through an external purchase link, with lower rates of 10% or 5% for certain programs and smaller developers. The proposal follows years of litigation with Epic Games and a cont

AI by Hand

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 17:58:59

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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 17:43:10

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Qwen3.8-27B

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 17:03:54

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Seven books I keep close because I love them

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 17:03:26

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Qwen 3.8 27B

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 17:00:00

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Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing. These "prompt injections" told the hypothet

Cloudflare Migrates JavaScript CDN Serving 9B Requests a Day to Its Developer Platform

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 16:42:00

Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastruc

Every Fucking Website (2020)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 16:31:08

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In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 16:07:52

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Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture

old new thing @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Biology Needs an AI Declaration

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same. The post Biology Needs an AI Declaration appeared first on SingularityHub .

Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-14 15:10:26

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.” The post Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown first appea

Exploring Compose HTML for Server Side Rendering

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

Exploring Compose HTML for Server Side Rendering

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

More Incidents Don't Necessarily Mean Less Reliability

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

One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an increase in incident c

curl performance

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-14 13:20:32

tldr: the live version is here: How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many pro

Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 13:00:00

Astronomers using JWST have found three actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy J0148-4214, seen as it existed about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Two sit just 620 light-years apart near the galaxy's center and are expected

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 12:12:48

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LLM-Generated GraphQL Mocks Arrive at Airbnb and Expedia, While the Spec Lags Behind

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 12:01:00

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows Airbnb's @generateMock in April and a GraphQL Foundation RFC opened in February. All three solve the same p

The neverending house

AEON @ 2026-08-14 12:00:00

The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 11:55:33

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Rx.NET 7.0 Reduces Deployment Size by Splitting Windows UI Support

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 10:00:00

Rx.NET 7.0 has been released with a narrowly focused change aimed at reducing deployment size for Windows applications. The new version separates WPF, Windows Forms, UWP, and Windows Runtime integration from the main System.Reactive package, avoiding cas

Kubeflow Expands AI Capabilities as CNCF Graduation Nears

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 10:00:00

The Kubeflow project has unveiled several technical updates to enhance distributed AI and high-performance computing on Kubernetes. These advancements include Kale 2.0, a modernised SDK with native Spark support, and expanded capabilities for the Kubeflo

Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere

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

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed c

npm 12 Released: Install Scripts Off by Default as Registry Moves to Explicit Trust

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 08:39:00

npm 12 introduces significant security-related changes, making certain installation behaviors opt-in. Notably, script allowances are now off by default, which requires explicit approval for running scripts, including implicit builds. The update also rest

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 07:19:59

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1063 # Comments: 525

Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer: A 30B Local Agentic Model Optimised for On-Device Execution

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 07:05:00

Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The

UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients' cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will use t

US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 04:39:10

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Hadamard Codes and Sphere Packing

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 03:35:05

Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these matrices arise in appl

Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 03:05:26

Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old's. The post Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue appeared first on Singular

Bluesky Protocol Services

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-14 02:14:28

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Preparing for Change: Safe Switching over Sealed APIs

Inside Java @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

An exhaustive switch on a sealed type covers the permitted subtypes the compiler knows about; it does not cover future additions, which can cause MatchException at run time. API authors should document the expected evolution of sealed types so that client

ODC-Noord: Building blocks for an existing government cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel

How student athletes are changing the game

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

The program’s participants, pictured on their first day at Red HatOn June 1, the first cohort of student athletes arrived at the Raleigh office to take part in the Red Hat Sales Combine Accelerator Program. The group of 6 engaged in a newly launched 3-wee

Friday Five — August 14, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developme

Breaking free from lock-in: How a leading insurance provider migrated 1,500 workloads to ROSA in 10 months

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

Imagine finding out your core platform contract is ending, leaving you with a multi million-dollar liability—and just 10 months to move 1,500 critical workloads. That was the reality for the engineering team at State Farm.While they had previously used Piv

How NASA’s Mariner 9 probe encoded images

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 01:54:21

NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for transmission using a

Microsoft Retreats In China

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 01:00:00

Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, l

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 00:00:00

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise develop

NP-overrated

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-13 22:14:17

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Understanding is the new bottleneck

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-13 20:47:19

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Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-13 20:41:01

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Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Deepmind @ 2026-08-13 19:04:18

Ceramic Shield 2 Is the Real Deal

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 17:46:41

Philip Michaels, writing last September for Tom’s Guide: iPhone 17 torture test videos done by JerryRigEverything indicate that Ceramic Shield 2 certainly resists scratching, with scratch testing leaving only light scratches at level 7 on the Mohs s

Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 17:37:00

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls. By Daniel Dominguez

Constructing Hadamard matrices

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-13 17:02:41

A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entries are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques Hadamard. Sylvester

A little helper class for managing LPPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LISTs

old new thing @ 2026-08-13 16:00:00

Another RAII-style wrapper. The post A little helper class for managing <CODE>LPPROC_<WBR>THREAD_<WBR>ATTRIBUTE_<WBR>LIST</CODE>s appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Measurement incompatibility in Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:57:13

Quantum 10, 2192 (2026). We present a comprehensive and pedagogical formulation of Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation. Within this framework, we analyse the role of measurement incompatibility and estab

Catalytic $z$-rotations in constant $T$-depth

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:51:22

Quantum 10, 2191 (2026). We show that the $T$-depth of any single-qubit $z$-rotation can be reduced to $3$ if a certain catalyst state is available. To achieve an $\epsilon$-approximation, it suffices to have a

Robust topological quantum state transfer with long-range interactions in Rydberg arrays

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:35:33

Quantum 10, 2190 (2026). We develop a theoretical framework for fast, robust and high-fidelity topological quantum state transfer in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings, motivated by chains of Ryd

Efficient Graph State Generation in Linear Optics

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:32:15

Quantum 10, 2189 (2026). Graph states are central resources for quantum information processing, supporting applications in computation, communication, and error correction. In photonic systems, they are typical

How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 13:28:00

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle a

Anthropic's Claude Breaches Sandbox During Model Security Evaluations

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 12:10:00

Anthropic conducted an audit of 141006 evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox escape disclosure. The review identified three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet due to misconfigurations. These incidents involved unauthorised attacks on li

Where the earth meets the sky

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:01:00

After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Mecca and the mall

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:00:00

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon

Astro 7: Rust Compiler, Rust Markdown Pipeline and Vite 8 for Builds Up to 61% Faster

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 08:16:00

Astro 7 focuses on build performance, utilizing native tooling and a rewritten compiler in Rust. The new version includes faster Markdown processing and stricter HTML rules. Recent updates introduced advanced routing and incremental builds, while issues

Google Design Pisses Its Pants on Twitter/X

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 03:03:45

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But t

What is metal to agents? Navigating the architecture of enterprise AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Enterprise AI has reached a critical turning point as organizations move from isolated, chat-based experimentation to complex reasoning models and autonomous agents. While the productivity gains are real, underlying infrastructure costs are escalating rapi

Manage bare metal like a cloud with Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service for OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 includes general availability support for Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaas) for OpenShift, enabling organizations to manage bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), and application containers using the same consistent platform.What

Joanna Stern on the Pixel 11 ‘HiLight’ Notification Light

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 23:23:30

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you cu

Google Introduces ‘Camera Looks’ With Pixel 11 Phones

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 22:58:15

David Imel, The Verge: But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. “The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing d

TechCrunch on Google’s Pixel 11 Lineup

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:45:58

Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: With this year’s Pixel 11 series launch, Google is thinking more agentic AI to complete your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users will be able to order groceries, book rides, or get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini can call b

Hands-On With Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:40:51

Sam Rutherford, writing for Engadget: Granted, the P11 Pro Fold still includes IP68 dust and water resistance, which is better than what you get on the Z Fold 8 line (IP48). But after making an absolute tank of a foldable phone with last year’s model,

Google’s Pixel Watch 5

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:38:03

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and

Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 20:51:01

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty i

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XIII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-12 19:38:49

Sufriendo hasta el último minuto, el noruego logró ganar el Torneo de Candidatos de 2013, lo que le convirtió en retador de Anand

When Escape Routes Become Toll Roads: Mapping How Developers Move Between Programming Languages

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

When Escape Routes Become Toll Roads: Mapping How Developers Move Between Programming Languages

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Three Generations in E7

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Three Generations in E7

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘TabControl Extension’ for Safari

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 17:06:05

Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicio

Updates to age ratings for the Republic of Korea

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-12 17:00:03

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea rece

Reed Jobs Tells a Neuroscience Story

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:48:04

Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing.  ★ 

Nature Is Healing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:43:11

Basic Apple Guy: Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for the new Chess icon in macOS 27 Beta 5. This is not just a tweak or small improvement. This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon.  ★ 

Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 16:30:00

Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homegrown solution over the years. The company mapped the capabilities previously created in-house to Kueue’s functional

Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on its Data Lake

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 16:26:00

Spotify introduced external indexing architecture for Apache Parquet data lakes that enables low-latency point queries without replicating datasets into operational databases. The approach maps lookup keys to Parquet files and row locations, allowing ta

Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-12 16:14:42

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magaz

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Deepmind @ 2026-08-12 16:01:59

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description

old new thing @ 2026-08-12 16:00:00

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Unexpected Unemployment

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-12 15:32:31

Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost

Cryptic but consistent

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-12 15:17:03

Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your head for

Unconditional Quantum Advantage for Sampling with Shallow Circuits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-12 13:42:18

Quantum 10, 2188 (2026). Recent work by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig showed that there exists a search problem that a constant-depth quantum circuit can solve, but that any constant-depth classical circuit with b

Bouncy brothers

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

Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes it an API Again

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 11:48:00

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction split between developers calling it a rediscovery of R

This Week in Rust 664

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-12 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

Evolving a Java MCP Server During MCP Specification Upgrades

Inside Java @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Learn how a Java MCP server can embrace the latest MCP specification without breaking existing integrations or forcing immediate client upgrades.

Operationalizing agentic AI: The Day 0-2 blueprint for enterprise infrastructure

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Your agent works. It reasons, calls tools, and returns answers in the demo that impress everyone. But between that notebook and a production deployment sits a gap having nothing to do with your model or your framework. Three failures hit a single AI agent

The Economist: ‘How to Spot AI Writing’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 23:37:06

The Economist (‘twas a gift link, but alas, I guess gift views have been used up — here’s an archive link in case the gift link is vexing you): You can discover AI’s hallmarks by comparing the writing of man and machine. To do this you need a baseli

Alex Micek on BMW’s iDrive ‘Special Surprises’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:56:13

Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into see

BMW Probably Paid Sony for the Spider-Man Dashboard Ads, Not the Other Way Around

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:46:49

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations

Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:36:36

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “ The AI Future Is for Everyone ”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however,

The Talk Show: ‘Getting the Snack Right’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% o

Netflix Has Peaked

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 20:54:53

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “ Is Netflix Washed Now? ”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting immin

Anthropic Posts ‘How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content’ Without Explaining How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 19:59:22

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put

From Friction to Flow: How ASF Tooling Is Lowering Barriers for Maintainers

ASF @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workl

Dogs and fat tails

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 16:09:46

I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then again this is lim

The little-known winstart.bat batch file

old new thing @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered. The post The little-known <TT>winstart.bat</TT> batch file appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations. The post Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease appeared f

How Netflix Scaled its Real-Time Service Map

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 14:20:00

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence,

Manually unbreakable cryptography

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 14:04:24

Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only do attackers

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-11 13:59:10

El ‘número uno’ de 2012 dejó claro en la mayor universidad de América que estaba en plena forma, también en partidas rápidas

TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-11 13:39:00

My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so

A second sexual revolution

AEON @ 2026-08-11 12:00:00

Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon

The Power of JDK Flight Recorder: Efficient Profiling and Troubleshooting for Java Applications

Inside Java @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Take a guided tour of the JDK Flight Recorder, the powerful event recording framework for the JVM. We'll cover the basics for getting started, show how to capture and analyze rich telemetry data, and demonstrate real-world workflows for investigating perf

Stop preventable outages: Intelligent Windows certificate rotation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renew

Red Hat on FHIR: Why an informatics nerd joined Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have bee

Policy as code: What happens when you layer policy enforcement onto the automation you already have

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Policy enforcement has moved to the forefront. Let’s break down why this is the case and how policies can help you improve governance as you stay in control of operations.First, let’s examine your current production environment. Compliance, governance, and

Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 00:36:58

The system combines quantum dots and an OLED display, translating infrared light into a range of visible colors. The post Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color appeared first on SingularityHub .

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 00:25:00

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Podcast CB SyR 565: Introgresión en homininos, eclipse total, inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz y piezoquiralidad

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-10 23:54:43

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 565 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Introgresión; Eclipse; Inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz; Piezoquiralidad”, 06 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast

What’s New in iOS 27 Beta 5

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 23:54:25

Zac Hall at 9to5Mac has a good rundown of new features and changes in beta 5. Some app icons got tweaks (the Siri app in particular looks much cooler now), and a bunch of the existing American and British Siri speaking voices now have the Pace and Express

‘Friday Night Baseball’ Will Start Broadcasting Games Live, in Apple Immersive, on Vision Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:47:43

Apple Newsroom: For the first time, baseball fans can take in all the action of “Friday Night Baseball” live in Apple Immersive on Apple Vision Pro, leveraging 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view. On August 28, viewers with Vision

Michael Tsai on My Retraction of the Astrology/Astronomy App Store Rejection Story

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:18:48

Michael Tsai: I’m really unhappy about this, both for my role in spreading a false story and because I think it will hurt the cause of reforming App Review. I know there are many crazy rejections and have experienced some first-hand. This story was

‘The Problem With Vibe-Coded Flattery’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 18:42:01

Ernie Smith at Tedium: I’m seeing email after email suggesting these users built a thing they’re truly passionate about. But if we can’t trust that this passion is real, legit, and from the heart, we’re in trouble. Take a step back. Is this thing yo

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-10 17:45:03

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in

The NYT and WSJ on Apple, China, and the RAM Crisis

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 17:21:29

Kalley Huang, reporting from San Francisco, and Ana Swanson, from Washington, for The New York Times (gift link): Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent price increases, is working with other consumer electronics companies to pus

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-10 17:00:16

Un pequeño fallo táctico del noruego desata su creatividad y le obliga a un brillante sacrificio para atacar al rey

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-10 16:56:34

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Learning from historical mistakes

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:34:21

The following extraordinary paragraph comes from Knuth’s TAOCP Volume 4A, right before the last set of exercises. Many of the exercises below ask a modern reader to find and/or to correct errors in the literature of bygone days. The point is not to

Inverse differential equations

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:32:42

In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential equation, analytically or numerically, to see how the solutions behave. You might also do th

How can I perform a Copy­File in unbuffered mode?

old new thing @ 2026-08-10 16:00:00

Try one of the fancier alternatives to Copy­File . The post How can I perform a <CODE>Copy­File</CODE> in unbuffered mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Khosheutovsky khurul

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:01:00

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

How we meet the future

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping? - by Tom Ralston Read on Aeon

Quantum Resource Comparison for Two Leading Surface Code Lattice Surgery Approaches

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-10 08:39:29

Quantum 10, 2187 (2026). Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising candidates for the demonstration of quantum advantage within the next ten years, and several studies have proposed end-to-end resourc

WorkOS: Connect Your Agents to Your API

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 01:54:18

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents . Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice or ne

Math Concepts With Funny Names

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-09 23:23:36

(Some of this came from a Reddit post  I read, and some of  the comments on it.)  Here are theorems with names that I think are funny or unusual. The names are also pointers to the Wikipedia entry on them or some other source. The Chicke

DNA and Bessel functions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 19:17:42

I was reading a book on the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA [1] and was surprised by a few passing references to Bessel functions. According to Claude, When X-rays are diffracted by a helical structure, the resulting diffraction pattern b

A simple range reduction method

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 18:46:59

At the end of my post on how not to calculate cosine I said that the first step in calculating cosine, particularly cosine of a large number, would be to do range reduction. This post will present a simple range reduction method by Cody and Waite that is

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (X)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:55:24

A pesar de su juventud (21 años recién cumplidos), el ‘número uno’ castigaba de manera implacable cualquier error de sus rivales

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (IX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:40:01

Esta espléndida partida frente a Krámnik terminó en tablas porque el noruego, muy apurado de tiempo, no se atrevió a seguir arriesgando

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-09 05:16:24

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustr

Corrupt Minds Think Alike

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 22:32:11

Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. B

Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 21:31:52

Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to present

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-08 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 August 8) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Java Weekly, Issue 658

Baeldung @ 2026-08-08 12:07:32

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 658 first appeared on Baeldung .