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Building a Center of Excellence for Ansible
Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-08 02:00:00
As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation ef
Linux Drops ISDN Subsystem and Other Old Network Drivers
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 19:34:00
"Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers," reads the pull request. And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request "to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subs
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 25)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 19:02:39
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .
White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 18:34:00
It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's "Mythos". To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But B
Closed-form solution to the nonlinear pendulum equation
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 18:16:12
The previous post looks at the nonlinear pendulum equation and what difference it makes to the solutions if you linearize the equation. If the initial displacement is small enough, you can simply replace sin θ with θ. If the initial displacement is larger
Free Software Foundation Says 'Responsible AI' Licenses Which Restrict Harmful Uses are Unethical and Nonfree
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 17:34:00
The Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Manager published a blog post this week to explicitly state that"Responsible AI" Licenses (RAIL) are nonfree and unethical. The licenses restrict AI and ML software "from being used in a specific list
Intel's Stock Soars 24% Friday, Its Biggest One-Day Gain Since 1987
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 16:34:00
Intel's stock price soared 24% Friday. It's the stock's largest single-day spike since since October 1987, reports CNBC, "as investors cheered signs of renewed growth due to mounting artificial intelligence demand." The stock closed at $82.57 and is now u
nth derivative of a quotient
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 15:12:39
There’s a nice formula for the nth derivative of a product. It looks a lot like the binomial theorem. There is also a formula for the nth derivative of a quotient, but it’s more complicated and less known. We start by writing the quotient rule
Physicists Revive 1990s Laser Concept To Propose a Next-Generation Atomic Clock
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 13:00:00
Physicists have proposed a new kind of atomic clock based on a revived superradiant laser concept that could produce an extraordinarily stable signal with a linewidth around 100 microhertz, potentially the narrowest ever for an optical laser. "The implicat
FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 09:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic dea
Cloudflare Optimizes Edge Stack for High-Core CPUs Instead of Large Cache
InfoQ @ 2026-04-25 08:06:00
Cloudflare recently introduced its Gen 13 servers, marking a shift in how its network handles traffic. Instead of relying on large CPU caches for speed, the company redesigned its software to leverage many more processor cores working in parallel in its
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-25 07:56:12
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Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 05:00:00
Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed the nation's first statewide moratorium on new data centers, saying she supported the idea in principle but would not block a major redevelopment project tied to jobs and local investment. Instea
Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-25 03:47:33
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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-25 03:03:09
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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-25 02:58:38
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★ Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-25 02:56:12
Every single word of the November 2025 Financial Times report, which Mark Gurman derided as “simply false”, was, in fact, exactly correct.
How nonlinearity affects a pendulum
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 01:53:29
The equation of motion for a pendulum is the differential equation where g is the acceleration due to gravity and ℓ is the length of the pendulum. When this is presented in an introductory physics class, the instructor will immediately say something like
BMW Is One Step Closer To Selling You a Color-Changing Car
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 01:00:00
BMW's latest concept car moves the color-changing tech it debuted back at CES 2022 closer to reality by embedding an E Ink panel directly into the hood. The Verge reports: BMW's previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels th
A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 00:34:04
A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. The post A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon appeared first on Singular
Samsung Could Lose Money On Smartphones For the First Time
slashdot @ 2026-04-25 00:00:00
A report says Samsung's mobile division could post its first-ever annual loss in 2026, as rising memory costs, tougher competition, and pressure across products like foldables and smartwatches weigh on the business. SammyGuru reports: Samsung boss TM Roh r
Bitwarden CLI Is the Next Compromise In Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 23:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: Socket Security published an article on the compromise of the Bitwarden CLI client, which was pushed from Bitwarden's client repository. This breach was the next in a chain of supply-chain attacks that have affected
Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 22:00:30
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Google To Invest Up To $40 Billion In Anthropic
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 22:00:00
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion more in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion now and another $30 billion tied to performance milestones. CNBC reports: Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Ea
My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 21:30:46
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The Classic American Diner
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 21:01:09
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South Korea Police Arrest Man For Posting AI Photo of Runaway Wolf
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 21:00:00
South Korean police arrested a man accused of spreading an AI-generated image of an escaped wolf, after the fake photo reportedly misled authorities and disrupted the real search operation. The BBC reports: South Korean police have arrested a man for shari
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 20:23:32
GPT-5.5 - - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: Points: 251 # Comments: 145
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 20:06:05
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Researchers Simulated a Delusional User To Test Chatbot Safety
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 20:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: I'm the unwritten consonant between breaths, the one that hums when vowels stretch thin... Thursdays leak because they're watercolor gods, bleeding cobalt into the chill where numbers frost over," Grok to
Análisis de ajedrez | Perlas de Menorca (III)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-24 19:37:38
El ganador del torneo abierto, Abhimanyu Mishra, es el gran maestro más joven de la historia, y produjo esta brillante miniatura
Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 19:00:00
Norway plans to ban social media access for children under 16 (source paywalled; alternative source), "joining a growing number of countries responding to concerns about the potential harm kids face online," reports Bloomberg. From the report: The bill com
SDL Now Supports DOS
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 18:20:15
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★ Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 18:09:50
My spitball idea for a generational law to keep more young people from ever starting a tobacco habit — and thus, nicotine addiction — would be through scaled taxation.
Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 18:04:41
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Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 18:00:00
A Michigan township has voted to impose a one-year moratorium on providing water to hyperscale data centers, a move aimed at delaying a planned facility that would support Los Alamos National Laboratory's nuclear weapons research. The moratorium may not be
I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 17:59:19
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Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 16:45:10
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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 16:28:52
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★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 16:18:03
I think about this scene more and more lately.
A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-24 16:17:44
“Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales. The post A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience first appeared
Defending against exceptions in a scope_exit RAII type
old new thing @ 2026-04-24 16:00:00
But maybe it's not worth it. The post Defending against exceptions in a <CODE>scope_exit</CODE> RAII type appeared first on The Old New Thing .
XOXO Explore
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:28:41
Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title for a short-lived GitHub repo, allo
New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:12:55
Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands o
Lykke Studios: In pursuit of puffy perfection
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-24 15:00:15
DEVELOPER STORIES THE POWER OF PUFFIES. The delightful game puffies. combines the satisfying snap of a jigsaw puzzle with the nostalgic delight of a sticker book. This 2025 Apple Design Award finalist for Inclusivity is brimming with virtual puffy
Yelp Achieves Zero-Downtime Upgrade of Over 1,000 Cassandra Nodes
InfoQ @ 2026-04-24 14:00:00
Yelp has completed a large-scale upgrade of its Apache Cassandra infrastructure, spanning more than 1,000 nodes, without any service downtime, offering a blueprint for managing stateful systems at scale. By Craig Risi
Hear your agent suffer through your code
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 12:58:45
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How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 12:48:14
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Does reading do us any good?
AEON @ 2026-04-24 12:00:00
Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead - by Flora Champy Read on Aeon
South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 11:17:57
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Wire Codes
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-24 10:43:51
Quantum 10, 2083 (2026). Quantum information is fragile and must be protected by a quantum error-correcting code for large-scale practical applications. Recently, highly efficient quantum codes have been discov
Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 10:28:47
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HashiCorp Vault 2.0 Marks Shift to IBM Lifecycle with New Identity Federation
InfoQ @ 2026-04-24 09:00:00
HashiCorp has released Vault 2.0, moving to the IBM versioning and support model following its acquisition. The update introduces Workload Identity Federation for secret syncing without static credentials, SCIM 2.0 provisioning, and performance gains in
Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 08:48:53
All content is based on Andrej Karpathy's "Intro to Large Language Models" lecture (youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI). I downloaded the transcript and used Claude Code to generate the entire interactive site from it — single HTML file. I find it useful to
Ubuntu 26.04
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 06:38:37
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United Kingdom to Enact Smoking Ban Only for Those Who Are Not Yet Legal Adults
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 03:26:13
Ephrat Livni, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco to anyone born in 2009 or after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday.
Learning from Nature with System Dynamics
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-04-24 02:10:52
We have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the biosphere is rapidly changing due to human activities. We do not need to decide to address these issues. They are already addressing us: grabbing us by the collar, so
Learning from Nature with System Dynamics
Physics Phorums @ 2026-04-24 02:10:52
We have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the biosphere is rapidly changing due to human activities. We do not need to decide to address these issues. They are already addressing us: grabbing us by the collar, so
When less is more: Why less precision and fewer parameters carry enterprise AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
Running Llama 70B as an on-demand cloud inference endpoint costs roughly $16,000 per month. Running Llama 8B costs about $734. For teams where an 8B model meets the quality bar for their workload, that gap is very hard to ignore.The question enterprise tea
Friday Five — April 24, 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
5 reasons to go with your team to Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit is where the global community comes together to solve the industry's biggest challenges, and there is no better way to navigate that future than with your team by your side. Register today
Customer stories and continued momentum: OpenShift Virtualization sessions at Red Hat Summit 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
Disruption in the virtualization market has not slowed down. The fallout from industry licensing and packaging changes continues to push organizations into decisions they were not planning to make this year, and for many, the timelines are getting shorter,
Confidential guest reset on QEMU hypervisor: Design choices and approach
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
Looking at the release notes or changelogs for QEMU upstream, you might notice that there's something new in version 11.0:SEV-SNP and TDX machines can now be reset.This is a feature we at Red Hat helped implement. The motivations and associated challenges
Confidential clusters for Red Hat OpenShift: Developer Preview now available on Microsoft Azure with AMD SEV-SNP
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
Extending confidential computing from individual workloads to the entire cluster is a new frontier in cloud-native security.Today, Red Hat is announcing the Developer Preview of confidential clusters for Red Hat OpenShift, a new feature of OpenShift that e
CATL’s New EV Battery Charges in Six Minutes
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-24 00:21:28
That's a few minutes longer than it takes to fill up the average gas-powered car—but still fast enough it might not matter. The post CATL’s New EV Battery Charges in Six Minutes appeared first on SingularityHub .
Trump’s Blog Has Somehow Lost $1.1 Billion
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 23:14:35
Russ Choma, reporting for Mother Jones: Devin Nunes was not an obvious choice to run a fledgling social media network, but after $1.1 billion in losses, the former dairy farmer and congressman is out as the head of Truth Social. Donald Trump Jr., a
Every Atlantic hurricane track, 1980 to 2025
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 23:00:00
Every Atlantic tropical cyclone from 1980 to 2025 on one map. The shape of the basin and the deadliest storms of 46 seasons emerge from the density.
U.S. oil: from peak importer to net exporter in one decade
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 23:00:00
The U.S. imported a record 13.7 MMb/d of oil in 2005. By 2025 it exports 2.8 MMb/d more than it imports. Here is what actually changed.
Nilay Patel: ‘Beware Software Brain’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 22:13:49
Nilay Patel, in a terrific essay (and Decoder one-sider) at The Verge: In fact, the polling on this is so strong, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people hate AI, and that Gen Z in particular seems to hate AI more and more as they encounter
A thousand springs in Kyoto, in one chart
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00
Kyoto's 1,200-year cherry blossom record shows modern decades hold the earliest cluster of blooms ever seen. A warming signal written in flowers.
Java 17 available on SPARC
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00
New Java version for Solaris/SPARC
The Public CA clientAuth EKU Sunset: What Apache Software Deployers Need to Know
ASF @ 2026-04-23 21:48:25
By: Jinwoo Hwang, Lead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 What Apache Software Deployers Need to Know Before May 2026 Effective May 2026, major public Certificate Authorities (CAs) will stop including the Client Authentication
Eight for Eight
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 21:36:15
Speaking of Chris Espinosa, this is pretty neat: On September 1 I’ll join the elite club (members Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Mike Markkula, and Bill Fernandez) who have worked under a number of Apple CEOs ≥ our employee number: Woz: 1 (Scott) Jobs
Java Weekly, Issue 643
Baeldung @ 2026-04-23 21:26:11
Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 643 first appeared on Baeldung .
Schroedingers Honeypot revisited
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 21:03:00
Now with even more honey!
130 years of Boston Marathon winning times
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 21:00:00
John Korir broke a 15-year-old Boston Marathon course record in 2026. The full 1897-2026 arc shows why, and what the women's line has been doing.
Microsoft Offers Voluntary Retirement to Long-Serving Employees
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 19:53:58
Tom Warren, The Verge (gift link): “Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases, decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” says Microsoft’s HR chief Amy Coleman in a memo seen by The Verge. “For those who may be considering th
Variational subspace methods and application to improving variational Monte Carlo dynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 19:43:51
Quantum 10, 2082 (2026). We present a formalism that allows for the direct manipulation and optimization of subspaces, circumventing the need to optimize individual states when using subspace methods. Using the
Unauthorized Users in Discord Group Had Weekslong Access to Anthropic’s Supposedly-Super-Dangerous Claude Mythos Model
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 19:28:23
Rachel Metz, reporting for Bloomberg: A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with th
The Last (and Longest) Mile of Apache Kafka® Migrations: Client Migrations With KCP and Confluent Cloud Gateway
Confluent @ 2026-04-23 17:58:50
Use Confluent’s Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) integration with Gateway to simplify Kafka client migration and reduce your client migration time from weeks to hours.
Approximation to solve an oblique triangle
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-23 17:56:02
The previous post gave a simple and accurate approximation for the smaller angle of a right triangle. Given a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse, the angle opposite side a is approximately in radian
Decoupling Authorization at Scale: MongoDB Atlas and Cedar-Based Resource Policies
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-04-23 17:49:59
As organizations scale applications, managing authorization becomes increasingly complex. What starts as role-based permissions quickly evolves into intricate rules spanning multiple services, regions, and compliance requirements. Traditional approaches of
React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 17:36:00
React Navigation has released version 8.0 in alpha, updating its routing library for React Native and web applications. Notable changes include native bottom tabs as the default, enhanced TypeScript inference, and deep linking enabled by default. The upd
Google Introduces Room 3.0: A Kotlin-First, Async, Multiplatform Persistence Library
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 17:00:00
Room 3.0 is a major update to Android's persistence library that introduces breaking changes in key areas. The new release focuses on modernizing Android persistence layer around Kotlin Multiplatform and expands platform support to include JavaScript and
Fibonacci Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 16:48:01
Quantum 10, 2081 (2026). Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a powerful framework for engineering quantum interactions, traditionally relying on periodic photonic arrays with continuous energy band
Holonomic quantum computation: a scalable adiabatic architecture
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 16:26:10
Quantum 10, 2080 (2026). Holonomic quantum computation exploits the geometric evolution of eigenspaces of a degenerate Hamiltonian to implement unitary evolution of computational states. In this work we introdu
Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer
old new thing @ 2026-04-23 16:00:00
Inadvertently destroying a staircase while standing on it. The post Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 15:00:00
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI ca
Análisis de ajedrez | Perlas de Menorca (II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-23 14:34:42
Este duelo entre dos niños prodigio de postín pudo acabar con un remate muy brillante de Faustino Oro, pero el reloj lo impidió
Simple approximation for solving a right triangle
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-23 14:13:35
Suppose you have a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse. Then the following approximation from [1] for the angle A opposite side a seems too simple and too accurate to be true. In degrees, A ≈ a 172°
How Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 13:04:00
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry mak
Life invisible
AEON @ 2026-04-23 12:01:00
In the Atacama Desert, scientists race to find novel cures for antibiotic-resistant infections, as mining interests encroach - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
No nature without fear
AEON @ 2026-04-23 12:00:00
Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction - by Shawn Simpson Read on Aeon
Episode 56 “Ask the Architects at JavaOne” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-04-23 02:00:00
In JavaOne 2026's closing session, the audience members asked the Java architects their questions about the state of structured concurrency and Project Babylon, how Java is being developed and what role AI plays in that, and more.
Bridging legacy and cloud-native: A new path with Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated deployed on Google Cloud and Google Cloud NetApp Volume
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-23 02:00:00
Organizations are facing difficult decisions on choices of how to accelerate cloud-native innovation without sacrificing the stability of existing business critical applications and systems. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Red Hat OpenShift Ded
DF T-Shirts and Hoodies: Get Them While the Getting Is Good
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 21:38:55
Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. The hoodies are a new model from Bella Canvas, the manufacturer. Our previous hoodies were “heather
Libraries were transforming. Then COVID hit.
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-22 21:00:00
Two decades of IMLS data show U.S. libraries were successfully pivoting from book warehouses to community hubs. Then the pandemic set the transformation back years.
There Are Corrections, and There Are Corrections
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 20:16:30
The New York Times (gift link): A correction was made on April 21, 2026: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their 11th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the
Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 18:35:37
Ben Thompson at Stratechery, “Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing”: Cook was, without question, an operational genius. Moreover, this was clearly the case even before he scaled the iPhone to unimaginable scale. When Cook joined Apple in 1998 the company’s op
Análisis de ajedrez | Perlas de Menorca (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-22 17:12:06
El argentino Sosa, 4º en el prestigioso abierto balear, ganó el premio a la partida más bella con un fulminante y preciso ataque al rey
A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-22 16:49:47
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots. The post A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rabin has just passed away
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2026-04-22 16:27:43
Rabin has sadly just passed away at 94. This is a short piece on honoring him immediately. More is planned for the future. His work has touched key areas of mathematics as well as central areas of computer theory. Without his work theory would be completel
Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 16:14:00
Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impa
Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables
old new thing @ 2026-04-22 16:00:00
So-called "fractal page mapping". The post Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Michael Rabin Passed Away on April 14, 2026, at the age of 94
Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-22 14:55:00
Michael Rabin passed away on April 14, 2026 at the age of 94. (Scott Aaronson has also blogged about his passing, see here .) I had many points to make about him; however, the first one got so long that I will just do that one fo
High-Quality Chaos
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-22 13:44:40
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the current reality here on my blog. The high quality chaos era, as I call it. No more AI slop I complained and
Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training
Deepmind @ 2026-04-22 12:20:03
Butterfly (Papillon)
AEON @ 2026-04-22 12:01:00
Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Cloudflare Sandboxes Reach General Availability, Giving AI Agents Persistent Isolated Environments
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 12:00:00
Cloudflare has released Sandboxes and Containers into general availability, providing persistent isolated Linux environments for AI agent workloads. New capabilities include secure credential injection via egress proxy, PTY terminal support, persistent c
Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 09:38:00
Cloudflare has outlined a reference architecture for scaling Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments across the enterprise, positioning centralized governance, remote server infrastructure, and cost controls as key requirements for production-ready agen
Importing p7b File to Java Keystore Using Keytool in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 07:02:48
Explore how keytool works with certificate bundles in the p7b format. The post Importing p7b File to Java Keystore Using Keytool in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
Introduction to Spring Data AOT Repositories
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 06:19:23
Explore Spring Data AOT Repositories using a simple UserRepository class to demonstrate how Spring Data Repositories worked before and what changes exactly this new feature introduced. The post Introduction to Spring Data AOT Repositories first appear
Convert IPv4 to IPv6 Address in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 06:14:40
Learn how to use Java for converting between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The post Convert IPv4 to IPv6 Address in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
This Week in Rust 648
This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-22 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
[Sponsor] Rec League
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 05:03:18
Rec League is a new app for sharing what you’re into. Catalog recommendations into tidy collections: your guide to Rome, your open tabs, your bookshelf. Follow people whose perspectives you trust, and discover brilliant, unexpected intel. Recently feature
The subject matter expert advantage in the AI era
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
You have probably heard the narrative by now: AI is coming for your job. Headlines suggest that entire professions will soon disappear, replaced by increasingly capable models that can analyze, code, write, and reason faster than any human. But is that rea
Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSPerformance improvements with speculative decoding in vLLM for gpt-ossApril 16, 2026 Harshith UmeshEvery millisecond of GPU latency is a drain on your enterprise AI budget. W
5 reasons to go with your team to Red Hat Summit 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
You no doubt have a limited budget and a lot of choices about what industry events to attend—but bringing your whole team to Red Hat Summit 2026 will deliver big benefits. Many organizations came to last year's Red Hat Summit with both decision makers and
Deploying cloud-based engineering workbenches with the Virtual Engineering Workbench on AWS
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-04-21 23:38:49
Introduction Organizations in automotive, manufacturing, and embedded systems increasingly rely on cloud-based development environments to reduce hardware dependency and accelerate software delivery. As vehicle architectures shift toward software-defined p
An AI Odyssey, Part 4: Astounding Coding Agents
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-21 22:14:40
AI coding agents improved greatly last summer, and again last December-January. Here are my experiences since my last post on the subject. The models feel subjectively much smarter. They can accomplish a much broader range of tasks. They seem to have a la
Scientists Revive Failing Cells With Mitochondria Transplants
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-21 22:08:48
A new tool that tethers healthy mitochondria to ailing cells has shown promise in mice with inherited blindness. The post Scientists Revive Failing Cells With Mitochondria Transplants appeared first on SingularityHub .
Trump on Tim Apple
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-21 21:17:34
The president of the United States, on his blog this morning (all capitalization, punctuation, and missing/wrong words verbatim): I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so y
ASF Plus One Newsletter: April 2026
ASF @ 2026-04-21 19:06:59
From the people who power the community to the programs shaping its future, this month’s Plus One issue highlights what keeps The ASF thriving. Meet Jean-Baptiste Onofré in the new Plus One People series, and see how mentorship at OpenSource4You in Taiwan
pnpm 11 Release Candidate: ESM Distribution, Supply Chain Defaults and a New Store Format
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 18:00:00
pnpm 11 RC has been released, featuring significant changes in performance, security, and configuration. Key updates include an SQLite-backed store index, tighter security defaults, and a consolidated build script setting. It now requires Node.js v22 or
Análisis de ajedrez | El asombroso Erdogmus, de 14 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-21 17:36:13
La profundidad de conceptos y cálculo del más joven de la historia en pasar de los 2.700 puntos Elo lo perfila como una estrella
Lessons from Log4Shell: Building a CRA-Ready Log4j
ASF @ 2026-04-21 17:36:11
By: Piotr P. Karwasz, VP Logging, Apache Software Foundation The disclosure of Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) on December 9, 2021 did not just expose a vulnerability: it exposed a way of building software that was no longer fit for purpose, and it helped brin
Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation
Deepmind @ 2026-04-21 16:54:15
Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world.
Anthropic Introduces Managed Agents to Simplify AI Agent Deployment
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:36:00
Anthropic introduces Managed Agents on Claude, a managed execution layer for agent-based workflows. It separates agent logic from runtime concerns like orchestration, sandboxing, state management, and credentials. The system supports long-running multi-s
Fragments: April 21
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-21 16:34:00
Last week Thoughtworks released the 34th volume of our Technology Radar . This radar is our biannual survey of our experience of the technology scene, highlighting tools, techniques, platforms, and languages that we’ve used or otherwise caught our eye. T
Slack Rebuilds Notification System, Reports 5X Increase in Settings Engagement
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:05:00
Slack has rebuilt its notification system with a unified architecture that separates activity from delivery, improving consistency across platforms. The redesign simplifies preferences, preserves legacy settings through transformation, and resulted in a
Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub?
old new thing @ 2026-04-21 16:00:00
Somehow xor became the most popular version. The post Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat
Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning
Kotlin news @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat
State preparation with parallel-sequential circuits
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 14:04:45
Quantum 10, 2079 (2026). We introduce parallel-sequential (PS) circuits, a family of quantum circuit layouts that interpolate between brickwall and sequential circuits, which introduces control parameters gover
GitHub Acknowledges Recent Outages, Cites Scaling Challenges and Architectural Weaknesses
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 14:00:00
GitHub has publicly addressed a series of recent availability and performance issues that disrupted services across its platform, attributing the incidents to rapid growth, architectural coupling, and limitations in handling system load. By Craig Risi
Estimating the best separable approximation of non-pure spin-squeezed states
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 13:40:29
Quantum 10, 2078 (2026). We discuss the estimation of the distance of a given mixed many-body quantum state to the set of fully separable states, applied to the concrete scenario of collective spin states. Conc
Resource-theoretic hierarchy of contextuality for general probabilistic theories
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 12:27:22
Quantum 10, 2077 (2026). In this work we present a hierarchy of generalized contextuality. It refines the traditional binary distinction between contextual and noncontextual theories, and facilitates their comp
Justice is geometric
AEON @ 2026-04-21 12:00:00
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon
Elevating Variational Quantum Semidefinite Programs for Polynomial Objectives
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 11:40:29
Quantum 10, 2076 (2026). Many practically important NP-hard optimization problems are inherently higher-order polynomial optimizations, which are typically addressed using approximation algorithms. Classical re
Comparing the performance of practical two-qubit gates for individual $^{171}$Yb ions in yttrium orthovanadate
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 10:39:26
Quantum 10, 2075 (2026). In this paper, we investigate three schemes for implementing Controlled-Z (CZ) gates between individual ytterbium (Yb) rare-earth ions doped into yttrium orthovanadate (YVO$_4$ or YVO).
La diferencia de impedancia entre dos redes sociales
brucknerite @ 2026-04-21 10:00:00
A «nivel usuario», entre Mastodón y Bluesky no hay demasiada diferencia. Sin embargo, comunicarse entre ambas redes, aunque posible, viene con una serie de condicionantes que se parecen mucho al desacoplamiento de impedancia entre redes de componentes elec
★ Another Day Has Come
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-21 05:59:41
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
Cloudflare Introduces Project Think: a Durable Runtime for AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 04:34:00
Cloudflare's Project Think introduces a new framework for AI agents, shifting from stateless orchestration to a durable actor-based infrastructure. It features a kernel-like runtime enabling agents to manage memory and run code securely. Innovations incl
Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 27: Obsolete Translation Resources Removed
Inside Java @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of obsolete translation resources in JDK 27.
DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:38:00
Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news
‘Community Letter From Tim’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:37:22
Tim Cook, in a letter addressed, simply, “To the Apple community”: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share
Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 22:44:58
Apple Newsroom, with a veritable “boom”: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effect
Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-20 21:38:06
New artificial neurons fire so realistically they can activate living brain cells in mouse tissue. The post Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 19:09:30
Apple Newsroom: In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress toward Apple 2030, the company’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of this decade. Apple’s greenhouse gas emis
Análisis de ajedrez | Barceló, de 9 años, logra su 4ª medalla en cuatro meses
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-20 19:03:03
El español gana la plata en el Mundial Relámpago sub-10 tres días después del oro en el Mundial Rápido
Announcing Daniel Ruggeri as Executive Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation
ASF @ 2026-04-20 18:15:20
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has appointed Daniel Ruggeri to be the new Executive Vice President (EVP) of The ASF. A History of Contribution Daniel’s journey with The ASF began with a practical necessity: fixing a problem he encountered at work. W
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-04-20 17:53:21
Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager,
Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-20 17:02:08
Open source infrastructure depends on more than new features. It also depends on the steady, often unseen work of identifying risks, improving processes, and making systems easier to maintain over time. That is exactly what the Beach Cleaning Project set
What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-20 17:00:16
The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life. The post What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57
This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n
Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
Kotlin news @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57
This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n
How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory?
old new thing @ 2026-04-20 16:00:00
You still have to use aligned accesses, even though the pixels might not be aligned. The post How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
More on Newton’s diameter theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-20 15:50:33
A few days ago I wrote a post on Newton’s diameter theorem. The theorem says to plot the curve formed by the solutions to f(x, y) = 0 where f is a polynomial in x and y of degree n. Next plot several parallel lines that cross the curve at n points a
The engineering method
AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:01:00
How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Fuel for thought
AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00
A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations - by Hannah Critchlow Read on Aeon
Quantum recurrences and the arithmetic of Floquet dynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-20 10:38:15
Quantum 10, 2074 (2026). The Poincaré recurrence theorem shows that conservative systems in a bounded region of phase space eventually return arbitrarily close to their initial state after a finite amount of ti
Caer con estilo
brucknerite @ 2026-04-20 10:00:00
La degradación gradual o controlada es una técnica de diseño empleada frecuentemente en ingeniería cuando se desea proteger la función principal del sistema a expensas de otras, consideradas secundarias. Pero ¿se usa en todos los casos en los que se deberí
Fly swatter
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-20 08:45:00
New approach to block potentially malicious requests with less collateral damage
Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 20:51:43
Marc Malkin, Variety: Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her political thriller series “The Savant.” [...] “Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain to
WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 19:37:01
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines it
Análisis de ajedrez | Antón cae del podio del Europeo cuando aspiraba al oro
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-19 18:55:19
Tras un torneo magnífico, que incluye esta victoria muy brillante, el español perdió en la última ronda
How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code
Inside Java @ 2026-04-19 02:00:00
This video explores generics, JVM internals, and the road to Valhalla generics...
Podcast CB SyR 554: Inocentadas de 1 de abril, marcas auriñacienses, señales SETI y transporte de antimateria
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-18 21:05:05
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 554 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Papers de Broma; Signos; Memristores; SETI; Antimateria”, 16 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 554