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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 09:34:00

Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about." Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we go

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 05:34:00

Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51. And there's been other changes, reports Entrepren

slashdot @ 2026-04-19 03:34:00

After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press: In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsu

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-19 01:47:45

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

"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian: Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he ne

slashdot @ 2026-04-18 23:34:00

Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews: Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is base

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 22:54:17

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slashdot @ 2026-04-18 22:34:00

"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonpr

slashdot @ 2026-04-18 21:34:00

Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extensi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 21:19:24

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 21:00:00

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slashdot @ 2026-04-18 20:34:00

Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins "have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them." A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started p

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

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

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

Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we've had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose "is not just another calorie." It is a signal. It tells the liver t

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

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

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

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

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

20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News as his parents drove him to federal prison in Connecticut. "I'm just scared," he said, calling the whole situation "extremely sad." Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch w

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 18:26:47

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slashdot @ 2026-04-18 17:34:00

Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called "Euro-Office". But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. "They removed all references to our brand/attribute as re

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-18 16:34:00

Friday Anthropic's CEO met with top U.S. officials and "discussed opportunities for collaboration," according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, "as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling thi

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-18 13:00:00

Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software c

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

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

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

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

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

NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partnership

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 08:40:47

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-18 03:15:43

I've been studying interval arithmetic for the past few weeks and it's a really interesting field because while there is a ton of super interesting research published over the past decades, it has never really gotten the recognition that it deserves, IMO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-17 23:38:20

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-17 19:18:58

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-17 18:38:44

I wrote this after the case of a Washington Post reporter, Hannah Natanson, was compelled to unlock her computer with her fingerprint. This resulted in access to her Desktop Signal on her computer, revealing sources and their conversations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 19:05:00

Google has announced the release of Gemma 4, a series of open-weight AI models, including variants with 2B, 4B, 26B, and 31B parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features include enhanced video and image processing, audio input on smaller models

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cloudflare has launched a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server powered by Code Mode, enabling AI agents to interact with large APIs with minimal token usage. The server reduces context footprint across 2,500+ endpoints, improves multi-API orchestratio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 13:52:00

Software platforms must be treated as products. Success requires balancing engineering, design, usability, security, and value for internal customers and the organisation, Abby Bangser mentioned in her talk Platform as a Product. A product mindset, clear

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 11:37:00

Anysphere released Cursor 3, a redesigned interface built from scratch that shifts the primary model from file editing to managing parallel coding agents. The new workspace supports local-to-cloud agent handoff, multi-repo parallel execution, and a plugi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 01:45:00

The OpenTelemetry project has announced that key portions of its declarative configuration specification have reached stable status. The observability framework is a vendor-neutral and language-agnostic way to configure telemetry collection. By Matt Sa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-15 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

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

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Does your private cloud feel like a free-for-all buffet? You know it's providing value, but when the bill comes due, it’s nearly impossible to tell who’s eating what.In today's dynamic cloud environments, it’s increasingly important to be able to properly

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Are you ready to accelerate your business and dive into the future of open innovation? We certainly are! Red Hat Summit 2026 is coming quickly and we can’t wait to see you all in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 11-14, especially as we have something extra speci

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.21 is now available, improving pipeline performance, security capabilities, and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) on Red Hat OpenShift. This release introduces AI-assisted troubl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to implement a security.txt with Jekyll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-14 02:00:00

Legacy infrastructure is the primary barrier to AI strategy. Current systems simply weren't built for these workloads. Platforms lack native AI support, leaving expensive GPUs underutilized at rates as low as 30%. While teams often customize models, the ac

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

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-04-13 17:52:13

Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhancing spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding for autonomous robotics.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-13 16:54:41

AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning. The post The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-13 16:33:16

Andrzej Odrzywolek recently posted an article on arXiv showing that you can obtain all the elementary functions from just the function and the constant 1. The following equations, taken from the paper’s supplement, show how to bootstrap addition, su

old new thing @ 2026-04-13 16:00:00

Taking advantage of special characteristics of the array. The post Finding a duplicated item in an array of <VAR>N</VAR> integers in the range 1 to <VAR>N</VAR> − 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:01:00

This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:00:00

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity - by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward Read on Aeon

Inside Java @ 2026-04-13 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.

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-13 01:42:01

The date of Easter The church fixed Easter to be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox. They were choosing a date in the Roman (Julian) calendar to commemorate an event whose date was known according to the Jewish lunisolar c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 00:00:00

My thanks to Typotheque for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Zed, their incredible new font superfamily. Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but wha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 23:59:00

The New York Times: In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up.

TED Blog @ 2026-04-12 20:45:43

Can’t make it to Vancouver for TED2026 this week? No problem! You can stream the entire conference online with TED Live. TED Live brings the TED conference experience to your home – or anywhere you want to watch. Get exclusive access to every talk. S

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-12 20:39:56

El neerlandés no logra doblegar a Yi Wei tras seis horas de lucha a pesar de conseguir varias posiciones donde disponía de golpes ganadores

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 19:39:26

More vintage graphic-design weekend fun — this time, a collection of Milwaukee bus tickets from the late 1940s to early 1950s, collected on the Present & Correct blog. So much variety in the colors and typography, but yet they all feel branded toget

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-12 17:00:00

Less known Solaris Features integrated to the website