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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

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

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

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.

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 17:59:19

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slashdot @ 2026-04-24 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army's special forces, for allegedly using "classified, nonpublic" information about the capture

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 16:45:10

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 16:28:52

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 16:18:03

I think about this scene more and more lately.

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-24 13:00:00

Anthropic is expanding Claude's app integrations beyond work tools, adding personal-service connectors like Spotify, Uber, AllTrails, TripAdvisor, Instacart, and TurboTax. The Verge reports: Some of these apps, such as Spotify, already have similar connect

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 11:17:57

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 10:28:47

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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

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

The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones with hotspot features are not affected. PCMag reports: On Wednesday, the FCC updated its FAQ on the

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 06:38:37

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 06:04:42

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slashdot @ 2026-04-24 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit docume

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 05:01:21

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 04:26:23

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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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-04-24 01:00:00

Apple has fixed a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after messages disappeared and the app was deleted. "Affected users concerned about push notifications can update their devices to stop what Apple charact

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 00:37:01

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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 .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 00:01:59

Hey there! I am Luca, I write and I built Tolaria for myself to manage my own knowledge base (10K notes, 300+ articles written in over 6 years of newslettering) and work well with AI. Tolaria is offline-first, file-based, has fi

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

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have approved Paramount Skydance's takeover bid, moving the massive Hollywood merger a step closer to completion. It's not a done deal quite yet, though, as it still faces regulatory scrutiny and fierce opposition from c

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 23:56:15

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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

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.

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.

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

OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 22:14:29

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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

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.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00

New Java version for Solaris/SPARC

slashdot @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00

Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the

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

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

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 .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 21:09:40

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C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 21:03:00

Now with even more honey!

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.

slashdot @ 2026-04-23 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 20:55:32

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 20:01:39

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slashdot @ 2026-04-23 20:00:00

In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big mistake" in the role. "The product wasn't ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:48:38

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:30:05

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:01:01

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slashdot @ 2026-04-23 19:00:00

Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, "about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible," with the program being "available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up t

slashdot @ 2026-04-23 18:15:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies' unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operati

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

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°

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-04-22 12:20:03

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

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

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

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 .              

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

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 @ 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 .

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 @ 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

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 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,

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 16:59:00

LinkedIn introduces Cognitive Memory Agent (CMA), generative AI infrastructure layer enabling stateful, context-aware systems. It provides persistent memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural layers, supporting multi-agent coordination, retrieval

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

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

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 .

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

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

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 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

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

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-20 08:45:00

New approach to block potentially malicious requests with less collateral damage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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