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Man Who Cryogenically Froze Late Wife Sparks Debate By Dating New Partner

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 08:00:00

A Chinese man who cryogenically preserved his wife after her death has sparked a heated online debate after it emerged he began dating a new partner in 2020. Some argue it's natural for him to move on, while others say he's being selfish or disrespectful t

US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously

Crikey! Newly Discovered Snake Species Named After Steve Irwin

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 04:00:00

A mysterious wolf snake is the latest creature to bear the Crocodile Hunter’s name The post Crikey! Newly Discovered Snake Species Named After Steve Irwin appeared first on Nautilus .

Chinese Spies Are Trying To Reach UK Lawmakers Via LinkedIn, MI5 Warns

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 03:20:00

MI5 has warned U.K. lawmakers that Chinese intelligence operatives are using LinkedIn and recruitment fronts to target them for information gathering and long-term cultivation. PBS reports: Writing to lawmakers, House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said

Mexico Partially Lifts Longstanding Website Ban On Tor Network

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 02:40:00

Mexico has finally lifted its long-running Tor ban for the main government portal, allowing privacy-focused users, journalists, and activists to access gob.mx again after more than a decade of blocking. That said, the open data portal and the former Tor-co

Wolves Caught on Camera Fishing for the First Time

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 02:00:00

Wolves seem to have pulled traps out of the water and stolen the bait. But was it tool use? The post Wolves Caught on Camera Fishing for the First Time appeared first on Nautilus .

Did a Violent Land Grab Give These Chimps a Leg Up?

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 02:00:00

For at least one wild chimpanzee population, killing neighbors has its benefits The post Did a Violent Land Grab Give These Chimps a Leg Up? appeared first on Nautilus .

Gen Z Officially Worse At Passwords Than 80-Year-Olds

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 02:00:00

A NordPass analysis found that Gen Z is actually worse at password security than older generations, with "12345" topping their list while "123456" dominates among everyone else. The Register reports: And while there were a few more "skibidis" among the Zoo

Cloud-Native Computing Is Poised To Explode

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 01:20:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s leaders predicted an enormous surge in cloud-native computing, driven by the explosive growth of AI inference workloads

Scientists Race to Deliver Custom Gene Therapies for Incurable Diseases in Weeks—Not Years

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-19 00:48:32

Gene editors usually take years to test and perfect. KJ Muldoon’s treatment took only six months. Now his doctors want to go even faster. The post Scientists Race to Deliver Custom Gene Therapies for Incurable Diseases in Weeks—Not Years appeared firs

Red Hat Losing Another Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 00:40:00

Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO. His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, sig

The Talk Show: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 00:34:58

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs. Also, six years of Da

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 00:31:22

Related: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues - - Nov 2025 (1580 comments) Comments URL: Points: 471 # Comments: 280

Sir, This Is a McDonald’s

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 00:04:12

Jonathan Last, writing for The Bulwark: The president of the United States gave a speech yesterday before a group of McDonald’s corporate workers and franchise owners. I’m going to quote a few sections of his remarks at great length, because if you ha

New AI Model Captures the Milky Way in Stunning Detail

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 00:00:00

Researchers gain a hi-def view of galactic activity with an assist from a deep-learning surrogate The post New AI Model Captures the Milky Way in Stunning Detail appeared first on Nautilus .

Blender 5.0 Released

slashdot @ 2025-11-19 00:00:00

Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements

New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-18 23:29:46

Amazon Bedrock introduces three service tiers—Priority, Standard, and Flex—allowing you to optimize AI workload costs by matching performance requirements with pricing for different application needs.

Report Claims That Apple Has Yet Again Put the Mac Pro 'On the Back Burner'

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 23:20:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple's Power Mac and Mac Pro towers used to be the company's primary workstations, but it has been years since they were updated with the same regularity as the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro

Accelerate large-scale AI applications with the new Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-18 23:16:16

Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6-B300 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which deliver 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory than previous generations, making them well suited for training and serving large-scale AI

Blender 5.0

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 22:39:18

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ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 22:25:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock's license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming t

Kale Isn’t the Superfood You Thought

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 22:00:00

But a lab-grown sauce can help The post Kale Isn’t the Superfood You Thought appeared first on Nautilus .

Klarna Says AI Drive Has Helped Halve Staff Numbers and Boost Pay

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 21:50:00

Klarna has claimed that AI-related savings have allowed the buy now, pay later company to increase staff salaries by nearly 60%, but hinted it could slash more jobs after nearly halving its workforce over the past three years. From a report: Chief executiv

GitHub: Git operation failures

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 21:40:46

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Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 21:29:35

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Oracle is Already Underwater On Its 'Astonishing' $300B OpenAI Deal

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 21:10:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: It's too soon to be talking about the Curse of OpenAI, but we're going to anyway. Since September 10, when Oracle announced a $300 billion deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315 billion in market value.

When You Give a Bully Your Lunch Money

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 20:37:56

President Donald Trump, today in the Oval Office alongside his “very good friend” Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, after ABC News reporter Mary Bruce had the temerity to pose a question regarding Mohammed having ordered the brutal murder of Washing

'Talking To Windows' Copilot AI Makes a Computer Feel Incompetent'

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 20:31:00

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11 fails to replicate the capabilities shown in the company's TV advertisements. The Verge tested Copilot Vision over a week using the same prompts featured in ads airing during NFL games. When asked to identify

This Historic Figurine Unearths New Insights Into Ancient Spirituality

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 20:07:36

A 12,000-year-old depiction of a woman and a goose offers intriguing hints into the culture of early human settlements The post This Historic Figurine Unearths New Insights Into Ancient Spirituality appeared first on Nautilus .

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 19:50:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without obtaining a warrant, according to a letter signed by a bipar

Gurman Says Apple Has No Plans to Update the Mac Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 19:27:29

Mark Gurman, in his (paywalled, alas) Power On column for Bloomberg over the weekend: The next major update didn’t arrive until 2023, when Apple finally transitioned the desktop to in-house chips with the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. Two years later, that mode

Análisis de ajedrez | Un día clave para Alcántara

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-18 19:19:48

El peruano-mexicano estará a un paso del Torneo de Candidatos si derrota a Sindárov en el desempate rápido de cuartos de final

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 19:13:30

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Federal Judge Rules Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp Purchases Did Not Stifle Competition

slashdot @ 2025-11-18 19:04:00

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Meta did not illegally stifle competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. The decision marks Big Tech's first major victory against antitrust enforcement that began during President Donald Trump's first term. The

Cloudflare Suffered Hours Long Outage (Which Brought Down Daring Fireball, Among Thousands of Other Sites)

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 18:30:19

Cloudflare suffered an hours-long global outage, starting around 12pm UTC / 7am ET, which brought down an enormous chunk of the Internet. This included, humorously , Down Detector . It also included (not so humorously to me) Daring Fireball, which has b

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 18:24:27

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My Foreword to "Frictionless"

Martin Fowler @ 2025-11-18 18:19:00

I find most writing on software productivity to be twaddle, but Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda are notable exceptions. I had a chance to take a look at their new book, published today, and liked it so much I wrote a foreword. more…

ASF Project Spotlight: Apache Geode

ASF @ 2025-11-18 18:00:00

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache Geode is an in-memory data grid that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications at massive scale. It enables developers to build high-performance, low-latency systems with strong con

Life in London With an Android Phone

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 17:34:43

London Centric: Sam was walking past a Royal Mail depot in south London in January when his path was blocked by a group of eight men. “I tried to move to let them pass, but the last guy blocked the path,” the 32-year-old told London Centric. “They s

Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 17:04:12

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 361 # Comments: 1

Gemini 3

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 17:00:33

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Google Antigravity

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 16:47:38

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QCon SF: Database-Backed Workflow Orchestration Challenges Traditional Architecture

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 16:10:00

During QCon SF, Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li from DBOS presented a non-conventional architectural approach to workflow orchestration: treating PostgreSQL not just as a data store, but as the orchestration layer itself. Their talk addressed a persistent prob

Gemini 3

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 16:09:38

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AI-Generated Code Creates New Wave of Technical Debt, Report Finds

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 16:00:00

AI-generated code is “highly functional but systematically lacking in architectural judgment”, a new report from Ox Security has found. In a report released in late October called Army of Juniors: The AI Code Security Crisis, AI application security (App

Microspeak: Little-r

old new thing @ 2025-11-18 16:00:00

Harkening back to a very old mail program. The post Microspeak: Little-r appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 15:11:17

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Pythagorean triples

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-18 14:13:35

Five posts on Pythagorean triangles and Pythagorean triples Primitive Pythagorean triangles with the same area Sparse binary Pythagorean triples Matrix Pythagorean triples Approximation by Pythagorean triangles Fibonacci meets Pythagoras The post Pythag

Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 13:54:49

Related: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues - Comments URL: Points: 447 # Comments: 321

Helping Decision‑Makers Say Yes to Kotlin

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-11-18 13:11:19

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the fourth post in The U

Helping Decision‑Makers Say Yes to Kotlin

Kotlin news @ 2025-11-18 13:11:19

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the fourth post in The U

CameraX 1.5 Brings Advanced Video Recording and Image Capture to Android

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 13:00:00

CameraX 1.5 introduces support for capturing slow-motion and high frame-rate videos as well as unprocessed, uncompressed still images. These capabilities are enabled by the new SessionConfig API, which streamlines camera setup and configuration. By Ser

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 12:48:56

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 303 # Comments: 6

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 12:40:01

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 427 # Comments: 2

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 12:35:10

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The inflammation age

AEON @ 2025-11-18 12:00:00

Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift - by Amy K McLennan Read on Aeon

The Ochre Origins of Art

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 11:50:00

Ancient use of this red powder is found wherever there were humans The post The Ochre Origins of Art appeared first on Nautilus .

First Keynote at QCon San Francisco 2025: Reducing Friction by Nicole Forsgren

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 11:00:00

At QCon SF 2025, Dr. Nicole Forsgren highlighted how AI accelerates code generation but reveals deployment bottlenecks, urging a strategic pivot to optimizing Developer Experience (DevEx). With 31% of developer time lost to friction, focusing on effectiv

RSA as a pairing

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-18 09:22:52

The last couple posts have been about group pairings, specifically Tate pairings as they’re used in cryptography. This post will show that RSA encryption can be seen as a special case of pairing-based cryptography. The idea comes from Ben Lynn’

How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 09:18:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 465 # Comments: 123

Running Tomcat Server on Two Different Ports

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:43:31

Explore different approaches to running a Tomcat server on other ports. The post Running Tomcat Server on Two Different Ports first appeared on Baeldung .              

Resolving JUnit Error: Test Class Should Have Exactly One Public Zero-Argument Constructor

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:39:58

Understand the JUnit error: Test class should have exactly one public zero-argument constructor. The post Resolving JUnit Error: Test Class Should Have Exactly One Public Zero-Argument Constructor first appeared on Baeldung .     

Select a Random Key from a HashMap in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:34:48

Learn several methods for accessing random elements from a HashMap in Java and their advantages and disadvantages. The post Select a Random Key from a HashMap in Java first appeared on Baeldung .            

How to Set a Specific Bit of a Number in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:30:31

Learn how to set a single bit or multiple bits of an interger in Java. The post How to Set a Specific Bit of a Number in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

The surprising benefits of giving up

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 05:44:21

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The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 04:00:00

Ditching or adjusting goals in the face of adversity might often be the best thing for us—but we don’t all approach these challenges in the same way The post The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up appeared first on Nautilus .

Core Devices keeps stealing our work

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 03:53:28

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 595 # Comments: 114

New IBM Granite 4 Models to Reduce AI Costs with Inference-Efficient Hybrid Mamba-2 Architecture

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 03:48:00

IBM recently announced the Granite 4.0 family of small language models. The model family aims to deliver faster speeds and significantly lower operational costs at acceptable accuracy vs. larger models. Granite 4.0 features a new hybrid Mamba/transformer

Apple Introduces Digital ID

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 02:27:17

Apple Newsroom, last week: Apple today announced the launch of Digital ID, a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using information from their U.S. passport, and present it with the security and privacy of iPhone or Apple Watch. At launch

Rebecca Heineman has died

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 02:25:54

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I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-18 02:11:34

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The Science of Your Weed’s Stank

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 02:00:00

Researchers classified 25 scents that make your weed smell, including skunk, candy, toasted bread, and vomit The post The Science of Your Weed’s Stank appeared first on Nautilus .

This Wireless Brain Implant Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-18 01:04:13

It uses light to record and transmit brain signals and worked for a year with minimal scarring in mice. The post This Wireless Brain Implant Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt appeared first on SingularityHub .

Making Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Again

Ethereum blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Account Abstraction team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ether

Google Summer of Code 2025 results

Rust blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

As we have announced previously this year, the Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the second time. Almost twenty contributors have been working very hard on their projects for several months. Same as last year, the projects

Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSHigh Scale Performance Testing: Virt DensityNovember 17, 2025 Jenifer AbramsAs the OpenShift Virtualization Performance Scale team, we get access to hardware provided by our

Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers deterministic performance for time-sensitive networking

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

The industrial world runs on timing and consistency. In manufacturing and operations, a predictable outcome isn't a nice-to-have; it's the core promise of the industrial system itself. Whether you're managing complex motion control or critical process loop

Automation unleashed: Introducing the new Red Hat Certified Ansible Collection amazon.ai for generative AI

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Generative AI demands infrastructure that’s not only powerful but repeatable, auditable, and scalable. From chat bots and content generation to intelligent automation agents, organizations are deploying AI at scale. But with this innovation comes complexit

Red Hat announces 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Award Winners

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

The Red Hat 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Awards recognize public sector partners for their continued efforts in developing innovative solutions using Red Hat technologies to meet the U.S. government’s needs and improve mission critical

OpenShift Virtualization now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available as a self-managed operator in Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). For too long, the virtualization conversation has been stuck in the past – only focused on moving old workloads around. But f

Enhance workload security with confidential containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

As organizations continue to accelerate digital transformation in the cloud, customers are looking for ways to enhance safeguards for sensitive workloads, especially those in highly regulated industries. As such, confidential computing has become an increa

Building a consistent AI platform: Customization meets enterprise data

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

There’s no doubt that generative AI (gen AI) is reshaping how enterprises operate, but let’s be clear: unlocking real value from AI takes more than just plugging in a pre-trained model and hoping for the best.While AI solutions are often positioned as imme

Meta Has Deprecated the Messenger Apps for Mac and Windows Too

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 00:43:13

Ryan Christoffel, reporting for 9to5Mac a month ago: Meta has published a support doc that states its Messenger app for Mac is being discontinued. New users won’t be able to download the app at all, and existing users have about 60 more days of use

Attach to Multiple Processes

Indie Stack @ 2025-11-18 00:03:20

For the vast majority of developers of software for Apple products, the process (har, har) of debugging involves attaching to and inspecting only one process: the main application binary. This is particularly true on iOS-based systems, where spawning subpr

The Medieval Friar Who Foretold Carl Sagan’s “Star-Stuff”

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-18 00:00:00

Before science could prove it, this philosopher saw our place in the stars The post The Medieval Friar Who Foretold Carl Sagan’s “Star-Stuff” appeared first on Nautilus .

[Sponsor] Clerk for iOS

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 23:44:18

Clerk makes authentication for iOS apps effortless — just drop in prebuilt SwiftUI components for sign-in, MFA, and profile management. Fully customizable, always in sync with Apple’s design system, and packed with features devs love: social sign-in, user

Google Announces Private AI Compute

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 22:40:16

Jay Yagnik, VP of AI innovation and research, on Google’s The Keyword blog: Private AI Compute is built on a multi-layered system that is designed from the ground up around core security and privacy principles: One integrated Google tech stack:

OpenAI: Piloting Group Chats in ChatGPT

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 22:32:17

OpenAI: To start a group chat tap the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When you add someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of your conversation as a new group chat so your original conversation stays separa

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda for Rust, NLB for QUIC protocol, Amazon DCV for Mac, and more (November 17, 2025)

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-17 18:59:08

The weeks before AWS re:Invent, my team is full steam ahead preparing content for the conference. I can’t wait to meet you at one of my three talks: CMP346 : Supercharge AI/ML on Apple Silicon with EC2 Mac, CMP344: Speed up Apple application builds with CI

Boundaries for quantum advantage with single photons and loop-based time-bin interferometers

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 18:10:47

Quantum 9, 1915 (2025). Loop-based boson samplers interfere photons in the time degree of freedom using a sequence of delay lines. Since they require few hardware components while also allowing for long-range e

Apache Fineract Recertified as a United Nations Digital Public Good

ASF @ 2025-11-17 18:00:00

UN recertifies open source platform Apache Fineract as a foundational Digital Public Good for financial inclusion. Wilmington, DE – November 17, 2025 – The Apache Fineract community is pleased to announce that their platform, Apache Fineract, has once aga

Three-party Diffie-Hellman in one shot

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-17 17:51:24

Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman Given a point P on an elliptic curve E, and a random number a, aP means to add P to itself a times, using the addition on E. The point aP can be computed efficiently, even if a is a very large number [1]. However, if E has a

Optimal Fermionic Joint Measurements for Estimating Non-Commuting Majorana Observables

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 17:30:51

Quantum 9, 1914 (2025). An important class of fermionic observables, relevant in tasks such as fermionic partial tomography and estimating energy levels of chemical Hamiltonians, are the binary measurements obt

Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data, Spring AI, Payara Platform, OpenJDK, JobRunr

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 17:30:00

This week's Java roundup for November 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 26; the GA release of Spring Framework 7.0; point releases of Spring Data, Spring AI, JobRunr and Jox; the November 2025 edition of Payara Platfor

A Graphical Calculus for Quantum Computing with Multiple Qudits using Generalized Clifford Algebras

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 17:12:56

Quantum 9, 1913 (2025). In this work, we develop a graphical calculus for multi-qudit computations with generalized Clifford algebras, building off the algebraic framework developed in our prior work. We build

Análisis de ajedrez | Yakúbboev, el uzbeko imprevisto, a un paso de las semifinales

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-17 17:00:33

Nadie esperaba que el asiático, tercer jugador de su país, pudiera optar a una plaza en el próximo Torneo de Candidatos, pero está cerca

KubeCon NA 2025 - Erica Hughberg and Alexa Griffith on Tools for the Age of GenAI

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 16:25:00

Generative AI technologies need to support new workloads, traffic patterns, and infrastructure demands and require a new set of tools for the age of GenAI. Erica Hughberg from Tetrate and Alexa Griffith from Bloomberg spoke last week at KubeCon + CloudNa

Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-17 16:18:20

Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 40 years? The post Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine

How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux

old new thing @ 2025-11-17 16:00:00

Doing it on hard mode. The post How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Instability of steady-state mixed-state symmetry-protected topological order to strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 14:08:28

Quantum 9, 1912 (2025). Recent experimental progress in controlling open quantum systems enables the pursuit of mixed-state nonequilibrium quantum phases. We investigate whether open quantum systems hosting mix

Multipartite Entanglement Distribution in Quantum Networks using Subgraph Complementations

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 14:00:45

Quantum 9, 1911 (2025). Quantum networks are important for quantum communication, enabling tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, quantum sensing, and quantum error correction, often uti

Code Arena Launches as a New Benchmark for Real-World AI Coding Performance

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 13:25:00

LMArena has launched Code Arena, a new evaluation platform that measures AI models' performance in building complete applications instead of just generating code snippets. It emphasizes agentic behavior, allowing models to plan, scaffold, iterate, and re

Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3

Swift blog @ 2025-11-17 13:00:00

Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than reg

AWS Introduces Remote Build Cache in ECR to Accelerate Docker Image Builds

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 13:00:00

Amazon Web Services has announced enhancements to its CodeBuild service, allowing teams to use Amazon ECR as a remote Docker layer cache, significantly reducing image build times in CI/CD pipelines. By leveraging ECR repositories to persist and reuse bui

The quest for exomoons

AEON @ 2025-11-17 12:01:00

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

‘I awoke at ½ past 7’

AEON @ 2025-11-17 12:00:00

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame - by Elena Mary Read on Aeon

Alienígenas e inteligencia

brucknerite @ 2025-11-17 10:00:00

“We have no idea what an alien person or being or intelligence or machine would be motivated by… We don’t know what motivates the Kremlin, for God’s sake.”

Kimi's K2 Opensource Language Model Supports Dynamic Resource Availability and New Optimizer

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 09:35:00

Kimi released K2, a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1.04 trillion total parameters, trained on 15.5 trillion tokens. The release introduces MuonClip, a new optimizer that builds on the Muon optimizer by ad

.NET 10 Improves MAUI Quality and Performance

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 09:00:00

At the launch of .NET 10, .NET MAUI receives a suite of updates focused on quality, performance and developer productivity. While no new big UI changes are there, the enhancements fill in missing details in cross‑platform workflows and refine long‑standi

VoidZero’s Rolldown Library: Rollup Compatible API with the Speed Of Rust

InfoQ @ 2025-11-17 09:00:00

Rolldown is a cutting-edge JavaScript/TypeScript bundler, crafted in Rust for unmatched speed and efficiency. Delivering 10-30x faster performance than Rollup, it seamlessly integrates with existing Rollup plugins, enhancing modern build workflows with a

WorkOS

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 02:31:53

My thanks to WorkOS for their continuing support of DF with another sponsorship week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The A

Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey

Rust blog @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

It’s time for the 2025 State of Rust Survey ! The Rust Project has been collecting valuable information about the Rust programming language community through our annual State of Rust Survey since 2016. Which means that this year marks the tenth editi

JEP targeted to JDK 26: 524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview)

Inside Java @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 26: 524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview)

Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2 with Istio’s ambient mode

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2. This release includes the general availability of Istio’s ambient mode—a new way of deploying service mesh without sidecars that significantly lowers the resource c

Unlock enterprise-grade virtualization at the edge with two-node Red Hat OpenShift and Arctera's InfoScale

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

From remote offices to factory floors, organizations are extending their virtualization capabilities to where data is generated and consumed, unlocking new opportunities for innovation and efficiency. This shift to the edge brings a unique set of challenge

Behind the queues: How Kueue reimagines scheduling in Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

In a modern cluster, the hardest problem isn’t running workloads—it's sharing resources fairly. Red Hat OpenShift clusters are seeing a surge of AI-accelerated workloads, from GPU-intensive training jobs to large batches of inference requests. At the same

Mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» para BCNspiracy 2025 en CosmoCaixa

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-16 21:27:13

Como suele habitual en mis charlas (aunque siempre) os presento una transcripción libre de mi charla del sábado 15 de noviembre a las 16:50 en el evento BCNspiracy 2025 en […] La entrada Mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» para BCNspiracy

Elliptic curve pairings in cryptography

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-16 21:27:09

Pairings can mean a variety of related things in group theory, but for our purposes a pairing is a bilinear mapping from two groups to a third group. e: G1 × G2 → GT Typically the group operation on G1 and G2 is written addititvely and the group operation

Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-16 20:13:04

Let p be a prime number. Then the integers mod p form a finite field. The number of elements in a finite field must be a power of a prime, i.e. the order q = pn for some n. When n > 1, we can take the elements of our field to be polynomials of […

x86/x64: Backport fix for math.min()/math.max() argument check.

luajit @ 2025-11-16 19:34:11

Reported by puffy.

Análisis de ajedrez | Erigaisi exhibe su fuerza

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-16 17:43:44

Uno de los jóvenes astros indios, 5º del mundo a los 22 años, elimina a Aronián y parece estar en gran forma, pero su próximo rival será Yi Wei

Test of Time Awards: A Good Idea but ....

Computational Complexity @ 2025-11-16 14:40:00

Since there is now a CCC Test-of-Time Award, see  here ,  (CCC stands for Computational Complexity Conference), I decided to look at other Test-of-Time awards in computer science. Below is a list of various computer science Test-of-Tim

Financial Times: ‘Apple Intensifies Succession Planning for CEO Tim Cook’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-16 04:00:15

The Financial Times, under a four-person byline (“Tim Bradshaw, Stephen Morris, and Michael Acton in San Francisco, and Daniel Thomas in London”): Apple is stepping up its succession planning efforts, as it prepares for Tim Cook to step down as chief

★ Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a Shitty Web App

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-16 01:57:02

The question is, did Meta scrap its native Windows app because they don’t care that much about Windows in particular? Or because they don’t care that much about native desktop apps, period — and a crude web app wrapper is coming to Mac next?

Beyond the Vector API - A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS

Inside Java @ 2025-11-16 01:00:00

Throughout the project, the Vector API balanced providing a cross-platform API with staying close to the metal, performance-wise. While the project succeeded in that goal, the Vector API had to give up some important functionality when it didn't fit the de

Sending XML POST Requests with Spring RestTemplate

Baeldung @ 2025-11-16 00:43:34

Learn how to convert Java objects to XML, send XML POST requests, and deserialize XML responses for XML-based integration using Spring's RestTemplate. The post Sending XML POST Requests with Spring RestTemplate first appeared on Baeldung .  

Análisis de ajedrez | Sindárov, de 19 años, en cuartos de final

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-15 19:10:00

El uzbeko, 3º del mundo sub-20, elimina al alemán Frederik Svane, verdugo del campeón Gukesh, y se acerca al Torneo de Candidatos

Whatever Happened to String Theory?

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-11-15 18:00:23

Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?. Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of … Cont

Race Condition in DynamoDB DNS System: Analyzing the AWS US-EAST-1 Outage

InfoQ @ 2025-11-15 11:46:00

On October 19th and 20th, AWS experienced an extended outage triggered by a failure in Amazon DynamoDB that affected most services in its most popular region, Northern Virginia. The cloud provider released an analysis of the incident, sparking discussion

Microsoft Addresses Data Residency with Private Cloud Expansion

InfoQ @ 2025-11-15 11:00:00

Microsoft has strengthened its Sovereign Cloud offering to meet stringent global data-residency and control regulations, particularly in Europe. New capabilities include a commitment to EU Data Boundary, expanded in-country data processing, and enhanced

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 15)

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-15 10:39:58

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 November 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

No te pierdas mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» en BCNspiracy 2025 en CosmoCaixa

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-15 05:05:02

No the pierdas el sábado 15 de noviembre mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» a las 16:50 en el evento BCNspiracy 2025 en el Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa, […] La entrada No te pierdas mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» en BCNspira

The Information: Second-Gen iPhone Air Postponed Until Spring 2027, but Might Gain Second Camera

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-15 03:09:38

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information on Tuesday (paywalled, alas, but summarized by 9to5Mac here and here ): Apple has since sharply scaled back production of the first iPhone Air and delayed the release of an updated version that

Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) released

Lua: news @ 2025-11-15 02:20:04

Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing.

Checkpoint #7: Nov 2025

Ethereum blog @ 2025-11-15 01:00:00

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-6 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading

In Wild Experiment, Surgeon Uses Robot to Remove Blood Clot in Brain 4,000 Miles Away

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-14 21:06:11

The transatlantic procedure, carried out on a human cadaver in Scotland, suggests future stroke surgeries could be completed remotely. The post In Wild Experiment, Surgeon Uses Robot to Remove Blood Clot in Brain 4,000 Miles Away appeared first on S

Fix edge cases when generating IR for string.byte/sub/find.

luajit @ 2025-11-14 20:15:44

Contributed by XmiliaH. #1407

AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-14 18:45:04

AWS Lambda's new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control ov

GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Console Output for Swift Testing

Swift blog @ 2025-11-14 18:15:00

The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplished here on the Swift blog. You can learn more by following these convenient links: Bringing Swiftly support to

iPhone Pockets Sold Out Within Hours

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 17:53:18

We have no idea how many of them they made, but seemingly, the price was not a problem for this product.  ★ 

Data Streaming Platforms: The Cornerstone of Enterprise AI

Confluent @ 2025-11-14 17:45:16

Discover how a data streaming platform helps you unlock the full potential of your AI—and translates it into measurable business value.

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-14 16:35:10

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem. The post Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down. first ap

Handling Exceptions in Kafka Streams

Baeldung @ 2025-11-14 16:15:50

Learn how to implement exception handling mechanisms when using Kafka Streams in Java. The post Handling Exceptions in Kafka Streams first appeared on Baeldung .              

Monzo’s Real-Time Fraud Detection Architecture with BigQuery and Microservices

InfoQ @ 2025-11-14 16:00:00

Monzo has redesigned its fraud prevention platform to detect scams in real time, handle growing payment volumes, and deploy new controls rapidly. Explore the bank’s modular control architecture, feature computation pipeline, and observability using BigQu

I can use WM_COPYDATA to send a block of data to another window, but how does it send data back?

old new thing @ 2025-11-14 16:00:00

They can send it back with their own WM_ COPY­DATA message, or they can put it in an agreed-upon shared location. The post I can use <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY<WBR>DATA</CODE> to send a block of data to another window, but how do

Análisis de ajedrez | Yesipenko sorprende y sigue vivo, en octavos de final

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-14 15:51:50

El ruso con bandera FIDE, de 23 años, 40º del escalafón, elimina de la Copa del Mundo (y del Torneo de Candidatos) al alemán Keymer, de 20, 4º

Zero-error communication under discrete-time Markovian dynamics

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-14 14:55:08

Quantum 9, 1910 (2025). Consider an open quantum system with (discrete-time) Markovian dynamics. Our task is to store information in the system in such a way that it can be retrieved perfectly, even after the s

Direct Analysis of Zero-Noise Extrapolation: Polynomial Methods, Error Bounds, and Simultaneous Physical-Algorithmic Error Mitigation

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-14 13:51:16

Quantum 9, 1909 (2025). Zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) is a widely used quantum error mitigation technique that artificially amplifies circuit noise and then extrapolates the results to the noise-free circuit.

Mask on/mask off

AEON @ 2025-11-14 12:00:00

People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price - by Gilly Kahn Read on Aeon

WSJ Report on the iPhone Air Pegs It as a ‘Flop’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 05:03:49

Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting for The Wall Street Journal ( gift link , News+ link ) under the headline “Apple’s iPhone Air Is a Marketing Win and a Sales Flop” (which headline, going from the web page <title> element, was originally the

How to Monetize Enterprise Data: The Definitive Guide

Confluent @ 2025-11-14 04:46:12

Learn how to design and implement a real-time data monetization engine using streaming systems. Get architecture patterns, code examples, tradeoffs, and best practices for billing usage-based data products.

Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 01:07:38

Mark Gurman and Edward Ludlow, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas, but summarized by The Verge and Ars Technica ) Tesla Inc. is developing support for Apple Inc.’s CarPlay system in its vehicles, according to people with knowledge of the matt

Issue 735

iOS Weekly @ 2025-11-14 01:00:00

Can we briefly talk about keeping track of the Swift open-source project? 💼

Deep Dive into Gatherers - JEP Cafe #24

Inside Java @ 2025-11-14 01:00:00

This JEP Café takes you through everything you can do with Gatherers, added to JDK 24 and available in JDK 25, the version you are going to use for your business applications. Along with many examples, it shows you the basics of mapping and filtering, how

Detecting the Unexpected: Built-in Real-Time Anomaly Detection With Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®

Confluent @ 2025-11-13 21:27:44

Learn how the built-in anomaly detection ML function in Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® enables event-driven AI agents to detect and act on outlier system events faster.

Introducing AWS IoT Core Device Location integration with Amazon Sidewalk

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-13 20:09:57

AWS IoT Core Device Location service enables Amazon Sidewalk devices to resolve location data without GPS modules, allowing cost-effective asset tracking solutions using Sidewalk's network infrastructure.

Can You Really Talk to the Dead Using AI? We Tried Out ‘Deathbots’ So You Don’t Have To

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-13 18:48:00

A growing digital afterlife industry promises to make memory interactive and, in some cases, eternal. The post Can You Really Talk to the Dead Using AI? We Tried Out ‘Deathbots’ So You Don’t Have To appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Gema de Ponce en el abierto internacional +65 de Altea

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-13 17:40:18

El español, duodécimo en la lista inicial, gana con brillo al campeón del mundo vigente, el ucranio Repríntsev

Four generalizations of the Pythagorean theorem

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-13 16:25:33

Here are four theorems that generalize the Pythagorean theorem. Follow the links for more details regarding each equation. 1. Theorem by Apollonius for general triangles. 2. Edsgar Dijkstra’s extension of the Pythagorean theorem for general triangle

Joy-Joy Feelings

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-13 16:23:51

Via a DF reader, here’s a 20-second clip from the 1993 classic * Demolition Man that exemplifies how today’s overly effusive, ever-affirming AI chatbots were presented as elements of a profoundly dystopic future by sci-fi writers just a few decades ago

Introducing the App Store Mini Apps Partner Program

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-11-13 16:20:24

Today, we’re introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store’s ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. This program

Updated App Review Guidelines now available

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-11-13 16:00:11

The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support updated policies and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below: 1.2.1(a): This new guideline specifies that creator apps must provide a way for users to identify content that exce

Could we use CTAD to simplify the use of WRL’s Callback function?

old new thing @ 2025-11-13 16:00:00

Not directly, but maybe indirectly. The post Could we use CTAD to simplify the use of WRL’s Callback function? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java Weekly, Issue 620

Baeldung @ 2025-11-13 13:18:25

Final fields finally being final final in JDK 26 is a good move. And our last launch of the year, Black Friday, is going live today. A good week :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 620 first appeared on Baeldung .         &#

The art of rebellion: Justine Kurland’s utopian photography

AEON @ 2025-11-13 12:01:00

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The deepest South

AEON @ 2025-11-13 12:00:00

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history? - by Ana Lucia Araujo Read on Aeon

Parsing integers in C

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-11-13 08:35:18

In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions. They are handy and easy to use, but also error-prone and quite lenient in what they accept and silently just swallow. atoi atoi() is perhaps th

Mapping a org.json.JSONObject to a POJO

Baeldung @ 2025-11-13 08:15:38

Learn ways to convert a JSON object to a POJO in Java without losing structure complexity. The post Mapping a org.json.JSONObject to a POJO first appeared on Baeldung .              

How to Fix the gradlew: command not found Error in Linux

Baeldung @ 2025-11-13 08:12:56

Learn how to diagnose and handle issues when running the gradlew wrapper script in Linux. The post How to Fix the gradlew: command not found Error in Linux first appeared on Baeldung .             

ESP32-S3 Dev Board Assembly

Atomic14 @ 2025-11-13 01:00:00

I finally got some time to assemble the ESP32-S3 dev boards we designed in this post . I ordered a stencil with the PCBs - this is by far the easiest way to do SMD assembly at home. Solder paste is pretty forgiving, but I didn’t do a perfe

JEP targeted to JDK 26: 516: Ahead-of-Time Object Caching with Any GC

Inside Java @ 2025-11-13 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 26: 516: Ahead-of-Time Object Caching with Any GC

★ OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-13 00:09:10

With the other personalities, you’re choosing between flavors of bullshit. With Efficient, you’re choosing no bullshit.

Google Summer of Code 2025: What Our Contributors Built

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-11-12 21:49:21

Congrats to all GSoC 2025 contributors and mentors! This year’s projects have made a real impact on the Kotlin ecosystem and the contributions are already being integrated, used, and appreciated. Thank you all for your hard work! Let’s take a closer look a

Google Summer of Code 2025: What Our Contributors Built

Kotlin news @ 2025-11-12 21:49:21

Congrats to all GSoC 2025 contributors and mentors! This year’s projects have made a real impact on the Kotlin ecosystem and the contributions are already being integrated, used, and appreciated. Thank you all for your hard work! Let’s take a closer look a

Nice Web Design Work From ‘In Common With’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-12 21:27:18

Toggle the “Light” switch here. It’s going to do what you hope it does. ( Via Jason Fried .)  ★ 

Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-12 21:05:01

With AWS re:Invent approaching, we’re celebrating three exceptional AWS Heroes whose diverse journeys and commitment to knowledge sharing are empowering builders worldwide. From advancing women in tech and rural communities to bridging academic and industr

The Zip-Off-Sleeve Uniforms Issey Miyake Designed for Sony in the Early 1980s

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-12 20:37:01

Sony, in a 2021 Instagram post, regarding the uniforms that so infatuated Steve Jobs that he commissioned Miyake to design prototype vests for Apple employees to wear: The history of the relationship between the two companies dates back to the 1980s

I Guess They’re Down to 999 No’s for Every Yes

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-12 18:52:58

From Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs , chapter 28, “CEO: Still Crazy After All These Years”, p. 361: On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman, Akio Morita, why everyone in his company’s factories wore uniforms. “He looked very a

Análisis de ajedrez | Alcántara pasa a octavos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-12 18:29:03

El próximo rival del gran maestro con bandera mexicana, nacido en Perú, será el sueco Grandelius o el indio Harikrishna

GSoC 2025 Showcase: Improved Code completion for Swift

Swift blog @ 2025-11-12 18:05:00

Our blog post series showcasing the Swift community’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025 continues with our third update. Learn more about the projects and work accomplished: Bringing Swiftly support to VS Code Extending Swift-Java Int

Introducing #ASFNewLeaf: Celebrating Our Roots, Growing Together

ASF @ 2025-11-12 18:00:00

Big news, ASF community — we’re turning a new leaf!  As you may have heard, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has a new logo — a bold oak leaf that represents our community’s deep roots, resilience, and growth. To celebrate, we’re launching #ASFNewLeaf

2025 EuroBSDCon Trip Report – Leah Budzicka

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-11-12 17:25:54

As a third-year computer science student and the BOFH of The :wheel Group—an operating-systems student club at my university—I’ve always kept an eye on BSD systems but never quite found the time to explore them. One day, while scrolling through my Fediver

EuroBSDcon 2025 Trip Report – Robert Clausecker

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-11-12 17:19:02

This year’s EuroBSDcon took place at the faculty of engineering and computing of the University of Zagreb, Croatia.  This was my second time attending EuroBSDcon after holding a talk on my work on[SIMD-enhanced libc string functions] at EuroBSD

New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-12 16:02:52

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics. The post New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Rotating the tree

old new thing @ 2025-11-12 16:00:00

Preserving in-order while linearizing. The post Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Rotating the tree appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Elementary symmetric polynomials and optimization

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-12 15:55:40

The mth elementary symmetric polynomial of degree n is the sum of all terms containing a product of m variables. So, for example, These polynomials came up in the previous post. The problem was choosing weights to minimize the variance of a weighted sum o

The Future of Teaching Assistants

Computational Complexity @ 2025-11-12 14:49:00

In 2016, in the pre-transformer times, Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel gave a prescient  TEDx Talk on an AI teaching assistant for his large online Artificial Intelligence course. Students would ask questions to an online forum, and fellow student

Weighting an average to minimize variance

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-12 14:02:54

Suppose you have $100 to invest in two independent assets, A and B, and you want to minimize volatility. Suppose A is more volatile than B. Then putting all your money on A would be the worst thing to do, but putting all your money on B would not be the b

The other side of the mountain

AEON @ 2025-11-12 12:01:00

In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon