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Microsoft Releases .NET 11 RC1 with Go-Live Support, C# 15 and F# 11 as Default Language Versions

InfoQ @ 2026-09-15 09:11:00

Last week, Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 1, the first release candidate of the cycle, shipping with a go-live support license for production use. The release makes C# 15 and F# 11 the default language versions, extends dotnet test to

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro para el Saco Oliveros

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-15 08:45:55

El colegio limeño, famoso por la gran cantidad de jóvenes talentos de ajedrez que produce, ganó el Americano Escolar en Costa Rica

How Solaris' Turnstile Influenced the Modern System Designs of Web Browsers and Language Runtimes

InfoQ @ 2026-09-15 08:06:00

Sun's Solaris influenced modern systems engineering, with key innovations like the Slab Allocator for efficient memory management, OpenZFS for advanced storage, and DTrace for observability. Its turnstile mechanism addressed issues with mutexes, promotin

ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court

slashdot @ 2026-09-15 07:34:00

Reuters reports: A defense lawyer appealing his client's murder conviction submitted a brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI's ChatGPT, New Mexico's highest court said. The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday fine

Gson Deserialization and the InaccessibleObjectException

Baeldung @ 2026-09-15 07:32:46

Learn how to resolve an InaccessibleObjectException when working with Gson and modern Java versions. The post Gson Deserialization and the InaccessibleObjectException first appeared on Baeldung .           

Amazon Linux 2027 Enters Public Preview with SELinux Enforcing by Default

InfoQ @ 2026-09-15 05:40:00

AWS has released Amazon Linux 2027 in public preview, built on the AL2023 baseline with kernel 7.1 and SELinux in enforcing mode by default. Applications that pass on AL2023's permissive mode may fail under enforcing. The announcement gives no AL2023 end

Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?

slashdot @ 2026-09-15 03:04:00

Reservations are now live for Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). "It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB," reports CNET, "and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don't already own i

A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 22:34:00

Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free". Today they a

Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, CDI 5.0, Spring, Open Liberty, RefactorFirst, ADK for Kotlin

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 22:15:00

This week's Java roundup for September 7th, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEPs for ahead-of-time compilation and structured concurrency; GA releases of Jakarta CDI 5.0 and ADK for Kotlin 1.0; the September 2026 edition of Open Liberty; point rele

Apple’s 27.0 OS Updates

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-14 21:41:41

Armin Briegel at Scripting OS X has compiled links for all the release notes for all of today’s OS updates (features, developer, security). In addition to the 27.0 updates, Apple also released 26.7 updates and MacOS 15.8 Sequoia. Big day.  ★&nb

Learning at Scale: FreeBSD Foundation Intern Nimish Jain on Exploring the FreeBSD Codebase

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-09-14 20:42:26

For Nimish Jain, working on FreeBSD this summer meant getting an up-close look at something he had long been curious about: how large, complex pieces of software work together. A Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, Nimish is prepar

Unified Knowledge Graph RAG on AWS: GraphRAG and LightRAG on one stack

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-14 18:55:58

Picture a compliance analyst staring at a few thousand contracts, amendments, and internal memos, trying to answer one question that sounds straightforward: “Which of our obligations are exposed if this one milestone slips?” The answer isn’t written in any

No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 18:04:00

"Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages," reports the Los Angeles Times. In fact, the state hasn't implemented rotating power outages since 2020. Because "Over the last few years,

AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-14 17:56:33

There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-14 17:20:48

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system. The post Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Te

Dumpster Fire – Litterbox-Inspired Extension for Firefox

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-14 16:47:43

Miles Abbott: Open x.com links in a popup so you can read the one post and leave. Port of the Litterbox Safari extension. Litterbox is a cleverer name, but Dumpster Fire is funnier.  ★ 

Google’s Genome Atlas Predicts the Effect of Every Possible DNA Mutation

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-14 16:01:00

The atlas could help scientists decipher how genetic variation shapes health and disease. The post Google’s Genome Atlas Predicts the Effect of Every Possible DNA Mutation appeared first on SingularityHub .

Why didn’t Read­Directory­ChangesW provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation?

old new thing @ 2026-09-14 16:00:00

Perhaps it wasn't necessary, or perhaps it didn't occur to them that this a problem. The post Why didn’t <CODE>Read­Directory­ChangesW</CODE> provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation? appeared first on

The Real AI Disruption Isn’t the Technology. It’s the Company.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-14 16:00:00

Incumbents are racing to add AI to their organizations. The bigger challenge is competing with businesses designed around AI from day one. The post The Real AI Disruption Isn’t the Technology. It’s the Company. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Agoda Replaces 72-Shard SQL Server Price Cache with DragonflyDB

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 15:48:00

Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes. The migration used staged dual reads, parity validation, gradual traffic shifting, and decentralized failover detection. Agoda

XCancel Shuts Down Again

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-14 15:24:10

XCancel: Unfortunately, due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings, we are required to suspend this service again until further notice. We can’t share more details. Not surprised, and not sure what to make of the “can’t share more d

Math, AI, and the Navier-Stokes Equations

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-14 14:42:50

On September 1, 2026: LANCE:  I'm surprised you haven't blogged about OpenAI solving 10 open math problems. BILL: If I post every time an open math problem is solved by AI I won't ever post about anything else. I'll wait until AI does something re

Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 13:34:00

Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers "voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining," reports Kotaku, "consolidating Blizzard's many smaller unions into three larger bargaining units." T

Guessing the meaning of a number

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-14 12:44:45

Suppose I give you an n-digit number and ask you what it represents. This seems impossible, and in theory it is impossible. But in practice it’s often possible. Apps on a phone may automatically interpret a 10-digit number as a phone number or a 16-

Once upon a screen: explosive paradox

AEON @ 2026-09-14 12:01:00

Decades after seeing ‘Platoon’, Kevin recalls how the film stirred generational trauma in his family and racism at school - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The bombarding of childhood

AEON @ 2026-09-14 12:00:00

It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright - by Natalia Kucirkova Read on Aeon

Independent Investigation of Hugging Face Incident Reveals How Agents Collaborated and Behaved

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 11:00:00

After six days of on-site investigation at OpenAI, a small team of METR and Redwood Research researchers provided an account of how OpenAI agents behaved during their hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. Roughly 700 agents that were meant to be isolat

Should US Open-Weight AI Labs 'Distill' Frontier Models Too?

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 09:04:00

Silicon Valley giants and national security experts "are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation," reports CNBC. But "I would do nothing," says Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. "We could argue that there should be an American

Jotai 3.0 Ships as a Modernized, ESM-Only Package That Drops Legacy Builds and Deprecated APIs

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 08:46:00

Jotai, an atomic state management library for React, has released version 3.0.0, now exclusively using ES modules. It maintains backward compatibility but removes some deprecated APIs. Migration is straightforward for most users. This version emphasizes

ESP32 Bit Pirate: Bridging Modern Microcontrollers and Browser-Based Hardware Debugging

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 08:06:00

ESP32 Bit Pirate project integrates multi-protocol debugging within a browser environment using HTML5 APIs. It enables users to install firmware and interact with microcontrollers like the ESP32-S3 directly from the browser. The platform supports various

Resolving Exception: Cannot Deserialize From Object Value (No Delegate- Or Property-Based Creator)

Baeldung @ 2026-09-14 06:21:09

During JSON deserialization, Jackson may throw an InvalidDefinitionException when it can't determine how to create an instance of the target class. In this article, you'll learn how to fix this in Jackson 2.x and 3.x. The post Resolving Exception: Can

220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 04:34:00

A misconfigured Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database linked to Vietnam exposed more than 220 million passenger and crew travel records spanning 2017 to 2026, including names, passport numbers, nationalities, flight details, seat assignments

Modernizing Microsoft SQL Server: Choosing the right path with Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-14 02:00:00

Modernization is often presented as a destination: Move an application to containers, adopt Kubernetes, and become cloud-native. Reality and appetite are usually more nuanced than that. They start with existing infrastructure, business-critical databases,

From fine-tuned model to cheaper and faster inference: Speculator training on Red Hat OpenShift AI with Kubeflow

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-14 02:00:00

Your organization spent months fine-tuning a large language model. Maybe it's a 70 billion parameter model trained on internal medical records, legal documents, or customer support transcripts. It's accurate. It's unique. It's yours.Now it's deployed in pr

From bare metal to diverse AI revenue streams: Navigating the GPU cloud platform challenge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-14 02:00:00

For the past 2 years, the GPU conversation was about supply. Could you get the hardware? How much? How fast? That conversation has shifted, and a growing number of operators now have GPUs in hand, or on order, and they're facing a different problem entirel

AutoRAG advances in Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-14 02:00:00

Building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline is no longer a hurdle for many enterprise AI teams. The real issue is optimizing it once it's built. Between finding the right chunking strategy, tweaking embedding models, and aligning generation pa

Meta Open-Sources Astryx, its Agent-Ready React Design System

InfoQ @ 2026-09-14 01:39:00

Meta recently announced the beta release of Astryx, an open-source React design system developed internally over eight years. Astryx builds on React 19 and StyleX to provide over 150 accessible UI components, customizable CSS design tokens, and dedicated

Análisis de ajedrez | Lucha vibrante en Sestao

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-14 01:31:51

El joven talento alemán Christian Gloeckler, de 15 años, perdió una partida muy interesante ante la peruana Deysi Cori

NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools

slashdot @ 2026-09-14 00:04:00

NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model trained on a large collection of lunar observations to help scientists analyze the Moon at scale. "The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model gives scientists a foundation to explore the Moon at scale, connecting

Glyphs 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-13 23:44:17

My thanks to Glyphs for sponsoring this last week at DF. Glyphs 4 is a truly native Mac app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Glyphs lets you draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge sets of glyphs, and explo

California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union

slashdot @ 2026-09-13 19:34:00

A union representing Uber and Lyft drivers was just certified by California's Public Employment Relations Board, officially recognizing them as the drivers' bargaining organization. The Sacramento Bee reports that this new bargaining structure : The m

Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public

slashdot @ 2026-09-13 15:00:00

"This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads," says Emmy award-winning reporter Brendan Keefe in a new video for InvestigateTV. In an accompanying article, InvestigateTV says their reporter "parked on the pub

Análisis de ajedrez | El mejor del mundo de 10 años no es otro prodigio indio más

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-13 14:05:20

Sarbartho Mani muestra una sensatez y profundidad de comprensión muy superiores a otros de la misma edad

Java Weekly, Issue 663

Baeldung @ 2026-09-13 13:00:00

A better spec-driven development and the brain as example architecture. The post Java Weekly, Issue 663 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements

InfoQ @ 2026-09-13 12:35:00

Cloudflare recently described a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible cache content, mainly uncompressed text such as HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript, using Zstandard before storing it on disk. The hyperscaler estimates that the app

Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May

slashdot @ 2026-09-13 11:00:00

A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a "major malicious attack" against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That coordinated attack hit Ruby's package manager "with hundreds of junk gems, prompting the maintainers to suspend new user sign-ups for ab

GitHub Copilot's Project HydraFusion Promises Frontier Level Performance through Multi-Model Routing

InfoQ @ 2026-09-13 08:06:00

GitHub's Project HydraFusion is a research preview for GitHub Copilot that enhances coding intelligence through runtime model orchestration. It dynamically assembles execution plans using models from various providers. The system employs three execution

Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court

slashdot @ 2026-09-13 07:00:00

America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that "the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money" also asked Am

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls For AI Slowdown

slashdot @ 2026-09-13 03:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The chief executive of Anthropic called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the company's employees quit over co

The contagion of fear

The observation deck @ 2026-09-13 02:00:00

I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me. Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Atomic14 @ 2026-09-13 02:00:00

TLDR: AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn’t Google using it? A couple of months ago I noticed this advert popping up in the YouTube app. The main reason I noticed it is that I accidentally clicked it - I knew I was running o

Java 27 Technically Within 2 Minutes

Inside Java @ 2026-09-13 02:00:00

Let's review in about 2 minutes the 9 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) that were included in the JDK 27 release!

Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control'

slashdot @ 2026-09-12 23:00:00

Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg

Unread 5.0

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 21:27:37

John Brayton: Unread 5.0 is available now from the App Store . This update adds these improvements and more: Improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux The ability to qui

Post Peek — Litterbox-Inspired Tweet Viewing Extension for Chrome

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 20:05:01

Tim VanBenschoten: Post Peek is an independent, open-source project inspired by Litterbox , the Safari extension by Zhenyi Tan (And a Dinosaur).  ★ 

Análisis de ajedrez | Antón en modo devastador

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-12 19:43:50

Cuando un gran maestro de gran talento está en plena forma, todo parece fácil, como en esta espléndida victoria

LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations

slashdot @ 2026-09-12 19:00:00

LG is pushing back against reports that its smart TVs are "spying" on users, saying wake-word detection happens locally and that features such as Automatic Content Recognition, voice recognition, and interest-based ads are optional. But critics note that r

Where Are the AI-Generated Killer Apps?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 18:23:57

Paul Ford, writing for The New York Times (gift link): For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutt

Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon

InfoQ @ 2026-09-12 18:00:00

The open-Source project vphone-cli enables a full iOS 27 system to run as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon. Built on Apple's own Virtualization.framework rather than traditional emulation, the project opens up new possibilities for security research, r

Yours Truly on Off Protocol With Jim Ray

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 17:36:53

My old friend Jim Ray now runs developer relations at Bluesky, and part of that gig is hosting a podcast, Off Protocol (“a show about building a better Internet”). I was delighted to appear as his latest guest. I generally don’t like talking about my care

T-Mobile Is Charging $5/Month for iPhone Handoff

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 17:24:09

T-Mobile, in their iPhone 18 Pro / iPhone Duo press release: Plus, T‑Mobile is one of the first to support Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature, where customers with two compatible iPhone models can use their T‑Mobile number across both devices and ch

Tristan Buckmaster’s Statement on Getting Scooped by OpenAI on the Navier–Stokes Problem

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 16:55:12

Tristan Buckmaster, professor of mathematics at NYU , in his own statement, regarding his and Levent Alpöge’s interactions with employees at OpenAI regarding this week’s math-proof controversy : I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. T

Gary Marcus on This Week in AI Drama

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 16:25:07

I have been busy with new-iPhone-week stuff, so I haven’t been able to follow either of these stories closely, but Marcus summarizes them both well . First: the drama regarding OpenAI claiming a solution to the Navier–Stokes math problem. In short, OpenA

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 12)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-12 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 September 12) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Lambda SnapStart Comes to Container Images, Ending a Packaging Tradeoff

InfoQ @ 2026-09-12 12:09:00

AWS has extended Lambda SnapStart to container image functions, which hold up to 10 GB against 250 MB for zip archives. Teams previously chose between dependency headroom and sub-second startup. A Reddit thread from a month earlier shows what that cost:

One Decade of Rustls: Evolution, Benchmarks, and Future Roadmap

InfoQ @ 2026-09-12 09:07:00

Rustls, a Rust TLS library, marks its decade-long progression from a grassroots project to a funded open-source initiative. Key contributions from organisations boosted development, resulting in features like post-quantum cryptography and robust perfor

Last Year’s iPhone Share Amongst Users of Widgetsmith

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 02:19:57

David Smith, developer of the widely-used Widgetsmith , on Mastodon: The eve of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders seems a good time to look back at the iPhone 17 family’s adoption. Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith.

JDK 27 Runtime Updates Release Notes

Inside Java @ 2026-09-12 02:00:00

Let's review the performance updates, new runtime features, and other changes to existing features that are in the JDK 27 release!

OpenAI Claims Another Huge Mathematical Result Amid Fights Over Credit, Ethics, and Privacy

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-11 23:09:09

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes solution looks like a win for mathematics. But some mathematicians aren't so sure. The post OpenAI Claims Another Huge Mathematical Result Amid Fights Over Credit, Ethics, and Privacy appeared first on SingularityHub .

Clarus the Dogcow Easter Egg in Apple’s OS 27 Settings

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 22:33:03

Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Many have complained that Apple design has been sapped of some of its trademark whimsy in recent years. Well, here’s the latest example of how the tides seem to be changing. Buried in the Settings app on iOS 27, Apple has hid

XCancel Is Back

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 21:15:19

XCancel: Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project . The XCancel service is resumed. More details will be shared on the Nitter GitHub project page. Glad to hear it and I wish them well, but I think Zhenyi Tan’s Lit

Análisis de ajedrez | Cuando Antón está muy fino

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-11 20:04:27

Invicto tras nueve rondas, y con el primer premio casi seguro a falta de una, el español ha firmado varias partidas excelentes

Análisis de ajedrez | Obra maestra de Antón

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-11 19:45:04

El mejor jugador español del momento empezó el torneo Leyendas y Prodigios con una partida de extraordinaria calidad

iPhone Duo Only Works With the $80 USB-C Apple Pencil, Not the $130 Apple Pencil Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 18:32:21

Juli Clover, MacRumors: It’s likely the iPhone Duo doesn’t support the Apple Pencil Pro because there’s no magnetic surface for charging the pencil. The Apple Pencil Pro charges magnetically when connected to a compatible iPad, while the Apple Pencil

Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info

Swift blog @ 2026-09-11 17:30:00

When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’t always precise. The upcoming Swift 6.4 release will i

NVIDIA Personal AI Router Distributes AI Tasks across Local Compute

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 17:00:00

NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR), now available in beta, lets you combine the inference capacity of multiple computers on your local network and automatically distribute AI requests among them. It is primarily designed for local multi-agent AI workloads,

Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-11 16:14:40

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. The post Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

How can I remove the Close button from my window caption?

old new thing @ 2026-09-11 16:00:00

Not through normal means. The post How can I remove the Close button from my window caption? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Penchants of the polymaths

AEON @ 2026-09-11 12:00:00

The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way - by Mariam Sabri Read on Aeon

Issue 767

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Homework for a folding iPhone, Shopify goes back to native, and a login keychain you can't back up

Friday Five — September 11, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container ManagementRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinforces OpenShift’s abil

Closing the AIOps loop with Splunk Observability Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Detection is only half the process. Swift remediation is what keeps operations smooth. Yet for many site reliability engineers (SREs), on-call shifts are spent trapped in a loop of repetitive firefighting. Pairing Splunk Observability Cloud with Red Hat An

blog | 5 reasons why your Lightwell strategy needs more than just patches

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Lightwell empowers organizations to respond to vulnerabilities with greater speed. However, receiving a patch is only part of the equation; your teams require validated skills to deploy those fixes into production quickly, safely, and with confidence.When

Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-10 23:18:30

Startup Isar Aerospace delivered a payload of satellites to orbit on its second try. Rivals in Germany and Spain are hot on its heels. The post Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit appeared first on SingularityHub .

Apple’s OS 27 Updates Will Be Released on Monday, 14 September

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 22:15:52

9to5 Mac has the iOS 27 release notes too. I haven’t spent much time using Golden Gate, but I’ve been using iOS 27 full-time ever since WWDC. It’s in excellent shape for a .0 release. Now I need to think about how long I want to still hang onto MacOS

Building an Agentic SOC on a Stream

Confluent @ 2026-09-10 21:19:05

Discover how our security team built an automated multi-agent investigation pipeline that scaled alert triage throughput using a continuous streaming architecture.

What’s New in Jackson 3?

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 21:10:48

Learn what's new in Jackson 3, how it differs from Jackson 2, and what you need to do in order to migrate from Jackson 2.x to the new version. The post What’s New in Jackson 3? first appeared on Baeldung .         

HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 20:50:56

Learn how HttpClient API supports HTTP/3 now, and how to set your apps to use HTTP/3. The post HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Joanna Stern on the iPhone Duo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 19:29:30

One thing I learned from this video is that I’m way, way too careful when playing with the hands-on area demo units. I handle them like museum pieces; Stern treats them like hot dog buns.  ★ 

Introducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the background

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-10 18:01:44

Pizza Bot is a community project rather than an AWS service, so there’s no AWS support or service-level agreement behind it; keeping Pizza Bot running, backed up, and up to date is yours. Give an agent a task actually worth delegating and you’ll be waiting

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-10 16:27:36

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof f

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

old new thing @ 2026-09-10 16:00:00

It came after ud0 and ud1 . The post Why is the x86 undefined instruction called <CODE>ud2</CODE>? Why 2? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Bayesian OCR

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-10 14:32:31

The Greek letter β (beta) and the German letter ß (eszett) look similar, especially in some fonts. Now suppose an OCR program sees some character that could be a beta or could be an eszett. It could calculate some kind of distance between between the pixe

The Chinese room

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:01:00

Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Medieval mental health

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:00:00

Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon

Episode 69 “Declassifying Java 27” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Java 27 is set to be released on September 15th, let's review what's coming!

Insights-client updates standardize RHEL package management

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems connected to Red Hat Lightspeed, you're likely familiar with insights-client, the tool responsible for reading system information and reporting it to Red Hat Lightspeed's hosted services.Starting with R

Closing the loop: From network policy intent to verified reality

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Part 3 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern.Kubernetes NetworkPolicies are one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—security primitives available to platform engineers. Th

Build a compliance assistant with AutoRAG and Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you run AI platforms for a bank, an insurer, or anyone else living under a stack of regulations, you already know the use case everyone asks for first: let our compliance and risk teams ask questions against our own policy documents and get an answer th

Get ready for iPhone Duo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:05:23

Start getting ready for iPhone Duo today. Watch new videos, sign up for Group Labs, and take part in Q&As on the Apple Developer Forums. Explore now

App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:00:38

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence,

Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-10 00:01:47

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

A Modest Proposal

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-09 20:26:16

The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’l

Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-09 18:21:00

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

Navier-Stokes and Lean

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-09 17:32:18

I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book  The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI . And then yesterday OpenAI announced a solution to Navier-Stokes, one of the Millennium problems.

A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:59:48

The idea of using computers to assist with proofs is not new. The first major computer-assisted proof was published in 1976, the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The authors reduced the proof of the four color theorem t

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-09 16:44:13

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? f

AI is an intelligence multiplier

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:17:20

A rising tide may lift all boats, but the AI tide lifts some boats much more than others. By all accounts, the best programmers have had the biggest productivity boost from AI. And top tier mathematicians are using AI to settle long-standing mathematical

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

old new thing @ 2026-09-09 16:00:00

It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 14:43:36

Yesterday OpenAI announced a proof that settled a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations from fluid dynamics. The announcement has created a lot of buzz, as one would expect. But there’s an aspect of OpenAI’s work that I have

Podcast CB SyR 569: Telescopio espacial Roman, neurolingüística, materia oscura en LZ y neutrinos en XENONnT, y principio de equivalencia en cuántica

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-09 13:56:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 569 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Roman Telescope; Neurología; Materia Oscura; Principio de Equivalencia en Cuántica”, 03 sep 2026. […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 569: Te

Making revisions

AEON @ 2026-09-09 12:01:00

Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | El picante juego de Oro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-09 10:37:54

La soltura del adolescente argentino frente a todos los rivales incita a poner el foco en todas sus partidas del torneo de Madrid

This Week in Rust 668

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-09 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

★ The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 02:55:53

One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.

Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community mem

‘Modern Day Typographer’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 00:57:00

There are good Elle Cordova videos, and there are great ones. ( Last mentioned here for her “ Fonts Hanging Out ” trilogy.)  ★ 

Build full-stack AWS applications in minutes with AI-powered scaffolding

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-08 23:24:59

AI assistants can stand up an app or website that runs on AWS in minutes. Getting to a production-ready version you would put in front of real customers is still the hard part. Security, observability, type-safety, and resilience are non-negotiable for pro

Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life?

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-08 19:33:08

Elderly mice on the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide aged slower and lived longer, mimicking the longevity effects of caloric restriction. The post Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life? appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro brilla en Madrid

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-08 19:23:57

Aún con 12 años, el argentino es el mejor del mundo de su edad y sigue firmando hermosas victorias

Navier-Stokes in the news

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-08 17:26:08

There are rumors that a long-standing math problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, has been solved. The problem concerns technical properties of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations [1], a set of equations that describe the dynamics of fluid fl

Fragments: September 8

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 17:22:00

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not

★ SuperDuper 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 16:55:20

SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

Deepmind @ 2026-09-08 16:00:15

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95

old new thing @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00

For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the <CODE>winstart.bat</CODE> file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Do you even need a presentation?

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 15:42:00

Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more

Our eloquent hands

AEON @ 2026-09-08 12:00:00

Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done - by Alison Bashford Read on Aeon

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-08 10:43:52

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Prob