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slashdot @ 2026-03-31 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to "explode" in the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-31 04:54:17

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-31 03:00:15

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features, updated policies, and clarifications. Please review the changes and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms. Definitions, Section 3.3.3(B), Section

InfoQ @ 2026-03-31 02:11:00

Discord open-sourced Osprey, a safety rules engine processing 400 million daily actions and 2.3 million rules per second. Osprey uses a polyglot architecture: a Rust coordinator manages traffic, while stateless Python workers execute logic using a Python

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-31 02:00:00

There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? First of all, the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and the mission of RHEL

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-31 01:38:44

The genetically engineered cells can be rewired to tackle a range of bacteria in the battle against antibiotic resistance. The post Forget Antibiotics: These Killer Cells Wipe Out Deadly Superbugs in a Day appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-03-31 01:00:00

Microsoft is reportedly shifting Windows 11 app development back toward fully native apps. Rudy Huyn, a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on the Store and File Explorer, said in a post on X that he is building a new team to work on Windows apps. "You

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-31 00:10:22

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slashdot @ 2026-03-31 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military's most t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 23:23:19

Stop scaling headcount. Scale your workspace. Most security teams don’t have a talent problem, they have a noise problem. Manual phishing remediation, chasing risky OAuth permissions, and auditing file shares shouldn’t be a full-time job. Material S

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 23:00:00

Samsung is reportedly planning to roll out AirDrop-style file sharing for older Galaxy phones via a Quick Share update. Early reports suggest the feature is appearing on devices from the Galaxy S22 through the S25, though it is not actually working yet. An

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 22:19:43

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 22:00:00

OkCupid and parent company Match Group settled an FTC case dating back to 2014 over allegations that the dating app shared users' photos and other personal data with a third party without proper disclosure or opt-out rights. Engadget reports: According to

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 21:22:33

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Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-30 21:00:00

Engraving dominated the 1800s until photography killed it. Knitting spiked during WWI. Ceramics replaced pottery as the prestige term. 270 years of book data show how every generation picks its own art forms.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-30 21:00:00

The U.S. had roughly 12,000 bowling alleys at the peak of the bowling boom in the mid-1960s. By 2023, only 3,154 remained.

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 21:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from France 24: Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters. Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon

luajit @ 2026-03-30 20:41:59

Reported by Huang Haiyang. #1451

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 20:16:00

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the i

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 19:01:35

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 19:00:00

Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional "tips" into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: Ac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 18:46:31

Paul Graham: So when you have a world defined only by brand, it’s going to be a weird, bad world. Graham’s thoughtful essay focuses on the mechanical watch industry. But I disagree with his conclusion. I think the market for mechanical watches has

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 18:24:40

Scott Knaster: The Big Mac is about 22 times the size of the little Mac.  ★ 

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-30 18:11:28

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase wher

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 18:00:00

For the "foreseeable future," Sony says it has stopped accepting new orders for most of its CFexpress and SD memory card lines due to the an ongoing memory supply shortage. "Due to the global shortage of semiconductors (memory) and other factors, it is ant

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 17:32:37

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-30 17:16:35

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand. The post In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 17:16:35

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 17:00:28

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradition. How executives explain those decisions, however, has changed. Out are buzzwords like efficiency, over-hiring, and too many management

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 16:49:58

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-30 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and watchOS 26.5 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 26.5 beta to take a

old new thing @ 2026-03-30 16:00:00

Why is this even a question? The post A question about the maximimum number of values in a registry key raises questions about the question appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 15:28:54

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 13:34:00

Their goal is to use biometric data and blockchain to build age-verification measures directly into disposable vape cartridges. Wired reports on a partnership between vape/cartridge manufacturer Ispire Technology and regulatory consulting company Chemul

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 13:05:37

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AEON @ 2026-03-30 12:01:00

When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-03-30 12:00:00

ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-03-30 10:00:00

¿Cuál es la relación entre un tren de alta velocidad y el martín pescador? Es una historia bastante conocida en el mundillo del ferrotrastorno, división niponófila (un saludo desde aquí a Luis, mitad de Japonismo). Eiji Nakatsu era director de desarrollo t

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 09:34:00

Apple's 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers: Steve Wozniak,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 09:17:06

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-30 07:27:18

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slashdot @ 2026-03-30 05:34:00

The Wall Street Journal reports that Rivian "just won a yearslong battle with car dealers in Washington state that threatens the model of how cars are sold." After fighting to sell its vehicles directly to buyers, Rivian threatened to take its case to vot

InfoQ @ 2026-03-30 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for March 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools 1.0 and EclipseLink 5.0; the March 2026 edition of Open Liberty; fourth milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Modulith and Spring AI;

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 03:37:00

Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction. But "it's still far from certain what this defeat will change," argues The Verge's senior tech and policy editor, "and what the collateral damage could

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-30 02:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 Extended Update Support (EUS) has been included in the Catalogue of Information and Communication Technology Security Products and Services (CPSTIC) of the National Cryptologic Centre (CCN). This inclusion enables RHEL f

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-30 02:00:00

Organizations running Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure can now install and integrate with the SQL IaaS Agent extension (see SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension for Linux - SQL Server on Azure VMs), which enables full licens

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-30 02:00:00

At Red Hat, our IT and Engineering functions encounter the same challenges and make the same decisions our customers face every day, from infrastructure optimization and application delivery to automating and enhancing the security of our global business.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-30 02:00:00

The data is there. The insight isn't.Telecommunications networks generate unprecedented volumes of telemetry. Every authentication attempt, packet flow, device heartbeat, controller update, and service interaction produces telemetry. As networks expand int

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-30 02:00:00

Security is an important aspect of any digital undertaking, and Kubernetes is no different. We’ve built Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes to form a foundational layer of security across fleets, estates, and platforms, be it public, private,

slashdot @ 2026-03-30 01:46:00

"It's time to charge for access," argues a new opinion piece at The Register. Begging billion-dollar companies to fund open source projects just isn't enough, writes long-time tech reporter Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Screw fair. Screw asking for dimes. Y

InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 22:53:00

Max Inden recently explored in a talk at FOSDEM 2026 how the upcoming WebTransport protocol and Web API enhance WebSocket capabilities. WebTransport seeks to provide, among other things, lower latency and transparent network switching for key use cases s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:50:00

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring the week at DF. Their latest is a CLI that launches an AI agent, powered by Claude , that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration into your codebase. No signup requi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:49:00

For your weekend listening enjoyment: Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro. Sponsored by: Squarespace :

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:48:36

For your weekend viewing enjoyment: But in almost every way that mattered, the Macintosh was right . Right about how we’d use computers going forward. Right about the idea that computers needed to be less complicated. Right about the fact that cari

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-29 22:14:00

Occasionally I run into what I consider fun problems in complexity, that require just a little bit of out of the box thinking. They require some background in theory, but nothing too deep. Some of these problems have been mentioned before on my blog or soc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:11:49

Look, I’m all for democracy, but a poll whose results currently have the Extended Keyboard II down at #47 is a poll that makes me angry.  ★ 

InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 22:00:00

In a move to transform Android into an "agent-first" OS, Google has introduced new early beta features to support a task-centric model in which apps provide functional building blocks users leverage through AI agents or assistants to fulfill their goals.

InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 21:00:00

Version 4.0 of the open source Kubernetes security platform Kubescape has been released, bringing runtime threat detection and a new set of AI-era security features. This is the first time the project has targeted the security of AI agents themselves, al

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-29 20:49:22

El 3º del mundo doblega al 2º, Nakamura, tras presionarlo con altibajos en la 1ª ronda del Candidatos

InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 17:49:00

Nuxt Test Utils has released version 4.0.0, which primarily integrates Vitest v4. This update changes the test environment setup to beforeAll, resolving issues with module-level mocks. It also improves mockNuxtImport for cleaner partial mocking and enhan

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-29 14:12:06

Yesterday I was at Peter Scholze’s Seminaire Bourbaki talk, his write-up is available here. It was advertised as an exposition of the recent proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, but Pierre Colmez accurately describes it as something much more

InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 12:00:00

Microsoft has launched the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, an AI assistant built into the Azure portal that automates migration planning, agentless VMware discovery, and landing zone creation. Despite being billed as generally available, the agent is in p

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-29 10:30:00

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C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-29 09:30:00

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InfoQ @ 2026-03-29 09:03:00

ProxySQL 3.0.6 was recently released, along with a new multi-tier release strategy. The Stable Tier focuses on reliability and production use, the Innovative Tier introduces newer features earlier, and the AI/MCP Tier explores future capabilities, includ

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-29 07:06:58

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet’. Each one is made of an up, down or strange quark and an

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-29 07:06:58

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet’. Each one is made of an up, down or strange quark and an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 00:47:39

Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: I’ve thought a lot about the bad timing Jones mentions. Had Apple stuck to the original timeline, and killed off the 2013 Mac Pro in favor of an iMac “specifically targeted at large segments of the pro market,” back

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 00:25:47

While I’m bitching about Netflix’s craptacular new video player on Apple TV, let me quote from a piece I wrote two years ago (also complaining about Netflix’s tvOS app): Turns out there are two better ways: If you use the Control Center Apple T

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 22:57:01

This feature from Harry McCracken is just spectacularly good. (And it’s a gift link that’ll get you past Fast Company’s paywall.) 50 years is a long time and there are some key players in Apple’s origin story who are gone — but because everyone was so you

InfoQ @ 2026-03-28 22:00:00

Enterprises that grant excessive access permissions to AI systems experience 4.5 times as many security incidents as those that do not, according to The 2026 State of AI in Enterprise Infrastructure Security, a report published by infrastructure identity

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-28 18:27:56

La gran irregularidad del campeón vigente augura un duelo incierto por el título a fin de año; pero el indio también firma partidas excelentes, como esta

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:52:08

Amanda Kondolojy, writing for Pocket-lint: Though the Netflix app is largely the same on most platforms, over the weekend several Apple TV users on the unofficial Apple TV Reddit noticed some small changes to the tvOS version of the app that are mak

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:21:55

Alan Rappeport, reporting for The New York Times: President Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The decision to have Mr. Trump’s John Hancock on America’s paper currency represented

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:02:42

The New York Post (I’m not sure if I should tell you to take this with a grain of salt, because it’s the Post and their journalistic standards are low, or, to assign this extra credibility because it’s the Post, a right-wing Murdoch rag that Trump lacke

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-28 15:00:00

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 March 28) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-03-28 11:13:00

Discord engineering detailed how they added distributed tracing to Elixir's actor model. Their custom Transport library wraps messages with trace context and uses dynamic sampling to handle million-user fanouts. CPU optimizations included skipping unsamp

InfoQ @ 2026-03-28 11:05:00

HashiCorp has released Vault 1.21. This version introduces native SPIFFE authentication for non-human workloads, expands the granular secret recovery model introduced in Vault 1.20, and adds KV v2 secret attribution, MFA TOTP self-enrollment, a Vault Se

InfoQ @ 2026-03-28 07:01:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Custom Regions, an expansion of its Regional Services that lets customers precisely define where their data is processed. By selecting specific groups of data centers by country or region, customers can ensure that TLS term

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-28 05:45:00

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 01:48:14

Oliver Darcy, reporting for Status (paywalled, alas): According to the data obtained by Status, BI ended 2023 with roughly 160,000 paid subscribers, a drop of about 14 percent from the prior year when it boasted about 185,000 subscribers. The slide di

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 01:16:01

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for TechCrunch: Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see a case where someone’s device was hacked with these additional security protections switch

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 01:01:56

Apple Newsroom: Beginning this summer in the U.S. and Canada, businesses will have a new way to be discovered by using Apple Business to create ads on Maps. Ads on Maps will appear when users search in Maps, and can appear at the top of a user’s searc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 00:43:21

Todd Spangler, Variety: Under the new pricing, effective March 26 for new users and rolling out to current customers depending on their billing cycle, Netflix’s Standard plan (which has no ads and provides streaming on two devices simultaneously) is r

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-28 00:41:45

I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers are Layla Sorkatti and Kenneth Price. I doubt the t

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-28 00:41:45

I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers are Layla Sorkatti and Kenneth Price. I doubt the t

InfoQ @ 2026-03-27 23:50:00

The new, experimental Web Install API is now in Origin Trial in Microsoft Edge and Chrome. The API allows developers to programmatically trigger a PWA installation prompt from in-app user interactions. The API aims to simplify software discovery and dist

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-27 23:27:50

The three-phase plan calls for up to 30 robotic missions, including a fleet of rocket-powered moon hoppers. The post NASA Unveils Its $20 Billion Moon Base Plan—and a Nuclear Spacecraft for Mars appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2026-03-27 21:56:55

Learn how to use Apache Seata to implement distributed database transactions across multiple Spring applications. The post Distributed Transaction Management Using Apache Seata first appeared on Baeldung .          

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-27 21:46:14

Safari is no longer breaking my menu-item-icon despising heart on MacOS 26 Tahoe, but the best trick to block the Tahoe “upgrade” notice on MacOS 15 Sequoia no longer works.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 20:00:00

Between 1945 and 1998, seven countries detonated over 2,000 nuclear weapons across just a handful of remote test sites. This chart maps every one of them.

luajit @ 2026-03-27 19:49:05

Reported by Sergey Bronnikov. #1450

luajit @ 2026-03-27 19:47:27

Thanks to cuiweixie. #1449

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-27 17:06:18

While shopping on a major e-commerce site, I wanted to get an answer to an obscure question about a certain product. Not finding the answer immediately on the product page, I thought I’d try clicking the AI shopping assistant helper tool to ask this

Baeldung @ 2026-03-27 16:14:09

Our Spring Sale is live, Java 26 is almost out and OAuth is getting a core issue fixed. A good week The post Java Weekly, Issue 639 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-27 16:09:11

La fineza en los temas tácticos, propulsada sin duda en su época de jugador, convierten al neerlandés en un compositor sublime

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-27 15:38:32

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that could lead to improved eruption forecasts. The post When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen first appe

InfoQ @ 2026-03-27 15:15:00

Hannah Foxwell began her QCon London 2026 talk by noting that the long-sought velocity in development has arrived, but the industry is unsure how to use it. She set aside the technical details of agentic coding, focusing instead on its implications for t

InfoQ @ 2026-03-27 15:11:00

Agoda engineers developed Storefront, a Rust-based S3-compatible reverse proxy that improves load balancing, request routing, and observability across large-scale object storage systems. The proxy addresses DNS-based distribution limitations, implements

old new thing @ 2026-03-27 15:00:00

You can steal them from your owner. The post What if a dialog wants to intercept its own message loop? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-27 12:55:02

Quantum 10, 2048 (2026). Quantum signal processing and quantum singular value transformation are powerful tools to implement polynomial transformations of block-encoded matrices on quantum computers, and has ac

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-27 12:42:58

Quantum 10, 2047 (2026). In quantum mechanics, the Schrieffer–Wolff (SW) transformation (also called quasi-degenerate perturbation theory) is known as an approximative method to reduce the dimension of the Hami

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-27 12:33:04

Suppose you have a calculator or math library that only handles real arguments but you need to evaluate sin(3 + 4i). What do you do? If you’re using Python, for example, and you don’t have NumPy installed, you can use the built-in math library

AEON @ 2026-03-27 11:00:00

Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs - by Jamie L Pietruska Read on Aeon

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-27 04:20:00

Closer to GNU

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 04:00:00

A treemap of BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey data shows where the average American household spent its $78,535 in 2024. Housing and transportation alone account for half.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 03:00:00

A county-level map of how racial diversity changed across America between the 2010 and 2020 Census. The Northeast and Midwest diversified fastest.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 02:00:00

Computer Science and Engineering remain below 25% women after 50 years of data. An updated look at how the gender composition of U.S. college majors has changed from 1970 to 2022.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 02:00:00

USDA data reveals how the American diet has transformed since 1970. Cheese consumption tripled, chicken surpassed beef, and fluid milk was cut in half.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 02:00:00

A county-level map of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, built from 2020 Census data. The national diversity index crossed 61% for the first time.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-27 01:56:39

Chance Miller with a big scoop at 9to5Mac: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Ma

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-27 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 is now Generally Available. The release of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces new capabilities that simplify virtual machine (VM) management, enhance operational efficiency, and expand deployment flexibi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-27 01:00:00

Red Hat news and announcements from KubeCon + CloudNativeConSee the latest Red Hat news and content from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam, including updates on OpenShift 4.21, cloud-native security, and AI. Learn more SiliconANGLE - Red Hat s

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-27 01:00:00

Moving to the edge isn't just a trend; it’s a response to the need for faster results. By processing data right where it’s created, organizations are finding they can finally unlock real-time decision-making and make their operations significantly more eff

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-27 01:00:00

In our first 3 articles, we framed AI security as protecting the system, not just the model, across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and we showed why the traditional secure development lifecycle (SDLC) discipline still applies to modern AI de

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 00:00:00

In 1960, Americans lived 1.5 years longer than their peers in wealthy nations. By 2023, they die 4 years sooner. World Bank data shows how the U.S. fell behind.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-27 00:00:00

In 1970, a student could work 5 hours per week at minimum wage to cover public university tuition. By 2022, that number hit 26. Here is what six decades of NCES data show.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-26 23:05:24

To provide additional transparency to customers, the App Store will now display whether an app is a regulated medical device on its product page in the European Economic Area (EEA) , United Kingdom , or United States. Regulated medical device apps ar

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-26 22:34:19

AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessa

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-26 22:00:00

Coal went from generating half of U.S. electricity to just 15% in two decades. 75 years of EIA data show how fast the American power grid is changing.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 21:20:49

Speaking of power adapters , this information guide from Rands in Repose is both useful and enlightening.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-26 21:05:06

I alluded to Lebesgue constants in the previous post without giving them a name. There I said that the bound on order n interpolation error has the form where h is the spacing between interpolation points and δ is the error in the tabulated values. The co

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 20:35:00

I mentioned the other day that I was mildly irked by a change in iOS 26.4 that moved the list of available updates in the App Store app one additional screen further into its hierarchy. Good news ( via Nate Barham on Mastodon ): you can long-press on the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 20:26:38

Todd Spangler, reporting for Variety: Disney has now ended its partnership with OpenAI, which included plans for the media conglomerate to take a $1 billion stake in the artificial-intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman. A Disney rep said in a s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 20:08:25

Chrome engineer Eric Seckler, on Google’s Chromium Blog, under the bold headline “ Android Sets New Record for Mobile Web Performance ”: Today, we are proud to celebrate a major milestone: Android is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-26 20:00:00

U.S. marriage rates have fallen 42% since the 1980s. An updated chart of 156 years of CDC marriage and divorce data, from the post-WWII boom to the COVID-era record low.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 19:10:22

Well, at least we know who taught her to talk like that .  ★ 

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-26 18:55:00

Kugelschreiber und Wasserflaschen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 18:33:38

Jessica E. Lessin, Amir Efrati, and Erin Woo, reporting for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: While we have reported that Apple can tweak, or fine-tune, a version of Google’s Gemini AI so that it responds to queries the way Apple wants

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 18:24:53

Katie Notopoulos, my favorite Sora user, at Business Insider (paywalled, alas, but available via News+ ): Eventually, my friends all seemed to get bored with the app . As I do at most parties, I stuck around longer than everyone else, but eventually

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 18:13:41

Tim Hardwick at MacRumors: macOS Tahoe 26.4 includes a new slow charger indicator that tells MacBook users when their charging setup isn’t delivering full power. As described in an updated Apple support document , a “Slow Charger” label now appears i

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-26 18:11:00

Anthropic carried a study, done by getting its model to interview some 80,000 users to understand their opinions about AI, what they hope from it, and what they fear. Two things stood out to me. It’s easy to assume there are AI optimists and AI pess

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 17:43:34

Jennifer Daniel, on her “Did Someone Say Emoji?” blog: First came Melting Face 🫠, our collective surrender to the liquid state. Then Dotted Line Face 🫥, the visual representation of sublimation: turning from a solid into a gas just to escape a con

Deepmind @ 2026-03-26 16:23:35

Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 16:19:55

One more nugget from last night’s 7-0 Yankees win over the Giants: During the sixth inning of Wednesday’s Opening Night matchup between two historic franchises , the Giants and Yankees, all-time home run leader Barry Bonds joined the Netflix broadc

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-26 16:13:50

Una pieza fuera de juego, aunque sea de manera provisional, puede ser el factor decisivo de una partida, por sus consecuencias

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 16:05:49

Nice 7-0 win last night over the San Francisco Giants. The game was on Netflix, and it was the worst baseball broadcast I can recall watching in the HD era. The picture quality was just awful , with embarrassing dynamic ad injection. Yes, there was h

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-26 15:40:06

Last month I posted an item (linking to a post from Rob Griffiths ) explaining how to hide the prompts in System Settings to upgrade to MacOS 26 Tahoe. The technique I posted involved hand-editing a device management profile. This video from Mr. M

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-26 15:33:37

Richard Feynman said that almost everything becomes interesting if you look into it deeply enough. Looking up numbers in a table is certainly not interesting, but it becomes more interesting when you dig into how well you can fill in the gaps. If you want

old new thing @ 2026-03-26 15:00:00

Because it opted out. The post Why doesn’t <CODE>WM_<WBR>ENTER­IDLE</CODE> work if the dialog box is a <CODE>Message­Box</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-26 15:00:00

Visual experiments suggest just a small fraction of the information our brains process enters awareness. The post What We Actually See—and Don’t See—Shows Consciousness Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg appeared first on SingularityHub .

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-03-26 11:09:07

Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other software comp

AEON @ 2026-03-26 11:01:00

Broadcast at Times Square, this kaleidoscopic reimagining of a powwow dance celebrates the strength of Indigenous women - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-03-26 11:00:00

China’s regime insists on national unity and international harmony. Is this anything more than an imperial posture? - by Peter C Perdue Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-03-26 10:21:02

Estos días he estado alejado del blog. Reformas en casa. No he tirado tabiques, ni cambiado ventanas ni —y bien sé que esto que digo tendrá que hacerse— pintado. Han sido unas reformas del siglo XXI: he rehecho mis los servicios digitales domésticos. Como

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-26 07:00:00

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Rust blog @ 2026-03-26 01:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.94.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.94.1 is as

Inside Java @ 2026-03-26 01:00:00

Carrier classes are Project Amber's current idea to extend some of records' benefits to regular classes. Probably the most important among them is deconstruction, which would allow classes to participate in pattern matching and reconstruction.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-25 22:40:00

Archive page added to the blog

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-25 21:37:11

AWS introduces a new express configuration for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, a streamlined database creation experience with preconfigured defaults designed to help you get started in seconds. With Aurora PostgreSQL, start building quickly from the RDS Console

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 20:50:07

When I first read this post from my friend Paul Kafasis last week — a One Foot Tsunami instant classic — I was hoping that I could think of an example that he missed. I can’t say I did. The closest, though, is ShowBiz Pizza Place , a 1980s archrival to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 20:16:27

Apple Developer: Analytics in App Store Connect receives its biggest update since its launch, including a refreshed user experience that makes it easier to measure the performance of your apps and games. There’s a lot that’s new, but all the dat

Deepmind @ 2026-03-25 17:46:20

Google DeepMind researches AI's harmful manipulation risks across areas like finance and health, leading to new safety measures.

Deepmind @ 2026-03-25 17:01:39

Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.

tecosystems @ 2026-03-25 15:59:03

As far back as 2012, a RedMonk colleague was asserting that we were living in a “post-open source world,” meaning a world in which open source had been so successful that the very things that underpinned it – open source software licenses, for one &#

Sogrady @ 2026-03-25 15:59:03

As far back as 2012, a RedMonk colleague was asserting that we were living in a “post-open source world,” meaning a world in which open source had been so successful that the very things that underpinned it – open source software licenses, for one &#

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-25 15:53:34

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean. The post In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It To

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-25 15:52:06

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. The post How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-03-25 15:00:00

The dialog box lets you change how it waits. The post How can I change a dialog box’s message loop to do a <CODE>Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects</CODE> instead of <CODE>Get­Message</CODE>? appeared first

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-25 14:10:49

Analytics in App Store Connect receives its biggest update since its launch, including a refreshed user experience that makes it easier to measure the performance of your apps and games. Updates include: More than 100 new metrics. Now you can access

AEON @ 2026-03-25 11:01:00

If technology threatens to flatten our humanity, artists can deepen it. Hear how, from a flamenco musician and a juggler - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-25 10:38:00

High table dinner at Magdalen My time in Oxford has come to an end and I head back to Chicago this week. I was a visiting Fellow at Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin") College for the Hilary Term. There's a six week break between the eight-

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-03-25 09:05:41

I hope I don’t have to spell it out but I will do it anyway: in these cases I don’t know anything about their products and I cannot help them. Quite often I first need to search around only to figure out what the product is or does, that the pe

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-25 08:00:00

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

Baeldung @ 2026-03-25 06:12:43

Explore how to test MCP tools on MCP servers in Spring AI using different test strategies. The post Testing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

This Week in Rust @ 2026-03-25 05:00:00

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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 02:09:10

Claude: In Claude Cowork and Claude Code, you can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks. When Claude doesn’t have access to the tools it needs, it will point, click, and navigate what’s on your screen to perform the task itself. It

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 02:00:49

Berber Jin, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a desktop “superapp,” a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to fo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 01:49:07

Sora, on Twitter/X: We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, includ

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-25 01:40:01

Good rundown of everything new and changed, as usual, from Juli Clover at MacRumors. This has been a noticeable change for me: The App Store merges apps and purchase history, and has a dedicated section for app updates. It now takes two taps to get to

Inside Java @ 2026-03-25 01:00:00

Building a compelling desktop app today requires features such as UI controls, charts, interactive media, web content, animation, CSS styling, 2D and 3D rendering, rich text, and property binding, with an easy-to-use programming paradigm that runs cross-pl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-24 22:39:04

Samsung: Samsung is introducing AirDrop support to the Galaxy S26 series, making it easier for users to share content between devices using Quick Share. The feature will begin rolling out from March 23, starting in Korea and expanding to more region

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-24 20:38:32

In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart. The post These Mini Brains Just Learned to Solve a Classic Engineering Problem appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-24 20:36:58

If this worked to hide *all* of these cursed little turds smeared across the menu bar items of Apple’s system apps in Tahoe, this hidden preference would be a proverbial pitcher of ice water in hell. As it stands, alas, it’s more like half a glass of tepid

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-24 18:06:46

El estadounidense es el único de su edad cercano al nivel del prodigioso turco Erdogmus, de 14

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-24 17:58:59

El neerlandés, 14º del mundo a los 26 años, fulmina a Keymer, 5º, tras una decisión errónea del alemán

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-03-24 17:48:50

The security industry stands at an inflection point. In November 2024, the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) joined the Linux Foundation, cementing its role as a vendor-neutral, open source standard for the global security community. Last summer a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-24 17:25:35

Quantum 10, 2046 (2026). Locality is a central notion in modern physics, but different disciplines understand it in different ways. Quantum field theory focuses on relativistic locality, based on spacetime regi

ASF @ 2026-03-24 17:19:18

Community Over Code Glasgow is taking place October 11–14, 2026, and also features Lakehouse Day, a co-located, standalone event, on October 10. Applications for those needing travel assistance are now being accepted. This month, The ASF is also celebrati

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-24 16:52:33

Quantum 10, 2045 (2026). We present a method to suppress crosstalk from implementing controlled-Z gates via local addressing in neutral atom quantum computers. In these systems, a fraction of the laser light th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-24 16:45:17

Quantum 10, 2044 (2026). Security analyses in quantum key distribution (QKD) and other adversarial quantum tasks often assume perfect device models. However, real-world implementations often deviate from these

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-24 16:01:35

The previous post looked at an inequality discovered by Dmitri Mendeleev and generalized by Andrey Markov: Theorem (Markov): If P(x) is a real polynomial of degree n, and |P(x)| ≤ 1 on [−1, 1] then |P′(x)| ≤ n² on [−1, 1]. If P(x) is a

old new thing @ 2026-03-24 15:00:00

A very primitive version of recovery. The post Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-24 14:50:00

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a short document that captures and explains a single decision relevant to a product or ecosystem. Documents should be short, just a couple of pages, and contain the decision, the context for making it, and signific

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-24 14:41:35

Quantum 10, 2043 (2026). The Chantasri-Dressel-Jordan (CDJ) stochastic path integral formalism (Chantasri et al. 2013 and 2015) characterizes the statistics of the readouts and the most likely conditional evolu

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-24 13:47:32

Dmitri Mendeleev is best known for creating the first periodic table of chemical elements. He also discovered an interesting mathematical theorem. Empirical research led him to a question about interpolation, which in turn led him to a theorem about polyn

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-24 13:27:00

Quantum 10, 2042 (2026). Current proposals to probe the quantum nature of gravity in the low-energy regime predominantly focus on the Newtonian interaction term. In this work, we present a theoretical explorati

Swift blog @ 2026-03-24 11:00:00

Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when yo

AEON @ 2026-03-24 11:00:00

The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life - by Beatrice Steinert Read on Aeon