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slashdot @ 2026-02-18 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-18 03:18:29

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slashdot @ 2026-02-18 03:02:00

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6, the first upgrade to its mid-tier AI model since version 4.5 arrived in September 2025. The new model features a "1M token context window" and delivers a "full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-18 02:40:52

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slashdot @ 2026-02-18 02:25:00

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (paywalled), Apple is reportedly developing AI-powered smart glasses, a wearable pendant, and camera-equipped AirPods that connect to the iPhone and use "visual context" to let Siri perform real-world actions. The Verge

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-18 02:05:33

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slashdot @ 2026-02-18 01:45:00

Following backlash over Discord's global rollout of strict age-verification checks, users are flocking to rival platform TeamSpeak and overwhelming its servers. According to PC Gamer, the Discord alternative said its hosting capacity has been maxed out in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 01:08:45

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three major cities around the world. It is simply described as a “special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information about what it may entail. The invit

slashdot @ 2026-02-18 01:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: David Greene had never heard of NotebookLM, Google's buzzy artificial intelligence tool that spins up podcasts on demand, until a former colleague emailed him to ask if he'd lent it his voice. "

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it’s no longer just about whether they can run AI and radio access network (RAN) on the same hardware – it’s about how they manage AI at scale.

slashdot @ 2026-02-18 00:20:00

A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience. Phoronix reports: Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 00:02:00

Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access Engine implements a credit waterfall to prevent user inter

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-17 23:56:48

The self-spreading CRISPR tool increased editing efficiency roughly three-fold compared to older versions. The post Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 23:40:00

Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE communi

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 23:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: More than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company's customers are still grappling with higher prices, uncertainty, and the challenges of reducing vendor lock-in. Today, Cl

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 23:00:00

Pioneering alpinist and scientist Horace Bénédict de Saussure brought us a curious relic to capture the blues above us The post The Mountain Man Who Measured the Sky’s Brilliance appeared first on Nautilus .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 22:26:00

A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based "Spencer Christy, individu

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 22:00:00

“How does our climate connect to what’s going on inside our planet?” The post The 3-D Secrets of the “Gravity Hole” Under Antarctica appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 21:45:00

Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe's largest data centers from being built on 85 acres of rolling farmland that separates their community from the neighboring village of South Mimms.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 21:35:18

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slashdot @ 2026-02-17 21:04:00

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects "human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks" from AI, and believes most work involving "sitting down at a computer" -- accounting, legal, marketing, project management -- will be fully automated

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 20:25:00

Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West, Yo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 20:24:55

Hi HN, After roughly 8 years of silently rolling 1.1 nightlies, we finally tagged a proper stable 2.0 release. We built this because wrist-sized Linux is genuinely fun to hack on, and because a handful of us think it's worth keeping capable hardware aliv

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 20:20:46

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 20:00:00

Some sound baffling could give birds the reprieve they need from our noise pollution The post The World Is Becoming Too Loud for Birds appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 19:49:55

At least according to Apple’s own numbers from the App Store, iOS 26 adoption is pretty much exactly in line with the rates for iOS 18 and 17.

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 19:45:00

Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing indie-horror video games on camera, has pulled off something that most independent filmmakers never ma

slashdot @ 2026-02-17 19:05:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users wer

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 18:48:52

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 18:40:50

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slashdot @ 2026-02-17 18:25:00

Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry's first PCIe 6.0 SSD, capable of sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random read performance of 5.5 million IOPS -- roughly double the throughput of the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives availabl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 18:21:04

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 18:20:01

Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on , try forcing it to restart. Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 18:06:18

13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 18:00:00

New research reveals the evolutionary accident that is the human chin The post Chins: The Evolutionary Accident Unique to Homo Sapiens appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 17:48:43

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 17:42:35

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 17:37:41

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 17:01:00

Religious “nones” may be less socially liberal than they used to be The post Does Belief in God, not Political Party, Drive Conservatism? appeared first on Nautilus .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-17 16:55:56

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E07, «Avances frente al cáncer de páncreas y el legado clínico de Emilio Alba, en el Día Mundial contra el Cáncer», 3 feb 2026 [154:02 […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E07: Avances frente al cáncer y el l

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 16:39:00

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the us

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-17 16:03:33

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers. The post A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-17 16:00:00

“The findings could save lives” The post Scientists Create Map of Deadly Scorpion Hotspots   appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-17 16:00:00

Final build, final, final, final 2, ship this one. The post Microspeak: Escrow appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-17 15:53:57

Subcampeón del mundo en 2018 y entre los diez primeros ahora mismo en todas las modalidades, el estadounidense reconfirma su enorme talento

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 15:43:14

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 15:00:00

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 and Gemini. It also features an agent swarm mode, which can direct up to 100 sub-agent

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 14:33:00

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI's recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context engineering, architectural constraints, and garbage colle

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 13:00:00

Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort remain decisive factors in how far teams are willing to trust automation. By Craig Ri

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 12:45:00

OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces. The App Server now powers every Codex experience, inc

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 11:34:00

Capgemini's Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don't fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports 95% still find Agile relevant, Kent Beck proposes "augmented coding" and AWS

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 11:29:14

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 09:00:00

Chrome 144 introduces the groundbreaking Temporal API, revolutionizing date and time management in JavaScript. As a modern alternative to the criticized Date object, Temporal resolves parsing ambiguities, time zone complexities, and mutable arithmetic. W

Baeldung @ 2026-02-17 05:16:55

Learn how compile-time constants can approximate the behavior of compile-time conditions for simple cases and how we can rely on more type-safe solutions to handle complex cases. The post Compile-Time Conditions in Java first appeared on Baeldung .

InfoQ @ 2026-02-17 03:30:00

After 15 milestone releases, the Eclipse Foundation has released version 8.0 of GlassFish featuring support for virtual threads; enhanced application security; and improved data access. GlassFish 8.0 is a compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11. Ondro

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 02:01:00

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-17 01:26:20

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 01:01:00

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content tracks in cryptography, lean consensus and zkEVM, plus a new self-paced learning platform. The program kicks off February 23rd. Visit epf.wiki to get started. Ethereum Protocol Studies (EP

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Zwei schwarze Punkte. Auf gelbem Hintergrund. Ein Schnabel dazwischen. And then there were four. Und alles, weil ich einem Kanarienvogel nicht in die Augen gucken und mit ihm ins Tierheim fahren konnte. Um ihn einfach abzugeben. Die Verantwortung loswer

Inside Java @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

JEP 527 is now integrated into JDK 27! This feature enhances the security of Java applications by implementing hybrid key exchange algorithms for TLS 1.3. By combining quantum-resistant ML-KEM with traditional elliptic-curve algorithms, the JDK implementat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

At Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil and Latin America, the ability to scale is crucial. Automation plays a central role in this journey, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has become the foundation supporting thousands of

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

The "works on my machine" problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their shift to cloud-native practices, a critical gap has emerged: The tools developers use on their local

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-17 00:12:37

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering wo

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-16 22:56:12

Scientists find coordination between key brain waves breaks down in people under anesthesia. The post This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 22:25:23

AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs.

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-16 22:24:45

The shape of a planet’s orbit around a star is an ellipse. To put it another way, a plot of the position of a planet’s orbit over time forms an ellipse. What about the velocity? Is its plot also an ellipse? Surprisingly, a plot of the velocity

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 21:00:00

The discovery of a vertebra is another piece of the puzzle of missing apex predators The post Giant Pythons Once Roamed Prehistoric Taiwan appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 20:00:00

It’s an elephant’s way of getting a feel for their surroundings The post Here’s What the Whiskers on an Elephant’s Trunk Do appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 18:28:52

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every fe

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 18:00:00

Maybe we should call mpox “squirrelpox” The post This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 17:00:00

A cosmic timekeeper near a supermassive black hole has astrophysicists salivating The post Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories appeared first on Nautilus .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-16 16:33:44

En esta partida ‘freestyle’, tan compleja como interesante, Abdusattórov tuvo primero ventaja, luego pudo forzar el empate y al final perdió

InfoQ @ 2026-02-16 16:14:00

Agoda engineers developed API Agent, enabling a single MCP server to access any internal REST or GraphQL API with zero code and zero deployments. The system reduces overhead from multiple APIs, supports AI-assisted queries, and uses in-memory SQL post-pr

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-16 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 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 26.4 beta to take a

old new thing @ 2026-02-16 16:00:00

Is it really a trick when reading the file is the purpose of the program? The post It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-02-16 10:00:00

Google Research tried to answer the question of how to design agent systems for optimal performance by running a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations. From this, the team derived what they call the "first quantitative scaling principles for

InfoQ @ 2026-02-16 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for February 9th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 26 and Gradle 9.4; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; beta releases of Open Liberty 26.0.0.2 and EclipseStore 4.

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

I’ve ended up with a bunch of these nice little ESP32-C3 modules . I’m a bit late to the party with them, so other people have done a lot of heavy lifting working out how to drive the display. I followed this blog . The only thing I didn’t quite l

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

Digital sovereignty is the ultimate strategic lever for innovation. It propels organizations beyond compliance into true operational freedom where you, not your cloud provider, dictates your business continuity.Red Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't b

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

As we prepare to head to the Fira and MWC Barcelona 2026, I find myself thinking about an industry question I am constantly asked: “Where is the value?” I’ve spent my career bridging the gap between engineering and the boardroom, worked in the telecoms ind

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

At Red Hat, we believe the telecommunications landscape is entering its most transformative chapter yet. To thrive, telecommunications service providers must transcend their traditional role as connectivity providers to become indispensable enablers of dig

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:39:14

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:37:04

Joanna Stern (last week): After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-15 21:16:00

I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: 1) Do you tell the students the problems are open? YES- it would be unfair for a student to work on something they almost surely won't get. NO- Some Open Problems are open becaus

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-15 21:10:24

El noruego añade un nuevo trono a su larga colección con tremendos apuros: tres empates y una victoria desde una posición casi desesperada

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 20:19:08

The last few posts have looked at expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares. This is possible if and only if p is of the form 4k + 1. I illustrated an algorithm for finding the squares with p = 2255 − 19, a prime that is used in cryptography. It i

InfoQ @ 2026-02-15 08:30:00

LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that requires registration. Projects that currently pull the latest community image will

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

Vorwort Dieser Text ist der letzte Text, der aus der Dekonstruktion eines sehr langen Dokuments entstanden ist, das ich neben meinem Text zu meiner Herzoperation geschrieben habe. Entstanden aus einem Absatz in einem anderen Artikel. Es ist der Text,

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

In a previous project , I made an ESP32 pretend to be a USB webcam. This time, I wanted to do it properly - turn it into a real USB webcam with a real camera. I also wanted to push things a bit further - I’ve got an I2C thermal camera module - wh

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 00:06:41

The last three posts have been about Stan Wagon’s algorithm for finding x and y satisfying x² + y² = p where p is an odd prime. The first post in the series gives Gauss’ formula for a solution, but shows why it is impractical for large p. The

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 23:07:05

If p is an odd prime, there is a theorem that says x² = −1 mod p has a solution if and only if p = 1 mod 4. When a solution x exists, how do you find it? The previous two posts have discussed Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:52:34

Discover the differences between subscribe() vs assign() methods in Kafka. The post subscribe() vs assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:49:26

Learn about Deep Java Library (DJL), an engine-agnostic machine learning framework developed by AWS. The post A Guide to Deep Java Library first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 22:35:54

The previous post briefly mentioned Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares when it is possible (i.e. when p = 1 mod 4). Wagon’s algorithm requires first finding a non-square mod p, i.e. a number c such tha

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-14 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 February 14) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-14 13:10:37

Lo interesante, para la mayoría de los aficionados, de la modalidad más moderna empieza en el medio juego, cuando la posición se parece a las clásicas

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 13:00:00

In an effort to probe the limits of autonomous software development Anthropic used sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler from scratch. Working in parallel on a shared repository, the agents coordinated their changes and ultim

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 12:32:00

A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in critical infrastructure operations and reduces incident response time by integrating in

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 11:11:00

Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an optional indexing model, allowing architects to prioritiz

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 09:30:00

Introducing Nuxt Studio: the ultimate open-source content management solution for Nuxt websites, offering a powerful self-hosted module for complete control over your content. With an intuitive visual editor, real-time previews, and seamless Git integrat

Inside Java @ 2026-02-14 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it announces the first Release Candidate builds of JDK 26 and an informal Quality Outreach gathering at JavaOne.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-14 00:41:11

A steady magnetic field protects the planet's surface, and all those living on it, from harmful radiation. The post Vast ‘Blobs’ of Rock Have Stabilized Earth’s Magnetic Field for Hundreds of Millions of Years appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 19:23:05

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 545 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “11F; Dinosaurios; Sag A*; Genes y Psiquiatría; AlphaGenome; ADN Origami”, 12 feb 2026. «La […] La entrada Podca

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 18:30:35

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 544 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cáncer; Virus Nipah; Satélites; IA y Neurociencia; Materia Oscura”, 05 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Po

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-13 18:03:49

El compositor Luis Miguel González transforma en arte la técnica, que a veces exige una exactitud absoluta, en los finales de dama contra peones muy avanzados

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-13 16:48:51

Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide. The post Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-13 16:45:00

I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not had as much time as I’d hoped to share more thoughts from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . I’m still workin

old new thing @ 2026-02-13 16:00:00

See if it matches the scan code. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>CHAR</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

luajit @ 2026-02-13 14:21:42

Thanks to Holger Hoffstätte. #1436

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 13:49:27

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 543 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B, iVoox C; ApplePod A, ApplePod B, ApplePod C], titulado “Arte Rupestre; Cuerdas; Radiofuente; Trump; Senescidio; Cervecería Intestinal”, 29 […] La e

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-13 13:27:12

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. Over a decade ago, Netflix became one of the early adopters of microservice architecture, showcasing its potential at a large scale. Since then, many companies have jumped on the microservices bandwagon

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-13 13:27:12

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. Over a decade ago, Netflix became one of the early adopters of microservice architecture, showcasing its potential at a large scale. Since then, many companies have jumped on the microservices bandwagon

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-13 03:34:58

I saw where Elon Musk posted Grok’s answer to the prompt “What are the most beautiful theorems.” I looked at the list, and there were no surprises, as you’d expect from a program that works by predicting the most likely sequence of

iOS Weekly @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Should an agent and your instructions to it live in the sidebar, or should it be front and center? 🤖

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. Th

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

tl;dr I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me....

Rust blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

The crates.io team will no longer publish a blog post each time a malicious crate is detected or reported. In the vast majority of cases to date, these notifications have involved crates that have no evidence of real world usage, and we feel that publishi

Inside Java @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Welcome to the new Inside Java Podcast. In this meta episode, Nicolai Parlog introduces you to the podcast's new structure with two shows under one umbrella: The long-form conversations you know become Ask the Architects episodes and they'll be accompanied

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

There has been much discussion lately regarding the "Zero CVE" movement. At Red Hat, we welcome this focus, emphasized by our recent announcement of Project Hummingbird to provide more frequently updated container images. Hummingbird represents a shift in

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

For Marcus Dobeck, vice president and head of container orchestration at The PNC Financial Services Group, if the challenge of 2025 could be summarized in a single word it would be demand. Like many organizations, PNC was moving from a place where they wer

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Don't forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit—heading to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026—and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of our most impactful yet. Register by February 23 to get our lowest pricing, and save

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Modern software development runs on open source, and that’s not hyperbole. Python alone pulls in dozens—sometimes hundreds—of third‑party libraries for even the simplest applications. While public repositories have fueled innovation at incredible speed, th

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-13 00:13:45

It's a dramatic shift from Musk’s long-standing goal of a permanent human presence on the red planet. The post Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Pivoting From Mars to the Moon appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-12 18:24:34

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4 — an operating system update slated for March — Apple is now working to spread them out over future versions, according to people familiar with the matter

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-12 18:13:31

Jeff Johnson: In today’s macOS 26.3 update, Apple implemented a “fix” for an issue I blogged about a month ago, macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view . (At the behest of John Gruber and the Apple Style Guide , I’m now using the term “column view” ra

Deepmind @ 2026-02-12 17:15:09

Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-12 17:07:39

Campeón de España en 1968, un año magnifico para él por varias razones, el maestro español firmó una partida inmortal en ese torneo

old new thing @ 2026-02-12 16:00:00

Check whether it is an extended key. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>KEY­DOWN</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

ASF @ 2026-02-12 15:00:00

Apache HugeGraph graduates from Apache Incubator Wilmington, DE –  February 12, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache HugeGraph has become a Top-Level Pro

Baeldung @ 2026-02-12 10:59:00

Jakarta EE 12 is getting closer and JDK 26 and yes, 27 on the horizon :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 633 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-12 10:24:00

A reader worried about the future. I am writing this email as a young aspiring researcher/scientist. We live in a period of uncertainty and I have a lot of doubts about the decisions I should make. I've always been interested in mathematics and physic

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-02-12 04:40:32

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling

Physics Phorums @ 2026-02-12 04:40:32

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

Ich mag Jim Carrey nicht, aber auf der Liste der Filme, die ich mir immer wieder ansehen könnte, steht “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” ganz oben. Nur wenige Filme sind mir ähnlich wichtig. Vielleicht ist es auch nicht Jim Carrey, sondern die meist

Rust blog @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.93.1. 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 1.93.1 is as

Inside Java @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 527: Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-11 22:04:07

Andrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica at the end of January: Apple also outlines a number of usage restrictions for the generative AI features that rely on external services. Apple says that, “at a minimum,” users will be able to generate 50 ima

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 17:39:22

Learn about the common mistakes that can break HTML structure when working with Thymeleaf and explore two approaches to fix them. The post How to Put a Text Without Removing HTML Structures in Thymeleaf first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 17:36:09

Learn how to set up and use prettier with Java (IntelliJ IDE and others) and quirks of the configuration. The post Java Code Formatting Using Prettier first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-11 16:57:13

Uno de los más insignes ajedrecistas españoles de su época publica el primer volumen de sus memorias, con partidas espléndidas

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-11 16:00:10

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems. The post Physicists Mak

old new thing @ 2026-02-11 16:00:00

You can prevent the item from becoming hot-tracked. The post How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-11 14:23:50

Suppose you have two n × n matrices, A and B, and you would like to find a rotation matrix Ω that lines up B with A. That is, you’d like to find Ω such that A = ΩB. This is asking too much, except in the trivial case of A and B being 1 × 1 matrices.

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-11 11:38:00

Quantum 10, 2004 (2026). The QMA-completeness of the local Hamiltonian problem is a landmark result of the field of Hamiltonian complexity that studies the computational complexity of problems in quantum many-b