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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 23:34:00

Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis "wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software," according to his entry on Wikipedia, "and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:22:38

Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:17:15

Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money, Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake companies byp

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-16 22:58:26

One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. For example, yo

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 22:34:00

Bloomberg reports that Apple's two-year-old partnership with OpenAI "has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter." Bloomberg describes OpenAI as "failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal ac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 22:32:51

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 22:00:00

Ubuntu has outlined its AI strategy, describing it as a deliberate departure from industry trends towards cloud-centric, AI-first operating systems. Instead, the company says, Ubuntu will focus future releases on local intelligence, modular design, and s

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 21:34:00

"Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol," writes the Washington Post's "climate coach." The "chasing arrows" symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been st

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 21:27:34

Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X : “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistake

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 20:34:00

"The vulnerability is simple in practice," writes Tom's Hardware: "run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine." And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 19:34:00

Variety reports: Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned... The next James Bond film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the "Dune" franchise, "Arrival" and "Sica

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 18:58:26

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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 18:34:00

The blog It's FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It's now been blocked "after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes." The initiativ

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 17:34:00

USA Today reports: Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11.... The company's first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. Howev

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 17:24:38

Un mes después de su apabullante triunfo en el Candidatos, el aspirante al título muestra fisuras en Bucarest

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 16:34:00

What's going on with the U.S. job market? "The economy is growing. Unemployment is low," notes the Washington Post. "And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades," with the hiring rate "well be

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-16 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 May 16) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 14:06:21

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 13:36:32

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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 13:00:00

The Linux 7.1 kernel has added new documentation clarifying what qualifies as a security bug and how AI-assisted vulnerability reports should be handled. Phoronix reports: Stemming from the recent influx of security bugs to the Linux kernel as well as an u

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 11:27:59

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 11:14:26

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 10:39:00

At the recent Next ‘26 conference, Google introduced Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the successor to reCAPTCHA. The platform goes beyond basic bot detection to address broader online fraud across login, account creation, and payment flows, helping organizat

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 10:34:28

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 10:34:00

Microsoft has released Aspire 13.3, introducing a new aspire destroy command for tearing down deployments across Azure, Kubernetes, and Compose. The release adds native Kubernetes deployment in preview, first-class JavaScript publishing for Next.js and V

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 09:01:55

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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 09:00:00

Japan's worsening bear problem has created a shortage of handmade "Monster Wolf" robots, which are $4,000 solar-powered scarecrow-like devices with glowing eyes, sensors, and blaring sounds designed to frighten the animals away. "We make them by hand. We c

slashdot @ 2026-05-16 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead's neurotoxicity meant the metal was bann

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:38:00

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft , his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel : Track your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:37:57

Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 02:36:02

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 01:22:30

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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 01:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell Po

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-16 00:38:58

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slashdot @ 2026-05-16 00:00:00

AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. "The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeo

slashdot @ 2026-05-15 23:00:00

Bitwarden appears to be undergoing a quiet shift in leadership and messaging. Its longtime CEO and CFO have stepped down, while the company has removed "Always free" from a prominent password-manager page and replaced "Inclusion" and "Transparency" in its

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 22:26:47

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 22:12:09

“Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.”  ★ 

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 22:06:51

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slashdot @ 2026-05-15 22:00:00

Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Android Authority reports: While the company didn't mention which regions are impacted, user reports f

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 21:48:48

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 21:24:10

Yesterday, regarding the “Magic Cursor” feature Google teased for its upcoming Googlebook/Aluminium OS platform, I wrote : Shaking your cursor over something is an interesting gesture. The only feature I’m aware of that uses that gesture is MacOS’s f

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 21:07:08

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 20:37:13

Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apologies for not noticing. No wonder I thought the descri

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 20:37:01

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tecosystems @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

Sogrady @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-15 18:51:25

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 17:51:00

Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedules, through API calls, or in response to external events. By Daniel Dominguez

Confluent @ 2026-05-15 17:50:14

Digital sovereignty in streaming demands architectural guarantees, not policy promises. How BYOC, schema controls, and open protocols satisfy global regulations.

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 16:04:00

Cloudflare introduces Workflows V2, a redesigned distributed workflow orchestration system with deterministic replayable execution, improved observability, and major scaling upgrades, including 50,000 concurrent instances and 2M queued workflows. It supp

old new thing @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Maybe because it already exists? The post The case of the <CODE>Create­File­Mapping</CODE> that always reported <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ALREADY_<WBR>EXISTS</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Self-assembling swarms of microrobots could someday deliver drugs and pull toxins from water. The post New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-15 15:50:50

Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive. The post Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-15 15:31:41

El compositor israelí Amatzia Avni camina sobre un alambre para lograr un triunfo en apariencia imposible con gran belleza

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 14:51:12

Thinking about code in the age of AI and a deep loop at ArchRules and ArchUnit at scale. A good week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 646 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-15 14:34:29

I’ve written a couple posts lately about reverse engineering the internal state of a random number generator, first Mersenne Twister then lehmer64. This post will look at xorshift128, implemented below. import random # Seed the generator state a: in

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 14:00:00

Discord has released a detailed postmortem on its March 25, 2026, voice outage, revealing that a previously undetected circular dependency in its voice infrastructure triggered a cascading failure that disrupted voice services across the platform. By C

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 12:00:00

Brandon Foley published a benchmarking study on the CNCF blog showing that AI coding agents can find and fix isolated bugs. However, they often struggle to understand system-wide impacts. This challenges the idea that improved code retrieval is the main

AEON @ 2026-05-15 12:00:00

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 09:30:00

SolidJS 2.0 Beta introduces significant changes in async handling and reactivity. Async is now a first-class feature, enabling direct use of Promises within the framework. The update includes new primitives for mutations, altered state handling, and sign

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-15 08:40:00

Landung in der Pralinenschachtel

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-05-15 07:05:37

The usual string theory hype machine in action: to celebrate a PRL publication, a university press office puts out a press release full of hype with a highly misleading title (“string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the …

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 03:11:19

Learn about WevDriverManager in Java, how to set it up, along with different applications and modes of operation. The post Introduction to WebDriverManager first appeared on Baeldung .             

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:57:38

Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his wo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:53:54

After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels , a term I’ve been using since 2022 , it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sounds more clever, but I worry it’s less clear. I’m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:03:13

Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [ sic ] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-presi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-15 02:00:00

Catch up on the news at Red Hat Summit 2026This definitive guide to all of Red Hat's news offers a centralized view of the latest product innovations, strategic collaborations, and visionary milestones. Learn more Watch the Red Hat Summit keynotesHear ho

Inside Java @ 2026-05-15 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the warnings that JDK 26 emits when final fields are mutated through reflection.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 01:44:20

Calif, a security research team , on their blog: Many security experts consider Apple devices to be the most secure consumer platform. The latest flagship example is MIE (Memory Integrity Enforcement), Apple’s hardware-assisted memory safety system b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 00:53:10

Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired ( News+ link ): As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people wh

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-15 00:03:39

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 23:52:00

Last week I spent a day at a retreat that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the Chatham House Rule , so I can’t attribute t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 22:51:04

Geoffrey Fowler, on his blog, which, alas , he calls “ a Substack ”: I’m joining the Youth AI Safety Institute as its first new employee. It’s a research and testing organization launching today under the umbrella of children’s nonprofit Common Se

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-14 22:17:56

Photons traveling straight through a cloud of gas appear to exit, on average, before they enter. The post Physicists Have Measured ‘Negative Time’ in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Confluent @ 2026-05-14 21:40:28

Discover how Tableflow is helping you feed your data lake with real-time, analytics-ready tables for 30-50% lower cost

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:36:58

Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent: The list of tech and financial industry titans joining the commander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president Xi Jinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. [...]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:02:21

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks . Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during G

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 20:27:50

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg under the headline, “Apple-OpenAI Alliance Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight”: OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-14 20:11:58

En una lucha de cinco horas, Firouzja no fue preciso para convertir en victoria su ventaja decisiva ante Praggnanandhaa

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-14 20:00:00

Pew Research finds Republicans and Democrats traded places on inflation worry from 2024 to 2026, even though CPI rose less than a percentage point.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:50:05

Dominic Preston, at The Verge: Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien first confirmed the release plans to USA Today , telling the outlet that all preorders will be fulfilled within the next few weeks. The company later confirmed the news on its social media a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:39:25

Well, this is ridiculous. Klack is a $5 Mac utility by Henrik Ruscon that simulates mechanical keyboard clacking while you type. Absurd. My keyboard makes its own beautiful sounds as I type. So of course I went to buy a copy immediately, because I lov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 18:20:54

James Lockman: This small driver enables the Griffin PowerMate, a nifty little device from days gone by. What does the PowerMate do? It is a knob that you can twist or that you can press. That’s it. It also has a blue LED in the base that can change i

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 17:04:00

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on how it should be implemented, informa

old new thing @ 2026-05-14 16:00:00

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-14 15:15:29

For those very long-time readers this blog extensively covered prediction markets  from 2006 to 2008. In a prediction market, you have a future event, such as the winner of an election, and a market that pays off one dollar if that event h

InfoQ @ 2026-05-14 14:47:00

Moonrepo has released moon v2.0, its first major update since v1, featuring a plugin-based toolchain system and support for multiple configuration formats including JSON and TOML. The CLI has been restructured, enhancing task inheritance and Docker integ

InfoQ @ 2026-05-14 13:41:00

Fast-scaling teams must rebuild trust and psychological safety as their social systems expand. Intentional, redundant communication across multiple formats can keep everyone aligned. Cross-team rituals, buddy systems, and rotating facilitators can reduce

AEON @ 2026-05-14 12:01:00

‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-14 12:00:00

Pinterest identified and resolved CPU starvation issues that affected machine learning training jobs on its Kubernetes-based platform, PinCompute. The engineers traced the problem to an unused Amazon ECS agent, which caused memory cgroup leaks. By disabl

AEON @ 2026-05-14 12:00:00

Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed - by Attiya Waris Read on Aeon

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-14 11:40:48

I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning hitti

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-14 11:40:48

I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning hitti

InfoQ @ 2026-05-14 11:16:00

Anthropic published a postmortem tracing six weeks of Claude Code quality complaints to three overlapping product-layer changes: a reasoning effort downgrade, a caching bug that progressively erased the model's own thinking, and a system prompt verbosity

InfoQ @ 2026-05-14 10:00:00

Kubernetes v1.36, released in 2026, includes 70 enhancements focused on security, AI workloads, and API scalability. Key features graduating to General Availability are User Namespaces, Mutating Admission Policies, and Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorizat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Discover how Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 and Red Hat Connectivity Link deliver Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) to centrally govern and scale enterprise AI model serving.Many enterprises have moved past the AI pilot phase. Models are running in production and teams

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

We’re already looking forward to the next milestone in open source collaboration. For 2027, Red Hat Summit is returning to its roots in the heart of the East Coast’s tech corridor—Boston, MA. We invite you to clear your schedule for Red Hat Summit 2027, t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

As organizations move from AI experimentation toward scalable production, the complexity of manually building high-performing AI models and retrieval systems often creates a significant bottleneck. Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 helps address this with the intro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Modern large language models (LLMs) are defined by their scale. GPT-3 introduced 175 billion parameters in 2020, and today, production-grade models routinely operate in the hundreds of billions, with some architectures exceeding one trillion. Each paramete

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Agentic AI doesn’t just move AI forward, it flips the infrastructure built for traditional inference on its head. Agentic AI, systems that reason, plan, use tools, and execute multistep tasks autonomously, is rapidly moving from research into production. T

Inside Java @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

With JDK 27 introducing hybrid key exchange schemes that combine ML-KEM with traditional ECDHE algorithms, Java applications can gain TLS-layer protection against the _harvest-now, decrypt-later_ threat without rewriting business logic. In this episode of

InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 21:20:00

Anthropic has announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new deployment option that gives AWS customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude platform using AWS authentication, billing, and monitoring services. By Daniel Domin

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-13 19:00:00

The U.S. reported 2,288 measles cases in 2025 and 1,842 by May 7, 2026, 23x the typical post-elimination year. WHO reviews elimination status in November.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 16:46:00

Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles that separate global user identity from externally visible profiles, preventing cross-context linkage. Th

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 16:45:00

Zwei Extreme

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-13 16:04:30

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible. The post How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evoluti

old new thing @ 2026-05-13 16:00:00

Keeping things moving. The post The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-13 12:54:17

Una de las virtudes más asombrosas del prodigio turco es su consistencia, que en esta partida se traduce en una total ausencia de errores

AEON @ 2026-05-13 12:01:00

How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 11:12:54

Quantum 10, 2106 (2026). Quantum paradoxes show that the outcomes of different quantum measurements cannot be described by a single measurement-independent reality. Any theoretical description of a quantum meas

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 09:01:35

Quantum 10, 2105 (2026). This work considers a teleportation task for Alice and Bob in a scenario where Bob cannot perform corrections. In particular, we analyse the task of $\textit{multicopy state teleportati

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 08:50:41

Quantum 10, 2104 (2026). A class of quantum resource theories, based on non-convex star-shape sets, presented in this work captures the key quantum properties that cannot be studied by standard convex theories.

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-13 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

Baeldung @ 2026-05-13 05:47:58

Learn three distinct ways to query records between two dates in Hibernate: HQL, Criteria API, and Native SQL. The post Query Records Between Two Dates With Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .            

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 05:45:00

Zwei Fragen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-13 04:22:16

Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

Modern IT is driven just as much by economic decisions as it is by technical concepts. The costs of hardware, cloud services, storage, and more all factor into how CIOs and IT leaders budget and deploy their strategies. And now with AI, we have another cro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

The past few years have been a period of significant change and challenges in the virtualization industry. Customers are forced to re-evaluate their virtualization platforms while adapting to the rapid rise of AI and infrastructure as well as supply chain

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

We’re continuing to navigate a fundamental shift in digital infrastructure. Over the past 18 months, the predictability of the virtualization layer has shed nearly 20 years of stability driven by an unrelenting cost crisis. But this is just a symptom of a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

If you ship software in containers, you know the vulnerability treadmill: Scanners surface a flood of CVEs, backlogs swell, and teams chase patch velocity as if it were the core business of the company (as opposed to serving customers and stakeholders). Co

Inside Java @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of deprecated Java launcher options.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 23:06:21

Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com ( r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is ef

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:31:49

Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google , I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:22:20

Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-se

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:05:28

Jacob Parry and Laura Greenhalgh, reporting for Politico, one month ago: The EU’s landmark tech regulations are a “success story” that are beginning to level the playing field between Silicon Valley’s giants and their digital competitors in Europe, sa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 21:34:00

Foo Yun Chee, reporting for Reuters back on March 23: Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung’s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU’s toughest tech rules because of their growing market power, the world’s largest broadcasters told EU a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 20:52:12

Juli Clover, MacRumors: To comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Apple is letting third-party wearables access some features that have historically been limited to the Apple Watch and AirPods. Proximity pairing  — Third-party earbuds are abl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-12 20:28:00

The wireless rings read 100 common signs from two sign languages and "autocomplete" sentences. The post These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-12 19:00:00

The U.S. registered nurse workforce has split into two extremes: 1 in 5 RNs are now 65 or older, and the under-30 share fell to a 10-year low.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-12 18:16:48

Entre las partidas más interesantes del noruego en el torneo Sigeman figura esta, contra la muy talentosa china Jiner Zhu

ASF @ 2026-05-12 18:11:00

By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes to elect a Board of Directors, admit new members, and decide the direction of one of the oldest and most i

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-12 18:05:12

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton, run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU. Its integrated data lake query engine supports open table formats such as Apache Iceberg.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-12 18:00:16

In this edition: Meet inspiring developers, advocates, and educators. Prepare your app for Accessibility Nutrition Labels. Meet the team behind the stylish open-world adventure Infinity Nikki. Get the most out of your Apple Developer accou

tecosystems @ 2026-05-12 16:10:00

While it’s been almost eighteen months since the OSI released its open source AI definition, the debate around where, whether and how open source licenses might be applied to AI models continues. The view here remains unchanged, which is that open source s

Sogrady @ 2026-05-12 16:10:00

While it’s been almost eighteen months since the OSI released its open source AI definition, the debate around where, whether and how open source licenses might be applied to AI models continues. The view here remains unchanged, which is that open source s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 16:01:08

Quantum 10, 2103 (2026). Fermionic quantum processors are a promising platform for quantum simulation of correlated fermionic matter. In this work, we study a hardware-efficient protocol for measuring complex e

old new thing @ 2026-05-12 16:00:00

Compatibility, of course. The post Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 15:53:47

Quantum 10, 2102 (2026). Quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT) have provided a unified framework for understanding many quantum algorithms, including factorization, ma

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-12 15:30:00

Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 15:06:51

Quantum 10, 2101 (2026). Quantum low-density parity-check codes are a promising approach to fault-tolerant quantum computation, offering potential advantages in rate and decoding efficiency. In this work, we in

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-12 15:00:26

A free Apple Developer account provides access to the tools, resources, and support you need to build and test apps and games. A free developer account is separate from an Apple Developer Program membership. Even if your organization holds the paid mem

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 14:33:30

Quantum 10, 2100 (2026). Classical machine learning has proven remarkably useful in post-processing quantum data, yet typical learning algorithms often require prior training to be effective. In this work, we e

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 14:20:20

If you look very closely at my previous post, you’ll notice that I initialize a 128-bit integer with a 64-bit value. The 128-bit unsigned integer represents the internal state of a random number generator. Why not initialize it to a 128-bit value? I

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 13:07:31

A couple days ago I wrote about hacking the Mersenne Twister. I explained how to recover the random number generator’s internal state from a stream of 640 outputs. This post will do something similar with the lehmer64 random number generator. This g

AEON @ 2026-05-12 12:00:00

We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface - by James Dinneen Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-05-12 10:00:00

Si un político exige nuevas infraestructuras, lo más probable es que esté hablando de carreteras de alta capacidad. Autovías para llegar allá, autovías para circunvalar aquí, autovías para saltarse autovías colapsadas. Ese sesgo nos está saliendo muy caro.

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 05:09:56

Explore various methods for converting between ByteBuffer and byte arrays in Java. The post Convert Between ByteBuffer and Byte Array in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 02:54:08

Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 02:49:41

This morning I wrote a post about the probability that a random matrix over a finite field is invertible. If the field has q elements and the matrix has dimensions n × n then the probability is In that post I made observation that p(q, n) converges very q

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 02:13:27

Learn how to create and customize snippets in Visual Studio Code to reduce repetitive coding and improve development efficiency. The post How to Create Shortcut Snippets in Visual Studio Code? first appeared on Baeldung .      

Ethereum blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today launched an open standard designed to end blind signing — a structural flaw that has contributed to billions i

Inside Java @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

Get a deep dive with live coding showing how to specify, allocate, and work with native memory and how to link and call native functions. We'll also demo how to use the automatic binding generator tool jextract to effortlessly generate Java bindings to the

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:46:04

Learn various ways a the virtual thread gets pinned to the corresponding platform thread. The post Synchronize Virtual Thread Without Pinning first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:20:37

Learn about Key Derivation Function API in Java 25. The post Key Derivation Function API in Java 25 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:14:10

Learn how to use Anthropic with agent skills for structured output in specific formats via Spring AI. The post Anthropic Agent Skills Support in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 00:57:00

Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 22:48:05

Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say , take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order,

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-11 22:20:00

In David Marcus's guest post on good coding style (see  here )  he reviewed a book from 1986 called  "Professional Pascal." I wondered if it was still in print and could be bought: 1) I went to Amazon and searched all products for Pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 20:32:03

Apple stopped selling the Power Mac G5 (with space) in August 2006, so I’m not sure how much they care about Kraft using “PowerMac” (sans space) as a trademark for protein-enhanced macaroni and cheese. (I feel like there’s got to be a joke to be made here

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 19:55:47

Mark Gurman, in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg over the weekend: Though the Mac software introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26, the design language hasn’t translated as smoothly to the larger displays and different input met

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-11 18:08:26

My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Str

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-11 17:30:30

What is the inverse of shifting a sequence to the right? Shifting it to the left, obviously. But wait a minute. Suppose you have a sequence of eight bits abcdefgh and you shift it to the right. You get 0abcdefg. If you shift this sequence to the left you

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-11 16:15:13

A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography. The post How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-05-11 16:00:00

Putting the handles in a private container. The post Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by <CODE>Create­Process</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-11 16:00:00

Far from shore, the server farms would be powered by waves, cooled by seawater, and networked by satellite. The post In the Scramble to Power AI, Investors Bet $140 Million on Data Centers at Sea appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-11 15:25:13

The two latest posts have involved invertible matrices with 0 and 1 entries. If you fill an n × n matrix with 0s and 1s randomly, how likely is it to be invertible? What kind of inverse? There are a couple ways to find the probability that a binary matrix

AEON @ 2026-05-11 12:01:00

In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-11 12:00:00

The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-11 08:01:35

yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would no

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-11 06:44:19

Sólo meses después del estreno del documental que reavivó su escándalo con Carlsen, el estadounidense logra el mayor éxito de su carrera, a los 22 años

Ethereum blog @ 2026-05-11 02:00:00

A semi-regular gathering of Ethereum core devs from various client teams, or interop, recently took place in Svalbard, Norway. Over the week-long event, teams focused on hardening and preparation for the next upgrade, Glamsterdam. Several important milest

Inside Java @ 2026-05-11 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview)

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-10 23:00:00

Über Bewusstsein, Maschinen und ein Buch, das ich mir wieder gekauft habe

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-10 20:51:40

The previous post looked at the tempering step of the Mersenne Twister, formulating a sequence of bit operations as multiplication by a matrix mod 2. This post will look at the components more closely. The theorems of linear algebra generally hold indepen

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-10 19:32:02

The Mersenne Twister (MT) is a random number generator with good statistical properties but bad cryptographic properties. In buzzwords, it’s a PRNG but not a CSPRNG. This post will show how the internal state of a MT generator can be recovered from

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-10 19:16:58

El argentino completa su título de gran maestro al ganar la penúltima ronda en Cerdeña porque el Elo de Niepómniashi, rival en la última, le garantiza la hazaña

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-10 16:05:00

My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly nee

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-10 16:04:19

Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, pa

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-10 12:09:32

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 557 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Venter; NSF; Telaraña; Marte; Demencia; Horizontes”, 07 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada Podcast CB Sy

AHL's blog @ 2026-05-10 02:00:00

JSON Schema isn’t a great way to describe data… but it’s both a popular and pervasive way to describe data. For the past several years I’ve been working on a Rust crate typify that compiles JSON Schema into Rust types. In a previous post, I wrote

Atomic14 @ 2026-05-10 02:00:00

ESP-IDF v6 dropped back in March and the GitHub releases page is already showing v6.0.1 - so I figured it was time to stop hiding in the v5.x cave and actually try it out. This is a nice gentle introduction. We’ll install the IDF, wire it up