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slashdot @ 2026-06-18 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will need to pass some of t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 17:49:47

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 17:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PetaPixel: China dominates the consumer drone market, so it is perhaps surprising that it is no longer possible to fly or even purchase a drone in Beijing. The new law that passed last month makes it il

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 16:36:00

Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-18 16:30:54

Attachment 12 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to specify terms for iOS apps in Brazil, including alternative distribution, alternative payments and out-of-app offers, and the Core Technology Commission. Please review th

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-18 16:30:05

As part of a recent agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that create new options for developers' apps in Brazil. Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distr

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-18 16:12:26

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. The post Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 13:35:00

How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and c

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 13:30:00

Ky 2.0 is an open-source JavaScript HTTP client built on the Fetch API, featuring significant updates such as consolidated hook handling, enhanced timeout management, and improved URL processing. The release includes response validation through schema va

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 13:00:00

Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productio

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 12:15:00

VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before auto-updating extensions to newly published versions, creating a revocation window against supply chain attacks. The delay does not apply to trusted publishers like Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. Similar cooldow

AEON @ 2026-06-18 12:01:00

The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-18 12:00:00

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-18 10:08:00

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 10:00:00

Cybersecurity firm Chainguard has announced the launch of Athena, an industry coalition to use artificial intelligence to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely-used open-source software before attackers can exploit them. The coalition focuses on librari

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: For years, the Chinese auto industry has employed a hostile price war to kneecap global competitors. Armed with massive state subsidies, cheap raw materials, and an aggressive "scale-first" bu

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-18 08:17:40

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 07:26:00

Microsoft recently introduced at Build 2026 Microsoft Scout, an always-on agent. Scout belongs to a new category of agents Microsoft called Autopilots: always-on agents that work autonomously on a user’s behalf with their own identity, without needing to

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-18 05:04:20

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 03:33:15

Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link): Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs, which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can preorder a pair of Specs no

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 03:15:27

Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge: I’ll just work from the car , I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty place in

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-18 02:00:00

WWDC has come and gone again, with its typical overwhelming amount of information. Siri AI has captured most of the headlines, but WWDC is about a lot more than just the marquee features. We asked some of the folks at MartianCraft what sto

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 01:00:00

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Wednesday published an advisory acknowledging the public disclosure of a vulnerability in Defender that could lead to privilege escalation. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS scor

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-18 00:04:50

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite unresolved ethical and safety concerns. The post Precis

slashdot @ 2026-06-18 00:00:00

CCS Insight expects global smartphone shipments to fall 15% this year as AI-driven demand pushes memory manufacturers toward higher-margin server chips. "[S]ome entry-level devices have already seen their sticker prices go up by more than 50 percent since

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 23:31:35

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slashdot @ 2026-06-17 23:00:00

Carvana is testing a radically different new-car dealership model in Dallas, turning the location into a test-drive center and themed "playground" while requiring every purchase to be completed through its online platform. "Every single car that we sell, w

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 22:03:00

BrianFagioli writes: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, Siemens, and other companies have joined the newly launched Appia Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The project aims to create common specifications and assessment frameworks that organi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-17 21:33:59

Soy consciente de que la publicación del nuevo JCR de la empresa Clarivate es irrelevante para las personas asiduas a este blog. Sin embargo, las personas que nos dedicamos a […] La entrada Ya se ha publicado el JCR de 2026 con los índices de imp

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 21:00:00

Anthropic employees say they remain confused and increasingly convinced that the Trump administration is singling out the company after officials gave it less than 90 minutes to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over alleged national security concerns. Cybersec

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-17 19:34:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 562 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Encíclica; Iceman; IA en Medicina; LHC; Quarks; Tacoclina”, 11 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 562: Encícli

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 19:07:32

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Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-17 19:00:00

The 2026 Knicks-Spurs Finals averaged 20.6 million viewers, double last year and the most since 1998, reversing a long slide in NBA TV ratings.

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 19:00:00

Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for "games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes," reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage wi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 18:44:15

Hey HN, I built a website to watch live baseball games in an 8-bit broadcast. It takes live MLB data streams and converts them into near real-time pixel art gamecasts. Been waiting to share this for when there’s actually a good slate of games happening s

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 18:36:08

A recap of the top announcements from AWS's New York Summit 2026

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-06-17 18:24:44

Enterprises that onboard AI assets (MCP servers, agents, skills, and multi-step workflows) need to govern these assets and make them discoverable without blocking innovation. Central IT maintains a list of approved MCP servers and skills for the organizati

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 18:00:00

Reuters reports a cyber extortion group has claimed responsibility for breaching Novo Nordisk's network, stealing roughly 1.3 terabytes of data, including source code, drug research, clinical-trial records, employee and physician information, production-sy

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 17:41:54

MacBreak Weekly: John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel this week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU initially later this year. And could the iP

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 17:37:42

David Pierce, host of The Vergecast: So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where Markdown came from and how it took over the world . Markdown has been growing st

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-17 17:10:46

El Mundial de Clubes, con casi 400 jugadores (incluido Carlsen) de 53 países, es uno de los frutos de la irrupción del mecenas Rosenstein

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 17:09:20

Amazon Bedrock's new Fully Managed Knowledge Bases simplifies building enterprise RAG pipelines by providing native data connectors Smart Parsing for automatic multi-format data preparation, and an Agentic Retriever for complex multi-step queries—all integ

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 17:04:47

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AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 17:00:11

AWS introduces Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from customer's secured AWS environment. You can focus on building agents instead of m

slashdot @ 2026-06-17 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from independent journalist Ed Zitron: Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified by the Financial Times, that OpenAI lost aroun

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:58:00

AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) automatically scans code repositories to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale.

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:57:34

AWS DevOps Agent now offers release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence.

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:54:55

AWS Security Agent now adds STRIDE-based threat modeling, full repo and PR code scanning with remediation across major Git platforms, and IDE integrations via Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and MCP — letting developers run security reviews and fix issues

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-17 16:35:35

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle. The post Seven Perfect Shuffles Rand

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-17 16:34:07

Last week I saw a talk by Northwestern professor Nina Wieda on the history of the Silk Road , a network of trading routes across Asia active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. I knew of the Silk Road but was surprised by how much it

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 16:30:27

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The Endeavour @ 2026-06-17 16:23:51

I’ve been testing Claude’s ability to generate Lean 4 code to prove theorems. I’ve written about a couple experiments that verified calculations. I did not write about my failed attempt to get Claude to formalize a proof of the pqr theor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 16:20:44

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old new thing @ 2026-06-17 16:00:00

Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 15:05:03

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-17 14:15:00

Uber recently described an internal architecture for propagating identity across multi-agent AI workflows. The design aims to perserve user context, agent provenance, and scoped access as agents delegate work and call internal tools. The case study align

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 14:11:27

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slashdot @ 2026-06-17 13:00:00

The European Commission has declined (PDF) to propose a law requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable, despite the Stop Killing Games initiative collecting nearly 1.3 million verified signatures. Instead, it plans to develop a voluntar

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 12:51:17

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AEON @ 2026-06-17 12:01:00

Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 11:54:21

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-17 10:00:00

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez writes on the GitHub blog that the recent wave of coding ag

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-17 09:49:44

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This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-17 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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 02:50:18

Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”: Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I say, quite fun. Should we j

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-17 02:00:00

For decades, the power industry has relied on "black box" proprietary appliances. While reliable, these hard-wired fixed-function devices have created a landscape of vendor lock-in, where hardware refresh cycles (often lasting 20 years) dictate the pace of

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-17 02:00:00

Last year, we released the automation intelligent assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant), a generative AI service accessed through a chatbot embedded within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Using a retrieval augmented gen

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 01:13:10

Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintainin

Deepmind @ 2026-06-16 23:29:50

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 19:56:27

Nearly everyone who has seen partial fraction decomposition was introduced to it as a way to compute integrals. If P(x) and Q(x) are polynomials, then you can break their ratio P(x)/Q(x) into a sum of terms that can each be integrated in closed form. As w

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-16 19:00:00

At the largest ACA Marketplace insurers, in-network claim denial rates ran from 13% to 35% in 2024, and the 2 highest denied about 1 in 3 claims.

YC @ 2026-06-16 18:14:22

We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining YC as General Partners.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 18:12:31

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered. At Ap

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-16 17:54:54

Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan algebra It builds on things I’ve discussed here, but it goes further. Let me explain a bit. A

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-16 17:54:54

Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan algebra It builds on things I’ve discussed here, but it goes further. Let me explain a bit. A

Deepmind @ 2026-06-16 17:46:31

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

old new thing @ 2026-06-16 16:00:00

It was carefully designed to be trivial. The post Retrofitting the <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE> message onto Windows 3.1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-16 14:39:16

Graphics support in FreeBSD has reached a milestone with the drm-kmod port now including the Linux 6.12 (LTS) graphics driver. This version of the port works with FreeBSD 15.1 onwards.  The update marks an important upgrade in graphics in both functi

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 14:11:00

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 14:00:00

Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalated into a multi-hour disruption that halted nearly all trading activity across the cryptocurrency exchange

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 13:14:01

You can’t prove a theorem by just checking a few examples. Except sometimes you can. A few weeks ago I wrote Pentagonal numbers are truncated triangular numbers. In a nutshell, if the pentagonal numbers are defined by Pn = (3n² − n)/2 and the triang

AEON @ 2026-06-16 12:00:00

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon

luajit @ 2026-06-16 11:12:21

Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1471

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 10:00:00

Stack Overflow has announced Stack Overflow for Agents, a beta API-first knowledge exchange aimed at AI coding agents rather than human developers. The service is presented as a way to close what the company calls the Ephemeral Intelligence Gap, where ag

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 09:15:00

PostgreSQL 19 Beta has been announced, with general availability expected in September, following the project's yearly major-release cadence. This release introduces native SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ), concurrent table repacking to reclaim stora

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 08:44:00

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-16 07:55:17

Madamínov confirmó su gran inicio, rozó la victoria contra Niemann en la última ronda y superó a Vojídov en el desempate rápido

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:33:37

Video is a boatload of data. Every video file in your product contains audio, objects, and scenes that most stacks can’t read or access. Mux Robots turns that data into video intelligence. Configure your video workflows once, and they run automatically

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for June 8th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of A2A Java SDK 1.0; an update on Jakarta EE 12; point releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and O

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:20:30

The Washington Post editorial board yesterday ( News+ link ), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”: Brussels insists the decision is “ Apple’s and Apple’s only ” and that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the launch. That’s technical

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating rea

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, j

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 01:57:54

The nth pentagonal number Pn is the number of dots in diagrams like those below with n concentric pentagons. We have the formula Pn = (3n² − n)/2 where n is a positive integer. If n is an integer but not positive, the equation above defines a generalized

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-16 00:18:23

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. The post Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon appeared first on Singular

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-16 00:00:28

Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com . New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example: Si

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Architect audit-ready, EU AI Act-compliant agents with stateful stream processing on Apache Kafka and Flink. Get 7 states, 4 patterns, and a phased rollout.

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Compare build vs buy for real-time RAG streaming in 2026. AWS MSK, Redpanda, and Confluent measured on TCO and a four-verb evaluation framework.Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 23:00:00

At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Xcode 27, which makes it easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, iterate on new project ideas, and customize the workspace. It also introduces DeviceHub for unified simulator and device management, along with enhancement

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 22:55:00

Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-15 22:42:13

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that acces

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-15 21:31:38

I got an email message this afternoon reporting a typo in a blog post from about a year ago on converting between quaternions and rotation matrices [1]. The email said exactly where the typo was, but I decided to see whether Claude would find it. Specific

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 20:58:22

Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April: European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked system-wide

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-15 20:58:10

About the project The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code. The 6-month project is being funded by a grant from t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 19:53:50

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-15 19:22:43

A few days ago I wrote about using Claude to solve a chess puzzle by writing Prolog code. This morning I tried a similar chess puzzle with ChatGPT. The task is to place a queen, king, rook, bishop, and knight on a 4 by 4 chessboard so no piece attacks ano

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 19:18:46

Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery: On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone else other

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-15 19:00:00

About 1 in 8 U.S. adults now take a GLP-1 like Ozempic, but use peaks in middle age: 22% at ages 50-64, falling to 9% at 65+ as Medicare stops covering it.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-15 17:07:59

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 16:15:00

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 8th, 2026, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring Vault; and GA releases of

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 16:09:03

Quantum 10, 2140 (2026). Phase estimation, due to Kitaev [ 17 ], is one of the most fundamental subroutines in quantum computing. In the basic scenario, one is given black-box access to a unitary $U$, and an ei

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 16:01:59

Quantum 10, 2139 (2026). Nonlocality is an essential concept that distinguishes quantum from classical models and has been extensively studied in systems of qubits. For higher-dimensional systems, certain resul

old new thing @ 2026-06-15 16:00:00

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer. The post The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-15 15:55:39

Vojídov supera en la Copa Uzchess a varias estrellas y reconfirma la gran potencia de su país, anfitrión de la Olimpiada en septiembre

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:47:12

Quantum 10, 2138 (2026). This work investigates whether quantum walks on simplicial complexes exhibit quantum advantages. We introduce a novel quantum walk that encodes the combinatorial Laplacian, a key object

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:26:22

Quantum 10, 2137 (2026). Simulations of quantum systems with Hamiltonian classical stochastic noise can be challenging when the noise exhibits temporal correlations over a multitude of time scales, such as for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:18:34

Quantum 10, 2136 (2026). We introduce a non-equilibrium version of the Caldeira-Leggett model in which a quantum particle is strongly coupled to a set of engineered reservoirs. The reservoirs are composed by co

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-15 13:41:48

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 13:40:46

Quantum 10, 2135 (2026). Complex optical design is hindered by conventional piecewise setup, which prevents modularization and therefore abstraction of subsystems at the circuit level. This limits multiple fiel

AEON @ 2026-06-15 12:01:00

A portrait of the pristine suburb of Arcadia, where hundreds of feral peacocks are embraced by some, despised by others - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-15 12:00:00

As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity - by Alexa Clay Read on Aeon

Use Your Loaf @ 2026-06-15 11:16:45

My WWDC 2026 viewing guide to help you plan the sessions you want to watch. Where Do I Start? The two big themes for the year are again Liquid Glass and Apple Intelligence. Start by watching the Platforms State of the Union (SOTU) for a summary of w

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-15 07:56:00

The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl’s submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-15 03:08:51

A mnemonic device is a sentence where the first letters of the words are helpful to remember something. My favorite one is                               My Very Educated Mot

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase, the question m

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

As telecommunications (telco) mobile networks evolve from physical hardware to virtualized and containerized infrastructure, the volume of necessary network element upgrades has increased exponentially. For Telstra, Australia’s leading telco and technology

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Every team that moves an AI model from experimentation to production hits the same wall. The model works. The serving stack works. Then someone asks how the continuous integration (CI) pipeline is going to authenticate, and the room gets quiet.What happens

Inside Java @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Six years after first comparing Java and Go microservices, the authors revisit the performance question: whether carefully implemented Java and Go HTTP services still deliver similar results on modern runtimes and hardware. Rather than framing it as a lan

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-14 18:50:35

Aunque mantiene su Elo y luchará por el primer puesto en la última ronda, el doble subcampeón del mundo parece haber iniciado su declive a los 35 años

Inside Java @ 2026-06-14 02:00:00

Learn how agentic coding transforms Java migrations by acting as an intelligent development partner.

The Geomblog @ 2026-06-13 22:51:47

News moves fast. 12 hours ago I was enjoying the demolition that the US put on Paraguay when I heard that Anthropic had shut down access to Fable and Mythos (their latest and most powerful models).  Since then, more news has surfaced about what we

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-13 22:10:20

Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export. In 1995, Adam Back protested this by creating a terse, obfuscated implementation of RSA in Perl code and used it as an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:34:15

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post: President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:20:59

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Found

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-13 19:07:48

El deslumbrante ruso, quien ya fue el maestro internacional más joven de la historia a los 10, bate otra marca

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:02:29

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national A

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-13 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 June 13) appeared first on SingularityHub .

luajit @ 2026-06-13 10:59:29

Thanks to Temir Galeev. #1470

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 01:36:15

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 20:05:15

Discover when to use Apache Kafka and when to avoid it. Learn the core differences between event streaming and task queues to scale your systems reliably.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:28:19

Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, except the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can grab it from YouTube. Speaking of the State of the Union, t

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 19:23:40

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:02:45

Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud): What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out “Siri AI” in the EU? This

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 19:00:00

Dobbs was supposed to cut U.S. abortions. It did not. The national total rose after 2022, and the whole increase is telehealth: abortion pills by mail.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 18:00:00

U.S. immigration detention hit a record 70,000+ people in early 2026, and TRAC data shows about 7 in 10 detainees have no criminal conviction.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-12 16:58:24

La idea clave de esta maravilla, tan hermosa como difícil de otear, destapa una catarata de recursos tácticos

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-12 16:04:20

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency. The post How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

Why do we see AI chatbots as more than what they are, and how do we stop? The post Is Richard Dawkins Right About Claude? No. But It’s Not Surprising AI Chatbots Feel Conscious to Us. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2026-06-12 14:45:26

All about performance in Java this week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 650 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 14:04:16

Quantum 10, 2134 (2026). Building upon $\textit{Wan, Zhong (2025)}$ [ 5 ] we present a few methods on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits[ 4 ] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Cliff

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 13:24:05

Quantum 10, 2133 (2026). Recent advances in analog and digital quantum-simulation platforms have enabled exploration of the spectrum of entanglement Hamiltonians via variational algorithms. In this work we anal

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 12:38:39

Quantum 10, 2132 (2026). Quantum linear optics without post-selection is not powerful enough to produce any quantum state from a given input state. This limits its utility since some applications require entang

Swift blog @ 2026-06-12 12:00:00

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter

AEON @ 2026-06-12 12:00:00

The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think - by Sandrine Bergès Read on Aeon

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Every June, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference gives us a look at the road ahead — the place where the hardware we know meets the software we’re about to build. At MartianCraft, we’ve been shipping apps on Apple’s platforms since the

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Before every WWDC, developers don't just make predictions, they play an unofficial game of WWDC Bingo. Read on to see if any of your squares got checked off.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 23:58:49

Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday: According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing v

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 22:38:09

Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube: I approached Cubby Broccoli after Jaws was a big hit. I’d always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No , so I called Cubby after Jaws and volunteered. I said, “If you

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-11 21:04:52

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. The post AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn appeared first on SingularityHub .

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-11 19:07:28

I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I’ve

YC @ 2026-06-11 19:01:59

We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped tech to 100 million people. Diana has done both.