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slashdot @ 2026-10-16 18:00:00

Apple's first foldable iPhone, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, sold out within minutes of preorders opening, with every configuration slipping to late January 2027. "All color and storage combinations show an estimated ship date of January 25," reports 9to5Mac. "So

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-16 17:37:09

I mentioned in the previous post that I watched 2010: The Year We Make Contact last night and got nerd-sniped by the mention of Lagrange points at the beginning. I got nerd-sniped again in a scene describing a password. The instructions are Put in nine ni

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 17:22:00

Zod is a TypeScript-focused schema validation library that recently released versions 4.5 and 4.6. Key updates include schema compilation for faster data parsing, significant memory usage reductions, and new validation features. The library supports effi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 17:19:28

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: If you were hoping to surprise someone with an iPhone Duo for Christmas, you might be out of luck, as Apple’s online store in the U.S. is already showing an estimated shipping date of January 25 for all configurations follo

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project. KDE Plasma 6.8 ships man

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

Uber has developed an automated dependency analysis system that uses RPC middleware and production metrics to correlate caller and downstream failures. The approach classifies dependencies as fail-close, fail-open, or unknown and addresses limitations of

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-16 16:37:07

This post began as a thread on X last night. I’ve edited the thread to turn it into a blog post, making some additions and corrections. I’m watching 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The movie opens saying the monolith is located at the Lagrange

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 16:14:00

A recent InfoQ webinar examined operational challenges in deploying agentic systems. Key points included issues like semantic and embedding drift, which can lead to significant errors. Experts discussed the need for automated code reviews, continuous eva

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

Getting the results back out. The post C++ futures part 5: <CODE>std::<WBR>future</CODE> and <CODE>std::<WBR>shared_future</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-16 16:00:00

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close? The post The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-16 15:25:08

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared o

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 14:00:00

Grafana Labs is proposing a familiar reliability engineering approach for one of the less familiar problems in modern software: how to measure whether an AI agent is actually behaving well. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 13:20:00

The release of Helidon 27 is the first release that follows the Oracle Tip & Tail Model of Library Development by which the Tip adopts the latest Java technology while the Tail provides a more stable and secure baseline. Concurrent with the release of JD

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 13:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 12:47:00

AWS has introduced two open-source projects for AI agent development: Strands Decider 2B, a small model designed to make decisions within agent workflows, and Strands Box, a sandbox for controlling agent execution. Both projects address different aspects

AEON @ 2026-10-16 12:00:00

Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination - by Catharine Edwards Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 11:00:00

Software supply chain security company Chainguard has announced two beta products for running and testing code written by developers and AI agents. Chainguard Workspaces provides remote development environments based on hardened microVMs, while Chainguar

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 09:00:00

Timekeepers have officially voted to eliminate the leap second, allowing Coordinated Universal Time to drift as much as one hour from Earth's rotation before a correction is needed. The change ends decades of occasionally adding or subtracting seconds and

InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 08:02:00

Microsoft will scale its Maia accelerator family to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027, making it the primary inference system for its own products. Maia 300 collapses scale-up and scale-out onto one Ethernet fabric and moves KV state between prefill a

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 05:03:00

Tesla has unveiled a dramatically redesigned Roadster concept capable of performing midair flips, controlled landings, and a claimed 0-60 mph sprint in just 0.81 seconds. CarScoops reports: Tonight, Tesla debuted the new Roadster by driving it up a vertica

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 03:18:29

At the old pre-June prices, you could buy a 128 GB Apple TV and a pair of HomePod Minis for $350 ($150 + $100 + $100). Four short months later, with today’s new models, that combination would cost $600 ($300 + $150 + $150).

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 03:00:00

Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a story that has drawn international attention for being potentially the first documented instance of a robot being used directly in a sexual assault. According to the Associated Press, German police have opened a s

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

HomeView arrives, actor reentrancy explained, and tests that keep AI-generated code in check

Inside Java @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 545: Faster Startup and Warmup with ZGC

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway is now generally available (GA) as part of the Red Hat Connectivity Link 1.5 release, and natively integrated into the Red Hat AI portfolio. This follows a successful technology preview, and expands Red Hat's enterp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

Open Source Security Signals | Q3 2026Red Hat's inaugural Open Source Security Signals report examines how the ecosystem identifies meaningful risk, remediates vulnerabilities, and delivers reusable fixes. Drawing on Lightwell data, it models how one share

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 01:00:00

prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release. Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series,

slashdot @ 2026-10-16 00:00:00

"Along with the dangers of continuing cyberattacks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports that the threat of an AI market crash is putting the global markets at risk," writes Slashdot reader databasecowgirl, citing the IMF's latest semiannual Globa

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Flock's founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn't think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards. "If we want to live in a society where, if you commit a crime, you ha

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 22:00:00

Citizen Lab says it has documented the first publicly confirmed case of zero-click mercenary spyware being delivered through targeted online ads, a technique it calls "AdFection." "There has been a lot of buzz that online ads can be used to identify and au

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 21:00:00

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run locally across two 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework. Meta says it's the "most capable U.S. open-weight model to date." MacRumors reports: M

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 20:00:00

Microsoft says recent Windows 11 updates have made the operating system up to 20% more responsive by improving memory management and reducing background resource use. "A big part of that work is making smarter use of memory and system resources," says Navj

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-15 19:47:00

curl started out GPL licensed, as direct inheritance from its httpget days, but in October 1998 we switched to the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In 2001, we added the MIT license as an additional license to optionally use in addition to MPL. We made curl d

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 19:20:00

Amazon has unveiled two new Bee "personal AI" devices designed to continuously record, transcribe, and analyze conversations: the $75 wearable Bee Frontier and the $100 phone-mounted Bee Eclipse. Amazon says the devices can generate conversation summaries,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-15 18:11:12

Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, reporting for The Washington Post ( News+ link ; Archive.today link ): A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project

Deepmind @ 2026-10-15 18:08:03

Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 18:00:00

Instagram Direct migrated its Android UI from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native UI codebase that is easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain. According to Instagram engineers, the migration re

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-15 17:21:35

In the OpenAI Math Drop some papers have Lean proofs, others don't, including L = RL = BPL. Why is it hard to formalize results on complexity classes? Let's consider an example, Lautemann's proof that BPP is in \(\Sigma^p_2\). It's a beautiful proof bec

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-15 17:03:05

Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open-source ecosystem through hands-on projects and mentorship. This year, two projects successfully re

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-15 17:03:05

Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open-source ecosystem through hands-on projects and mentorship. This year, two projects successfully re

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Uber has begun a trial of autonomous vehicles on the streets of Manchester as it looks to bring robotaxis to cities around the UK. The first self-driving cars are operating, using the technology of its

old new thing @ 2026-10-15 16:00:00

Providing the case that the C++ language won't do. The post C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread <CODE>std::async</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-15 16:00:00

Jonathan the giant tortoise was born when Darwin was still a young man. Youthful gene activity may account for his exceptionally long life. The post The Oldest Living Land Animal Is 194. DNA May Now Reveal the Secret to His Longevity. appeared first o

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-15 15:40:13

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Qu

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-15 15:25:00

When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles remaine

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-15 14:08:13

Quantum 10, 2237 (2026). We describe a practical approach for accessing the logical failure rates of quantum error-correcting (QEC) circuits under low physical (component) failure rate regimes. Standard Monte C

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 13:33:00

Software only has value when shipped; faster release cadence matters. Development, deployment, and operations require different thinking, metrics, and investments. There are four impacts in tech: product success, compute capacity, engineering capacity, a

slashdot @ 2026-10-15 13:00:00

Bank of America hired 1,000 outside contractors to help patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos. The effort added hundreds of millions of dollars in third-quarter expenses. CNBC reports: In an interview af

AEON @ 2026-10-15 12:01:00

Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-15 12:00:00

Grafana Labs has released Tempo 3.1, the first minor update to the 3.0 architecture. It adds TLS and additional SASL mechanisms to the Kafka client, lets operators redact traces with a TraceQL query instead of a list of trace IDs, and introduces an exper

AEON @ 2026-10-15 12:00:00

What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it - by Alexander V Gheorghiu Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-15 11:11:39

The KotlinConf 2027 Call for Papers is now open! We invite developers from across the Kotlin community to bring their ideas, experiences, and expertise to the stage in Kraków. Do you have a Kotlin lesson or discovery that could help other developers? Perha

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-15 11:11:39

The KotlinConf 2027 Call for Papers is now open! We invite developers from across the Kotlin community to bring their ideas, experiences, and expertise to the stage in Kraków. Do you have a Kotlin lesson or discovery that could help other developers? Perha

brucknerite @ 2026-10-15 10:00:00

Dando envidia: no hace mucho tuve la ocasión de «estrenar» un tren de la serie 453 en un viaje charter entre las estaciones de Chamartín y Atocha Cercanías por el túnel de Recoletos.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-15 09:04:13

El gran potencial de Woodward a los 16 años choca con lagunas estratégicas, quizá por una influencia excesiva de los chips

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-10-15 06:45:00

Artificial Analysis just benchmarked decision models against LLMs. Split by task, the results show where decision models win and where an LLM is still worth paying for.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-15 06:00:00

Von Friesland in die Welt

Rust blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. 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 1.99.1 is as

Inside Java @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

In this video, we discuss why Java is already a good choice for AI and how existing and future Java platform features can make it even stronger. We explore developments across the language, libraries, and runtime, including OpenJDK Projects Amber, Babylon

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

Red Hat is headed back to Boston for our annual keystone event – Red Hat Summit! We’re building an agenda of technical and non-technical content for our experienced audience and looking for our community of experts — customers, partners, and associates — t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-15 02:00:00

Vulnerabilities are easy to count. Meaningful risk is harder to measure.Open source has become the foundation of modern software because it works. Shared innovation, transparent development, global communities, and broad reuse let software advance at a sca

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-14 23:03:43

Login looks simple until you’re building password resets, email verification, MFA, social providers, session management, and the enterprise SSO your first big customer asked for last week. AuthKit lets you: Offer SSO, MFA, passkeys, passwords, email

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-14 22:58:01

The Department of Justice, yesterday: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the King

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-14 21:30:48

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors, is natively available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-14 20:09:12

Siempre le ha faltado algo para aspirar a la cumbre, pero se mantiene cerca y exhibe mucha creatividad

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 19:58:07

When I wrote about the harmonic triangle yesterday, I displayed the triangle left-aligned using fixed-width text because that was easier than producing the format you usually see for Pascal’s triangle and related triangles. 1 1/2 1/2 1/3 1/6 1/3 1/4

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-14 18:00:00

Warum die Zukunft oft blau ist

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-14 16:20:00

Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reusable palette, the essentials of typography, including serif, sans

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-14 16:04:05

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine

ASF @ 2026-10-14 16:00:00

Introducing Apache Auron™, Apache Reqsign™, and Apache ResilientDB™ Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home for open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign,

old new thing @ 2026-10-14 16:00:00

Doing things later in different ways. The post C++ futures part 3: The mental model for <CODE>std::async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 15:57:00

Meta has extended Private Processing to AI glasses, using confidential VMs, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, OHTTP routing, and TEE-based storage to process AI workloads and persistent user context in the cloud.

ASF @ 2026-10-14 15:00:00

New feature cuts local working-copy storage requirements by up to 50%, extending Subversion’s long-standing strength in version control for huge repositories and huge files Wilmington, DE –  October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), t

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 13:11:11

G. D. Chakerian [1] discovered the following generalization of the Pythagorean theorem. Take any triangle and attach squares to each side. From each triangle vertex, extend a line perpendicular to the opposite side and extend the line through the square,

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-14 13:03:00

This article was written by an external contributor. Yuri Geronimus’s four-year-old son once asked him what his job was. Yuri told him he writes books: books that describe what he wants to change in the physical world. His son didn’t fully get

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-14 13:03:00

This article was written by an external contributor. Yuri Geronimus’s four-year-old son once asked him what his job was. Yuri told him he writes books: books that describe what he wants to change in the physical world. His son didn’t fully get

AEON @ 2026-10-14 12:01:00

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-14 12:00:22

What’s a connection between Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel? Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum describes a pendulum with a semicircular blade being lowered on a cable. This is an interesting variation on the usual harmonic osci

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 11:02:43

Over the last year or so, multiple engineers at Aisle have spent a lot of time and energy while pointing their AI powered tooling at the curl source code. This has resulted in no less than thirty-five published curl vulnerabilities and CVE Ids. Today, we m

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 11:00:00

Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based models for higher-level tasks. This ap

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-14 09:46:10

Quantum 10, 2236 (2026). We approach the problem of constructing a quantum analogue of the immensely fruitful classical transport cost theory of Monge from a new angle. Going back to the original motivations, b

InfoQ @ 2026-10-14 08:15:00

VoidZero has launched Vite+ 1.0, the first stable version of its JavaScript toolchain. It features a command line tool for managing Node.js, package management, and frontend development from a single configuration file. Enhancements include CI integratio

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 08:11:02

In the curl 8.23.0 release we shipped a fix for one of the worst vulnerabilities in curl in a long time. We grade it severity HIGH. It is known as CVE-2026-92392 with the title HTTP/2 upload Use-After-Free. This post explains the bug, what the problem can

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-14 08:01:43

Release presentation Numbers the 277th release4 changes42 days (total: 10,929)281 bugfixes (total: 14,770)476 commits (total: 40,084)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 312)0 new curl command line option (total

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-14 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

Deepmind @ 2026-10-14 04:00:14

Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.

Inside Java @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

JSON is ubiquitous in modern software, and many use cases are just too small to justify adding external dependencies. To address these everyday use cases, a new JEP proposes a simple, incubating API for parsing, navigating, and generating JSON documents-b

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

In the 1980s, the spreadsheet was considered such a valuable tool that would make buying a computer just to run it worthwhile. The term coined to describe such an application was a killer app. Is there an equivalent for Red Hat OpenShift? When it comes to

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

At ELIV 2026 in Baden-Baden, Red Hat and DXC are showcasing a software-defined vehicle (SDV) platform that brings together AD/ADAS and digital cockpit workloads on a single high-performance compute platform, with Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System providi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

Summary Most enterprise applications cannot be fixed simply by upgrading to the latest version of an impacted library.Lightwell delivers backported security fixes at your exact production library versions with cryptographically signed artifacts and SBOM in

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

Why airlines don't fly all-first-class planes and what it teaches us about AI strategyAirlines learned very early that they can't optimize a profitable route selling every seat as first class. Instead, the aircraft has multiple cabins, and the airline size

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-14 02:00:00

The 3rd quarter of 2026 has shown that network automation isn’t just a "nice to have," but rather a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments. Organizations are moving away from manual Day 2 operations and ad h

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-14 00:00:09

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features and updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms. Section 3.2: Update

Deepmind @ 2026-10-13 21:43:07

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-10-13 19:44:12

This year, I had the great opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code for the FreeBSD Project. After my proposal for “Live-patching for the FreeBSD kernel” was accepted, I worked for three months to make the first revision of the subsystem an

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-10-13 19:34:29

This summer, I started an internship with FreeBSD Taiwan, and my mentor, Li-wen Hsu, recommended that I attend EuroBSDCon. He said it is a good chance to make connections and get familiar with the community, as I had also started my master’s degree in the

InfoQ @ 2026-10-13 19:00:00

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration be

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-13 18:09:07

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the climate crisis and how it’s part of a larger collapse of ecosystems, like how insect biomass in Germany has declined by 75% in the last quarter century, how large predatory fish biomass declined by 90%

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-13 18:09:07

I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the climate crisis and how it’s part of a larger collapse of ecosystems, like how insect biomass in Germany has declined by 75% in the last quarter century, how large predatory fish biomass declined by 90%

Deepmind @ 2026-10-13 18:01:58

Deepmind @ 2026-10-13 18:01:52

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-13 17:59:06

Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran bac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-13 16:52:24

Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView , designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-13 16:06:00

A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style. How the writer shows up in the p

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-13 16:04:06

Quantum 10, 2235 (2026). Rydberg atoms provide a highly promising platform for quantum computation, leveraging their strong tunable interactions to encode and manipulate information in the electronic states of

old new thing @ 2026-10-13 16:00:00

Building things out of the state. The post C++ futures part 2: The mental model for <CODE>std::promise</CODE>, <CODE>std::packaged_task</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-13 16:00:00

Cancer interception aims to prevent abnormal growths from developing into tumors. The post Radical New Tactic Would Stop Deadly Cancers Before They Start appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-13 15:46:12

Quantum 10, 2234 (2026). We introduce SamBa-GQW, a novel quantum algorithm for solving binary combinatorial optimization problems of arbitrary degree with no use of any classical optimizer. The algorithm is bas

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-13 15:45:18

Pascal’s triangle is the most famous triangular arrangement of numbers. I’ve written about other numerical triangles, such as Bell’s triangle and the trinomial triangle. There’s another well-known triangle that somehow I never hear

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-13 15:35:00

Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 un

luajit @ 2026-10-13 12:14:15

Thanks to RaphaelIT7. #1532

AEON @ 2026-10-13 12:00:00

We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending - by Melanie Challenger Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-10-13 10:00:00

No importa la red social, los mensajes poco agradables pueden llegar cuando menos se los espera. Que acierten en una cuestión en la que uno está equivocado (las gafas inteligentes) es, después de todo, una suerte.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-13 09:14:00

Aún lejos del techo que alcanzó en 2020, el gran maestro español exhibe una gran calidad en las partidas de sus últimos torneos

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-13 08:07:10

Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes. When the team gets a new set of charts, graphs and plots that visualize something, li

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-13 02:00:00

Ein Blick in mein Regal

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-13 02:00:00

Enterprise IT runs on decades-old foundational code. The prevailing assumption around these mature components is that if code has been sitting untouched in production for ten years without breaking, it must be safe. Libraries like the Eclipse Implementatio

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-13 00:34:47

AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-12 19:44:24

The technology could one day decode dreams—or reveal our most private thoughts. The post This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-12 19:10:58

El mejor jugador español confirma su buen momento con un juego de alta calidad en las tres primeras rondas de la Liga Alemana

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-12 18:43:46

Mary Alyce Stephens (née Neader), posting on Cringely’s Facebook account: Hello, this is Mary Alyce, Bob’s wife. I am coming to you with immense sadness to let you know that Bob passed away. His obituary follows. His family is not requesting anything,

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-12 16:20:30

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? The post Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? first appeared on Quanta Maga

old new thing @ 2026-10-12 16:00:00

Managing a value that is produced later. The post C++ futures part 1: The mental model appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-12 15:04:09

A few days ago I wrote about topological models of modal logic. If you find general topology more familiar than modal logic, this correspondence could be helpful. If you think the motivation for general topology is evident but the motivation for modal log

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-12 14:40:27

The curl security team happens to also double as the curl core team. The small group of people who assess security reports and take project decisions. The exact set of participants in this team of course vary over time, as this is a volunteer membership ro

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

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

If the question makes no sense to you, try spending some time with the principle of sufficient reason - by Sam Kimpton-Nye Read on Aeon

Inside Java @ 2026-10-12 02:00:00

Structured Concurrency is the next major feature from Project Loom. In this session, we will explain the motivation and design of structured concurrency, show how to use it effectively, and discuss the lessons learned as the feature evolved. We'll also lo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-11 23:05:33

If you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 21:32:21

OpenAI publicó el 6 de octubre de 2026 en GitHub un catálogo con 722 artículos con demostraciones matemáticas agrupadas en 372 familias de problemas. Se han intentado resolver unos 4000 […] La entrada La marabunta de demostraciones matemáticas de

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-11 21:02:38

Joe Rossignol, on Thursday: Starting today, iPhone users still running iOS 26 will see iOS 27.0.1 as the prominent software update in the Settings app under General → Software Update, with iOS 26.7.1 now relegated to a smaller “Also Available” section

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 20:19:11

Alberto Aparici @CienciaBrujula y Antonio Rivera @MeteoLP me entrevistaron para el podcast «Oscilador Armónico» sobre mi tema de investigación, los solitones. Te recomiendo disfrutar de “Solitones: Historia de una Onda […] La entrada Francis en «

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-11 18:48:42

Lance blogged on the OpenAI solutions to many problems  here  and also created a website of the TCS-related problems OpenAI claims to have solved  here . Terry Tao seems to have had an infinite number of guest bloggers talking about AI and

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 15:09:44

La solución de OpenAI del enunciado con forzamiento del Problema del Milenio de la ecuación de Navier–Stokes está escrita en Lean (un lenguaje de programación que permite la verificación automática […] La entrada El problema del milenio de Navier

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-11 13:59:58

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 574 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “EST; Silicio Aromático; Premios Nobel”, 08 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 574: Compuestos aromático

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-11 12:31:17

Miembro de la selección nacional en la reciente Olimpiada, todo indica que pronto estará en la élite mundial

AHL's blog @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

In Rust, there’s this idea of specialization , roughly the ability to specialize , say, a trait implementation based on whether or not a type implements some other trait. Effectively, test whether a type implements a trait and take action based on that.

Inside Java @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

As AI coding agents make language syntax less central, runtime performance and operability become increasingly important. This keynote explores why Java’s JVM and standard library are well suited to this shift: newer JDKs continually improve performance,

Sara Soueidan – Blog @ 2026-10-11 02:00:00

I love the Web platform, and it’s a privilege that we, the web community, get a chance to influence what browser makers work on every year. For the second year in a row, Firefox has created a page that allows us to rank the Interop 2027 features that

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-10 19:30:03

Invicta en las once partidas de la Olimpiada Femenina, la joven estrella china firmó esta obra maestra de ataque contra la Defensa Francesa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-10 18:11:45

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring this week at DF. How can B2B software be so friggin’ delicious? Find out when early access launches on Monday, October 19.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-10 18:06:17

Benjamin Mayo (on X, of course), commenting on Apple promoting behind-the-scenes footage showing that the embroidered “Welcome Home” logo for next week’s keynote/experience was stitched by hand: There needs to be a name for this phenomenon where every

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-10 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 October 10) appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-10 13:47:57

Supongo que ya lo sabes. Nicholas G. Polson (Universidad de Chicago) ha sido noticia en The Washington Post. Pero no lo ha sido por la excelencia de sus contribuciones científicas. […] La entrada La hiperproductividad con IA de Nicholas G. Polson

Baeldung @ 2026-10-10 03:04:27

Learn how to use Spring AI Alibaba to implement and maintain your prompt orchestration logic. The post Building Graph-Based Workflows With Spring AI Alibaba first appeared on Baeldung .