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As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 18:00:00

A new survey on police license plate cameras found that "more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them," reports TechCrunch: According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. that was shared exclusively with The Washin

Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum, toothpaste, jam, yoghurts and ice-cream has been linked to an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and death. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol pre

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-29 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 August 29) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 13:00:00

SpaceX is significantly reducing Falcon 9 launches from Florida this year, ending the Space Coast's decade-long run as the world's busiest spaceport as more missions shift to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The slowdown is expected to continue u

Cloudflare Workers Accept Inbound TCP, with gRPC the First Protocol on Top

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 11:55:00

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming t

Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 09:00:00

President Trump awarded the four-member Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order directing the creation of a new U.S. Space Academy. The proposed academy would train engineers, scientists, technicians, operators,

FreeToken Unlocks Frontier MoE Inference on Consumer Hardware via Dynamic Co-Execution

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 07:05:00

Researchers from UC Berkeley and MIT have developed FreeToken, an open-source inference engine that enhances the utility of Mixture-of-Experts models on consumer hardware. By implementing a dynamic scheduling policy and optimising weight management, Free

Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 05:30:00

alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese acco

New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 01:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update, according to Medical Daily. Of 5,659 calls to the Bronx call center during that peri

States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules

slashdot @ 2026-08-29 00:00:00

A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state regulators their biggest legal victory yet against the booming industry. "There are still related lawsuits pending across the country, and

Apple Announces Price Increase for Apple TV and Apple One Subscriptions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:52:37

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the full details on the price increases: Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99) Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99) Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95) Prices for other Apple One plans are

‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:35:22

Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence e

‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:27:21

I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect.  ★ 

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 23:10:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over a hundred tech companies -- including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft -- have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-

Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 22:00:00

Australia's official music charts will no longer accept songs that are largely or entirely AI-generated, requiring eligible releases to be "substantially human made." The BBC reports: The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) said the new code w

We Certainly Have Made a Hames Out of This

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 21:42:59

I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame , and that hames is rathe

Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 21:00:00

Apple is raising Apple TV's U.S. price to $14.99 per month, up from $12.99, while the annual plan jumps from $99 to $119. It's the service's fourth price hike in four years and means the monthly cost has now tripled from its $4.99 launch price in 2019. App

Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the A

Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 19:00:00

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ditched their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal, ending a deal that would have been the largest fintech acquisition ever. "Stripe last week agreed to pay $8 billion for AI model marketplace OpenRouter, b

Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-28 18:45:11

Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope . The post Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not. appeared first on SingularityHub .

‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 18:25:33

Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describing him euphemistically ), on Twitter/X (retweeting the official White House account’s announc

Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 18:00:00

Roblox is restricting games that reward younger players for endlessly consuming autoplaying media feeds. The new restrictions are specifically targeting Roblox experiences like "Steal an Egg," which encouraged players to watch TikTok-style clips for in-gam

From the DF Archive: ‘Golfo Del Gringo Loco’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 17:00:39

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m

US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly considering new tariffs on semiconductors used in the U.S., as tech giants race to beat China in the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out.

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXIX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-28 16:38:24

Otra lección magistral de cómo sacrificar peones para abrir líneas decisivas, esta vez ante Grischuk

Making the unnecessary easier

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-28 16:35:36

I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a

Uber Builds GitFarm to Run Git Operations as a Service for Large-Scale Monorepos

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 16:30:00

Uber’s GitFarm provides Git operations as a centralized service, eliminating local repository clones across large scale monorepo workloads. The platform uses prewarmed checkouts, ephemeral sandboxes, repository synchronization, and gRPC streaming to redu

Trump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 16:02:53

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countrie

On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2

old new thing @ 2026-08-28 16:00:00

Explicitly denying that you implement the method. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-28 15:30:34

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AKS Looks to Make Node Disruption More Predictable with New NAP Guidance

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 14:00:00

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams balance the efficiency benefits of automated node consolidation with applicatio

Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 13:00:00

Google is adding an "Expert Intelligence" feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work directly from more than 100,000 books they own through Google Play Books. Those books can be used as sources for things like q

Meta Expands Its Custom Silicon Strategy From Compute Into Networking

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:43:00

Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. By Matt Foster

Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:07:00

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers h

U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 04:59:46

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, ​the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal c

Issue 765

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

UISceneDelegate mandate, M6 Mac mini, Apple layoffs, Headless Xcode MCP, Embedded Swift 6.4, SwiftTUI

Managing enterprise AI at scale: Hosting, deployment patterns, and Day 2 operations

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

In our previous article, Enterprise AI model selection: Balancing performance, privacy, and operational fit, we described the 4 layers that make up an effective enterprise AI architecture. In this article, we'll talk about who operates each layer, where w

Learning while building: How Red Hat Training accelerates technical growth

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Managing complex data systems and learning new software platforms can feel like navigating a maze in the dark. Whether you’re stepping into a command-line environment for the 1st time or mapping intricate relationships across enterprise platforms, practica

Friday Five — August 28, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Streamlining container security: Red Hat Hardened Images now supported in AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanningAWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images. This integration helps software security and development

Celebrating excellence: Honoring the Red Hat Academy APAC award winners

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

The future of technology depends on a workforce equipped with practical, industry-relevant skills. As organizations accelerate their adoption of open source, cloud, automation, and enterprise technologies, educational institutions play a critical role in p

Afterglow — Classic After Dark Screen Savers on Today’s MacOS

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:49:50

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy ), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-27 23:13:16

Can AI replace lawyers—at least in some circumstances? The post An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:09:42

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words the

Elizabeth Warren’s Incoherent Outrage Regarding Apple’s Tariff Refund

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:46:08

Speaking of tariff refunds , here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — eac

Hemut: Building the Internet of Freight on Real-Time Data

Confluent @ 2026-08-27 22:23:15

Hemut uses Confluent, real-time data streaming, and AI to automate trucking operations, improve fleet efficiency, and build the Internet of Freight.

Panic Is Refunding Tariff Fees to Playdate Buyers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:10:13

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We t

Ads in Apple Maps Have Now Launched

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:02:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users. There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app: Before searching:

‘How Europe Is Killing Makers and Micro-Entrepreneurs’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 21:42:48

Alain Pannetrat, founder of Lectronz: Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts

Tax and price updates for apps, In-App Purchases, and subscriptions

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-27 21:00:43

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 43 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or forei

Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases for Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, Batch

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 17:50:00

After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 2026, highlighting first milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring I

Google Cloud Launches AI-powered Agents to Simplify Database Lifecycle Management

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 17:00:00

Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini

On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1

old new thing @ 2026-08-27 16:00:00

Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXVIII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-27 15:50:28

La relatividad de la ventaja material, y en concreto de los peones, es una de las lecciones que el noruego aprendió de AlphaZero

Second solutions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-27 15:14:35

This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations have a second

Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-27 15:11:00

Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

ASF @ 2026-08-27 15:00:00

Introducing Apache Iggy™, a persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, and Apache Sourcelume, open source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance Wilmington, DE –  August 27, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 14:59:16

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Astro Introduces Sätteri: A Rust-powered Markdown And Mdx Processor With Up To 60% Faster Builds

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 14:31:00

Sätteri is a high-performance Markdown and MDX processor developed by the Astro team. Built in Rust, it enhances build speeds by up to 61% for Astro 7.0. Sätteri supports flexible JavaScript plugins and integrates various Markdown features natively. It m

How to Make Testing More Sustainable

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 13:53:00

By using a sustainable testing strategy, you can skip unnecessary tests, ensure failing fast and early, and only run tests affected by code changes. Tracking energy use per test and using static code analysis can help spot inefficiencies and guide optimi

Non-Gaussian Noise Magnetometry Using Local Spin Qubits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-27 13:50:42

Quantum 10, 2197 (2026). Atomic scale qubits, as may be realized in nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, offer the opportunity to study magnetic field noise with nanometer scale spatial resolution. Using t

Podcast CB SyR 567: Gran intercambio biótico americano, diversidad lingüística, cristales fotónicos temporales y nueva hipótesis sobre Tabby

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-27 12:45:10

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 567 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Intercambio Americano; Diversidad Lingüística; Time Crystals; Tabby”, 20 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 5

Cloudflare Wallets Arrives Late to x402, and the Spending Controls Stop at the Payment

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 11:04:00

Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting complaints have already surfaced. Payments run on x402, now hosted by the Linux Foundation. The controls bound singl

La IA y, o, para, contra el Arte

brucknerite @ 2026-08-27 10:00:00

Una consulta de la Comisión Europea está recogiendo opiniones sobre el papel de la inteligencia artificial en la cultura. Es el momento de quejarse contra un futuro justo al revés del que nos prometieron, en el que nosotros haremos los trabajos tediosos y

Da steht ein Auto auf der Straße

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Warum Rennradfahrer in parkende Autos fahren. Gedanken zur Situation und Diskussion.

Episode 68 “Operator Overloading with Type Classes” [AtA]

Inside Java @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

How OpenJDK's Project Valhalla is improving Java's support for custom numerical types.

Beyond the model: Architecting production-grade enterprise AI systems

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Enterprises rarely lack AI options, they lack a coherent way to use them. Moving from "we should use AI" to production-ready capability is an architecture problem shaped by which models you adopt, what infrastructure runs them, and how you deploy and opera

Automating edge recovery: Minimizing unplanned downtime with Red Hat Edge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Before joining Red Hat, senior product manager for edge computing Luke Thompson spent 7 years of his career working at a large industrial automation company, where he had considerable opportunity to talk with customers and learn about the operational chall

LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework

Baeldung @ 2026-08-27 00:02:05

Learn to how to use Embabel AI to automatically parse objects as the data arrive in a stream from the large language model you use in your application. The post LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .  

POSIWID: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 22:18:04

Wikipedia: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer , who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it c

Apple’s Polishing Cloth Is Now Just $9

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:18:40

Chance Miller: Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio , Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $

‘Surprise and Shine’ Apple Event: Wednesday 9 September

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:16:34

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and t

What is the quality of software that AI writes?

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 20:51:13

AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should elim

Java Weekly, Issue 661

Baeldung @ 2026-08-26 19:15:42

IntelliJ IDEA Conf is back, JDK 27 got its first RC and JDK 28 is already looking solid The post Java Weekly, Issue 661 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXVII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-26 19:14:44

Incluso cuando estaba en crisis (2016-2018), el campeón del mundo siguió produciendo obras maestras en partidas rápidas y relámpago

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Deepmind @ 2026-08-26 19:01:00

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

Surprise and shine

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-26 17:00:55

Join us for a special Apple Event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. Watch on apple.com , Apple TV, or YouTube Live.

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-26 16:30:35

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Introduces Specification-Driven Composition for Flexible Data Workflows

InfoQ @ 2026-08-26 16:18:00

AWS describes a specification-driven approach for composing flexible data workflows by separating intent from processing logic. Architecture uses declarative specifications, reusable processing capabilities, and validation before execution. AWS reports t

In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2

old new thing @ 2026-08-26 16:00:00

The smallest perturbation. The post In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Calculator Transition

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-26 15:34:40

There's a scene in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, asks Houston control to check his calculations, which they do using a slide rule.  My father told me that when he was in college (1950s) that engineers measured their te

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 Released

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 Released

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

Junk solutions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 14:16:17

When you’re interested in studying a family of functions, it can be useful to look at a differential equation that the functions solve. This is a theme I’ve written about several times, most recently here and here, but also three years ago her

Ultraspherical

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 12:51:32

When I hear the term ultraspherical I think of something extremely spherical. For example, a baseball is spherical, but a billiard ball is more spherical. Maybe a highly polished billiard ball is ultraspherical. Using this line of thought, the term ultras

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 Adds Durable and Verifiable Execution for AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-08-26 09:00:00

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 applies Dapr-based recovery, signed workflow history and execution attestation across several agent frameworks. Architects should compare it with framework-native durability and established workflow engines, while evaluating benchmar

This Week in Rust 666

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-26 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

This Week’s Hype

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-26 05:49:05

The Economist today reports that New theories and experiments should shine light on string theory. This is more of the promotional campaign for Cumrun Vafa’s “dark dimension”. We’re told that a torsion balance experiment in Austria

Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence

Rust blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li ( @rami3l ), Chris Denton ( @ChrisDenton ), Alejandra González ( @blyxyas ), León Liehr ( @fmease ), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb

Taming the agent beast: From monolithic prompt to modular agentic workflow

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

What happens when you stop thinking of AI agents as chatbots and start treating them as workers in a pipeline? This is the story of turning a sprawling Jira backlog into a self-orchestrating system, and the lessons learned along the way.TL;DRWe built an ag

Open telco AI: Training a model for an industry

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

Domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a practical priority for the telecommunications industry. At AMD Advancing AI, ATT Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Legg joined AMD’s Dan McNamara, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compute

Modernizing database workloads on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

As organizations continue to modernize their workloads, one of the most important questions is how to support the full range of database workloads, including SQL, NoSQL, vector, and in-memory databases. Modernizing database infrastructure requires a though

Modernize with confidence: Build a threat-resistant Linux foundation with Red Hat Consulting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

Operating an unsupported or outdated Linux distribution can expose your organization to critical security risks, drive up maintenance costs, and keep you from using the newest and best tools. However, undergoing a successful Linux modernization effort requ

XCancel, the Twitter/X Mirror, Shuts Down After Cease and Desist From the Fine Folks at X Corp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:44:18

XCancel: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.

Dolly Parton Dies at 80

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:39:12

Bill Friskics-Warren for The New York Times: Her death was announced in a video posted on social media by her nephew Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided. Concerns about Ms. Parton’s health were raised last year as she postponed and later canceled a

Update Regarding the Base Prices of the M5 Max Mac Studio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:17:40

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface looks like this: Both of the available M5 Max

Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 22:35:27

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. The post Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains appeared first on SingularityHub .

Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-25 18:11:02

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our cust

Footnote Regarding the GDPR and Cookie Permission Prompts

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 17:46:27

If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but here’s the kicker: The GDPR went into effect 10 yea

Java News Roundup: JDK 27-RC1, OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Helidon, Micrometer, Tika 4.0

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 17:20:00

This week's Java roundup for August 17th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 27; JEP 541 and JEP 540 targeted for JDK 28; the GA release of Apache Tika 4.0; a maintenance release of Helidon; the first milestone releases

★ Memory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 16:38:01

Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost.

Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator?

old new thing @ 2026-08-25 16:00:00

It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it? The post Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 15:10:18

Apple Newsroom: Apple today debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities. M6, Apple’s first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, deliv

BMC Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of Servers at Risk of Hardware-Level Compromise

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 14:00:00

Security researchers are warning that thousands of enterprise servers could be exposed to compromise through vulnerabilities in their Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) - specialized processors embedded in server motherboards that provide administra

Lua 5.4.9 released

Lua: news @ 2026-08-25 13:00:36

Lua 5.4.9 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.4.8.

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXVI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-25 09:47:46

Juego combinado en ambos flancos con gran sutileza y precisión para doblegar a un joven astro emergente

Numerical (in)stability of recurrence relations

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-25 03:47:47

The previous post gave several examples of three-term recurrence relations for special functions. These relations can be computationally useful, but they have to be applied carefully. Several years ago I wrote a post on stable and unstable recurrences. In

[Sponsor] Finalist 4: Inspired by Paper Day Planners

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 02:37:24

Finalist 4 is the biggest update yet to the paper-inspired day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now Apple Watch. The headline is Notes, in the app or as a folder of Markdown files that round-trips with Obsidian. Tasks in those files land on the right da

Announcing Oracle Jipher 10.37: FIPS 140-3 Cryptography for Java

Inside Java @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

Oracle Jipher 10 packages a FIPS 140-3 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module, making cryptographic services available through the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework.

Apple Rethinks Plan to Merge ‘Hide My Email’ Domain Name With ‘Sign In With Apple’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 01:33:50

Apple Developer News: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forwa

Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 00:52:36

The flashy company, which recently completed a blockbuster IPO, appears to be leading the pack of humanoid robot makers. The post Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ What Is the Point of the DMA?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 00:47:20

If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the

FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-24 22:34:20

For University of Waterloo student Sourojeet Adhikari, an early interest in understanding how computers work eventually grew into a summer spent helping bring AMD’s ROCm GPU computing platform to FreeBSD. Sourojeet is studying Mathematical Physics and ent

Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-24 20:00:46

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without i

BitCam: The 1-Bit Camera App Turns 2.0

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 18:37:54

10 years ago I wrote about BitCam 1.0 : Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm . “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” say

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXV)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-24 18:35:35

Los 25 primeros lances del noruego en esta partida relámpago son de enorme calidad, pero no tan profundos como el 26, asombroso

AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-24 18:20:15

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work,

Fragments: August 24

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-24 17:29:00

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at n

More on TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 17:22:16

I complained last week that starting with an update last month, the list of apps I’m testing in Apple’s TestFlight app has been sorted alphabetically, rather than by recency. Whatever is going on with this sort order, it isn’t affecting everyone. John S

Three-term recurrences

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:55

There many examples of families of functions where each function can be computed as a linear combination of the two previous terms where a and b are functions of x but not on n. This is called a three-term recurrence formula. It’s amazing how often

The von Mises-Fisher distribution

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:25

Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined. When you’re looking at a probability density f(x) for the first time, it helps to ignore the normalizing constant.

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-24 16:00:55

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet. The post A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World first appeared on Quanta

Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box

old new thing @ 2026-08-24 16:00:00

Filling in with your imagination. The post Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Al final terminé viendo Star City, y…

brucknerite @ 2026-08-24 10:00:00

For All Mankind es una serie donde nos muestran lo malos que son los soviéticos, pero Star City, su spin-off, nos lleva al otro lado del Telón de Acero para que veamos… lo malos que son los soviéticos (gracias, Héctor, excelente resumen). Habrá spoilers,

Glamsterdam Repricing Impact for Smart Contract Developers

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

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Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

Inside Java @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Declaring a value class is first and foremost a semantic decision. It tells our fellow programmers that its instances are defined entirely by their state and do not need identity. That clearer model is valuable in itself! The JVM’s additional freedom to o

What exactly is modified about a modified Bessel function?

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 20:40:57

Special functions often have arcane names that not very helpful without some context. The previous post goes into some reasons for this. This post will expand on a point at the end of the post about “modified” functions. Things are given their

Why special function terminology is arcane

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 19:56:03

Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered independently multip

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXIV)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:52:40

El duelo de Nueva York por el trono con Kariakin en 2016 fue un momento durísimo de la carrera del noruego; pero lo resolvió a lo grande

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXIII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:45:01

Este trepidante ataque a reyes en flancos opuestos fue una de las mejores partidas del campeón del mundo en 2015

Cooper Sharp Proves That American Cheese Can Be Great Cheese

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-23 19:36:28

John Moltz, in his weekly members-only column for Six Colors (no gift links, but Moltz’s column is worth the subscription in and of itself): This week Anthropic announced that in order to identify AI from human-generated content it would be waterm

The difference orbit inclination makes

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 02:01:10

Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane. If you wanted to be more accurate, you’d need to take into account the fact that the o

AI-Nutzung in diesem Blog

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-23 02:00:00

Wie ich LLM in diesem Blog einsetze

How to Fix Jackson JSON Parse Error Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:26:23

Learn why sometimes Jackson can't construct an instance of LocalDate or LocalDateTime and how to fix the error it throws. The post How to Fix Jackson JSON Parse Error Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate first appeared on Baeldung .

API Mocking and Testing With Microcks

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:20:24

Learn how to use Testcontainers integration to spin up Microcks inside a JUnit5 test. The post API Mocking and Testing With Microcks first appeared on Baeldung .              

HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter in Spring Boot

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:16:19

Learn how to use the InetAddressFilter class in a Spring-based application to limit the address that an HTTP client can call. The post HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .    

DB-Scheduler: A Persistent, Cluster-Friendly Scheduler for Java

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:11:36

Learn how to use the db-scheduler library to store, manage and execute persistent scheduled tasks in Java. The post DB-Scheduler: A Persistent, Cluster-Friendly Scheduler for Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

The Mantle

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

The Mantle

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Mark Carney on the U.S. Under Trump: ‘Sometimes, Its Signature Is Written in Pencil’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 18:47:10

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked a