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My optimal road trip maps are back
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-10-07 15:30:00
I brought my 2015 road trip project back with restored maps, new landmark and national park routes, and a free builder for choosing your own stops.
I won’t remain alone
AEON @ 2026-10-07 12:01:00
In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Enhanced measurements on quantum computers via the simultaneous probing of non-commuting Pauli operators
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-07 11:48:06
Quantum 10, 2229 (2026). Measuring the state of quantum computers is a highly non-trivial task, with implications for virtually all quantum algorithms. A promising avenue is multi-copy schemes, where identical
Cloudflare Uses an AI Harness to Probe and Harden Its WAF
InfoQ @ 2026-10-07 09:21:00
Cloudflare placed frontier AI models inside a controlled testing harness to probe its Web Application Firewall (WAF), using blocked attacks as starting points for models to generate and refine new variations. By Matt Foster
Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-07 09:12:11
On October 14 2026 we will ship curl 8.23.0. The next iteration in the never-ending series of version bumps from the curl project. We always think of the next release as the best version we ever did – and this time is no exception. Decades of collect
Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy
slashdot @ 2026-10-07 09:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy on the largest US power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for about a quarter of that supply, the companies said on Tuesda
Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software
InfoQ @ 2026-10-07 06:43:00
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronizati
South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks
slashdot @ 2026-10-07 05:30:00
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says there are signs AI models may have been used in recent cyberattacks against several major banks. "In some hacking incidents, signs have emerged of AI being used, causing considerable public concern and anxiety," Le
Lissajous and Bowditch
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-07 02:21:52
I was skimming through David Well’s book The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry and was surprised by this entry: Lissajous figures or Bowditch curves First discussed by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1815, and later by Jules Antoine Lissa
Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health
slashdot @ 2026-10-07 01:00:00
"With the push to eliminate the twice yearly clock change, Permanent Daylight Savings Time has emerged as the favorite for most states and provinces," writes longtime Slashdot reader kbahey, sharing the findings from a recent analysis published in the Cana
Slopocalypse
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-07 00:40:18
OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform … Continue
HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring
slashdot @ 2026-10-07 00:00:00
HubSpot is cutting about 7% of its workforce, or roughly 660 employees, as it restructures into what CEO Yamini Rangan described as a "flatter organization" with fewer management layers. Rangan said the layoffs were "not driven by AI-related efficiencies,"
Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 23:00:00
Amazon has removed Alexa voice control for the 3.5mm aux input on several older Echo speakers, meaning users can no longer ask Alexa to play or pause audio coming through the wired connection. It's unclear why the feature was removed. The Verge reports: Ar
Epigenetic Editing Could Wipe Out Chronic Hepatitis B Infections
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-06 22:36:31
An experimental therapy kept the virus at bay for at least six months. The approach could target other stubborn viruses too. The post Epigenetic Editing Could Wipe Out Chronic Hepatitis B Infections appeared first on SingularityHub .
Asos Confirms Hackers Sent 'Unauthorized' Notification to App Users
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 22:00:00
ASOS says hackers gained unauthorized access to third-party platforms it uses and sent an "ASOS HACKED" push notification directly to customers, apparently as part of an extortion attempt. The clothing and beauty store says some basic personal information
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Deepmind @ 2026-10-06 21:57:04
A topological model for provability logic
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-06 21:46:28
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem illustrated the need to distinguish between what is true and what is provable. There are true statements that cannot be proven. Let □p denote the assertion that p is provable in Peano arithmetic. The logic with this in
What the ASF Responsible AI Initiative Has Built So Far
ASF @ 2026-10-06 21:02:36
We are pleased to share progress with the Responsible AI Initiative (RAI). Following its launch in April 2026, the RAI community developed its charter, which Vice President Jeff Genender presented in the August board report: “The ASF Responsib
IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 21:00:00
IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across widely used Java libraries. Phoronix reports: They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Li
Unofficial Command-Line Tool Removes Apple Intelligence From MacOS 27
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-06 20:17:43
Scharon Harding, Ars Technica: Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t have a toggle for turning off Apple Intelligence. That makes disabling AI features that you may not want more difficult. It also means that the AI mo
Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 20:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its "2026 IT Virtualization Survey -- What's Next f
Premio Nobel de Física 2026: Francis Halzen por el telescopio de neutrinos IceCube y los neutrinos astrofísicos de alta energía
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-06 19:47:43
Los neutrinos son las partículas más desconocidas del modelo estándar. Los cuatro Premios Nobel de Física de 1988, 1995, 2002 y 2015, ya tienen un quinto. Francis Halzen (82 años), University […] La entrada Premio Nobel de Física 2026: Francis Ha
Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 19:00:00
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, or "le Chonk," a 1-trillion-parameter model that it says is the strongest open-weight AI model developed outside China by a wide margin. The model is entering preview for developers, cybersecurity teams and governments
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-06 18:09:36
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, an
Researchers Are Tracking a Chinese AI 'Agent Fleet'
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 18:00:00
Independent researchers say they've identified a large "fleet" of AI agents apparently running on Tencent infrastructure and making parallel queries against Alibaba's Amap mapping service. TechCrunch reports: Researchers, however, resisted the term "swarm,
Documenting Form Parameters With Spring REST Docs
Baeldung @ 2026-10-06 17:29:15
Learn to document form parameters with Spring REST Docs and include their validation constraints in the documentation, too. The post Documenting Form Parameters With Spring REST Docs first appeared on Baeldung .
Análisis de ajedrez | Yi Wei sigue muy arriba
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-06 17:01:25
Aunque su fulgurante ascenso quedó frenado por la carrera universitaria, el astro chino se mantiene en la élite a los 27 años
Hello Developer: October 2026
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-06 17:00:23
In this edition: Get tips on submitting your iPhone Duo app. Sign up for new iPhone Duo Group Labs. Join us for a new developer event on speed and efficiency. Explore localized documentation. Browse new App Store creative assets. Read
Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission that they will sue the agency to block its controversial repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits the number of br
Why does the compiler sometimes use ud2 and sometimes int 3 for code that shouldn’t execute?
old new thing @ 2026-10-06 16:00:00
It shouldn't execute, but for different reasons. The post Why does the compiler sometimes use <CODE>ud2</CODE> and sometimes <CODE>int 3</CODE> for code that shouldn’t execute? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Quantum Graph Theory by Example
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-06 14:53:57
Quantum 10, 2228 (2026). Quantum graphs have been introduced by Duan, Severini, and Winter to describe the zero-error behaviour of quantum channels. Since then, quantum graph theory has become a field of study
OpenTelemetry Makes Kubernetes Attributes Processor Stable as Observability Schema Matures
InfoQ @ 2026-10-06 14:00:00
OpenTelemetry has promoted its Kubernetes Attributes Processor to v1.0.0, marking a significant step in making Kubernetes telemetry more predictable and stable across observability pipelines. By Craig Risi
OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 13:00:00
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible, machine-readable text watermark called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex, "but only for users in the European Union at first," reports The Verge. From the report: OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded"
QCon London 2027 Announces 15 Tracks on Production AI, Architecture, and Engineering at Scale
InfoQ @ 2026-10-06 12:00:00
A preview of the 15-track QCon London 2027 program, covering agent evaluation and guardrails, AI-era architecture, distributed-system debugging, modern data platforms, high-performance engineering, and Staff+ leadership. By Artenisa Chatziou
How to assemble science
AEON @ 2026-10-06 12:00:00
Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all - by Helen Pearson Read on Aeon
Limits to black-box amplification in QMA
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-06 10:42:38
Quantum 10, 2227 (2026). We study the limitations of black-box amplification in the quantum complexity class ${\sf QMA}$. Amplification is known to boost any inverse-polynomial gap between completeness and soun
La pirámide alimentaria… ¿del transporte?
brucknerite @ 2026-10-06 10:00:00
Aquí tenéis mi charla del pasado 3 de octubre en Pamplona. ¿Qué tiene que ver la famosa y problemática pirámide nutricional con el transporte? Adelante, servíos…
Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 09:00:00
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It might be reasonable to think that there's an indelible link between the heart and the body it resides in -- the processes that affect one inevitably affect the other. But a new preprint, uploaded to b
Flagged by the Machine: How Google Ads Suspended an Open-Source macOS Term as Malicious
InfoQ @ 2026-10-06 07:05:00
Przemyslaw Alexander Kaminski created RACE, a Rust terminal multiplexer on an infinite canvas that detaches child shells into background processes. When he launched an ad campaign, automated scanners suspended his account for malware despite clean notari
Cloudflare Introduces CLI for AI Agents, Sunsetting Wrangler
InfoQ @ 2026-10-06 06:59:00
Cloudflare recently launched the open beta of cf, a new open-source, agent-focused command-line interface for interacting with Cloudflare services through a unified CLI. Written in TypeScript, it provides structured output and command discovery to make C
Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 06:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees -- including charging tens of thousands or even millions -- to g
Steve Jobs, Walking Through a Mockup for Apple Park in 2010
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-06 04:49:44
What an apt photo, today of all days. What a gift Make Something Wonderful is. ★
Prepare and submit your apps for iPhone Duo
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-06 02:05:33
iPhone Duo will be available to customers starting October 23, 2026. To get your apps and games ready today, you can: Build or recompile with Xcode Recompile existing apps with Xcode 27.1, which adds development support for iPhone Duo. Use Device Hub
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 542: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects
Inside Java @ 2026-10-06 02:00:00
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 542: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects
Red Hat OpenShift: Enabling a resilient 5G autonomous edge for Telenor with AxyomCore
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-06 02:00:00
5G networks are increasingly deployed as cloud-native platforms, enabling network functions to run consistently across central datacenters, regional sites, and the far edge of the network. This distributed model supports autonomous edge architectures, wher
How Red Hat's support AI assistant contributes to accelerating enterprise support
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-06 02:00:00
In enterprise support, speed and clarity matter most. Yet, when a recurring issue or standard inquiry arises, the primary bottleneck is rarely a lack of technical know-how, but workflow friction. Gathering initial diagnostic logs, searching across disconne
[Sponsor] Sunnny
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-06 01:49:05
How can B2B software be so friggin’ delicious? Early access drops 10/19. Spread the love. ★
Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
slashdot @ 2026-10-06 01:00:00
Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits starting in 2027, with more than 100 planned or developing facilities potentially qualifying. "Right now, the only requirement to get the
OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-06 00:59:14
OpenAI, today: The EU AI Act requires generative AI providers to make generated text identifiable in a machine-readable way. Text watermarking and detection remain early technologies with significant limitations, and views about their benefits and res
Google DeepMind Gives AI-Designed Proteins a Watermark
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-05 22:54:32
A new system could help flag proteins generated by AI and ease risks to biosecurity. But it isn't a perfect solution. The post Google DeepMind Gives AI-Designed Proteins a Watermark appeared first on SingularityHub .
Showcase your apps with new assets on the App Store
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-05 22:00:27
Make your apps and games stand out with new creative assets on the App Store and asset management tools in App Store Connect. Market your app or game in new ways Use new creative assets on your product page headers and in search result assets to hi
Ternus and Cook Tweet Brief Remembrances on the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs’s Death
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-05 21:19:35
John Ternus, posting on X: The way Steve taught us to care about every detail, every experience, every person, still guides our work today. Forever grateful. Tim Cook , also on X (with a photo I don’t recall seeing before): There are people
Java News Roundup: JobRunr 9, OpenXava 8, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JNoSQL, Introducing Lathe
InfoQ @ 2026-10-05 19:00:00
This week's Java roundup for September 28th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0; point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Eclipse JNoSQL; ADK for Java and ADK for Kotlin; and introducing Lathe, a
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-05 17:41:19
Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI m
October 2026 Update: Getting Ready for the EU Cyber Resilience Act
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-10-05 16:11:13
Please note that the information provided in this document is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Earlier this year, the Foundation launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project. The launch blog post outlines
If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts?
old new thing @ 2026-10-05 16:00:00
Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you. The post If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Akka Tests Spec-Driven AI Delivery across 65 Open Source Projects
InfoQ @ 2026-10-05 15:58:00
Akka used 65 open-source projects to examine how specification structure, context, model selection, automated validation, and delivery guardrails affect AI assisted software porting. The experiment measured time, token use, code size, test parity, and pe
Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-05 15:40:07
Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas: “If we don’t adapt, there’s just no more math in 50 years.” The post Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2026: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann y Georg Nagel por la optogenética usando canales iónicos
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-05 15:08:18
El año pasado predije que recibirían el Premio Nobel de Química, pero este año logran el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina. Georg Nagel (73 años), University of Würzburg (Würzburg, […] La entrada Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2026: Ka
AI is changing how we teach and learn. Educators should shape what comes next
TED Blog @ 2026-10-05 15:00:37
AI is reshaping how educators teach and how students learn. But for AI to make a positive impact, educators’ voices should be at the center of that change. That’s why TED and Google have teamed up on a global search for ideas from educators abo
Análisis de ajedrez | Erdogmus, de 15 años, ya es el 17º del mundo
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-05 12:51:42
El turco, que no cumplirá 16 hasta el 3 de junio, supera todas las marcas históricas de precocidad en ajedrez
Discontinuing Swift Language IDE Support in the Kotlin Multiplatform Plugin
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-05 12:46:19
Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 | 2026.2.2, we’re discontinuing Swift language IDE features in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin. This includes editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation within Swift files and betw
Discontinuing Swift Language IDE Support in the Kotlin Multiplatform Plugin
Kotlin news @ 2026-10-05 12:46:19
Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 | 2026.2.2, we’re discontinuing Swift language IDE features in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin. This includes editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation within Swift files and betw
Podcast CB SyR 573: TMT, Claude AI en ciencia y Starship
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-05 12:29:17
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 573 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “TMT; IA y Ciencia; Starship”, 01 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 573: TMT, Claude AI en ciencia y St
All-around junior male
AEON @ 2026-10-05 12:01:00
A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
A life in episodes
AEON @ 2026-10-05 12:00:00
For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past - by Thomas Söderqvist Read on Aeon
Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboard Telemetry and First-Party Java and Rust Hosting
InfoQ @ 2026-10-05 11:39:00
Microsoft has released Aspire 13.6. The dashboard now stores telemetry in SQLite and keeps up to ten completed runs per application. The release adds prerelease hosting packages for Java and Rust, portable volume paths, and new CLI options. Breaking chan
Cloudflare Fixes Cross-Tenant Data Exposure in Containers
InfoQ @ 2026-10-05 10:48:00
Cloudflare has disclosed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers and Sandboxes, caused by thin-provisioned storage pools configured to skip zeroing reused blocks. Researchers recovered directory structures, database pages and complete SQ
Cloudflare Plans Public Certificate Authority to Issue Quantum-Safe TLS Certificates
InfoQ @ 2026-10-05 07:05:00
Cloudflare will operate a free public Certificate Authority to issue quantum-safe Transport Layer Security certificates. This initiative addresses challenges in migrating from classical public key cryptography to post-quantum methods. It utilizes Merkle
Fragments: October 4
Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-05 06:28:00
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic softwa
How native transaction assertions could enforce a transaction's final outcome
Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative has identified blind signing and transaction uncertainty as a user experience risk, and is exploring native transaction assertions as a next step to enforce a transaction’s final outcome, alongs
Making Arena.ofConfined() Even Cheaper in JDK 28
Inside Java @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
Pooled confined arenas provide a significant performance improvement for short-lived native allocations.
Building zero trust networks with Red Hat Ansible
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
With artificial intelligence (AI) models now capable of discovering thousands of vulnerabilities in days and developing exploits in hours, organizations are moving from preventing to containing the breach. This requires enforcing least privilege across ide
Red Hat named a "Leader" in 2026 IDC MarketScape
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
We are thrilled to announce that Red Hat has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation.We believe this recognition from IDC MarketScape confirms what our partners already know: in a ma
Red Hat is named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
Red Hat has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54644626e, June 2026).The IDC MarketScape noted, “Ansible Automation Platform's lightweight architecture an
MLOps for edge AI: Preparing AI models for deployment at the edge
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
When I started playing with AI models for edge computing use cases, everything went smoothly. But once I reached the "it works" point and started thinking about how to operationalize it, the whole thing became more complicated. I started to question how a
From AI pilots to production: How DH2i and Red Hat help customers run resilient, security-focused AI on Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-05 02:00:00
Building an AI application is a milestone; running it reliably against business-critical enterprise data is a challenge. As organizations transition retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI assistants from the lab to production, the underlying infrastru
How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Do you want to be one of them?
Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-04 22:14:32
(This was written about 9 months ago. Its not out of date... yet) People think that AI is going to DESTROY some jobs and CREATE some jobs. It may be too early to tell if this is true. Even so, here are some thoughts. 1) Who will w
Análisis de ajedrez | Récord olímpico de Mompel
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-04 19:06:16
El catalán, de 16 años, con la bandera ecuatoguineana por vínculos familiares, logró 10,5 puntos de once en el primer tablero en Samarcanda
Google's Android Security State Libraries Enable Component-Level Security Verification
InfoQ @ 2026-10-04 19:00:00
Google's AndroidX Security State libraries enables apps to verify security patch status at the individual component level, rather than relying on a single, device-wide security patch date. By Sergio De Simone
What I Learned Building an AI Software Factory
Code Capsule @ 2026-10-04 14:57:38
The article reflects my journey developing an AI-enhanced workflow called Backlog Loop, which I started to better understand the role of AI and LLMs in software engineering. I cover the limitations of AI, and I advocate for mechanical verification over re
Miquel’s pentagon theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-04 14:34:22
An earlier post presented an elegant plane geometry theorem discovered by the 19th century school teacher Auguste Miquel. This post presents his pentagon theorem. Start with a pentagon. It may be irregular, but it needs to be convex. Extend each of the si
Topological models of modal logic
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-04 14:25:19
The previous post discussed a superficial connection between modal logic and topology, that both use the terms regular and normal to indicate added sets of axioms. McKinsey and Tarski developed a deeper connection between modal logic and topology that we&
Modal logic and topology
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-04 14:24:33
You can’t say much about modal logic in general. You have to be more specific to get anywhere. You have to choose some axioms. Ideally the axioms you need for your application correspond to a named set of axioms that has been studied before. The sit
Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-10-04 08:34:00
A team of developers working at AWS recently open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application designed to let AI agents run tasks in the background and return results through an inbox-style interface. Agents can perform scheduled or webhook-triggered wo
New Archestra's OpenAPPA Saturates Two Major Security Benchmarks with a 0% Attack Success Rate
InfoQ @ 2026-10-04 01:41:00
Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20 multi-step enterpri
Miquel’s pivot theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-04 00:53:41
Euclidean geometry dates back at least to Euclid (circa 300 BC), and so you might think it’s been pretty well picked over by now. And yet people still occasionally discover new plane geometry theorems. Some of these new theorems are complicated, ask
WorkOS
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-03 23:23:10
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week, once again, at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each prov
Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Cellular Issues, Affected Devices Require Hardware Replacement
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-03 20:21:14
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said: We have identified an issue affecting a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max users on the AT&T network that may cause a device to lose service and be unable to make calls. We released
Análisis de ajedrez | Brillantez de Antón
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-03 18:20:57
El mejor jugador español del momento llegó a la Olimpiada en gran forma, y produjo esta excelente victoria
GitLab Vulnerability under Active Exploitation Enables Unauthenticated Data Exfiltration
InfoQ @ 2026-10-03 18:00:00
CVE-2026-85706 is a critical GitLab path-traversal vulnerability that has moved beyond theoretical risk into confirmed exploitation. It affects self-managed GitLab CE/EE and could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 3)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-03 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 3) appeared first on SingularityHub .
The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-02 22:54:15
The AI hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google underscore lessons that draw on years of computer science research. The post The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control appeared fir
★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-02 22:40:15
Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in a state similar to what we have today. I worry.
Análisis de ajedrez | Plata y brillo de Yuffa (y III)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-02 18:13:09
Los sacrificios posicionales de calidad son un tema estratégico elegante y complejo, tratado magistralmente por el medallista español
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-02 18:00:19
We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to f
Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-02 16:45:02
Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow. The post Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewr
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS?
old new thing @ 2026-10-02 16:00:00
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it. The post Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Java Weekly, Issue 666
Baeldung @ 2026-10-02 14:07:00
Monoliths, Java 28 and performance. A good week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 666 first appeared on Baeldung .
Life on a hair trigger
AEON @ 2026-10-02 12:00:00
A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates - by Megan Kang Read on Aeon
Yankees Sweep Boston in Two Games, by Combined Score of 18-2
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-02 02:06:56
In the 6th inning last night the Yankees were only ahead 2-0, and Red Sox first baseman and all-around jackass Willson Contreras hit a home run, closing it to 2-1. Contreras decided to walk around the bases . The baseball gods do not look kindly upon t
Demoting i686 Windows targets to std-only
Rust blog @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00
With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit Windows targets will happen: i686-pc-windows-msvc Tier 1 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 1 without host tools. i686-pc-windows-gnu Tier 2 with host tools target will be demo
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator)
Inside Java @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator)
What enterprises need to know about the software they depend on
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00
Knowing an application contains open source components is not the same as understanding the software and communities behind them.For many organizations, the software supply chain extends across thousands of dependencies, developed and maintained by communi
What enterprises need to know about the Cyber Resilience Act and software supply chain risk
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00
In part 1 of this series, we examined why enterprises need more than an inventory of the open source components in their software. Understanding where dependencies come from, whether they are maintained, how they handle vulnerabilities, and what options ex
Stay ahead of change: Proactive email reports for Red Hat Lightspeed planning for RHEL
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00
Traditionally, reviewing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) lifecycle dates meant logging into the Hybrid Cloud Console, navigating to the Red Hat Lightspeed planning dashboard, and skimming through the lifecycle and digital roadmap pages yourself. Earlier th
Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-02 01:19:54
Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. The post Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time appeared first on SingularityHub .
Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-01 22:04:04
Introducing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications' cost, security, performance, and resilience—with ready-t
Análisis de ajedrez | Plata y brillo de Yuffa (II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-01 20:10:19
Esta partida es modélica sobre el plan de ataque en el centro y el ala de rey contra la Defensa Ortodoxa
Upcoming expiration of Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA)
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-01 19:00:11
The original Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA) expires on February 1, 2027. Certificates issued by this authority will stop working on that date. What to do: Check if you’re affected. In Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles , look f
Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners
YC @ 2026-10-01 18:52:00
We’re thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners.
Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way
old new thing @ 2026-10-01 16:00:57
Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions. The post Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Confluent Strengthens Trust for Singapore's Markets with OSPAR Attestation
Confluent @ 2026-10-01 15:31:07
Confluent Cloud secures OSPAR attestation, providing Singapore financial institutions with verified assurance for outsourced data streaming.
Spinor Bose-Einstein condensate as an analog simulator of molecular bending vibrations
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 15:24:01
Quantum 10, 2226 (2026). We demonstrate that spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can be operated as an analog simulator of the two-dimensional vibron model. This algebraic model describes bending vibrations
What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-01 15:20:29
Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots. The post What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? first appeared on Qua
Green tree ants are famous in the tropics
AEON @ 2026-10-01 12:01:00
In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Reason is more than a tool
AEON @ 2026-10-01 12:00:00
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more - by Sasha Mudd Read on Aeon
GPU-Accelerated Quantum Simulation of Stabilizer Circuits
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:35:34
Quantum 10, 2225 (2026). We introduce new parallel algorithms for efficiently simulating stabilizer (Clifford) circuits on GPUs, with a focus on data-parallel tableau evolution and scalable handling of projecti
Fast Bosonic Control via Multiphoton Qubit-Oscillator Interactions
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:12:27
Quantum 10, 2224 (2026). We study the problem of $n$-fold rotationally symmetric bosonic state preparation, which is of great importance to bosonic quantum error correction, using a multiphoton interaction betw
Universal Dilation of Linear Itô SDEs: Quantum Trajectories and Lindblad Simulation of Second Moments
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:32:26
Quantum 10, 2223 (2026). We present a universal framework for simulating $N$-dimensional linear Itô stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on quantum computers with additive or multiplicative noises. Building
Lifting the maximally-entangledness assumption in robust self-testing for synchronous games
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:27:16
Quantum 10, 2222 (2026). Robust self-testing in non-local games allows a classical referee to certify that two untrustworthy players are able to perform a specific quantum strategy up to high precision. Proving
Introducing zkAPI: private usage credits for any API
Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00
tl;dr: zkAPI lets you pay for a metered API without being known. Deposit credits into an Ethereum vault once, then authorize bounded usage with zero-knowledge proofs instead of an identity. The provider sees the requests, and the payment layer sees the spe
Announcing Rust 1.99.0
Rust blog @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.99.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.99.0 with: $
Agent Helidon: License to Scale
Inside Java @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00
While AI agents are rapidly advancing, the performance and scalability of the agents and their underlying services have received too little attention. This session showcases Helidon powering scalable services via Virtual Thread–based MCP servers and high-
Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-01 00:10:00
Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in compaction, maintenance, and engine compatibili
Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-30 22:40:23
In August, we released Dogwood, an open source governance language for agents and their actions. Dogwood policies specify which actions an agent may take and under what conditions. A key feature of the language is support for temporal conditions, which let
[Sponsor] WorkOS: How SSO Works and the Fastest Way to Add It
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:17:32
SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buy
Gurman Reports Apple Is Launching New ‘Smart Home’ Products on October 13
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:14:31
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus. At the center o
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 22:03:34
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before similarity search so scoped queries return more relevant results. Ideal for RAG, agentic apps, and document search.
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 22:01:45
Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 21:23:42
Echo Wang, reporting for Reuters yesterday: Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. This is
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:22:31
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that j
Análisis de ajedrez | Plata y brillo de Yuffa (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-30 19:13:51
Tras un periodo de resultados grises, el español, de padre sefardí y madre rusa, logra 7,5 puntos de 9 en la Olimpiada
Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:04:05
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a rea
Does Programming Help You Understand Complexity?
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-30 17:52:36
I got the following question in an email. My nephew is currently in high school in China and has developed a strong interest in computer science and mathematics. Recently, we've been talking about how computers can solve incredibly complex problems,
Introducing SynthID Bio
Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 17:03:07
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-30 16:52:12
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time. The post Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Principles for effective slides
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-30 16:14:00
Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control
Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86
old new thing @ 2026-09-30 16:00:00
Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task. The post Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Time symmetry in quantum theories and beyond
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 15:26:55
Quantum 10, 2221 (2026). There exists a stark tension among different formulations of quantum theory as some are inherently time-symmetric while others are time-asymmetric. This tension is crisply captured when
The Companions to Come
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03
We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi
The Companions to Come
Kotlin news @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03
We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi