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slashdot @ 2026-07-23 20:00:00

Ford will become the first automaker to embed Apple Maps directly into its vehicles, starting with an all-electric midsize pickup built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform. "The pickup -- with Ford testing preproduction models on roads now -- is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 19:45:41

Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways ,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 19:10:47

William Gallagher, AppleInsider: Legendary technology columnist, pundit, author and podcast host John C. Dvorak has died, age 80. He is survived by his wife Mimi Dvorak. Today Dvorak is best known for co-hosting the “No Agenda” podcast with Adam Cur

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 19:00:00

Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid: The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific S

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 18:00:00

Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-23 17:41:25

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Flighty’s new Connection Assistant feature includes step-by-step information for your specific connection. This includes things like terminal changes, security checkpoints, passport control, and more. Connection Assistant also

Baeldung @ 2026-07-23 17:40:59

Learn how to generate UML and architecture diagrams from Java code using static analysis, Spring Modulith, and AI-powered workflows to improve code reviews and documentation. The post Generating Diagrams From Java Code first appeared on Baeldung .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-23 17:18:40

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slashdot @ 2026-07-23 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: It's rare that cancerous tumors can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumors among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The di

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:53:45

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The post How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? first appeared on

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-23 16:24:43

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:20:31

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 16:18:20

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-07-23 16:15:00

Expedia Group has introduced STAR, an internal AI-assisted observability platform that helps engineers investigate production incidents using service telemetry and LLMs. Built with FastAPI, Datadog, Celery, Redis, and Langfuse, STAR follows structured wo

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-23 16:04:34

This post takes a more abstract view of the previous post. That post looked at the concrete question of whether a number ever has the same sine in radians as in degrees. The relation between radians and degrees is irrelevant except that π/180 is an irrati

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 15:55:53

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. The post Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-23 15:47:40

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy. The post Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else first appe

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-23 15:10:02

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-23 13:42:00

When a new platform team set out on implementing their roadmap through forced workflows with poor documentation, developer experience declined. Success came from simplifying governance, prioritizing what matters, and rolling out compliance incrementally

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 13:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Verisign is finally bringing web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting. Verisign says the .web top-level domain has finally been delegated into the DNS root, clearing the way for public registrations later in 2026. Until n

AEON @ 2026-07-23 12:01:00

To the trained eye, the personalised homes of Queens, NYC, evoke everything from a Venetian streetscape to a Chinese temple - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-23 12:00:00

QCon AI New York 2026 (Dec 15-16) has opened registration at The Westin Jersey City Newport. Six tracks on production AI, chaired by Eder Ignatowicz with Faye Zhang and Wes Reisz. First sessions announced in August, full program by November. By Artenis

AEON @ 2026-07-23 12:00:00

Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism - by Sofia Cándano Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-23 11:43:00

Ink & Switch published bijou64, a variable-length integer encoding where every number has exactly one byte representation, closing the canonicality bug class behind attacks on PKCS#1, JWT libraries, and Bitcoin. The design also decodes two to ten times f

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 11:10:48

Quantum 10, 2174 (2026). An ensemble of product states is said to exhibit “quantum nonlocality without entanglement” if it cannot be optimally discriminated using local operations and classical communication (L

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 11:06:05

Quantum 10, 2173 (2026). Quantum circuit simulators running on classical computers offer a vital platform for designing, testing, and optimizing quantum algorithms, driving innovation despite limited access to

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-23 10:16:49

Quantum 10, 2172 (2026). We show that Gottesman's (1998) semantics for Clifford circuits based on the Heisenberg representation gives rise to a lightweight Hoare-like logic for efficiently characterizing a

brucknerite @ 2026-07-23 10:00:00

De cómo estuve tres años escribiendo texto para un proyecto de libro como escarabajo pelotero que recoge bosta para crear una bola más grande que él mismo. Y de cómo fracasé con el debido estrépito, que fue flojo.

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 09:00:00

Northrop Grumman has launched a private satellite-servicing mission to attach life-extending "jetpacks" to aging communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. "It's the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money

InfoQ @ 2026-07-23 08:07:00

Meta's React library has integrated a Rust version of the React Compiler into its main repository, aimed at enhancing build speed and compatibility with the Rust-based JavaScript toolchain. This port, which memoizes components automatically, demonstrates

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 05:30:00

Longtime Slashdot reader BeaverCleaver shares a report from the BBC: The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Ende

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-23 03:16:14

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation - - July 2026 (1121 comments) Comments URL: Points: 279 # Comments: 242

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

Agencies are keeping missions moving while technology, security requirements, data demands, and public expectations all continue to shift at once. That’s why this year’s Red Hat Government Symposium couldn’t have come at a better time. Bringing together le

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

At Red Hat, our goal for the ecosystem has always been simple: build a predictable, profitable partner program for our partners to scale their business. As always, we remain committed to the future of open source, and that means continuously investing in t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

A secured agent that can't reach anything is just expensive autocomplete with a badge. In "Why prompt-level guardrails aren't enough," I walked through how Red Hat AI allows you to give each agent a cryptographic identity and lock down what it can touch. T

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

Insurance remains an incredibly data-heavy industry with deep roots. Based on product offerings and strict regulatory data retention rules, a significant number of existing systems, some decades-old, are still in operation. It's not uncommon to find COBOL-

Inside Java @ 2026-07-23 02:00:00

Tips on deterministic agents, MCP servers and skills, prompt engineering, and where Java's richness for AI solutions stems from.

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 01:00:00

"General Motors has been pulling a Tim Cook and boosting its software and subscription business," reports Business Insider. During the automaker's Tuesday earnings call, executives said they're increasingly leaning on software subscriptions like OnStar and

slashdot @ 2026-07-23 00:00:00

Code found in the iOS 27 beta suggests Apple is developing a system that could restrict leased iPhones when customers fall behind on payments. The discovery follows a recent Bloomberg report that Apple may soon launch a new "Apple Upgrade" leasing program,

slashdot @ 2026-07-22 23:00:00

Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a post from the OSS Security mailing list, where sysadmin Jan Schaumann wonders what to do after the Linux kernel cranked out 432 CVEs in a little over 24 hours: "I understand the position that CVEs were always a flawed

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 22:33:44

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slashdot @ 2026-07-22 22:00:00

Apple is reportedly launching a Klarna financing deal that will let U.S. customers spread the cost of devices over up to three years, pushing the company closer to a hardware-as-a-service model. "The only thing you don't get under the new arrangement is Ap

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 21:22:19

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slashdot @ 2026-07-22 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)

slashdot @ 2026-07-22 20:00:00

Microsoft has announced Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC, a new preservation program that will let players run select classic Xbox games on Windows PCs and handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally. Tom's Hardware reports: "This marks the beginning of a broader e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 19:48:18

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 19:30:40

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample - - July 2026 (133 comments) Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture - - J

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-22 19:00:01

El matemático Levent Alpöge trabaja en Antropic desde que abandonó la Universidad de Harvard (fue Junior Fellow entre 2021 y 2025). El pasado domingo 19 de julio, para disfrutar de […] La entrada Fable 5 refuta la conjetura del jacobiano fue esc

slashdot @ 2026-07-22 19:00:00

At a Galaxy Unpacked event in London today, Samsung unveiled a new foldable smartphone designed to compete with the still-unannounced iPhone Fold. Called the Galaxy Z Fold 8, it features a wider 4:3 form factor with a 7.6-inch inner AMOLED display, Snapdra

slashdot @ 2026-07-22 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes le

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 17:45:18

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 17:19:23

Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, but a common complaint is to make even small edits we need to edit the code either manually or via the h

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-22 16:45:41

Back in the 90s when I was a young professor at the University of Chicago, we would have a Complexity Class of the Week  where I would take some interesting complexity class, write down on a white board everything we knew about it with some open pro

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 16:42:08

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-22 16:22:36

Quien hasta hace poco era la gran estrella uzbeka, superada ahora por Sindárov, sigue exhibiendo su muy profunda comprensión del ajedrez

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-22 16:18:05

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-22 16:09:00

GitHub redesigned GitHub Issues navigation using a client-side architecture that combines caching, predictive prefetching, and service workers to reduce perceived latency. The approach uses IndexedDB, in-memory caching, and background synchronization to

old new thing @ 2026-07-22 16:00:00

The object that actively refuses to be marshaled. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-22 16:00:00

Researchers could use lab-grown sperm to develop infertility treatments or, more controversially, make babies. The post Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Deepmind @ 2026-07-22 15:38:54

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 14:49:24

Quantum 10, 2171 (2026). The Clifford group plays a central role in quantum information science. It is the building block for many error-correcting schemes and matches the first three moments of the Haar measur

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-07-22 14:36:44

I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez,

Physics Phorums @ 2026-07-22 14:36:44

I don’t usually talk about particle physics here. I have a whole series of articles about octonions and the Standard Model on my other blog. But I’m kind of excited about this new paper, so I’ll talk about it here too: • John Baez,

InfoQ @ 2026-07-22 14:25:00

Anthropic detailed the containment architectures it uses for Claude across its products. It argues that agent safety depends on placing deterministic limits on an agent’s filesystem, network, and execution environment rather than on permission prompts or

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-22 14:17:11

Ordinarily the sine of x radians and the sine of x degrees are very different numbers. Having your calculator in radian mode when it should be in degree mode, or vice versa, results in a major error. But sometimes it doesn’t matter. A trivial exampl

Baeldung @ 2026-07-22 13:24:54

Learn how to use a locally hosted chat model and an embedding model with Spring AI in LM Studio. The post Integrating Local LLMs with Spring AI Using LM Studio first appeared on Baeldung .             

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 13:23:16

Quantum 10, 2170 (2026). Quantum Error Correction (QEC) is regarded as the most promising path to quantum advantage. The success of QEC relies on achieving quantum gate fidelities below the error threshold of t

Baeldung @ 2026-07-22 13:19:39

Learn how to diagnose and fix the java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value error in MySQL. The post How to Fix MySQL java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value first appeared on Baeldung .          

InfoQ @ 2026-07-22 12:19:00

A configuration change in AWS's bill computation system showed customers estimated bills in the billions and trillions of dollars for over 24 hours. AWS's own alarms detected the anomalies but failed to halt bill generation or page engineers; customer es

AEON @ 2026-07-22 12:01:00

Inside the lab of a biologist who is seeking to understand intelligence by focusing on problem-solving, not neurons - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 10:57:51

Quantum 10, 2169 (2026). Non-commutative polynomial optimization (NPO) problems seek to minimize the state average of a polynomial of some operator variables, subject to polynomial constraints, over all states

InfoQ @ 2026-07-22 10:00:00

Google Cloud has published a new blueprint setting out how organisations should secure artificial intelligence workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine, arguing that the shift from prototype to production has outpaced traditional security models. Th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-22 09:11:45

Quantum 10, 2168 (2026). How many $T$ gates are needed to approximate an arbitrary $n$-qubit quantum state to within error $\varepsilon$? Improving prior work of Low, Kliuchnikov, and Schaeffer, we show that th

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:54:13

This year, I had the great privilege of receiving the FreeBSD Foundation travel grant to attend BSDCan. The conference informally kicked off with the traditional gathering at the Father & Sons bar near the 90U residence on Tuesday.The first day of the

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:48:02

The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine. The requested DevSummit 2 question microphone system kept our running around to a minimum and fit the two rows of DMS

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-22 07:40:54

I’m really grateful to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my trip to BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa. The conference ran for four days — two days of DevSummit, then two days of the main conference, with many interesting talks throughout. For me, it’s

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-22 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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-22 02:00:00

For system administrators and IT leaders, keeping infrastructure secure while strictly aligning with corporate compliance standards is a continuous, high-stakes balancing act. This challenge escalates dramatically when environments span legacy workloads or

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-22 00:49:03

What the EC is dictating to Google is just breathtaking in scope.

InfoQ @ 2026-07-21 21:00:00

The latest release of Android Studio, Quail 2, now stable, expands Gemini/AI Agent Mode inside the IDE by enabling multiple AI conversations in parallel and further advancing Google's push to integrate AI-powered workflows directly into Android Studio. I

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-21 18:47:49

A cuatro meses del duelo por el título contra Sindárov, el campeón vigente no gana ninguna partida de seis en el torneo de Chennai

InfoQ @ 2026-07-21 17:23:00

Rspack, developed by ByteDance, has released version 2.0, featuring enhanced performance, reduced dependencies, and a focus on modern ECMAScript modules. Key updates include a pure ESM core, improved static analysis, and support for RSC. Performance benc

Deepmind @ 2026-07-21 17:16:30

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-21 17:05:04

I recently had a project in which I had to reverse engineer a data analysis. There was some ambiguity regarding which of several possibilities someone chose for several of the variables, something analogous to the following example. Suppose you have three

old new thing @ 2026-07-21 16:00:00

Short-circuiting the easiest case. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-21 15:13:00

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat . But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available . They have five headline findings: Code generation is

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-21 14:14:03

A couple days ago, Levent Alpöge, a mathematician working at Anthropic, discovered a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture using Claude Fable 5. I was curious whether most mathematicians were trying to prove or disprove the conjecture, so I asked Clau

InfoQ @ 2026-07-21 14:00:00

GitLab has introduced a new approach to Green DevOps, demonstrating how software engineering teams can measure the carbon emissions generated by their CI/CD pipelines. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-07-21 12:00:00

Yelp has launched Training Orchestrator. This new internal framework replaces individual team Spark training scripts. Now, it uses a configuration-driven, DAG-based execution model. By Claudio Masolo

AEON @ 2026-07-21 12:00:00

Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey - by Nidal Taibi Read on Aeon

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-21 10:48:31

En 2012 fue noticia la supuesta demostración de la conjetura abc del matemático japonés Shinichi Mochizuki (Universidad de Kioto, Japón). En 2018, Peter Scholze (Medalla Fields en 2018) y Jakob […] La entrada Fracasa el proyecto LANA que formaliz

InfoQ @ 2026-07-21 10:00:00

GitLab has released version 19.2 of its DevSecOps platform, adding agentic automation aimed at the security and review work that has piled up as AI coding tools generate more code than developers can check by hand. The release, announced on 16 July 2026,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-21 02:00:00

An agent charged $4,000 to the wrong customer billing account. Nobody noticed until Monday. The agent wasn't broken—it was working exactly as designed. It had broad API credentials, the model picked a plausible but wrong account identifier, and nothing in

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-21 02:00:00

The arrival of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, often referred to as Q-day, is moving from a distant theoretical mathematical challenge to an urgent timeline that security teams must plan for today. Bad actors are already engaging in harvest

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-21 02:00:00

If you read the first part of this article, you already know that physical AI isn't just another wave of automation. You saw how intelligent systems are solving real problems in operations, security, and maintenance in ways that traditional robotics simply

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-21 02:00:00

In our previous post, we talked about the API key lifecycle in MaaS. In this article, we'll set up the governance layer those keys bind to, focusing on 2 core controls: managing token quotas (via MaaSSubscription) and defining model access rules (via MaaSA

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-21 01:13:48

Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same access as your dashboard login. Hundreds of operation

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-21 00:09:06

Cambridge University researchers say launch costs fell from $87,000 to $3,868 per kilogram between 1960 and 2025—or roughly 96%—and could hit $273 by 2040. The post Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-20 20:45:00

This week's Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 2026 edition of Open Liberty 26.0.0.7; point releases of TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-20 18:37:34

Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-20 18:27:36

Ben Thompson, on the hype regarding Kimi K3, at Stratechery: This is a point that bears repeating: because U.S. open weight model makers must follow the frontier labs’ terms of service, they (1) are worse than Chinese alternatives and (2) end up disti

Baeldung @ 2026-07-20 17:55:06

Learn how the Selenium click() and submit() methods differ, how they work under the hood, and why click() is the recommended approach for modern web automation. The post Selenium Webdriver submit() vs click() first appeared on Baeldung .

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-20 16:35:21

The volume of a sphere of radius r is V = 4πr³ / 3 and the surface area is A = 4πr² and so the ratio of volume to area is V / A = r / 3. Surprisingly, the same ratio holds for all regular solids if r is the radius of the largest sphere […] The post

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-20 16:33:31

I’ve written several posts about using Claude or ChatGPT to generate Prolog or Lean code to solve a chess puzzle. I didn’t think Grok would be up to the task, though I didn’t try it. I’ve heard good things about Grok 4.5, so I gave

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-20 16:13:28

La segunda estrella producida por el ajedrez iraní -tras el emigrado Firouzja- realiza un profundo sacrificio de pieza a largo plazo

old new thing @ 2026-07-20 16:00:00

The easy case is easy. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-20 14:21:44

Quantum 10, 2167 (2026). Quantum Zeno dragging enables the preparation of common eigenstates of a set of observables by frequent measurement and adiabatic-like modulation of the measurement basis. In this work,

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-20 14:14:07

Quantum 10, 2166 (2026). Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pave the way for implementing quantum algorithms that offer quantum advantages over their classical counterparts. Due to the intrinsic no

AEON @ 2026-07-20 12:01:00

A 1979 doc examining the life and ideas of B F Skinner, with a focus on his radical, controversial behaviour experiments - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-20 12:00:00

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’ - by Carlos Noreña Read on Aeon

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

Long before LinkedIn, my professional network consisted of the Yellow Pages and a landline. At the age of 15, I had the brainwave (and the audacity) to cold call every business I could find until I landed my 1st job. After making around 25 calls, a local s

Inside Java @ 2026-07-20 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers G1 becoming HotSpot's default GC in all environments.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-20 00:31:11

My thanks to Paper for sponsoring last week at DF. Paper is a new professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs, translations, and layers of abstraction between what you design and

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-19 21:30:17

Suppose you want to search for a list of words. If you’re using grep, you can add the -f flag provide a file of regular expressions, and you can add the -F to tell it that the regular expressions are in fact just words. I did something like this a c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 19:18:57

9to5Mac: Brazilian users browsing the App Store rankings in categories such as Navigation, Travel, and Weather have noticed a growing number of poorly made games appearing among the top results, many of them featuring AI-generated illustrations of ani

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-19 18:41:48

Squares, high and low Let p be an odd prime number. Then half the numbers from 1 through p − 1 are squares and half are not. That is, for half of numbers 1 ≤ k < p, the equation x² = k mod p has a solution. The traditional name for these numbers is [&

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-19 16:27:01

Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj and Thomas Thierauf. The post will try to explain three main thing

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 16:18:38

Pelea sin escudos entre dos grandes luchadores hasta que el estadounidense cae en una profunda celada del indio

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 16:04:21

Ya no es sólo un talento precoz muy excepcional, de 15 años, sino un rival temible, incluso para la élite mundial

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-19 15:40:31

Ni siquiera las dos damas del bando defensor pueden evitar la victoria blanca en esta obra de arte de Martin Minski

Baeldung @ 2026-07-19 14:18:31

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 655 first appeared on Baeldung .              

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-19 11:58:21

Todos los modelos son falsos, aunque algunos son útiles. El objetivo de las gerociencias es estudiar los mecanismos biológicos asociados al envejecimiento para retrasar, prevenir o revertir el deterioro asociado […] La entrada Un supuesto límite

Baeldung @ 2026-07-19 03:30:22

Learn how to map your entities correctly in Hibernate to avoid getting an AnnotationException The post Solving org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Illegal Attempt to Map a Non Collection first appeared on Baeldung .        

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 02:38:17

I think maybe John Ternus is more of a “*Hey, what* would *Steve have done here?*” kind of guy. What would Steve Jobs do with this OpenAI situation? He’d go to war.

Inside Java @ 2026-07-19 02:00:00

JDK 27 entered RDP1, Valhalla's JEP 401 is being merged into JDK main, join our hackathon, and more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-19 00:47:59

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-07-18 18:35:13

Maxwell’s equations are invariant under Lorentz transformations. The usual equations of fluid flow are not! Like the rest of Newtonian mechanics, they’re invariant under Galilean transformations like So, if we simply slap these two theories tog

Physics Phorums @ 2026-07-18 18:35:13

Maxwell’s equations are invariant under Lorentz transformations. The usual equations of fluid flow are not! Like the rest of Newtonian mechanics, they’re invariant under Galilean transformations like So, if we simply slap these two theories tog

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-18 16:14:51

Quantum 10, 2165 (2026). In this work, we study the complexity of graph-state preparation in a general model of quantum algorithms that allows measurements in the computational basis, single-qubit Clifford oper

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-18 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 July 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-18 15:45:57

Quantum 10, 2164 (2026). Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in dimens

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 14:50:00

La vida terrestre usa los azúcares como fuentes y reservas de energía (glucosa, glucógeno y almidón), como parte de los ácidos nucleicos (ribosa en ARN y desoxirribosa en ADN) y […] La entrada Se detecta un azúcar con cuatro carbonos (eritrulosa)

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 12:09:18

En la era de la computación cuántica de escala intermedia y con ruido (NISQ, por Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum), la ventaja cuántica se muestra como ventaja de escalado. Solo se ilustra […] La entrada La primera ventaja cuántica por escalado e

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-18 10:47:32

Microsoft Quantum intentó convencernos de que Majorana 1 era un ordenador cuántico topológico basado en estados de Majorana de energía cero (MZM). No lo logró con sus cúbits basados en […] La entrada Microsoft vuelve a la carga con Majorana 2, qu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-18 02:33:15

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month : Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn Tech. I AM NO

Inside Java @ 2026-07-18 02:00:00

From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, Java's journey is one of radical innovation, strategic pivots, and enduring community strength.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-18 01:47:16

Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the reco

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 23:20:04

Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 23:08:39

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music: Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99) Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99) Apple One: Individual:

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 22:27:53

Wired, back on May 15: OpenAI says it’s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says that Codex is increasingly powering its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-17 21:57:06

The AI company says a new finding about how Claude works echoes an influential theory of consciousness. That doesn't prove the AI is itself conscious. The post Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right? ap

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 21:48:53

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: In that light, we can see the dilemma. But there were also probably about a dozen better ways to do this roll-out — as highlighted by how fast they’re fixing these things — and they just missed the mark. While they und

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 21:10:43

Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineering lead who’s taking the most public credit for this and thus probably deserves the most blame, on Twitter/X: Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great feedback on the new ChatGPT desktop app (which we didn’t ge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 20:13:16

Linus Torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they ca

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 19:31:11

Speaking of BBEdit , version 16 dropped just before WWDC, and adds a slew of nifty improvements, headlined by vastly expanded support for Shortcuts. You can also search for text in images , use the W3C HTML syntax checker, and of all things, use vi keyb

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 19:05:20

Sean Malseed — “Action Retro” on YouTube — created a Markdown editor for the original Macintosh. Source code on GitHub ; intro video on YouTube . It’s written in C, not Pascal, and uses the modern Retro68 GCC-derived compiler. I absolutely love that

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-17 18:59:13

La tecnología CFET (Complementary Field-Effect Transistor) apila en vertical transistores nMOS y pMOS para aumentar la densidad lógica y alcanzar la escala subnanométrica. Todavía en estado preindustrial, IBM, imec y […] La entrada Hacia los tran

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 18:55:59

Joanna Stern explains why this emoji is correct today: 📅. (This one too: 📆)  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 18:12:31

Quick follow up to the previous two posts on ICD-10 codes and HCPCS codes. This post uses Python’s squarify library to create treemaps visualizing how many codes begin with each letter. Here’s the treemap for HCPCS codes. And here’s the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 17:53:16

Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Here’s Google’s full statement on withdrawing its proposed modifications to Judge Donato’s permanent injunction, via Google spokesperson Dan Jackson: We’ve agreed with Epic to withdraw our motio

Deepmind @ 2026-07-17 17:00:11

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 16:02:52

Since I revisited my old post on ICD code matching, I thought I’d revisit by post on HCPCS codes too. HCPCS stands for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, and is pronounced “hick picks.” When most people say HCPCS, they technicall

old new thing @ 2026-07-17 16:00:00

It's fixed, but the fix isn't getting there. The post Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-17 15:29:40

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of t

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-17 15:29:40

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-17 13:39:01

Cada cuatro años intento predecir los nombres los matemáticos que serán galardonados con la Medalla Fields. Por desgracia, este año no tiene ningún sentido hacerlo. ¡Se han filtrado dichos nombres! […] La entrada Se filtran los nombres de las Med

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-17 13:26:19

Seven years ago I wrote a post about regular expressions to match diagnosis codes. I wanted to revisit that post looking at speed and error rates. Regular expressions usually do not exactly match what you’re looking for and nothing else. They have e

AEON @ 2026-07-17 12:00:00

Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know - by Ananya Palivela Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 04:01:37

The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. Under the EU’s Batte

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-17 03:53:55

During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections. Following this year’s meeting, we are pleased to welcome Dave Cottlehuber to the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors. Take a minute to read this interview with Dave to l

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-17 03:32:52

FreeBSD Community member and former Core Representative, Dave Cottlehuber, was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board during the Annual Meeting on June 15, 2026. We sat down with Dave to learn more about his history with FreeBSD and what he’s most lookin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 02:17:35

Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I love the web too much to let that nonsense bury links to real websites m

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Apple sues OpenAI, SwiftUI environment footguns, and Xcode’s MCP tools without an agent

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-17 01:28:09

Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web . (We don’t (yet?) have an RSS feed that you can put in your podcast player for these occasi

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-17 01:03:59

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. The post Is AI Making Us Dumber? appeared first on Singular

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-16 23:22:38

El vietnamita dominó de principio a fin al durísimo Bluebaum, convirtiendo ventajas mínimas en una victoria inapelable

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-16 22:01:14

See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started out with us again shuffling around where we parked our

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 21:44:47

OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week: “While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in fair competition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever they choose, and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 21:34:13

David Ingram, reporting for NBC News (which recently added a paywall without gift links, alas): Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was trade secret theft. But emails r