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Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-17 16:31:05

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. The post Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind firs

Regular expressions for HCPCS codes

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

Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long?

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 Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect

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 Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect

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

Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI

InfoQ @ 2026-07-17 14:00:00

A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native ecosystem that already powers modern distributed appl

Se filtran los nombres de las Medallas Fields 2026

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

Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-17 13:30:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 380 # Comments: 213

Regular expression speed and error rates

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

Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account After Nuking It Due to Hacker

slashdot @ 2026-07-17 13:00:00

Microsoft restored streamer Joshua Khane's 25-year-old Xbox and OneDrive account after it was compromised by a hacker and then suspended, putting years of personal data, baby photos, and thousands of dollars in games at risk. IGN reports: While he was "ext

How Uber Builds Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters

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

Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation and its own isolation-group system, which relies on the Odin container orchestration platform. This way, it

Transit of wonder

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

QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals

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

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring security through a "harness" around agents, and adopti

Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet

slashdot @ 2026-07-17 09:00:00

Astronomers have directly detected helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away that sits in its star's habitable zone. The finding marks the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-like planet in the habitable zon

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-17 05:48:26

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Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post

slashdot @ 2026-07-17 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Trump Media & Technology Group has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, such as President

European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules

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

Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem

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 Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber

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

The human-in-the-loop is tired

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-17 02:21:09

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 276 # Comments: 173

Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results

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

Issue 759

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

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

Why your AI agent framework isn't enough: 7 platform capabilities missing from production

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Your agent works. I know it does. You built it on LangChain or CrewAI or something custom, you tested it against real scenarios, and it handled them. The problem isn't the agent. The problem is everything around it.In "Why good AI agents fail in production

Introducing Red Hat build of Karpenter

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Achieving infrastructure efficiency and controlling compute costs is a continuous effort. While traditional machine pools are effective for steady workloads, scaling diverse applications often requires balancing cloud utilization with the effort spent manu

Friday Five — July 17, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

InfoWorld - Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 tackles cloud costs, AI workloadsInfoWorld looks at Red Hat OpenShift 4.22, the latest version of Red Hat's hybrid cloud application platform. The release focuses on cutting cloud infrastructure costs, simplifying operat

Agentic AI, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA: Shifting to precision security

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-17 02:00:00

Red Hat is pioneering the use of agentic AI to shift vulnerability management from volume to precision. By combining the security-hardened foundation of Red Hat OpenShift with advanced AI frameworks from NVIDIA, we're delivering actionable security intelli

Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’

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

Is AI Making Us Dumber?

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

HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs

slashdot @ 2026-07-17 01:00:00

India's Competition Commission has fined HP India and its partners about 1.4 billion rupees ($14.4 million), alleging the company colluded with resellers to rig government PC bids and fix prices for ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies. "It s

TSMC To Invest Additional $100 Billion In Arizona

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

TSMC said it will invest another $100 billion in Arizona after reporting a record 77.4% year-over-year jump in second-quarter profit. The expansion would bring its total U.S. investment to $265 billion and include new fabs for 2-nanometer production and ad

EU Forces Google To Share Search Data, Open Android To Rivals

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 23:00:00

The EU is imposing new rules requiring Google to share anonymized search data and open up Android to rival AI companies. "Thanks to these measures, we hope to see emerging alternatives to Google Search and Google's AI services, such as Gemini, and that use

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 22:18:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 293 # Comments: 106

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 22:03:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 328 # Comments: 448

Workshop Basel day three

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

1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 22:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: 1Password has launched a Claude integration that allows the AI agent to sign in to websites using credentials stored in a 1Password vault. The password manager says Claude never sees the password or one-time code. Instead, users approv

OpenAI Takes a Second Crack at a Response to Apple’s Trade Secret Theft Lawsuit

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

Lawyer for Apple Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees’ Names, Sent One Email to the Wrong Guy, Back in February

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

AWS Continuum to Enable Agentic Code Security for Enterprises

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 21:00:00

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four ag

Sony Deletes More Movies From Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: In 2022, due to "evolving licensing agreements" with distributor StudioCanal, German and Austrian users had hundreds of movies disappear from their PS accounts, long after buying them through Sony. Then in

Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 20:15:00

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, but will keep it a standalone app even as it ties more closely into Gemini and Google Search. "Google says it plans to bring notebooks to AI Mode, its chatbot-like experience in Search, too," reports The Ve

Louie Mantia: ‘The Shape of Apps’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 20:07:28

Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the Parakeet blog: It’s worth noting that some of the platform’s best icons look worse, while some of the platform’s worst icons look better. Ultimatel

OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 19:45:59

Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they spent “low hundreds of millions” to purchase the TBPN YouTube show ? In

Open Protocols with the Strands Agents SDK

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-16 19:29:21

If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as us

OnePlus Will Continue Software Updates After US and Europe Exit

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 19:00:00

OnePlus has confirmed that it will exit the North American and European markets, consolidating its operations under parent company Oppo. Existing customers will continue to receive "software updates, security patches, and applicable support," but OxygenOS

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 18:41:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 222 # Comments: 166

Decoy Font

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 18:18:21

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 628 # Comments: 145

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 18:08:13

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 346 # Comments: 166

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 18:06:27

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 745 # Comments: 160

Notes from TED Democracy Philadelphia: Why democracy is worth fighting for

TED Blog @ 2026-07-16 18:00:13

On June 13, 2026, more than 1,500 people gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States at TED Democracy Philadelphia: Founding Futures. Democracy may have weathered some hard years recently — with rising partisan tension, fr

EU Won't Require User-Replaceable Batteries for Wearables

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 18:00:00

The European Commission has exempted wearables from upcoming EU rules requiring portable-device batteries to be removable and user-replaceable. The broader Batteries Regulation still takes effect in February 2027 for many consumer products, but the exempti

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 17:32:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 263 # Comments: 28

South Korea To Launch Universal Basic AI Chatbot

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: South Korea's government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The "AI for everyone" plan calls for private entities to c

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 16:46:05

Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: Comments URL: Points: 1842 # Comments: 1090

Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it

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

Inferring the code's history. The post Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Archaeologist’s Copilot

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-16 15:25:00

When people think of legacy modernization, most folks aren't imagining the target environment will be Java 8. But this was the challenge facing Nik Malykhin when he needed to run a Java 1.5 codebase on today's hardware. His early use of LLMs gave

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 14:13:43

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 667 # Comments: 413

SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 14:02:11

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 301 # Comments: 266

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 13:59:01

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 266 # Comments: 276

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 13:39:27

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 509 # Comments: 270

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 13:09:00

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create

Chinese Users Bid Farewell To AI Companions

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 13:00:00

fjo3 quotes a report from Agence France-Presse: Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency. The phenom

Ente – Opening Our Books

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 12:37:17

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 267 # Comments: 102

AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

InfoQ @ 2026-07-16 12:17:00

A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructur

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 12:14:04

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 577 # Comments: 353

What remains

AEON @ 2026-07-16 12:01:00

In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Loitering towards war

AEON @ 2026-07-16 12:00:00

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe - by Anton Cebalo Read on Aeon

Shadow Pauli Flow: Characterising Determinism in MBQCs involving Pauli Measurements

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-16 11:58:37

Quantum 10, 2163 (2026). We introduce a new characterisation of determinism in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC). The one-way model consists in performing local measurements over a large entangled stat

Our approach to bioresilience

Deepmind @ 2026-07-16 11:30:42

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 10:03:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 299 # Comments: 216

Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 09:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: In a study published in Nature, LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material capable of distinguishing and transporting different quantum states of light, overcoming one of the b

Beyond the Hardware Hub: How ALC Taipei Turned Computex 2026 into a Milestone for the Apache Way

ASF @ 2026-07-16 07:20:06

By Chia-Ping TsaiALC Taipei Lead [Figure 1] Long-time Apache Kafka contributors Jiunn-Yang and Chih-Yuan introducing ALC Taipei’s contributions to open-source veterans Brian Behlendorf and Justin McLean Introduction With the globally renowned Comput

The lost joy of music piracy

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 06:46:21

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 798 # Comments: 564

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-16 05:48:43

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 239 # Comments: 124

US Suffered a Major Power Outage Every Month of 2026

slashdot @ 2026-07-16 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: A Reddit post making the rounds this week claims the U.S. has experienced at least one major power outage every month of 2026 -- but is it true? I dug into several outages, the extreme weather behind them,

Announcing Rust 1.97.1

Rust blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.97.1 is as

Why Operational Resilience and Digital Sovereignty Top the CIO Agenda - by Martin Lentle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

For CIOs across the Middle East Africa, keeping systems online is the foundation of customer trust. As public sector institutions and private enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, maintaining this operational uptime is the top priority. In

Interactive labs: Enterprise lab environments, ready in minutes at no cost

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

Before anything reaches production, you have to test it, validate it, and sometimes learn about it from scratch. All 3 of these steps are necessary to have a properly running environment but your window to complete them is almost always shorter than expect

How Red Hat solves the toughest challenges in agentless infrastructure scanning

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

Enterprises want absolute clarity on their IT footprint: they want to know exactly what software is running, where it’s running, and how those deployments align with subscription entitlements. For many organizations, Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and subscr

Identifying JDK Value Class Candidates

Inside Java @ 2026-07-16 02:00:00

As long as value classes are a preview feature, they can’t generally be adopted in the JDK libraries (which are not compiled with `--enable-preview`). However, we felt it was important for this JEP to provide users with a “starter kit” of some value class

Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 01:02:54

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a se

Eric Seufert: ‘Did Apple Just Signal a Third-Party Expansion of Apple Ads?’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:52:22

Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo: The new language could simply accommodate the availability of Apple-owned services on the web and through third-party devices and operating systems; the Apple TV app, for instance, is available on smart TVs, streaming de

Apple Updates Advertising Services Policy With New Rules for Ads in Maps

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:48:20

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In a newly published Apple Advertising Services policy, effective as of July 14, 2026, the iPhone maker shares its rules for advertising on Apple Maps. Notably, it prohibits the broad category of home services businesses, li

Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-16 00:35:18

Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial intelligence service on iPhones in the country, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as

Represent FreeBSD in Your Community

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-15 23:10:16

Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background — it just takes someone willing to show up and talk about why this project matters. Whether that’s presenting at a local meetup or bringing FreeBSD into a

Various and Sundry

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-15 22:51:23

Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fields Medal winners. This year there won’t be much surprise, since evidently someone found … Co

Workshop Basel day two

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-15 22:07:14

If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over the name tags we wrote yesterday t

Análisis de ajedrez | Le no perdona en Biel (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-15 19:33:52

El vietnamita, de visión estratégica muy profunda, demuestra con alguna frecuencia por qué se mantiene en la élite durante casi toda su carrera

Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-15 17:24:33

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use. The post Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Herman Chernoff (1923-2026)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-15 16:55:50

Herman Chernoff passed away on July 6, 5 days after turning 103. Ravi Boppana wrote a guest post about Chernoff's life for his 100th birthday.  Let me talk about his most famous work, the Chernoff Bounds themselves. If you have a coin

Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 16:25:00

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on executio

Fast quantum measurement tomography with optimal error bounds

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 16:07:46

Quantum 10, 2162 (2026). We present a two-step protocol for quantum measurement tomography that is light on classical co-processing cost and still achieves optimal sample complexity. Given measurement data from

The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel

old new thing @ 2026-07-15 16:00:00

Watching the bits disappear. The post The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel appeared first on The Old New Thing .

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:46:28

Quantum 10, 2161 (2026). The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. Thi

Geometric speed limit of state preparation and curved control spaces

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:29:55

Quantum 10, 2160 (2026). The preparation of quantum many-body systems faces the difficulty that in a realistic scenario only few control parameters of the system may be accessible. In this context, an interesti

AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 13:04:00

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and ro

From Superradiance to Superabsorption: An Exact Treatment of Non-Markovian Cooperative Radiation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 12:40:54

Quantum 10, 2159 (2026). We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By

The diffusion pilot

AEON @ 2026-07-15 12:01:00

What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Near-Optimal Parameter Tuning of Level-1 QAOA for Ising Models

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 09:26:06

Quantum 10, 2158 (2026). The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) tackles combinatorial optimisation problems by encoding their solutions into the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian prepared by a

This Week in Rust 660

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-15 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

Moving from PoC to production: Delivering real business value with Red Hat AI 3.4

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Red Hat AI 3.4 is officially available. While it is packed with incredible engineering milestones, business leaders care less about the underlying code and more about one critical question: How does this platform help scale the business?For organizations c

Two-node OpenShift with fencing improves reliability at the edge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Edge computing environments present distinct hurdles as companies move processing capabilities nearer to where data is generated. Customers across industries, especially in retail, industrial, and telecommunications sectors, are increasingly demanding high

Physical AI: Physical operations are broken, a new kind of intelligence is needed

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Every company that depends on physical operations is dealing with the same set of problems today. The infrastructure that was built years ago demands changes faster than operations teams can adapt. Repetitive tasks done by humans at high speed produce erro

Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks Extension Connects VS Code to Google Cloud's Jupyter Notebooks

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

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone

Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 23:48:06

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress. The post Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body appeared first on SingularityHub .

Workshop Basel day one

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-14 22:25:28

On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty people in a meeting room

Análisis de ajedrez | Antípov se impone en el Villa de Benasque

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-14 19:11:24

El estadounidense de origen ruso, primer cabeza de serie, cumple el pronóstico y lo hace con un juego de muy alta calidad en varias partidas

ICD-10 chapters and code letters

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-14 16:24:12

I’ve been thinking about ICD-10 codes; they come up a lot in my work. The ICD-10-CM standard is divided into 21 chapters, which generally correspond to the first letter of a code. However, a chapter may contain blocks beginning with more than one le

Microspeak: Double-click and drill down

old new thing @ 2026-07-14 16:00:00

Please, tell me more. The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:40:00

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dyn

Meta's Noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface Brain2Qwerty Achieves 61% Accuracy

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:00:00

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieve

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-14 14:51:00

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describ

How Does a Java Program Get Its Own Process ID

Baeldung @ 2026-07-14 14:19:11

Learn how to retrieve the current Java process ID using ProcessHandle , RuntimeMXBean , and legacy approaches across different Java versions. The post How Does a Java Program Get Its Own Process ID first appeared on Baeldung .    

Linkerd 2.20 Delivers Smarter Traffic Management and Dramatic Efficiency Gains

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

The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for K

Google's Genkit Ships Agents API with Detached Turns and Human-in-the-Loop for TypeScript and Go

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 12:17:00

Google released the Genkit Agents API in preview for TypeScript and Go. The open-source framework packages message history, tool loops, streaming, and state persistence behind a single chat() interface. Detached turns let agents work after clients discon

The looting of science fiction

AEON @ 2026-07-14 12:00:00

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future - by Ali Rıza Taşkale Read on Aeon

Evolutionary Data through Schemaboi: Achieving Forward, Backwards, and Sideways Compatibility

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:08:00

Drawing from the enduring adaptability of HTML and HTTP, Seph Gentle proposes embedding self-contained schemas directly into file headers, ensuring data remains readable without external definitions. His experimental format prioritises forward, backward

SwiftData Enhances Queries, Adds Support for External Types and Data Store Observation

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:00:00

The 2027 release of SwiftData introduces support for persisting custom and third-party types via Codable, along with the ability to organize data into SwiftUI list sections. It also adds new capabilities for observing data store changes through ResultsOb

[Sponsor] Paper

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-14 07:02:00

Paper is a professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs and fewer translations between what you design and what ships. Paper works both ways: code to design, and design to code.

Devcon 8 Tickets Are Live: Find Your Path to Mumbai

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers minds from across Ethereum and beyond: builders, researchers, maintainers, organizers, and anyone curious a

In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 01:10:32

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control appeared first on SingularityHub .

Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 20:13:57

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages bet

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 18:18:20

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builde

How to Get The RequestBody and ResponseBody in HandlerInterceptor

Baeldung @ 2026-07-13 17:25:40

Learn how to log HTTP request and response bodies using a Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor. The post How to Get The RequestBody and ResponseBody in HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Remember Musk’s Suit Alleging a Conspiracy Between Apple and OpenAI?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 17:24:53

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings , on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consis

Why Am I Left-Handed?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-13 16:22:22

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages?

old new thing @ 2026-07-13 16:00:00

Guard pages all the way down? The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Fragments: July 13

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-13 14:51:00

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Deepmind @ 2026-07-13 14:37:28

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

LARES-2 y LAGEOS miden el efecto Lense–Thirring

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-13 13:49:35

La teoría general de la relatividad predice un arrastre de los sistemas de referencia inerciales (frame-dragging). En un campo gravitacional débil y rotación lenta, como en el entorno de la […] La entrada LARES-2 y LAGEOS miden el efecto Lense–Th

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:01:00

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Unmothered

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:00:00

We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Renier ve la luz en Benasque

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-13 09:06:50

Aún es posible innovar con gran brillantez en los primeros movimientos, como demostró Castellanos en la 8ª ronda del abierto pirenaico

crates.io: development update

Rust blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Another six months have passed since our last development update , and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "Code"

2... 1/2 THEN 3... 1/6 THEN 5 ....1/15 and so on. And So On?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-13 00:49:37

The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrated by Robert J Lewis, (I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News,  here .) has an appe

WorkOS Pipes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 00:17:54

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, and weeks of infrastructure b

Paulo Andrade: ‘A WWDC 27 Update on Building a Mac-Assed App With SwiftUI’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 23:18:24

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times , included in iOS Dev Weekly , inspired May’s edition of the Swift Blog Carnival , and was

How UIs Degrade Over Time

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:51:16

These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in clarity, everywhere. Today we live in an age when it’s degrading in clarity, everywhere.

‘Every Frame Perfect’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:48:09

Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov: The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see. Why care about every frame? It builds trust. Users can’t see the code, so UI is the only way for them to

Posterior variance

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 21:26:29

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how the posterior mea

TwoMillionKit: Use Private Cloud Compute in MacOS 27 Foundation Models Without an Entitlement

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 20:04:05

Guilherme Rambo: Apple ships the fm command-line tool in macOS 27, which can be used to run inference with the local system model or Private Cloud Compute from Terminal or scripts. You know what else can run command-line tools? Mac apps! 😃 I deci

Posterior mean

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 19:48:14

Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignore previous information or new information. How much should new data c

Sam Altman and Elon Musk Argue Over Who’s Running the Bigger Scam

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:45:57

Elon Musk , linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”: He takes scamming to a whole new level Sam Altman : homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters Mus

Lunacy — Jeff Halter’s Lunatic Fringe Player

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:19:36

After linking to Stacks , his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of clicking around the rest of Jeff Halter’s website, and fell upon Lunacy: Created by Ben Haller and released in the early ’90s as part of the Maci

Análisis de ajedrez | Krauchi sube en los Pirineos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-12 19:16:23

El bicampeón absoluto de Baleares, de 15 años, comparte el 5º puesto de 511 participantes en el Open de Benasque

Stacks — HyperCard Player for Modern MacOS

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 17:42:21

Well this is just delightful: Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator required! Browse the Internet Archive’s HyperCard collection and run stacks with one-click. Period-accurate typography. Sound, instruments, and MacinTa

LLM Tool Call Reasoning Using Embabel Agentic AI Framework

Baeldung @ 2026-07-12 11:57:58

Learn how to use the Embabel Agent Framework in Java to gain observability over AI agent tool-call selection reasoning. The post LLM Tool Call Reasoning Using Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .       

Any Google Font on Your ESP32 Display

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-12 02:00:00

Every time I put text on a TFT display with TFT_eSPI I end up staring at the same built-in fonts: chunky, jagged, and very 1980s. Which is a shame, because the library has been able to draw beautiful anti-aliased “smooth fonts” for years. The rendering wa

Can Someone Explain to Me How to Get ‘ChatGPT Classic’?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:38:39

One more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to the new “super” app version: Follow the prompt in the app to download the new ChatGPT desktop app. Then sign in with the same ChatGPT account. The

OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:24:20

OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the ChatGPT desktop app when included for your plan and workspace. Work on web and mobile runs i

Benedict Evans on the New ‘Super App’ ChatGPT

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:16:21

Benedict Evans with a succinct review on Threads: Wow, what a total mess. What is the difference between a project, a task and a chat? Why did chats get a crappy floating window but tasks and projects don’t? Why does choosing ‘plugins’ get me ‘t

Progress on Gilbreath’s conjecture

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-11 23:30:11

Years ago I wrote about Gilbreath’s conjecture. It’s a simple conjecture; you could explain it to anyone who understands what prime numbers are. See the linked post for a description of the problem. Gilbreath’s conjecture is simple, but

Testing Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor

Baeldung @ 2026-07-11 23:18:07

Learn how to test Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor using @WebMvcTest and MockMvc without starting the full application. The post Testing Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

★ Exactly Like Om Malik

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 21:43:35

Remembrances, tributes, and stories.

Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 20:02:17

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice co

Análisis de ajedrez | Markel Vesga deleita e instruye en Benasque

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-11 19:37:28

Uno de los remates más bellos que se verán en el abierto pirenaico será sin duda este del jugador vasco frente a un gran maestro de EEUU

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 11)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-11 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 11) appeared first on SingularityHub .

x64: Fix callback result handling.

luajit @ 2026-07-11 14:37:49

Reported by Matt Gerassimoff.

John Ternus Calls Sam Altman

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:45:00

“Yeah, who’s this?” “You know who this is.” “Yes I do, yes I do. I sent a guy to deliver the package ... he didn’t call. Is everything alright?” “Tell you what. Forget the money.”  ★ 

‘No Interest’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:41:00

Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel ): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people e

Ice Cold

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:14:28

Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leader

Ryanair Literally Sucks

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:04:10

The AP: Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany. The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece. The

Newly Renamed Trump Airport in Palm Beach Has an AI Slop Logo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:01:41

Frank Landymore, writing for Futurism: Look past its gaudiness, though, and you’ll notice some things that’re a little off in the finer details. The talons are horribly deformed and shaped differently from each other. The entire legs are uneven, too,

Mac OS 9’s Finder Had a ‘View as Buttons’ Mode

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 04:10:49

Cryan.com: The “View as Buttons” option was a distinctive feature of the Macintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed users to view the contents of a folder as clickable buttons, each representing a file or application. This view was particularly useful for quic

Squircle Jail Isn’t (Or at Least Shouldn’t Be) About Upcoming Touchscreen Macs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 03:58:55

Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is this: Is mandating the squircle a concession to the much-rumored upcoming touchscreen MacBooks? No. The visible shape and appearance of an app ic

Java Weekly, Issue 654

Baeldung @ 2026-07-10 23:30:52

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 654 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Apple Sues OpenAI, io, and Former Employees, Alleging Theft of Trade Secrets

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 23:01:43

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design. He departed the company in February 2024 to work with Jony Ive.

Análisis de ajedrez | Lucha brillante y de alto rango en Benasque

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-10 17:51:39

El primer cabeza de serie, Mijaíl Antípov, debe recurrir a un doble sacrificio de calidad para doblegar al insigne y veterano gran maestro Daniel Cámpora

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-10 16:51:48

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first ap