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The Endeavour @ 2026-10-17 17:39:06

NIST published a set of elliptic curves for cryptography in 2000. The seeds for the curves were supplied by the NSA, and cryptographers suspected the agency may have installed backdoors in the curves. And not without reason: the NSA did insert a backdoor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 16:06:18

Glenn Fleishman: I wondered what the entry-level, initial price of each Apple TV box at introduction was, from the March 2007 original to the Apple TV 4K (4th generation) announced October 13, 2026, adjusted for inflation. So I charted it. I suppo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-17 10:37:46

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-17 08:28:00

Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is an open-source project with over 200K GitHub stars that connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA. The project lets developers inspect compiled binari

InfoQ @ 2026-10-17 08:00:00

Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the analytical database DuckDB. Co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team under AWS. The acquisition aims to enhance the development and reach of DuckDB while maintaini

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-17 04:21:08

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 03:22:34

Re: my post today on the still-vaporware Tesla Roadster and Benedict Evans’s maxim that “Elon Musk is a bullshitter who delivers”, a reader sent me this YouTube short of Charlie Munger’s answer to a question at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2020 shareholder me

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 03:00:00

Apple Developer News: As outlined in our App Review Guidelines, pornographic material has long been prohibited on the App Store — this includes apps that generate nudity or sexually explicit imagery, such as “nudification” apps that create sexually ex

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 02:37:01

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday at the “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco announced that Apple TV will now cost $69, discounted from its regular price of $99. The new price for the s

Inside Java @ 2026-10-17 02:00:00

A critical bug in JDK 27 and how it was fixed, some conference news, and how JDK 28 is shaping up

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-17 01:34:03

Mark Zuckerberg, on X: Muse Spark Open — weights releasing today — runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple. John Ternus, replying : Congrats to the team! Amazing to run a model of Muse Spark Open’s caliber and

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-16 23:48:23

Después de 30 años creando a muy alto nivel, el español alcanza el título de Maestro Internacional en Composición

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 22:53:42

From the NetNewsWire blog: The latest version of NetNewsWire for iOS supports iPhone Duo, which is very much a novel iPhone with toolbars running up the side and all kinds of behavior. How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 22:33:41

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 22:11:23

If you think Musk is either completely legitimate and trustworthy or an utter fraud, you are wrong. He has led his companies to extraordinary accomplishments, *and* he has made promises based on complete bullshit. He is a shameless bullshitter who *sometim

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-16 22:05:42

The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. App Review Guidelines Before You Submit: Added links to additional documentation. 1.2: Clarified app content and app types that a

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-16 22:00:56

The App Review Guidelines are a core part of the safe and trusted experience that the App Store strives to offer users around the world — and the foundation of that trust is clear standards that are consistently enforced. As outlined in our App Review G

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 21:04:47

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-16 21:00:00

Google researchers open sourced EnvHarness, a framework that dynamically adapts agent-training environments to an agent's weaknesses without modifying the agent, environment, or evaluation system. According to the researchers, this approach can improve b

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 20:55:59

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-16 19:01:22

From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound truth to Pascal’s saying that every human has a god-shaped hole in their heart, and it’s important to understand that many of these f

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 18:12:02

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 16:44:17

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 16:18:44

I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse Comments URL: Points: 230 #

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 15:43:48

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 14:52:08

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-16 07:11:28

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

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

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

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

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-16 02:00:00

Following its activation on Sepolia on October 6, the Glamsterdam network upgrade is now scheduled for the Hoodi testnet. Glamsterdam advances Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes t

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Von Friesland in die Welt

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

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Warum die Zukunft oft blau ist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-14 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks to RaphaelIT7. #1532

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ein Blick in mein Regal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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