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InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 07:05:00

As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act Article 50 requires AI systems to mark synthetic outputs in a machine-detectable manner. Major vendors are implementing statistical watermarking methods, which influence natural language generation without affecting pe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 05:37:14

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slashdot @ 2026-08-18 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 02:55:13

I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 01:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied w

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-18 00:42:15

For communities in the crosshairs, every extra hour counts. The post DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting appeared first on SingularityHub .

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

Apple Wallet's driver's license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without han

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:55:29

The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago . Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:43:50

The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief executive Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkk

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-17 23:27:36

This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable t

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 23:00:00

District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. "He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to r

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 22:00:00

Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13. Meta says the states are seeking penalties as high

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously l

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 20:33:00

OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation. According to OpenAI, Nvidia will be supplying the chips and guarant

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 20:02:00

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can interact with websites, applications, inboxes, and other tools. By Daniel Dominguez

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 19:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon's book buying operation, which hasn'

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-17 18:02:36

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Founda

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 18:00:00

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader "crisis of trust" in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei's comments came in response to

old new thing @ 2026-08-17 17:54:40

The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-17 17:11:17

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appea

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It's

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 16:18:00

JEP 540, Simple JSON API, has progressed to Target status for JDK 28. It introduces a compact API for parsing and generating JSON documents without external dependencies. Focused on core tasks, it provides an immutable value hierarchy. The API allows sim

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 15:41:00

Grab is using AI agents to automate analytics workflows, cutting mechanical analyst work from 44% in February to 30% in June. Its approach combines agent autonomy, certified data, context management and human oversight, with self service analytics increa

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 15:00:00

Cloudflare has released cloudflare/ci, a CI SDK that defines pipelines in TypeScript on top of Cloudflare Workflows, giving each step durable retries and replay, concurrent steps by default and Sandbox snapshot caching. It targets the Workers runtime and

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 13:34:00

Some take their criticism even further. Reacting to Flock's changes, an EFF statement calls it "Too little, too late," while calling it Flock's admission that their technology needs reforms. But... To be clear, our position has long been that police, at a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 13:01:00

Shadcn, a design engineer at Vercel, has introduced new components for chat interfaces within the shadcn/ui project. This release includes components like MessageScroller and Message, focusing on conversation functionality. The approach emphasizes modula

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:01:00

In this bittersweet portrait of a farm town in Canada, taxidermied gophers preserve a place that no longer exists - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00

Grafana Labs has announced general availability for two tools that let AI coding agents query live observability data during development: the gcx CLI and the Grafana MCP server. Both allow agents to pull metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and Synthetic Monitor

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them - by Ella Browning Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 10:24:00

Amazon has "reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer," reports Bloomberg, "inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 07:44:00

"Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as Steam Deck," reports PC Guide: The confirmation came during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Epi

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 05:04:00

Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America "either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the company. It's the highest amo

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 10th, 2026, features news highlighting: Simple JSON API proposed to target for JDK 28; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the August 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of LangChain4j; maintenance releases of Eclips

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 04:04:00

This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. "It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human bu

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-17 03:16:39

The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

tl;dr: Meet Platåberget: Glamsterdam's (Gloas + Amsterdam) early testing ground open to public participation. This upgrade comes with breaking changes for application developers. Notably, any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit (think wallet

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Telecom infrastructure teams often face the same bottleneck: Every new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server is a custom job. Images multiply. Hardening is inconsistent. Patching and compliance become manual follow-up work after the machine is already liv

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Managing a sprawling, diverse hybrid cloud can feel like trying to schedule a meeting that works for 4 different time zones, 3 different business units, and that 1 stakeholder who is “tentatively” available. It can be really, really tedious.That’s where Re

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Sellers need information in order to do their jobs. At most organizations, this information already exists in various internal systems. The challenge facing every sales team isn't finding that information; it's turning it into action fast enough to matter.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 01:57:59

Esta partida es una obra maestra sobre cómo maniobrar para que un alfil en g2 sea el amo del tablero

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:30:00

Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:26:33

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generat

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-16 21:20:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 566 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Odisea; Eclipse”, 13 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclips

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-16 21:14:02

Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT  here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.) Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us al

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-16 19:50:30

I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved …

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 19:30:00

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 18:34:12

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Ho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 16:33:16

XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at [...] Using an instance of Nitter

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 14:00:00

F’you, Claude, you are driving me absolutely bananas: The house convention is a short phrase naming the defect, and the archive is full of it: “A citation that names nothing”, “The safe zone that only the spawner obeys”, “One word that means five t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:26:00

AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rather than one request in isolation. It covers approvals, rate limits and running totals, ships under Apache 2

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:21:00

Amazon DynamoDB recently introduced native vector search, allowing developers to store embeddings alongside application data and run approximate nearest-neighbor queries directly from DynamoDB without using a separate vector database. The feature support

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 07:05:00

Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the browser. It assists backend developers and site reliability engineers in understanding SQL and the dynamic

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 02:00:00

I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap . It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no one can affor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-15 23:40:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 18:33:56

Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the original pixel cou

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 17:40:43

Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error correcting code used

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-15 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:31:35

El noveno asalto del Mundial de Chennai fue dramático y de enorme calidad hasta que Anand demostró que es humano mientras su rival parecía un chip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:17:30

Dos meses antes del Mundial contra Anand, el aspirante dominó a un rival duro, Kamski, en la Copa Sinquefield con maniobras finísimas

InfoQ @ 2026-08-15 12:46:00

Cloudflare launched agent tracing, adding spans for agent invocations, model calls, tool runs, and approvals to existing Workers traces. Sessions replay turn by turn, though the docs warn traces are not lossless and payloads may be truncated. Payload rec

Baeldung @ 2026-08-15 12:23:09

Equality in Java is evolving. The post Java Weekly, Issue 659 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-08-15 08:28:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, Cache Rules operated only on request attributes. Cache Response Rules add a

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Here’s a response Claude came up with recently. I was asking it to review some of the code it had been writing for my “Open Vibe Code” Elite clone - you can play it here in your browser , it’s surprisingly good. “Twenty-seven echoes; most a

Inside Java @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Work on values progresses, JSON API incubation proposed to target 28, PQC in LTS, and more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 19:16:15

The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 18:33:55

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 16:42:00

Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastruc

old new thing @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same. The post Biology Needs an AI Declaration appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-14 15:10:26

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.” The post Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown first appea

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

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

One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an increase in incident c

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-14 13:20:32

tldr: the live version is here: How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many pro

AEON @ 2026-08-14 12:00:00

The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 03:35:05

Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these matrices arise in appl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 03:05:26

Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old's. The post Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue appeared first on Singular

Inside Java @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

An exhaustive switch on a sealed type covers the permitted subtypes the compiler knows about; it does not cover future additions, which can cause MatchException at run time. API authors should document the expected evolution of sealed types so that client

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

The program’s participants, pictured on their first day at Red HatOn June 1, the first cohort of student athletes arrived at the Raleigh office to take part in the Red Hat Sales Combine Accelerator Program. The group of 6 engaged in a newly launched 3-wee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developme

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

Imagine finding out your core platform contract is ending, leaving you with a multi million-dollar liability—and just 10 months to move 1,500 critical workloads. That was the reality for the engineering team at State Farm.While they had previously used Piv

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 01:54:21

NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for transmission using a

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-13 19:53:27

Cinco meses antes de su duelo por el título con Anand, el noruego barrió del tablero al indio en Moscú de manera fulminante

Deepmind @ 2026-08-13 19:04:18

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 17:46:41

Philip Michaels, writing last September for Tom’s Guide: iPhone 17 torture test videos done by JerryRigEverything indicate that Ceramic Shield 2 certainly resists scratching, with scratch testing leaving only light scratches at level 7 on the Mohs s

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-13 17:02:41

A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entries are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques Hadamard. Sylvester

old new thing @ 2026-08-13 16:00:00

Another RAII-style wrapper. The post A little helper class for managing <CODE>LPPROC_<WBR>THREAD_<WBR>ATTRIBUTE_<WBR>LIST</CODE>s appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:57:13

Quantum 10, 2192 (2026). We present a comprehensive and pedagogical formulation of Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation. Within this framework, we analyse the role of measurement incompatibility and estab

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:51:22

Quantum 10, 2191 (2026). We show that the $T$-depth of any single-qubit $z$-rotation can be reduced to $3$ if a certain catalyst state is available. To achieve an $\epsilon$-approximation, it suffices to have a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:35:33

Quantum 10, 2190 (2026). We develop a theoretical framework for fast, robust and high-fidelity topological quantum state transfer in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings, motivated by chains of Ryd

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:32:15

Quantum 10, 2189 (2026). Graph states are central resources for quantum information processing, supporting applications in computation, communication, and error correction. In photonic systems, they are typical

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:01:00

After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:00:00

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 03:03:45

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Enterprise AI has reached a critical turning point as organizations move from isolated, chat-based experimentation to complex reasoning models and autonomous agents. While the productivity gains are real, underlying infrastructure costs are escalating rapi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 includes general availability support for Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaas) for OpenShift, enabling organizations to manage bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), and application containers using the same consistent platform.What

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 23:23:30

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you cu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 22:58:15

David Imel, The Verge: But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. “The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:45:58

Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: With this year’s Pixel 11 series launch, Google is thinking more agentic AI to complete your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users will be able to order groceries, book rides, or get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini can call b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:40:51

Sam Rutherford, writing for Engadget: Granted, the P11 Pro Fold still includes IP68 dust and water resistance, which is better than what you get on the Z Fold 8 line (IP48). But after making an absolute tank of a foldable phone with last year’s model,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:38:03

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 20:51:01

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty i

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-12 19:38:49

Sufriendo hasta el último minuto, el noruego logró ganar el Torneo de Candidatos de 2013, lo que le convirtió en retador de Anand

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 17:06:05

Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicio

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-12 17:00:03

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea rece

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:48:04

Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:43:11

Basic Apple Guy: Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for the new Chess icon in macOS 27 Beta 5. This is not just a tweak or small improvement. This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon.  ★ 

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-12 16:14:42

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magaz

Deepmind @ 2026-08-12 16:01:59

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

old new thing @ 2026-08-12 16:00:00

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-12 15:32:31

Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-12 15:17:03

Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your head for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-12 13:42:18

Quantum 10, 2188 (2026). Recent work by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig showed that there exists a search problem that a constant-depth quantum circuit can solve, but that any constant-depth classical circuit with b

AEON @ 2026-08-12 12:01:00

Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-12 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

Inside Java @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Learn how a Java MCP server can embrace the latest MCP specification without breaking existing integrations or forcing immediate client upgrades.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Your agent works. It reasons, calls tools, and returns answers in the demo that impress everyone. But between that notebook and a production deployment sits a gap having nothing to do with your model or your framework. Three failures hit a single AI agent

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 23:37:06

The Economist (‘twas a gift link, but alas, I guess gift views have been used up — here’s an archive link in case the gift link is vexing you): You can discover AI’s hallmarks by comparing the writing of man and machine. To do this you need a baseli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:56:13

Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into see

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:46:49

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:36:36

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “ The AI Future Is for Everyone ”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 20:54:53

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “ Is Netflix Washed Now? ”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting immin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 19:59:22

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put

ASF @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workl

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 16:09:46

I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then again this is lim

old new thing @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered. The post The little-known <TT>winstart.bat</TT> batch file appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations. The post Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease appeared f

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 14:04:24

Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only do attackers

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-11 13:59:10

El ‘número uno’ de 2012 dejó claro en la mayor universidad de América que estaba en plena forma, también en partidas rápidas

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-11 13:39:00

My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so

AEON @ 2026-08-11 12:00:00

Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon