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Introducing “Corner Piece,” a new TED podcast that starts small on life’s biggest questions
TED Blog @ 2026-09-03 23:00:32
The biggest questions in life rarely come with simple answers. Corner Piece, a brand-new TED podcast, starts smaller: with the ordinary questions that nag at you on the walk home, in the group chat or while staring at the ceiling at 2am. What does it mean
Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 23:00:00
Microsoft is imposing monthly limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November, with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers getting 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before they have to buy additional playtime. "Currently, Game Pass subscrib
Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens
InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00
Shopify's engineering introduced gisting, a novel technique for compressing long LLM prompts into a smaller set of learned "gist" tokens, improving throughput and reducing inference cost. By Sergio De Simone
'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model that president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and suggested may represent the arrival of AGI. "I think it might be about this model," Brockman said in a briefing with reporters. He ended the briefing
Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 21:00:00
Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. "While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR work
GPT-6 Astra
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:41:05
System Card: Related ongoing threads: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index -
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:32:13
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 302 # Comments: 100
FFI: Adjust J->maxslot after ffi.offsetof.
luajit @ 2026-09-03 20:25:44
Reported by Elias Hogstvedt. #1514
OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:18:22
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OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 20:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI's new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called "recurrent depth" that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information rep
New RSA number factored
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-03 19:21:45
Eric Lu announced on X today that he has factored RSA-260, a number N with 260 digits (862 bits) that is the product of two large primes [1]. RSA numbers are challenge problems posed to gauge the security of RSA encryption, which rests on the difficulty o
Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 19:00:00
BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording
Phil Schiller Steps Down From Running App Store and Product Events
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:39:09
Mark Gurman: Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events. The 66-year-old executive, who was App
MapQuest Refuses to Relabel Lake Ontario, Rewarded With Surge in Popularity
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:30:09
Finya Swai, reporting for The Hill two days ago: MapQuest has surged in popularity on the app charts after the mapping service said it would not rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after President Trump signed an executive order changing its name.
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 18:00:00
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, claiming it's their best reasoning and coding model yet (topping the DeepSWE leaderboard). Ars Technica reports: Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. There's the standard Flash, whi
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 17:36:43
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Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 17:07:01
ChatGPT outage – Resolved - (315 comments) Claude outage – Resolved - (146 c
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Deepmind @ 2026-09-03 17:02:08
Security scanning at Foundation scale
ASF @ 2026-09-03 17:00:00
By ASF Tooling and ASF Security During a three-day window in August 2026, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ran full security scans across 230 of the foundation’s repositories. The work was done by the ASF Security and ASF Tooling teams, within the Fou
Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by U.S. authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, is making a new bold bet. On Wednesday, his legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charg
.name Termination
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:54:39
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Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:51:10
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 353 # Comments: 162
ChatGPT outage – Resolved
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:46:47
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 358 # Comments: 315
Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:12:19
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 206 # Comments: 216
New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 15:51:44
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 243 # Comments: 191
Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:41:48
In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? The post Live from
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:35:59
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Claude outage – Resolved
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 15:29:12
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 202 # Comments: 147
Análisis de ajedrez | Marta García, tricampeona de España femenina a los 26 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-03 15:27:47
Con el título de maestro internacional, además del de gran maestra, la valenciana logra el título por 2ª edición consecutiva
How to Think About Open Weight Models
tecosystems @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42
In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov
How to Think About Open Weight Models
Sogrady @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42
In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov
Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 14:10:33
Comments URL: Points: 289 # Comments: 92
Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era
InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:57:00
Mandatory AI checks paired with manual spikes for complex changes keep developers sharp. Teams can boost velocity by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and using AI approvals, provided most developers are code owners and teams are small. By Ben Lind
pnpm 12 Rewrites Package Manager in Rust, Accelerating Installs While Preserving pnpm 11 Workflows
InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:23:00
pnpm 12 has transitioned to a native Rust implementation, maintaining compatibility with pnpm 11 commands, flags, and formats. This update enhances startup and filesystem performance, particularly when using existing caches. Community feedback highlights
Faster Quantum Simulation Of Markovian Open Quantum Systems Via Randomisation
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 13:20:10
Quantum 10, 2204 (2026). When simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with quantum computers, it is essential to accurately approximate the system's behaviour while preserving the physicality of it
Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 13:01:04
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Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 13:00:00
BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither PyTorch nor MLX in it
Audacity 4.0
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 12:53:08
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 973 # Comments: 216
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more. Read on for the details, and check the release
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More
Kotlin news @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more. Read on for the details, and check the release
Neuroqueering on the lawn
AEON @ 2026-09-03 12:00:00
Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability - by Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford Read on Aeon
Quantum Max d-Cut via qudit swap operators
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:46:06
Quantum 10, 2203 (2026). Quantum Max Cut (QMC) problem for systems of qubits is an example of a 2-local Hamiltonian problem, and a prominent paradigm in computational complexity theory. This paper investigates
Floquetifying stabiliser codes with distance-preserving rewrites
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:08:58
Quantum 10, 2202 (2026). Stabiliser codes with large weight measurements can be challenging to implement fault-tolerantly. To overcome this, we propose a Floquetification procedure which, given a stabiliser cod
Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 09:00:00
"Enshittification of car controls [is] rapidly accelerating," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij, pointing to a new report from Car and Driver. From the report: Remember when iPhones used to come with free headphones and a phone charger (including the w
Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 08:59:08
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 367 # Comments: 121
Cohere’s Parse 5 Promises Efficient Multi-Modal Information Extraction From Complex Documents
InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 08:06:00
Cohere has launched Parse 5, a multimodal foundation model designed to extract structured data from complex enterprise documents. The 2.3-billion-parameter system converts visually rich PDFs into Markdown while providing bounding box coordinates for visu
Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes'
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise inten
Announcing Rust 1.98.1
Rust blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. 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 1.98.1 is as
The last mile problem in agentic AI: Why tool calling reliability is harder than it looks
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00
Most of the attention in agentic AI goes to the agent's reasoning capabilities. The model can figure out the right plan, break a goal into steps, and decide what to do next. Far less attention is given to the last step of that process, actually executing t
The architecture of autonomy: How ING built a future-proof tech strategy
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00
I recently sat down with Marco Eijsackers, ING’s Global Head of Tech Strategy, at their headquarters in Amsterdam. Serving over 40 million customers worldwide with an enterprise tech team of thousands of engineers, ING faces a core question shared by many
FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 01:00:00
The FCC is proposing (PDF) a public "robocall mitigation scorecard" that would grade phone companies on how well they block illegal spam calls while avoiding false positives on the legitimate ones. "The Scorecard will empower consumers and encourage provid
Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-03 00:03:00
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but
1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project
slashdot @ 2026-09-03 00:00:00
1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "The popular password manager is now a 'disti
CERN Transitioning From RHEL To Debian
slashdot @ 2026-09-02 23:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipmen
iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-02 22:58:28
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhone you want to be the main device that you use most often and which one you want to be the comp
Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-02 22:57:04
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OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of AI is 'Non-Negotiable'
slashdot @ 2026-09-02 22:00:00
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is "non-negotiable" for countries, comparing rejecting it to refusing electricity a century ago and predicting it will unleash an unprecedented boom in entrepreneurship. "The economic growth and benefit to people that
I wanna live an NPC life
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-02 21:52:53
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 284 # Comments: 256
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-02 21:49:01
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 323 # Comments: 94
Muse Spark 1.3
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-02 21:35:04
Comments URL: Points: 678 # Comments: 439
NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School
slashdot @ 2026-09-02 21:00:00
New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school district. ABC News reports: In a statement to ABC New
I Don't Have a Smartphone
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-02 19:51:29
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 240 # Comments: 245
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Deepmind @ 2026-09-02 18:24:24
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Deepmind @ 2026-09-02 18:18:31
ASF Plus One Newsletter: August 2026
ASF @ 2026-09-02 18:00:00
**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.** Community News The ASF has announced the keynote speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow, taking place October 11–14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineup feature
Hello Developer: September 2026
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-02 17:00:02
In this edition: Get ready for a special Apple Event, take advantage of Analytics in App Store Connect, and sign up for new developer events in Cupertino. Read now
An Accidental Blackboard
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 16:45:00
Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git rep
What is a Computer?
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-02 16:27:33
Ben Brubaker has a new Quanta essay Does Computer Science Need Computers ? Despite the title (and authors generally don't choose their titles), Brubaker's essay really addresses the question as to whether computer science is about computers. He st
Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-02 16:21:02
By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble f
The perils of binding to value types in XAML
old new thing @ 2026-09-02 16:00:00
Loss of identity. The post The perils of binding to value types in XAML appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value
InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 15:55:00
Swiggy developed an in house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance
Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 15:32:00
TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the mor
OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction
InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 14:20:00
OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the
Reducing Spatial and Temporal Dimensionality in the Multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett Model
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 12:33:28
Quantum 10, 2201 (2026). Focusing on the real-time dynamics of the reduced density matrix of the multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett model, several techniques are adopted in this paper to reduce the spatial and t
Análisis de ajedrez | Pichot, campeón de España
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-02 11:28:56
El polaco-argentino, con bandera española desde 2023, revierte con este triunfo su crisis del último año
Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics in First Quantization
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 11:26:47
Quantum 10, 2200 (2026). The study of real time dynamics of nuclear systems is of great importance to provide theoretical predictions of cross sections relevant for both terrestrial experiments as well as appli
Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline
InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 11:07:00
Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exis
curl 8.22.0
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-02 07:52:46
Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 cha
This Week in Rust 667
This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-02 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
What risk-aware model deployment looks like in regulated industries
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-02 02:00:00
Regulators don't ask banks whether their portfolios look healthy. They require documented proof of how they hold up under adversarial conditions—rate shocks, liquidity crunches, market crashes. The same logic applies to AI models headed for production. Bef
Red Hat Satellite 6.20 limited availability: Early access registration now open
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-02 02:00:00
In November 2026, Red Hat will release a limited availability (LA) version of Red Hat Satellite 6.20 – the next generation of Red Hat’s premiere platform for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at scale. This release focuses on 2 foundational changes
Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-02 01:37:23
As AI eats traffic, the best sites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find. The post Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract appeared first on SingularityHub .
Fragments: September 1
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-01 21:50:00
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page p
OpenClaw 2.0 Releases with Simplified Setup and Collaborative Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 20:47:00
OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, plugins, security, and collaboration features. By Daniel Dominguez
Tim Cook’s Departure Memo on His Last Day as CEO
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 20:11:57
Tim Cook: There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the op
Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in OpenAI Lawsuit
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 19:36:08
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s fi
Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Deepmind @ 2026-09-01 19:08:51
Upcoming changes to Rosetta support for Intel-based macOS apps
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 17:00:41
In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year , we’re now concluding this transition. What this means for developers who have macOS apps:
Microspeak: Funded / unfunded
old new thing @ 2026-09-01 16:00:00
People are our most valuable asset. The post Microspeak: Funded / unfunded appeared first on The Old New Thing .
“The impact was the biggest surprise“: Swiggy’s transition to native pays off
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 15:00:01
Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout . And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tool
The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026
ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00
Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the gl
The Apache® Software Foundation Advances Open Source Infrastructure and Celebrates Community Growth in FY26
ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00
Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source soft
InfoQ previews the September Cohorts of its Online Certification Programs
InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00
A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran. By Artenisa Chatziou
HCP Terraform Positions Itself as the Control Plane for AI-Driven Infrastructure
InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 14:00:00
HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to v
More nothing now
AEON @ 2026-09-01 12:00:00
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon
Symmetry-enriched topological order in tensor networks: Defects, gauging and anyon condensation
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 11:17:41
Quantum 10, 2199 (2026). We study symmetry-enriched topological order in two-dimensional tensor network states by using graded matrix product operator algebras to represent symmetry-induced domain walls. A clos
[Sponsor] WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 09:59:07
Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS
Análisis de ajedrez | Oro gana a Carlsen una partida relámpago
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-01 09:29:43
El prodigio argentino, de 12 años, muestra un juego muy consistente en un duelo que perdió ante el ‘número uno’ por 5,5-2,5
A brief history of quantum vs classical computational advantage
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 09:06:58
Quantum 10, 2198 (2026). In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequen
Announcing rustup 1.29.1
Rust blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00
The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The
Why the virtualization decision keeps getting deferred
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00
If double-paying during a platform transition is stalling your virtualization migration, removing that first-year cost overlap can get your project moving again.Most infrastructure teams I speak with have spent the best part of 2 years working out what to
5 ways to augment security risk management in the AI era
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00
IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts every day from threat intelligence sources, such as vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed, and more. The challenge is identifying, correlating, and addressing impactful
How Ask Red Hat earns trust in enterprise AI troubleshooting
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00
A recent review of 562 empirical studies on human trust in AI found that capability, explainability, transparency, and individual user factors consistently predict whether people will rely on an AI-generated answer. In production, the question is narrower
Automate AI red teaming: Large language model risk identification and mitigation
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00
Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that bypass safety controls and produce unwanted content. To help engineering and security teams identify these vulnerabilities systematically, Red Hat OpenShift AI includes an automated
Patented application of linear algebra
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-01 01:26:12
I just found out Brian Beckman and I got a patent on work we did for GSI Technology [1]. Nearly all the work I do is under an NDA, so I don’t often get a chance to talk about my projects. This work is public now that it’s in a patent; I suppos
This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-31 23:33:36
Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzhe
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 21:53:34
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.
A recent OS on the old Asus C201P
Emilian Bold @ 2026-08-31 20:02:20
There are people that easily sell and swap computers. I get somewhat attached to them, which explains why I have a growing collection of old gear. Even my first beige PC with a Cyrix CPU has been restored and boots! The Asus C201P is special because it c
AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 16:45:25
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes
DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks through Cloud-Based Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 16:28:00
DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker mi
‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-31 16:24:27
Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful
old new thing @ 2026-08-31 16:00:00
All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Jakarta Data, JNoSQL, Azul Payara, WildFly, Quarkus, Atmosphere
InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 13:30:00
This week's Java roundup for August 24th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Atmosphere 4.0; point releases of GraalVM, Azul Payara and Quarkus; a maintenance release of WildFly 41; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Eclipse JNoSQL;
Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool
InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 12:18:00
Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; c
The Singapore strategies
AEON @ 2026-08-31 12:00:00
The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon
Análisis de ajedrez | Bodhana Sivanandan hace historia a los 11 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 11:07:10
Por si hubiera alguna duda sobre su inmenso talento, la británica de familia india es la campeona nacional más joven de todos los tiempos
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (y XXXI)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:33:47
Kariakin acepta un peón que no parecía peligroso en una partida rápida, y poco después queda perdido
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXX)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:32:27
Dos años antes de defender su título mundial ante Niepómniashi, el campeón doblegó al ruso en una deliciosa lucha rápida
FlexGanttFX is Open Source
InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 05:48:00
Dirk Lemmerman has released FlexGanttFX as an open-source resource-scheduling framework under the AGPL license. This JavaFX library enables Gantt chart creation for various industries, optimizing performance with a Canvas rendering method. The framework
Claude and Colorblind Questions
Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-31 04:18:29
BILL: Lance, I have a question and a meta question: a) List all the presidents and vice presidents who were colorblind. b) Do you know this sort of thing since you are colorblind, and hence might have looked this up in the past? LANCE: (b) No. And if
Cloudflare Extends AI Search to Make it Easier for Agents and Developers to Search Custom Data
InfoQ @ 2026-08-30 21:00:00
Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare to
Finalist 4
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-30 20:35:22
My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about
Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio SWIFT, efecto bouba-kiki en pollitos, organoides longevos, birrefringencia del vacío en magnetares y eclipse de Luna
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-29 23:24:57
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 568 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “SWIFT; Bouba-Kiki; Organoides; Magnetar; Luna”, 27 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio S
★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-29 19:53:34
It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-29 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 29) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple Announces Price Increase for Apple TV and Apple One Subscriptions
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:52:37
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the full details on the price increases: Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99) Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99) Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95) Prices for other Apple One plans are
‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:35:22
Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence e
‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:27:21
I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect. ★
We Certainly Have Made a Hames Out of This
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 21:42:59
I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame , and that hames is rathe
Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-28 18:45:11
Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope . The post Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not. appeared first on SingularityHub .
‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 18:25:33
Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describing him euphemistically ), on Twitter/X (retweeting the official White House account’s announc
From the DF Archive: ‘Golfo Del Gringo Loco’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 17:00:39
Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXIX)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-28 16:38:24
Otra lección magistral de cómo sacrificar peones para abrir líneas decisivas, esta vez ante Grischuk
Making the unnecessary easier
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-28 16:35:36
I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a
Trump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 16:02:53
Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countrie
On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2
old new thing @ 2026-08-28 16:00:00
Explicitly denying that you implement the method. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-28 15:30:34
The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 04:59:46
Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal c
Issue 765
iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00
UISceneDelegate mandate, M6 Mac mini, Apple layoffs, Headless Xcode MCP, Embedded Swift 6.4, SwiftTUI
Managing enterprise AI at scale: Hosting, deployment patterns, and Day 2 operations
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00
In our previous article, Enterprise AI model selection: Balancing performance, privacy, and operational fit, we described the 4 layers that make up an effective enterprise AI architecture. In this article, we'll talk about who operates each layer, where w
Learning while building: How Red Hat Training accelerates technical growth
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00
Managing complex data systems and learning new software platforms can feel like navigating a maze in the dark. Whether you’re stepping into a command-line environment for the 1st time or mapping intricate relationships across enterprise platforms, practica
Afterglow — Classic After Dark Screen Savers on Today’s MacOS
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:49:50
Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy ), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved