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slashdot @ 2026-08-03 04:05:00

A woman found her police officer ex-boyfriend cop had used Flock's camera system 600 times to look up the location of her and her daughter, reports the Washington Post (Alternate URL here). (She found out through Have I Been Flocked, described as "a websit

slashdot @ 2026-08-03 02:35:00

Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal: After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks

slashdot @ 2026-08-03 01:35:00

Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly. More than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers (US and UK) were surveyed for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-03 01:04:30

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The

slashdot @ 2026-08-03 00:09:00

To design invisible drones, researchers have tried camouflage, transparent materials and light-bending optical systems. But engineers at Northwestern University used "motion blur," which an announcement from the school notes is the effect that makes fast-s

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 23:09:00

The Register looks at exactly why "It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it's worth." OOXML, developed by Microsoft and first standardized

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:02:00

My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:01:12

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video , he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-02 22:52:43

Las IA generativas encuentran errores de código (bugs) donde nadie los espera. Incluso en el núcleo de Lean (el verificador automático de demostraciones matemáticas más famoso). El 25 de julio […] La entrada Un error en el núcleo de Lean aprovech

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 22:47:53

Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be those functions that

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 21:34:00

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use." Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then i

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 19:57:31

In this post I mentioned two series which I denoted t(n) and c(n). The former is the number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes. The latter is the cumulative sum of the former, i.e. The sequence c(n) is also the number of constraints on an n-step Runge

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 19:34:00

"When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia's famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours," reports SFGate. "Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exh

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 18:34:00

"A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better," reports ABC News: The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 17:34:00

"Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere," reports CNN, "making it potentially suitable for life." Called LHS 1140b, the object is about five times the mass of o

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 16:04:00

The blog Linuxiac reports: Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Lin

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 13:34:00

The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts: A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies fo

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 09:34:00

New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "w

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

Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency, improving availability across Cloudflare

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 06:45:00

CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, "founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold Aschenbrenner when he was in his early 20s." Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, founded the hedge fund on the premise that "AI will be the d

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 03:48:00

"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would need to physically hold it to steal anything

slashdot @ 2026-08-02 02:12:00

The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..."

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-01 22:55:21

El día que murió Fischer, en 2008, el noruego dijo que “hacía fácil lo difícil”, como él mismo en esta partida, de 2009

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 22:18:41

Second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients form their own area of study. This seems like a narrow class of equations, but it’s very important in applications. This class of equations seems like a mathematically natural t

luajit @ 2026-08-01 19:39:35

Thanks to Peter Marreck and Peter Cawley. #1499

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:30:40

Michael Lopp, at Rands in Repose: I have felt since it was announced that the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program has not just been a deal, but a steal. The specifics: You apply for a loan for a full-price iPhone at 0%. If approved, your payments are

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 18:15:53

Combinatorial problems can be interesting for their own sake, but they are more interesting when there is a connection to a problem outside combinatorics, and the more unexpected the connection the better. Counting the number of unlabeled rooted trees [1]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:15:15

Jason Snell: On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 17:58:15

The textbook version of the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations has 4 stages and has 4th order error. For lower order versions of RK the number of stages s also matches the order of the error p. But in order to achieve error on the order

Baeldung @ 2026-08-01 17:56:58

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 657 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 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 1) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-01 06:49:00

AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 01:06:45

An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. The post Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 00:50:04

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion : The collaborative AI workspace where teams and ag

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-31 20:59:02

I was digging into the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations and a line from [1] piqued my curiosity. These calculations, which are not reproduced in Kutta’s paper (they are however in Huen (1900)), are very tedious. The calculations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-31 20:27:50

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Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 20:24:51

Learn how to check whether a Spark DataFrame is empty to improve performance, especially when working with large datasets. The post Check if Spark Dataframe Is Empty first appeared on Baeldung .            

InfoQ @ 2026-07-31 20:00:00

HashiCorp has introduced tfpolicy, a new HCL-based policy-as-code framework for Terraform, now available in public beta within HCP Terraform. It is designed to simplify and modernize infrastructure governance by integrating policy creation and enforcemen

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-31 16:50:11

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. The post Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-07-31 16:36:00

Dropbox has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with its internal knowledge platform, Dash, to surface security design context during AI assisted code reviews. The system retrieves threat models and security requirements for pull requests, helping re

old new thing @ 2026-07-31 16:00:00

What failure of the context callback means. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-31 15:49:33

Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, tha

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-31 15:49:33

Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, tha

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-31 15:48:49

A los 18 años, en vísperas de ser el ‘número uno’, pasar de 2.800 puntos Elo y ser campeón del mundo de rápidas por 1ª vez, el noruego brillaba mucho

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-31 15:48:00

TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve f

AEON @ 2026-07-31 12:00:00

Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them - by Jan Eijking Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-31 10:49:29

Quantum 10, 2181 (2026). We construct several families of entanglement-assisted quasi-cyclic quantum LDPC (EA-QC-QLDPC) codes via structured tilings of permutation matrices. The entanglement-unassisted portion

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

Apple Upgrade, Modularization, AI Code Review, Approachable Concurrency, Vision Pro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

As enterprise infrastructures scale across hybrid cloud environments and distributed networks, operations teams face an unsustainable calculation. Managing thousands of servers or multi-vendor routing, switching, and security endpoints manually creates an

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

Organizations using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) are increasingly seeking ways to extend their platform’s capabilities with enterprise-grade security and data services. Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, is now available for ROSA on the AWS Market

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

In April 2026, Red Hat’s Product Security team published its annual Risk Report . I encourage everyone involved in building, shipping, securing, or regulating software to read it–not just for the vulnerability counts, but for what the data collectively say

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

How leading companies are turning AI vision into business valueEnterprises are focused on moving beyond theoretical AI pilots to operationalizing it at scale, optimizing costs, and governing its actions. Chris Wright shares a few highlights from our custom

Inside Java @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

Oracle intends to provide Java security updates more frequently than the current quarterly CPU cadence of January, April, July, and October.

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:35:25

Build an AI-powered document processing system using Apache Camel, Docling, and LangChain4j. The post Building Intelligent Document Processing with Apache Camel, Docling and LangChain4j first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:28:05

Learn how to use Common Table Expressions in Hibernate to help simplify writing complex queries by using intermediate named HQL result sets. The post CTE Support in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .          

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:25:13

Learn about LLM integration with the Apache Camel OpenAI component with examples. The post LLM Integration With Apache Camel OpenAI Component first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:21:22

Learn how to use Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache to reuse a build's output, so your app can start faster in the subsequent excecutions. The post A Guide to Ahead-of-Time Cache in the Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:16:25

Discover Spring AI Session, an event-sourced short-term memory layer for managing conversation history efficiently. The post A Guide to Short-Term Memory Sessions in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .         

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 23:09:51

Mark Zuckerberg, in an op-ed Tuesday for The Wall Street Journal (gift link; and irony isn’t lost that “everyone” needs a paid WSJ subscription to read this): We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:41:43

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include mi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:33:59

Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog back in April: Though Sparkle serves us very well, it has one notable downside. Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time: right after you’ve launched the app. You want to start

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-30 20:08:36

One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. The post ‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI appeared first on SingularityHub

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 18:59:39

Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! An

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 17:56:10

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Upgrade launched this week, and the iPhone Upgrade Program is being discontinued as a result. But despite some similarities, the two offerings are not the same. Here are the key differences. I wrote yes

Deepmind @ 2026-07-30 17:00:59

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-30 16:21:55

Una gema de Kubbel ilustra el célebre Ajedrez Viviente alicantino y sirve de aperitivo de la continuación de las partidas más brillantes de Carlsen desde este sábado

old new thing @ 2026-07-30 16:00:00

Maybe it doesn't matter. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

tecosystems @ 2026-07-30 15:11:05

As AI steadily reshapes the software industry around it as open source once did before it, it’s useful to try and understand where those two forces intersect. Open source has, as it has with virtually every other industry software category, had an enormous

Sogrady @ 2026-07-30 15:11:05

As AI steadily reshapes the software industry around it as open source once did before it, it’s useful to try and understand where those two forces intersect. Open source has, as it has with virtually every other industry software category, had an enormous

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-30 15:04:00

Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more…

InfoQ @ 2026-07-30 13:30:00

AI is an amplifier; strategic focus on the organizational system brings the greatest returns. DORA's 2025 research on AI in software development provides team profiles and success capabilities that can be used to put the research into practice. By Ben

AEON @ 2026-07-30 12:01:00

Meet Bể, part of Vietnam’s vital but overlooked network of recyclers – a workforce predominantly made up of elderly women - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-30 12:00:00

When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images - by J F Martel Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-30 10:20:20

Quantum 10, 2180 (2026). In recent work [Phys. Rev. X 16, 021050], we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, mea

InfoQ @ 2026-07-30 09:57:00

AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly in customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota and raising the managed default from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package limits are unchanged, and UpdateFunctionCode is

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2, Firefox and Thunderbird are delivered as Flatpaks by default. If you install RHEL with a graphical desktop, your browser and email client will now come from the Red Hat Flatpak registry instead of traditi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Your agent can reach its tools. Identity is scoped. Governance is in place. None of that matters if the model behind the agent cannot reliably call those tools.I have watched this play out. A team builds an agent on LangChain or CrewAI. It works in develop

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

It's Friday evening. Priya, a machine language (ML) engineer at a financial services firm, queues up a fraud-detection fine-tuning job on an GPU cluster costing $55 an hour. The run should take about 40 hours—roughly $2,200 in compute. She double-checks th

Inside Java @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

An introduction to key concepts of just-in-time compilation: speculation and traps, inlining and constant folding, escape analysis and scalar replacement, and more

Inside Java @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Explore the latest work on the HotSpot JVM, with a focus on auto-vectorization and the Vector API.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 22:56:33

Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Re

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-29 22:16:39

We have a couple of updates to share about the FreeBSD Journal. A New Editor Please join us in welcoming Matt Slaybaugh as the Journal’s new editor. Matt brings years of editorial and content management experience, including his ongoing work with th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 18:51:15

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced Apple Upgrade , a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United Stat

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 18:07:03

New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps —  Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar  — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for yea

Deepmind @ 2026-07-29 18:02:10

ASF @ 2026-07-29 18:00:00

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.** Community News The Conference Planners for the the ASF are very pleased to announce the redesign and launch of the new Community Over Code website! The new site will serv

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-29 17:56:35

Tiene 11 años, con resultados que recuerdan -salvando las distancias temporales- a los de Judit Polgar, y victorias tan brillantes como esta, sobre el campeón de Francia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 17:28:02

Nate Anderson, reporting for Ars Technica under the headline “A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months”: Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), bu

TED Blog @ 2026-07-29 17:25:30

If you feel like the world is moving at an exponentially faster pace, you’re not alone. That’s why we’ve given TED2027 a pretty stark theme: Our terrifying, exhilarating future. This is a moment that demands we look at what’s coming with clear eyes a

Confluent @ 2026-07-29 17:00:10

Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-29 16:53:08

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results. The post Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up. first appeared

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 16:43:24

Emma Roth, The Verge: eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC . The settlement wi

old new thing @ 2026-07-29 16:00:00

Exceptions hiding in lambda captures. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 8 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 14:19:22

Quantum 10, 2179 (2026). In 2024, Kliuchnikov and Schönnenbeck showed a connection between the Barnes Wall lattices, stabilizer states and Clifford operations. In this work, we study their results and relate th

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 14:00:00

Microsoft has released a reference architecture for routing agent traffic on Azure Kubernetes Service. It breaks down the issue into three key choices: which model answers a call, how the call is managed, and which GPU replica handles it. By Claudio Ma

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-29 13:28:21

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API developm

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-29 13:28:21

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API developm

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 13:15:42

Quantum 10, 2178 (2026). Efficient operation of quantum batteries requires not only fast energy transfer but also the ability to halt the charging process to prevent reverse flow. Existing approaches typically

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 12:30:00

Cloudflare has launched its Internal DNS service, providing authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks. This service simplifies DNS management by consolidating private and public DNS operations on a single platform. By Gianmarco Nalin

AEON @ 2026-07-29 12:01:00

We are living in a golden age of pseudoscience. Here are three helpful tools for separating science from its imitator - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 11:46:44

Quantum 10, 2177 (2026). The task of atom rearrangement has emerged in the last decade as a fundamental building block in the development of neutral atom-based quantum processors. As such processors grow to tho

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 10:48:52

Quantum 10, 2176 (2026). Dynamical stabilizer codes may offer a practical route to large-scale quantum computation. Such codes are defined by a schedule of error-detecting measurements, which allows for flexibi

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 10:00:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6 with several architectural and reliability improvements for .NET MAUI. The update brings the next-generation CollectionView implementation to Windows, moves Android Shell toward the handler model, improves Native

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-29 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

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

We are pleased to share that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the Ethereum Foundation Board. pc is a long time contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, a co-founder and lead of SEAL 911, and has been a member of the EF's Silviculture Society, which provides inf

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Digital sovereignty used to sit somewhere between a compliance checkbox and a future roadmap item. That’s changing fast. At Red Hat Summit, Mohammed Retmi of Core42 in the United Arab Emirates and A.S. "Raj" Rajgopal of NxtGen in India joined me for a roun

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Post-quantum cryptography: The emerging threatThe transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is becoming an urgent priority for the global financial sector due to the rapid evolution of quantum computing. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers exi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Part 2 of a series on implementing zero trust in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern (ZTVP)In our previous article, we explored why network policies, specifically a default-deny posture combined with strict ingress and egress ru

Inside Java @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

OpenJDK Quality Outreach July 2026 Newsletter

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-29 01:11:22

Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. The post Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI appeared first on Singulari

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 21:00:00

Instead of immediately opening pull requests when newer dependency versions are released, Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting upgrades, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious releases are identified and removed before they can be int

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 18:22:51

Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 16:11:30

A couple years ago I wrote about how to compute the inverse of factorial. I used that code in writing the previous post because the post required solving the equation ⌊log2(n!)⌋ ≥ b given b. That is, given a number of bits b, find the smallest value of n 

old new thing @ 2026-07-28 16:00:00

Further explorations into exception safety. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 7 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Deepmind @ 2026-07-28 15:21:37

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 15:10:00

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that c

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 14:32:00

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 14:13:17

The previous post looked at the idea of storing a cryptographic key in the order of a deck of cards. A deck of 52 cards can store 225 bits of data because ⌊log2(52!)⌋ = 225. Here ⌊x⌋ is x rounded down to the nearest integer. If we want to store bigger key

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 14:00:00

Grafana Labs has expanded the capabilities of Grafana Assistant, enabling its AI-powered observability assistant to query and correlate data across more than 30 different data sources through natural language. By Craig Risi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-28 13:47:12

Quantum 10, 2175 (2026). Based on the mapping between stabilizer quantum error correcting codes and disordered statistical mechanics models, we define a ratio of partition functions that measures the success pr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-28 12:37:50

El francés de origen iraní, de 23 años, rompe su contrato con el Grand Chess Tour porque prefiere jugar un torneo de ‘esports’

AEON @ 2026-07-28 12:00:00

My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code - by Wes Brown Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 11:02:00

Remix 3 is a full-stack web framework that moves away from React, focusing on web platform primitives. It integrates routes, request handlers, and UI components into a single structure, utilizing a forked Preact for the frontend. Unlike previous versions

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 09:14:00

AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable th

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 09:07:00

Uber's "Zero Growth Stack" focuses on scalable infrastructure that separates capacity growth from business demand, reducing hardware needs while enhancing service scaling. Central to this is garbage collection optimisation. Additionally, generative AI is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:31:54

Every phone now ships with an assistant. You ask, it answers. Lame. We built a phone that writes software instead. The app idea you’ve had in your notes for years. The side hustle you will never get around to building. The weird thing only you would want.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:13:55

Jason Snell: Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products ar

Inside Java @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a new plugin being added to the `jlink` command-line tool for adding cacerts.

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 01:08:59

The latest issue of Paged Out! has an article by Stephen Hewitt “An off-line backup of your cryptographic key using playing cards.” The idea is to use a deck of 52 to store a 128-bit cryptographic key. To erase the key, shuffle the deck. Hewit

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-27 22:58:17

A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. The post Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:32:51

Putting themselves in customers’ shoes today, how many ads do Apple’s executives want stuck in the results when they search for an app in the App Store?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:30:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP se

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-27 18:20:51

A dos meses de su debut en una Olimpiada de Ajedrez con la bandera española, el gran maestro ruso firma una victoria modélica

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 18:03:44

My post from yesterday on permutation roots ends with a Mathematica code for finding the probability that a permutation of n elements has a kth root. This is done by finding the coefficient of xn in the generating function I wanted to say more about this,

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 17:34:05

It’s well known that you can convert the base 16 (hex) representation of an integer to the base 2 (binary) representation by simply converting each digit from hex to binary. For example, CAFEhex = 1100 1010 1111 1110two I imagine it’s less wel

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 17:09:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. C# adds extension indexers and built-in union support types. ASP.NET Core brings async validation, automatic CSRF protection, and OpenAP

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-27 16:54:41

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. W

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-27 16:40:59

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet. The post A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-07-27 16:00:00

Exception-safety, the invisible bug. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:01:00

Join the search for the elusive cassowary, a big bird that plays an outsized role in maintaining its rainforest home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:00:00

Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance - by Takeshi Morisato Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-27 08:55:03

The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatur