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How Alex Lee became the first engineer at Magic Patterns
YC @ 2026-10-28 03:59:08
Alex Lee left his own startup to join Magic Patterns as founding engineer — and built a slide deck feature in a weekend.
Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging
slashdot @ 2026-10-28 00:00:00
Ford's upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV. Owners will still need additional Ford home hardware for f
Siri AI Expands to More Languages in OS 27.2
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:19:39
Apple Newsroom yesterday: With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in t
Apple Creator Studio Updated With a Slew of AI Features, Along With a New Open JSON File Format for Keynote
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:00:04
Apple Newsroom, with software news for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” week: Apple today introduced transformative updates to Apple Creator Studio , the powerful collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of modern creators
Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 23:00:00
Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ have joined a growing list of companies objecting to having tokenized versions of their shares traded through OKX and Intercontinental Exchange's blockchain venture, bringing the total number of objections to 26. About 37% of th
Code-Execution Flaw In UEFI Firmware Threatens Most Servers On Planet Earth
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 22:30:00
Ars Technica's Dan Goodin reports: Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world's server vendors and data centers. The vulnerability,
★ Prestructured WYSIWYG
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 22:24:20
Even if you’re a decent designer (or believe yourself to be), it’s liberating not to have a say in the matter. Constraints are sometimes freeing.
Study Could Help Explain Why Colder Body Temperature Extends Lifespan in Many Species
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-27 21:50:16
By chilling roundworms, scientists traced a molecular pathway hinting at one way cold might extend lifespan. The post Study Could Help Explain Why Colder Body Temperature Extends Lifespan in Many Species appeared first on SingularityHub .
Google's Genie 4 World Model Adds Audio, More Realistic Worlds
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 21:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid
Anduril Partners With Qualcomm to Build Laptops On US Soil
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 20:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader fadethepolice writes: Anduril, arguing that its manufacturing capabilities are directly applicable to laptop manufacturing, is starting a project for a fully 100% U.S.-sourced laptop. The computer will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC
Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 19:00:00
Apple has acknowledged an inner-display defect affecting a small number of its new $1,999 iPhone Duo foldables after customers reported hearing a crunch while unfolding the device before cracks, lines and other display failures appeared along the crease. A
What’s Left for ‘Pro and Tell’ Week: Touch-Enabled OLED MacBooks
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:59:47
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple on Wednesday will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring touch-enabled OLED displays with thinner bezels, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a lighter and slightly thinn
Cybersecurity CEO Indicted For Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 18:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: A Florida man who was the subject of a 2019 investigation by ProPublica was indicted last month on federal charges that he defrauded clients of his ransomware data recovery firm. According to the Justice
Apple Also Announces iMac With M6
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:44:10
Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good . Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1700 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:03:08
An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Deepmind @ 2026-10-27 17:01:38
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
Apple Introduces New Base MacBook Pro With M6, 14-Inch-Only
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:00:46
Apple Newsroom’s “Pro and Tell” announcement week continues: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 , delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business user
Apple Updates MacBook Pro With M6 Chips
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 17:00:00
Ahead of the touchscreen MacBook Pro expected to debut tomorrow, Apple has refreshed its standard 14-inch MacBook Pro with the new M6 processor, promising up to 20% faster multithreaded performance, improved power efficiency, and more powerful on-device AI
Noncontextuality inequalities for prepare-transform-measure scenarios
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 16:51:46
Quantum 10, 2250 (2026). We provide the first systematic technique for deriving witnesses of contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios. More specifically, we show how linear quantifier elimination ca
In China, the AI Bubble Has Already Burst
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 16:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports. The meltdown, tanking the mainland STAR50 index o
Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive?
old new thing @ 2026-10-27 15:00:00
Hurry up and wait. The post Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
A General Framework for Gradient-Based Optimization of Superconducting Quantum Circuits using Qubit Discovery as a Case Study
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:53:18
Quantum 10, 2249 (2026). Engineering the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is fundamental to the design of quantum systems. Automating Hamiltonian design through gradient-based optimization can dramatically accel
Proof of hiding conjecture in Gaussian boson sampling
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:38:36
Quantum 10, 2248 (2026). Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps in the argument for classical hardness of GBS is the so-cal
Podcast CB SyR 576: : Termodinámica estocástica no markoviana, neandertales, atmósferas de exoplanetas y eirenesfera exoplanetaria habitable
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-27 13:22:28
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 576 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Entropía; Neandertales; Tesla; Exoplaneta; Agujeros Negros; Eirenesfera”, 22 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB S
The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-27 13:13:21
If you have an expression in n Boolean variables, how long does it take to find out whether some assignment of values to the variables makes the expression true? There is an obvious upper bound: you can find out in 2n steps by exhaustive search, trying al
Uber Moves beyond CPU Cores with Performance-Aware Scheduling for Stateful Workloads
InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 13:00:00
Uber has introduced Normalized Compute Units (NCUs) to make CPU allocation more consistent across its highly heterogeneous server fleet. By Craig Risi
How Anthropic Redesigned Source Control for AI-Driven Development
InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 12:25:00
Anthropic recently detailed how it migrated its monorepo from Git to Scion. Scion is a source control system that moves repository operations to the server side and uses content-addressed storage and tiered caches for agent and CI workloads. The design s
Denmark Gives Up On Replacing Microsoft Office With Collabora
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 12:00:00
Denmark's Ministry of Digitization reportedly abandoned a pilot to replace Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite less than six months after it began. Tom's Hardware reports: According to Danish publication Computerworld, the pilot project w
Love with nowhere to go
AEON @ 2026-10-27 11:00:00
Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon
AWS Shows Use of AI Agents to Triage Linux Kernel CVEs
InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 10:00:00
Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to
Cloudflare and VoidZero Introduce tsrs: An AI-Generated Rust Port of TypeScript
InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 08:34:00
Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test a
Industry Executives Knew For Decades That Microplastics Were Infiltrating the Human Body
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 08:00:00
Susanne Rust of the Los Angeles Times reports (paywalled) that industry executives knew for decades that microplastics were infiltrating the human body. Slashdot reader joshuark shares an excerpt from the report: Scientists today say we're just beginning t
Developers Reporting Double-Digit Weekly Time Savings from AI Fell from 68% to 26%
InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 05:45:00
Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026 finds the share of developers saving ten or more hours a week with AI dropped from 68% to 26% year over year, while only 28% report noticeably less friction than before AI. Engineering leaders report spendin
US Designates Helium As a Critical Material
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 04:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. designated helium as a critical material on Friday because it's indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of dis
The NYT Seemingly Does Marissa Mayer Dirty
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 01:30:08
Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link): Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and
Secret Unified Physics Slop
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-27 01:12:40
OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of p
Securing the enterprise software supply chain in the AI era
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00
Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), enterprise IT is undergoing a fundamental shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer restricted to isolated sandboxes or pilot projects. Autonomous AI agents, embedded software-as-a-service (SaaS) fe
AI agent security with policy-driven access control
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00
Agentic AI deployments are accelerating across enterprises. Recent research from the Cloud Security Alliance shows 70% of organizations now have AI components in production, yet 82% lack real-time visibility into AI runtime behavior. Furthermore, only 21%
Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 28: Value Classes
Inside Java @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00
This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the introduction of value classes and strict fields
Apple Issues Statement on iPhone Duo’s Crack Problem
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 00:54:26
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique
PHP2Shell Security Flaws Now Successfully Exploited
slashdot @ 2026-10-27 00:00:00
The critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) have now been successfully exploited in the wild, just days after patches were released and initial exploitation attempts failed. BleepingComputer reports: The malicious activity
Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-26 23:41:53
It's widely believed AI's inner workings are largely inscrutable. A former OpenAI researcher now says this narrative could be wrong. The post Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought appeared first on Sing
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026: Agentic AI Foundation Adds Four Projects as MCP Turns to Security
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 23:00:00
At AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation added OpenSandbox, Open Responses, Agent Skills, and OpenEnv, reaching ten projects in its first year. Keynotes from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and UC Berkeley focused on MCP in production
Skydance Offers Buyouts, Gives 5-Day RTO Order
slashdot @ 2026-10-26 23:00:00
Skydance, as it begins integrating Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees and imposing a five-day-a-week office requirement. Layoffs are also expected as the company targets more than $6 billion in annualized
OpenTofu 1.13 Lets Module Authors Reduce Unknown Values at Plan Time
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 22:26:00
OpenTofu 1.13 adds convert and assume... functions that let module authors give the planner type and value hints for unknown values, so more expressions resolve during tofu plan. If a value unknown during planning later violates a guarantee, OpenTofu rep
Firefox Tries to Bring Back the Internet's 'Good Old Days'
slashdot @ 2026-10-26 22:00:00
Mozilla launched a new ad campaign for Firefox that leverages early internet nostalgia in a bid to win back users who switched browsers. "Today's internet tracks you, interrupts you, and asks for permissions it already took. But it wasn't always that way,
Glenn Fleishman on Apple Notes and Markdown
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 21:03:53
Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. Wh
Inversion in an ellipse
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 19:39:32
The previous three post have been part of a series on geometric duality. The traditional but somewhat mysterious terminology is the pole of a line and the polar of a point. As explained here, the terminology was first coined in the context of spherical ge
★ Apple Announces New A20 Pro iPad Mini
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 19:04:34
Pros: OLED display, nano-texture option, A20 Pro chip, thinner and lighter. Cons: no Face ID, no ProMotion.
DigitalOcean Launches Learning and Data Services to Enable Self-Improving AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 19:00:00
DigitalOcean has announced the public preview of Learning Services and Agent Data Services, enabling developers to build, evaluate, and continuously improve AI agents within a unified, AI-native, cloud platform. By Sergio De Simone
A Simple Two-Step Shortcuts Shortcut Lets You Lock the iPhone Duo When You Close It
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 18:00:11
Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed . Lock the screen. I mentioned in my r
Tiny Computers for iPhone Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 16:04:10
If you’ve got or get a Duo and don’t try this out, you’re not hooked up right. Update: But as Cabel Sasser notes , though incredibly fun, this was clearly made by a young Claude-aided developer who never used any of these actual old computers. Let’
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-26 16:02:24
A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the poi
Production AI and Engineering Team Design: InfoQ’s November Certification Cohorts
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 16:00:00
A preview of three November InfoQ online certification cohorts covering production AI systems, retrieval and agent design, engineering team flow, AI roles, and measurement, facilitated by Adi Polak, Lan Chu, and Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou
How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-26 15:54:29
A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Java News Roundup: JDK 28 Schedule, Oracle CPUs, eMudhra Certs, Apache POI, WildFly, Azul, BellSoft
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 15:35:00
This week's Java roundup for October 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: the proposed release schedule for JDK 28; the eMudhra Intermediate CA certificates breach; the October 2026 Critical Patch Update; Azul and BellSoft CPUs; GA releases of WildFly
Readyon Builds Four Layer Tenant Isolation for Multi Tenant Amazon EKS
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 15:07:00
ReadyOn has detailed a four-layer tenant isolation architecture for its Harmony platform on Amazon EKS. The design combines Kubernetes namespaces, dedicated Karpenter node pools, VPC security groups, and per-tenant Aurora databases, with controls evaluat
Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer
old new thing @ 2026-10-26 15:00:00
Mimicking the operation more accurately. The post Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Where else to find me
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 13:04:54
This blog is the main place I write, but I also use other platforms, either to write new content or to announce blog posts. X (née Twitter) I have a several X accounts, one personal account (@JohnDCook) and several specialized accounts (@CompSciFact, @Alg
Cloudflare’s Auto Router Rates Each Request for Stakes, from the Most Recent Turns
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 11:20:00
Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway, picking a model per request from a classifier that scores complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence. Cloudflare’s own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on
Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti
AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:01:00
A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How to build real peace
AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:00:00
From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can - by Azize Aslan Read on Aeon
Análisis de ajedrez | Atentos a Finek, de 16 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-26 09:50:52
El checo, autor de esta espléndida victoria, es ahora el 3º mejor de su edad, tras el turco Erdogmus y el estadounidense Woodward
MCP C# SDK 2.0 Makes HTTP Stateless by Default and Adds Multi Round-Trip Requests
InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 09:00:00
Microsoft announced version 2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, which implements the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol with stateless HTTP servers by default, standardised routing headers and Multi Round-Trip Requests. Releases 2.1 to 2.3 hav
How to fund Rust contributors
Rust blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00
TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund or sponsor the RustNL Maintainers Team To fund specific features and improvements, sponsor fundable Rust Project Goals To fund individual contributors, donat
Responsible disclosure in the age of Vulnpocalypse
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00
New tools can find potential flaws faster than teams can assess and fix them. When a serious flaw is discovered, the central challenge is ensuring maintainers, distributors, and operators receive the clear information and time necessary to defend their use
MLOps for edge AI: Keeping models accurate over time
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00
If you followed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this edge AI machine learning operations (MLOps) series, you've seen how a model goes from training and optimization through packaging, signing, and deployment across an edge fleet. We've reached a point where
Enterprise AI needs a data strategy, not just a model strategy
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00
Many enterprise AI conversations start with the same question: Which model should we use? With models becoming more and more commoditized, the big differentiator is whether your data is ready for any model or any agent to use.The stakes are higher now that
Sunnny
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:50:00
My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring last week at DF. Sunnny’s pitch to B2B companies is simple: you store valuable customer information across a myriad of systems, making it hard to get a simple overview. Sunnny consolidates your customer data, cleans it,
Duo Users Are Registering the Base of Their Index Finger as a Touch ID Coping Strategy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:47:57
Some guy on Reddit (with an illustration video): Saw this online, tried it, and it works beautifully. Basically, I registered the lowest part of my right index finger. That part of the finger sits naturally when you go to swipe up at the phone. This
Pearls before AIs
Emilian Bold @ 2026-10-25 21:41:32
There's an interesting phenomenon I've noticed and I'm not sure I have a good word for it. One has various ideas jumping around in their head. Some of them are little pearls, beliefs big and small that seem significant and some of which may be quite old.
When is it plausible that a result is optimal?
Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-25 21:30:49
(Lance and Bill did a vidcast about the OpenAI Document Drop. See here . My spellcheck thinks that vidcast and OpenAI are not words.) The Metric TSP problem is TSP where, for all vertices \(x,y,z\),
Poles and polars
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 20:45:05
The previous two posts have been about polar triangles. The first used a polar triangle to derive a theorem, and the second showed how to compute polars using linear algebra. But what exactly is a polar triangle and why is it called that? Poles and polars
Análisis de ajedrez | Distinguir lo más importante
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-25 20:37:30
El gran maestro polaco muestra su profundidad estratégica con un sacrificio de pieza nada obvio a medio plazo
The Talk Show: ‘Lubricate the Inside of the Hinge’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 20:03:13
Special guest: Joanna Stern. Special topic: The iPhone Duo. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfast item per box for one year, while supplies last, with code talkshow50off . Notion : The coll
iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 19:09:19
Speaking of Johnnie Manzari, he wrote a post yesterday marking the 10 year anniversary of Portrait Mode: Initially, Portrait mode was seen as a giant math problem. You’d do disparity calculations on the two sensors and output a depth map. The problem
PHP Patches Two Critical RCE Flaws That Were Already under Attack
InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 19:07:00
PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whet
PyTorch Conference 2026: Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU for Native PyTorch on TPUs
InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 19:00:00
Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Google's TPUs, at PyTorch Conference North America 2026, and Meta said it plans to move larger LLM workloads onto TPUs with it. AWS released TorchNeuron for Trainium the same week, while
Henry
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-25 12:00:00
Ein letzter Spaziergang mit Henry
Computing polar triangles with linear algebra
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:01:55
The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar tr
Duality in spherical trigonometry
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:28:20
I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles
JEP targeted to JDK 28: 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Inside Java @ 2026-10-25 02:00:00
The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Nicole Nguyen’s Duo Review for the WSJ
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:15:00
Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video ), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier, even compared with competing f
Reuters and the WSJ on the Duo Launch
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:08:17
Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters: CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a video posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A kno
Marion Barry Meets the iPhone Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 23:10:06
Jay Peters, The Verge: The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of p
MKBHD’s Duo Review
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 22:47:28
Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he sp
Tim Pan’s iPhone Duo Review
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 21:15:45
I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values . Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an
Counting Primes
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16
Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here
Counting Primes
Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16
Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here
Análisis de ajedrez | Temible kazajo de 13 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-24 18:39:18
Kuandykuly, campeón del mundo de su edad con 10,5 puntos en once partidas, muestra una consistencia muy excepcional
Apple Built a Photo-Realistic Functional Original iPod for Apple Music’s 404 Page
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:50:02
It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary . Exquisitely well done. More like this, please. ★
Chan Karunamuni on the Duo’s Open/Close Translucent Transition
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:03:44
Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 24)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-24 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 October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Introducing Infinity: a runtime for extreme agent concurrency
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-23 18:58:32
Agents spend much of their time waiting on tools. A coding agent may start a build that runs for twenty minutes, a triage agent may wait hours for the next pull request on a repository, and an assistant may wait until the next morning for an approval. Most
The Verge’s Duo Review: ‘Apple’s Folding Phone Is a Messy, Expensive Good Time’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 18:52:56
Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube ): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so t
Análisis de ajedrez | Caballos muy sutiles
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-23 18:20:11
La bella danza de los corceles en este final artístico de Rusz tiene además un gran valor didáctico para el buen manejo de este tipo de posiciones
Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-23 16:54:10
To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quan
Joanna Stern Reviews the Duo: ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Buggy’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 16:42:06
Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it t
Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate?
old new thing @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00
It cleans up at the wrong time. The post Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00
There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .
Floquet-ADAPT-VQE: A Quantum Algorithm to Simulate Non-Equilibrium Physics in Periodically Driven Systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-23 12:40:44
Quantum 10, 2247 (2026). Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently,
Traction!
AEON @ 2026-10-23 12:00:00
Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon
Ayer y hoy en el tren: las traviesas
brucknerite @ 2026-10-23 10:00:00
En mi trabajo de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles hemos empezado a montar unos vídeos divulgativos sobre la evolución de diferentes tecnologías ferroviarias. Este es el primero, sobre las traviesas.
Issue 773
iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00
iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo. By the way, did I mention iPhone Duo?
Top 5 enterprise use cases for AI agents
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00
We've spent the last 2 years watching AI agents trudge from exciting experiments into actual business operations. The KPMG Q1 2026 AI Pulse Report confirms it: 54% of organizations are now deploying agents across core systems.Most of us have first-hand exp
How organizations can get more value from open source
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00
An organization might first encounter open source when it adopts an open source library, operating system, database, or application. But robust open source engagement goes much further than just using software. Organizations need to understand how to parti
Friday Five — October 23, 2026 | Red Hat
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00
Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates Agentic AI Security Capabilities Across the Open Hybrid CloudRed Hat and NVIDIA expanded their collaboration around Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, spanning agent security through OpenShell, optimized open weight
Allocating Off-Heap Memory: Typically 6-18x Faster in JDK 28
Inside Java @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00
Pooled confined arenas provide a significant performance improvement for short-lived native allocations.
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
AWS Blog @ 2026-10-22 22:33:10
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hour
Apple Highlights 50+ iPhone Apps That Have Already Been Optimized for the Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 21:10:10
Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone D
Updates to My iPhone Duo Review
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 20:49:38
Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Reg
Offer your subscriptions to businesses and schools
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-22 20:00:08
Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-r
Variational Perturbation Theory in Open Quantum Systems for Efficient Steady State Computation
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:55:41
Quantum 10, 2246 (2026). Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is i
A Symmetry-Enabled Direct Quantum Protocol for Many-Body Green’s Functions
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:50:45
Quantum 10, 2245 (2026). We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relie
Failure of the mean-field Hartree approximation for a bosonic many-body system with non-Hermitian Hamiltonian
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:43:48
Quantum 10, 2244 (2026). Mean-field Hartree theory is a central tool for reducing many-body dynamics to an effective one-particle evolution. This approximation has been employed when the Hamiltonian governing t
Symmetry defects and gauging for quantum states with matrix product unitary symmetries
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:32:18
Quantum 10, 2243 (2026). In this work, we examine the consequences of the existence of a finite group of matrix product unitary (MPU) symmetries for matrix product states (MPS). We generalize the well-understoo
The three kinds of three-qubit entanglement
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:26:22
Quantum 10, 2242 (2026). We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangl
Open Responses Joins AAIF with AWS Support
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-22 18:12:54
The API format that a growing number of model providers use to call language models now has a vendor-neutral home. Open Responses has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a project, bringing it under open governance alongside MCP and A2A. Based on th
Análisis de ajedrez | Filíppova: ¡11 de 11 en sub-11!
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-22 17:54:59
Kazajistán arrasó los Mundiales de Edades (sub-7 a sub-17) en Roquetas ganando más de un tercio de las medallas en juego
Working around a strange Python problem
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 17:12:10
A Python script that worked a few days ago wouldn’t work today. I suspect it might have something to do with my updating everything I could think of in response to recent security breaches. I got an error message that said error: The script contains
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
Deepmind @ 2026-10-22 16:30:24
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Vote!!
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-22 16:29:41
I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading U
How the eMudrha certificate debacle might have happened
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 16:01:55
You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secr
Why didn’t we use CoRegisterInitializeSpy to clean up the unmarshalable delegate?
old new thing @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00
Looking more closely at the function's behavior and requirements. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>CoRegisterInitializeSpy</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision
Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00
A trio of papers showcases AI-designed molecular scissors and an upgraded tool that builds proteins atom by atom. The post This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision appeared first on SingularityHub .
The number of points on an elliptic curve
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 13:08:51
An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of poin
Bhutan: the last place
AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:01:00
What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Other people
AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:00:00
Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon
Work statistics of sudden quantum quenches: A random matrix theory perspective on Gaussianity and its deviations
Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 10:44:47
Quantum 10, 2241 (2026). We show that, for sudden quenches, the work distribution reduces to the statistics of the traces of powers of Haar unitaries, which are random unitary matrices drawn uniformly from the
“ignore the slop”
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-22 07:46:34
Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. Just ignore it. Don’t let big AI control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl pr
Glamsterdam on Hoodi Postponed
Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00
The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, previously scheduled for October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352), has been postponed. A new activation date has not been set. This update supersedes the schedule and activation instructions in the Hoodi testnet a
An IT manager’s guide to leading an automation-driven culture
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00
Modern IT engineering organizations face a new reality: the mindset of people relying on “manual” work is simply no longer valid. Furthermore, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced an entirely new layer of complexity and urgency to
Simplifying TLS certificate management on Red Hat OpenShift with NEC
Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00
Red Hat OpenShift uses TLS certificates across many platform components to establish trust and secure communications. As platforms grow and evolve over years of operation, managing these certificates consistently becomes increasingly difficult.For years, R
What's Going Wrong with My JVM?! A Guide to First-Time Failure Diagnosis
Inside Java @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00
It's 2 AM Friday night when you get alerts your primary business application stopped responding and user tickets are piling up. For situations like these, you need to have already captured the data that can help you quickly get a sense of what's going wro
★ The iPhone Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 00:59:14
It’s been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I’ve gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I’d want to buy and carry.
Reading Messy Proofs
Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-21 20:32:02
In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan Håstad of his switching lemma . I spent many hours decoding the notation and working through the messy conditional probabi
Análisis de ajedrez | El mágico mundo sub-7
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-21 20:00:36
Algunos necesitan un cojín para ver las piezas sentados, pero los conocimientos técnicos de los mejores del mundo de su edad son asombrosos
Backdoors, Incompetence, and Elliptic Curves
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 17:16:51
The NIST elliptic curves have been in the news twice lately. A few days ago Anthropic posted a paper on the NIST curve seeds that I wrote about here. Now the curves are in the news again, this time over broken certificates. My post a few days ago was abou
See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-21 16:00:07
Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Why didn’t we use RoRegisterForApartmentShutdown to clean up the unmarshalable delegate?
old new thing @ 2026-10-21 16:00:00
Too many requirements, some of which bring us full circle. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>RoRegisterForApartmentShutdown</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Podcast CB SyR 575: Radioemisión exoplanetaria, peste neumónica, dimensión oscura, andamiaje para tumores y sincronización de cristales de tiempo continuos
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-21 14:33:28
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 575 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Radioseñal; Peste; Dimensión Oscura; Tumores; Cristales de Tiempo”, 15 oct 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 575: Radioe
Deliberate imperfection
The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 14:04:06
I was watching a video by John Higgins this morning about the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, one of the most famous passages in the Bible. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a t
Fragments: October 21
Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-21 12:51:00
Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and ef
The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32
As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens
The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis
Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32
As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens
When it started to burn
AEON @ 2026-10-21 12:01:00
Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
This Week in Rust 674
This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-21 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