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slashdot @ 2026-08-26 13:00:00

fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact for

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 12:51:32

When I hear the term ultraspherical I think of something extremely spherical. For example, a baseball is spherical, but a billiard ball is more spherical. Maybe a highly polished billiard ball is ultraspherical. Using this line of thought, the term ultras

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

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 applies Dapr-based recovery, signed workflow history and execution attestation across several agent frameworks. Architects should compare it with framework-native durability and established workflow engines, while evaluating benchmar

slashdot @ 2026-08-26 09:00:00

SpaceX plans to spend up to $100 billion building a new Starship launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, which the state says could eventually "support thousands of launches annually." CNBC reports: Once built, Starbase, LA will serve as the main l

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-26 05:49:05

The Economist today reports that New theories and experiments should shine light on string theory. This is more of the promotional campaign for Cumrun Vafa’s “dark dimension”. We’re told that a torsion balance experiment in Austria

slashdot @ 2026-08-26 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Antibodies play a central role in your body's immune defense. But they're also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers n

slashdot @ 2026-08-26 01:00:00

Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. TechCrunch repor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:44:18

XCancel: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:39:12

Bill Friskics-Warren for The New York Times: Her death was announced in a video posted on social media by her nephew Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided. Concerns about Ms. Parton’s health were raised last year as she postponed and later canceled a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:17:40

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface looks like this: Both of the available M5 Max

slashdot @ 2026-08-26 00:00:00

New Zealand has introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. "We have protections to keep children safe in the real world and we need them in the virtual world too," said Prime Minister Chri

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 23:18:23

Message on xcancel website: "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more detail

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 23:01:00

The FDA has authorized the first wearable in the U.S. to continuously monitor ketone levels and the first device globally to track both ketones and glucose together in a single system. From a report: [Abbott's] Libre Duo 10 Day continuously measures both g

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 22:35:27

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. The post Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 22:00:00

Canada's cultural-content rules have become a flashpoint in its trade fight with the U.S., after American negotiators reportedly demanded that Ottawa drop requirements for streaming services to promote Canadian and French-language content. Canada refused,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 21:07:01

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slashdot @ 2026-08-25 21:00:00

Perplexity and Nvidia have launched "Portable Computer," a local-first version of Perplexity's agent platform that runs AI models, files, tools, and workflows directly on Nvidia-powered Linux hardware. Local tasks incur no token charges and keep data on-de

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 20:02:22

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slashdot @ 2026-08-25 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years, AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, ne

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 19:55:23

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slashdot @ 2026-08-25 19:00:00

Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, marking the Google-owned company's first expansion into the European Union. "It already operates in 11 cities in the United States and has applied for a license in the United Kingdom

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 18:53:33

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AWS Blog @ 2026-08-25 18:11:02

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our cust

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 18:00:00

Apple has unveiled a new Mac mini with either its new M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip released earlier this year. It adds faster CPU, GPU, storage, and AI performance along with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard. There's also a new higher sta

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 17:46:27

If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but here’s the kicker: The GDPR went into effect 10 yea

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 17:23:41

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 17:20:00

This week's Java roundup for August 17th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 27; JEP 541 and JEP 540 targeted for JDK 28; the GA release of Apache Tika 4.0; a maintenance release of Helidon; the first milestone releases

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 17:00:00

Motorola is working with GrapheneOS to officially support the privacy-focused Android alternative on its 2027 flagship phones, starting with a non-folding model and later expanding to the next Razr Fold and Razr Ultra. "These will ship with Motorola's norm

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 16:38:01

Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 16:29:32

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 15:10:18

Apple Newsroom: Apple today debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities. M6, Apple’s first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, deliv

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 15:03:17

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 14:00:00

Security researchers are warning that thousands of enterprise servers could be exposed to compromise through vulnerabilities in their Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) - specialized processors embedded in server motherboards that provide administra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 13:49:48

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 13:36:00

Nuxt has released version 4.5, featuring updates such as a switch to Vite 8, a new Rspack 2 builder, and experimental SSR streaming. This streaming enhances Time to First Byte by flushing the HTML shell instantly. The release also includes a stable error

Lua: news @ 2026-08-25 13:00:36

Lua 5.4.9 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.4.8.

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 13:00:00

"The Register has a story about a Windows backdoor that waits silently in memory for a 'magic packet' before springing into action," writes Slashdot reader fred133. "No outgoing traffic, just waiting..." From the report: Like a sleeper cell awaiting activa

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 10:00:00

AI coding agent Cursor has launched Origin, a git based code hosting platform embedded inside its AI-powered editor, positioning it as an alternative to GitHub for teams that already work in Cursor. Origin is rolling out in early beta on Pro, Teams and E

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 09:00:00

A developer says AliExpress is using the browser's WebAudio API to help fingerprint users by playing inaudible audio and measuring tiny differences in how their devices process it. CyberNews reports: The developer, "laserphile," wrote on their blog that th

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 08:06:00

DuckDB Labs has previewed DuckDB v2.0, codenamed "Cyanoptera." This release includes over 10000 commits and introduces a client/server mode, enabling network connections. Improvements also encompass extension portability, advanced data types, and a new p

slashdot @ 2026-08-25 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The world's oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Nino weather phenomenon. The average surface temperature of the planet

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-25 03:47:47

The previous post gave several examples of three-term recurrence relations for special functions. These relations can be computationally useful, but they have to be applied carefully. Several years ago I wrote a post on stable and unstable recurrences. In

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 03:40:39

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 02:37:24

Finalist 4 is the biggest update yet to the paper-inspired day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now Apple Watch. The headline is Notes, in the app or as a folder of Markdown files that round-trips with Obsidian. Tasks in those files land on the right da

Inside Java @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

Oracle Jipher 10 packages a FIPS 140-3 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module, making cryptographic services available through the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

Software security teams can face an overwhelming influx of vulnerability alerts, often stemming from non-essential packages bundled inside traditional container base images. When developers inherit base images packed with unneeded tools, shells, and packag

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

OpenStack powers clouds used by some of the most security-sensitive organizations on the planet: government agencies, telecommunications providers, financial institutions, and healthcare systems. Behind every API call, every stored secret, and every tenant

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

Stepping into an early-career role is a pivotal experience, and having the right support system can make all the difference. Red Hat interns have the opportunity to tackle real-life business challenges, which helps them better understand the career paths t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

As AI agents move from demos into production, teams are discovering that benchmark scores alone rarely translate into business value. Routinely, a new frontier model is released, climbs to the top of the benchmark leaderboards, and enters production, but b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 01:33:50

Apple Developer News: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forwa

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 00:52:36

The flashy company, which recently completed a blockbuster IPO, appears to be leading the pack of humanoid robot makers. The post Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 00:47:20

If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-25 00:13:40

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FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-24 22:34:20

For University of Waterloo student Sourojeet Adhikari, an early interest in understanding how computers work eventually grew into a summer spent helping bring AMD’s ROCm GPU computing platform to FreeBSD. Sourojeet is studying Mathematical Physics and ent

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-24 20:00:46

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 18:37:54

10 years ago I wrote about BitCam 1.0 : Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm . “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” say

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-24 18:35:35

Los 25 primeros lances del noruego en esta partida relámpago son de enorme calidad, pero no tan profundos como el 26, asombroso

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-24 18:20:15

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work,

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-24 17:29:00

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at n

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 17:22:16

I complained last week that starting with an update last month, the list of apps I’m testing in Apple’s TestFlight app has been sorted alphabetically, rather than by recency. Whatever is going on with this sort order, it isn’t affecting everyone. John S

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:55

There many examples of families of functions where each function can be computed as a linear combination of the two previous terms where a and b are functions of x but not on n. This is called a three-term recurrence formula. It’s amazing how often

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:25

Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined. When you’re looking at a probability density f(x) for the first time, it helps to ignore the normalizing constant.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-24 16:00:55

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet. The post A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World first appeared on Quanta

old new thing @ 2026-08-24 16:00:00

Filling in with your imagination. The post Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-24 15:49:00

Microsoft has outlined an AI governance architecture spanning nine governance domains and four functions: policy, control, visibility, and proof. The approach connects policies with runtime enforcement, continuous evaluation, observability, identity, sec

brucknerite @ 2026-08-24 10:00:00

For All Mankind es una serie donde nos muestran lo malos que son los soviéticos, pero Star City, su spin-off, nos lleva al otro lado del Telón de Acero para que veamos… lo malos que son los soviéticos (gracias, Héctor, excelente resumen). Habrá spoilers,

InfoQ @ 2026-08-24 04:30:00

JDK 27, the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its first release candidate phase featuring a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into four categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Security Library and J

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

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Inside Java @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Declaring a value class is first and foremost a semantic decision. It tells our fellow programmers that its instances are defined entirely by their state and do not need identity. That clearer model is valuable in itself! The JVM’s additional freedom to o

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Here's a scenario that plays out daily at most enterprises: someone needs a number. Maybe that number is the performance of a field marketing campaign, maybe it’s a regional sales figure, or maybe it’s expenses broken down by cost center. A dashboard can a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Building infrastructure from the ground up requires critical architecture decisions that determine how easily your business can scale. To help emerging companies build on a hardened, enterprise-grade foundation, Red Hat is offering a specialized 6-month tr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Enterprise security used to draw a clean line: humans log in; machines use secrets. But that line is blurring, and interactions with databases are often where you’ll encounter that ambiguity. Historically, authentication has followed a familiar path: usern

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

In this article we're going to help you build the vocabulary you need to compare AI models before you start designing infrastructure around them. We'll talk about what a model is and the main types enterprises use, how to read names and packaging when you

InfoQ @ 2026-08-24 00:50:00

Cloudflare recently open-sourced Cloudflare OS. It allows enterprise teams to output work artifacts grounded in enterprise knowledge, know-how, and provisioned connectors, automate repetitive workflows with optimized token cost (with AI assistance only w

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 20:40:57

Special functions often have arcane names that not very helpful without some context. The previous post goes into some reasons for this. This post will expand on a point at the end of the post about “modified” functions. Things are given their

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 20:00:00

Google is introducing HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler and development toolchain designed to make encrypted computation easier to deploy. In particular, HEIR can compile pre-trained AI models built for co

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 19:56:03

Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered independently multip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:52:40

El duelo de Nueva York por el trono con Kariakin en 2016 fue un momento durísimo de la carrera del noruego; pero lo resolvió a lo grande

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:45:01

Este trepidante ataque a reyes en flancos opuestos fue una de las mejores partidas del campeón del mundo en 2015

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-23 19:36:28

John Moltz, in his weekly members-only column for Six Colors (no gift links, but Moltz’s column is worth the subscription in and of itself): This week Anthropic announced that in order to identify AI from human-generated content it would be waterm

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 10:43:00

OVHcloud will raise prices from September, with 2026-edition gaming servers up 87 percent and other recent servers 40 to 59 percent. Founder Octave Klaba says memory cost six times more in June than a year earlier, as RAM suppliers shifted capacity towar

InfoQ @ 2026-08-23 06:04:00

Security researcher Christopher Domas developed skitter-creek-bath-salts, an open-source hardware security tool that disrupts CPU privilege boundaries by manipulating memory controller translation registers. This allows unprivileged software to access pr

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 02:01:10

Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane. If you wanted to be more accurate, you’d need to take into account the fact that the o

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-23 02:00:00

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Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:26:23

Learn why sometimes Jackson can't construct an instance of LocalDate or LocalDateTime and how to fix the error it throws. The post How to Fix Jackson JSON Parse Error Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate first appeared on Baeldung .

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:20:24

Learn how to use Testcontainers integration to spin up Microcks inside a JUnit5 test. The post API Mocking and Testing With Microcks first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:16:19

Learn how to use the InetAddressFilter class in a Spring-based application to limit the address that an HTTP client can call. The post HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:11:36

Learn how to use the db-scheduler library to store, manage and execute persistent scheduled tasks in Java. The post DB-Scheduler: A Persistent, Cluster-Friendly Scheduler for Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 18:47:10

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked a

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-22 17:34:11

There’s a pizza shop near my home with a sign out front that says “Coming Soon.” When I drove by it this morning I thought about how you would model the time until an event happens that is “coming soon.” Suppose I look at the

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 17:01:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for automated workloads. Kitesurf runs browser components in isolated WebAssembly/Rust environments on Cloudflare Workers and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing tools such

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:18:29

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring the Daring Fireball weekly newsletter this week to promote their Agent Registration. Agents are hitting your signup flow and they’re bouncing off a browser login that was designed for humans. Every one that gives up is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:12:07

Toby Sterling, reporting for Reuters: The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision revie

Baeldung @ 2026-08-22 13:26:18

A clear Hibernate speedup and a new JSON API coming to Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 660 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 11:00:00

At LinkedIn's scale, relying solely on human reviewers or simply putting an off-the-shelf AI reviewer in front of GitHub is not an effective way to manage PRs. To address this, LinkedIn engineers built a multi-agent AI code review platform that understan

InfoQ @ 2026-08-22 10:00:00

AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructure provisioning. Unlike traditional benchmarks, it uses real resources in disposable AWS accounts, scoring agent per

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 01:18:40

Microsoft’s iPhone app for OneDrive has long supported creating three new document types via a big “+” button right in its file viewer: Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It recently came to my attention that they’ve added a fourth document type, and they even ga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 21:34:55

Walmart: When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part. And one of the moments where that matters most is at checkout. We want customers and mem

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-21 20:53:26

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-21 20:25:19

In a new study, mice recovered their memories by regrowing brain connections lost during artificial hibernation. The post We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 18:09:11

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-21 16:53:32

For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. The post ‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-08-21 16:00:00

Applying our principles. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-21 15:45:00

Del principio al fin de esta impresionante partida, las piezas del escandinavo funcionan como una orquesta en perfecta armonía

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 15:36:58

Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch last week: Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social netwo

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-21 15:29:17

When Jim Huang Chen began his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation, he was only finishing his first year as a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. A few months later, he had spent the summer working inside the FreeBSD codebase, co

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-21 15:14:28

A few weeks ago I wrote about the number system used in labeling spreadsheet columns. Labels run from A through Z, then AA through AZ, etc. This looks a lot like base 26, but it’s not quite the same. It has no analog of zero. If Z were like zero, Y

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 14:52:47

Mike Masnick, in a thread on Bluesky: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because they use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel th

Deepmind @ 2026-08-21 13:59:48

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

AEON @ 2026-08-21 12:00:00

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it - by Sarah Berg Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 05:03:08

Bluesky and Threads both pull the same trick: When you take a screenshot on iOS of an individual tweet, they replace the “Follow” button in their user interface with their logo. Tim Marinin noticed this in the Bluesky app, got curious, and because they pu

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

AI judgement, observability, SwiftPM traits and package registries

Rust blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single chan

Inside Java @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that the named group information is included in the jdk.TLSHandshake JFR event.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

As automation practices mature, the workflows they need to support naturally grow more complex—there are more teams, trigger types, decision points, and AI recommendations to account for. Automation orchestrator is a composable workflow canvas for Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

For a network that helps the financial community securely exchange payment instructions representing the equivalent of the world's GDP every 3 days, security isn't just a concern, it's the number one priority. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Praveen Siddu, Senior

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-20 18:58:03

Caruana había desarrollado una gran confianza en sí mismo tras varias partidas contra el noruego, quien le demostró que era excesiva

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 17:12:16

Thanks to the DMA’s sprawling scope, complexity, and overreach, Apple came out of this conceding only 4 percent of the App Store’s 30 percent commission, and no reduction at all to the 15 percent for subscriptions after the first year.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-20 16:56:20

AI is like a genie. The way in which algorithms grant our wishes may make us regret letting them out of the bottle. The post Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-20 16:04:40

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. The post Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

old new thing @ 2026-08-20 16:00:00

Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-20 15:48:43

I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art

Swift blog @ 2026-08-20 15:45:00

Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than reg

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-20 13:09:54

Quantum 10, 2196 (2026). The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity

AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:01:00

A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:00:00

The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous - by Eliran Arazi Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 04:28:03

Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Earlier this week, a developer version of a Mac computer software update accidentally included references to several upcoming Apple products, including a video of the AirPods with cameras in action. [...] But the product chal

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Le

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate p

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.98.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

Since Java moved to a six-month release cadence with JDK 10 in March of 2018, there has been a question if it was practical or possible for organization to keep up with such a release cadence.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 23:39:47

It’s 2026 and an important, much-used app from Apple doesn’t offer basic list sorting controls that would have been a glaring omission 40 years ago. This was a completely solved problem decades ago, when computer RAM was measured in *kilo*bytes.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:30:00

TL;DR Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months. It isn’t really a gap in technology. It’s a gap in what different people think software

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:15:00

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-19 19:12:23

The authors found most of the scenarios they investigated resulted in lower emissions, including cases where the gas car was barely a year old. The post Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds appeared first on Si

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 16:52:59

Sara Fischer, Axios: Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with NBC News to exclusively power all of its programmatic, or automated, display advertising sales, CEO Adam Singolda tells Axios. Worked out great for Apple with Apple News. They stru

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-19 16:16:03

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. The post Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time f

old new thing @ 2026-08-19 16:00:00

Just use the callable directly. The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-19 15:52:21

In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't work on, or think d

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-19 15:20:48

El campeón flojeó en su defensa de la corona ante Anand, pero ganó el asalto decisivo desde una posición muy inferior