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AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference Inside the Database
InfoQ @ 2026-07-09 10:00:00
Google shipped AlloyDB AI functions GA with a proxy model architecture that trains a lightweight local model from LLM outputs, then runs queries at database speed without external calls. Smart batching delivers 2,400x throughput improvement. The proxy mo
AWS Details How One Customer Scaled to One Million Lambda Functions
InfoQ @ 2026-07-09 09:44:00
AWS has outlined how ProGlove, an industrial-wearables manufacturer, was able to scale its SaaS platform to run more than one million AWS Lambda functions spread across thousands of dedicated customer accounts. By Matt Foster
The Kubernetes Approach to AI-Assisted Maintainership Prioritises Human Accountability
InfoQ @ 2026-07-09 09:07:00
The Kubernetes community has introduced a framework for integrating AI into open-source maintainership, emphasising human accountability in code quality and oversight. AI tools may streamline workflows, but ultimate responsibility lies with human maintai
Shoebox-Sized 'Detector Satellites' Could Sniff Out a Nuclear Bomb In Space
slashdot @ 2026-07-09 09:00:00
A new study proposes using shoebox-sized detector satellites to sniff out nuclear weapons launched by adversary nations. The idea is aimed at addressing fears that a space-based nuclear detonation could destroy satellites across low Earth orbit and make so
US Food and Drug Administration Rejects Petition To Set PFAS Limits In Food
slashdot @ 2026-07-09 06:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food, marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit e
★ What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 03:45:08
App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary.
Episode 61 “Scripting JS and Python with Project Detroit” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00
OpenJDK recently resurrected Project Detroit, an effort to ease Java's interoperability with Python and JavaScript.
A Silent Workspace In Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Consciousness
slashdot @ 2026-07-09 01:00:00
oumuamua writes: Anthropic researchers have identified an internal activation subspace, J-space, that acts as a functional digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace. The significance of this discovery lies in demonstrating that Claude's inte
‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 00:38:06
Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. “DOCTOR”). Vint Cerf published the tran
John Deere Agrees To 10-Year Right-To-Repair Deal In FTC Antitrust Lawsuit
slashdot @ 2026-07-09 00:00:00
John Deere has agreed to a 10-year FTC-supervised right-to-repair settlement requiring it to provide farmers and independent repair shops with the same repair resources available to authorized dealers. The deal resolves antitrust claims from the FTC and fi
Mac Apps Can Escape From Squircle Jail If They’re Not in the Mac App Store
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 23:03:21
Tyler Hall: We all know about macOS Tahoe’s terrible app icons and how 3rd party developers have been confined to squircle jail . If you’re lucky enough to distribute an app outside the Mac App Store, you can break free of squircle jail using NS
Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 23:00:00
Meta is rolling out an update that will disable the camera on its smart glasses if the device detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the privacy LED. "The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling in
‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 22:02:10
After reading my posts earlier today about ELIZA, the first “hit” chatbot from the 1960s, DF reader AP sent me a link to the Kickstarter page for Searching for SmarterChild , a project from documentary filmmakers Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies to make
Apple Says It Will Spend $30 Billion To Design US-Made Broadcom Chips
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 22:00:00
Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom wireless connectivity chips, part of its broader push to diversify its supply chain and support domestic chip production. CNN reports: The agreement with Broadcom will lead to the production o
Towards Unconditional Uncloneable Encryption
Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:17:13
Quantum 10, 2157 (2026). Uncloneable encryption is a cryptographic primitive which encrypts a classical message into a quantum ciphertext, such that two quantum adversaries are limited in their capacity of bein
ASF Plus One Newsletter: June 2026
ASF @ 2026-07-08 21:16:53
This month’s Plus One celebrates the people and projects shaping the ASF community. We reflect on the role of mentorship through the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, share the latest for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026, and welcome Apache Livy and Ap
Enlarging the GKP stabilizer group for enhanced noise protection
Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:13:00
Quantum 10, 2156 (2026). Encoding a qubit in a larger Hilbert space of an oscillator is an efficient way to protect its quantum information against decoherence. Promising examples of such bosonic encodings are
Resourcefulness of non-classical continuous-variable quantum gates
Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:08:31
Quantum 10, 2155 (2026). In continuous-variable quantum computation, identifying key elements that enable a quantum computational advantage is a long-standing issue. Starting from the standard results on the ne
Quantum Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Semidefinite Programming
Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:04:08
Quantum 10, 2154 (2026). Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging du
Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 21:00:00
StatCounter's June 2026 data shows Windows made up 56.55% of global desktop OS usage, dropping Microsoft's share below 60% for the first time in years. Linux, meanwhile, reached 4.39%, "one of its strongest recent showings in the company's desktop OS stati
Exploring Imaginary Coordinates: Disparity in the Shape of Quantum State Space in Even and Odd Dimensions
Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 20:55:35
Quantum 10, 2153 (2026). The state of a finite-dimensional quantum system is described by a density matrix that can be decomposed into a real diagonal, a real off-diagonal and and an imaginary off-diagonal part
'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands On Amazon
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 20:00:00
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: A software developer made a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically hides, grays out, or filters products from sketchy brands on Amazon, which highlights just how many shady brands a
My Conversation With ELIZA
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 19:33:05
I vaguely recall first trying some version of ELIZA back in the 1990s. I never found it all that impressive nor understood its stature in the AI literature. It’s better than a bunch of if/then statements but not by much. There’s some natural language gram
The ELIZA Archaeology Project
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 19:20:44
The ELIZA Archaeology Project: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created at MIT in the 1960s as part of Project MAC by it’s [ sic ] designer and
Apple Loses EU Fight Over App Store Gatekeeper Label
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 19:00:00
Europe's General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to the EU's designation of its App Stores and iOS as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act. The ruling means Apple remains subject to DMA obligations requiring it to allow alternative app stores, sup
Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 18:00:00
BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA gam
Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: An Australian beach community was confused -- and later delighted -- by the discovery of six metallic-looking spheres that washed ashore last week. The mystery, and the ensuing attention, prompte
App Icon Conventions From the Original Macintosh
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 16:36:57
Dr. Drang, in a post replete with examples of icons of popular apps from the original Macintosh, in their one-bit glory: You can see that Apple liked the idea of app icons being a tilted rectangle with some image inside the rectangle to indicate what
Airbnb Shares Architecture Behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services
InfoQ @ 2026-07-08 16:25:00
Airbnb engineers detailed Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar for dynamic configuration delivery across tens of thousands of pods, processing updates several times per minute. The system was redesigned with Java, Amazon S3 snapshot bootstrapping, and a mig
Is Life Just Different?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-08 16:21:36
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? The post Is Life Just Different? first appeared o
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: More Context Makes for Smarter Products
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 16:15:28
Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, weeks of infrastructure before you write a line of product code. WorkOS Pipes handles it
The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call
old new thing @ 2026-07-08 16:00:00
A two-in-one package. The post The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Experiences with local models for coding
Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-08 13:57:00
Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…
Superconducting Thruster Harnesses Earth's Magnetic Field In First Orbital Test
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 13:00:00
New Zealand startup Zenno Astronautics has completed the first orbital test of its "Supertorquer," a shoebox-sized superconducting magnet system that uses solar power and Earth's magnetic field to help control a satellite without fuel. The company says the
Sangre violenta / sangre violeta
AEON @ 2026-07-08 12:01:00
Confronted with the horrifying reality of gendered violence, radically different people unite in resistance and protest - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Introducing the Kotlin Benchmark for AI Coding Agents
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-08 09:26:45
Agentic coding benchmarks are getting closer to real-world software development. For Kotlin teams, the most important question is how reliably AI agents can complete end-to-end Kotlin tasks, from reading an issue to producing a solution that passes validat
Introducing the Kotlin Benchmark for AI Coding Agents
Kotlin news @ 2026-07-08 09:26:45
Agentic coding benchmarks are getting closer to real-world software development. For Kotlin teams, the most important question is how reliably AI agents can complete end-to-end Kotlin tasks, from reading an issue to producing a solution that passes validat
Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 09:00:00
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captured rare close-up images of near-Earth asteroid Torifune, revealing a snowman-like shape made of two joined lobes. Phys.org reports: The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on Sunday in a mission that demonstrated
This Week in Rust 659
This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-08 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
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generatio
Unleashing open innovation: How Diebold Nixdorf reimagined global banking on Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-08 02:00:00
At the OpenShift Commons Amsterdam gathering, the premier "Day zero" event for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, the energy was electric, with a session that perfectly captures the spirit of cloud-native transformation.Joerg Meyer, Software Solution Ar
The new currency of enterprise velocity
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-08 02:00:00
For more than 20 years in this industry, the conversation around enterprise software procurement followed a highly predictable script. An organisation would buy a subscription for an open source solution, lock down a certified version, and effectively try
Strengthening the open source supply chain with Red Hat partners
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-08 02:00:00
Earlier today, Red Hat and IBM unveiled two commercial offerings of Lightwell to deliver automated vulnerability remediation at scale. However, true security requires a movement—a connected network of industry leaders and experts working in lockstep. Vulne
Accelerate and upskill with Red Hat AI training and certification
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-08 02:00:00
To maximize your efficiency when using AI, you can learn new AI skills and validate your existing ones with Red Hat Training and Certification. Rooted in flexibility, innovation, security, and consistency, Red Hat AI and Red Hat OpenShift AI help organizat
Doom Developer id Software Is Reportedly Losing Half Its Staff
slashdot @ 2026-07-08 01:00:00
Doom developer id Software is reportedly laying off about half its staff as part of Microsoft's broader Xbox cuts. The reported layoffs potentially affects around 90 employees. Engadget reports: While neither Microsoft nor id Software have formally acknowl
Introducing MCP server for Registry of Open Data on AWS
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-07 22:12:39
Today, we are launching an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings AI-powered dataset discovery to Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA). As of today, RODA hosts over 1,100 high-value datasets from more than 400 organizations, spanning sa
Switching from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse for Improved Performance and Scalability
InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 22:00:00
Momentic, the company behind an AI-driven software testing platform, recently rearchitected its caching system to handle over 2 million queries per day across 20 billion total entries, while maintaining an average response latency of around 250 ms. This
Hello Developer: July 2026
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-07-07 18:00:15
In this edition: Try an all-new search tool on the Apple Developer website. Download design kits for Figma and Sketch. Explore the biggest updates from WWDC26 in new activities around the world and online. Read about Apple Design Award winner
OS 27 Developer Beta 3 Enables New ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ Sliders for Siri’s New Voices
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-07 17:22:26
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri : the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks.
How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran?
old new thing @ 2026-07-07 16:00:00
It used some heuristics. The post How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
The First AI‑Designed Vaccine Has Been Tested in People. Here’s What Happened.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-07 16:00:00
Scientists used AI to find targets shared by thousands of related viruses and build what they hope is a universal vaccine. The post The First AI‑Designed Vaccine Has Been Tested in People. Here’s What Happened. appeared first on SingularityHub
Viability of local models for coding
Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-07 14:34:00
Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…
AWS Expands DevOps Agent with AI-Powered Release Management to Validate Code before Production
InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 14:00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a major expansion of its AWS DevOps Agent, introducing new release management capabilities designed to assess code changes and autonomously test software before it reaches production. By Craig Risi
‘The emperor is far away’
AEON @ 2026-07-07 12:00:00
Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view - by Craig Clunas Read on Aeon
Análisis de ajedrez | Momento dulce de Jaime (y II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-07 11:57:21
Faustino Oro juega conservador cuando la posición le pedía actividad a gritos, y Santos lo aprovecha con gran solvencia
How HubSpot Scaled Semantic Search to 20 Billion Vectors
InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 10:00:00
SaaS software vendor HubSpot has described how its semantic search platform grew from a proof of concept into an internal service that now manages more than 20 billion vectors across 38-plus teams. The company says the system now supports agents, RAG, an
Node.js 26: Temporal API Enabled by Default, V8 14.6, and a Round of Deprecations
InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 08:51:00
Node.js 26 has been released, featuring the Temporal API enabled by default, an updated V8 engine to version 14.6, and the Undici HTTP client upgraded to 8.0. The release also removes deprecated legacy APIs. Developers should note migration points relate
Vibe Coding vs. Engineering
The Syndicate @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
By now you’ve probably heard the term “vibe coding.” Coined by former OpenAI founding team member Andrej Karpathy in early 2025, the phrase describes a style of development where you “fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and f
EMEA blog | ODC-Noord: Building Blocks for a Government Cloud That Is Already Up and Running (NL)
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
Jaap Jansma, manager Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), en Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands bij Red Hat, vertellen hoe een klein team in Groningen uitgroeide tot leverancier van een aantal cruciale bouwstenen voor het fundament onder de digi
Satellite 6.19 delivers Red Hat Lightspeed on premise security monitoring
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 moves Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) management forward and continues to deliver the value of Red Hat Lightspeed to disconnected, air-gapped, and data-sovereign environments. This latest release shifts the focus from merely finding
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
Change is the only constant. But for organizations operating in highly regulated sectors such as global finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and government, constant change can be the enemy of stability. These industries rely on "change-averse" workloa
Meet the latest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
This past May at the Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta during Community Day atRed Hat Summit, we celebrated our newest class of Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While every member of the Red Hat OpenShift community plays a heroic role in driving
An introduction to the vi editor
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
Learning how to use the vi text editor is essential for anyone working in a Linux environment. And while it can take some time to get used to how it works, mastering vi commands will help you edit files incredibly quickly without leaving your terminal or r
Accelerating the time to science for the CDC and NIH
Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00
The AI transition from experimental chatbots to agents faces a critical hurdle in highly-regulated sectors like biomedicine and public health. While these autonomous systems can navigate complex data to perform real-world tasks, there is a clear lack of a
Java News Roundup: Strict Field Initialization, GlassFish, GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst
InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 01:30:00
This week's Java roundup for June 29th, 2026, features news highlighting: a new JEP candidate, Strict Field Initialization; point releases of GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst and Java Operator SDK; maintenance releases of GlassFish and Micronaut; the se
★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-07 00:23:46
Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.
Markdown Now Has a Uniform Type Identifer (UTI) in Apple’s Version 27 OSes
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 22:38:43
The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data: The identifier for this type is net.daringfireball.markdown .
Backblaze Versus Dropbox
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 20:34:38
There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it backs up your entire computer, including the startup drive and external drives — and online fil
Extreme cases of clickbait!
Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-06 20:03:10
I recently read Alan Alda's first memoir Never have your dog stuffed which was pretty good. Hence I began looking for more information about him on the web. I came across a YouTube video At 89, Alan Alda reveals the seven acto
Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:37:05
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread ): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on
ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:13:52
A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time . ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price. They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but
Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:04:44
Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work until certificates expire. Schott, on Maestral’s GitHub project page : As of 2026-07
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-07-06 17:46:43
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually so
Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 16:35:02
Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac y
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-06 16:33:56
When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of the quantum world. The post Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Netflix Cuts Cassandra Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds with Dynamic Partition Splitting
InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 16:24:00
Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approach detects oversized partitions, splits them smaller units, and routes reads across child partitions. Ne
Reproducing a geometry theorem diagram
The Endeavour @ 2026-07-06 16:22:35
I ran across a geometry theorem with the following diagram. The theorem corresponding to the diagram is interesting, but I found reproducing the diagram more interesting. The segment AB is a diameter and the line CD is perpendicular to the diameter. Assum
I opened a file with FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, but now I changed my mind
old new thing @ 2026-07-06 16:00:00
You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way. The post I opened a file with <CODE>FILE_<WBR>FLAG_<WBR>DELETE_<WBR>ON_<WBR>CLOSE</CODE>, but now I changed my mind appeared first on The Old New Thing
How the Bilingual Brain Switches Languages With Ease
Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-06 16:00:00
Similar concepts in different languages share an address in the brain. The post How the Bilingual Brain Switches Languages With Ease appeared first on SingularityHub .
Fragments: July 6
Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-06 14:53:00
Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat , this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sess
e approximation
The Endeavour @ 2026-07-06 14:22:29
I ran across the approximation e ≈ 2721/1001 recently. What makes this remarkable is its accuracy relative to the size of the denominator. You can create a trivial approximation just by truncating a decimal expansion e ≈ 2718/1000 but this is only good to
InfoQ Opens AI Security & Privacy Engineering Cohort for Regulated Industries
InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 14:00:00
InfoQ has opened enrollment for a five-week AI Security & Privacy Engineering cohort for senior engineers and architects in regulated industries, focused on applying security, privacy, threat modeling, observability, and governance practices to productio
Begone dull care
AEON @ 2026-07-06 12:01:00
Let this exuberant melding of jazz and animation from 1949 blur your senses as abstract visuals interpret the music - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Skill nostalgia
AEON @ 2026-07-06 12:00:00
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? - by Joshua Habgood-Coote Read on Aeon
Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload
Confluent @ 2026-07-06 11:43:40
Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload
AI Model Context Protocol Adds Centralised Auth for Enterprise
InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 10:00:00
The Model Context Protocol team has promoted its Enterprise-Managed Authorisation extension to stable status, adding a centralised way for organisations to control access to MCP servers through their identity provider. The project states the aim is to re
Cloudflare and AWS Embed x402 Agent Payments at the Edge
InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 08:00:00
Cloudflare and AWS both implemented x402 stablecoin micropayments at their edge networks within two weeks. The open protocol under the Linux Foundation revives HTTP 402 for agent-to-service payments with sub-cent transaction costs. Coinbase reports 169 m
Análisis de ajedrez | Momento dulce de Jaime (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-06 07:21:50
Santos Latasa ha ganado el Magistral de León por 2ª vez con un juego espléndido, que recuerda al de su cénit, en 2022
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran golpe de Jaime Santos
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-05 18:42:53
El ídolo leonés gana con excelente preparación y remate eficaz el primer asalto de la final contra Liem Le
AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Annotations
InfoQ @ 2026-07-05 10:55:00
AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the
Claude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy It
InfoQ @ 2026-07-05 10:13:00
Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists. Anthropic's own documentation confirms data residency guarantees apply to Bedrock and Vertex AI but not Foundry. European practition
Building up a SQL Query String in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-07-04 23:28:22
Learn how to build dynamic SQL queries in Java using StringBuilder , StringJoiner , and PreparedStatement to avoid common pitfalls. The post Building up a SQL Query String in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors in Spring AI
Baeldung @ 2026-07-04 23:18:53
Learn how to implement the LLM-as-a-Judge pattern in Spring AI as a quality gate for LLM responses. The post Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .
Day One Journal
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 23:02:43
My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac and iOS ever since. Day One’s apps exhibit a commitment to technical and design excellence, and,
From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 21:28:45
Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will prove more resilient than Windows, because the Mac is the platform that attracts people who c
Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 18:57:22
Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of you
Análisis de ajedrez | Alexeyenko exhibe músculo
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-04 18:32:22
El ruso con bandera austriaca tumbó al vietnamita Liem Le en el primer asalto de la 2ª semifinal en León
Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?
The Endeavour @ 2026-07-04 04:50:36
A discussion over lunch today brought up the fact that additional data does not always decrease the size of a confidence interval. This post will look at this from a Bayesian perspective. In general, new information reduces your uncertainty regarding what
★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-03 23:24:05
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns
Análisis de ajedrez | Finura de Jaime Santos ante Faustino Oro
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-03 18:57:22
El ídolo leonés deleita a su público en el Auditorio con una victoria muy elegante en el 2º asalto de la semifinal del Magistral
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership
Deepmind @ 2026-07-03 16:25:43
How did we conclude that CcNamespace.dll was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely?
old new thing @ 2026-07-03 16:00:00
Contextual clues. The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-03 16:00:00
The night sky seems eternal and unchanging. But in cosmic time, nothing could be further from the truth. The post The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another. appeared first on Singulari
Java Weekly, Issue 653
Baeldung @ 2026-07-03 15:12:53
Our summer lunch is finally live, and so is my Foundation's to AI coding course. The post Java Weekly, Issue 653 first appeared on Baeldung .
Abyss
AEON @ 2026-07-03 12:00:00
The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain - by Julie Reshe Read on Aeon
In Conversation With the Golden Kodee Winners
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-03 11:57:13
KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content
In Conversation With the Golden Kodee Winners
Kotlin news @ 2026-07-03 11:57:13
KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content
Podcast CB SyR 564: Obituario a François Englert, posible visión de las estrellas de mar y 3I/ATLAS tras su perihelio
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-03 09:53:53
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 564 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Disclosure Day; Francois Englert; 3I/ATLAS; Estrellas de Mar”, 25 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 564: Obit
Issue 757
iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00
Swift 6.3.3 release, Apple hardware price rises, Xcode 27 compatibility fixes, SwiftUI internals, design systems, agent-friendly logging, and Swift on an Apple II.
April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-03 00:30:40
Mike Dano, in a long ( too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app ): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on
Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:55:31
Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247 , we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging
EveryMac Turns 30
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:31:04
EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very mu
I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 22:32:31
Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-
Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:38:45
After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social o
‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:14:31
Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. He promised a quick, cheap fix. Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned t
Claude Fable and Kayfabe
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 20:29:01
Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order
‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 19:09:42
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly , is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to int
MG Siegler Got Banned From WhatsApp for No Reason
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 18:13:13
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody knows . My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, w
What's new in Swift: June 2026 Edition
Swift blog @ 2026-07-02 18:00:00
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. June was an exciting month for Swift, featuring announcements at WWDC and community events around the globe. We invited the organ
Hackers Stole Instagram Accounts Simply by Asking Meta AI to Give Them Access
Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 17:55:57
Jason Koebler, a month ago at 404 Media: Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. One
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-02 16:57:31
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true. The post Astrophysicists Puz
The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL
old new thing @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00
Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that. The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking Magic Mushrooms
Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00
A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause. The post Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking M
Karl Hess: toward liberty
AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:01:00
‘Society, in fact, is neighbourhoods’ – how Karl Hess transformed from a Republican speechwriter into a radical welder - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The anguish of choice
AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:00:00
In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains - by Skye C Cleary Read on Aeon