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FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-16 14:39:16

Graphics support in FreeBSD has reached a milestone with the drm-kmod port now including the Linux 6.12 (LTS) graphics driver. This version of the port works with FreeBSD 15.1 onwards.  The update marks an important upgrade in graphics in both functi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 14:31:37

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 14:11:00

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 14:00:00

Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalated into a multi-hour disruption that halted nearly all trading activity across the cryptocurrency exchange

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 13:26:27

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The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 13:14:01

You can’t prove a theorem by just checking a few examples. Except sometimes you can. A few weeks ago I wrote Pentagonal numbers are truncated triangular numbers. In a nutshell, if the pentagonal numbers are defined by Pn = (3n² − n)/2 and the triang

slashdot @ 2026-06-16 13:00:00

New simulations suggest Venus' extremely slow backward rotation may have been triggered by a high-angle collision with a fast-moving object roughly one-tenth its mass. The impact could have dramatically altered Venus' spin and melted nearly its entire mant

AEON @ 2026-06-16 12:00:00

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 11:26:09

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luajit @ 2026-06-16 11:12:21

Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1471

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 10:00:00

Stack Overflow has announced Stack Overflow for Agents, a beta API-first knowledge exchange aimed at AI coding agents rather than human developers. The service is presented as a way to close what the company calls the Ephemeral Intelligence Gap, where ag

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 09:15:00

PostgreSQL 19 Beta has been announced, with general availability expected in September, following the project's yearly major-release cadence. This release introduces native SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ), concurrent table repacking to reclaim stora

slashdot @ 2026-06-16 09:00:00

A Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket's upper stage broke apart shortly after last week's June 9 launch, likely creating 100 to 150 pieces of debris in a busy region of low-Earth orbit crossed by the ISS and lower-altitude Starlink satellites. Most fragments should r

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 08:44:00

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-16 07:55:17

Madamínov confirmó su gran inicio, rozó la victoria contra Niemann en la última ronda y superó a Vojídov en el desempate rápido

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 07:23:42

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 06:58:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 06:46:36

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slashdot @ 2026-06-16 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on An

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:33:37

Video is a boatload of data. Every video file in your product contains audio, objects, and scenes that most stacks can’t read or access. Mux Robots turns that data into video intelligence. Configure your video workflows once, and they run automatically

InfoQ @ 2026-06-16 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for June 8th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of A2A Java SDK 1.0; an update on Jakarta EE 12; point releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and O

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:20:30

The Washington Post editorial board yesterday ( News+ link ), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”: Brussels insists the decision is “ Apple’s and Apple’s only ” and that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the launch. That’s technical

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating rea

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, j

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 01:57:54

The nth pentagonal number Pn is the number of dots in diagrams like those below with n concentric pentagons. We have the formula Pn = (3n² − n)/2 where n is a positive integer. If n is an integer but not positive, the equation above defines a generalized

slashdot @ 2026-06-16 01:00:00

The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) is set to expire in September without an apparent replacement, potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustai

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-16 00:37:55

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-16 00:18:23

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. The post Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon appeared first on Singular

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-16 00:00:28

Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com . New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example: Si

slashdot @ 2026-06-16 00:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from The Hill: The FBI released an urgent security warning to the public about a fast-acting scam targeting Microsoft 365 users on Teams, Outlook and OneDrive. The agency warned that the hacking platform Kali365 seeks out

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Architect audit-ready, EU AI Act-compliant agents with stateful stream processing on Apache Kafka and Flink. Get 7 states, 4 patterns, and a phased rollout.

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Compare build vs buy for real-time RAG streaming in 2026. AWS MSK, Redpanda, and Confluent measured on TCO and a four-verb evaluation framework.Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 23:10:36

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 23:00:00

At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Xcode 27, which makes it easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, iterate on new project ideas, and customize the workspace. It also introduces DeviceHub for unified simulator and device management, along with enhancement

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 23:00:00

Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports: CyberNews points out a Chromium commit that removes support for the

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 22:55:00

Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-15 22:42:13

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that acces

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 22:28:24

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 22:14:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 22:12:37

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slashdot @ 2026-06-15 22:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Sh

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 22:00:57

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The Endeavour @ 2026-06-15 21:31:38

I got an email message this afternoon reporting a typo in a blog post from about a year ago on converting between quaternions and rotation matrices [1]. The email said exactly where the typo was, but I decided to see whether Claude would find it. Specific

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 21:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The heavily promoted, $499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 20:58:22

Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April: European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked system-wide

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-15 20:58:10

About the project The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code. The 6-month project is being funded by a grant from t

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 20:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. "It's a bi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 19:53:50

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 19:52:39

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 19:24:17

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The Endeavour @ 2026-06-15 19:22:43

A few days ago I wrote about using Claude to solve a chess puzzle by writing Prolog code. This morning I tried a similar chess puzzle with ChatGPT. The task is to place a queen, king, rook, bishop, and knight on a 4 by 4 chessboard so no piece attacks ano

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 19:18:46

Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery: On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone else other

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-15 19:00:00

About 1 in 8 U.S. adults now take a GLP-1 like Ozempic, but use peaks in middle age: 22% at ages 50-64, falling to 9% at 65+ as Medicare stops covering it.

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 19:00:00

Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The companies say the merger would create the "third-largest player in US televisi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 18:15:53

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slashdot @ 2026-06-15 18:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University's 2026 commencement address, but despite leading one of the companies at the center of the AI boom, he spent very little time discussing artificial intelligence. Instead, the speec

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 17:13:06

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 17:09:40

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-15 17:07:59

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed "the Swiss Brexit." Some 54.79% of voters were agai

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 16:48:47

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 16:46:53

Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s) Comments URL: Points: 11

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-15 16:44:02

A few months after raising prices ~30%, Hetzner has increased bare metal pricing again, this time by 3-4x: AX102: €124 -> €454 AX162 (256GB): €244 -> €844 Comments URL: Points: 272 # Comments: 2

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 16:15:00

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 8th, 2026, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring Vault; and GA releases of

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 16:09:03

Quantum 10, 2140 (2026). Phase estimation, due to Kitaev [ 17 ], is one of the most fundamental subroutines in quantum computing. In the basic scenario, one is given black-box access to a unitary $U$, and an ei

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 16:01:59

Quantum 10, 2139 (2026). Nonlocality is an essential concept that distinguishes quantum from classical models and has been extensively studied in systems of qubits. For higher-dimensional systems, certain resul

old new thing @ 2026-06-15 16:00:00

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer. The post The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-15 15:55:39

Vojídov supera en la Copa Uzchess a varias estrellas y reconfirma la gran potencia de su país, anfitrión de la Olimpiada en septiembre

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:47:12

Quantum 10, 2138 (2026). This work investigates whether quantum walks on simplicial complexes exhibit quantum advantages. We introduce a novel quantum walk that encodes the combinatorial Laplacian, a key object

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:26:22

Quantum 10, 2137 (2026). Simulations of quantum systems with Hamiltonian classical stochastic noise can be challenging when the noise exhibits temporal correlations over a multitude of time scales, such as for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 15:18:34

Quantum 10, 2136 (2026). We introduce a non-equilibrium version of the Caldeira-Leggett model in which a quantum particle is strongly coupled to a set of engineered reservoirs. The reservoirs are composed by co

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 15:10:00

ArrowJS, developed by Justin Schroeder, is a reactive UI library that has reached its 1.0 release after three years in development. It utilizes core web technologies, avoids JSX and compilers. Notable features include an optional WASM sandbox for executi

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-15 13:41:48

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-15 13:40:46

Quantum 10, 2135 (2026). Complex optical design is hindered by conventional piecewise setup, which prevents modularization and therefore abstraction of subsystems at the circuit level. This limits multiple fiel

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 13:34:00

Futurism reports: in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read "wit

AEON @ 2026-06-15 12:01:00

A portrait of the pristine suburb of Arcadia, where hundreds of feral peacocks are embraced by some, despised by others - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-15 12:00:00

As my grandfather’s money taught, wealth can be a poison. The rich must reckon with its costs to recover their humanity - by Alexa Clay Read on Aeon

Use Your Loaf @ 2026-06-15 11:16:45

My WWDC 2026 viewing guide to help you plan the sessions you want to watch. Where Do I Start? The two big themes for the year are again Liquid Glass and Apple Intelligence. Start by watching the Platforms State of the Union (SOTU) for a summary of w

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 09:04:00

"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-15 07:56:00

The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl’s submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 07:01:00

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a model designed for long-horizon tasks, but it was taken offline shortly after due to a U.S. government export directive. It shares architecture with Claude Mythos 5, supporting extensive token usage.

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 07:00:00

Broadcom released Spring Boot 4.1 on June 10, 2026, to deliver gRPC auto-configuration, HTTP-client SSRF mitigation, and upgrades to Kotlin 2.3. It also brings lazy datasource connections, async context propagation for @Async methods, and improved Op

slashdot @ 2026-06-15 04:31:00

"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil futures for July de

InfoQ @ 2026-06-15 03:25:00

Vercel Labs recently open-sourced zero-native, a cross-platform framework for native desktop applications. Zero-native bypasses Electron runtime in favor or native OS WebViews and claims to achieve smaller, more efficient native apps with minimal overhea

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-15 03:08:51

A mnemonic device is a sentence where the first letters of the words are helpful to remember something. My favorite one is                               My Very Educated Mot

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase, the question m

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

As telecommunications (telco) mobile networks evolve from physical hardware to virtualized and containerized infrastructure, the volume of necessary network element upgrades has increased exponentially. For Telstra, Australia’s leading telco and technology

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Every team that moves an AI model from experimentation to production hits the same wall. The model works. The serving stack works. Then someone asks how the continuous integration (CI) pipeline is going to authenticate, and the room gets quiet.What happens

Inside Java @ 2026-06-15 02:00:00

Six years after first comparing Java and Go microservices, the authors revisit the performance question: whether carefully implemented Java and Go HTTP services still deliver similar results on modern runtimes and hardware. Rather than framing it as a lan

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-14 18:50:35

Aunque mantiene su Elo y luchará por el primer puesto en la última ronda, el doble subcampeón del mundo parece haber iniciado su declive a los 35 años

InfoQ @ 2026-06-14 07:13:00

AWS has recently introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data

Inside Java @ 2026-06-14 02:00:00

Learn how agentic coding transforms Java migrations by acting as an intelligent development partner.

The Geomblog @ 2026-06-13 22:51:47

News moves fast. 12 hours ago I was enjoying the demolition that the US put on Paraguay when I heard that Anthropic had shut down access to Fable and Mythos (their latest and most powerful models).  Since then, more news has surfaced about what we

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-13 22:10:20

Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export. In 1995, Adam Back protested this by creating a terse, obfuscated implementation of RSA in Perl code and used it as an

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 22:00:00

HashiCorp has announced the general availability of the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source MCP server that enables agents to integrate with Terraform Registry APIs. The company says that it can improve infrastructure teams productivity by relieving eng

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:34:15

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post: President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:20:59

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Found

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-13 19:07:48

El deslumbrante ruso, quien ya fue el maestro internacional más joven de la historia a los 10, bate otra marca

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:02:29

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national A

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-13 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 June 13) appeared first on SingularityHub .

luajit @ 2026-06-13 10:59:29

Thanks to Temir Galeev. #1470

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 07:38:00

AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work across different construct types, making infrastructure code more flexible

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 05:32:00

Google recently announced that WebMCP is entering origin trials in Chrome 149. The new WebMCP standard proposal lets sites expose tools (e.g., JavaScript functions and HTML forms) to in-browser AI agents, which can thus reliably simulate user actions ins

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 01:36:15

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 20:05:15

Discover when to use Apache Kafka and when to avoid it. Learn the core differences between event streaming and task queues to scale your systems reliably.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:28:19

Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, except the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can grab it from YouTube. Speaking of the State of the Union, t

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 19:23:40

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:02:45

Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud): What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out “Siri AI” in the EU? This

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 19:00:00

Dobbs was supposed to cut U.S. abortions. It did not. The national total rose after 2022, and the whole increase is telehealth: abortion pills by mail.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 18:00:00

U.S. immigration detention hit a record 70,000+ people in early 2026, and TRAC data shows about 7 in 10 detainees have no criminal conviction.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-12 16:58:24

La idea clave de esta maravilla, tan hermosa como difícil de otear, destapa una catarata de recursos tácticos

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-12 16:04:20

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency. The post How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

Why do we see AI chatbots as more than what they are, and how do we stop? The post Is Richard Dawkins Right About Claude? No. But It’s Not Surprising AI Chatbots Feel Conscious to Us. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2026-06-12 14:45:26

All about performance in Java this week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 650 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 14:04:16

Quantum 10, 2134 (2026). Building upon $\textit{Wan, Zhong (2025)}$ [ 5 ] we present a few methods on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits[ 4 ] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Cliff

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 13:24:05

Quantum 10, 2133 (2026). Recent advances in analog and digital quantum-simulation platforms have enabled exploration of the spectrum of entanglement Hamiltonians via variational algorithms. In this work we anal

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 12:38:39

Quantum 10, 2132 (2026). Quantum linear optics without post-selection is not powerful enough to produce any quantum state from a given input state. This limits its utility since some applications require entang

Swift blog @ 2026-06-12 12:00:00

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter

AEON @ 2026-06-12 12:00:00

The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think - by Sandrine Bergès Read on Aeon

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Every June, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference gives us a look at the road ahead — the place where the hardware we know meets the software we’re about to build. At MartianCraft, we’ve been shipping apps on Apple’s platforms since the

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Before every WWDC, developers don't just make predictions, they play an unofficial game of WWDC Bingo. Read on to see if any of your squares got checked off.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 23:58:49

Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday: According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing v

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 22:38:09

Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube: I approached Cubby Broccoli after Jaws was a big hit. I’d always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No , so I called Cubby after Jaws and volunteered. I said, “If you

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-11 21:04:52

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. The post AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn appeared first on SingularityHub .

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-11 19:07:28

I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I’ve

YC @ 2026-06-11 19:01:59

We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped tech to 100 million people. Diana has done both.

tecosystems @ 2026-06-11 18:05:33

Amidst an industry landscape in which major players are still evolving in their understanding and appreciation of open source, it’s worth laying out in more detail what a spectrum of open source maturity might look like. What are the various milestones alo

Sogrady @ 2026-06-11 18:05:33

Amidst an industry landscape in which major players are still evolving in their understanding and appreciation of open source, it’s worth laying out in more detail what a spectrum of open source maturity might look like. What are the various milestones alo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-11 16:00:32

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old new thing @ 2026-06-11 16:00:00

I mean, technically I didn't do it. The post Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-11 15:37:21

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking te

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-11 15:28:40

La comprensión profunda de los principios estratégicos, impropia de su edad, es lo que más sorprende en Anastasia Hnatyshyn

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-11 15:14:26

Prolog is the original logic programming language. The name comes from programming in logic. More specifically, the name comes from programmation en logique because the inventor of the language, Philippe Roussel, is French. Prolog has its advantages and d

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-11 14:17:43

Quantum 10, 2131 (2026). Device-independent quantum information is attracting significant attention, particularly for its applications in information security. This interest arises because the security of devic

AEON @ 2026-06-11 12:01:00

Yoko Ono’s painting invites us to step on it, challenging both galleries and audiences. Why is touch transgressive? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-11 12:00:00

Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker - by Vincent Lê Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 02:48:52

Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday: Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk, Federighi shared more details abou

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 02:09:01

This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-11 02:00:00

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to ac

Inside Java @ 2026-06-11 02:00:00

What are GC barriers and how do they relate to ahead-of-time compilation? This blog post explores the intersection of HotSpot's GCs and compilers through the lense of implementing GC-agnostic load barriers at the assembly level, and gives key insights on

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-11 01:11:01

I ran an experiment today to see whether Claude [1] could generate Lean code to prove a calculation at the bottom of this post, six lines of calculus. I started with this prompt This page contains a mathematical proof that a Fourier coefficient, a_n, is g

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-10 20:50:08

There are two ways to look at the P v NP problem, as a formal mathematically defined conjecture as a Clay Millennium Prize Problem, and as the more intuitive notion that everything efficiently verifiable is efficiently computable and the implications that

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-10 20:19:27

New drugs are taking on the slippery molecular switches that fuel deadly cancers—and AI is speeding up the hunt. The post After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-10 19:16:16

Hnatyshyn, única ganadora de Sabrina Vega (subcampeona), ganó el oro en el Europeo Femenino absoluto con un juego espléndido

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-10 19:00:00

The 48 nations at the 2026 World Cup span a 2,181x gap in population, from the United States (340M) to Curaçao (156,000), the smallest ever to qualify.

Deepmind @ 2026-06-10 18:24:11

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-10 17:04:30

AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-10 16:57:19

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. The post An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis first appeared on Quant

old new thing @ 2026-06-10 16:00:00

There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually. The post What’s the opposite of <CODE>Clip­Cursor</CODE> that lets me <I>exclude</I> the cursor from a region? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

tecosystems @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

Sogrady @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-10 15:34:31

Often there’s a thread running through a sequence of my posts. Sometimes I make this explicit and sometimes I don’t. The latest thread started with this post commenting on a tweet that observed that exp(−x²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(x) + x))/2. Some peo

Deepmind @ 2026-06-10 12:21:19

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

AEON @ 2026-06-10 12:01:00

When smog descended upon Los Angeles in 1943, it was mistaken for a Japanese attack. The real culprit was closer to home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-10 09:08:26

There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of

This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-10 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

Inside Java @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

this article shows an approach to extend the HAT programming model with an API for explicit tensor-core programming. Furthermore, it shows how to make this approach generic to be able to process computations expressed with the proposed HAT tensor core API

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 23:29:57

Rishi Ó: My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 20:53:47

If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available . You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:42:32

A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.  ★ 

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-09 19:40:31

AWS announces the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 delivers Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:38:21

Julie Bort, TechCrunch: But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand, pressing buttons or using voice commands in r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:23:29

Apple Newsroom yesterday: This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and more. For example, users c

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-09 19:00:00

Nearly 1 in 3 Gen Z women in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ+, versus 12% of Gen Z men. Gallup data shows the generational surge is mostly about women.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 18:50:33

Apple Newsroom: These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on devi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-09 18:45:54

El brillante vencedor del Norway Chess sometió a Firouzja en la 7ª ronda con maniobras finísimas y un sacrificio excelso

ASF @ 2026-06-09 18:00:00

By: Priya Sharma As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity

Deepmind @ 2026-06-09 17:16:25

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.