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slashdot @ 2026-07-11 09:00:00

China successfully recovered an orbital rocket booster for the first time, landing the Long March 10B's first stage into a net-equipped sea platform after its maiden launch. "This mission marks my country's first successful controlled recovery of a launch

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:45:00

“Yeah, who’s this?” “You know who this is.” “Yes I do, yes I do. I sent a guy to deliver the package ... he didn’t call. Is everything alright?” “Tell you what. Forget the money.”  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:41:00

Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel ): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people e

slashdot @ 2026-07-11 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world's biggest tech companies. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. D

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:14:28

Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leader

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:04:10

The AP: Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany. The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:01:41

Frank Landymore, writing for Futurism: Look past its gaudiness, though, and you’ll notice some things that’re a little off in the finer details. The talons are horribly deformed and shaped differently from each other. The entire legs are uneven, too,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 04:10:49

Cryan.com: The “View as Buttons” option was a distinctive feature of the Macintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed users to view the contents of a folder as clickable buttons, each representing a file or application. This view was particularly useful for quic

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 03:58:55

Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is this: Is mandating the squircle a concession to the much-rumored upcoming touchscreen MacBooks? No. The visible shape and appearance of an app ic

slashdot @ 2026-07-11 01:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Inside Higher Ed: For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-11 00:30:44

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slashdot @ 2026-07-11 00:00:00

Dutch intelligence agencies say Russian hackers have been hijacking unsecured internet-connected cameras, including likely doorbell and security cameras, to spy on NATO military bases and transport routes used to move weapons to Ukraine. "Organisations wit

Baeldung @ 2026-07-10 23:30:52

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 654 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 23:01:43

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design. He departed the company in February 2024 to work with Jony Ive.

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 23:00:00

NHTSA is ordering autonomous vehicle developers to explain by the end of the month how they will stop driverless cars from interfering with police, firefighters, and paramedics. TechCrunch reports: [NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison] noted in the lette

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 22:47:09

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slashdot @ 2026-07-10 22:00:00

On October 1st, New York City will become the first U.S. city to ban deceptive subscription practices, requiring companies to offer simple cancellation options or face fines of $525 per user subscription, back fees, and additional penalties. The Mamdani ad

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like autoplay, infinite scroll, and highl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 20:49:26

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slashdot @ 2026-07-10 20:00:00

Disney is exploring a free tier for Disney+ that would make some content available without a subscription. According to Nielsen data, the three largest free streamers accounted for 18.7% of watch time on U.S. TVs in April, up from 16.8% a year earlier and

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 19:00:00

OpenAI is retiring its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch. Going forward, its browsing features will be shifted into a redesigned ChatGPT desktop app that also combines Codex, a built-in browser, and "ChatGPT Work" for acting across apps a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 18:48:41

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slashdot @ 2026-07-10 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The European Commission has ended an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices after SAP agreed to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees. The move could reduce barrier

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 17:59:53

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 17:16:00

Cloudflare has recently introduced temporary accounts that let AI agents deploy Cloudflare Workers immediately, without first creating or authenticating with a permanent account. If left unclaimed, the accounts and their deployments expire automatically

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 17:00:00

OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role and becoming a part-time adviser after taking extended medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. "Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe ex

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-10 16:51:48

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first ap

old new thing @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Decoding where those integer came from. The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Separate teams discovered the same target in solid cancers, enabling a powerful two-pronged attack on both tumors and the cells shielding them. The post CAR T Revolutionized How We Treat Blood Cancers. Now It’s Closing In on Solid Tumors. appear

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 15:48:00

Agentic testing is an AI-driven approach to end-to-end test automation introduced by Slack engineering. It uses AI agents that execute workflows based on intent rather than fixed scripts, adapting to UI and system changes at runtime. The approach aims to

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 15:33:00

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 14:00:00

The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a new industry-wide initiative aimed at defending the world's most critical open source software against a rapidly evolving generation of AI-enabled cyber threats. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 14:00:00

Microsoft plans to disable and remove OWA Light, the lightweight Outlook Web Access client for Exchange Server, in an upcoming update expected in August 2026. The company says retiring the two-decade-old legacy interface will reduce attack surface and engi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 13:59:55

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 12:00:00

GitHub has made the redesigned GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface generally available. It adds a tabbed layout for sessions, gists, issues, and pull requests; an in-session, form-driven setup for MCP servers, skills, and plugins that avoids hand-editi

AEON @ 2026-07-10 12:00:00

Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 11:00:00

Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials. "Last week, Tsinghua University in Beijing welcomed Dr. Yaghi in an

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 10:21:10

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

In a recent article, Datadog engineer Arnold Wakim shared what worked, what didn't, and the lessons they learned while evolving a critical production system using AI to overcome hard limits in its storage backend and significantly improve performance.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 09:39:11

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 08:30:00

WordPress 7.0, released on May 20, 2026, includes new AI infrastructure, a redesigned admin interface, and updated design tools. Key features comprise an AI Client, Abilities API, and Command Palette, alongside increased PHP requirements. Community feedb

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment -- but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skille

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 02:35:59

Berber Jin and Anissa Gardizy, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave. She communicated her decision in a note to staff Thursd

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

Xcode 27 Beta 3, OpenAI Sol release, Fable 5 extensions

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

In our previous post, we walked through the agent mesh for software modernization architecture we built on Red Hat AI for modernizing legacy systems at the scale that mission environments actually require. The post covered the harness pattern, the workflow

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

The most recent Red Hat OpenShift release introduces powerful new capabilities for native monitoring, logging, tracing, and dashboarding. Red Hat OpenShift observability has matured into a more seamless ecosystem by merging metrics, logs, traces, and netwo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell with New Offerings to Build the Trust Infrastructure for AI-Era Open SourceDeveloped with leading global financial institutions and backed by a growing partner ecosystem, the new Lightwell offerings help enterprises reduce

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-10 01:21:02

A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years now. It took me a while to understand what goes on in … Continue reading →

slashdot @ 2026-07-10 01:00:00

U.S. lawmakers are probing the growing use of Chinese AI models by American companies, citing concerns over censorship, security risks, and whether U.S. firms are turning to cheaper foreign models because domestic alternatives are too costly or restricted.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 00:34:39

SpudCell is a big step toward synthetic biology's dream of building life from scratch. The post This Synthetic Cell Grows, Copies Its DNA, and Produces Offspring—But It Isn’t Alive appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-10 00:15:56

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-07-10 00:00:01

As announced in June , new Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. To support this, th

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-09 23:16:33

As organizations move to adopt agentic capabilities to accelerate their business objectives, they are challenged with enabling those capabilities within a security and governance framework that complies with enterprise requirements. Some organizations lean

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 22:13:57

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Code

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:50:58

Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley):

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:17:37

What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-09 20:29:41

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-09 18:22:57

Todo indicaba que el flamante bronce en el Mundial sub-18 iba a ganar también la 4ª partida del Open, cuando ocurrió algo muy excepcional

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-09 18:21:44

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Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 16:10:59

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. When Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence image generator call

old new thing @ 2026-07-09 16:00:00

You need to rebuild everything that was dependent on the change. The post I’ve decoded a <CODE>#pragma detect_mismatch</CODE> error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-09 15:39:13

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-09 15:28:10

Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the organization itself. Jim Larus, editor-in-chief of the CACM, writes  Wither ACM? Publish and Perish? ACM no

InfoQ @ 2026-07-09 13:53:00

A platform is a collaboration system: platform teams depend on application teams, and both need shared standards. Engineers trust a platform through its predictable behavior, not its features. Being an engineer is about problem-solving and being passion

InfoQ @ 2026-07-09 12:15:00

OpenAI found two unrelated bugs masquerading as one in ChatGPT's data infrastructure. Silent hardware corruption on one Azure host and an 18-year-old race condition in GNU libunwind's setcontext function with a one-instruction vulnerability window. The b

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:01:00

Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:00:00

From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon

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

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

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

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.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize the work, what holds up under scrutiny, and what client teams and security researchers can take from it. This

Rust blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. 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 1.97.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

OpenJDK recently resurrected Project Detroit, an effort to ease Java's interoperability with Python and JavaScript.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4 is generally available with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.30, and Kiali to 2.27. Several updates to Is

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

You’ve been asked to adopt AI tools with a promise they will accelerate your time to production and improve the quality of your code. Along the way, you’ve noticed a huge increase in the number of changes submitted to code and you’ve also likely felt the p

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

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

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

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 @ 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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…

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-08 13:20:36

Pocos días después de su medalla de bronce en el Mundial-sub 18, el español firma una victoria muy instructiva en el clásico abierto pirenaico

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

Confluent @ 2026-07-06 11:43:40

Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload

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

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

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 .        

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 .           &#

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,

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

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

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