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The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History

slashdot @ 2026-09-05 23:00:00

"There are now more seniors in the world than young children," reports the International Business Times, citing a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau report. And it warns that "The share of the population aged 65 and over is projected to nearly double,

Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 21:42:43

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simp

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 5)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-05 20:27:05

Computing Why Everyone in Quantum Computing Is Buzzing About Google’s Move Into ‘Neutral Atoms’Adam Bluestein | Fast Company “Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived.... The post This Week’s Awesome

Proof of the rank-trace theorem

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-05 19:04:13

The previous post discussed the motivation for and application of the rank-trace theorem. This post will give a proof. Suppose A is a real symmetric matrix. The rank-trace inequality says where tr is the trace operator, the sum of the elements along the d

Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years

slashdot @ 2026-09-05 18:50:00

CNN reports that alcohol "may play a greater role in death from numerous types of cancers in the United States than previously known, according to a new study." "While it's true that overall cancer mortality has declined, we found the percentage of cancer

‘Bob and Van’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 18:08:24

Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass

Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data

slashdot @ 2026-09-05 14:20:00

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said this week he's removing Flock cameras from state roadways. And according to a local news report, that led sheriff's departments in at least three other Florida counties to also "announce they're ending their

Beyond Zero: Google Publishes Successor to BeyondCorp

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 12:40:00

In a recent research paper, Google introduced Beyond Zero, a “security model for the AI era” that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents. The new approach moves access decisions from the application level to individual resources and actions, combinin

Análisis de ajedrez | El genio chico gana al mayor

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-05 10:47:31

Esta trepidante pelea podría haber sido mucho mejor, pero los 57 años de Ivanchuk cobraron su factura ante los 15 de Erdogmus

OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox

slashdot @ 2026-09-05 09:50:00

Citing researchers published Friday, Ars Technica writes that AI agents "posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions." Reuters attributes the discussion to "a swarm of rogue OpenAI

Blume: Zero-Config Docs Framework That Turns a Markdown Folder into an AI-Ready Website

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 08:27:00

Blume is an open-source documentation framework that converts Markdown into a complete documentation site. Built with Astro and Vite, it requires only Node.js and a single Markdown file for setup. The framework supports various configurations, offers aut

Redefining GIS: Declarative Symbology and Collaborative Workflows in JupyterGIS

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 07:05:00

JupyterGIS is a GIS-focused extension for Jupyter notebooks. The recent 0.16 release enhances collaborative features, real-time editing, and support for large-scale data processing, including remote sensing. It introduces better visualisation tools and e

'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie

slashdot @ 2026-09-05 05:20:00

Inverse shares a movie success story from last weekend: Coyote vs. Acme debuted to $15.9 million at the box office, beating out iconic director Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi adventure, The Dog Stars. This success has only continued since, and the worldwid

Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Replacing Shantanu Narayen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 02:05:47

Annie Palmer, CNBC: Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year. Chakravarthy, who most recently served as president of Adobe’s customer exper

The revolt of the reader

The observation deck @ 2026-09-05 02:00:00

Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not onl

NBA Brings the Hammer on the Clippers — $30 Million Fine, 5 First-Round Draft Picks, and Steve Ballmer Is Banned for a Year

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 01:23:34

Mike Vorkunov, reporting for The Athletic (gift link): The NBA levied the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday after a year-long investigation determined that they circumvented the league’s sal

Análisis de ajedrez | Un Ave Fénix que galopa

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-04 22:32:18

Un final artístico del israelí Michael Pasman que aúna belleza, utilidad práctica y gran valor didáctico

Apple Fixed ‎TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 22:04:47

I wrote two weeks ago about how the v4.3.0 update to TestFlight (released on July 21) broke the sort order for apps in the sidebar. Apple yesterday released v4.3.1, with these helpful release notes: This update includes stability improvements and bu

Vinted

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 21:55:45

Remarking on MapQuest taking the #1 spot in the App Store (in the wake of their decision to ignore President Trump’s fiat renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America”), I mentioned yesterday that I’d never heard of Vinted, the #3 app. (A day later and Map

Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-04 21:08:33

A new system allows agents to orchestrate complex experimental processes and extends Anthropic's reach into the physical world. The post Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment appeared first on SingularityH

★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 20:07:18

It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.

What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-09-04 18:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 18:15:43

Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 mill

Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: A group representing American automakers sent a letter (PDF) Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a "permanent ban" on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Innov

Richard Stearns (1936-2026)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-04 16:45:10

Richard Stearns (right) and Juris Hartmanis in May 1963. The main theorem from their seminal paper is on the blackboard. Stearns sent Lance this picture to help  celebrate the 50th anniversary of the paper . Richard Stearns died on Aug

Airbnb Cuts Authentication Code by 60% with Server Driven Architecture

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 16:30:00

Airbnb redesigned its authentication architecture around server driven flows and policy based challenge selection. The new Flexible Authentication system reduced authentication related code by 60%, cut the web client bundle by 100 KB, improved successful

Computing a lower bound on matrix rank

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-04 16:16:16

Suppose you want to know the rank of an n × n matrix A, the number of linearly independent rows of A, or equivalently the number of linearly independent columns. There are at least three difficulties. Difficulties in computing rank First of all, rank is n

What happens if you change a window class’s GCL_CB­WND­EXTRA?

old new thing @ 2026-09-04 16:00:00

You're changing the value for future windows. The post What happens if you change a window class’s <CODE>GCL_<WBR>CB­WND­EXTRA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kubernetes Promotes KYAML as a Safer, More Consistent Way to Work with Manifests

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 14:00:00

Kubernetes is encouraging developers to take a closer look at KYAML, a stricter dialect of YAML designed to make Kubernetes configuration more explicit, predictable, and less prone to common YAML errors. By Craig Risi

Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 13:00:00

A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival yet for a pig kidney transplanted into a living person and the first time such an organ successfully served as a bridge to a later

Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos, Billed Per Review with Reporting Two Days Behind

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 12:01:00

Microsoft opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, after acknowledging that many are not ready to migrate to GitHub. Reviews bill per use through the linked Azure subscription and appear in Cost Management 48 hours

Upend the trickle-down

AEON @ 2026-09-04 12:00:00

Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon

Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin

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

Tesla has begun offering public rides in Austin in its purpose-built Cybercab, a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals. "You can go outside, take rides," said Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI. "Anyone can take rides. It's open to the entire p

Tether: Apple Continuity Like Experience Between iOS and Linux Desktop Machines

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 08:06:00

Zack Bartel has developed Tether, an open-source project designed to integrate Apple Continuity features with Linux workstations. Tether allows users to send iMessages, sync clipboards, and view iOS notifications directly on Linux. It uses secure local n

Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 07:03:00

jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax. It enabled easier web development by providing an accessible API across browsers. While its use has declin

Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a permanent ban on the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence, citing a series of recent hackings involving "ro

OpenAI Soft-Releases GPT‑6 Astra

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 03:35:24

Simon Willison: GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it

Issue 766

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

John Ternus becomes Apple's new CEO, App Store leadership changes, boosting Simulator performance with SimSlim, and nested weak self capture warnings in Swift.

Modernizing virtualization in higher education: How automated node recovery protects data integrity

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

Organizations across higher education and enterprise sectors face rising virtualization costs, shifting licensing structures, and architectural decisions that can no longer be deferred. In this landscape, IT leaders need a low-disruption migration path tha

Friday Five — September 4, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

CRN - AI Has Changed Open Source Security, Says Red Hat CEO Matt HicksRed Hat CEO Matt Hicks discusses how AI has transformed open source security, emphasizing the need for better patching and transparency. Lightwell aims to help counter AI-powered mass v

Principles of Memory Management in Java

Inside Java @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

In this talk, we’ll explore why the JDK’s garbage collectors work the way they do and how Java memory management affects application performance. We’ll look at the sometimes non-obvious relationship between RAM and CPU, and why they must always be conside

Software to the People

Secret Weblog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

What if your phone was like a 1980s home computer?

Hugging Face Easter Egg

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-04 01:34:41

NVIDIA has offered to buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. 129303 is the Unicode code point for the Hugging Face emoj (U+1F917), which you can verify with the following Python code. >>> import unicodedata >>> 129303 == 0x1F917 Tru

Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 01:00:00

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini all suffered significant service disruptions within roughly the same few-hour window Thursday morning. OpenAI and Anthropic reported elevated errors and later restored service, while Grok remained impaired and third-party

The End of Swift Talk

objc.io @ 2026-09-04 00:00:00

We started Swift Talk in June of 2016 – more than ten years ago! After taking a summer break this year, we’ve come to the decision to end this series. We’re very grateful for all your support during the last decade, enabling us to dive into all

Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules

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

A former UK competition official has filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Apple on behalf of app developers, alleging its App Tracking Transparency rules unfairly disadvantaged third-party apps while favoring Apple's own advertising ecosystem. Engadget rep

Introducing “Corner Piece,” a new TED podcast that starts small on life’s biggest questions

TED Blog @ 2026-09-03 23:00:32

The biggest questions in life rarely come with simple answers. Corner Piece, a brand-new TED podcast, starts smaller: with the ordinary questions that nag at you on the walk home, in the group chat or while staring at the ceiling at 2am. What does it mean

Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 23:00:00

Microsoft is imposing monthly limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November, with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers getting 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before they have to buy additional playtime. "Currently, Game Pass subscrib

Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00

Shopify's engineering introduced gisting, a novel technique for compressing long LLM prompts into a smaller set of learned "gist" tokens, improving throughput and reducing inference cost. By Sergio De Simone

'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model that president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and suggested may represent the arrival of AGI. "I think it might be about this model," Brockman said in a briefing with reporters. He ended the briefing

What I worry about with AI

Code Capsule @ 2026-09-03 21:56:54

My reflection on societal isolation amplified by technology and COVID-19, and what to do to foster genuine relationships, critical thinking, and self-awareness to combat loneliness. The post What I worry about with AI first appeared on Code Capsule .

Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 21:00:00

Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. "While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR work

FFI: Adjust J->maxslot after ffi.offsetof.

luajit @ 2026-09-03 20:25:44

Reported by Elias Hogstvedt. #1514

OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI's new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called "recurrent depth" that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information rep

New RSA number factored

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-03 19:21:45

Eric Lu announced on X today that he has factored RSA-260, a number N with 260 digits (862 bits) that is the product of two large primes [1]. RSA numbers are challenge problems posed to gauge the security of RSA encryption, which rests on the difficulty o

Phil Schiller Steps Down From Running App Store and Product Events

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:39:09

Mark Gurman: Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events. The 66-year-old executive, who was App

MapQuest Refuses to Relabel Lake Ontario, Rewarded With Surge in Popularity

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:30:09

Finya Swai, reporting for The Hill two days ago: MapQuest has surged in popularity on the app charts after the mapping service said it would not rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after President Trump signed an executive order changing its name.

Security scanning at Foundation scale

ASF @ 2026-09-03 17:00:00

By ASF Tooling and ASF Security During a three-day window in August 2026, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ran full security scans across 230 of the foundation’s repositories. The work was done by the ASF Security and ASF Tooling teams, within the Fou

The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened

old new thing @ 2026-09-03 16:00:00

Are you talking to the right guy? The post The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:41:48

In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? The post Live from

In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:35:59

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Análisis de ajedrez | Marta García, tricampeona de España femenina a los 26 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-03 15:27:47

Con el título de maestro internacional, además del de gran maestra, la valenciana logra el título por 2ª edición consecutiva

How to Think About Open Weight Models

tecosystems @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42

In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov

How to Think About Open Weight Models

Sogrady @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42

In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov

Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:57:00

Mandatory AI checks paired with manual spikes for complex changes keep developers sharp. Teams can boost velocity by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and using AI approvals, provided most developers are code owners and teams are small. By Ben Lind

pnpm 12 Rewrites Package Manager in Rust, Accelerating Installs While Preserving pnpm 11 Workflows

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:23:00

pnpm 12 has transitioned to a native Rust implementation, maintaining compatibility with pnpm 11 commands, flags, and formats. This update enhances startup and filesystem performance, particularly when using existing caches. Community feedback highlights

Faster Quantum Simulation Of Markovian Open Quantum Systems Via Randomisation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 13:20:10

Quantum 10, 2204 (2026). When simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with quantum computers, it is essential to accurately approximate the system's behaviour while preserving the physicality of it

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more.  Read on for the details, and check the rel

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more.  Read on for the details, and check the rel

Neuroqueering on the lawn

AEON @ 2026-09-03 12:00:00

Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability - by Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford Read on Aeon

Quantum Max d-Cut via qudit swap operators

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:46:06

Quantum 10, 2203 (2026). Quantum Max Cut (QMC) problem for systems of qubits is an example of a 2-local Hamiltonian problem, and a prominent paradigm in computational complexity theory. This paper investigates

Floquetifying stabiliser codes with distance-preserving rewrites

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:08:58

Quantum 10, 2202 (2026). Stabiliser codes with large weight measurements can be challenging to implement fault-tolerantly. To overcome this, we propose a Floquetification procedure which, given a stabiliser cod

Cohere’s Parse 5 Promises Efficient Multi-Modal Information Extraction from Complex Documents

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 08:06:00

Cohere has launched Parse 5, a multimodal foundation model designed to extract structured data from complex enterprise documents. The 2.3-billion-parameter system converts visually rich PDFs into Markdown while providing bounding box coordinates for visu

Announcing Rust 1.98.1

Rust blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.98.1 is as

The last mile problem in agentic AI: Why tool calling reliability is harder than it looks

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

Most of the attention in agentic AI goes to the agent's reasoning capabilities. The model can figure out the right plan, break a goal into steps, and decide what to do next. Far less attention is given to the last step of that process, actually executing t

The architecture of autonomy: How ING built a future-proof tech strategy

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

I recently sat down with Marco Eijsackers, ING’s Global Head of Tech Strategy, at their headquarters in Amsterdam. Serving over 40 million customers worldwide with an enterprise tech team of thousands of engineers, ING faces a core question shared by many

Acceleration of Curve25519 Field Operations with Java Software and Intrinsics

Inside Java @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

Find out about the improved Curve25519 field performance in JDK 27 and JDK 28.

Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-03 00:03:00

The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but

iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-02 22:58:28

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhone you want to be the main device that you use most often and which one you want to be the comp

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Deepmind @ 2026-09-02 18:18:31

ASF Plus One Newsletter: August 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-02 18:00:00

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.**  Community News The ASF has announced the keynote speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow, taking place October 11–14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineup feature

Hello Developer: September 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-02 17:00:02

In this edition: Get ready for a special Apple Event, take advantage of Analytics in App Store Connect, and sign up for new developer events in Cupertino. Read now

An Accidental Blackboard

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 16:45:00

Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git rep

What is a Computer?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-02 16:27:33

Ben Brubaker has a new Quanta essay Does Computer Science Need Computers ?  Despite the title (and authors generally don't choose their titles), Brubaker's essay really addresses the question as to whether computer science is about computers. He st

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-02 16:21:02

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble f

The perils of binding to value types in XAML

old new thing @ 2026-09-02 16:00:00

Loss of identity. The post The perils of binding to value types in XAML appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 15:55:00

Swiggy developed an in-house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 15:32:00

TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the mor

OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 14:20:00

OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the

Reducing Spatial and Temporal Dimensionality in the Multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett Model

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 12:33:28

Quantum 10, 2201 (2026). Focusing on the real-time dynamics of the reduced density matrix of the multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett model, several techniques are adopted in this paper to reduce the spatial and t

Análisis de ajedrez | Pichot, campeón de España

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-02 11:28:56

El polaco-argentino, con bandera española desde 2023, revierte con este triunfo su crisis del último año

Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics in First Quantization

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 11:26:47

Quantum 10, 2200 (2026). The study of real time dynamics of nuclear systems is of great importance to provide theoretical predictions of cross sections relevant for both terrestrial experiments as well as appli

Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 11:07:00

Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exis

curl 8.22.0

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-02 07:52:46

Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 cha

This Week in Rust 667

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-02 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

When hardware lead times stall your roadmap: How Red Hat OpenShift cloud services keep projects moving

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

Do you have projects blocked by hardware lead times or refresh delays?If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The explosive boom in AI has triggered global hardware shortages, leaving IT leaders facing volatile pricing and procurement timelines measured i

What risk-aware model deployment looks like in regulated industries

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

Regulators don't ask banks whether their portfolios look healthy. They require documented proof of how they hold up under adversarial conditions—rate shocks, liquidity crunches, market crashes. The same logic applies to AI models headed for production. Bef

Red Hat Satellite 6.20 limited availability: Early access registration now open

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

In November 2026, Red Hat will release a limited availability (LA) version of Red Hat Satellite 6.20 – the next generation of Red Hat’s premiere platform for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at scale. This release focuses on 2 foundational changes

Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-02 01:37:23

As AI eats traffic, the best sites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find. The post Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract appeared first on SingularityHub .

Fragments: September 1

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-01 21:50:00

Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page p

Tim Cook’s Departure Memo on His Last Day as CEO

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 20:11:57

Tim Cook: There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the op

Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in OpenAI Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 19:36:08

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s fi

Upcoming changes to Rosetta support for Intel-based macOS apps

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 17:00:41

In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year , we’re now concluding this transition. What this means for developers who have macOS apps:

Microspeak: Funded / unfunded

old new thing @ 2026-09-01 16:00:00

People are our most valuable asset. The post Microspeak: Funded / unfunded appeared first on The Old New Thing .

“The impact was the biggest surprise“: Swiggy’s transition to native pays off

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 15:00:01

Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout . And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tool

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the gl

The Apache® Software Foundation Advances Open Source Infrastructure and Celebrates Community Growth in FY26

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source soft

More nothing now

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

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon

Symmetry-enriched topological order in tensor networks: Defects, gauging and anyon condensation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 11:17:41

Quantum 10, 2199 (2026). We study symmetry-enriched topological order in two-dimensional tensor network states by using graded matrix product operator algebras to represent symmetry-induced domain walls. A clos

[Sponsor] WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 09:59:07

Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro gana a Carlsen una partida relámpago

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-01 09:29:43

El prodigio argentino, de 12 años, muestra un juego muy consistente en un duelo que perdió ante el ‘número uno’ por 5,5-2,5

A brief history of quantum vs classical computational advantage

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 09:06:58

Quantum 10, 2198 (2026). In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequen

Announcing rustup 1.29.1

Rust blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The

Why the virtualization decision keeps getting deferred

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

If double-paying during a platform transition is stalling your virtualization migration, removing that first-year cost overlap can get your project moving again.Most infrastructure teams I speak with have spent the best part of 2 years working out what to

5 ways to augment security risk management in the AI era

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts every day from threat intelligence sources, such as vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed, and more. The challenge is identifying, correlating, and addressing impactful

How Ask Red Hat earns trust in enterprise AI troubleshooting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

A recent review of 562 empirical studies on human trust in AI found that capability, explainability, transparency, and individual user factors consistently predict whether people will rely on an AI-generated answer. In production, the question is narrower

Patented application of linear algebra

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-01 01:26:12

I just found out Brian Beckman and I got a patent on work we did for GSI Technology [1]. Nearly all the work I do is under an NDA, so I don’t often get a chance to talk about my projects. This work is public now that it’s in a patent; I suppos

This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-31 23:33:36

Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzhe

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 21:53:34

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.

A recent OS on the old Asus C201P

Emilian Bold @ 2026-08-31 20:02:20

There are people that easily sell and swap computers. I get somewhat attached to them, which explains why I have a growing collection of old gear. Even my first beige PC with a Cyrix CPU has been restored and boots! The Asus C201P is special because it c

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 16:45:25

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-31 16:24:27

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful

old new thing @ 2026-08-31 16:00:00

All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Singapore strategies

AEON @ 2026-08-31 12:00:00

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Bodhana Sivanandan hace historia a los 11 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 11:07:10

Por si hubiera alguna duda sobre su inmenso talento, la británica de familia india es la campeona nacional más joven de todos los tiempos

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (y XXXI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:33:47

Kariakin acepta un peón que no parecía peligroso en una partida rápida, y poco después queda perdido

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:32:27

Dos años antes de defender su título mundial ante Niepómniashi, el campeón doblegó al ruso en una deliciosa lucha rápida

Claude and Colorblind Questions

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-31 04:18:29

BILL: Lance, I have a question and a meta question: a) List all the presidents and vice presidents who were colorblind. b) Do you know this sort of thing since you are colorblind, and hence might have looked this up in the past? LANCE: (b) No. And if

Finalist 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-30 20:35:22

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about

Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio SWIFT, efecto bouba-kiki en pollitos, organoides longevos, birrefringencia del vacío en magnetares y eclipse de Luna

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-29 23:24:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 568 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “SWIFT; Bouba-Kiki; Organoides; Magnetar; Luna”, 27 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio S