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Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-22 23:05:00

A commenter on  this post  asked for me (or anyone) to solve the problem without AI: A,B,C,D,E are digits (the poster said A could be 0 but I took A to be nonzero)  such that ABCDE + BCDE + CDE + DE + E = 20320. I solved it complete

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 22:34:00

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers to reduce the res

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-22 21:58:55

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “ Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry ”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 21:34:00

Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, reports Th

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 20:34:00

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more o

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 20:17:58

The previous post looked at the Bitcoin network hash rate, currently around one zettahash per second, i.e. 1021 hashes per second. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin block adjusts over time to keep the rate of block production relatively constant, around

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 19:34:00

Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. "Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI..." reports SFGate, "from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 19:30:40

When I first heard of cryptographic hash functions, they were called “one-way functions” and seemed like a mild curiosity. I had no idea that one day the world would compute a mind-boggling number of hashes every second. Because Bitcoin mining

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-22 19:05:37

El neerlandés inmortal fue un rival muy temible para todas las estrellas de su época, incluido Gari Kaspárov, a quien tumbó en esta vibrante lucha

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 18:34:00

Friday Amazon published a blog post "to address the inaccuracies" in a Financial Times report that the company's own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December. Amazon writes that the "brief" and "extremely limited" service interruptio

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 17:34:00

A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 16:34:00

Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth "strike fighter." But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter's "computer brain," including "its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party software up

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 12:34:00

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled "The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun," arguing that Anthropic's Claude Code "wa

InfoQ @ 2026-02-22 11:25:00

Databricks has recently announced the general availability of Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. Lakebase is designed to integrate with the Databricks platform, providing a hybrid solutio

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 09:34:00

Besides running tech operations at the UK's Post Office, their interim CTO is also removing and replacing Fujitsu's Horizon system, which Computer Weekly describes as "the error-ridden software that a public inquiry linked to 13 people taking their own liv

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 06:34:00

How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM. Say you want separate Windows and Linux boot processes, and "You have Windows on one SSD/NVMe, and Linux on another. How long do you have to wait for a chance to cho

slashdot @ 2026-02-22 03:34:00

"More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer," reports CNN: Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend's houseï in Cloverdale, California, on the

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 02:00:31

I’ve written a couple times about Fibonacci numbers and certificates. Here the certificate is auxiliary data that makes it faster to confirm that the original calculation was correct. This post puts some timing numbers to this. I calculated the 10 m

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-22 01:29:05

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slashdot @ 2026-02-22 00:43:00

The consumer movement Stop Killing Games "has come a long way in the two years since YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft's destruction of The Crew in 2024," writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. "The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people signe

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 23:43:00

Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who'd rejected the code it wrote. But that AI agent's human operator has now come forward, revealing their agent was an OpenClaw instance with its own accounts, switching between multiple mod

slashdot @ 2026-02-21 22:43:00

Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explai

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-21 22:28:13

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slashdot @ 2026-02-21 21:35:00

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K-12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Founder Hadi Partovi it was time to "switch hats" from coding to AI.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-21 19:40:42

Como es lógico en alguien que fue 2º jugador del mundo, el neerlandés buscó siempre que sus composiciones de finales tuvieran, además de enorme belleza, una gran utilidad práctica

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-21 19:13:13

I’ve written before about computing big Fibonacci numbers, and about creating a certificate to verify a Fibonacci number has been calculated correctly. This post will revisit both, giving a different approach to computing big Fibonacci numbers that

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-21 18:08:12

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 16:47:00

The TypeScript team recently released TypeScript 6 in beta. The release serves as a key transition point rather than a full feature release. It focuses on technical debt elimination and standardization, preparing the ecosystem for TypeScript 7, a rewrite

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 16:14:00

OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line production system. The platform integrates observability, architectural constraints, and structured documentation to automate key

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-21 16:00:00

Computing Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 YearsGayoung Lee | Gizmodo “Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Ar

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 11:33:00

In a blog post, AWS recently described an event-driven pattern for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, allowing developers to trigger Lambda functions in response to database events via CloudWatch Logs and SQS. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-21 10:53:15

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 10:00:00

NET 11 Preview 1 is released, featuring Runtime Async as the headline change, moving async method handling from the compiler into the runtime itself. The preview also brings CoreCLR WebAssembly work, native Zstandard compression, C# 15 collection express

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-21 09:28:42

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 07:57:00

Cloudflare has recently introduced Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. The new feature optimizes write performance for globally distributed users without changing bucket location, reducing cross-region write latency. By Renato Losio

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-21 02:33:40

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C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Es gibt Jobs, die will man nicht haben. Kläranlagentaucher beispielsweise. Ich möchte diesem Beruf nicht nachgehen. Sicherlich gut bezahlt. Sicherlich interessant. Aber das Bad in den Abwässern einer Stadt erscheint mir nicht wünschenswert. Ein Beruf g

Inside Java @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Serialization has been a part of the Java Platform since the 1.1 release. While serialization brings with it a lot of utility and was key in Java's early success, it does have some pretty significant issues as well. In this episode of Stack Walker, we revi

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Dionisio Pulido watched as Paricutín tore through his fields—suddenly, scientists flocked there from around the globe The post The Farmer Who Glimpsed a Rare Volcanic Birth appeared first on Nautilus .

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 20:19:58

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 20:00:00

Maybe we don’t need so many reminders to remember something after all The post New Theory of Learning Upends the Lessons of Pavlov’s Dog appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 19:55:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-20 19:42:21

Related: Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog - - Feb 2026 (168 comments) Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? - - Jan 2026 (69 comme

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 19:00:00

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents, designed to make AI agents reliable, scalable, and integrated into real company systems and workflows. By Sergio De Simone

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 19:00:00

A scientific mystery seemingly solved The post An Unlikely Culprit Causes Lower Blood Sugar at Higher Altitudes appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 18:00:00

The quick removal of Jimmy Carter’s futuristic solar panels echoes more recent feuds over renewables The post How Energy Politics Played Out on the White House Roof appeared first on Nautilus .

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 17:00:09

Advanced best practices for running MongoDB Atlas Source and Sink Connectors on Confluent Cloud with high throughput, schema integrity, and production resilience.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

Compare seven enterprise AI evaluation platforms on deployment, compliance, and pricing to find the right fit for your organization in 2026.

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

It’s an idea we create over time that gets imprinted in the brain The post Home Really Is Where the Heart Is appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:01

The pocket reference guide for 2026/2027. The post The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

The dramatic find sheds new light on the diversity of spinosaurs The post “Hell Heron”: New Dinosaur Species with a Head-mounted Sword Discovered in Africa appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Sniffing the asynchronous keyboard state. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements? The post What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-20 15:45:17

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds. The post Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-20 14:41:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 546 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cafeína; Cuántica y Números Complejos; Altruismo y Ética; Supernova”, 19 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-20 14:00:00

A new study of bonobos shows that they grin during vigorous socio-sexual interactions The post Grinning During Sex Isn’t Contagious, But It Does Require Tempo appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 13:30:00

jQuery 4 has launched, celebrating 20 years of innovation in web development. This major update modernizes the library by removing legacy code and outdated browser support while ensuring simplicity and performance. With enhanced compatibility for modern

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 13:00:00

The OpenTelemetry open-source observability project recently published a comprehensive guide titled "Demystifying OpenTelemetry" aimed at helping organizations understand, adopt, and scale observability using the OpenTelemetry standard. By Craig Risi

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 12:27:25

Quantum resistant cryptogrphy coming to JDK 27 The post Java Weekly, Issue 634 first appeared on Baeldung .              

AEON @ 2026-02-20 12:00:00

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-20 11:40:15

Fallecido este miércoles, activo en ajedrez hasta su último día, el neerlandés fue una gran estrella y deja una obra maravillosa

Swift blog @ 2026-02-20 11:00:00

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics , a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across p

brucknerite @ 2026-02-20 10:00:00

Imaginad la escena. Una pareja, chico y chica. Un coche. El capó levantado transmitiendo la señal universal de «avería». Él, fuera del coche, de pie, en la actitud que ordenan las leyes no escritas del patriarcado. Mira hacia las profundidades del motor co

InfoQ @ 2026-02-20 03:30:00

JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 10 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Java Language Specification, Securi

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 02:00:00

There are actually several ways to restart a Solaris system. On one hand, there is what one might call the normal reboot. This is triggered with reboot -p . This reboot goes through the firmware respectively. Consequently, the reboot can also take a bit

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Es ist Samstag. Einkaufen, nicht nur für mich. Darf ich eigentlich auf dem Mutter-und-Kind-Stellplatz parken, wenn ich meine Mutter zum Einkaufen fahre? Der Kofferraum voll. Ich sitze wieder im Auto. Rückwärtsgang eingelegt. Ich schüttle den Kopf. Über Fu

Inside Java @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is no

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We no

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push tow

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-20 00:29:06

Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport: IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV, which has taken over

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 00:28:34

Learn how to use IDs sorted by their generation times. The post Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers with Hypersistence TSID first appeared on Baeldung .              

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-19 23:57:31

I’ve been trying to write up some new ideas about Wick rotation for a long time now, keep getting stuck as it becomes clear at various points that I haven’t gotten to the bottom of what is going on. To … Continue reading →

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 22:00:00

People have only recently included Indigenous voices in the story The post The Missing Pieces of the Donner Party Narrative appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 20:00:00

Ecologists detect promising, early signs of river recovery The post Is a Strictly Enforced Fishing Ban Saving the Yangtze? appeared first on Nautilus .

Confluent @ 2026-02-19 19:58:55

Learn how to design future-proof architectures for hybrid and multicloud environments, balancing portability, resilience, and long-term flexibility.

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-19 19:00:00

Where’d you get that frog? The post The Dark Side of the Illicit Pet Frog Trade appeared first on Nautilus .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-19 17:41:56

Las posiciones iniciales con alfiles en los rincones son de las más controvertidas de la modalidad y pueden originar partidas tan convulsas como esta

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Deepmind @ 2026-02-19 17:06:14

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events with millisecond latency, improves schema governance, automates cross-account routi

old new thing @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Summarizing the flow. The post Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Running on a brain-like chip, the 'eye' could help robots and self-driving cars make split-second decisions. The post This ‘Machine Eye’ Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 15:42:00

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe . I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design , since its very earliest days, having the good fortune to be a sounding board for Eric Evans when he wrote his seminal

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 14:57:00

If you've hung around agile circles for long, you've probably heard about the concept of servant leadership , that managers should think of themselves as supporting the team, removing blocks, protecting them from the vagaries of corporate life. That's ne

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 12:23:00

Po Linn Chia presented how they re-used a single development environment to deploy multiple service versions for testing their distributed system in her presentation "No QA Environment? No Problem" at Dev Summit Boston. A small enablement team, cultural

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:01:00

Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:00:00

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - by Carlo Iacono Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-02-19 11:55:00

Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation results from model repositories. By Daniel Dominguez

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-19 05:41:38

A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live immersive sports broadcasting

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Many years ago, when I was younger and thought a PhD sounded like a sensible life choice, I started one. Early on, a lecturer gave me a piece of advice that stuck: “Don’t watch the program run.” He meant the long jobs. Training a neural net. Runn

Rust blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 , same as in the previous two years. If you're not eligible or interested in participating in GSoC, then most of this post likely isn't releva

Inside Java @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Java's checked exceptions are both an integral part of the language and one of its most contested features. Whether their introduction was a mistake and whether they should all be turned unchecked are frequently discussed topics but since the former is not

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the intersection of complex technology challenges and open source-based, community-driven innovation. Over the last few year

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an architect scaling a global fleet, the most impactful stories are those where expertise and coll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 22:15:10

Paul Ford, in an op-ed for The New York Times (gift link): All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingl

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-18 18:07:15

La modalidad más moderna obliga a un cuidado extremo en la apertura, como demuestra esta didáctica miniatura de Aronián sobre Sindárov

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

By: Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks ahe

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-18 17:09:15

Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals. The post The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Deepmind @ 2026-02-18 17:01:38

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-18 16:53:00

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced Rachel Laycock and I to do a quick video. We’re often asked if this even

old new thing @ 2026-02-18 16:00:00

I guess it could, but why bother? The post Could <CODE>Write­Process­Memory</CODE> be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-18 15:25:00

Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was a leader in the mathematical reasoning about knowledge. His paper with Yoram Moses,  Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Envir

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 13:00:00

Recently launched in technical preview, GitHub Agentic Workflows introduce a way to automate complex, repetitive repository tasks using coding agents that understand context and intent, GitHub says. This enables workflows such as automatic issue triage a

AEON @ 2026-02-18 12:01:00

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-02-18 08:23:00

Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived context, and continuous evaluation to support enterprise AI at scale. By Matt Foster

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-18 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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 01:08:45

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three major cities around the world. It is simply described as a “special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information about what it may entail. The invit

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

We introduced Protocol last June which organized our work around three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX. A lot has happened since then! In this post, we want to share what we accomplished last year, how our thinking has evolved,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

Last November, we announced that Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, the next evolution of our predictive analytics service. While the name is new, the mission is the same: Provide you with powerful, AI-powered insights that help you work faster, s

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

Virtual training, which flexibly delivers live, instructor-led learning, has become a core component of modern IT skills development. As demand for scalable, role-relevant training has grown, virtual training has become a trusted way to accelerate onboardi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it’s no longer just about whether they can run AI and radio access network (RAN) on the same hardware – it’s about how they manage AI at scale.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-17 23:56:48

The self-spreading CRISPR tool increased editing efficiency roughly three-fold compared to older versions. The post Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus appeared first on SingularityHub .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-17 22:28:42

KotlinConf 2026 is starting to take shape, and there’s a lot happening across the Kotlin ecosystem right now. From the first conference speakers and community awards to new releases, tools, and real-world Kotlin stories at serious scale, I’ve gathered all

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 19:49:55

At least according to Apple’s own numbers from the App Store, iOS 26 adoption is pretty much exactly in line with the rates for iOS 18 and 17.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 18:20:01

Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on , try forcing it to restart. Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-17 16:55:56

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E07, «Avances frente al cáncer de páncreas y el legado clínico de Emilio Alba, en el Día Mundial contra el Cáncer», 3 feb 2026 [154:02 […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E07: Avances frente al cáncer y el l

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 16:39:00

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the us

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-17 16:03:33

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers. The post A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-02-17 16:00:00

Final build, final, final, final 2, ship this one. The post Microspeak: Escrow appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-17 15:53:57

Subcampeón del mundo en 2018 y entre los diez primeros ahora mismo en todas las modalidades, el estadounidense reconfirma su enorme talento

Deepmind @ 2026-02-17 14:42:20

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-17 14:33:00

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI's recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context engineering, architectural constraints, and garbage colle

AEON @ 2026-02-17 12:00:00

The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence - by Carlos Alberto Sánchez Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-02-17 05:16:55

Learn how compile-time constants can approximate the behavior of compile-time conditions for simple cases and how we can rely on more type-safe solutions to handle complex cases. The post Compile-Time Conditions in Java first appeared on Baeldung .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-17 01:01:00

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Zwei schwarze Punkte. Auf gelbem Hintergrund. Ein Schnabel dazwischen. And then there were four. Und alles, weil ich einem Kanarienvogel nicht in die Augen gucken und mit ihm ins Tierheim fahren konnte. Um ihn einfach abzugeben. Die Verantwortung loswer

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content tracks in cryptography, lean consensus and zkEVM, plus a new self-paced learning platform. The program kicks off February 23rd. Visit epf.wiki to get started. Ethereum Protocol Studies (EP

Inside Java @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

JEP 527 is now integrated into JDK 27! This feature enhances the security of Java applications by implementing hybrid key exchange algorithms for TLS 1.3. By combining quantum-resistant ML-KEM with traditional elliptic-curve algorithms, the JDK implementat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

At Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil and Latin America, the ability to scale is crucial. Automation plays a central role in this journey, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has become the foundation supporting thousands of

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-17 01:00:00

The "works on my machine" problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their shift to cloud-native practices, a critical gap has emerged: The tools developers use on their local

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-17 00:12:37

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering wo

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-16 22:56:12

Scientists find coordination between key brain waves breaks down in people under anesthesia. The post This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 22:25:23

AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs.

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-16 22:24:45

The shape of a planet’s orbit around a star is an ellipse. To put it another way, a plot of the position of a planet’s orbit over time forms an ellipse. What about the velocity? Is its plot also an ellipse? Surprisingly, a plot of the velocity

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 18:28:52

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every fe

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-16 16:33:44

En esta partida ‘freestyle’, tan compleja como interesante, Abdusattórov tuvo primero ventaja, luego pudo forzar el empate y al final perdió

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-16 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 26.4 beta to take a

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

Is it really a trick when reading the file is the purpose of the program? The post It rather involved being on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Tricking(?) a program into reading files appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:01:00

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:00:00

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

I’ve ended up with a bunch of these nice little ESP32-C3 modules . I’m a bit late to the party with them, so other people have done a lot of heavy lifting working out how to drive the display. I followed this blog . The only thing I didn’t quite l

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:39:14

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:37:04

Joanna Stern (last week): After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can