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InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 18:00:00

pnpm 11 RC has been released, featuring significant changes in performance, security, and configuration. Key updates include an SQLite-backed store index, tighter security defaults, and a consolidated build script setting. It now requires Node.js v22 or

slashdot @ 2026-04-21 18:00:00

The IEA says 2025 marked a turning point for global energy, with solar posting the largest growth ever seen for any energy source and helping carbon-free power outpace rising demand. The trend led the agency to declare that the world has entered the "Age o

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-21 17:36:13

La profundidad de conceptos y cálculo del más joven de la historia en pasar de los 2.700 puntos Elo lo perfila como una estrella

ASF @ 2026-04-21 17:36:11

By: Piotr P. Karwasz, VP Logging, Apache Software Foundation The disclosure of Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) on December 9, 2021 did not just expose a vulnerability: it exposed a way of building software that was no longer fit for purpose, and it helped brin

slashdot @ 2026-04-21 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Denver7: Maryland is poised to become the first state in the country to ban "surveillance pricing." The practice refers to companies using a shopper's personal data, such as browsing history, location, or purchasing

InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:36:00

Anthropic introduces Managed Agents on Claude, a managed execution layer for agent-based workflows. It separates agent logic from runtime concerns like orchestration, sandboxing, state management, and credentials. The system supports long-running multi-s

InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:05:00

Slack has rebuilt its notification system with a unified architecture that separates activity from delivery, improving consistency across platforms. The redesign simplifies preferences, preserves legacy settings through transformation, and resulted in a

old new thing @ 2026-04-21 16:00:00

Somehow xor became the most popular version. The post Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 14:04:45

Quantum 10, 2079 (2026). We introduce parallel-sequential (PS) circuits, a family of quantum circuit layouts that interpolate between brickwall and sequential circuits, which introduces control parameters gover

InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 14:00:00

GitHub has publicly addressed a series of recent availability and performance issues that disrupted services across its platform, attributing the incidents to rapid growth, architectural coupling, and limitations in handling system load. By Craig Risi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 13:40:29

Quantum 10, 2078 (2026). We discuss the estimation of the distance of a given mixed many-body quantum state to the set of fully separable states, applied to the concrete scenario of collective spin states. Conc

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-21 13:04:56

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slashdot @ 2026-04-21 13:00:00

Amazon is expanding its Anthropic partnership with a deal to invest up to another $25 billion, while Anthropic commits to spending more than $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade to power Claude. "Anthropic's commitment to run its large l

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 12:27:22

Quantum 10, 2077 (2026). In this work we present a hierarchy of generalized contextuality. It refines the traditional binary distinction between contextual and noncontextual theories, and facilitates their comp

AEON @ 2026-04-21 12:00:00

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 11:40:29

Quantum 10, 2076 (2026). Many practically important NP-hard optimization problems are inherently higher-order polynomial optimizations, which are typically addressed using approximation algorithms. Classical re

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 10:39:26

Quantum 10, 2075 (2026). In this paper, we investigate three schemes for implementing Controlled-Z (CZ) gates between individual ytterbium (Yb) rare-earth ions doped into yttrium orthovanadate (YVO$_4$ or YVO).

brucknerite @ 2026-04-21 10:00:00

A «nivel usuario», entre Mastodón y Bluesky no hay demasiada diferencia. Sin embargo, comunicarse entre ambas redes, aunque posible, viene con una serie de condicionantes que se parecen mucho al desacoplamiento de impedancia entre redes de componentes elec

slashdot @ 2026-04-21 09:00:00

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said W

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-21 06:12:12

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-21 05:59:41

If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-21 05:43:03

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slashdot @ 2026-04-21 05:30:00

A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The initiative comes from the goal of providing "safe, age-appro

InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 04:34:00

Cloudflare's Project Think introduces a new framework for AI agents, shifting from stateless orchestration to a durable actor-based infrastructure. It features a kernel-like runtime enabling agents to manage memory and run code securely. Innovations incl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-21 02:48:07

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Inside Java @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of obsolete translation resources in JDK 27.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00

As enterprise IT enters the era of autonomous workflows, we are excited to introduce the Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud, now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is an enterprise-ready tool desi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00

In the tech world, we often talk about the "next big thing." But as I’ve shared before, real innovation isn’t just about the initial spark of an idea; it’s about the collective effort required to move that idea from a research lab into a resilient, product

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00

In early 2025, I wrote that uncertain times call for greater operational control and IT resiliency. Today, those uncertainties have materialized into a permanent shift in how European organizations view their digital future. By moving AI from the sandbox t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00

Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstrac

slashdot @ 2026-04-21 01:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A ban on mobile phones in schools in England is to be introduced by the government to ensure that "critical safeguarding legislation" is passed. The government will table an amendment to the children's

slashdot @ 2026-04-21 00:05:00

Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September after 15 years in the role, handing the job to hardware chief John Ternus. Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares the news from MarketWatch: Cook leaves an impressive legacy after growing the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:38:00

Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:37:22

Tim Cook, in a letter addressed, simply, “To the Apple community”: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 23:32:10

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slashdot @ 2026-04-20 23:00:00

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee and current Democratic House candidate in New York, is proposing an "AI dividend" that would send direct payments to Americans if AI drives major job losses. "At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 22:44:58

Apple Newsroom, with a veritable “boom”: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effect

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 22:39:32

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slashdot @ 2026-04-20 22:00:00

Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of all new uploads to its platform, with nearly 75,000 arriving each day and more than two million per month. The company notes that consumption of these tracks is still very low, "between 1-3% of the total st

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-20 21:38:06

New artificial neurons fire so realistically they can activate living brain cells in mouse tissue. The post Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 21:00:00

"After a Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Feb. 2026, many tariffs imposed by the Trump administration were declared illegal because the president overstepped his authority," writes Slashdot reader hcs_$reboot. "As a result, the U.S. government

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 20:39:53

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slashdot @ 2026-04-20 20:00:00

DeanonymizedCoward writes: Engadget reports that Palantir has posted to X a summary of CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, which reads like a utopian idealist doodled on a Bond villain's whiteboard. While the post

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 19:23:58

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 19:09:30

Apple Newsroom: In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress toward Apple 2030, the company’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of this decade. Apple’s greenhouse gas emis

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-20 19:03:03

El español gana la plata en el Mundial Relámpago sub-10 tres días después del oro en el Mundial Rápido

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 19:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by writer Austin Carr: Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand, whose wool running shoes were once the sneaker du jour among the tech crowd, announced last week th

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 18:37:48

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ASF @ 2026-04-20 18:15:20

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has appointed Daniel Ruggeri to be the new Executive Vice President (EVP) of The ASF. A History of Contribution Daniel’s journey with The ASF began with a practical necessity: fixing a problem he encountered at work. W

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 18:00:00

Axios reports that the NSA is using Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model despite the Pentagon insisting the company poses a "supply chain risk." Axios reports: The government's cybersecurity needs appear to be outweighing the Pentagon's feud with An

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-20 17:53:21

Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 17:41:02

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FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-20 17:02:08

Open source infrastructure depends on more than new features. It also depends on the steady, often unseen work of identifying risks, improving processes, and making systems easier to maintain over time. That is exactly what the Beach Cleaning Project set

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-20 17:00:16

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life. The post What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds -- significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Ja

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 16:59:00

LinkedIn introduces Cognitive Memory Agent (CMA), generative AI infrastructure layer enabling stateful, context-aware systems. It provides persistent memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural layers, supporting multi-agent coordination, retrieval

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 16:05:34

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old new thing @ 2026-04-20 16:00:00

You still have to use aligned accesses, even though the pixels might not be aligned. The post How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-20 15:50:33

A few days ago I wrote a post on Newton’s diameter theorem. The theorem says to plot the curve formed by the solutions to f(x, y) = 0 where f is a polynomial in x and y of degree n. Next plot several parallel lines that cross the curve at n points a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-20 15:41:25

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:59:00

Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like infinite lists, masonry layouts, and scroll position

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:26:00

Google has introduced subagents in Gemini CLI, a new capability designed to help developers delegate complex or repetitive tasks to specialized AI agents operating alongside a primary session. By Robert Krzaczyński

slashdot @ 2026-04-20 13:34:00

There's been a few complaints about Amazon's drone delivery service. "The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air," reports the New York Post, "rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing." One examp

AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:01:00

How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00

Google's Agent Development Kit for Java reached 1.0, introducing integrations with new external tools, a new app and plugin architecture, advanced context engineering, human-in-the-loop workflows, and more. By Sergio De Simone

AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00

A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations - by Hannah Critchlow Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-20 10:38:15

Quantum 10, 2074 (2026). The Poincaré recurrence theorem shows that conservative systems in a bounded region of phase space eventually return arbitrarily close to their initial state after a finite amount of ti

brucknerite @ 2026-04-20 10:00:00

La degradación gradual o controlada es una técnica de diseño empleada frecuentemente en ingeniería cuando se desea proteger la función principal del sistema a expensas de otras, consideradas secundarias. Pero ¿se usa en todos los casos en los que se deberí

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-20 08:45:00

New approach to block potentially malicious requests with less collateral damage

InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for April 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: new OpenJDK JEPs; point releases of Apache Grails, Apache Camel and JBang; maintenances of Spring Framework that include resolutions to CVEs; first release candidates of Spring Da

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Continue the grid modernization conversation at Red Hat Summit OT automation, industrial safety, predictive MLOps and more… The electric grid is no longer just a feat of physics and copper; it’s becoming a sophisticated data engine. For decades, substation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

For years, the industrial sector has operated under the assumption that the core of a factory, the real-time control system, must remain a locked, proprietary environment. We've often accepted these restricted systems as a requirement for the deterministic

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Today’s cybersecurity teams need proactive defense mechanisms to meet modern threats as the threat landscape continues to evolve and change. We're excited to announce a significant advancement for our customers: the integration of Red Hat Lightspeed with C

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-20 02:00:00

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 20:51:43

Marc Malkin, Variety: Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her political thriller series “The Savant.” [...] “Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 19:37:01

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines it

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-19 18:55:19

Tras un torneo magnífico, que incluye esta victoria muy brillante, el español perdió en la última ronda

InfoQ @ 2026-04-19 06:38:00

Google announced Aletheia, an AI using Gemini 3 Deep Think that solved 6/10 novel math problems in the FirstProof challenge. Aletheia also scored ~91.9% on IMO-ProofBench, signaling a significant shift in automated research-level proof discovery without

Inside Java @ 2026-04-19 02:00:00

This video explores generics, JVM internals, and the road to Valhalla generics...

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-18 21:05:05

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 554 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Papers de Broma; Signos; Memristores; SETI; Antimateria”, 16 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 554

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 19:52:56

Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-18 19:19:25

El español, aún con 9 años, sigue engrosando su lista de grandes éxitos con la resiliencia como principal virtud

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 18:48:37

Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with 32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” on

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 16:49:27

The previous post looked at the FP4 4-bit floating point format. This post will look at another 4-bit floating point format, NF4, and higher precision analogs. NF4 and FP4 are common bitsandbytes 4-bit data types. If you download LLM weights from Hugging

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 13:31:00

AWS has announced the general availability of DevOps Agent, a generative AI–powered assistant designed to help developers and operators troubleshoot issues, analyze deployments, and automate operational tasks across AWS environments. By Renato Losio

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 10:00:00

Pulumi has announced that Bun is now a fully supported runtime for Pulumi, going beyond its previous role as merely a package manager option. With the new release of Pulumi 3.227.0, developers can set runtime: bun in their Pulumi.yaml and have Bun execut

InfoQ @ 2026-04-18 09:00:00

Effect v4 beta, a TypeScript framework for building applications, features a complete rewrite of its core fiber runtime, offering reduced memory usage and smaller bundle sizes. The new release consolidates ecosystem packages under a single version number

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 03:08:54

In ancient times, floating point numbers were stored in 32 bits. Then somewhere along the way 64 bits became standard. The C programming language retains the ancient lore, using float to refer to a 32-bit floating point number and double to refer to a flo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:43:35

Apple Design: Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can be irritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion of your app. Consider allowing at least a week or two between requests, prompting again after people demonstrate add

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:31:16

I wrote yesterday: And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current  — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized. On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded : Review prompts are the difference between a gre

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 00:44:39

Fewer than 10 people worldwide have eradicated the virus with stem cells. But this case was special—no one knew his brother's cells carried a protective mutation until transplant day. The post Norwegian Man Cured of HIV by His Brother’s Stem Cell

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-18 00:06:41

I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days at the National Taiwan Normal University from March 19–22, 202

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-17 21:03:00

How to use Fail2Ban to block potentially malicious requests and still reduce logging of PII

TED Blog @ 2026-04-17 21:00:10

After 11 extraordinary years in Vancouver, TED’s time in our beloved British Columbia conference home is up. To celebrate the final day of TED2026, thinkers, doers and legends — mainstays of the TED community and newcomers alike — came together to cr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-17 19:28:33

El estadounidense luchó hasta la última ronda, donde firmó esta partida modélica, a pesar de que ya estaba descartado varios días antes

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-04-17 18:22:37

A couple weeks ago I gave at talk in Marseille on the general topic of Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors. I’ll make a few comments here on the content of the slides. The idea of the talk was to explain … Continue reading →

InfoQ @ 2026-04-17 17:00:00

The C++26 standard draft is now complete, reports Herb Sutter, long-time C++ expert and former chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. The finalized draft introduces reflection, enhances memory safety without requiring code rewrites, adds contracts wit

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-17 16:25:21

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things. The post Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundam

old new thing @ 2026-04-17 16:00:00

Preallocating memory to avoid quadratic behavior. The post Forgotten message from the past: <CODE>LB_<WBR>INIT­STORAGE</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Baeldung @ 2026-04-17 12:45:25

Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 642 first appeared on Baeldung .              

AEON @ 2026-04-17 12:00:00

Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something sacred - by Nicholas Humphrey Read on Aeon

TED Blog @ 2026-04-17 03:30:29

What does it take to find hope when everything feels fractured? Day 4 of TED2026 leaned into the messy, meaningful work of creating a better world, one connection at a time. Hear from the speakers who rose to the top of the TED Idea Search and the thinkers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-17 03:00:26

Terry Godier: For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average . In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review . [...] You will see a lot of 4 star

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-17 02:10:09

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch : If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve more than likely encountered ads for Freecash. The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in r

iOS Weekly @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

What’s your position on LLM-generated pull requests in open source projects? 🤖

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-17 02:00:00

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommun

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 22:39:05

Anton Troianovski, reporting for The New York Times under the headline “Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality”: President Trump is trying to cast his Iran war as all but over, a done-and-dusted success. But after years of trying

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 22:09:07

The Associated Press Stylebook, on Threads: We updated our style for telephone numbers in 2024 to drop parentheses. We now recommend the form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (from the United States), the country code, the city code

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 21:27:00

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The change began rolling out a few weeks ago, and user frustration is mounting. On Reddit, there’s a growing thread of Netflix subscribers saying they are canceling their subscription because of this change to the Apple TV ap

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 20:43:44

Juli Clover, MacRumors: The process requires the victim to have Express Transit Mode enabled for payments, and a Visa card linked for those payments, among other steps. As it turns out, it’s a Visa-related security loophole rather than an iPhone issue

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-16 19:33:34

New technologies rarely leave work untouched. They also rarely eliminate the need for human contribution altogether. The post Industries Most Exposed to AI Are Not Only Seeing Productivity Gains but Jobs and Wage Growth Too appeared first on Singular

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 17:26:03

One more thought re: the item I posted this week speculating on what Apple will name their much-rumored two-screen folding iPhone this year. If they do name it “iPhone Ultra”, I think Apple using that name for the folding iPhone will imply that they h

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 17:00:49

Feature story and short film, well worth watching, from Apple: One winter day in January 2024, 16‑year‑old Rory Goss experienced something jarring while in construction class at Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School in Newry, Northern Ireland. He c

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-16 16:49:33

AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic's most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock's next generation inference engine, pu

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-16 16:01:57

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides Spring Boot starte

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-16 16:01:57

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides Spring Boot starte

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

Trespassing on system messages. The post What’s up with window message <CODE>0x0091</CODE>? We’re getting it with unexpected parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Confluent @ 2026-04-16 14:54:11

Confluent Platform 8.2, built on Apache Kafka 4.2, delivers GA Queues for Kafka and Flink SQL, plus updates to Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, Unified Stream Manager, CFK, and Ansible.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-16 14:45:00

At Oxford I focused my research and discussions on how we can use the tools of computational complexity to help us understand the power and limitations of machine learning. Last week I posted my paper How Does Machine Learning Manage Complexity? , a firs

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-16 14:02:13

Let f(x, y) be an nth degree polynomial in x and y. In general, a straight line will cross the zero set of f in n locations [1]. Newton defined a diameter to be any line that crosses the zero set of f exactly n times. If f(x, y) = x² + y² − 1 then the zer

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 12:10:52

Quantum 10, 2073 (2026). We can design efficient quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes by tailoring them to our choice of quantum architecture. Useful tools for constructing such codes include Clifford deformati

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:01:00

The evolution of Paris across millennia – from Celtic fishing village to world capital – in three animated minutes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:00:00

Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? - by Jenny Greene Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 10:07:08

Quantum 10, 2072 (2026). Many alternative approaches to construct quantum channels with large entangling capacity were proposed in the past decade, resulting in multiple isolated gates. In this work, we put for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:51:50

Quantum 10, 2071 (2026). As quantum computing moves toward fault-tolerant architectures, quantum error correction (QEC) decoder performance is increasingly critical for scalability. Understanding the impact of

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:37:53

Quantum 10, 2070 (2026). Friction in atomistic systems is usually described by the classical Prandtl-Tomlinson model suitable for capturing the dragging force of a nanoparticle in a periodic potential. Here we

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:30:58

Learn about the PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class which is a common yet avoidable issue in Java regular expressions The post Resolving PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class first appeared on Baeldung .     &

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:22:02

Explore two ways to get a scheduled job's cron value from a database in Spring Boot. The post Getting a Cron Expression From Database for a Spring Boot Scheduled Job first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 03:00:35

David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sang ): Sofa 5 . A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to

TED Blog @ 2026-04-16 03:00:07

Day 3 of TED2026 is a tour de force, exploring the history of sound on Earth, innovations in personal and public health and the cutting-edge technology shaping our future. The day’s sessions included talks curated by listening champion Julian Treasur

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 02:36:05

Shawn Hickman: A show you started last month. A book on your nightstand. A game you keep meaning to get back to. Finding something new is easy. Remembering where you left off is the hard part. Sofa 5 helps you keep track of this stuff. Progress ring

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

In late 2024, the Ethereum Foundation, together with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL), launched the ETH Rangers Program, an initiative to provide stipends for individuals doing public goods security work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The

Rust blog @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.95.0. 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 1.95.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-04-16 02:00:00

With JDK 26 / JEP 500 starting to prevent final field mutation through reflection, it is important that Java projects stop employing that practice.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 21:54:17

Lisa Melton, who ran the team that created Safari, regarding her interactions with Steve Jobs: When Steve asked you a question? You didn’t ramble and, whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. If you didn’t know, you just said that you didn’t kn

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-15 21:17:28

I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the FreeBSD Developer Summit and the final two days to the main c

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-15 19:27:13

De las seis que aún podían ganar el torneo a falta de una ronda, la india no ha sido la más brillante, pero sí la más regular y mentalmente fuerte

Deepmind @ 2026-04-15 18:03:19

Our newest audio model introduces granular audio tags that give you precise control to direct AI speech for expressive audio generation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 17:40:02

The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-15 16:47:25

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. The post The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 16:34:44

Steven Troughton-Smith: If you want to pixel-peep on iOS or iPadOS, it also has the Zoom accessibility setting, and can be controlled via touch, keyboard, or trackpad. It works for display mirroring too, and has other options like a minimap and HUD (‘

old new thing @ 2026-04-15 16:00:00

Maybe it didn't really exit. The post Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the <CODE>Wait­For­Single­Object</CODE> returning? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:38:41

Quantum 10, 2069 (2026). Magic-state resource theory is a fundamental framework with far-reaching applications in quantum error correction and the classical simulation of quantum systems. Recent advances have s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:17:23

Quantum 10, 2068 (2026). The present era of quantum processors with hundreds to thousands of noisy qubits has sparked interest in understanding the computational power of these devices and how to leverage it to

AEON @ 2026-04-15 12:01:00

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 09:23:18

Quantum 10, 2067 (2026). Approximating the $k$-th spectral gap $\Delta_k=|\lambda_k-\lambda_{k+1}|$ and the corresponding midpoint $\mu_k=\frac{\lambda_k+\lambda_{k+1}}{2}$ of an $N\times N$ Hermitian

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 08:53:10

Quantum 10, 2066 (2026). We describe a novel scheme for the generation of stationary entanglement between two separated qubits that are driven by a purely thermal photon source. While in this scenario the qubit

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-15 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

TED Blog @ 2026-04-15 03:00:23

What does the future actually look like — and who gets to build it? Day 2 of TED2026 didn’t shy away from the big questions. From the promise and peril of AI to the potential of solar-powered, offline educational tools, these sessions brought togethe

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-15 01:54:47

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Int

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 00:06:18

Molly White, at Web3 Is Going Just Great: After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a genuine L

TED Blog @ 2026-04-15 00:00:53

Malala Yousafzai has spent her life advocating for girls’ education — surviving an assassination attempt at 15, meeting with world leaders and then watching hard-won progress collapse when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. That moment of despa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:46:17

Tim Hardwick, last week at MacRumors: Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station . In a new post on Weibo, the oft-accurate leaker claimed that

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:19:29

The Houston Chronicle: Kristin Tips, the longtime presiding officer of the embattled Texas Funeral Service Commission, is no longer on the board. “Governor Abbott appreciates Kristin Tips’ service,” Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, said in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:07:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing . Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 22:25:18

Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “ malicious practices ” of spam policies, leading to pot

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

 Guest post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory director (though not affiliated with the NSF now) on the White House NSF budget for FY 2027. --------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues A week ago the White House released the NSF

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

How to implement a security.txt with Jekyll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:34:29

Amazon: Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon Leo to add direct-to-device (D2D) services to its low Earth orbit satel

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:26:25

Speaking of John Calhoun , he chimed in on a Hacker News thread last month regarding his experience working with Steve Lemay at Apple: I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when I was an engineer, he was a young, new design

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-14 20:41:54

A woman battling the conditions went from "two handfuls of pills" and blood transfusions daily to medication-free. The post One Shot Just Crushed Three Deadly Autoimmune Diseases appeared first on SingularityHub .

tecosystems @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

Sogrady @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-14 18:48:20

El neerlandés pretendió ganar sin arriesgar, y tuvo que firmar el empate que hacía campeón a Sindárov en menos de cuatro horas

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 18:20:23

Richard Moss, back in 2010: John Calhoun’s Glider games hold a special place in the history of Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which produced a ridiculous amount