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This AI Learned Language From the Recordings of a Baby’s First 1,000 Days
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-12 16:00:00
AI models that learn like kids could reveal the secrets of our early years and inspire more efficient machine minds. The post This AI Learned Language From the Recordings of a Baby’s First 1,000 Days appeared first on SingularityHub .
Technical Debt is Social; it is the Price of Learning by Doing
InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 12:05:00
Technical debt is not necessarily a sign of poor engineering. It can be the price of learning through software in use. As AI accelerates code production beyond our capacity to understand code and context, technical debt increasingly becomes a sociotechni
My grandfather been tell me a lot of story about Lasseter
AEON @ 2026-11-12 12:01:00
A strange man on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott retells her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Tim Peters, Python User #2 and Prolific Contributor, Dies At 74
slashdot @ 2026-11-12 12:00:00
Tim Peters, one of Python's earliest and most influential contributors, died on July 15 at age 74. Known as Python's second real user, Peters created the Zen of Python and Timsort sorting algorithm while contributing to numerous core components. He also se
Why anything exists
AEON @ 2026-11-12 12:00:00
Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) - by Andrew T Brenner Read on Aeon
Azure Logic Apps Standard Gets a Local CLI in Preview
InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 11:23:00
Microsoft has released a public preview of the logicapp extension for the Azure CLI, adding local project creation, workflow authoring, a runtime lifecycle, connector management, run inspection, and test scaffolding for Logic Apps Standard, work that pre
Google Open-Sources TPU Sync for KV Cache and Weight Transfer on TPUs
InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 11:06:00
Google Cloud has open-sourced TPU Sync, a native C++ library that moves KV cache blocks and model weights between TPU HBM, host DRAM, shared storage, and the data center network. By Daniel Dominguez
Author Q+A: finprim is a Case for One Financial Validation Library in TypeScript
InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 10:28:00
finprim is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library that offers IBAN, BIC, card, sort code, VAT, routing number and loan functions through one API with no runtime dependencies. Its author built it after duplicated validators drifted apart across web and mobile
LinkedIn Replaces Argo CD with a Custom GitOps Engine for Kubernetes Deployments
InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 10:00:00
In a recent post, LinkedIn revealed it has replaced Argo CD with its own GitOps engine. This new system deploys applications across over 250 Kubernetes clusters. It supports more than 4,000 services and manages over 100,000 deployments each week. By Cl
Power Grids On 5 Continents Pulse Every 60s. Scientists Think They Know Why
slashdot @ 2026-11-12 08:00:00
"ScienceAlert is reporting that researchers may have finally determined why, for many years, power grids around the world have been pulsing every 60 seconds," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. The likely culprit? Uninterruptible power supplies r
Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 07:52:48
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Semafor: ‘Nvidia Board Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang, Name Interim CEO’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 05:59:59
Rohan Goswami, Reed Albergotti, and Ashley Gold, reporting for Semafor at 10:27pm ET: Some members of Nvidia’s board favor appointing Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO at the beleaguered chipmaker if CEO and founder Jensen Huang is
Nvidia Working With Outside Firm to Identify CEO Candidates
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:57:43
Nina Trentmann and Ian King, reporting tonight for Bloomberg: Nvidia Corp.’s board has been working with an outside firm to identify potential replacements for Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang following reports of multiple extramarital affairs, in
WSJ: ‘Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:42:05
Robbie Whelan, Josh Dawsey, Amrith Ramkumar, reporting for The Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the NYT’s scoop that Huang was having an affair with an Nvidia vice president too: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had
Jensen Huang Was Banging an Nvidia Vice President Too
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:35:21
Ryan Mac, Tripp Mickle, and Georgia Gee, reporting for The New York Times: Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, also had an extramarital relationshi
Sunken SS United States Set To Become World's Largest Artificial Reef
slashdot @ 2026-11-12 04:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PBS: The historic ocean liner SS United States will be intentionally sunk Wednesday off the coast of the Florida panhandle. Live coverage of the sinking of the SS United States is expected to start at 1 p.m. EST, wi
Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 03:11:11
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Actually, it’s an n-way mirror
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-11-12 03:00:00
ZFS mirrors are not limited to two or three devices
United Airlines Bans AI Agents From Booking Flights On Behalf of Travelers
slashdot @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00
United Airlines is banning unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking flights, checking in passengers or making account changes on travelers' behalf. CBS News reports: To make an airline booking, an AI agent requires access to a customer's personal in
Introducing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 5: Bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines into vulnerability management
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00
Your virtual machines (VM) run applications the business depends on. Managing vulnerabilities in those workloads remains essential as you bring them onto Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 5 introduces vulnerability managem
What's new in Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed 2
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed started as a simple chat assistant, right there in the Red Hat OpenShift console. All you had to do was ask it a question, something like, "How do I expose my application with a route?" It would give you an answer, referencing
The real value of a Red Hat OpenShift subscription: 1 supported platform vs. managing 50 open source projects
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00
Red Hat OpenShift is built on open source software. In fact, it’s composed of more than 50 different projects. You could download and install every one of those individual components directly and run them. Yet thousands of enterprises—including 58% of the
Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship With Nvidia Executive Who Reports to Him
slashdot @ 2026-11-12 00:00:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing scrutiny over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Now, The New York Times reports that Mr. Huang also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of health care and a direct repor
Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 23:36:35
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93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 23:34:23
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Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 23:31:06
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Lock Your GitHub Actions
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 23:16:41
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Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 23:03:58
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Nvidia and Jensen Huang Face Shareholder Lawsuit Alleging Investors Were Misled About Spy Affair
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 23:00:00
Charlotte Web shares a report from the Associated Press: A shareholder has sued Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, accusing them of deceiving investors in their responses to media reports about Huang's affair with a purported Chinese spy that threatens nati
The Yang-Mills Publicity Stunt
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-11 22:26:23
The “shepherds” of the OpenAI Yang-Mills proof yesterday released the Lean code of the proof, together with a validation and an assessment. The OpenAI press release of October 26 claimed to have proved “Existence of quantum chromodynamics
United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 22:24:35
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New York Forces T-Mobile to End Data Caps On Low-Income Plans
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 22:00:00
New York has forced T-Mobile to remove a 50GB monthly data cap from its $15 low-income broadband plan after regulators found customers who exceeded the limit had their speeds cut by more than 97%, to just 650 Kbps. "Additionally, the [Office of the Attorne
Emacs in the Age of Magic
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 21:26:32
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Why are we still working this hard?
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 21:05:29
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Ukraine Strikes Cause Permanent Data Loss at Russia's Yandex Cloud
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 21:00:00
Russia's Yandex says 2.84% of customer data has been permanently lost following Ukrainian strikes on data centers in the country. "According to the company, recovery is impossible because of critical damage to equipment and the lack of backup copies on the
Apple Shutters Their Longstanding ‘Apple Support Community’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 20:17:32
Jason Snell: These message boards were an embarrassment for Apple. Not only were they very much out of step with what the web has come to be over the last couple of decades, but their presence under an apple.com domain meant that they ranked highly in
Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 20:12:16
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Austin Mann’s iPhone Duo Review
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 20:02:58
Austin Mann: Honestly, the idea of a folding iPhone didn’t immediately appeal to me. I usually like smaller devices, but when I first started playing with the Duo in September, I realized it’s really something special and I couldn’t wait to get my han
Test your applications against AWS locally with AWS Emulator
AWS Blog @ 2026-11-11 20:00:44
AWS Emulator is a free, open-source local emulator in Rust that lets developers test applications against nearly every AWS service on their own machine using the same CLI and SDK commands, with fidelity measured against real AWS behavior.
Court Says Trump Can't Use Leaks To Justify Spying On Journalists' LinkedIn DMs
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 20:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration's fight to stop suspected leaks of top-secret military information on LinkedIn can't sweep in "a vast number of confidential sources" of random journalists "who have no conceiv
Quinn Nelson: ‘The iPhone Duo Doesn’t Feel Like an iPhone’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 19:36:34
This is a really good and fair Duo review. ★
Análisis de ajedrez | Veteranos con brío en el torneo Hotel Cap Negret
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-11 19:34:59
Las partidas muy didácticas, además de bellas, no sólo se dan entre profesionales; esta es del aficionado Miguel Ángel Martínez Piqueras
Gemini Decisions API
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 19:32:42
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‘Dangerous or Unusual’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 19:29:17
Mike McIntire and Eli Murray, reporting for The New York Times (gift link) For nearly two decades, judges across the country have invoked this language to strike down gun-control laws. It is a pivotal legal test. It is also based on a misquote. Ju
AWS emulator
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 19:21:38
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Logitech Giving All 7,000 Employees the Day Off to Play GTA 6
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 19:02:00
Under a new "Logi Game Day" initiative, Logitech is giving all 7,000 of its employees an extra paid day off to play GTA 6 when it launches on November 19. Employees and interns can use the day off anytime over the next year. Tom's Hardware reports: As for
GitHub Makes Agentic Workflows Generally Available with Isolation and Budget Controls
InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 18:00:00
GitHub Agentic Workflows is generally available, running coding agents in GitHub Actions with read-only defaults and separately scoped write jobs. Those protections do not cover direct write permissions or custom jobs, so they depend on how each workflow
Apple Is Killing Its Support Community Forum Next Week
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 18:00:00
Apple is shutting down its Apple Support Community forum on November 20, ending a user-to-user support platform whose history stretches back to the 1998 launch as the Apple Tech Exchange. The forum is already read-only, and Apple has not said whether the n
Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 17:57:45
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A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 17:38:44
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Fall Jobs Post 2026
Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-11 17:38:02
Each fall I try to predict the upcoming job market for theoretical computer science faculty and give suggestions to those pursuing these positions. Last year I wrote that we should get set for a rocky ride, with AI’s disruption of computer science,
Amazon's Ring Unveils Flying Drone and Robot To Patrol Homes and Businesses
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon's Ring is going deeper into surveillance with an indoor drone for home monitoring and an autonomous robot designed to patrol businesses. The company on Tuesday unveiled the $250 Ring Drone Cam, a securi
Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 16:33:06
Hey HN, I’m Eric and I want to share an OSS project that I’ve been building in my free time. Yogurt is a free, MIT licensed desktop app that uses on-device AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with your meetings. Here's a quick demo video: https
Tests as data: ensuring AI-generated code does what we want
Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-11 16:17:00
Automated testing in the age of AI coding assistants is problematic: when AI agents write both production and test code, developers risk losing the assurance that automated tests protect against functional errors. Matteo Vaccari makes three claim
How a Metabolic Spark Could Have Jump-Started Life
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-11 16:10:30
Energetic pathways that make and break complex molecules are critical to all life. It’s even possible that these self-sustaining cycles could have been key at life’s beginning. The post How a Metabolic Spark Could Have Jump-Started Life first
AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease
Deepmind @ 2026-11-11 16:00:15
Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.
I didn’t write a program with emoji, but I did use a control character
old new thing @ 2026-11-11 16:00:00
My program was a fairly simple one. The post I didn’t write a program with emoji, but I did use a control character appeared first on The Old New Thing .
AI Models Can Tell When Researchers Plant Concepts in Their Neural Networks. Is It Self-Reflection?
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-11 16:00:00
Some researchers say the findings show the glimmers of AI introspection—others aren't so sure. The post AI Models Can Tell When Researchers Plant Concepts in Their Neural Networks. Is It Self-Reflection? appeared first on SingularityHub .
JioHotstar Benchmarks Knowledge Bases for AI Coding Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 15:28:00
JioHotstar evaluated 6 approaches to code retrieval for AI coding agents using SWE, CodeScale Bench, and an internal question-answering harness. Structural search performed well on concrete tasks, while semantic retrieval helped with ambiguous requiremen
Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 15:10:46
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Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 15:02:11
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I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 14:56:05
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Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-11 14:39:29
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Customize the OpenID Connect 1.0 UserInfo Response in Spring Authorization Server
Baeldung @ 2026-11-11 14:16:37
Learn how to customize the Spring Authorization Server UserInfo endpoint handling. The post Customize the OpenID Connect 1.0 UserInfo Response in Spring Authorization Server first appeared on Baeldung .
Decoding Ediacaran fossils
AEON @ 2026-11-11 12:01:00
Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness’ - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How LinkedIn, Netflix & DoorDash Run Agents, Evals & Inference in Production: QCon AI New York 2026
InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 12:00:00
QCon AI New York has published its full program for December 15–16, 2026. Engineers from LinkedIn, Netflix, DoorDash, Figma, Pinterest, Honeycomb, Harvey, Google DeepMind and OpenAI describe AI systems they run in production. Talks cover agent permission
GTA VI Is Now Available For Preloading
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 12:00:00
Ancient Slashdot reader Lank writes: GTA VI is now available for preloading. The download weighs in at a whopping 210+ gigabytes on the PS5! Start downloading now and remember to take Nov. 19th off from work. "On Xbox, preloads for digital versions went li
What's new in Swift: November 2026 Edition
Swift blog @ 2026-11-11 10:00:00
Welcome to the latest edition of “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, news, and discussions from the Swift project and community. To start things off, our guest contributor shares a timely reminder for anyone relying on CocoaPods: Hi
Angular's TypeScript 7-Powered Compiler Enters Beta with Rust-Based Preprocessor
InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 08:06:00
The Angular team has introduced ngp, a compiler preprocessor that rewrites the analysis stage in Rust using Oxc. It replaces ngc's dependence on the Transformer API, which TypeScript 7.0 removed. An early benchmark showed 2x to 3x faster cold builds. Ado
US and Rest of World Must Follow China's Lead On Green Energy, Says John Kerry
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 08:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe -- including the US -- must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guar
M John Harrison Becomes First Sci-Fi Author To Win Booker Prize
slashdot @ 2026-11-11 04:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award's history. Gaby
Google Summer of Code 2026 results
Rust blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
The Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the third time this year. This time we had 13 projects, and our dear contributors have been working very hard on them for several months. As usual, the projects had various durations, s
Withdrawing the Primitive Patterns Preview Feature
Inside Java @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
We have decided to cease development of Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch. The draft JEP that would have been the sixth preview of this feature will be withdrawn, and the feature will be removed from JDK
Guide to observability with Red Hat OpenShift 5
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
In Red Hat OpenShift 5, observability, powered by Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, transforms cluster management through 3 core capabilities designed to accelerate incident response while maintaining enterprise-grade safety and human control.Autonomous troubl
Unlocking next-generation workloads: What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 5
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
As organizations navigate rising hypervisor licensing costs, ongoing hardware scarcity and procurement delays, and the race to support AI workloads, IT teams face a difficult balancing act. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization meets this challenge by giving en
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 5.0: Run your Kubernetes fleet with more control
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
A growing Kubernetes fleet brings more than compute. It also creates more places to search, policies to maintain, and upgrade paths to watch.That work adds up fast. Red Hat's 2026 fleet management research found that 85% of organizations grew their fleets
Now in Developer Preview: The self-managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux command-line assistant
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
The self-managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) command-line assistant is now available as a Developer Preview. Building on the offline RHEL command-line assistant Developer Preview, this release shifts control to you: Deploy on your own infrastructure, a
Latin America leads investments in digital sovereignty, but is it ready to execute?
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
Digital sovereignty was once treated as a regulatory debate or an aspiration for the far future, but it has quickly evolved into a strategic and operational imperative for organizations worldwide. A new global study, conducted by Futurum Research and spons
Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 and 9.9
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.3 and RHEL 9.9. Today’s launch is about reinforcing the platform’s foundation to meet the evolving security, operational, and AI-driven demands of the modern enterprise.
How Red Hat OpenShift 5 simplifies incident diagnosis with supervised AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00
Prometheus metrics, traces, and logs are rarely missing in modern enterprise environments. Most platform teams already have plenty of telemetry at their disposal. The real bottleneck is the sheer volume of data a human must parse before taking meaningful a
30 years of Internet transfers with curl
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-11 00:05:57
Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and
Gary Marcus: ‘Just Say No to Anthropic’s IPO’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 23:16:25
Gary Marcus: When a business needs exponentially increasing amounts of capital to make modest increases in quality in an intensely competitive market and still owes far more money than it has ever made, there is a serious problem. I continue to be
Altar II Keyboard on Kickstarter
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 21:59:25
Electronic Materials Office is the brainchild of Andrew Emerson. Back in 2023 he launched the Altar I, a rather distinctive mechanical keyboard. Much thinner than most, very opinionated in its industrial design and keycap typography. I got one and I don
Inside Play@TED: Talks, toys and big ideas about play
TED Blog @ 2026-11-10 21:07:49
On May 14, 2026, more than 100 policymakers, educators, creators and leaders filled the TED World Theater in New York City to test one question: What if play isn’t a break from learning and work, but the engine behind them? How Play@TED started In November
Cloudflare Makes Basin Serverless Analytics Generally Available
InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 20:14:00
Cloudflare has announced the general availability of Basin, a serverless analytics platform built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage. The managed service supports open data formats and integrates with tools such as DuckDB, Snowflake, and Apache Spar
Google Finds That Technical Debt Can Derail Coding Agents through "Agent Distraction"
InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 19:00:00
In a recent article, Google senior staff software engineer Sam Saccone and senior staff data scientist Madhuri Garikapati highlighted the cost of agent distraction, where AI coding agents get derailed by stale technical debt, such as old TODO comments, o
Análisis de ajedrez | Enzo Millán luce su talento en el Europeo sub-8
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-10 18:38:16
Tras ganar invicto el Campeonato de España de su edad este verano, el aragonés está cerca de los primeros en el continental
Bloomberg: ‘Nvidia Intervened in U.S. Probe of Megaspeed Chip Smuggling’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 18:06:01
Mackenzie Hawkins, reporting yesterday for Bloomberg: Despite that stance, in the months after Teter’s initial call with Kessler, Nvidia gave BIS an incomplete account of its business with Megaspeed. After several visits to Megaspeed’s data centers —
Regarding Graveyards and Indispensable Men
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 18:01:06
Steve Jobs to 60 Minutes in 2003: “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” (I linked to this just a few months ago , but thought it worth a re-link today .) ★
Announcing the Swift Student Challenge 2027
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-10 18:00:12
Apple is proud to support the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs with the Swift Student Challenge. The Challenge gives students from around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and app development skills. The
Steven Levy on John Ternus
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 17:32:26
Steven Levy at Wired, in a terrific post-event follow-up to his exclusive early look at the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): I first met Ternus in 2015, when I spent a day with him at Apple’s Input Design Lab, a testing facility in Cupertino. He’d ris
AI Agents Ran a Biology Lab. Humans Popped in to Empty the Trash.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-10 17:18:21
"Self-driving" labs could free scientists to analyze results, refine hypotheses, and brainstorm ideas. The post AI Agents Ran a Biology Lab. Humans Popped in to Empty the Trash. appeared first on SingularityHub .
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 17:03:47
Hello Developer: November 2026
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-10 17:00:59
In this supersized edition: Join us at Europe’s first Apple Developer Center. Say hello to Touch on Mac. Learn about the Swift Student Challenge 2027. Browse new App Review help articles. Explore new subscription features. Read now
OurCal
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 16:15:17
My thanks to OurCal for sponsoring last week at DF. You ever have a discussion that starts with “I didn’t see you put that on the calendar”? Could be with your colleagues, could be with your family. But the problem is familiar: Shared calendars solved sch
The Case for a Bubble at Life’s Start
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-10 16:08:35
Is self-enclosure life’s greatest trick? According to the lipid-first theory, a cell membrane enabled life by giving chemistry a place to gather. The post The Case for a Bubble at Life’s Start first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Microsoft employee price list from 1987
old new thing @ 2026-11-10 16:00:00
The Microsoft product catalog. The post Microsoft employee price list from 1987 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Safari 27.3 Adds Support for Global Privacy Control
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:47:10
Nick Heer, Pixel Envy: There are a whole bunch of features and fixes coming to Safari with Apple’s OS 27.3 update. One that is not in the beta release notes but appears nevertheless is support for Global Privacy Control . This new standard is effec
‘A Scandal at the Center of the Economy’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:36:18
Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): It is curious, then, that, as news came out that the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, had had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who was also an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Secu
U.S. Commerce Dept. Inquiry Into Megaspeed Was Halted After Nvidia Name-Dropped Trump Appointee
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:35:38
Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett, reporting yesterday for The New York Times (gift link): Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial in
Fragments: November 10
Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:30:00
It’s that time of the year when the November Thoughtworks Technology Radar appears. Again my colleagues have taken a sweep of the technologies that our teams have used in the field, and pulled together a summary of what’s popped up in the last six month
Balanced Incomplete Block Designs
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 15:26:21
Suppose you have n different fertilizers you want to test. The simplest experiment would be to take a big plot of land, divide it into n sections, and apply each fertilizer to a section. That’s fine if you have one big enough plot of land, and the l
Long-horizon agents and durable execution
Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:10:00
Long-horizon agents can automate complex tasks that take days or weeks to complete and involve multiple exchanges with people and external systems. Many things can go wrong during this time, including process crashes, network failures, and unantici
Learning State Preparation Circuits for Quantum Phases of Matter
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 14:42:35
Quantum 10, 2270 (2026). Many-body ground state preparation is an important subroutine used in the simulation of physical systems. In this paper, we introduce a flexible and efficient framework for obtaining a
Geometric characterization of non-Gaussian entanglement for finite stellar rank states
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:59:58
Quantum 10, 2269 (2026). We introduce a general framework for the analysis of non-Gaussian entanglement in bosonic states of finite stellar rank. The central result is the full characterization of their entangl
Simulating Gaussian boson sampling on graphs in polynomial time
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:42:35
Quantum 10, 2268 (2026). We show that a distribution related to Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) on graphs can be sampled classically in polynomial time. Graphical applications of GBS typically sample from this di
Lower-depth local encoding circuits for the surface code
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:32:31
Quantum 10, 2267 (2026). The surface code is the most studied error-correcting code thanks to its high threshold, simple decoding, and locality in two dimensions (2D). A key component of any code is its encodin
Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth
Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 13:02:28
AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.
Pinterest and Intel Take Open-Source Profiling to Internet Scale
InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 13:00:00
Pinterest has partnered with Intel to extend gProfiler, an open-source continuous profiler that provides production performance visibility across an internet-scale fleet of infrastructure. By Craig Risi
Variational formulae for entropy-like functionals for states in von Neumann algebras
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:51:20
Quantum 10, 2266 (2026). The paper presents variational formulae for entropy-like functionals, including Segal and Rényi entropies, for normal states on semifinite von Neumann algebras. The considered functiona
Fast simulations of X-ray absorption spectroscopy for battery materials on a quantum computer
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:34:59
Quantum 10, 2265 (2026). X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a leading technique for understanding structural changes in advanced battery materials such as lithium-excess cathodes. However, extracting critic
Rotating-Wave and Secular Approximations for Open Quantum Systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:22:19
Quantum 10, 2264 (2026). We derive a nonperturbative bound on the distance between evolutions of open quantum systems described by time-dependent generators. We show how this result can be employed to provide a
Cryptanalysis of Isogeny-Based Quantum Money with Rational Points
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:13:50
Quantum 10, 2263 (2026). Quantum money is a representative application in cryptography that utilizes quantum technology to achieve security that is unattainable with classical systems. Since the theoretical pro
The wholehearted life
AEON @ 2026-11-10 12:00:00
Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon
Sequential realization of Quantum Instruments
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 11:03:38
Quantum 10, 2262 (2026). In adaptive quantum circuits classical results of mid-circuit measurements determine the upcoming gates. This allows POVMs, quantum channels or more generally quantum instruments to be
Creo que debo
brucknerite @ 2026-11-10 10:00:00
11 de noviembre. ¿Parar o no? He reflexionado con cuidado y tengo 137 palabras para vosotros, sin contar estas.
Google Cloud Spend Caps Reach General Availability with API and Monthly Resets
InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 09:39:00
Google Cloud has made spend caps on Cloud Billing Budgets generally available, pausing new usage of a service in a project once a monthly budget is hit, without deleting resources. GA adds an API, estimated live costs, and automatic monthly resets, but c
Effect 4.0 Ships: Dependency-Free Rewrite with 5x Smaller Bundles and Long-Term Support
InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 07:33:00
Effect 4.0, a TypeScript framework for typed errors and structured concurrency, was released on 30 September 2026 with a rewritten fiber runtime. The team reports a bundle size drop from 35.6 kB to 7.1 kB and about 6.4x higher throughput, though these fi
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Let Agents Use Your Tools Without Giving Them Free Rein
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 05:14:31
An agent’s job isn’t known until it runs, so a role assigned in advance is always too much or too little. Give the agent a task instead, and every call it makes gets checked against that intent, whether it’s reading a Linear issue or emailing a distributi
Tiny model, full provenance — where Apache Sourcelume is, and where it is heading
ASF @ 2026-11-10 03:00:00
By Achim Nierbeck and Jamie Goodyear Ask anyone who ships a language model a simple question: which data was this trained on, and what license comes with it? The honest answer today is a shrug with a bibliography. Training corpora are assembled from dozen
Combinatorial designs
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 02:38:48
The last several posts have been building up to this one, moving from tangible to more abstract. The posts on finite geometry gave examples of Steiner triples and more generally Steiner systems, introduced in the previous post. Combinatorial designs take
Tutorial: The G1 Garbage Collector
Inside Java @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00
In this tutorial, we will cover a brief history of G1, its key design concepts, and how to use it.
Bloomberg Was Onto Megaspeed’s Game a Year Ago
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 00:46:17
Mackenzie Hawkins, Andy Lin, and Kari Soo Lindberg, reporting for Bloomberg last year on December 22 ( Archive.today link ): In an industry run by titans, a Singapore AI firm called Megaspeed International Pte. is drawing an unusual amount of attentio
Short-Seller Culper Research Published Information on Jensen Huang’s Affair Back in May
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:57:04
Culper Research is a short-seller that published a report ( PDF and in a thread on X ) in May alleging that Nvidia “had a China problem”. From the start of its report: Nvidia claims that its business in China went to “zero” after April 2025 U.S.
Tesla Brain Drain
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:32:27
Fred Lambert, writing for Electrek: Tesla painted a very different picture just two years ago. At its 2024 shareholder meeting , it showed this slide of its lineup: the Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, Cybertruck, and Semi, plus three vehicles und
Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity
Deepmind @ 2026-11-09 20:51:47
Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM, A2A Java, Open Liberty, Open J Proxy, Gradle, EclipseStore
InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 19:40:00
This week's Java roundup for November 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of TornadoVM, TornadoInsight, A2A for Java, Gradle and EclipseStore; the November 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the third release candidate of Open J Proxy; the
AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-11-09 18:55:26
Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need,
Rubio Warned Officials About Jensen Huang’s Affair With a Chinese Spy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 18:47:22
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Julian E. Barnes, and Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Rubio’s memo was circulated to administration officials with high-level security clearances ahead of a trip Mr. Trump took to China i
Steiner Systems
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 18:01:43
Steiner triples Several examples from the recent posts on finite geometry are special cases of Steiner triples. A Steiner triple system, written STS(n), is a collection of three-element subsets, called blocks, of a set X with n elements, such that every t
Análisis de ajedrez | Calzetta lidera el Mundial +50
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-09 17:06:47
La española, campeona en 2023, es primera en solitario tras cinco rondas de las once previstas
Did Life Begin in an RNA World?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-09 16:20:29
Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough. The post Did Life Begin in an RNA World? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
If the Windows Update hot patcher checks that the function hasn’t already been patched, does that mean you can’t install two hot-patches?
old new thing @ 2026-11-09 16:00:00
It knows what it did. The post If the Windows Update hot patcher checks that the function hasn’t already been patched, does that mean you can’t install two hot-patches? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Finite hyperbolic planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:26:09
Euclid’s fifth postulate says that given a line ℓ and a point P not on ℓ , there is a unique line through P parallel to ℓ. In the projective plane there are no parallel lines, and in the hyperbolic plane there are at least two lines through P parall
Finite Affine Planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:21:49
The previous post was on finite projective planes. This post will look at finite affine planes and the next will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Affine geometry is essentially what remains of Euclidean geometry if you keep the incidence properties, e.g.
A trip to upside-down world
AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:01:00
Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Equality talk
AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00
In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon
Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi have written a book that is a sequel to Garey and Johnson
Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-09 02:31:45
LANCE: You should take a break from all the AI stuff and talk about your book! BILL: I will! But it's not my book its co-authored with Erik Demaine and Mohammad Hajiaghayi. The title is Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmi
A Valhalla Ticker in One int
Inside Java @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00
Learn how to pack a short ticker symbol into one int with a value class implementing CharSequence and Comparable.
Jensen Huang Betrayed Nvidia, Not Just His Family
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 00:56:32
Julian E. Barnes, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur, and Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times on Friday: John Rizzo, an Nvidia spokesman, said that the company does not share classified information with its customers, and that customers do not ask
Finite Projective Planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 00:23:49
The idea of finite geometries sounds like an oxymoron the first time you hear of it, something like dry water or cold fire, but the axioms of some kinds of geometry can indeed be satisfied by finite models. The axioms of projective plane geometry are as f
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Was Banging a Chinese Spy, Who Was Feeding Information Back to Beijing
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-08 22:50:31
Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times: Nvidia said on Sunday that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, its chief executive and co-founder, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business ex
FFI: Fix array initializer overflow check.
luajit @ 2026-11-08 20:07:27
This is not a security issue, as the FFI is considered unsafe. Reported by ZeroVuln Labs.
FFI: Sign-extend negative integers cast to 64 bit pointers.
luajit @ 2026-11-08 18:56:47
Thanks to javacty. #1541
How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files
Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:31:31
Learn how to handle a missing tools.jar on newer JDK versions that may be defined as a system dependency in an older Maven project. The post How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files first appeared on Baeldung .
Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver
Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:20:05
Learn how to access shadow DOM elements with Selenium, understand shadow-root boundaries, and compare native WebDriver support with JavaScript-based approaches. The post Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung .
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran ataque sin miedo
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-08 09:09:37
Pogorélov, flamante campeón de España +65, de origen ucranio, firma una virtuosa ofensiva con las piezas negras en el Mundial de veteranos
Java and the Next Generation of Programming Models
Inside Java @ 2026-11-08 01:00:00
Modern software increasingly interacts with AI models, query languages, and other specialized programming models, forcing you to switch contexts, embed foreign code, or write verbose wrappers to bridge the gap. What if you could express logic from outside
Yours Truly on Full Stack Creator, Talking About the New MacBook Pros With PROLED XDR Displays
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-07 22:14:09
Tyler Stalman and David Altizer were kind enough to have me on their show this week. These new MacBook Pros are very fun computers that are very fun to talk about. (We even sneak in some love for Ricoh’s legendary GR line of compact cameras. I used my
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 7)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-07 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 November 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Rise of the Product Engineer
Code Capsule @ 2026-11-07 14:06:27
AI is increasingly enabling technically skilled engineering managers to identify business needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and build features independently. This may drive product and engineering roles to merge within 1.5-3 years, creating AI-native
Análisis de ajedrez | Adiós a César Estrada
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-07 11:35:50
El excampeón de España de veteranos, muy culto y gran conversador, tuvo una vida intensa, siempre compatible con su pasión por el ajedrez
★ Touch and Glow
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 20:50:46
Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles, the new MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays, and the state of the Macintosh platform.
Java Weekly, Issue 670
Baeldung @ 2026-11-06 18:35:09
Agentic refactoring which is actually cheap? Yes please. The post Java Weekly, Issue 670 first appeared on Baeldung . Comments Thanks for mentioning Dukehoff MCP :-). We've got
Análisis de ajedrez | Ajedrez y música en Simpson’s
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-06 17:06:14
El gran maestro Luke McShane ofrece pistas sobre el mate de alfil y caballo durante una exhibición a ciegas en Londres
A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-06 16:48:54
Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument. The post A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality firs
Apple Support: ‘About the Illuminated Apple Logo on MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:03:51
Apple Support: To make the Apple logo dark in all lighting conditions, you can turn off its illumination using Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. You can also use Spotlight to find and open it. Type or paste this
The President is Coping Well
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:00:22
The WSJ, “Trump Signs Proclamation He Says Will Protect Oval Office From Major Changes”: President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as landmarks to prevent future presiden
Why are we all worked up about atomicity when applying hot-patches if we can just suspend all the threads?
old new thing @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00
Suspending all the threads stops the threads that are there now, those are not the only possible sources of change. The post Why are we all worked up about atomicity when applying hot-patches if we can just suspend all the threads? appeared first on
What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean?
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00
Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is—or might one day become—truly intelligent. The post What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean? appeared first on SingularityHub .
Celestial nuisance
AEON @ 2026-11-06 12:00:00
The cosmos has become a lab for the Big Questions in physics. Along the way, we’ve lost sight of its glorious messiness - by Dylan Jow Read on Aeon
All you need is Trotter
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 10:40:19
Quantum 10, 2261 (2026). The work here enables a cost scaling of $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T ^{1+o(1)} {\rm log}^2 (1/\epsilon)}{\varepsilon}\right)$ and maximum depth $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T^{1+o(1)} {\rm log} (
Bounding the entanglement of a state from its spectrum
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 09:00:23
Quantum 10, 2260 (2026). We introduce a framework to upper bound the entanglement content of a bipartite quantum state from its spectrum alone. Using linear maps and their inverses, we derive rigorous constrain
Issue 775
iOS Weekly @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
macOS vs iPadOS, Siri AI, WebKit goes dark, PictureWriter, Stream, DeviceMCP, App Store 2026 in numbers
EIP-8037/EIP-8038 Glamsterdam
Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
Glamsterdam, the next update for Ethereum, is currently being tested on testnets. During these tests Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely on certain invariants. These invariants will be broken by
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Is Open: Win a Trip to KotlinConf
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back! Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Is Open: Win a Trip to KotlinConf
Kotlin news @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back! Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola
Salon Ceases Publication
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 22:31:04
Salon, in an unsigned goodbye post: Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them. Salon helped demonst
Meta Releases Mac Version of Edits
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 21:27:05
From Instagram’s Edits blog: I’m Brett Westervelt, and I lead the Edits app. In just over a year, 50 million people have made Edits part of how they bring ideas to life, and we’re excited to expand what Edits can do for creators. Today we’re bringin
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
Deepmind @ 2026-11-05 18:05:16
Análisis de ajedrez | El buen ojo de Àlvar
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-05 17:15:00
En una partida muy didáctica sobre el doble filo de las ventajas de espacio, el gran maestro español exhibe su profundidad de conceptos