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slashdot @ 2026-10-03 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of the

slashdot @ 2026-10-03 01:00:00

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford have built an AI called Ataraxos that finally cracked Stratego, beating four-time world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws. Its key advantage was a second neural network that esti

slashdot @ 2026-10-03 00:00:00

Longtime Slashdot submitter theodp writes: GeekWire reports that the University of Washington has moved its Global Innovation Exchange {GIX) program to Microsoft's campus in a rent-free deal (UW News release). GIX, an institute supporting tech leaders that

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 23:00:00

Apple says it will tighten macOS Full Disk Access controls as increasingly capable AI agents raise the risks of apps gaining broad access to users' files, messages, mail, and browsing history. TechCrunch reports: Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-02 22:54:15

The AI hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google underscore lessons that draw on years of computer science research. The post The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control appeared fir

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-02 22:40:15

Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in a state similar to what we have today. I worry.

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 22:00:00

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate under the Skydance name once their roughly $110 billion merger closes, which is expected on October 6. The combined company will bring together Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS, CNN, MTV and other networks, along w

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

AmiMoJo shares a report from heise online: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a

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

The European Commission has rolled out Element Pro as a self-hosted "sovereign back-up" to Microsoft Teams and the reviews aren't great. Politico reported that several officials questioned its usefulness and usability, with one calling it "absolute shit."

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 19:00:00

A federal judge has dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media accusing Google of harming publishers by using their content in AI Overviews and other AI search features without compensating them or providing a meaningful opt-out. Ars Technica

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-02 18:00:19

We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to f

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across the world. Companie

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 17:00:00

In an op-ed for The Guardian, authors Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender argue that policymakers are focusing too heavily on hypothetical "superintelligence" while overlooking the more immediate danger of deploying unreliable AI in high-stakes settings. They

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-02 16:45:02

Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow. The post Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewr

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 16:22:00

Uber has rebuilt major parts of the Uber Eats search pipeline, reporting a 50% reduction in end-to-end latency. Changes include Above-the-Fold measurement, reduced retrieval work, parallel hydration, advertising data redesign, infrastructure optimization

Baeldung @ 2026-10-02 14:07:00

Monoliths, Java 28 and performance. A good week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 666 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 14:00:00

Envoy Gateway has released v1.9.1, a maintenance release that focuses heavily on security, upgrade reliability, and operational correctness following the broader v1.9 release. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 13:00:00

Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice volume in the first eight months of 2026, bringing total losses since 2021 to 19.4%. Researchers say some glaciers are now collapsing from within as meltwater carves out large cavities. The Guardian reports: Matthias H

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 12:39:00

OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin capabilities for ChatGPT. By Daniel Dominguez

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 12:00:00

QCon San Francisco 2026 will bring together practitioners from Airbnb, OpenAI, Netflix, Honeycomb, and other engineering organizations to share how they are building, operating, and evolving production systems as AI agents take on a larger role. By Art

AEON @ 2026-10-02 12:00:00

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates - by Megan Kang Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 11:00:00

Docker has announced that it is bringing the Sandbox Kit Specification to the CNCF, aiming to make what an AI agent may access as portable as the agent itself. By Claudio Masolo

InfoQ @ 2026-10-02 11:00:00

DigitalOcean recently launched DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview, offering a managed cloud infrastructure layer for AI agents with isolated microVM runtimes, governed tool access, and serverless AI inference. By Sergio De Simone

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 09:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over r

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 05:30:00

fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called "Kelvin wave," a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shorelin

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 03:00:00

Alongside a refreshed Kindle lineup, Amazon today introduced two accessories that bring physical buttons back to its touchscreen e-readers. The $34.99 Kindle Click is a Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages and adjust brightness without touching th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-02 02:06:56

In the 6th inning last night the Yankees were only ahead 2-0, and Red Sox first baseman and all-around jackass Willson Contreras hit a home run, closing it to 2-1. Contreras decided to walk around the bases . The baseball gods do not look kindly upon t

Rust blog @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00

With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit Windows targets will happen: i686-pc-windows-msvc Tier 1 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 1 without host tools. i686-pc-windows-gnu Tier 2 with host tools target will be demo

Inside Java @ 2026-10-02 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 540: Simple JSON API (Incubator)

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

Knowing an application contains open source components is not the same as understanding the software and communities behind them.For many organizations, the software supply chain extends across thousands of dependencies, developed and maintained by communi

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

In part 1 of this series, we examined why enterprises need more than an inventory of the open source components in their software. Understanding where dependencies come from, whether they are maintained, how they handle vulnerabilities, and what options ex

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

Traditionally, reviewing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) lifecycle dates meant logging into the Hybrid Cloud Console, navigating to the Red Hat Lightspeed planning dashboard, and skimming through the lifecycle and digital roadmap pages yourself. Earlier th

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

ContextRed Hat OpenShift uses a purpose-built, immutable operating system for cluster nodes, commonly known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS). This operating system, which uses the same kernel and hardware compatibility from Red Hat Enterprise Lin

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

Securing AI agents requires securing the systems around themAs AI agents gain authority to act on enterprise systems, model safeguards alone are not enough. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright explains how Red Hat is delivering defense in depth across its portfolio

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-02 01:19:54

Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. The post Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-10-02 01:00:00

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-01 22:04:04

Introducing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications' cost, security, performance, and resilience—with ready-t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-01 20:10:19

Esta partida es modélica sobre el plan de ataque en el centro y el ala de rey contra la Defensa Ortodoxa

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-01 19:00:11

The original Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA) expires on February 1, 2027. Certificates issued by this authority will stop working on that date. What to do: Check if you’re affected. In Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles , look f

YC @ 2026-10-01 18:52:00

We’re thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 16:14:00

Qualcomm has released an early dev preview of Linux for its upcoming Snapdragon X2 Series laptop processors. The initiative focuses on integrating with the mainline Linux kernel ahead of commercial release to reduce software issues historically faced by

old new thing @ 2026-10-01 16:00:57

Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions. The post Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Confluent @ 2026-10-01 15:31:07

Confluent Cloud secures OSPAR attestation, providing Singapore financial institutions with verified assurance for outsourced data streaming.

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 15:24:01

Quantum 10, 2226 (2026). We demonstrate that spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can be operated as an analog simulator of the two-dimensional vibron model. This algebraic model describes bending vibrations

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-01 15:20:29

Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots. The post What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? first appeared on Qua

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 13:47:00

Software engineering skill development requires slowing down. Generative AI has changed the landscape of skill development for software engineering. Tools and AI can accelerate outcomes, but they may not support skill development. Engineers must understa

AEON @ 2026-10-01 12:01:00

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-01 12:00:00

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more - by Sasha Mudd Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:35:34

Quantum 10, 2225 (2026). We introduce new parallel algorithms for efficiently simulating stabilizer (Clifford) circuits on GPUs, with a focus on data-parallel tableau evolution and scalable handling of projecti

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:12:27

Quantum 10, 2224 (2026). We study the problem of $n$-fold rotationally symmetric bosonic state preparation, which is of great importance to bosonic quantum error correction, using a multiphoton interaction betw

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:32:26

Quantum 10, 2223 (2026). We present a universal framework for simulating $N$-dimensional linear Itô stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on quantum computers with additive or multiplicative noises. Building

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:27:16

Quantum 10, 2222 (2026). Robust self-testing in non-local games allows a classical referee to certify that two untrustworthy players are able to perform a specific quantum strategy up to high precision. Proving

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 08:47:00

TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, has introduced Jev, a decision-making model that generates typed outputs rather than text. It evaluates inputs in parallel, providing results with probabilistic scores and confidence values.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 08:31:00

Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps Express generally available alongside Container Apps Sandboxes, the microVM compute layer it runs on. Express skips environment provisioning and scales to zero, with subsecond startup from prewarmed pools. Custom d

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00

tl;dr: zkAPI lets you pay for a metered API without being known. Deposit credits into an Ethereum vault once, then authorize bounded usage with zero-knowledge proofs instead of an identity. The provider sees the requests, and the payment layer sees the spe

Rust blog @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.99.0. 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 1.99.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00

While AI agents are rapidly advancing, the performance and scalability of the agents and their underlying services have received too little attention. This session showcases Helidon powering scalable services via Virtual Thread–based MCP servers and high-

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-01 02:00:00

High School Internship program participants, pictured on their first day at Red HatIn July 2026, the second High School Internship Program kicked off in Boston and Raleigh. This unique internship, taking place over the course of four weeks, gives high sch

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-01 00:10:00

Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in compaction, maintenance, and engine compatibili

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-30 22:40:23

In August, we released Dogwood, an open source governance language for agents and their actions. Dogwood policies specify which actions an agent may take and under what conditions. A key feature of the language is support for temporal conditions, which let

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:17:32

SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buy

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:14:31

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus. At the center o

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 22:03:34

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before similarity search so scoped queries return more relevant results. Ideal for RAG, agentic apps, and document search.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 22:01:45

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 21:23:42

Echo Wang, reporting for Reuters yesterday: Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than ​industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. This is

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:22:31

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that j

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-30 19:13:51

Tras un periodo de resultados grises, el español, de padre sefardí y madre rusa, logra 7,5 puntos de 9 en la Olimpiada

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:04:05

Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a rea

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 19:00:00

A look at two InfoQ online certification cohorts covering security and privacy decisions in production AI systems and the verification needed when coding agents work in existing codebases. By Artenisa Chatziou

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-30 17:52:36

I got the following question in an email. My nephew is currently in high school in China and has developed a strong interest in computer science and mathematics. Recently, we've been talking about how computers can solve incredibly complex problems,

Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 17:03:07

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-30 16:52:12

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time. The post Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-30 16:14:00

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control

old new thing @ 2026-09-30 16:00:00

Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task. The post Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 15:47:00

Cursor has introduced Continuity, a Git storage architecture that uses an S3 backed write ahead log as the source of truth. The design turns local NVMe repositories into warm caches and separates replica coordination from consistency. Cursor reports line

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 15:26:55

Quantum 10, 2221 (2026). There exists a stark tension among different formulations of quantum theory as some are inherently time-symmetric while others are time-asymmetric. This tension is crisply captured when

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03

We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03

We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi

AEON @ 2026-09-30 12:01:00

A fool, a genius, or ‘a man who destroys everything’? Piecing together Zoran, a mythic figure of Belgrade - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 10:28:32

Quantum 10, 2220 (2026). Studies have shown that quantum states reside in a Hilbert space bundle. When a quantum system depends on continuous external parameters, these parameters define additional dimensions i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 10:21:18

Quantum 10, 2219 (2026). Qubit shuttling promises to advance some quantum computing platforms to the qubit register sizes needed for effective quantum error correction (QEC), but also introduces additional erro

brucknerite @ 2026-09-30 10:00:00

El próximo sábado 3 de octubre a las 10.30, en el Civivox Pompelo (Pamplona), comienza Naukas Navarra Más Planeta Next-Gen, un nuevo evento Naukas en el que podréis verme casi, casi al final de la sesión de tarde, a las 19.10. ¡Acercaos si no os pilla muy

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 09:48:28

Quantum 10, 2218 (2026). If a unitary transformation has a circuit representation with no directed path from input $a$ to output $b$, then $a$ does not influence $b$ through the overall unitary. Conversely, if

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 08:16:00

CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, verified by a frame-by-frame replay harness. The agents built a playbook of codebase-specific recipes along the way.

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 07:58:00

The Svelte team has entered the release candidate phase for SvelteKit 3, which focuses on code refinement and prepares for future updates. Notable changes include moving configuration to vite.config.ts, replacing the $lib alias with #lib for improved com

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-30 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

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-09-30 03:00:00

Geliehene Erinnerungen

Inside Java @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

Four years ago, I outlined a playbook for building an enterprise innovation engine. The goal was straightforward: establish a repeatable model for discovering, aligning, developing, and commercializing emerging technologies before market shifts pass you by

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

IT decision makers and their teams often need a scalable private cloud to support optimizing IT operations as they adopt a foundation for cloud-native development. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift brings massive scale to Infrastructure-as-a-Service,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

Organizations face a persistent challenge maintaining workplace safety, security, asset tracking, and operational compliance across facilities with multiple video feeds. Manual monitoring is resource-intensive, inherently reactive, and often misses critica

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 22:19:08

The robot could potentially travel over 40 miles on a single charge, roughly three times further than other designs. The post This Robot Dog Crushed a Marathon Without Stopping to Recharge appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-29 21:59:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 572 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Especial Directo en Madrid/Tetuán”, 24 sep 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 572: Regeneración muscula

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 21:00:00

Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot applications and autonomous AI agents in a unified environment. By Sergio De Simone

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-29 19:16:04

El campeón del mundo dio en la Olimpiada claras muestras de recuperación de su profunda crisis, pero sufrió este revés en la última ronda

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 17:08:19

Regarding my post yesterday speculating on how Apple’s October — seemingly set to be a big one — might play out, a friend asked if any or all of the new stuff might be released through Apple Newsroom announcements only. Good question. Let’s run through

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 16:29:28

Desktop only, and you definitely want sound on. ( Update: Now works great on mobile devices, too!) With things like this I always start with Kottke.org. No idea why, because it’s quite possibly the last site on the entire web I’d want to see actually d

old new thing @ 2026-09-29 16:00:00

Swearing is also poor form. The post As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 15:43:00

A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 14:41:00

Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29

In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29

In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t

Atomic14 @ 2026-09-29 14:00:00

In my last post Claude and I failed to get reinforcement learning to play Manic Miner, and we ended up solving the whole game with plain old search. Around the same time, TypeSafe released Jev . Jev is what they call a “System One” model - the name

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-29 12:47:12

Quantum 10, 2217 (2026). Quantum phase transitions reveal deep insights into the behavior of many-body quantum systems, but identifying these transitions without prior knowledge of order parameters remains a si

AEON @ 2026-09-29 12:00:00

A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label - by Matthew R Cooperberg Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-09-29 08:55:30

Learn what's new in Java 27: which JEPS are final and which are still in preview. The post New Features in Java 27 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 04:15:36

“A foundry for bastard web fonts.” The default is a version of Times New Roman but every 7th glyph is replaced with one from Arial, but you can dial up whatever bastardization you want. This is why I’m not at all worried about AI destroying the world. L

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:51:50

Sancho Panza: I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Kagi , the search engine I’ve been using for a few years now, gave me the exact sort of results to Panza

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:42:00

If anyone could devise a funny way to measure battery life, it’s her.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:10:48

Apple executives seemingly did very few interviews after the iPhone event three weeks ago. The best, perhaps by far, is this 11-minute video with Craig Federighi by “Donald Decodes”, a Chinese language creator. His YouTube account only has 1,100 followe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 02:43:51

Glenn Fleishman: Leaving Stolen Device Protection enabled does mean that you may have to wait an hour in some scenarios to manage aspects of your Apple Account, make changes to Face ID or Touch ID, change your device passcode, and a few other actions.

The Syndicate @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Have you ever taken your phone out of your pocket and thought, “Why is my phone so hot?!” Maybe you actually said it out loud or dropped your phone from surprise. You might have also noticed that the screen was still fully lit, the phone

Inside Java @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Applications are moving beyond predefined workflows toward agentic systems that can reason, use tools, interact with enterprise data, execute code, delegate work and collaborate with other agents to accomplish goals. This has driven the development of new

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 00:41:40

Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and spend another few days in Palo Alto and San Francisco ahead of my interview with Zuckerberg, s

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 00:01:26

A government-funded competition would award prizes for quantum computers that do useful work no supercomputer can touch. The post US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 21:50:19

Jeff Johnson: In other words, Muse AI is a blatant copy of Muse from Meta, the latter of which is currently the #1 iOS App Store download in the United States. I don’t know where Muse AI ranks in the iOS App Store, but I do know that it’s currently th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 20:43:48

Apple, in my experience, sticks to a very predictable schedule for review units.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-28 19:35:35

Nadie, ni siquiera el aspirante al título mundial, puede jugar relajado ante el genial ucranio de 57 años

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 18:35:02

Vidit Bhargava (developer of LookUp and Movie Buzz ): Duo-Man offers the complete walkman experience on the iPhone Duo. Open the Duo to pick and “insert” the cassette, Close the Duo to start listening. Yes, I actually recorded the button clicks a

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-28 18:14:54

If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Am

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-28 16:35:21

After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians. The post Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Maga

old new thing @ 2026-09-28 16:00:00

Only on first execution. The post C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they get initialized multiple times appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:01:00

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:00:00

The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us - by Daniel Swift Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26

The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26

The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-28 05:34:50

The STOC conference (and likely others) are requiring that a submission says how much AI was used. I can imagine the following options: 1) AI was used for proofreading and tightening prose (I think in this case you do not need to disclose). 2) AI was

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Glamsterdam follows the Fusaka upgrade, advancing Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes to gas pricing that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth. The Glamsterdam ne

Atomic14 @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Around 10 years ago Google DeepMind showed that you could use deep reinforcement learning to play video games . It’s something that I found fascinating at the time and wanted to try but never had the time to really look into it. With LLMs now being ab

Inside Java @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Notable performance improvements in JDK27

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-27 22:24:37

Tras las tablas en el tercer tablero, los dos primeros estaban en posiciones inciertas; pero Madamínov logró la victoria decisiva en el cuarto

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:22:00

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots — hosted AI workflows — turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, thro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:21:43

Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang’s “Why We’re Building Muse” essay: This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about helping people “spending more time with family”

Baeldung @ 2026-09-27 15:04:27

Performance in Java is always getting better. The post Java Weekly, Issue 665 first appeared on Baeldung .              

The observation deck @ 2026-09-27 02:00:00

I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang , which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 23:08:08

Back in 2011 I linked to Reelizer, a splendid archive of movie posters curated by Roger Erik Tinch . Reelizer went away for a few years, but Tinch has brought it back, seemingly better than ever. Huzzah.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 22:34:54

Alexandr Wang, blogging on X: Now imagine every person on earth with a second mind beyond their own. A general manager whose whole job is to find out what you want and make sure it happens. Someone that hears the half-sentence, “I feel like there’s so

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 21:41:39

I keep mentioning Apple’s 1992 groundbreaking PowerBook Duo series as a precedent for the iPhone Duo’s name. But of course in 2020, Apple released the MagSafe Duo Charger, a wonderful Lightning peripheral for charging an iPhone and Apple Watch at the same

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 20:46:24

Markus Kuhn: In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of two (1.4142 : 1). In other words, the width and the height of a page relate to each other like the side and the diagonal of a square. This aspect r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:53:14

Zac Bowden, Windows Central: In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called “Copilot+ PCs” that set the baseline for a new wave of AI-first computers, and launched with exclusive features that would not be ma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:21:38

Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-26 17:54:10

Con Sindárov recuperado de su derrota en 24 horas, la selección anfitriona afronta la última ronda con un punto más que India

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-26 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 September 26) appeared first on SingularityHub .