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InfoQ @ 2024-04-20 08:13:00

During the recent Developer Week, Cloudflare announced that the object storage R2 now supports event notifications, which automatically trigger Workers in response to data changes. Additionally, the migration service Super Slurper now extends its support

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 03:25:00

Earlier this week, Netflix found itself embroiled in an AI scandal when Futurism spotted AI-generated images used in the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did.. The movie's credits do not mention any uses of AI, causing critics to call out the filmmakers f

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-20 02:53:41

To sum up my stance: Tracking is wrong when it’s done without consent, and when users have no idea what’s being tracked or how it’s being used. Tracking is fine when it’s done with consent, and users know what’s being tracked and how it’s being used.

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 02:45:00

Ben Schoon reports via 9to5Google: Google's Arif Dikici confirmed on LinkedIn this week that Android is now using VideoLAN's (the makers of VLC) "dav1d" software decoder to allow AV1 to work on more devices. This is now available on all devices running And

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 02:02:00

BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Mozilla has announced Firefox Nightly for ARM64. This release will cater to the growing demand for support on ARM64 platforms, commonly referred to as AArch64. Feedback from the community has led Mozilla to expan

Inside Java @ 2024-04-20 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 23: 469: Vector API (Eighth Incubator)

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-20 01:58:15

This post ties together the previous three posts. In this post, I said that an Archimedean spiral has the polar equation r = b θ1/n and applied this here to rolls of carpet. When n = 1, the length of the spiral for θ running from 0 to T is approximately ½

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 01:20:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government'

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 00:40:00

Ashley Capoot reports via CNBC: Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe, is considering a proposal to take the genetic testing company private after its stock price tumbled more than 95% from its 2021 highs. A late Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchan

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-20 00:10:55

Eric Seufert, writing at Mobile Dev Memo, spitballing how Meta might respond if the EU accepts the recommendation from the EDPB that their “Pay or OK” model is illegal: Charge a nominal fee for the ad-supported versions of Facebook and Instagram M

slashdot @ 2024-04-20 00:02:00

Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding. "It is with profound sadness that, today, on April 18, 2024, we are announcing the difficult decision

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 23:30:23

Noam Bardin: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We built a toxicity-free

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 23:25:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: In October 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created his first viral site: not Facebook, but FaceMash. Then a college freshman, he hacked into Harvard's online dorm directories, gathered a massive collection of st

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 23:13:18

Aaron Tilley, Liza Lin, and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal ( News+ ): Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads as well as messaging platforms Signal and Telegram were taken off the Chinese App Store Friday. Apple said it was told to r

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 22:45:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Biden administration is designating two "forever chemicals," man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 22:33:36

(Usually I put an "Apply to YC" thing in the HN footer [1] but I forgot this time, so here is my pitch to make up for it.) If you've ever thought about applying to YC, here's a tip: just do it. It doesn't take long and could change your life, like it did

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-19 22:07:11

Time to extinguish the slacker cliche. The post The Psychology of Getting High—a Lot appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 22:05:00

Linus Torvalds, discussing the AI hype, in a conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Verizon's Head of the Open Source Program Office: Torvalds snarked, "It's hilarious to watch. Maybe I'll be replaced by an AI model!" As for Hohndel, he thinks most AI today is "a

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-19 21:52:49

Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines) could in principle compute. Or more accurately when does being given access to the solutio

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 21:30:00

Microsoft Research Asia earlier this week unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. ArsTechnica: In the future, it could power virtual avatars

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 20:41:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, India's top three IT outsourcing firms, have collectively seen their workforce shrink for the first time in at least 20 years. The trio reported a combined reduction of more than 63,750 employee

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 20:02:00

Adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take measures to address systemic risks linked to their services to comply with new EU online content rules, the European Commission said on Friday. From a r

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 19:22:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Today Meta unleashed its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI, across its apps and as a standalone. The company boasts that it is running on its latest, greatest AI model, Llama 3, which was trained on "data of the highest quali

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 19:17:29

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Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-19 19:03:47

Dubbed “living drugs,” CAR T cells are bioengineered from a patient’s own immune cells to make them better able to hunt and destroy cancer. The treatment is successfully tackling previously untreatable blood cancers. Six therapies are already approved by t

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 18:40:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: iPerf is a fairly popular cross-platform tool that is used by many to measure network performance and diagnose any potential issues in this area. The open-source utility is maintained by an organization called Energy Sc

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-19 18:37:09

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 460 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [Acast A, Acast B; iVoox A, iVoox B; iTunes A y iTunes B], titulado “Ep460: Peter Higgs; Nova Recurrente; Agujero Negro Estelar», 18 abr 2024. «La tertulia […] La ent

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 18:28:18

Joe Fabisevich asked a common question on Threads : What’s the go to simple USB-C podcast mic that sounds good, but doesn’t have to be top of the line or super expensive? Think more “I need to sound professional on a podcast or two”, not “I make my m

slashdot @ 2024-04-19 18:01:00

Google, once known for its unconventional approach to business, has taken a decisive step towards becoming a more traditional company by firing 28 employees who participated in protests against a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government. The move

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-19 18:00:33

Join us around the world to learn about growing your business, elevating your app design, and preparing for the App Review process. Here’s a sample of our new activities — and you can always browse the full schedule to find more. Expand your app

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-19 17:44:27

psql is one of the most popular tools to interact with your PostgreSQL database. Here are our top 10 psql commands to save you time.

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 17:33:41

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iOS Weekly @ 2024-04-19 17:30:00

Comment You probably already saw this week’s announcement of AltStore PAL from Riley Testut and Shane Gill . I promised myself I wouldn’t write more about the DMA and associated fallout until I had somethi

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-19 16:00:10

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. The post Insects and Other Animals

old new thing @ 2024-04-19 16:00:00

Abandoning the background work if we know that it is pointless. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 15:47:02

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 13:42:18

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-19 12:00:00

Google has released Android 15 Beta. This version brings loudness control, screen recording detection, edge-to-edge apps by default, improvements for satellite connectivity and OpenJDK core libraries, new SQLite Apis, and more. By Diogo Carleto

InfoQ @ 2024-04-19 12:00:00

Microsoft recently announced significant updates to the Govern section of its Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, enhancing cloud governance guidance across various domains, including identity, cost management, and AI, to support better organizatio

Deepmind @ 2024-04-19 12:00:00

The ethics of advanced AI assistants Exploring the promise and risks of a future with more capable AI

AEON @ 2024-04-19 12:00:00

Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power - by Mark Vernon Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-19 11:00:00

Expedia's Performance and Reliability team has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA). It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-Place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of contai

Baeldung @ 2024-04-19 09:31:41

Stream gatherers in Java 23, small additions in Spring, modern Jakarta EE, AOP logging, and Meta patterns!              

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 07:51:32

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 05:53:15

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 04:15:45

David Pierce, writing for The Verge: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called “Platforms and Devices” that will oversee all of Google’s Pixel products, all of Andr

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 03:55:21

Senator Elizabeth Warren seemingly thinks Apple ought to be forced to operate iMessage as a public utility, free of charge. Or something? She doesn’t actually say what she thinks should happen. Is she suggesting Apple be forced to spin off “iMessage” as a

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 03:15:15

Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, in a company-wide memo published at The Verge, under the clear subject “Serious consequences for disruptive behavior”: Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It cle

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 03:08:38

Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge: ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined to win it. To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last September , is now being integrated into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 02:55:11

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TED Blog @ 2024-04-19 02:00:12

Session 10 of TED2024 plumbs the depths of human emotions, celebrating the beauty of community art, the everyday bravery of family life, the power of sound and more. The event: Talks from Session 10 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, hosted by TED’s

luajit @ 2024-04-19 01:44:19

Thanks to Jinji Zeng. #1179 #1157

TED Blog @ 2024-04-19 01:30:24

For one incredible week each year, a cavernous wing of the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada transforms into the TED Theater: a custom-made, hand-built, 1,200-seat theater that plays host to world-changing ideas meant to spark conversati

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 01:25:08

Todd Spangler, reporting for Variety: Netflix will no longer report subscriber numbers — which has been a key metric for streaming services for years — beginning with the first quarter of 2025. The company made the announcement in releasing its fi

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 00:44:52

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-19 00:40:21

Jon Brodkin, reporting for Ars Technica: The US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yeste

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-19 00:13:13

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Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-18 23:36:48

Donald Nelson spent his life undoing the damage that Jaws did to the perception of sharks. The post The Shark Whisperer appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 23:32:34

James Pero, writing at Inverse: Nothing’s audio products — including the newly announced Ear and Ear A  — are bringing what the company calls an “industry-first” integration with ChatGPT that allows users who also own a Nothing Phone like the recent

TED Blog @ 2024-04-18 23:00:44

In Session 9 of TED2024, great minds working on world-shifting innovations shared their work, from a biologist who raised mice with two dads to a computer scientist with a more democratic crowdfunding model. Whether at home or on the global stage, these bi

TED Blog @ 2024-04-18 20:30:54

From redefining the boundaries of artificial intelligence to unraveling the mysteries of the human genome, Session 8 of TED2024 inspired us to reimagine our relationship with technology and its impact on society. This session’s explorers offered profound i

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-18 19:36:49

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material, but it also set off a rush to find other promising atomically thin materials. Now researchers have managed to create a 2D version of gold they call “goldene,” which could have a host of application

Confluent @ 2024-04-18 19:00:02

Learn how to use kafka-docker-composer, a simple tool to create a docker-compose.yml file for failover testing, to understand cluster settings like Kraft, and for app development.

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 18:42:04

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YC @ 2024-04-18 18:00:00

Today Google Photos has more than a billion users. Most of those users probably don’t know that Google Photos' story begins at a startup called Bump.

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 17:57:22

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Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-18 16:56:12

Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by simply checking every possibility. The post Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 16:01:06

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 16:00:00

Chronon, Airbnb's platform which creates the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to pr

old new thing @ 2024-04-18 16:00:00

First attempt to try to fix the race condition. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Nasa Webb @ 2024-04-18 15:59:33

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is delivering on its promise to explore the farthest reaches of the universe, looking back to a time when galaxies were just beginning to form. Scientists have been eagerly waiting to use this complex observatory to unders

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-18 15:52:57

If you know the dimensions of a carpet, what will the dimensions be when you roll it up into a cylinder? If you know the dimensions of a rolled-up carpet, what will the dimensions be when you unroll it? This post answers both questions. Flexible carpet: s

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-18 15:11:00

For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier, then two entangled provers can convince a polynomial-time verifier. MIP* = RE Zhengfen

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 14:43:07

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 14:16:30

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 13:06:00

Software sustainability includes computing for environmental purposes and using resources appropriately. According to Coral Calero, software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software.

AEON @ 2024-04-18 12:01:00

Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-04-18 12:00:00

The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity - by Patrick J Casey Read at Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 11:24:53

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 11:00:00

Joni Collinge, Diagrid's founding software engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Quantum Journal @ 2024-04-18 10:14:23

In 2024 Quantum will celebrate 7 years since the first publications! From that first batch of papers, the journal grew to over 1300 published articles. This growth was made possible ...

brucknerite @ 2024-04-18 10:02:27

La quinta temporada de Star Trek: Lower Decks se publicará (me cuesta decir «se emitirá», porque con el streaming nadie emite nada) este otoño y será, desgraciadamente, la última. No me cuesta…

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 08:06:00

During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 04:35:24

If Meta caves and complies with this ruling by offering a free tier with significantly lower ARPU, that opens the door for regulators and legislative bodies around the globe to demand the same.

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 03:21:00

Ben Sandofsky: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, “I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way.” As someone who strives to build products with the craft and

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 03:09:51

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 02:32:47

Speaking of sports gambling scandals , here’s Tim Arango and Michael S. Schmidt, reporting for The New York Times: Ohtani has many other accounts, of course — he earns more money from endorsements and business deals than he does from his lucrative ba

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 02:15:45

Joe Vardon, reporting for The Athletic: The league said that Porter, who spent part of his time in the NBA and part of it in its developmental G League, privately told a sports bettor he was hurt, removed himself from a game to control prop bets on hi

TED Blog @ 2024-04-18 02:00:36

We’re about halfway through TED2024, and Session 7 was a whopper — covering everything from preventative medicine for one of the world’s rare diseases to quantum computing, the future of audio computing and a sprinkle of musical improvisational

Inside Java @ 2024-04-18 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 23: 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

Inside Java @ 2024-04-18 02:00:00

JEP 468 proposes a solution to the verbosity that can come from modeling mutable state with immutable records: derived record creation aka with expressions aka withers . That'll make it easy and succinct to create a copy of a record instance while changing

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-18 01:34:30

Nada hacia presagiar el extraño desenlace de esta partida hasta que el indio, apurado de tiempo, perdió el control de la posición

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 01:06:00

At the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex AI platform. By

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-18 00:29:33

Yesterday, Boston Dynamics announced it was retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot. Atlas has long been the standard bearer of advanced humanoid robots. Over the years, the company was known as much for its research robots as it was for slick viral videos of t

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 23:00:10

In Session 6 of TED2024, we heard from bridge-builders — inspiring speakers working to unite people across political divides, conflicts, differences and more. The event: Talks from Session 6 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, hosted by TED’s He

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 21:47:37

Dan Moren, writing last week at Six Colors: Lately you can’t throw a digital camera without hitting a story on the various regulatory and legal challenges Apple’s been facing. While some have decried these actions as interference in the internal opera

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 21:04:46

Everything is coming up Milhouse this week for Riley Testut . Juli Clover for MacRumors: Game emulator apps have come and gone since Apple announced App Store support for them on April 5, but now popular game emulator Delta from developer Riley T

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-17 21:00:32

Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out. The post Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark appeared first on Nautilus .

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 20:30:20

Bold ideas often meet resistance — but what if they were met with curiosity? Session 5 of TED2024 didn’t shy away from audacious ideas. Instead, it invited us all to embrace the discomfort of considering the impossible and unfamiliar, to find the courage t

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 19:57:37

Riley Testut: I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU. AltStore PAL is an open-source app store made specifically for independent devel

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 18:30:01

Amazing he found time for this amidst his campaigning and legal travails. But like many former presidents, he has a serious interest in history.  ★ 

YC @ 2024-04-17 18:16:00

We often see founders getting this one backwards.

YC @ 2024-04-17 18:00:00

We're excited to announce we have three new Visiting Group Partners joining us for the S24 YC batch.

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-17 16:50:47

Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade. The post Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft first appeared on Qu

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-17 16:19:31

An Archimedean spiral has the polar equation r = b θ1/n This post will look at the case n = 1. I may look at more general values of n in a future post. (Update: See here.) The case n = 1 is the simplest case, and it’s the case I needed for the clien

old new thing @ 2024-04-17 16:00:00

Where each notification depends on some state information. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 15:13:00

During his QCon London presentation, Danilo Sato, vice president of data & AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products. This ensures effective data encapsula

ASF @ 2024-04-17 14:45:35

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache A Graph Extension (AGE) is a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality. The project was originally developed in 2019 as an extension to AgensGraph, Bitnine Global’s multi-model database

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-17 14:00:00

Some of these may surprise you, but all 13 ways will improve ingest (INSERT) performance using PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

AEON @ 2024-04-17 12:01:00

For a truly ‘naive melody’, listen as musicians try to mirror a song in realtime, accompanied by a dreamy animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 12:00:00

At QCon London, John Spray, a storage engineering lead @neon.tech, discussed the often-overlooked complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 09:00:00

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations b

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 08:00:00

Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by de

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 07:25:00

Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Rob

This Week in Rust @ 2024-04-17 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWee

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 03:36:11

Jason Kottke: Ryan Gosling was on Saturday Night Live this weekend and they did a sequel to one of my favorite SNL sketches (which is completely dorky in a design nerd sort of way) ever: Papyrus . Behold, Papyrus 2. See also: Elle Cordova’s “Fo

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-17 03:00:07

It’s occasionally necessary to evaluate a hypergeometric function at a large negative argument. I was working on a project today that involved evaluating F(a, b; c; z) where z is a large negative number. The hypergeometric function F(a, b; c; z) is

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:57:52

Ben Thompson, marking the 10th anniversary of Stratechery as a full-time endeavor: Who, though, is to blame, and who benefited? Surely the responsibility for the Humane AI Pin lies with Humane; the people who benefited from Brownlee’s honesty were his

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:48:28

Regarding the jacktastic argument that Marques Brownlee shouldn’t call the worst product he’s ever reviewed the worst product he’s ever reviewed, I’m reminded of the lede from Alan Deutschman’s 2004 profile of Walt Mossberg for Wired: Walt Mossberg

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:29:39

Daniel Vassallo, who has over 172,000 followers on Twitter/X, regarding Marques Brownlee’s scathing but utterly fair (if not bend-over-backwards fair) “ The Worst Product I’ve Ever Reviewed... For Now ” review of the Humane AI Pin: I find it distastef

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 02:00:37

For Session 4 of TED2024, illuminators from diverse disciplines explored the bright future of their fields. From AI as a digital species to explosive art that climbs into the sky, speakers looked at how light (literally and figuratively) can shape our clim

Inside Java @ 2024-04-17 02:00:00

This guide shows how to run the jextract tool, and how to use the Java code that it generates. The samples under the samples direcotry are also a good source of examples…

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-17 01:58:12

The Internet has a plethora of moving parts: routers, switches, hubs, terrestrial and submarine cables, and connectors on the hardware side, and complex protocol stacks and configurations on the software side. When something goes wrong that slows or disrup

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 01:42:36

John Davidson, writing for the Australian Financial Review on Phil Schiller’s testimony in Australia, where Apple is once again facing off against Epic Games ( archive link in case FR’s web server goes down): The casual approach to its meetings, inst

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 23:00:16

Many of the world’s systems, big and small, could use an upgrade. In a dynamic Session 3 at TED2024, six speakers explore how to do just that — taking on everything from global development and capitalism to robots and vertical farming. The event: Talks fro

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 22:46:17

Matt Stoller, linking to the aforelinked FT report on Apple “losing” the top spot in IDC’s phone market share figures: The early signs that Apple is having a Boeing-like slow collapse. That’s quite the take. It is true that iPhone sales have be

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 22:36:54

Tim Bradshaw and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times, under the eye-opening headline “Apple Loses Smartphone Crown to Samsung as Chinese Rivals Gain Ground” ( archive link ): Apple lost its lead in the global smartphone market at the star

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-16 22:17:22

A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat. The post The Part-Time Climate Scientist appeared first on Nautilus .

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 22:00:08

In this complex world, it’s easy to believe that the future is out of our hands. But there are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it’s made. Among these are the TED Fellows: innovators, activists, artists, inventors and dreamers. The

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-04-16 21:01:15

Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’ agents can be in, and each edge is called a ‘transition’. In these models, the probabi

Physics Phorums @ 2024-04-16 21:01:15

Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’ agents can be in, and each edge is called a ‘transition’. In these models, the probabi

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 20:30:52

AI is reshaping how we interact with the world around us and within us, expanding creative possibilities and bringing us closer together by dissolving barriers of all kinds. But anyone who’s paying attention can spot its obvious flaws and potential p

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 20:26:10

Eric Lee on Threads: I was wondering why I haven’t seen websites utilizing Vibration API when I see more and more apps using it including Arc Search and AirChat. Safari doesn’t even support it so there it goes 🫠 This exemplifies the broken think

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-16 19:37:00

Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1 percent over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years, b

InfoQ @ 2024-04-16 18:16:00

During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughout

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-16 18:00:54

Web Distribution lets authorized developers distribute their iOS apps to users in the European Union (EU) directly from a website owned by the developer. Apple will provide developers access to APIs that facilitate the distribution of their apps from the

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-16 16:48:51

Caruana, 2º del mundo, intentó en la 4ª ronda doblegar al prodigio indio; pero no pudo porque se encontró con un rival férreo

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-16 16:34:45

We are living in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) era; a time of rapid innovation. When Anthropic announced its Claude 3 foundation models (FMs) on March 4, we made Claude 3 Sonnet, a model balanced between skills and speed, available on Amazon

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 16:22:48

Learn how to find the date of Easter Sunday for the given year using three algorithms in Java.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 16:15:14

Explore the skip and limit functionalities within MongoRepository.              

old new thing @ 2024-04-16 16:00:01

Continuing studies in silliness. The post In search of the Ballmer Peak, and other results from SIGBOVIK 2024 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2024-04-16 16:00:00

Once the output is generated, the program can't control where it goes. The post Dubious security vulnerability: Program allows its output to be exfiltrated appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-16 15:50:36

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. The post Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Dec

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-16 15:06:00

Timescale supports database replication through read replicas. Learn how they work under the hood and how you can enable them.

ASF @ 2024-04-16 15:00:00

A table format for batch and stream processing, Apache Paimon has graduated from the Apache Incubator Wilmington, DE, April 16, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active ope

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-04-16 14:37:00

A few items on the science outreach front: The Oscars of Science were held Saturday night in Hollywood, with a long list of A-listers in attendance, led by Kim Kardashian. More here, here and here. You’ll be able to watch … Continue reading &

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-16 13:40:35

When I first started using Unix, I used a program called “more” to read files. The name makes sense because each time you press the space bar, more will show you more of your file, one screen at a time. Now everyone uses less, and more is all

AEON @ 2024-04-16 12:00:00

The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked by postcolonial trauma - by Farah Abdessamad Read at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2024-04-16 10:00:00

La Agencia Espacial Europea, y por tanto las empresas del sector aeroespacial europeo, clave en cualquier cálculo de futuro, son responsables de la «mitad técnica» de la nave Orión que debe llevar, de nuevo, astronautas a la superficie lunar antes de 2030.

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:58:03

Learn how handling redirection correctly is essential for building robust web applications that interact with external resources.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:56:02

Learn about overriding the toString() method and handling the potential null within.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:53:24

Learn how to handle the symmetric substring expansion methods, taking into account the specific requirements such as input size and computational efficiency.              

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 04:19:41

The September 2023 MGM hack quickly became one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent memory. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and the fateful phishing call to MG

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:14:13

Learn how to download a file from S3 given a URL with Java and AWS SDK.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:10:12

A quick and practical guide to customizing the logback.xml location.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:06:16

Explore different ways of intercepting and adding custom headers for both server web requests and web client requests in Spring WebFlux              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:04:28

Discover the differences between PrintWriter's write() and print() methods.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 03:52:57

Learn how to navigate through collections and arrays using the Iterator inteface and forEach() method.              

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 03:52:38

James Killick, writing on Map Happenings: Today, I’d like to tell you about the Etak Navigator, a truly revolutionary product and the world’s first practical vehicle navigation system. [...] Nearly everything about the Etak Navigator had to be conc

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 03:26:29

Bryan Hoch, MLB.com: The Yankees announced on Monday that Sterling has retired, effective immediately. The 85-year-old Sterling will be recognized in a pregame ceremony on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. He will visit the WFAN radio booth during that afte

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 02:00:06

It’s time for TED! And this year’s conference marks a big year: the 40th anniversary of TED, honoring the inaugural conference in 1984. With that in mind, TED2024 kicked off with a classically eclectic opening session, ranging from a powerful conversation

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-16 00:05:51

El francés se queja de que el árbitro le llamó la atención en el momento crítico de la partida contra Niepómniashi por el ruido al caminar

0xDE @ 2024-04-16 00:03:00

Michael Mitzenmacher is making an unusual request for publicity for his NON-participation in a conference (\(\mathbb{M}\)). It calls itself ICAIM, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, to be held in Nanjing in September,

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 23:15:44

Mike Swanson: If you’ve read my first post about Spatial Video , the second about Encoding Spatial Video , or if you’ve used my command-line tool , you may recall a mention of Apple’s mysterious “fisheye” projection format. Mysterious because they’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 22:47:23

When this was published in late October it struck me as deeply weird that Time would give an award to a product that was, at the time of publication, over five months away from actually shipping. And now that it has shipped, and appears poised to go dow

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-15 22:45:16

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored to AI to reduce power draw. But they’re all based on one fundamental rule—they use

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 21:28:54

Alexandra Sternlicht, reporting for Fortune ( News+ ): Evan Turner, who worked at TikTok as a senior data scientist from April to September in 2022, said TikTok concealed the involvement of its Chinese owner during his employment. When hired, Turner i

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-15 20:22:05

The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon wrapped up earlier this month. Entrants were asked to use PartyRock to build a functional app based on one of four challenge categories, with the option to remix an existing app as well. The hackathon attracted 7,650 r

ASF @ 2024-04-15 19:34:52

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on 20 March 2024: Jim Apple, Michael Bien, Nicolò Boschi, Francis Chuang, Cédric Damioli, Brian Demers, Hao Ding, Lukasz Dywicki

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-15 18:30:46

Edward Hirsch is the President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has lead it since 2003. He just announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplin

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-15 18:18:11

AWS Community Days conferences are in full swing with AWS communities around the globe. The AWS Community Day Poland was hosted last week with more than 600 cloud enthusiasts in attendance. Community speakers Agnieszka Biernacka, Krzysztof Kąkol, and more,

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-15 17:04:39

The researcher delving into the downsides of psychedelic drugs. The post The Bad Trip Detective appeared first on Nautilus .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-15 16:15:34

Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets. The post Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2024-04-15 16:00:47

It basically falls under the de minimis rule. The post What were the tax consequences of letting Windows 95 team members keep a piece of software as long as they tested it? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-15 15:53:00

 Recently 1) Avi Wigderson won the Turing Award (See blog posts by Fortnow- here , Scott- here , Lipton-Regan here , and the ACM announcement  here ).  The last time I could find when Fortnow-Gasarch, Scott, Lipton-Regan all blogged on th

YC @ 2024-04-15 15:00:00

YC will be visiting London and three universities in the UK – Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford. If you’re interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, we hope to see you there.

AEON @ 2024-04-15 12:01:00

Jumping the fire and shaking the house: a joyful beginner’s guide to the ancient Persian celebration of spring renewal - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-04-15 12:00:00

For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life - by Peter West Read at Aeon

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-15 11:35:27

No te pierdas la charla «Jugando al billar con bolas de luz» que impartirá el Dr. Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, del Grupo de Física No Lineal (GFNL) y del Instituto de Matemáticas […] La entrada No te pierdas «Jugando al billar con bolas de luz» el próxi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-15 01:00:08

El juvenil indio no sólo exhibe su genialidad sino también una consistencia impropia de sus 17 años, como en esta partida

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 23:51:02

My thanks to Pok Pok for sponsoring last week at DF. Pok Pok is a delightful collection of digital toys for kids aged 2–7, for both iPhone and iPad. Designed by parents and educators unhappy with the apps they found, Pok Pok has no ads, no overstimulating

Baeldung @ 2024-04-14 23:29:16

Learn how to perform complex-number operations in Java.              

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 22:59:02

It’s Sunday at Augusta, the leaderboard is tight at the top, and Augusta National has a pretty damn good VisionOS app. Some cool VR features like tabletop-style VR maps of the holes, with 3D shot-tracking. All free of charge, too, from one of the only maj

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 22:46:50

Eric Migicovsky (on a different subject), in a post on Twitter/X: Aspiring consumer HW makers (big and small) - this may sound obvious, but my rec is to underpromise/overdeliver for your first version. It’s hard because you want to balance sharing t

Mike Swanson's Blog @ 2024-04-14 21:01:24

If you’ve read my first post about  Spatial Video , the second about  Encoding Spatial Video , or if you’ve used my  command-line tool , you may recall a mention of Apple’s mysterious “fisheye” projection format. Mysterious because they’ve documented a  C

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 19:46:42

Week-old news I’d been meaning to link to: In a new interview with Khan that aired late Monday on Comedy Central, Stewart claimed Apple leaned on him to avoid talking to Khan, who took over as head of the FTC in 2021. “I wanted to have you on a podc

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 19:10:26

Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo: Together, Israel, the U.S. and various allied Arab states took down 99% or more of all those devices. Iran launched a massive aerial bombardment and virtually none of it got through. And now the U.S. has

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-04-14 12:57:14

It looks like they’ve found protonium in the decay of a heavy particle! Protonium is made of a proton and an antiproton orbiting each other. It lasts a very short time before they annihilate each other. It’s a bit like a hydrogen atom where the

Physics Phorums @ 2024-04-14 12:57:14

It looks like they’ve found protonium in the decay of a heavy particle! Protonium is made of a proton and an antiproton orbiting each other. It lasts a very short time before they annihilate each other. It’s a bit like a hydrogen atom where the

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-14 12:50:14

Te recomiendo disfrutar de mis dos artículos sobre gravitación cuántica y el espín de los campos cuánticos en «Física Cuántica», n.º 37, Edición Coleccionista de MUY Interesante: «La esquiva gravedad […] La entrada Reseña: «Física cuántica», n.º

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-14 01:18:08

Todo indicaba que Caruana había logrado una posición muy sólida con las piezas negras cuando empezó a flojear, y fue castigado radicalmente

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-13 16:00:10

ROBOTICS Is Robotics About to Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment? Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review “For decades, roboticists have more or less focused on controlling robots’ ‘bodies’—their arms, legs, levers, wheels, and the like—vi