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slashdot @ 2026-09-12 11:00:00

A new study suggests Mercury may have shrunk about 30% more than scientists previously thought, losing as much as 14 miles in diameter as its interior cooled and contracted over billions of years. "That's significant for a planet barely 3,000 miles (4,900

InfoQ @ 2026-09-12 09:07:00

Rustls, a Rust TLS library, marks its decade-long progression from a grassroots project to a funded open-source initiative. Key contributions from organisations boosted development, resulting in features like post-quantum cryptography and robust perfor

slashdot @ 2026-09-12 07:00:00

The Athletic reports that researchers at the University of Utah are studying itPBM, a medical-grade red-light therapy that has shown promising signs of reducing brain inflammation and improving cognition, mood, anxiety, motor performance and neural connect

slashdot @ 2026-09-12 03:00:00

Last week, Google announced that it managed to produce a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system. A few days later a software engineer at Coinbase said the fly brain was being trained to play the original Do

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-12 02:19:57

David Smith, developer of the widely-used Widgetsmith , on Mastodon: The eve of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders seems a good time to look back at the iPhone 17 family’s adoption. Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith.

Inside Java @ 2026-09-12 02:00:00

Let's review the performance updates, new runtime features, and other changes to existing features that are in the JDK 27 release!

slashdot @ 2026-09-12 00:00:00

Sony reportedly pulled PlayStation funding from Hideo Kojima's upcoming espionage game Physint over concerns about its ballooning budget, missed deadlines, profitability, and the fact that it would not remain permanently exclusive to PlayStation. Kojima Pr

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-11 23:09:09

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes solution looks like a win for mathematics. But some mathematicians aren't so sure. The post OpenAI Claims Another Huge Mathematical Result Amid Fights Over Credit, Ethics, and Privacy appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 22:33:03

Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Many have complained that Apple design has been sapped of some of its trademark whimsy in recent years. Well, here’s the latest example of how the tides seem to be changing. Buried in the Settings app on iOS 27, Apple has hid

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 22:00:00

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain's most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple's legal fight against a government demand to break into its customers' encrypted data, wa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 21:15:19

XCancel: Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project . The XCancel service is resumed. More details will be shared on the Nitter GitHub project page. Glad to hear it and I wish them well, but I think Zhenyi Tan’s Lit

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 20:00:00

Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents in which models escaped human

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 19:00:00

The UK government has rejected proposals for an emergency AI "kill switch," arguing that blocking access to dangerous models inside Britain would do little if the same systems remained available or were developed elsewhere. The BBC reports: The proposal to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-11 18:32:21

Juli Clover, MacRumors: It’s likely the iPhone Duo doesn’t support the Apple Pencil Pro because there’s no magnetic surface for charging the pencil. The Apple Pencil Pro charges magnetically when connected to a compatible iPad, while the Apple Pencil

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic's latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about -- its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a pub

Swift blog @ 2026-09-11 17:30:00

When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from. Until now, that lookup wasn’t always precise. The upcoming Swift 6.4 release will i

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 17:00:00

NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR), now available in beta, lets you combine the inference capacity of multiple computers on your local network and automatically distribute AI requests among them. It is primarily designed for local multi-agent AI workloads,

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots. The laws will penalize

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 16:17:00

Netflix has reworked its Conductor workflow orchestration engine to handle larger workloads, increasing supported workflow size from about 2,500 to 30,000 tasks and reducing p99 workflow evaluation latency by about 40%. Conductor 4.0 separates workflow m

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-11 16:14:40

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. The post Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 14:02:00

tsgolint has released a stable v7, enhancing TypeScript linting with native Go speed. It offers type-aware linting, leveraging TypeScript's semantic analysis through the typescript-go compiler. Oxlint manages configurations and file discovery. The releas

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 14:00:00

The Terraform AWS Provider continues its rapid evolution, with v6.62.0 adding support for new AWS capabilities while improving how Terraform understands and manages existing infrastructure. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 13:00:00

A medical report published earlier this week says a boy in the U.K. developed erythema ab igne, or "toasted skin syndrome," after resting a laptop on his abdomen for up to eight hours a day, often while it was charging. "The marks were described as being i

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 12:00:00

LinkedIn has published details of the training infrastructure behind its AI-powered job search, describing a multi-teacher distillation pipeline that compresses knowledge from large teacher models into a compact 0.6B-parameter ranking model. By Claudio

AEON @ 2026-09-11 12:00:00

The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way - by Mariam Sabri Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 10:14:00

Session traces and cost controls are emerging as key observability techniques for diagnosing AI agent failures, helping teams spot tool-call loops and runaway spend while preserving enough execution context for post-incident debugging. By Mark Silveste

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU's climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence

InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 07:05:00

TinyGo version 0.42 introduces significant updates, including recoverable panics and support for Go 1.27 and LLVM 22, improving error handling and enabling Go code to run as UEFI applications. The TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO facilitates har

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world's forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global hea

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Homework for a folding iPhone, Shopify goes back to native, and a login keychain you can't back up

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container ManagementRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinforces OpenShift’s abil

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Detection is only half the process. Swift remediation is what keeps operations smooth. Yet for many site reliability engineers (SREs), on-call shifts are spent trapped in a loop of repetitive firefighting. Pairing Splunk Observability Cloud with Red Hat An

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00

Lightwell empowers organizations to respond to vulnerabilities with greater speed. However, receiving a patch is only part of the equation; your teams require validated skills to deploy those fixes into production quickly, safely, and with confidence.When

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 01:00:00

Apple's new Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 are drawing privacy concerns because they can process nearby conversations without explicit consent from everyone involved. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a c

slashdot @ 2026-09-11 00:00:00

Anthropic says it has disrupted several cases this year in which scientists used Claude for biological research that could potentially aid bioweapons development. "In a report describing misuses of its A.I. models, Anthropic said it could not determine whe

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-10 23:18:30

Startup Isar Aerospace delivered a payload of satellites to orbit on its second try. Rivals in Germany and Spain are hot on its heels. The post Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-09-10 23:00:00

Android is rolling out a system-level way to securely transfer passwords and passkeys between credential managers, eliminating the need to export passwords as unencrypted text files or manually recreate passkeys. The feature initially supports Google Passw

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 22:15:52

9to5 Mac has the iOS 27 release notes too. I haven’t spent much time using Golden Gate, but I’ve been using iOS 27 full-time ever since WWDC. It’s in excellent shape for a .0 release. Now I need to think about how long I want to still hang onto MacOS

Confluent @ 2026-09-10 21:19:05

Discover how our security team built an automated multi-agent investigation pipeline that scaled alert triage throughput using a continuous streaming architecture.

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 21:10:48

Learn what's new in Jackson 3, how it differs from Jackson 2, and what you need to do in order to migrate from Jackson 2.x to the new version. The post What’s New in Jackson 3? first appeared on Baeldung .        

Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 20:50:56

Learn how HttpClient API supports HTTP/3 now, and how to set your apps to use HTTP/3. The post HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 19:49:00

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. By Daniel Dominguez

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 19:29:30

One thing I learned from this video is that I’m way, way too careful when playing with the hands-on area demo units. I handle them like museum pieces; Stern treats them like hot dog buns.  ★ 

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-10 18:01:44

Give an agent a task actually worth delegating and you’ll be waiting a while. Ask it what needs your attention this morning and it has to read your mail, your messages, and your task list before it can answer. Then it stops halfway, because one step needs

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-10 16:27:36

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof f

old new thing @ 2026-09-10 16:00:00

It came after ud0 and ud1 . The post Why is the x86 undefined instruction called <CODE>ud2</CODE>? Why 2? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-10 14:32:31

The Greek letter β (beta) and the German letter ß (eszett) look similar, especially in some fonts. Now suppose an OCR program sees some character that could be a beta or could be an eszett. It could calculate some kind of distance between between the pixe

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 12:29:00

Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:01:00

Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:00:00

Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:50:51

Quantum 10, 2208 (2026). The preparation of quantum states is one of the most fundamental tasks in quantum computing, and a key primitive in many quantum algorithms. Of particular interest to areas such as quan

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:37:47

Quantum 10, 2207 (2026). Reliable quantum memory under circuit-level noise requires decoders that can process syndrome information continuously and at a rate comparable to its generation. In practical quantum e

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:28:17

Quantum 10, 2206 (2026). The practical applicability of a recent Carleman-linearization-based quantum algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with quadratic nonlinearities is investigated f

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 08:27:00

In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, introducing the QUERY method to HTTP, the first new standard HTTP verb since 2010. QUERY enables developers to send richer query filters in the request body while maintaining cacheable, safe, and idempotent sem

InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 07:05:00

The Python core development team has officially recognized RISC-V as a Tier 3 platform in CPython, following extensive community collaboration on its implementation. Ongoing efforts aim to enhance integration into the continuous testing pipeline and move

Inside Java @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Java 27 is set to be released on September 15th, let's review what's coming!

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems connected to Red Hat Lightspeed, you're likely familiar with insights-client, the tool responsible for reading system information and reporting it to Red Hat Lightspeed's hosted services.Starting with R

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

Part 3 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern.Kubernetes NetworkPolicies are one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—security primitives available to platform engineers. Th

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00

If you run AI platforms for a bank, an insurer, or anyone else living under a stack of regulations, you already know the use case everyone asks for first: let our compliance and risk teams ask questions against our own policy documents and get an answer th

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:05:23

Start getting ready for iPhone Duo today. Watch new videos, sign up for Group Labs, and take part in Q&As on the Apple Developer Forums. Explore now

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:00:38

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence,

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-10 00:01:47

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-09 20:26:16

The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’l

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 20:00:00

Meta describes how an AI agent can be designed to capture the logic and expertise of domain experts, rather than simply storing documents or retrieving relevant information. The system, dubbed an "organizational second brain", was built for a specialized

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-09 18:21:00

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-09 17:32:18

I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book  The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI . And then yesterday OpenAI announced a solution to Navier-Stokes, one of the Millennium problems.

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:59:48

The idea of using computers to assist with proofs is not new. The first major computer-assisted proof was published in 1976, the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The authors reduced the proof of the four color theorem t

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-09 16:44:13

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? f

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:17:20

A rising tide may lift all boats, but the AI tide lifts some boats much more than others. By all accounts, the best programmers have had the biggest productivity boost from AI. And top tier mathematicians are using AI to settle long-standing mathematical

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

It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 14:43:36

Yesterday OpenAI announced a proof that settled a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations from fluid dynamics. The announcement has created a lot of buzz, as one would expect. But there’s an aspect of OpenAI’s work that I have

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-09 13:56:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 569 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Roman Telescope; Neurología; Materia Oscura; Principio de Equivalencia en Cuántica”, 03 sep 2026. […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 569: Te

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

Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 10:54:00

Microsoft has made Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid generally available. Session hosts run on customer hardware through Azure Arc while brokering stays in Azure. The Hybrid service license is unpriced, Windows Server support requires RDS CALs with Software A

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-09 10:37:54

La soltura del adolescente argentino frente a todos los rivales incita a poner el foco en todas sus partidas del torneo de Madrid

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-09 10:00:06

Quantum 10, 2205 (2026). Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known

InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 08:06:00

Neovim has introduced a structured concurrency library in its Lua standard library via the vim.async namespace. This framework provides a standardized method for managing async workflows, addressing issues related to task management and error propagation

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-09 06:00:00

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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 02:55:53

One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.

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

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community mem

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

We’ve been talking with business leaders about Lightwell for the past few months, and the conversation always starts with enthusiasm. AI-driven exploits are moving at unprecedented speeds, and enterprise security teams are feeling a level of urgency we hav

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

In July, the OpenClaw Foundation was announced with Red Hat joining as a sponsor to bring open, more secure infrastructure to autonomous AI agents. OpenClaw has quickly become a premier open source autonomous agent framework, and Red Hat’s involvement aims

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

Enterprise teams have moved past early experimentation. Pilots succeed, prototypes impress, and individual teams deliver initial results. The challenge every platform engineering and ITOps team hits next is much harder: operating AI with the same operation

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

Red Hat has published Sovereign AI Cloud as a Service, a joint reference architecture built with Rafay for telecommunications providers, sovereign cloud operators, and NeoClouds that want to turn distributed GPU infrastructure into a governed, self-service

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 00:57:00

There are good Elle Cordova videos, and there are great ones. ( Last mentioned here for her “ Fonts Hanging Out ” trilogy.)  ★ 

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-08 23:24:59

AI assistants can stand up an app or website that runs on AWS in minutes. Getting to a production-ready version you would put in front of real customers is still the hard part. Security, observability, type-safety, and resilience are non-negotiable for pro

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-08 19:33:08

Elderly mice on the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide aged slower and lived longer, mimicking the longevity effects of caloric restriction. The post Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life? appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-08 19:23:57

Aún con 12 años, el argentino es el mejor del mundo de su edad y sigue firmando hermosas victorias

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-08 17:26:08

There are rumors that a long-standing math problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, has been solved. The problem concerns technical properties of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations [1], a set of equations that describe the dynamics of fluid fl

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 17:22:00

Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 16:55:20

SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-08 16:00:15

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

old new thing @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00

For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the <CODE>winstart.bat</CODE> file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 15:42:00

Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more

AEON @ 2026-09-08 12:00:00

Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done - by Alison Bashford Read on Aeon

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-08 10:43:52

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Prob

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-08 03:46:35

Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:16:26

Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge glyph sets, explore variable vector designs with complex higher-order interpolation. Build and man

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:01:27

Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:09:27

The Onion: The Onion: How did you get into the entertainment industry? Ellison: I remember going to the movies as a kid, and when the houselights went down and that hush fell over the crowd, I’d think to myself: I’d like to build a massive propaga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:00:00

Crackerjack new Mac app for creating and editing custom SF Symbols , from developer Amy Worrall: McKinley is an all-in-one studio for drawing and annotating SF Symbols. It bundles vector tools with knowledge of the SF Symbols structure, so you can ed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 21:59:36

Matt Birchler: So, yeah, I do think that, especially this year, unit sales will far lag behind the 18 Pro models, the normal iPhone 18, and probably the Air 2 and 18e. I think they will lag next year as well for similar reasons. I don’t know if this w

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-07 20:35:45

The Online Etymological Dictionary gives the following etymology for grok: grok (v.) “understand empathically,” 1961, an arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book “Stranger in a Strange

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 18:31:55

What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-07 16:48:42

As an antidote to the overwhelmingly depressing news of the world, I highly recommend reading the new article in the New York Times about this mathematical result. There have been some articles about this earlier in places like Scientific American …

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-07 16:24:08

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-

old new thing @ 2026-09-07 16:00:00

Imagining how to report a memory allocation failure for a sparse page. The post Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:01:00

An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:00:00

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-07 11:22:23

Partidas rápidas con sistemas de puntuación que estimulan la combatividad generan partidas tan trepidantes como esta

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, o

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Pr

Rust blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey , in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what pro

Baeldung @ 2026-09-07 01:19:21

Learn about MCP logging in Spring AI, both in an MCP server and a client. The post MCP Logging in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments In reply to Hayrullah. Hey,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 22:44:27

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:06:27

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay kee

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:04:12

Matt Haughey: One case in point is the Honda Prologue EV. It’s a partnership between Honda and Chevrolet, where the Prologue is basically a Chevy Blazer EV with Honda badges, slight visual differences in the sheetmetal and interior, but all the underp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:51:09

A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and, most notably , Tetris (the one where you “build a wall” to keep border-crossing migrants out) — the copyright to which i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:00:01

Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable. Unlike Maestri, he still had a real job: The veteran executive ran the App Store and Apple Events. The App Store portion alone is no joke. I

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:30:00

How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into an RSS feed via iframes in the entry bodies?  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:19:31

In the wake of Nitter/XCancel’s demise , here’s a delightful new Safari extension from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur fame): But sometimes people still post X content. Maybe you want to see Gruber roast Google Design . Maybe you want to see posts by

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-06 17:03:06

A diez semanas del duelo por el título mundial contra el desdibujado Gukesh, el uzbeko es el 4º del escalafón a los 20 años

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

Baeldung @ 2026-09-06 11:25:19

The three Loom pillars and, more importantly, the tooling. Plus IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 getting close. The post Java Weekly, Issue 662 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 21:42:43

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simp

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-05 20:27:05

Computing Why Everyone in Quantum Computing Is Buzzing About Google’s Move Into ‘Neutral Atoms’Adam Bluestein | Fast Company “Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived.... The post This Week’s Awesome

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-05 19:04:13

The previous post discussed the motivation for and application of the rank-trace theorem. This post will give a proof. Suppose A is a real symmetric matrix. The rank-trace inequality says where tr is the trace operator, the sum of the elements along the d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 18:08:24

Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass