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slashdot @ 2026-02-28 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned. OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, disclosed the termin

slashdot @ 2026-02-28 03:02:00

Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. "While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world application

slashdot @ 2026-02-28 02:25:00

Author Dan Simmons, best known for the epic sci-fi novel Hyperion and its sequels, has died at 77 following a stroke. Ars Technica's Eric Berger remembers Simmons, writing: Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-28 02:20:10

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slashdot @ 2026-02-28 01:45:00

New submitter DeanonymizedCoward shares a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is reportedly in crisis following major budget cuts, layoffs, and furloughs under the Trump administration, says TechCrunch.

slashdot @ 2026-02-28 01:02:00

joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity has introduced "Computer," a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models. The company claims that Computer, c

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-28 00:30:00

“It’s a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail” The post Astronomers Capture Largest Image of Milky Way Ever appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-28 00:20:00

South Korea has reversed a two-decade policy and approved the export of high-precision map data, paving the way for a fully functional Google Maps in the country. Reuters reports: The approval was made "on the condition that strict security requirements ar

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-27 23:51:09

This is related to the Osterwalder-Schrader posting, but is much, much more elementary. I’ll write up some basic facts about the quantum harmonic oscillator and explain what bothers me about the relation to Osterwalder-Schrader. Every quantum mechani

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 23:40:00

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models. CNBC reports: The company, which in July signed a $200

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 23:31:18

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 23:30:00

That first hit of burger and fries can leave quite the impression The post Early Exposure to Junk Food Has Brain-Altering Effects appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 23:14:07

Explore two ways of solving the Frog River One problem. The post Implementing Frog River One in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 23:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawm

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 22:25:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Weeks after the U.S. Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of US President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to several agencies that award research grants is still not

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 22:00:00

Because their ancestors evolved in dry places The post Bedbugs Fear Water appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 21:51:00

An anonymous reader shares a column: I'm going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who work there. It's a platform that sucks artists for everything

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 21:10:00

The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown openly hostile to the technology after a string of visible blunders. As Bloomberg News reports, Arc Raide

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 20:30:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.1 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 20:28:44

Mike Masnick, writing for Techdirt: Read that again. If West Virginia wins — if an actual court orders Apple to start scanning iCloud for CSAM — then every image flagged by those mandated scans becomes evidence obtained through a warrantless governme

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 20:26:38

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 20:00:00

The insects undergo a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation The post Here’s Why Locusts Swarm appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 19:54:00

Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon. From a report: The abrupt shift in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 19:45:16

Rob Griffiths, writing at The Robservatory : So I have macOS Tahoe on my laptop, but I’m keeping my desktop Mac on macOS Sequoia for now. Which means I have the joy of seeing things like this wonderful notification on a regular basis. Or I did, until

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 19:13:39

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 19:12:53

Apple’s solution to this dilemma — to show the “Tap Recents to Call” in Settings if, and only if, Unified is the current view option in the Phone app — is lazy. And as a result, it’s quite confusing.

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 19:03:00

A sprawling Chinese influence operation -- accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official's use of ChatGPT -- focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report fro

slashdot @ 2026-02-27 18:32:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: While some see AI as a tool to be used, its specific use and how it is deployed responsibly is being heavily debated online across a wide range of industries. In terms of journalistic content, and in this particular ins

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 18:00:00

A science historian explains how science got its groove back. A fictional dispatch from the future. The post The Thrill of Science in 2042 appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 17:33:39

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 17:32:49

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Of course, Netflix could have absorbed such a cost. It’s a $400B company (well, before this deal, anyway) —  double Disney! Paramount Skydance? They’re worth $11B. Yes, they’re paying almost exactly $100B more than th

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-27 16:40:38

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces. The post Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 16:33:15

CNBC: Block said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. The stock skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading. “Today we shared a difficult decision with our team,” Jack Dorsey, Block’s co-founder and

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-27 16:33:08

Según las máquinas, Van Foreest tenía ventaja, pero el español encontró una idea oculta, con sacrificio de pieza incluido

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 16:09:04

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 16:08:29

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Confluent @ 2026-02-27 16:00:05

Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio GA, Schema Registry improvements, security updates, and performance enhancements across languages.

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 16:00:00

It’s all about the ridges The post Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-27 16:00:00

Making sure it triggers when you need it, and not when you don't. The post Intercepting messages inside <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE>, fine-tuning the message filter appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-27 16:00:00

We need to give models knowledge that anchors their behavior to the realities of our world. The post Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy: How to Solve AI’s ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Problem appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 15:56:05

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 15:30:00

Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers, it categorizes rules based on impact, assisting in e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 15:02:53

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 14:00:00

A little genetic engineering could help future space settlers survive the challenges of off-world living The post What Do You Get When You Cross a Tardigrade with a Space Pioneer? appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:45:17

Learn about the "Cannot instantiate the type" compilation error in Java. The post Resolving the “Cannot instantiate the type” Compilation Error first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:40:43

Learn the best ways to match and validate currency symbols in Java. The post Matching Currency Symbols in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:37:15

Learn how to convert an InputStream to a DataHandler while maintaining memory efficiency. The post Convert an InputStream to a DataHandler in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 13:00:00

The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by making the API server’s view of node readiness more accurate. By Craig Risi

AEON @ 2026-02-27 12:00:00

Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? - by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 10:08:58

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 09:00:00

Microsoft's Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios, datasets, and an evaluation harness to assess agent performance across tools like

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 07:21:23

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-27 04:49:48

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 02:30:25

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Perhaps the most surprising announcement on Thursday was that Apple and Netflix, which have had a rather stand-offish relationship when it comes to video programming, have struck a deal to swap some Formula One-rel

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 01:37:25

“An interview from 2036 with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman.” This is what AI video generation was meant for.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 01:17:31

The New York Times: Netflix said on Thursday that it had backed away from its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a stunning development that paves the way for the storied Hollywood media giant to end up under the control of a rival bidder, the te

iOS Weekly @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

How do we avoid software being average if we let AI write everything? 🎢

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethereum c

Inside Java @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

We've had some good discussions here, and I've got some updates to the ideas outlined in the previous snapshot. There's a lot here, including a lot that I'm identifying as likely future directions but which should not be the topic of current discussion; I

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Pa

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58 minutes. Multiply that by 100 times and you had your ROI. Today’s IT leaders are moving beyond these basic stopwatch metrics;

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

SDTimes - Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from pilot to production. Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for managing mod

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-27 00:28:40

Fossil fuels still dominate the energy mix. But growth in renewables offset nearly 75% of new power demand. The post US Solar Surged 35% in 2025, Overtaking Hydro for the First Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 00:00:00

New research identifies key proteins linked to longevity The post Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood? appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 23:42:47

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 23:09:45

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 22:42:15

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations. This enables iPhone and iPad to be used with classified information up to the NAT

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 22:17:56

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 22:00:00

New survey analysis reveals a sense of national deterioration The post The Vibes Have Been Off in the US for Decades appeared first on Nautilus .

joecieplinski's blog @ 2026-02-26 21:49:16

Back in 2013 , I suggested the story of Steve Jobs would best be told as a 5-act opera, with the most crucial part of the story being Act III. Act III: The NeXT / Pixar years. Includes an initial period of Jobs not knowing what he wants to do. Then

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-26 21:00:00

Long since flared out, echoes from the universe’s very first stars could be reaching us today The post The Birth of Light appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-26 20:58:46

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AWS Blog @ 2026-02-26 19:52:06

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through a single, simplified experience.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 19:04:33

New book, shipping May 19, from author Geoffrey Cain: For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:50:08

Still feels a bit ridiculous to me that Markdown is now an editing mode in Notepad.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:36:26

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: An editor who works for YouTube’s biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It’s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:27:04

Edison Research: In 2015, AM/FM radio accounted for 75% of the time Americans spent with spoken-word audio sources. AM/FM radio was not only the most dominant spoken-word audio listening platform, but it was fully sixty-five percentage points higher t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:14:58

Reuters: New York’s attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of “loot boxes.” In a

Deepmind @ 2026-02-26 17:01:50

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes only changed records, supports incremental updates an

old new thing @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Using an Is­Dialog­Message extension point. The post Intercepting messages inside <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE>, installing the message filter appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-26 15:53:53

El joven estadounidense alimenta la controversia, pero esta partida frente al campeón del mundo reconfirma su enorme talento

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:10:34

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Use Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) to automate Kafka migration with infrastructure generation, ACL and schema mapping, and offset-preserving data replication.

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q1 2026 release, including Queues for Kafka, new migration tooling KCP, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 13:00:00

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row click events, IHostedService support in WebAssembly, environme

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 12:03:00

Thiago Ghisi explained how he guided managers and senior ICs to build a resilient leadership group beneath him in his talk Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations at QCon London. Regular syncs, expectation calibration, and alignment on broader goa

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:01:00

In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:00:00

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel - by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-26 09:42:29

The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia. We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much! curl up This is a cozy and friendly event that normall

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 09:00:00

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete for what is planned in version 1.0, setting the stage f

Baeldung @ 2026-02-26 08:58:00

Quick a busy, performance-focused installment this week :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 635 first appeared on Baeldung .              

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 05:00:00

Ich bin in meiner Kindheit lange nicht ins Kino gegangen. Es gab schlicht in meinem Heimatort keines. Ich glaube, mein erster Film im Kino war “Spaceballs”. Mit der Klasse. Was bin ich einigen Mitschülerinnen bis heute dankbar, dass sie sich damals nicht

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-26 02:10:37

The post A curious trig identity contained the theorem that for real x and y, This theorem also holds when sine is replaced with hyperbolic sine. The post Trig of inverse trig contained a table summarizing trig functions applied to inverse trig functions.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 02:00:00

TL;DR kill -9 -1 can send a lot of processes to their untimely demise and can blow up your system. Since Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, this is blocked as the new process flag PRIV_PROC_SENDTOALL allowing sending a signal to all is not set by default. If you

Inside Java @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

HTTP/3 is the next version of the internet's most important application layer protocol. In this Inside Java Podcast episode, Nicolai Parlog talks to Daniel Fuchs and Daniel Jelinski about HTTP/3's integration into Java's HTTP client.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain to command it. The telecom industry spent billions on the most sophisticated nervous system the world has ever seen in

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management and extends network automation frameworks to Cisc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

If you aren't currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved from a peripheral tool to the primary engine for transforming digital businesses, slashing operational complex

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:53:00

When re-hanging signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:52:42

Terry Godier, in a thoughtful essay on the design of RSS feed readers: There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:38:45

Emily Glazer, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: The billionaire said he met with Epstein starting in 2011, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. Gates said he was aware of some “18-month thing” tha

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 00:00:00

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead, it focuses on security hardening, tightening encryption, refining network policy

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:53:08

Greg Knauss: People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst kind of true — it also misses the point. Industr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:17:57

Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple’s version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 21:59:30

Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5 Google: When activated, Privacy Display changes how the pixels in your display emit light, making it harder or near-impossible to view the display at an off-angle. At its default setting, it definitely works, but the conte

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 19:42:06

Please note that the information provided in this document is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project for 2026 to prepare the Foundation, th

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 18:00:00

Warper 7.2 is a cutting-edge open-source React virtualization library utilizing Rust and WebAssembly for unmatched performance. With zero-allocation hot paths and O(1) circular buffer operations, Warper achieves 120 FPS even with 100,000 items. Its compa

ASF @ 2026-02-25 17:54:18

This month’s newsletter brings exciting opportunities to connect, learn, and stay informed across The ASF community. The Call for Presentations for Community Over Code 2026 is now open, and this year’s event includes a new co-located, standalone event, La

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 17:49:10

A mixed year.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-25 17:23:43

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism. The post The Man Who Stole Infinity first appeared on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 16:33:41

Jim Vorel, writing just yesterday for Jezebel: It can be hard to know what exactly to call the substances that are now found coating many major candy bars such as Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Almond Joy, Mr. Goodbar or Rolos. Food scientists refer to it a

old new thing @ 2026-02-25 16:00:00

Process the message before you let Is­Dialog­Message see it. The post Intercepting messages before <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE> can process them appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-25 15:56:00

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things . But some talks are worth a watch, and I do suggest this overview on how organizations are currently using AI by Laura Tacho. There’s various nuggets of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 15:19:34

After writing a few days ago about the current brouhaha over the severe decline in the edibility of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups , and linking to Trader Joe’s shade-throwing description of their own , I of course had to try theirs. In the name of science,

AEON @ 2026-02-25 12:01:00

The meticulous preparation and fleeting ecstasy of elite high-diving captured in all its breathtaking shapes and sounds - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 12:00:54

I ran across an old article [1] that gave a sort of multiplication table for trig functions and inverse trig functions. Here’s my version of the table. I made a few changes from the original. First, I used LaTeX, which didn’t exist when the ar

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-25 11:49:54

Los argumentos en contra de la modalidad por su falta de armonía en la posición inicial son sólidos, pero hay partidas electrizantes

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 11:25:16

Written as part of the FreeBSD Project’s 4th Quarter 2025 Status Report, check out the highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through both technical and non-t

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 11:00:00

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a simple, machine-readable way to reach Google's official developer documentation. By Claudio M

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-25 10:20:00

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Bellos in Oxford. Among other things Bellos writes the Guardian Monday puzzle column . He gave me a copy of his latest book, Puzzle Me Twice , where the obvious answer is not correct. I got more right than wr

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-25 07:55:38

tldr: curl goes back to Hackerone. When we announced the end of the curl bug-bounty at the end of January 2026, we simultaneously moved over and started accepting curl security reports on GitHub instead of its previous platform. This move turns out to have

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-25 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 @ 2026-02-25 02:00:30

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 02:00:00

TL;DR In Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, beadm can mark a boot environment with a preserve policy, preventing accidental deletion via beadm destroy . This does not protect against manual zfs destroy operations. Preserve boot environments For certain syste

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 01:03:00

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders. The change affects six services, including the popular file-based v

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

Es war ja eine der Dichotomien in meiner Jugend. Grönemeyer oder Müller-Westernhagen. Kannte niemanden, der beides mochte. Oder niemanden, der es zugab. Ich hätte irgendwann beim Hören eines Grönemeyer-Lieds am liebsten auch zum ölgetränkten Lappen gegrif

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

Refactoring is not a technical clean-up activity. The choice to refactor is an economic decision about how you allocate human effort. Refactoring in this sense goes beyond cleaning up code—it includes improvements to architecture, operations, and decision

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather than relying on ad hoc, model-specific integrations, MCP defines a structured client–ser

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 00:33:41

Here is an identity that doesn’t look correct but it is. For real x and y, I found the identity in [1]. The author’s proof is short. First of all, Then Taking square roots completes the proof. Now note that the statement at the top assumed x a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 00:29:21

Jason Snell and Myke Hurley: We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2025 in depth, with our added opinions on every category. Jason chooses to be a rascal, and Myke tries to give ten out of five. Upgrade is always a good po

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-24 22:50:18

Scientists are co-opting seismic sensors to detect space debris streaking through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The post More Space Junk Is Plummeting to Earth. Earthquake Sensors Can Track It by the Sonic Booms. appeared first on SingularityH

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 22:49:10

Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea her

luajit @ 2026-02-24 22:13:15

Reported by Vladimir Davydov and Sergey Kaplun. #1441

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:35:12

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:27:07

Todd Bishop, writing at GeekWire: Paul Brainerd , who went on to coin the term “desktop publishing” and build Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Island,

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-24 20:26:11

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date. Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates For 12/1 to 12/31 the … Continue

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:18:42

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors back on February 12: In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times , FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (M

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:11:17

Laurene Powell Jobs, in her introduction to the newest publication from the Steve Jobs Archive: Among the books that mattered to Steve was Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet . I’m struck by this line from its pages: “Live the questions for now. Perhaps

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 20:00:00

Apple's Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text, and interact with apps by, e.g., reading messages, checking health data, and more

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-24 19:55:11

AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instag

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:49:52

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weat

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:01:28

Speaking of OpenClaw, here’s Scott Shambaugh: I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting library. At ~130 million downloads each month it’s some of the most widely used software in the world. We, like many other open source p

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-24 19:00:48

Today we’re providing an update on the tools available for developers to meet their age assurance obligations under upcoming U.S. and regional laws, including in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Updates to the Declared Age Range API are

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:53:15

Sam Altman, last week on Twitter/X: Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:42:24

Erin Griffith and Karen Weise, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): More than he did at any other major tech company, Mr. Epstein found success boring into the inner sanctums of Microsoft. Leveraging one connection into the next, he became pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:23:33

Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge (gift link): With Spencer’s retirement official, Microsoft is hitting the reset button on Bond’s Xbox strategy instead of embracing it further. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma is now promising “the return of Xbox,”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 17:19:23

Abby Haddican: Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For example, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon . To the untrained eye, Times New Resistanc

old new thing @ 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Intercepting the flow in your message loop. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-24 15:40:00

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these : primin

TED Blog @ 2026-02-24 15:00:20

The Audacious Project, the collaborative funding platform within TED, is thrilled to announce its newest cohort of grantee innovators. This new cohort extends the vital on-the-ground work of Audacious grantees on key global issues, including reducing the f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-24 14:24:59

El cubano Albornoz ganó el viernes un memorial en Pamplona en honor de un entrañable ajedrecista navarro, modelo de pasión infinita

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-24 13:09:04

Last spring I wrote a blog post about our ongoing work in the background to gradually simplify the curl source code over time. This is a follow-up: a status update of what we have done since then and what comes next. In May 2025 I had just managed to get t

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 13:00:00

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud. By Craig R

AEON @ 2026-02-24 12:00:00

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits - by Julian Baggini Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 11:16:00

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open s

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 09:00:00

Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle complex SRE tasks like context propagation. I

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you th

Physics Phorums @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you th

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-24 02:56:23

I was doing some research today and ran into a couple instances where part of one law was copied and pasted verbatim into another law. I suppose this is not uncommon, but I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t have that much experience comparing laws. I

Confluent @ 2026-02-24 02:30:25

Learn how to safely break off your first microservice from a monolith using a low-risk, incremental migration approach.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 02:00:00

Brent Simmons, last month: The big change from 6.2.1 is that it adopts the Liquid Glass UI and it requires macOS 26. (Note to people who aren’t on macOS 26: we fixed a lot of bugs in 6.2 and 6.2.1 knowing that many people might skip, or at least del

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 01:31:00

Norbert Heger: In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved. You’ll never guess what happened between the RC (release candidate) version and the actua

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury....

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Douglas Adams schrieb in “Lachs im Zweifel”: Alles, was es schon gibt, wenn du auf die Welt kommst, ist normal und üblich und gehört zum selbstverständlichen Funktionieren der Welt dazu. Alles, was zwischen deinem 15. und 35. Lebensjahr erfunde

Inside Java @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

This article analyzes why we need to look beyond GC pauses to enable maximal infrastructure efficiency and introduces the new Java API for GC CPU in OpenJDK 26. These capabilities empower engineers and researchers to quantify the collector's CPU overhead,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model should come with predictable outcomes, rather than uncertainty. Our third-party model v

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-23 23:35:51

A new tool takes relatively few resources to chart algorithms' inner workings and steer their behavior. The post Researchers Break Open AI’s Black Box—and Use What They Find Inside to Control It appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:40:48

Trader Joe’s: Like their milk chocolate brethren on our shelves, our Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are made with real peanut butter that’s made with slowly roasted and ground Virginia peanuts. The luscious, smooth, rich, dark chocolate enveloping

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:28:14

Brad Reese, on LinkedIn last week : My grandfather, H. B. Reese (Who Invented Reese’s), built Reese’s on a simple, enduring architecture: Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Not a flavor idea. Not a marketing construct. A real, tangible product identity

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 20:20:23

John Coltrane’s song Giant Steps is known for its unusual and difficult chord changes. Although the chord progressions are complicated, there aren’t that many unique chords, only nine. And there is a simple pattern to the chords; the difficult

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-02-23 19:24:30

We’re introducing Strands Labs, a new Strands GitHub organization designed to give developers the ability to get hands-on with experimental, state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI development. The Strands Agents SDK – available for both Python and TypeS

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-23 19:20:41

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-23 17:56:24

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Ki

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-23 17:50:51

Muy pocos pueden exhibir una victoria sobre el multicampeón Kárpov tan contundente como esta del genial neerlandés antes de ser una gran estrella

old new thing @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Sniffing the synchronous keyboard state is still not precise enough. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:35:29

Quantum 10, 2009 (2026). Quantum computing is deemed to require error correction at scale to mitigate physical noise by reducing it to lower noise levels while operating on encoded logical qubits. Popular quant

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:14:27

Quantum 10, 2008 (2026). Unitary designs are essential tools in several quantum information protocols. Similarly to other design concepts, unitary designs are mainly used to facilitate averaging over a relevant

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:57:38

Quantum 10, 2007 (2026). We study the task of localizing multipartite entanglement in pure quantum states onto a subsystem by measuring the remaining systems. To this end, we fix a multipartite entanglement mea

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 13:50:12

Big moves in roots can correspond to small moves in chords. Imagine the 12 notes of a chromatic scale arranged around the hours of a clock: C at 12:00, C♯ at 1:00, D at 2:00, etc. The furthest apart two notes can be is 6 half steps, just as the furthest a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:35:42

Quantum 10, 2006 (2026). We propose modifying topological quantum error correcting codes by incorporating space-time defects, termed “time vortices,'' to reduce the number of physical qubits required

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-23 13:35:00

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security, has some advice on how to mitigate the risks. While there is no proven safe way to run high-permis

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:00:03

Quantum 10, 2005 (2026). In stochastic modeling, the excess entropy – the mutual information shared between a process's past and future – represents the fundamental lower bound of the memory needed to simu

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:01:00

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:00:00

Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness - by Carlos Santana Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 06:19:26

Learn that the 'elements were left unbound' Spring Boot exception is a deliberate design choice to enforce strict configuration correctness and prevents subtle runtime bugs. The post Resolving Spring Boot Exception: The Elements Were Left Unbound firs

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 05:00:00

iostat was enabled to show latency distributions in Solaris 11.4. However, there is another tool able to show latencies. The fsstat command got this capability as well with the -l option. With this tool you can check latencies from the perspective

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption. We want to see DeFi thr

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Mit 14 kann man also mit sozialen Netzwerken umgehen? Einfach so? So von einem Tag auf den anderen? Halte ich für eine gewagte These. Ich bin kein Vater, werde auch keiner mehr werden. Ich gebe zu, dass mir die schwierigen Seiten der Erziehung fremd si

Rust blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

We're launching a Rust Debugging Survey . Various issues with debugging Rust code are often mentioned as one of the biggest challenges that annoy Rust developers. While it is definitely possible to debug Rust code today, there are situations where it

Inside Java @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

This episode presents Project Amber lead Brian Goetz’s recent email “Data Oriented Programming, Beyond Records”, wherein he describes plans to improve Java’s data handling capabilities by introducing carrier classes, a generalization of records...

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:32:06

Explore the most practical ways to retrieve raw XML from SOAP messages in Java using SAAJ, JAX-WS, Apache CXF, or Spring Web Services. The post How to Get Raw XML From a SOAP Message in Java first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:25:57

Learn about Apache Spark executors and how to set them in both static and dynamic allocation modes. The post Set Amount of Spark Executors first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:22:07

Discover the security improvements that the JDK 24 release brings.  The post JDK 24 Security Enhancements first appeared on Baeldung .              

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-22 23:05:00

A commenter on  this post  asked for me (or anyone) to solve the problem without AI: A,B,C,D,E are digits (the poster said A could be 0 but I took A to be nonzero)  such that ABCDE + BCDE + CDE + DE + E = 20320. (CLARIFICATION ADDED

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-22 21:58:55

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “ Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry ”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 20:17:58

The previous post looked at the Bitcoin network hash rate, currently around one zettahash per second, i.e. 1021 hashes per second. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin block adjusts over time to keep the rate of block production relatively constant, around

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 19:30:40

When I first heard of cryptographic hash functions, they were called “one-way functions” and seemed like a mild curiosity. I had no idea that one day the world would compute a mind-boggling number of hashes every second. Because Bitcoin mining

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-22 19:05:37

El neerlandés inmortal fue un rival muy temible para todas las estrellas de su época, incluido Gari Kaspárov, a quien tumbó en esta vibrante lucha

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 02:00:31

I’ve written a couple times about Fibonacci numbers and certificates. Here the certificate is auxiliary data that makes it faster to confirm that the original calculation was correct. This post puts some timing numbers to this. I calculated the 10 m

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-21 19:40:42

Como es lógico en alguien que fue 2º jugador del mundo, el neerlandés buscó siempre que sus composiciones de finales tuvieran, además de enorme belleza, una gran utilidad práctica

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-21 19:13:13

I’ve written before about computing big Fibonacci numbers, and about creating a certificate to verify a Fibonacci number has been calculated correctly. This post will revisit both, giving a different approach to computing big Fibonacci numbers that

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-21 16:00:00

Computing Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 YearsGayoung Lee | Gizmodo “Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Ar