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Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-22 23:32:42

Strong opposition kicks in when data center demand surpasses 5% of a country's power supply. The post Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begun appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 23:00:00

The NTSB temporarily closed public access to nearly all investigation dockets after people used a spectrogram image from a PDF in the UPS flight 2976 crash file to reconstruct approximate cockpit voice recorder audio and post it online. "We show our work a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 22:30:18

The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 22:00:00

Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers' personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs. TechCrunch reports: Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Tr

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Billboard: Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal for recorded music and publishing rights, enabling Spotify to launch generative AI music models in the future. With this deal, Spotify's

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 20:00:00

Higgsfield AI is debuting a 95-minute fully AI-generated film at Cannes called "Hell Grind" that reportedly cost $500,000 to make, $400,000 of which was spent on compute alone. The project took just two weeks to produce and is intended to showcase the star

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:39:05

Following up on yesterday’s item re: Apple’s petition to the Supreme Court, here’s the Ninth Circuit ruling. It starts with a “Summary” that is specifically intended for the convenience of the reader. Page 50 is where it covers Apple’s argument regardin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 19:24:12

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:15:00

Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday , and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization: It also doesn’t do away with the core problem. That problem is principally one of information de

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:12:10

James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link): He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own w

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 19:00:00

Venmo is testing a major redesign that will make new users' payment posts viewable by their friends by default instead of being public. The Verge reports: It's a notable update for a platform that has struggled with privacy in the past. In 2021, BuzzFeed N

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 18:23:08

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slashdot @ 2026-05-22 18:00:00

Samsung is reportedly set to pay chip-division workers an average bonus of about $340,000 after reaching a tentative deal with its union, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). The deal ended a standoff that "could have cost the economy as much as 1 trillion

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 17:59:26

> (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC. Comments URL:

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-22 17:24:06

El uzbeko fue implacable al aprovechar las inexactitudes de Keymer, líder del Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest hasta esta derrota

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 17:22:04

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slashdot @ 2026-05-22 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment Thursday at a House committee markup hearing that would prohibit any recipient of federal highway funding from using automated license plate readers for any purpose

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 16:32:00

Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness fro

Baeldung @ 2026-05-22 15:41:58

A look at the last few Java releases and feedback loops for agents. A solid week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 647 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 15:22:42

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 15:00:00

InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-22 14:45:19

Quantum 10, 2115 (2026). In classical information theory, the Doeblin coefficient of a classical channel provides an efficiently computable upper bound on the total-variation contraction coefficient of the chan

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 14:00:00

Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), enabling its small infrastructure team to automate large-scale ScyllaDB cluster management tasks that previou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-22 13:41:34

Quantum 10, 2114 (2026). A defining feature of quantum many-body systems is the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space with the number of degrees of freedom. This exponential complexity naïvely renders a comp

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 13:28:08

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 13:23:30

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slashdot @ 2026-05-22 13:00:00

While other commencement speeches have been met with boos for hyping up artificial intelligence, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak reminded college graduates that they already posses "AI" of their own: "actual intelligence." He framed AI as an attempt to dupli

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 12:38:26

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 12:24:00

xAI has released Grok Skills together with enhancements to the Responses API for Grok 4.3, enabling persistent custom expertise that the model retains across all conversations. By Daniel Dominguez

AEON @ 2026-05-22 12:00:00

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace - by Tom Wooldridge Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 11:21:00

Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers platform, delivering 4x higher concurrency and 50% faster response times. The upgrade completes a six-layer agent infrastructure stack: compute (Dynamic Workers + Sandboxes), orchestration (Dynamic Wor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 11:04:54

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slashdot @ 2026-05-22 09:00:00

A new Oxford Longevity Project report argues that individuals bear at least 80% of the responsibility for ill health in old age. "The report (PDF), launched at the Smart Ageing Summit in Oxford last week, argues that individuals have far greater control ov

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AT&T on Wednesday filed suit (PDF) against California officials seeking a court order declaring it does not have to continue offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers as it vowed t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 04:35:54

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-22 03:30:45

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 03:00:47

Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. [...] In its petition, Apple is a

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-22 02:37:05

Researchers used two AI systems, Robin and Co-Scientist, to collapse the timeline from idea to drug candidate. The post AI Lab Partners Are Rewiring the Hunt for New Drugs appeared first on SingularityHub .

iOS Weekly @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

End of an era and new beginnings. Plus understanding animations, feature flags, and hot reloads.

Inside Java @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it announces that JDK 27 approaches rampdown and final field mutation warnings heads-up.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

Multicluster management has been a rapidly evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. As organizations deploy hundreds to thousands of clusters across distributed environments, it’s important they assess their options for platforms that can handle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

Fierce Network: Red Hat CTO says these are 3 big things it’s working on with telcosVerizon took to the keynote stage at Red Hat Summit to talk up its network modernization work with the vendor. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright said it is also working with operato

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 01:59:07

Speaking of Apple and sports, here’s another one from Apple Newsroom: This Saturday, May 23, Apple TV will present a special live Major League Soccer match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro — marking the first time iPhone will be used to capture

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 01:00:00

Thousands of Chicago-area Zillow and Trulia listings disappeared after Midwest Real Estate Data cut off Zillow's access to its feed, "in the latest escalation of a legal battle with Lisle-based Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED)," reports the Chicago Sun-Time

slashdot @ 2026-05-22 00:00:00

Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser's "most significant design overhaul" yet, featuring a new unified, edge-to-edge interface, six preset layouts, and deeper customization across tabs, toolbars, panels, and themes. The company is also taking a swip

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 23:55:56

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slashdot @ 2026-05-21 23:00:00

Trump called off a planned AI executive order just hours before a signing ceremony because he said he was worried the framework could slow America's lead over China. "We're leading China, we're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's goin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 22:56:36

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-21 22:01:22

Starting June 18, 2026, age ratings on the App Store will be updated in Australia and Vietnam. Australia The 15+ age rating will no longer be available on the App Store in Australia. Apps currently rated 15+ with the following content descriptors will

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 22:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget and more like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up. Unlike Flipper Zero, which focuses on offline pro

Deepmind @ 2026-05-21 21:46:42

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 21:32:16

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 21:13:56

Apple Newsroom: Apple Sports — the free app for iPhone that gives fans access to real-time scores, stats, and more — is now available to download on the App Store in more than 170 countries and regions around the world, including more than 90 newly ad

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 20:54:55

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The Endeavour @ 2026-05-21 19:31:13

“You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes you get what you need.” — The Rolling Stones Circular functions and hyperbolic functions aren’t invertible, but we invert them anyway. These functions map many points in the domain

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 19:03:00

Bintrail is a recently introduced layer that brings point-in-time queries and row-history lookups to MySQL, the only major relational database lacking native temporal querying. Using indexed binlogs behind ProxySQL and without modifying MySQL or applicat

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 18:59:27

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The Endeavour @ 2026-05-21 17:53:56

The difference between a circular function and a hyperbolic function is a rotation or two. For example, cosh(z) = cos(iz). You can read that as saying that to find the hyperbolic cosine of z, first you rotate z a quarter turn to the left (i.e. multiply by

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 17:31:54

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 17:15:00

QCon AI Boston 2026 is close to selling out. Six sessions where speakers engage directly with the gap between AI working in a demo and AI working in production. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-21 16:48:20

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. The post How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species’ Past first a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 16:39:19

Derek Sivers: When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place — only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are in a place right now, you can only speak of it in

old new thing @ 2026-05-21 16:00:00

Trick question: You can't. But maybe you can fake it. The post How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 14:56:28

Quantum 10, 2113 (2026). Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-21 14:09:19

Con motivos de peso para ser considerado uno de los mejores deportistas de la historia, el hexacampeón del mundo no puede salir de Rusia

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-21 13:49:00

Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people without any knowledge

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 13:35:00

Platform engineering should have a product focus, as developers are customers; they must provide composable, self-service capabilities, golden bricks rather than rigid golden paths, so teams can move quickly while maintaining consistency. Success is meas

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 13:06:56

Quantum 10, 2112 (2026). We investigate the Floquet spectrum of a detuned, driven two-level system and show that it exhibits exact quasienergy crossings when the detuning is an integer multiple of the energy qu

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 12:54:48

Quantum 10, 2111 (2026). Graph states are a key resource for a number of applications in quantum information theory. Due to the inherent noise in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era devices, it is impor

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer uses either IDE

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer uses either IDE

AEON @ 2026-05-21 12:01:00

It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

Google introduced new Android development tools that enable building apps up to 3x faster by using AI agents, including a redesigned Android command-line interface (CLI), structured skills", and an integrated knowledge base. These tools are designed to s

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

The OpenTofu community released version 1.12.0 on May 14, 2026. This update isn’t a complete rewrite, but it does resolve some issues that infrastructure teams have faced for a while. By Claudio Masolo

AEON @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:47:24

Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link): Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates ab

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:05:14

Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link): Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI. The company has started rolli

Inside Java @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

Primitive defaults are chosen so that they are (probably) represented by memory set to one or more bytes with all bits set to zero; we call these all-zero-bits values. We want “primitive-like” classes to have similar optimization opportunities, even if som

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

I recently saw OpenClaw referred to as a harness. I thought, “That’s interesting. OpenClaw isn’t a harness. It’s an agent runtime—it drives the agent loop.” So, what does the word "harness" even mean?The conversation so farThe structural baseline for the c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

One of the core principles of Red Hat’s open source culture is open exchange, which is the belief that information should be freely available and accessible to anyone. I recently represented Red Hat at Axe-con 2026, the free accessibility conference organi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 23:20:23

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link): For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.” But ov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 22:53:22

22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye , on TikTok: “Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral during quarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe it, in GarageBand on my school iPad. My high school gave us all

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-20 19:49:48

Let \(f\) be a function mapping binary strings of length \(m\) to strings of length \(n\) with \(n>m\). Since there are more strings of length \(n\) than \(m\), \(f\) is not onto. Can you find a string not in the range? This is known as the range avoid

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:52:19

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do. The post Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics Fro

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:50:37

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions? The post How Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematic

InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 16:38:00

Grab’s Central Data Team built a multi-agent AI system to automate repetitive engineering support tasks across its data warehouse platform. The system separates investigation and enhancement workflows using specialized agents coordinated via an orchestra

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-20 16:27:00

Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good at enforcing rules, but the rules were limited. B

old new thing @ 2026-05-20 16:00:00

You need to arrange to get one from the other. The post The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 14:30:00

OpenAI recently outlined how it adapted WebRTC for low-latency voice AI at global scale. The new architecture replaced a conventional media termination model with a relay-transceiver design better suited to Kubernetes and cloud load balancers. It keeps W

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 12:32:50

Quantum 10, 2110 (2026). Quantum computing involving physical systems with continuous degrees of freedom, such as the quantum states of light, has recently attracted significant interest. However, a well-define

InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 12:04:00

Pip 26.1 ships dependency cooldowns that enforce a waiting period before newly published packages can be installed, and experimental pylock.toml lockfile support from PEP 751. Research shows a 7-day cooldown would have prevented 8 out of 10 analyzed supp

AEON @ 2026-05-20 12:01:00

After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 11:31:15

Quantum 10, 2109 (2026). We time-evolve a translationally invariant quantum state on the Quantinuum H1-1 trapped-ion quantum processor, studying the dynamical quantum phase transition of the transverse field Is

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 10:59:55

Quantum 10, 2108 (2026). There is great interest in generating and controlling entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates and similar ensembles for use in quantum computation, simulation, and sensing. One class

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-20 10:33:55

Todo indica que la pregunta de hasta dónde hubiera llegado el neerlandés con mayor valentía quedará para la eternidad

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-20 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

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 02:49:50

How should we define √(z² − 1)? Well, you could square z, subtract 1, and take the square root. What else would you do?! The question turns out to be more subtle than it looks. When x is a non-negative real number, √x is defined to be the non-negative rea

Inside Java @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers thatJSON thread dumps now emit thread identifiers, thread counts, and the process identifier as numeric types.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Consider a medical device running Linux in a hospital. It processes patient data, adjusts dosing, and reports to clinical systems. Or an ATM on a street corner, processing transactions around the clock. Or a gateway device at the edge of a manufacturing ne

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications, security, and innovation. These updates enhance the core strengths of RHEL to help IT leaders, developers

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

AI agents are no longer passive assistants. They write code, call APIs, install packages, and interact with production systems. This shift from passive to active changes not only the usefulness of agents, but also the security question around their activit

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

True innovation is never a solo act; it is the result of diverse experts coming together to solve the impossible. While the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award winners represent the pinnacle of open source success, the sheer volume of transformative wo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

In the last few years, large language models (LLMs) have moved from research labs to production systems powering critical business functions. This rapid adoption poses a fundamental challenge for enterprises: How do you deploy AI with confidence when model

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

The promise of enterprise AI agents is straightforward: Let the model think, Let the code run, and keep everything under your control.Until now, this promise was hard to deliver. If you wanted Claude to write and execute code for your team, you had 2 optio

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 01:37:31

The previous post derived the identity and said in a footnote that the identity holds at least for x > 1 and y > 1. That’s true, but let’s see why the footnote is necessary. Let’s have Mathematica plot The plot will be 0 where th

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-19 22:20:06

Enough hydrogen is leaking from a single mine to power hundreds of homes. Researchers say it's far from unique. The post 70% of the Rock Under Our Feet Can Produce Hydrogen. Tapping It Could Power Your Town. appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 21:20:00

Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused capabilities: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. The release aims to address a recurring challenge in enterprise AI deployments, where organizations want to use aut

tecosystems @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

Sogrady @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-19 19:00:00

From 2003 to 2025 the Atlantic named-storm total fell outside NOAA's May range 9 times, 8 of them underforecasts. NOAA's 2026 outlook lands May 21.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-19 18:38:00

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and en

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 17:42:38

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply p

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 16:29:00

Agoda Multimodal Content System Agoda unifies hotel images and guest reviews using a shared topic taxonomy, enabling multimodal retrieval across 700M+ images and multilingual reviews with offline enri

old new thing @ 2026-05-19 16:00:00

The storage control blocks were destroyed. The post What is the history of the <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ARENA_<WBR>TRASHED</CODE> error code? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-19 14:09:54

Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to f(x) + f(y) = f(z)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-19 12:38:40

El flamante vencedor del Torneo de Candidatos ha estado flojo en la primera mitad del Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest

AEON @ 2026-05-19 12:00:00

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 11:00:00

Enforce encryption & governance centrally with Confluent Private Cloud. Reduce brokers by 73% and secure legacy Kafka clients without code changes or sprawl.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:16

Connect your AI coding assistant to Confluent with MCP servers and Agent Skills. Direct platform access and domain expertise for streaming, now generally available.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q2 2026 release, including dbt adapter, Materialized Tables for Flink, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 03:27:00

The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecy

Inside Java @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Since JavaOne 2025, Java has moved from JDK 25, the latest LTS release, toward JDK 26, with major updates across the language, APIs, runtime, tooling, security, startup performance, and garbage collection. This talk reviews the most important changes from

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-18 21:13:20

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizat

Deepmind @ 2026-05-18 20:21:39

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:53:33

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations. Mr. Musk fil

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:34:46

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik: When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it sits near $4 trillion. That is more than

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:17:02

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link): Even though it has large

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:52:03

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life . (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:47:08

A follow-up point on my “ AI Is Technology, Not a Product ” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”: By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that peo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:21:35

Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking over the public meant t

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:50:09

Every year, the Apple Design Awards recognize innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. But they’ve also become something more: A moment to step back and celebrate the work of Apple developers across the community. Meet

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 17:34:47

Wikipedia: The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-18 17:14:42

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. The post What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:00:22

Get ready for a week of technology, creativity, and community — all online and free. Here’s what WWDC26 has in store. Learn more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 16:59:59

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup: Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [

old new thing @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

Reported incorrectly since the day it was written. The post Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

A new study challenges the idea that consciousness is necessary to make sense of language. The post The Fully Anesthetized Brain Can Still Track a Podcast appeared first on SingularityHub .

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:01:00

Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:00:00

Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-18 10:49:14

El joven astro alemán tiene poco que envidiar en profundidad posicional a los mejores estrategas de la historia

brucknerite @ 2026-05-18 10:00:00

En un viaje de Madrid a Barcelona en un Frecciarossa 1000 de Iryo noté un movimiento peculiar, como si el tren me meciera. ¿Qué estaba pasando? ¿Sería el mítico movimiento de lazo, la inestabilidad que puede surgir en trenes de alta velocidad circulando en

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-18 09:49:24

Quantum 10, 2107 (2026). Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investigate t

Rust blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals , 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals . This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final statu

Inside Java @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

Caching is a first-class architectural concern in agentic systems. This talk breaks down how Java applications can layer internal, distributed, and semantic caches. We'll explore in-process caching with Caffeine for ultra-low-latency access, distributed ca

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:53:18

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:50:57

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:43:45

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-17 19:59:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:50:34

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:43:50

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-17 13:29:31

 1) Congratulations to Scott Aaronson for winning the first Trevisan Award. The Trevisan Award is in memory of Luca Trevisan and recognizes expository work in Theoretical Computer Science.  It is given out by the ACM. The ACM announcement of S

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-17 12:16:50

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 558 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Barbacid; Operador; Volcanes; Planeta 9”, 14 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 558: Barbacid, matemáti

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 531: Lazy Constants (Third Preview)

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that JDK 27 EA Builds now include post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 23:40:15

El bello y didáctico remate de esta partida ilustra la gran clase del alemán, poco espectacular en general pero muy eficaz

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:22:38

Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:17:15

Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight: The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money, Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake companies by

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-16 22:58:26

One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. For example, yo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 22:32:51

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 21:27:34

Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X : “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistake

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 17:24:38

Un mes después de su apabullante triunfo en el Candidatos, el aspirante al título muestra fisuras en Bucarest

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-16 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 16) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 11:13:34

Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:16:06

Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:08:44

Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:00:15

Filippo Menolascina uses Co-Scientist to identify new liver disease treatments and explain why existing drugs only help certain patients.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:53:11

Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:40:27

Stanford geneticist uses Co-Scientist to help find new treatments for chronic liver disease and liver fibrosis.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 05:14:17

Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:38:00

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft , his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel : Track your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:37:57

Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead

Inside Java @ 2026-05-16 02:00:00

This session highlights the progress of JEP 528, which brings core dump and minidump support to jcmd. The jcmd tool is widely used for monitoring and troubleshooting live HotSpot JVMs. With JEP 528, jcmd will also be able to diagnose crashed JVMs, creating

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 00:50:12

Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.