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

It used some heuristics. The post How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-07 16:00:00

Scientists used AI to find targets shared by thousands of related viruses and build what they hope is a universal vaccine. The post The First AI‑Designed Vaccine Has Been Tested in People. Here’s What Happened. appeared first on SingularityHub

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-07 14:34:00

Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…

InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 14:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a major expansion of its AWS DevOps Agent, introducing new release management capabilities designed to assess code changes and autonomously test software before it reaches production. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-07-07 13:00:00

CISA is reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos model to scan government code repositories for security vulnerabilities, with sources saying the audits have already found numerous bugs. Reuters reports: The scanning is being done by CISA's Attack Surface Evalu

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

Ming Dynasty China left us copious texts, but these veil the lives of the vast majority of its people from our view - by Craig Clunas Read on Aeon

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

SaaS software vendor HubSpot has described how its semantic search platform grew from a proof of concept into an internal service that now manages more than 20 billion vectors across 38-plus teams. The company says the system now supports agents, RAG, an

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

GitHub is offering a limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public repositories as a pro-physical-media jab at Sony's plan to stop producing PlayStation game discs in 2028. Tom's Hardware reports: The coding and collaboration platform, owned by Microsoft, s

InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 08:51:00

Node.js 26 has been released, featuring the Temporal API enabled by default, an updated V8 engine to version 14.6, and the Undici HTTP client upgraded to 8.0. The release also removes deprecated legacy APIs. Developers should note migration points relate

slashdot @ 2026-07-07 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities, raising fears that the nation's ca

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00

Jaap Jansma, manager Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), en Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands bij Red Hat, vertellen hoe een klein team in Groningen uitgroeide tot leverancier van een aantal cruciale bouwstenen voor het fundament onder de digi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00

Red Hat Satellite 6.19 moves Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) management forward and continues to deliver the value of Red Hat Lightspeed to disconnected, air-gapped, and data-sovereign environments. This latest release shifts the focus from merely finding

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00

Change is the only constant. But for organizations operating in highly regulated sectors such as global finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and government, constant change can be the enemy of stability. These industries rely on "change-averse" workloa

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00

This past May at the Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta during Community Day atRed Hat Summit, we celebrated our newest class of Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While every member of the Red Hat OpenShift community plays a heroic role in driving

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-07 02:00:00

The AI transition from experimental chatbots to agents faces a critical hurdle in highly-regulated sectors like biomedicine and public health. While these autonomous systems can navigate complex data to perform real-world tasks, there is a clear lack of a

InfoQ @ 2026-07-07 01:30:00

This week's Java roundup for June 29th, 2026, features news highlighting: a new JEP candidate, Strict Field Initialization; point releases of GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst and Java Operator SDK; maintenance releases of GlassFish and Micronaut; the se

slashdot @ 2026-07-07 01:00:00

locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-07 00:23:46

Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.

slashdot @ 2026-07-07 00:00:00

The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the c

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 23:00:00

SK Hynix is launching a Nasdaq listing expected to raise about $28 billion, giving US investors easier access to one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI memory-chip boom. Reuters reports: The company will sell 17.79 million new shares in the depository

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 22:38:43

The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data: UTI: net.daringfireball.markdown Conforms to: public.ut

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 22:00:00

The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey. "The core issue seems to be whether Xinuos even

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of us

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 20:34:38

There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it backs up your entire computer, including the startup drive and external drives — and online fil

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 20:30:00

Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business. "Our business is changing because the world around it is changing. The way technology is b

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-06 20:03:10

I recently read Alan Alda's first memoir  Never have your dog stuffed   which was pretty good. Hence I began looking for more information about him on the web. I came across a YouTube video   At 89, Alan Alda reveals the seven acto

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:37:05

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread ): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:13:52

A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time . ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price. They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 19:04:44

Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work until certificates expire. Schott, on Maestral’s GitHub project page : As of 2026-07

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 19:00:00

Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027, nearly 10 years after the console's launch. In its place, the company will release updated versions of the Switch 2 and several controllers with user-replaceable batteries to co

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 18:00:00

Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-06 17:46:43

A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually so

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 17:00:00

Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect. The government says the changes wil

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-06 16:35:02

Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac y

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-06 16:33:56

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of the quantum world. The post Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 16:24:00

Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approach detects oversized partitions, splits them smaller units, and routes reads across child partitions. Ne

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-06 16:22:35

I ran across a geometry theorem with the following diagram. The theorem corresponding to the diagram is interesting, but I found reproducing the diagram more interesting. The segment AB is a diameter and the line CD is perpendicular to the diameter. Assum

old new thing @ 2026-07-06 16:00:00

You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way. The post I opened a file with <CODE>FILE_<WBR>FLAG_<WBR>DELETE_<WBR>ON_<WBR>CLOSE</CODE>, but now I changed my mind appeared first on The Old New Thing

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-06 16:00:00

Similar concepts in different languages share an address in the brain. The post How the Bilingual Brain Switches Languages With Ease appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-06 14:53:00

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat , this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sess

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-06 14:22:29

I ran across the approximation e ≈ 2721/1001 recently. What makes this remarkable is its accuracy relative to the size of the denominator. You can create a trivial approximation just by truncating a decimal expansion e ≈ 2718/1000 but this is only good to

InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 14:00:00

InfoQ has opened enrollment for a five-week AI Security & Privacy Engineering cohort for senior engineers and architects in regulated industries, focused on applying security, privacy, threat modeling, observability, and governance practices to productio

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 13:34:00

Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg: The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kro

AEON @ 2026-07-06 12:01:00

Let this exuberant melding of jazz and animation from 1949 blur your senses as abstract visuals interpret the music - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-06 12:00:00

Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work? - by Joshua Habgood-Coote Read on Aeon

Confluent @ 2026-07-06 11:43:40

Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload

InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 10:00:00

The Model Context Protocol team has promoted its Enterprise-Managed Authorisation extension to stable status, adding a centralised way for organisations to control access to MCP servers through their identity provider. The project states the aim is to re

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 09:34:00

"A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs," remembers the Wall Street Journal.But "For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone." In late May, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Al

InfoQ @ 2026-07-06 08:00:00

Cloudflare and AWS both implemented x402 stablecoin micropayments at their edge networks within two weeks. The open protocol under the Linux Foundation revives HTTP 402 for agent-to-service payments with sub-cent transaction costs. Coinbase reports 169 m

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-06 07:21:50

Santos Latasa ha ganado el Magistral de León por 2ª vez con un juego espléndido, que recuerda al de su cénit, en 2022

slashdot @ 2026-07-06 06:49:00

USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff's office: Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington's peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clallam

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-06 02:00:00

In this blog post, I explain how you can use Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal to provide access to Red Hat documentation in environments with limited or no connectivity to the internet.The Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal is a secure offline version of Red

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-05 18:42:53

El ídolo leonés gana con excelente preparación y remate eficaz el primer asalto de la final contra Liem Le

InfoQ @ 2026-07-05 10:55:00

AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the

InfoQ @ 2026-07-05 10:13:00

Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists. Anthropic's own documentation confirms data residency guarantees apply to Bedrock and Vertex AI but not Foundry. European practition

Baeldung @ 2026-07-04 23:28:22

Learn how to build dynamic SQL queries in Java using StringBuilder , StringJoiner , and PreparedStatement to avoid common pitfalls. The post Building up a SQL Query String in Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

Baeldung @ 2026-07-04 23:18:53

Learn how to implement the LLM-as-a-Judge pattern in Spring AI as a quality gate for LLM responses. The post Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 23:02:43

My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac and iOS ever since. Day One’s apps exhibit a commitment to technical and design excellence, and,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 21:28:45

Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will prove more resilient than Windows, because the Mac is the platform that attracts people who c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-04 18:57:22

Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of you

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-04 18:32:22

El ruso con bandera austriaca tumbó al vietnamita Liem Le en el primer asalto de la 2ª semifinal en León

InfoQ @ 2026-07-04 10:15:00

Cycle recently introduced a separate EU-based control plane, allowing European customers to keep platform management data and telemetry within Europe. The new offering is designed to improve compliance, operational isolation, and responsiveness for Europ

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-04 04:50:36

A discussion over lunch today brought up the fact that additional data does not always decrease the size of a confidence interval. This post will look at this from a Bayesian perspective. In general, new information reduces your uncertainty regarding what

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-03 23:24:05

Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-03 18:57:22

El ídolo leonés deleita a su público en el Auditorio con una victoria muy elegante en el 2º asalto de la semifinal del Magistral

InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 16:29:00

Cloudflare details Town Lake, an internal unified data platform, and Skipper, an AI analytics agent unifying access to operational, billing, security, and business data. The platform processed ~91K billing queries, with billing forming majority usage. Bu

Deepmind @ 2026-07-03 16:25:43

old new thing @ 2026-07-03 16:00:00

Contextual clues. The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-03 16:00:00

The night sky seems eternal and unchanging. But in cosmic time, nothing could be further from the truth. The post The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another. appeared first on Singulari

Baeldung @ 2026-07-03 15:12:53

Our summer lunch is finally live, and so is my Foundation's to AI coding course. The post Java Weekly, Issue 653 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 14:12:00

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started to improve the handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, optimal alternative to the Apache Parquet Java

InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 14:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation's highest level of maturity and formally recognizing it as production-ready for enterprise use. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 12:13:00

Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 compute allowance from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM with no public announcement. Support agents gave conflicting answers on whether PAYG accounts are affected. Documentation states the new limits

AEON @ 2026-07-03 12:00:00

The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain - by Julie Reshe Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-03 11:57:13

KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-03 11:57:13

KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-03 09:53:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 564 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Disclosure Day; Francois Englert; 3I/ATLAS; Estrellas de Mar”, 25 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 564: Obit

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

Swift 6.3.3 release, Apple hardware price rises, Xcode 27 compatibility fixes, SwiftUI internals, design systems, agent-friendly logging, and Swift on an Apple II.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

The drive toward NetOps-as-Code continues to reshape how enterprises manage their infrastructure. We see the demand for resilient, agile networks capable of supporting hybrid cloud applications and distributed edge environments continuing to grow, and Red

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

IBM, Red Hat, and Deloitte Announce Lightwell Collaboration to Help Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain TrustDeloitte is teaming up with IBM and Red Hat to support Lightwell and strengthen the enterprise open source software supply chain. By back

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

Since February, over 1,500 organizations have used Red Hat's complimentary Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment to establish a sovereignty baseline in 15 minutes. Today we're introducing the Digital Sovereignty Readiness Appraisal, a workshop-based mat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

BackendTLSPolicy is a Kubernetes resource that allows the specification of additional Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption in Gateway API. It gives Gateway API users on Red Hat OpenShift access to the same level of secured traffic as the OpenShift rou

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-03 00:30:40

Mike Dano, in a long ( too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app ): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:55:31

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247 , we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:31:04

EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very mu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 22:32:31

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:38:45

After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:14:31

Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. He promised a quick, cheap fix. Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 20:29:01

Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 19:09:42

Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly , is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to int

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 18:13:13

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody knows . My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, w

Swift blog @ 2026-07-02 18:00:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. June was an exciting month for Swift, featuring announcements at WWDC and community events around the globe. We invited the organ

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 17:55:57

Jason Koebler, a month ago at 404 Media: Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. One

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-02 16:57:31

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true. The post Astrophysicists Puz

old new thing @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00

Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that. The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00

A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause. The post Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking M

AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:01:00

‘Society, in fact, is neighbourhoods’ – how Karl Hess transformed from a Republican speechwriter into a radical welder - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:00:00

In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains - by Skye C Cleary Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-07-02 10:00:00

La sostenibilidad del sector del transporte requiere reducir a un mínimo las emisiones de CO₂, pero hay una circunstancia en la que disponer de una flota activa de locomotoras diésel es no ya aconsejable, sino necesario.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-02 08:30:07

El astro francés de origen iraní se siente cómodo en posiciones muy complejas, cuestionando los principios clásicos

Inside Java @ 2026-07-02 02:00:00

Explore the latest work on the HotSpot JVM, with a focus on auto-vectorization and the Vector API.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 01:26:45

Cellular download speed and reception is nearly a solved problem for my needs. Battery life is not.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 21:55:26

Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up t

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-01 21:19:17

Harry Lewis pointed Bill and me to Gottfried Leibniz's 1677 treatise  The True Method  (translated from the original French ). I highly recommend taking the time to read this three page document where he talks about formalizing all human knowle

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 20:04:29

Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While this might seem like an easy solution, it doesn’t align with our beliefs about how healthy ecos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-01 19:36:39

Praggnanandhaa doblega a Keymer con una lección magistral sobre el peligro de un par de alfiles en posición muy abierta

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-01 19:20:30

Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-ri

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 17:48:09

The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta. Sponsored by: Coax :

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 16:42:02

Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses. “Apple Hide My Email

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-01 16:00:02

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab. The post For the First Time, a Cell Bui

old new thing @ 2026-07-01 16:00:00

Unlocking the door from the inside. The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Changing administrative settings appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 15:14:45

Quantum 10, 2152 (2026). Non-local quantum computation (NLQC) replaces a local interaction between two systems with a single round of communication and shared entanglement. Despite many partial results, it is k

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 12:50:10

Quantum 10, 2151 (2026). The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 12:39:06

Quantum 10, 2150 (2026). We provide a complete mathematical theory for the entanglement of mixtures of Dicke states. These quantum states form an important subclass of bosonic states arising in the study of ind

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

Hand-painted animations bring to life Isamu Noguchi’s ideas for playgrounds that could integrate art with everyday life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-01 11:50:23

Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, includ

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-01 11:50:23

Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, includ

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-01 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 @ 2026-07-01 02:21:21

This morning I wrote a post that included the central Delannoy numbers. The nth central Delannoy number Dn counts the number of ways a king can move from one corner of a chessboard to the diagonally opposite corner without backtracking. The more general D

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

Noch lange nicht genug — ein Vierteljahrhundert bei Sun und Oracle

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

Current global shifts clearly signal a critical need for shared, neutral digital public infrastructure outside the control of any single centralized actor. As a public, programmable network designed to operate without reliance on any single party, Ethereum

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 23:30:33

AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 22:56:44

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local N

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 22:54:32

Gnome is a deceptively clever animated GIF app by Lex Friedman: The truest thing about animated GIFs is that they are a critical pillar of modern human communication, and yet getting one into a Slack message or an iMessage thread or an email reply usu

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 22:15:11

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and doma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 22:12:08

Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings , they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month , ordering: APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 pre

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 21:40:38

Josh Marshall, writing at TPM (gift link): As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship by a 6 — or perhaps 5½ — vote margin. See Kate Riga’s report on the majority decision and Josh Kovensky’s piece on t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 20:52:47

Google no longer collects this information in a way that is susceptible to geofence warrants, and, more importantly, Apple never did.

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-30 20:51:36

Imagine the following dialog. Professor: f is a function of a real variable x that takes a real parameter k. Student: What’s a parameter? Professor: It’s a constant that can vary. Student: Then if it can vary, isn’t it a variable? Profes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 20:50:54

I know there’s been a lot of exciting World Cup action this week, but this 2018 clip from Japan is the best soccer video I’ve seen in a long while.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 18:33:55

The UK Competition and Markets Authority: ‘Steering’ — the ability for developers to engage with customers about off‑platform options — is currently banned by Apple and restricted by Google in the UK. Lifting these constraints would allow developers

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-30 18:24:36

The Travel Grant Application for EuroBSDCon 2026 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend EuroBSDCon through our travel grant program. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel expense

Deepmind @ 2026-06-30 18:02:40

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 17:44:49

Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters: Britain’s competition regulator ​on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside Apple and Alphabet’s Google app stores to cut fees and boost competition. The Comp

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-30 16:36:14

Golden rectangles The defining property of golden rectangle is that if you stick a square on its longer side, you get another golden rectangle. The smaller vertical rectangle is similar to the larger horizontal rectangle. This means φ / 1 = (1 + φ) / φ wh