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InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 13:47:00

Software engineering skill development requires slowing down. Generative AI has changed the landscape of skill development for software engineering. Tools and AI can accelerate outcomes, but they may not support skill development. Engineers must understa

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

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more - by Sasha Mudd Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:35:34

Quantum 10, 2225 (2026). We introduce new parallel algorithms for efficiently simulating stabilizer (Clifford) circuits on GPUs, with a focus on data-parallel tableau evolution and scalable handling of projecti

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 11:12:27

Quantum 10, 2224 (2026). We study the problem of $n$-fold rotationally symmetric bosonic state preparation, which is of great importance to bosonic quantum error correction, using a multiphoton interaction betw

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:32:26

Quantum 10, 2223 (2026). We present a universal framework for simulating $N$-dimensional linear Itô stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on quantum computers with additive or multiplicative noises. Building

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-01 10:27:16

Quantum 10, 2222 (2026). Robust self-testing in non-local games allows a classical referee to certify that two untrustworthy players are able to perform a specific quantum strategy up to high precision. Proving

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 08:47:00

TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, has introduced Jev, a decision-making model that generates typed outputs rather than text. It evaluates inputs in parallel, providing results with probabilistic scores and confidence values.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-01 08:31:00

Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps Express generally available alongside Container Apps Sandboxes, the microVM compute layer it runs on. Express skips environment provisioning and scales to zero, with subsecond startup from prewarmed pools. Custom d

slashdot @ 2026-10-01 01:00:00

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model that it says leads or ties rivals on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. The model is initially being released only to trusted cyber defenders and select pre-release testers, with broader availability

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

Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in compaction, maintenance, and engine compatibili

slashdot @ 2026-10-01 00:00:00

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Microsoft has no plans to sell the gaming business, telling The New York Times that "Xbox is not for sale" and that the company intends to take a long-term view. Windows Central reports: Microsoft's vast layoffs across the summer

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 23:00:00

A months-long breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center exposed personal information belonging to roughly 2.8 million living current and former U.S. military personnel and staff, plus records for nearly 300,000 deceased people. Attackers reportedly exploi

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-30 22:40:23

In August, we released Dogwood, an open source governance language for agents and their actions. Dogwood policies specify which actions an agent may take and under what conditions. A key feature of the language is support for temporal conditions, which let

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:17:32

SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buy

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 22:14:31

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus. At the center o

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 22:03:34

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before similarity search so scoped queries return more relevant results. Ideal for RAG, agentic apps, and document search.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 22:01:45

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 22:00:00

Google is reportedly testing a program that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI-powered search features. According to The Information, one publisher earned more than $1 million over a year, while another has rec

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-30 21:23:42

Echo Wang, reporting for Reuters yesterday: Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than ​industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. This is

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a "comm

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 20:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Mashable: Singapore's government is trying its hand at matchmaking again. The country's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) has launched FirstDate, a pilot dating service for singles aged 21 to 35. F

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:22:31

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that j

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-30 19:13:51

Tras un periodo de resultados grises, el español, de padre sefardí y madre rusa, logra 7,5 puntos de 9 en la Olimpiada

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-30 19:04:05

Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a rea

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 19:00:00

A look at two InfoQ online certification cohorts covering security and privacy decisions in production AI systems and the verification needed when coding agents work in existing codebases. By Artenisa Chatziou

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 19:00:00

fahrbot-bot shares a report from CNN: President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, a government website meant to serve as a one-stop shop for people trying to accomplish basic tasks like renewing a passport, enrolling in Medicare or applying for

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 18:00:00

hcs_$reboot writes: Trump hosted executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia, and other tech companies at the White House. They agreed to voluntary AI-safety standards, including independent audits and safeguards aimed at preventing AI systems

Deepmind @ 2026-09-30 17:03:07

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 24-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immedia

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-30 16:52:12

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time. The post Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-30 16:14:00

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control

old new thing @ 2026-09-30 16:00:00

Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task. The post Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 15:47:00

Cursor has introduced Continuity, a Git storage architecture that uses an S3 backed write ahead log as the source of truth. The design turns local NVMe repositories into warm caches and separates replica coordination from consistency. Cursor reports line

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 15:26:55

Quantum 10, 2221 (2026). There exists a stark tension among different formulations of quantum theory as some are inherently time-symmetric while others are time-asymmetric. This tension is crisply captured when

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 13:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Nanoparticles could someday provide a new way to help soldiers fight back against deadly nerve agents on the front lines. In a new study, Northwestern University scientists developed a nanoparticle-based com

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03

We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-30 12:33:03

We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensi

AEON @ 2026-09-30 12:01:00

A fool, a genius, or ‘a man who destroys everything’? Piecing together Zoran, a mythic figure of Belgrade - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 10:28:32

Quantum 10, 2220 (2026). Studies have shown that quantum states reside in a Hilbert space bundle. When a quantum system depends on continuous external parameters, these parameters define additional dimensions i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 10:21:18

Quantum 10, 2219 (2026). Qubit shuttling promises to advance some quantum computing platforms to the qubit register sizes needed for effective quantum error correction (QEC), but also introduces additional erro

brucknerite @ 2026-09-30 10:00:00

El próximo sábado 3 de octubre a las 10.30, en el Civivox Pompelo (Pamplona), comienza Naukas Navarra Más Planeta Next-Gen, un nuevo evento Naukas en el que podréis verme casi, casi al final de la sesión de tarde, a las 19.10. ¡Acercaos si no os pilla muy

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-30 09:48:28

Quantum 10, 2218 (2026). If a unitary transformation has a circuit representation with no directed path from input $a$ to output $b$, then $a$ does not influence $b$ through the overall unitary. Conversely, if

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

fjo3 quotes a report from The Guardian, written by Tove Danovich: Every year, the night sky is becoming 10% brighter. Eighty percent of people live under light-polluted skies. And while the UN declared a healthy environment -- clean air, clean water -- to

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 08:16:00

CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, verified by a frame-by-frame replay harness. The agents built a playbook of codebase-specific recipes along the way.

InfoQ @ 2026-09-30 07:58:00

The Svelte team has entered the release candidate phase for SvelteKit 3, which focuses on code refinement and prepares for future updates. Notable changes include moving configuration to vite.config.ts, replacing the $lib alias with #lib for improved com

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-30 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

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. This may not sound impressive in the age of the self-driving car until you realize that t

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-09-30 03:00:00

Geliehene Erinnerungen

Inside Java @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

Find out about the improved Curve25519 field performance in JDK 27 and JDK 28.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

Four years ago, I outlined a playbook for building an enterprise innovation engine. The goal was straightforward: establish a repeatable model for discovering, aligning, developing, and commercializing emerging technologies before market shifts pass you by

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

IT decision makers and their teams often need a scalable private cloud to support optimizing IT operations as they adopt a foundation for cloud-native development. Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift brings massive scale to Infrastructure-as-a-Service,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-30 02:00:00

Organizations face a persistent challenge maintaining workplace safety, security, asset tracking, and operational compliance across facilities with multiple video feeds. Manual monitoring is resource-intensive, inherently reactive, and often misses critica

slashdot @ 2026-09-30 01:00:00

Firefox 157 is rolling out a major redesign across desktop and mobile, bringing rounded "bubble" tabs, a curved address bar, refreshed icons and colors, and a more consistent visual language across devices. Mozilla is also adding more themes and wallpapers

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

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe fo

slashdot @ 2026-09-29 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Mistral Chief Executive Arthur Mensch has accused leading global artificial intelligence companies of using the debate over the safety of the technology as a cover-up for their "negligence." "The debate that w

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 22:19:08

The robot could potentially travel over 40 miles on a single charge, roughly three times further than other designs. The post This Robot Dog Crushed a Marathon Without Stopping to Recharge appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-29 21:59:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 572 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Especial Directo en Madrid/Tetuán”, 24 sep 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 572: Regeneración muscula

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 21:00:00

Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot applications and autonomous AI agents in a unified environment. By Sergio De Simone

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-29 19:16:04

El campeón del mundo dio en la Olimpiada claras muestras de recuperación de su profunda crisis, pero sufrió este revés en la última ronda

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 17:08:19

Regarding my post yesterday speculating on how Apple’s October — seemingly set to be a big one — might play out, a friend asked if any or all of the new stuff might be released through Apple Newsroom announcements only. Good question. Let’s run through

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 16:29:28

Desktop only, and you definitely want sound on. With things like this I always start with Kottke.org. No idea why, because it’s quite possibly the last site on the entire web I’d want to see actually destroyed. (Well, second-to-last.)  ★ 

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 16:14:00

Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Ope

old new thing @ 2026-09-29 16:00:00

Swearing is also poor form. The post As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 15:43:00

A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-29 14:41:00

Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29

In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-29 14:38:29

In 2026, Kotlin turned fifteen. Over those fifteen years, Kotlin has built a mature ecosystem, been adopted by companies around the world, and established a large and active developer community. Fifteen years is long enough to understand which technology t

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 14:00:00

Adobe engineers have described an open-source approach for giving teams self-service access to their own Prometheus metrics in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, without exposing the shared metrics of other teams. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 14:00:00

There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-29 12:47:12

Quantum 10, 2217 (2026). Quantum phase transitions reveal deep insights into the behavior of many-body quantum systems, but identifying these transitions without prior knowledge of order parameters remains a si

AEON @ 2026-09-29 12:00:00

A cancer diagnosis carries with it fear and upheaval. For many patients the cellular changes do not warrant the label - by Matthew R Cooperberg Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 11:00:00

Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SL

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 11:00:00

Cloudflare has introduced Worker Previews. This feature allows each Git branch to have its own isolated, production-like environment for a Worker. Each environment has a stable URL. It also has its own configuration and unique state for each branch. Plus

Baeldung @ 2026-09-29 08:55:30

Learn what's new in Java 27: which JEPS are final and which are still in preview. The post New Features in Java 27 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-09-29 08:33:00

Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, built on PEP 783 and on socket syscalls implemented over the Workers connect API. The announcement carries no performance figures. A urllib3 maintainer questioned who supports the upstream work afte

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 04:15:36

“A foundry for bastard web fonts.” The default is a version of Times New Roman but every 7th glyph is replaced with one from Arial, but you can dial up whatever bastardization you want. This is why I’m not at all worried about AI destroying the world. L

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:51:50

Sancho Panza: I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Kagi , the search engine I’ve been using for a few years now, gave me the exact sort of results to Panza

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:42:00

If anyone could devise a funny way to measure battery life, it’s her.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 03:10:48

Apple executives seemingly did very few interviews after the iPhone event three weeks ago. The best, perhaps by far, is this 11-minute video with Craig Federighi by “Donald Decodes”, a Chinese language creator. His YouTube account only has 1,100 followe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 02:43:51

Glenn Fleishman: Leaving Stolen Device Protection enabled does mean that you may have to wait an hour in some scenarios to manage aspects of your Apple Account, make changes to Face ID or Touch ID, change your device passcode, and a few other actions.

The Syndicate @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Have you ever taken your phone out of your pocket and thought, “Why is my phone so hot?!” Maybe you actually said it out loud or dropped your phone from surprise. You might have also noticed that the screen was still fully lit, the phone

Inside Java @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Applications are moving beyond predefined workflows toward agentic systems that can reason, use tools, interact with enterprise data, execute code, delegate work and collaborate with other agents to accomplish goals. This has driven the development of new

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Red Hat is proud to announce our results from the industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.1 benchmark. This submission builds on our track record across recent rounds: In v5.1, we demonstrated cost-effective Llama-3.1-8B-FP8 inference with vLLM on NVIDIA H10

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam on March 23—the high-energy "Day Zero" event of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2026—the stage was set for a deep dive into the intersection of cutting-edge technology and global safety. Francesco Giannocca

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-29 02:00:00

Most telecommunications service providers already know how to manage changes to their network.They have established change windows, built approved playbooks, and used network automation over many years to make the process more reliable. The challenging par

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-29 00:41:40

Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and spend another few days in Palo Alto and San Francisco ahead of my interview with Zuckerberg, s

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-29 00:01:26

A government-funded competition would award prizes for quantum computers that do useful work no supercomputer can touch. The post US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 21:50:19

Jeff Johnson: In other words, Muse AI is a blatant copy of Muse from Meta, the latter of which is currently the #1 iOS App Store download in the United States. I don’t know where Muse AI ranks in the iOS App Store, but I do know that it’s currently th

InfoQ @ 2026-09-28 21:00:00

Three Artifactory vulnerabilities under active exploitation enable authentication bypassing on Internet-accessible, self-hosted deployments, potentially allowing attackers to establish persistent administrator access in under five minutes. The exploits t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 20:43:48

Apple, in my experience, sticks to a very predictable schedule for review units.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-28 19:35:35

Nadie, ni siquiera el aspirante al título mundial, puede jugar relajado ante el genial ucranio de 57 años

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-28 18:35:02

Vidit Bhargava (developer of LookUp and Movie Buzz ): Duo-Man offers the complete walkman experience on the iPhone Duo. Open the Duo to pick and “insert” the cassette, Close the Duo to start listening. Yes, I actually recorded the button clicks a

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-28 18:14:54

If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Am

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-28 16:35:21

After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians. The post Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Maga

old new thing @ 2026-09-28 16:00:00

Only on first execution. The post C++ reminder: Function-local static variables are initialized only once, even if it looks like they get initialized multiple times appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:01:00

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-28 12:00:00

The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us - by Daniel Swift Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26

The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-28 11:38:26

The current compilation approach to Kotlin Multiplatform projects works, but sometimes can lead to unexpected or hard-to-predict behavior. For example: With Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, we introduced an optional “separate compilation” approach to KMP th

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Glamsterdam follows the Fusaka upgrade, advancing Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes to gas pricing that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth. The Glamsterdam ne

Atomic14 @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Around 10 years ago Google DeepMind showed that you could use deep reinforcement learning to play video games . It’s something that I found fascinating at the time and wanted to try but never had the time to really look into it. With LLMs now being ab

Inside Java @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Notable performance improvements in JDK27

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Every enterprise AI conversation we’ve had this year ends in the same place. A team has an agent that works. It writes code, calls internal APIs, fixes its own mistakes. Then someone asks what happens when 1,000 of these run across the company, and the roo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-28 02:00:00

Enterprise AI is changing from software that primarily generates information to software that can take action. AI agents can call APIs, invoke tools, access files and credentials, communicate over networks and interact directly with business systems. That

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-27 22:24:37

Tras las tablas en el tercer tablero, los dos primeros estaban en posiciones inciertas; pero Madamínov logró la victoria decisiva en el cuarto

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:22:00

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots — hosted AI workflows — turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, thro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-27 22:21:43

Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexandr Wang’s “Why We’re Building Muse” essay: This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about helping people “spending more time with family”

Baeldung @ 2026-09-27 15:04:27

Performance in Java is always getting better. The post Java Weekly, Issue 665 first appeared on Baeldung .              

The observation deck @ 2026-09-27 02:00:00

I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang , which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me) do not fear for the future of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 23:08:08

Back in 2011 I linked to Reelizer, a splendid archive of movie posters curated by Roger Erik Tinch . Reelizer went away for a few years, but Tinch has brought it back, seemingly better than ever. Huzzah.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 22:34:54

Alexandr Wang, blogging on X: Now imagine every person on earth with a second mind beyond their own. A general manager whose whole job is to find out what you want and make sure it happens. Someone that hears the half-sentence, “I feel like there’s so

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 21:41:39

I keep mentioning Apple’s 1992 groundbreaking PowerBook Duo series as a precedent for the iPhone Duo’s name. But of course in 2020, Apple released the MagSafe Duo Charger, a wonderful Lightning peripheral for charging an iPhone and Apple Watch at the same

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 20:46:24

Markus Kuhn: In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of two (1.4142 : 1). In other words, the width and the height of a page relate to each other like the side and the diagonal of a square. This aspect r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:53:14

Zac Bowden, Windows Central: In 2024, Microsoft and Qualcomm kicked off a new category of Windows hardware it called “Copilot+ PCs” that set the baseline for a new wave of AI-first computers, and launched with exclusive features that would not be ma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 18:21:38

Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-26 17:54:10

Con Sindárov recuperado de su derrota en 24 horas, la selección anfitriona afronta la última ronda con un punto más que India

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-26 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 September 26) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2026-09-26 06:20:54

Learn about how to use the @Find annotation in Hibernate to generate a repository implementation using method query naming conventions. The post The @Find Annotation in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .         &

Inside Java @ 2026-09-26 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-26 01:50:45

A reader asked if this Gary Choyka who hit two holes-in-one in the same round of golf back in 2020 is the same Gary Choyka who was my history teacher 30+ years ago. Indeed it is. He looks good. (He was a hell of a basketball player too.)  ★&nbs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 22:54:34

“Thibault”, in post on Mastodon responding to Brent Simmons’s “stock Mac UI” post that I just linked to : It reminded me of my own explorations with the macOS design language, especially the modern title/toolbar which I believe is one of the most f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 21:45:44

Brent Simmons: To recap: the reasons for using stock Mac UI are 1) user familiarity, which we’ve known for a while just isn’t a thing, and 2) hoping to be able to expend less developer effort, which we’ve seen can work against you. But there’s anoth

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-25 21:07:28

In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around …

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-25 20:31:08

Aunque Uzbekistán vuelve a liderar en solitario a falta de dos rondas -con España 8ª-, el candidato al título mundial sufrió su 1ª derrota

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 20:16:47

I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 19:07:33

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg Wednesday, after Meta’s 2026 Connect keynote (gift link): Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 18:38:39

Jason Aten, in a good follow-up to his previous column at Inc. ( the one where he described how Muse, running on his Mac, read his Messages database): The entire reason Muse is interesting is that it isn’t just a chatbot, but can actually do things f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 16:41:29

Eli Tan, writing for The New York Times, “I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away” (gift link): For one final task, I asked Wren for a good way to spend that $44.99 it had saved me. At this point, it knew my life pretty well. I tho

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-25 16:40:26

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

old new thing @ 2026-09-25 16:00:00

Trying to figure out what the interloper was trying to. The post Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-25 16:00:00

There’s no shortage of fantastical possibilities, most involving the speculative concept of superintelligent AI. The post How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-25 13:45:31

Despite the predictions that no one would ever put build data centers in space, Google is starting on Thursday. Google’s prototype satellite will be one of 130 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter 18 mission on October 1. The server will follow a

AEON @ 2026-09-25 12:00:00

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind - by Emilie Prattico Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-25 09:57:21

Exactly on this day, September 25 2001, Apple shipped version 10.1 of their OS X operating system. The one they later would rename to macOS. Exactly twenty-five years ago today. Within all their fancy release presentations and videos there are barely no me

Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:21:31

Explore the most important performance improvements in JDK 26. The post Performance Improvements in JDK 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-09-25 07:15:12

Learn how to receive structured output from LLMs with Spring AI. The post A Guide to Structured Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

iPhone Duo Group Lab, McKinley, SwiftFairy, ArrangementView

Inside Java @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

When you evaluate a system with a garbage collector and want to understand its tail latency, you often see SPECjbb2015 or DaCapo used. While both offer corrective measures for coordinated omission, only SPECjbb2015 can run the workload generator and backe

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-25 02:00:00

We are proud to announce that Red Hat has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the fourth consecutive year.As enterprise IT organizations scale modern container infrastructure across diverse cloud environmen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-25 00:30:24

Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices. But the number-one reason why is that I am horribl

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-24 22:58:46

Amazon EventBridge announces an enhanced custom event bus for organizations scaling event-driven applications across teams and accounts. Deploy a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts in your organization, with ordering guarantees, a simplified S

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:53:03

Great interview from Stern, as usual, seemingly conducted on the old set of Three’s Company . She opened by asking if AI is going to wipe out humanity, and I think Zuck whiffed by not simply laughing and saying no. She also directly asked his thought

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 22:30:01

Meta’s annual keynote yesterday was a tight 55-minute live event held on their campus in Menlo Park. I watched the whole thing this morning, before recording tomorrow’s episode of Dithering . (Which you should subscribe to.) It was a good keynote. Cons

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-24 19:51:19

Abdusattórov empató y Sindárov ganó, pero el tercer y cuarto tablero acusaron mucho la presión por el oro que se ha generado en su país

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:29:49

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 19:10:56

Dan Luu serves up some copiously documented claim chowder: After this point, most further predictions that I saw were either non-falsifiable or resolve in the future. Note that I didn’t attempt to catalogue statements that are nonsensical or were simp

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-24 19:10:00

The AI-powered virtual cell tailors treatments for breast cancer based on samples of each patient's tumor. The post A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 18:47:16

Michael Steil: Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC. Playing around wit

Deepmind @ 2026-09-24 18:20:39

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 17:35:00

Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into everything, careless

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-24 16:10:00

Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise and

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-24 16:03:49

Quantum 10, 2216 (2026). The encoding of lattice gauge theories onto quantum computers requires a discretization of the gauge field's Hilbert space on each link, which presents errors with respect to the K

old new thing @ 2026-09-24 16:00:00

Another example to add to the list. The post No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .