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Valve Prices the Steam Machine At $1,049

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 20:00:00

Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is th

Dickover of the Week: The Observer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-22 19:12:42

Bharet Iyer: Let’s be real … if The Observer actually cared at all about your privacy, they wouldn’t share your personal data with ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE FUCKING PARTNERS. [...] Imagine if, upon purchasing a copy of the Sunday newspaper in 1791

AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 19:00:00

Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stres

2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 18:00:00

UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to lau

Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La

Análisis de ajedrez | Cal y arena de Carlsen (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-22 16:49:49

La grave crisis del ‘número uno’ dio paso en menos de 24 horas a un rendimiento de muy alto nivel en el Mundial Relámpago por Clubes

AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-22 16:46:17

Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launche

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

old new thing @ 2026-06-22 16:00:00

Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors. The post In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: Spring Tools, Helidon, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, Hibernate, Commonhaus

InfoQ @ 2026-06-22 15:15:00

This week's Java roundup for June 15th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Spring Tools, Helidon, JobRunr and Gradle; the June 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the first milestone release of Apache TomEE 11.0; the first beta release of Hibe

The New Result on Off-diagonal Ramsey Numbers

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-22 13:55:05

(All references in this blog post can be found in the main article the post is about which is  here .) Recall that \(R(s,k)  \) is the least \(n\) so that, for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\), there is either a RED \(s\)-clique or a BLU

Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 13:34:00

America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years." Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folde

AWS Graviton5 Reaches General Availability with 192 Cores and Formally Verified VM Isolation

InfoQ @ 2026-06-22 12:05:00

AWS made Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances generally available with 192 ARM cores, formally verified VM isolation via the Nitro Isolation Engine, and DDR5-8800 memory. ClickHouse reported 36% better performance with zero code changes. Meta com

And Granny would dance

AEON @ 2026-06-22 12:01:00

Woven from memories of her childhood in Iran, an animator recalls her Granny’s story of loss, love and friendship - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

No one is self-made

AEON @ 2026-06-22 12:00:00

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion - by Christine Abigail L Tan Read on Aeon

Lo bastante bueno

brucknerite @ 2026-06-22 10:00:00

Las imágenes generadas con inteligencia artificial son una plaga que nos invade, insidiosa. Aquellas creadas para un contexto técnico nos ofrecen, sin embargo, una enseñanza respecto de los límites de esta tecnología que no deberíamos ignorar.

'Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 09:34:00

A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him £300,000." Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for m

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 05:48:00

"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube." The company

Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 03:48:00

The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as

Queens on a prime order board

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-22 02:21:44

The n queens problem is to place on an n × n chessboard n queens so that none attacks any other. This means there is only one queen on every horizontal, vertical, and diagonal line. When n is a prime number ≥ 5, it is sufficient to place the queens on a l

Introducing Project Navigator: From AI intent to optimized deployment on Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-22 02:00:00

You've picked a model. Maybe it's a 70 billion parameter large model because someone on the team saw it top a leaderboard. Now you need it running in production on your Red Hat OpenShift AI cluster. So you start tuning batch sizes, figuring out quantizatio

From sandbox to scale: 10 ways Red Hat is accelerating enterprise IT

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-22 02:00:00

Enterprise organizations are pushing past initial AI experimentation, shifting priorities from testing isolated models to safely deploying governable, production-ready workflows across the open hybrid cloud. Managing this transition requires an infrastruct

The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing

slashdot @ 2026-06-22 01:27:00

"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets

Before and After: MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 1’s App Icons

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-22 00:39:19

Basic Apple Guy, back during WWDC: WWDC always brings a torrent of new content, details, and platform-wide changes. One of the first things I noticed after installing the macOS Golden Gate beta was the updated icon design. The colours are much bolder,

Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware?

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 23:55:00

Electrek reports: Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads... Tesla filed the "Megapo

Mux — Video for Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-21 23:35:48

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring Daring Fireball last week. Video is a boatload of data. Every video file in your product contains audio, objects, and scenes that most stacks can’t read or access. Mux Robots turns that data into video intelligence. Confi

UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 22:54:00

PC Gamer reports: The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Techno

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 21:40:00

404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend's license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 — even searching for her mom's license plate at least 24 times. The police office

After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 20:12:00

Tech Times reports: Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel's own documentation labels "act

The Strait of Hormuz is Asia's oil lifeline, not the U.S.'s

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-21 19:00:00

As the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis stoked U.S. oil fears, only about 7% of U.S. crude imports actually pass through it. Asia relies on it far more.

Anthropic Reports Claude Now Handles 95% of Internal Analytics Queries

InfoQ @ 2026-06-21 18:47:00

Anthropic recently reported that Claude now handles around 95% of its internal analytics requests, letting employees query business data independently instead of relying on data teams. The company attributes this result less to advances in models and mor

Análisis de ajedrez | Faustino Oro: ¡9,5 de 10!

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-21 18:44:22

El argentino, de 12 años, se despide de Hong Kong con una formidable actuación en la 1ª fase del Mundial Relámpago por Clubes

US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 18:34:00

NBC News reports: A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America's most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed at p

The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence

slashdot @ 2026-06-21 17:34:00

While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need." Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it n

Better Tools for Immutable Data

Inside Java @ 2026-06-21 02:00:00

This session covers new and upcoming Java features for working with immutable data, and explains how they improve reliability and performance while enabling JVM optimizations and guiding when to use them.

QUERY with curl

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-21 00:34:25

RFC 10008 is brand new a specification detailing the new HTTP method called QUERY: This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond

All pieces on a 6 by 5 board

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-20 23:41:16

I’ve written a couple posts lately on getting an LLM to generate code to solve chess problems. The first used Claude to generate Prolog and the second used ChatGPT to generate Prolog. This post will use Claude to generate Z3/Python code. The puzzle

Podcast CB SyR 563: ALPHA-2, microbiota, modos cuasinormales, parásitos transgénicos, X-Ray Dot y exoplanetas galácticos

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 20:47:14

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 563 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Antihidrógeno; Médula; Agujeros Negros Supermasivos; Parásitos”, 18 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 5

Sobre la probable existencia de exoplanetas galácticos en los núcleos galácticos activos

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 19:39:56

Los planetas se forman en discos protoplanetarios (discos circunestelares de gas y polvo que rodean a estrellas jóvenes) donde la temperatura permite que ciertos materiales se condensen y crezcan hasta […] La entrada Sobre la probable existencia

Hacia el proceso físico que alimenta los agujeros negros supermasivos

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 18:30:32

Se suele imaginar a los agujeros negros supermasivos como monstruos voraces que se alimentan de todo lo que les rodea. Pero esta imagen es falsa de toda falsedad y los […] La entrada Hacia el proceso físico que alimenta los agujeros negros superm

Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

InfoQ @ 2026-06-20 16:21:00

Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes large-scale usage events with correct attribution, deduplication, and aggregation using a streaming pipeline, idempotent processing, and l

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 20)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-20 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 June 20) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Relámpago Carlsen: ¡8 de 8!

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-20 15:54:58

El noruego reacciona, tras su gran fracaso del sábado en el Mundial Rápido por Clubes, con una larga serie de victorias en la modalidad más veloz

Apple Launches Core AI for Apple-Silicon Optimized On-Device Generative AI

InfoQ @ 2026-06-20 13:00:00

At WWDC 26, Apple announced the Core AI framework, the official successor to Core ML. It is designed to allow developers to run large language models and generative AI entirely on-device, supporting both custom-converted PyTorch models and pre-optimized

Se observa el primer XRD, un LRD que emite de forma intensa en rayos X

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 12:36:01

Uno de los descubrimientos más fascinantes del telescopio JWST han sido los pequeños puntos rojos (LRD). Su naturaleza y su física todavía nos reserva muchos misterios. Una propiedad de los […] La entrada Se observa el primer XRD, un LRD que emit

Hacia el uso de parásitos como biofábricas para liberar medicamentos in situ

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 12:15:24

La liberación controlada de medicamentos en el interior del cuerpo humano sigue siendo uno de los grandes retos de la farmacología y de la biomedicina, con un enorme impacto terapéutico […] La entrada Hacia el uso de parásitos como biofábricas pa

Los modos cuasinormales sin amortiguamiento (ZDM) en la gravitación cuadrática

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 11:18:12

El físico indio C. V. «Vishu» Vishveshwara (1938–2017) descubrió en 1970 el papel de los modos cuasinormales en la fase de ringdown de las fusiones de agujeros negros. En las […] La entrada Los modos cuasinormales sin amortiguamiento (ZDM) en la

La relación entre las lesiones medulares y la microbiota intestinal

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 10:21:46

Uno de los temás más estudiados en microbiología es la relación entre la microbiota del intestino y el funcionamiento del encéfalo (el mal llamado eje intestino–cerebro). Se ha publicado en […] La entrada La relación entre las lesiones medulares

ALPHA-2 determina a 4 ppm la separación hiperfina en el antihidrógeno

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-20 10:01:29

El experimento ALPHA-2 mejora en dos órdenes de magnitud la separación hiperfina en el espectro del antihidrógeno. Se publica en Nature en 2026 la medida con 24 000 antiátomos (replicaciones […] La entrada ALPHA-2 determina a 4 ppm la separación

AWS Adds Multi-Region Replication to Amazon Cognito Identity Service

InfoQ @ 2026-06-20 09:40:00

AWS recently introduced Amazon Cognito multi-region replication, which automatically replicates user identities and user pool configurations from a primary region to a secondary one. This enables applications to continue authenticating users from a repli

Another One for the ‘Sorry, We Used to Be Crap’ Truth-in-Advertising File: Carlsberg Beer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-20 03:29:29

Ben Chapman, reporting for The Independent in 2019: After 40 years of advertising its lager as “Probably the best beer in the world”, Danish brewer Carlsberg has confessed that the famous slogan may not be true. Reacting to falling sales and increasin

‘What’s the Deal With Old Guys and Giant Glasses?’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-20 03:21:19

Early adoption of new technology is generally considered a young-person thing, but maybe Snap Specs will turn that notion on its head. Direct sales in retirement homes?  ★ 

Solar Beat Coal in US Electricity Mix for the First Time in May

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-19 22:57:26

Coal’s share has nearly halved over the last five years, while solar's has more than doubled. But tariffs and permitting delays could slow growth in the years ahead. The post Solar Beat Coal in US Electricity Mix for the First Time in May appeared fir

Trump Mobile T1 Phone Is a Gold-Painted Two-Year-Old HTC U24 Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 20:47:02

NBC News: The Trump Mobile T1 phone, originally marketed as “Made in the USA,” is nearly identical to the two-year-old HTC U24 Pro, a phone made by the Taiwanese company HTC using Chinese parts, according to a technical analysis the repair-guide and p

Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $25 Billion Deal

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 20:29:40

The Wall Street Journal on Monday: Fox Corp. said it is acquiring Roku in a deal valued at around $25 billion, making a major bet on the future of ad-supported streaming. The deal — Fox’s largest to date — brings together a media company known for its

Snap Launches Ad Campaign for Specs Starring Michael Caine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 18:32:14

“They’re about power, aren’t they, and the bloody powerful blokes who wear them.” Maybe I’m all wet and these things are stylish, no matter what they do to your ears .  ★ 

Jerry Seinfeld Tries Out Snap’s Specs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 18:19:58

“Hey buddy, nice frames.” Seinfeld’s father tried them out too .  ★ 

Domino’s Admitted Their Pizza Tasted Like Cardboard

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 17:59:10

Re: my post on Verizon flat-out admitting their business practices have resembled a scheme from Dr. Evil, Domino’s did something similar regarding their pizza a while back. This 2021 story for Inc. by Jeff Haden describes the turnaround.  ★&nbs

Análisis de ajedrez | Gran desastre de Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-19 17:10:00

El ‘número uno’ pierde cuatro partidas seguidas -no lo hacía desde 2003- en el Mundial Rápido por Clubes dos semanas después de fracasar en el Norway Chess

Java Weekly, Issue 651

Baeldung @ 2026-06-19 17:01:01

Spring AI 2.0 is finally out. Time to start updating the course :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 651 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Markdown Rendering Using commonmark-java

Baeldung @ 2026-06-19 16:47:26

Learn how to use the CommonMark library to parse Markdown into HTML and convert HTML back into Markdown. The post Markdown Rendering Using commonmark-java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Behind the Scenes: Block 450 JVM Repositories into Monorepo to Reduce Dependency Drift

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 16:47:00

Block, Inc. describes migrating ~450 JVM repositories into a monorepo across Cash App and Square engineering to reduce dependency drift and coordination overhead. The system supports ~8,800 weekly builds with ~10 min p90 CI time. The approach improves cr

What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set?

old new thing @ 2026-06-19 16:00:00

A special kind of HMODULE . The post What does it mean when the bottom bit of my <CODE>HMODULE</CODE> is set? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

CircleCI Introduces Chunk Sidecars to Bring CI Validation Directly into AI Coding Workflows

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 14:00:00

CircleCI has launched Chunk Sidecars, a new capability designed to bring CI-style validation directly into an AI coding agent's inner development loop. By Craig Risi

TSRX: a Framework-Agnostic Alternative to JSX

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 13:49:00

TSRX is a TypeScript language extension developed by Dominic Gannaway, designed to build declarative user interfaces in a framework-agnostic manner. It compiles single .tsrx files to various runtime targets and supports scoped styles and declarative erro

Active Quantum Reservoir Engineering: Using a Qubit to Manipulate its Environment

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-19 13:28:27

Quantum 10, 2143 (2026). Quantum reservoir engineering leverages dissipative processes to achieve desired behaviour, with applications ranging from entanglement generation to quantum error correction. Therein,

Decoupling local classicality from classical explainability: A noncontextual model for bilocal classical theory and a locally-classical but contextual theory

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-19 13:17:12

Quantum 10, 2142 (2026). We construct an ontological model for the theory known as bilocal classical theory [ 1 ]. To our knowledge, this is only the second time that an ontological model has been constructed f

Measurement incompatibility and quantum steering via linear programming

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-19 13:02:01

Quantum 10, 2141 (2026). The problem of deciding whether a set of quantum measurements is jointly measurable is known to be equivalent to determining whether a quantum assemblage is unsteerable. This problem ca

Trauma creep

AEON @ 2026-06-19 12:00:00

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed - by Lily Dunn Read on Aeon

Azure Functions Ships Serverless Agents Runtime at Build 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 10:57:00

Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown files with YAML triggers, MCP server access, 1,400+ connectors, and sandboxed execution. The Functions team confirmed to InfoQ t

Windows Platform Security and the Race to Secure AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 10:00:00

In a new Windows Developer Blog post titled "Windows platform security for AI agents", Microsoft positions Windows as the trustworthy operating system for autonomous agents and introduces the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK as the core of that s

GitLab 19.0 Embeds Agentic AI in Secrets, Merge Requests, and Supply Chain Security

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 10:00:00

GitLab 19.0 extends agentic AI beyond code generation into securing credentials, reviewing and merging changes, and scanning dependencies, adding a public beta Secrets Manager, a full merge request Developer Flow, usage-based GitLab Duo billing, and gene

.NET 11 Preview 5: Brings File-Based App Improvements, New C# Features, and a Blazor Validation Wave

InfoQ @ 2026-06-19 10:00:00

Microsoft has released the fifth preview of .NET 11, with updates across the SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and EF Core. Highlights include file-based app improvements, new C# closed classes and unions, a Blazor validation wave, a large MAUI reliabili

Verizon, Formerly Menace Mobile

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-19 02:58:25

Verizon has sprung for a new ad campaign set in the Austin Powers world, with four stars from the cast — Mike Myers, of course, as Dr. Evil; Rob Lowe as Number Two (Robert Wagner is alive but is 96); Seth Green as Evil’s son Scott, and Mindy Sterling

3D Printing Is Finally Fun

AHL's blog @ 2026-06-19 02:00:00

I’ve used a 3D printer in a hobby capacity off and on for over 10 years. I recently got a new printer and it is a huge leap above and beyond what I’ve used before in terms of simplicity, reliability and fun. This is a great time to consider getting

Issue 755

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-19 02:00:00

Slicing iOS launch times, custom Xcode agent skills, and a nostalgic look back at vintage Intel Macs. 🖥️

Red Hat Lightspeed on premise delivers infrastructure intelligence inside your firewall

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-19 02:00:00

Many organizations now operate under strict data governance requirements—whether driven by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or NIS2 directive, by other national security classifications, or by s

Friday Five — June 19, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-19 02:00:00

Securing the enterprise software fabric: A blueprint for open sourceSecuring the software supply chain is a collective industry challenge, one that no single enterprise can solve alone. Through Project Lightwell, we are collaborating with a premier cohort

How to Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite for Energy

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-19 01:35:56

Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware, and computing methods to lower AI’s power demands. Strategic siting of data centers and other steps to increase green energy use are also key. The post How to Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite for Energy a

Meeting Data (and Analytics) Engineers Where They Are: Introducing the dbt Adapter for Confluent Cloud

Confluent @ 2026-06-19 00:09:35

The dbt-confluent adapter brings dbt's familiar workflow to Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, enabling data engineers to build and test streaming pipelines with the tools they already use.

Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-18 23:22:10

Announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.

Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-18 23:06:38

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned eve

Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete Utility for Mac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 21:36:18

Usually when I link to a new app, it’s something that I find useful personally. Cotypist is something else. It’s an AI-powered autocomplete utility for the Mac, using on-device models and processing, by developer Daniel Gräfe of Accelerated Thought. It

Análisis de ajedrez | Sorpresas en Hong Kong

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-18 19:43:48

El equipo de Carlsen sufre para cumplir su rol de favorito a cuatro rondas del final, mientras brilla el de Yi Wei

New Domain for Sign In With Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 19:13:48

Apple Developer: Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com . New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new doma

The world's richest person has never been this far ahead of No. 2

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-18 19:00:00

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on June 12, 2026. His fortune is now about 3.7x the second-richest person, the widest gap on record.

NetNewsWire Status

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 18:59:08

Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential: My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire . A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation need

SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 18:49:00

CNBC, two days ago: In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The $60 billion in class A common stock that S

Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 17:49:47

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal

From Camera to Cloud: Netflix’s Scalable Media Processing Pipeline

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 16:36:00

Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute.

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-18 16:30:54

Attachment 12 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to specify terms for iOS apps in Brazil, including alternative distribution, alternative payments and out-of-app offers, and the Core Technology Commission. Please review th

Changes to iOS in Brazil

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-18 16:30:05

As part of a recent agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that create new options for developers' apps in Brazil. Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distr

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-18 16:12:26

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. The post Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Why doesn’t Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I’m impersonating?

old new thing @ 2026-06-18 16:00:00

It doesn't care about impersonation, says so on the tin. The post Why doesn’t <CODE>Get­Last­Input­Info()</CODE> return info for the user I’m impersonating? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

How Lightweight ADRs and Architectural Advice Forums Can Support Architectural Decisions

InfoQ @ 2026-06-18 13:35:00

How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and c

Neanderthal 1

AEON @ 2026-06-18 12:01:00

The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Words, words, words

AEON @ 2026-06-18 12:00:00

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner Read on Aeon

Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 03:33:15

Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link): Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs, which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can preorder a pair of Specs no

Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-18 03:15:27

Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge: I’ll just work from the car , I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty place in

MartianCraft on WWDC26: What Caught Our Eye

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-18 02:00:00

WWDC has come and gone again, with its typical overwhelming amount of information. Siri AI has captured most of the headlines, but WWDC is about a lot more than just the marquee features. We asked some of the folks at MartianCraft what sto

Precise Gene Editing in Early Human Embryos Reignites the ‘Designer Baby’ Debate

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-18 00:04:50

The technology, still far from clinical use, could one day prevent devastating diseases. But critics warn that even these early results may also fuel interest in commercial embryo editing, despite unresolved ethical and safety concerns. The post Precis

Ya se ha publicado el JCR de 2026 con los índices de impacto de revistas en 2025

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-17 21:33:59

Soy consciente de que la publicación del nuevo JCR de la empresa Clarivate es irrelevante para las personas asiduas a este blog. Sin embargo, las personas que nos dedicamos a […] La entrada Ya se ha publicado el JCR de 2026 con los índices de imp

Podcast CB SyR 562: Encíclica sobre IA, microbioma de Ötzi, IA en medicina, fin del LHC Run 3, CMS y quarks, y tacoclina en la dinamo solar

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-17 19:34:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 562 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Encíclica; Iceman; IA en Medicina; LHC; Quarks; Tacoclina”, 11 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 562: Encícli

The 2026 NBA Finals drew the biggest TV audience since 1998

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-17 19:00:00

The 2026 Knicks-Spurs Finals averaged 20.6 million viewers, double last year and the most since 1998, reversing a long slide in NBA TV ratings.

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 18:36:08

A recap of the top announcements from AWS's New York Summit 2026

Governing AI Assets at Scale with MCP Gateway and Registry

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-06-17 18:24:44

Enterprises that onboard AI assets (MCP servers, agents, skills, and multi-step workflows) need to govern these assets and make them discoverable without blocking innovation. Central IT maintains a list of approved MCP servers and skills for the organizati

Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly: Is the New Siri AI Good?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 17:41:54

MacBreak Weekly: John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel this week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU initially later this year. And could the iP

Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘# the **Epic** Story of Markdown’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 17:37:42

David Pierce, host of The Vergecast: So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where Markdown came from and how it took over the world . Markdown has been growing st

Análisis de ajedrez | Gran fiesta en Hong Kong

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-17 17:10:46

El Mundial de Clubes, con casi 400 jugadores (incluido Carlsen) de 53 países, es uno de los frutos de la irrupción del mecenas Rosenstein

Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 17:09:20

Amazon Bedrock's new Fully Managed Knowledge Bases simplifies building enterprise RAG pipelines by providing native data connectors Smart Parsing for automatic multi-format data preparation, and an Agentic Retriever for complex multi-step queries—all integ

Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 17:00:11

AWS introduces Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from customer's secured AWS environment. You can focus on building agents instead of m

Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:58:00

AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) automatically scans code repositories to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale.

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:57:34

AWS DevOps Agent now offers release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence.

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 16:54:55

AWS Security Agent now adds STRIDE-based threat modeling, full repo and PR code scanning with remediation across major Git platforms, and IDE integrations via Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and MCP — letting developers run security reviews and fix issues

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-17 16:35:35

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle. The post Seven Perfect Shuffles Rand

The Tech of Silk Road

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-17 16:34:07

Last week I saw a talk by Northwestern professor Nina Wieda on the history of the Silk Road , a network of trading routes across Asia active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. I knew of the Silk Road but was surprised by how much it

Formalizing a ring theorem with Lean 4 and Claude

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-17 16:23:51

I’ve been testing Claude’s ability to generate Lean 4 code to prove theorems. I’ve written about a couple experiments that verified calculations. I did not write about my failed attempt to get Claude to formalize a proof of the pqr theor

Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up

old new thing @ 2026-06-17 16:00:00

Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Female philosophers: Héloïse

AEON @ 2026-06-17 12:01:00

Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust 656

This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-17 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

Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-17 02:50:18

Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”: Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I say, quite fun. Should we j

Building a soft real-time vPAC with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, KVM, and Podman

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-17 02:00:00

For decades, the power industry has relied on "black box" proprietary appliances. While reliable, these hard-wired fixed-function devices have created a landscape of vendor lock-in, where hardware refresh cycles (often lasting 20 years) dictate the pace of

Bring your own knowledge to the automation intelligent assistant

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-17 02:00:00

Last year, we released the automation intelligent assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant), a generative AI service accessed through a chatbot embedded within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Using a retrieval augmented gen

Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-17 01:13:10

Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintainin

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

Deepmind @ 2026-06-16 23:29:50

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Partial fraction decomposition

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 19:56:27

Nearly everyone who has seen partial fraction decomposition was introduced to it as a way to compute integrals. If P(x) and Q(x) are polynomials, then you can break their ratio P(x)/Q(x) into a sum of terms that can each be integrated in closed form. As w

Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners

YC @ 2026-06-16 18:14:22

We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining YC as General Partners.

New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 18:12:31

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered. At Ap

Octonions and the Standard Model

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-16 17:54:54

Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan algebra It builds on things I’ve discussed here, but it goes further. Let me explain a bit. A

Octonions and the Standard Model

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-16 17:54:54

Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional Jordan algebra It builds on things I’ve discussed here, but it goes further. Let me explain a bit. A

Securing the future of AI agents

Deepmind @ 2026-06-16 17:46:31

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

Retrofitting the WM_COPY­DATA message onto Windows 3.1

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

It was carefully designed to be trivial. The post Retrofitting the <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE> message onto Windows 3.1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

FreeBSD Graphics Port Upgraded to Linux 6.12 

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-16 14:39:16

Graphics support in FreeBSD has reached a milestone with the drm-kmod port now including the Linux 6.12 (LTS) graphics driver. This version of the port works with FreeBSD 15.1 onwards.  The update marks an important upgrade in graphics in both functi

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 14:11:00

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes

Three examples suffice

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 13:14:01

You can’t prove a theorem by just checking a few examples. Except sometimes you can. A few weeks ago I wrote Pentagonal numbers are truncated triangular numbers. In a nutshell, if the pentagonal numbers are defined by Pn = (3n² − n)/2 and the triang

What is this rock?

AEON @ 2026-06-16 12:00:00

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology - by John MacDonald Read on Aeon

Fix stack overflow relimit handling.

luajit @ 2026-06-16 11:12:21

Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1471

Fragments: June 16

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-16 08:44:00

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is

Análisis de ajedrez | El 6º uzbeko gana un torneo duro, la Copa Uzchess

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-16 07:55:17

Madamínov confirmó su gran inicio, rozó la victoria contra Niemann en la última ronda y superó a Vojídov en el desempate rápido

[Sponsor] Mux — Video for Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:33:37

Video is a boatload of data. Every video file in your product contains audio, objects, and scenes that most stacks can’t read or access. Mux Robots turns that data into video intelligence. Configure your video workflows once, and they run automatically

The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-16 04:20:30

The Washington Post editorial board yesterday ( News+ link ), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”: Brussels insists the decision is “ Apple’s and Apple’s only ” and that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the launch. That’s technical

What's new with image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating rea

Navigating the future: Schiphol Airport's journey to shift-left platform engineering

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-16 02:00:00

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, j

Testing pentagonal numbers

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-16 01:57:54

The nth pentagonal number Pn is the number of dots in diagrams like those below with n concentric pentagons. We have the formula Pn = (3n² − n)/2 where n is a positive integer. If n is an integer but not positive, the equation above defines a generalized

Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-16 00:18:23

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. The post Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon appeared first on Singular

New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-16 00:00:28

Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com . New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example: Si

Build Compliant AI Agents With Stateful Stream Processing

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Architect audit-ready, EU AI Act-compliant agents with stateful stream processing on Apache Kafka and Flink. Get 7 states, 4 patterns, and a phased rollout.

Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide

Confluent @ 2026-06-15 23:40:34

Compare build vs buy for real-time RAG streaming in 2026. AWS MSK, Redpanda, and Confluent measured on TCO and a four-verb evaluation framework.Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide

AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-15 22:42:13

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that acces

Quaternion Rotations, Claude, and Lean

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-15 21:31:38

I got an email message this afternoon reporting a typo in a blog post from about a year ago on converting between quaternions and rotation matrices [1]. The email said exactly where the typo was, but I decided to see whether Claude would find it. Specific

The European Commission Ruled Months Ago That Google’s Integration of Gemini in Android Violates the DMA

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-15 20:58:22

Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April: European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked system-wide

FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-15 20:58:10

About the project The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code. The 6-month project is being funded by a grant from t