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Building a Center of Excellence for Ansible
Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-08 02:00:00
As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation ef
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit docume
DeepSeek v4
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 05:01:21
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 343 # Comments: 122
United Kingdom to Pass Smoking Ban Only for Those Who Are Not Yet Legal Adults
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 03:26:13
Ephrat Livni, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco to anyone born in 2009 or after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday.
Learning from Nature with System Dynamics
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-04-24 02:10:52
We have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the biosphere is rapidly changing due to human activities. We do not need to decide to address these issues. They are already addressing us: grabbing us by the collar, so
Learning from Nature with System Dynamics
Physics Phorums @ 2026-04-24 02:10:52
We have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the biosphere is rapidly changing due to human activities. We do not need to decide to address these issues. They are already addressing us: grabbing us by the collar, so
Friday Five — April 24, 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-24 02:00:00
5 reasons to go with your team to Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit is where the global community comes together to solve the industry's biggest challenges, and there is no better way to navigate that future than with your team by your side. Register today
Apple Stops Weirdly Storing Data That Let Cops Spy On Signal Chats
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 01:00:00
Apple has fixed a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after messages disappeared and the app was deleted. "Affected users concerned about push notifications can update their devices to stop what Apple charact
U.S. soldier charged with using classified info to profit from prediction market
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-24 00:37:01
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CATL’s New EV Battery Charges in Six Minutes
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-24 00:21:28
That's a few minutes longer than it takes to fill up the average gas-powered car—but still fast enough it might not matter. The post CATL’s New EV Battery Charges in Six Minutes appeared first on SingularityHub .
Warner Bros Shareholders Approve Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover
slashdot @ 2026-04-24 00:00:00
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have approved Paramount Skydance's takeover bid, moving the massive Hollywood merger a step closer to completion. It's not a done deal quite yet, though, as it still faces regulatory scrutiny and fierce opposition from c
Trump’s Blog Has Somehow Lost $1.1 Billion
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 23:14:35
Russ Choma, reporting for Mother Jones: Devin Nunes was not an obvious choice to run a fledgling social media network, but after $1.1 billion in losses, the former dairy farmer and congressman is out as the head of Truth Social. Donald Trump Jr., a
Every Atlantic hurricane track, 1980 to 2025
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 23:00:00
Every Atlantic tropical cyclone from 1980 to 2025 on one map. The shape of the basin and the deadliest storms of 46 seasons emerge from the density.
U.S. oil: from peak importer to net exporter in one decade
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 23:00:00
The U.S. imported a record 13.7 MMb/d of oil in 2005. By 2025 it exports 2.8 MMb/d more than it imports. Here is what actually changed.
OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 23:00:00
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but
Nilay Patel: ‘Beware Software Brain’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 22:13:49
Nilay Patel, in a terrific essay (and Decoder one-sider) at The Verge: In fact, the polling on this is so strong, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people hate AI, and that Gen Z in particular seems to hate AI more and more as they encounter
A thousand springs in Kyoto, in one chart
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00
Kyoto's 1,200-year cherry blossom record shows modern decades hold the earliest cluster of blooms ever seen. A warming signal written in flowers.
Java 17 available on SPARC
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00
New Java version for Solaris/SPARC
Meta Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00
Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the
The Public CA clientAuth EKU Sunset: What Apache Software Deployers Need to Know
ASF @ 2026-04-23 21:48:25
By: Jinwoo Hwang, Lead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 What Apache Software Deployers Need to Know Before May 2026 Effective May 2026, major public Certificate Authorities (CAs) will stop including the Client Authentication
Eight for Eight
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 21:36:15
Speaking of Chris Espinosa, this is pretty neat: On September 1 I’ll join the elite club (members Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Mike Markkula, and Bill Fernandez) who have worked under a number of Apple CEOs ≥ our employee number: Woz: 1 (Scott) Jobs
Java Weekly, Issue 643
Baeldung @ 2026-04-23 21:26:11
Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 643 first appeared on Baeldung .
Schroedingers Honeypot revisited
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 21:03:00
Now with even more honey!
130 years of Boston Marathon winning times
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-23 21:00:00
John Korir broke a 15-year-old Boston Marathon course record in 2026. The full 1897-2026 arc shows why, and what the women's line has been doing.
France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 21:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 20:55:32
Comments URL: Points: 501 # Comments: 479
GPT-5.5
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 20:01:39
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1217 # Comments: 831
Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 20:00:00
In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big mistake" in the role. "The product wasn't ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of
Microsoft Offers Voluntary Retirement to Long-Serving Employees
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 19:53:58
Tom Warren, The Verge (gift link): “Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases, decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” says Microsoft’s HR chief Amy Coleman in a memo seen by The Verge. “For those who may be considering th
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:48:38
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 619 # Comments: 485
Variational subspace methods and application to improving variational Monte Carlo dynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 19:43:51
Quantum 10, 2082 (2026). We present a formalism that allows for the direct manipulation and optimization of subspaces, circumventing the need to optimize individual states when using subspace methods. Using the
Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:30:05
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 807 # Comments: 559
Unauthorized Users in Discord Group Had Weekslong Access to Anthropic’s Supposedly-Super-Dangerous Claude Mythos Model
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-23 19:28:23
Rachel Metz, reporting for Bloomberg: A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with th
'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 19:01:01
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 236 # Comments: 233
Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 19:00:00
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, "about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible," with the program being "available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up t
Incident with multple GitHub services
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 18:21:55
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 229 # Comments: 113
New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 18:15:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies' unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operati
If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 18:05:30
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 468 # Comments: 885
French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 17:59:55
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 371 # Comments: 123
The Last (and Longest) Mile of Apache Kafka® Migrations: Client Migrations With KCP and Confluent Cloud Gateway
Confluent @ 2026-04-23 17:58:50
Use Confluent’s Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) integration with Gateway to simplify Kafka client migration and reduce your client migration time from weeks to hours.
Approximation to solve an oblique triangle
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-23 17:56:02
The previous post gave a simple and accurate approximation for the smaller angle of a right triangle. Given a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse, the angle opposite side a is approximately in radian
Decoupling Authorization at Scale: MongoDB Atlas and Cedar-Based Resource Policies
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-04-23 17:49:59
As organizations scale applications, managing authorization becomes increasingly complex. What starts as role-based permissions quickly evolves into intricate rules spanning multiple services, regions, and compliance requirements. Traditional approaches of
React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 17:36:00
React Navigation has released version 8.0 in alpha, updating its routing library for React Native and web applications. Notable changes include native bottom tabs as the default, enhanced TypeScript inference, and deep linking enabled by default. The upd
Google Introduces Room 3.0: A Kotlin-First, Async, Multiplatform Persistence Library
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 17:00:00
Room 3.0 is a major update to Android's persistence library that introduces breaking changes in key areas. The new release focuses on modernizing Android persistence layer around Kotlin Multiplatform and expands platform support to include JavaScript and
Intel Lands Tesla As First Major Customer For 14A Chip Technology
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex Musk has envisioned in Aus
Fibonacci Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 16:48:01
Quantum 10, 2081 (2026). Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a powerful framework for engineering quantum interactions, traditionally relying on periodic photonic arrays with continuous energy band
Holonomic quantum computation: a scalable adiabatic architecture
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-23 16:26:10
Quantum 10, 2080 (2026). Holonomic quantum computation exploits the geometric evolution of eigenspaces of a degenerate Hamiltonian to implement unitary evolution of computational states. In this work we introdu
Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 16:17:08
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 699 # Comments: 342
Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer
old new thing @ 2026-04-23 16:00:00
Inadvertently destroying a staircase while standing on it. The post Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 15:00:00
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI ca
Análisis de ajedrez | Perlas de Menorca (II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-23 14:34:42
Este duelo entre dos niños prodigio de postín pudo acabar con un remate muy brillante de Faustino Oro, pero el reloj lo impidió
Raylib v6.0
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 14:16:16
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 208 # Comments: 34
Simple approximation for solving a right triangle
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-23 14:13:35
Suppose you have a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse. Then the following approximation from [1] for the angle A opposite side a seems too simple and too accurate to be true. In degrees, A ≈ a 172°
Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 14:12:03
Comments URL: Points: 375 # Comments: 130
Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 13:53:11
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 241 # Comments: 61
How Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering
InfoQ @ 2026-04-23 13:04:00
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry mak
53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 13:00:00
Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference
Life invisible
AEON @ 2026-04-23 12:01:00
In the Atacama Desert, scientists race to find novel cures for antibiotic-resistant infections, as mining interests encroach - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
No nature without fear
AEON @ 2026-04-23 12:00:00
Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction - by Shawn Simpson Read on Aeon
Your Phone's Next Speed Boost May Come From Magnetic Chips
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 09:00:00
alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals u
I am building a cloud
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 06:44:19
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1037 # Comments: 516
Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the
Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-23 03:59:08
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 328 # Comments: 109
Episode 56 “Ask the Architects at JavaOne” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-04-23 02:00:00
In JavaOne 2026's closing session, the audience members asked the Java architects their questions about the state of structured concurrency and Project Babylon, how Java is being developed and what role AI plays in that, and more.
Bridging legacy and cloud-native: A new path with Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated deployed on Google Cloud and Google Cloud NetApp Volume
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-23 02:00:00
Organizations are facing difficult decisions on choices of how to accelerate cloud-native innovation without sacrificing the stability of existing business critical applications and systems. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Red Hat OpenShift Ded
Billionaire Backer Sues Trump Family's Crypto Firm Over Alleged Extortion
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 01:00:00
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme"
Ping-Pong Robot Makes History By Beating Top-Level Human Players
slashdot @ 2026-04-23 00:00:00
Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-22 22:27:31
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 853 # Comments: 185
DF T-Shirts and Hoodies: Get Them While the Getting Is Good
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 21:38:55
Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. The hoodies are a new model from Bella Canvas, the manufacturer. Our previous hoodies were “heather
Libraries were transforming. Then COVID hit.
Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-22 21:00:00
Two decades of IMLS data show U.S. libraries were successfully pivoting from book warehouses to community hubs. Then the pandemic set the transformation back years.
Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-22 20:57:20
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 206 # Comments: 291
There Are Corrections, and There Are Corrections
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 20:16:30
The New York Times (gift link): A correction was made on April 21, 2026: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their 11th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the
Website streamed live directly from a model
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-22 20:01:18
( ) Comments URL: Points: 419 # Comments: 112
Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-22 19:51:17
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 414 # Comments: 240
Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 18:35:37
Ben Thompson at Stratechery, “Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing”: Cook was, without question, an operational genius. Moreover, this was clearly the case even before he scaled the iPhone to unimaginable scale. When Cook joined Apple in 1998 the company’s op
Análisis de ajedrez | Perlas de Menorca (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-22 17:12:06
El argentino Sosa, 4º en el prestigioso abierto balear, ganó el premio a la partida más bella con un fulminante y preciso ataque al rey
A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-22 16:49:47
With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots. The post A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rabin has just passed away
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2026-04-22 16:27:43
Rabin has sadly just passed away at 94. This is a short piece on honoring him immediately. More is planned for the future. His work has touched key areas of mathematics as well as central areas of computer theory. Without his work theory would be completel
Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 16:14:00
Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impa
Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables
old new thing @ 2026-04-22 16:00:00
So-called "fractal page mapping". The post Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Michael Rabin Passed Away on April 14, 2026, at the age of 94
Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-22 14:55:00
Michael Rabin passed away on April 14, 2026 at the age of 94. (Scott Aaronson has also blogged about his passing, see here .) I had many points to make about him; however, the first one got so long that I will just do that one fo
High-Quality Chaos
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-22 13:44:40
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the current reality here on my blog. The high quality chaos era, as I call it. No more AI slop I complained and
Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training
Deepmind @ 2026-04-22 12:20:03
Butterfly (Papillon)
AEON @ 2026-04-22 12:01:00
Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Cloudflare Sandboxes Reach General Availability, Giving AI Agents Persistent Isolated Environments
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 12:00:00
Cloudflare has released Sandboxes and Containers into general availability, providing persistent isolated Linux environments for AI agent workloads. New capabilities include secure credential injection via egress proxy, PTY terminal support, persistent c
Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks
InfoQ @ 2026-04-22 09:38:00
Cloudflare has outlined a reference architecture for scaling Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments across the enterprise, positioning centralized governance, remote server infrastructure, and cost controls as key requirements for production-ready agen
Importing p7b File to Java Keystore Using Keytool in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 07:02:48
Explore how keytool works with certificate bundles in the p7b format. The post Importing p7b File to Java Keystore Using Keytool in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
Introduction to Spring Data AOT Repositories
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 06:19:23
Explore Spring Data AOT Repositories using a simple UserRepository class to demonstrate how Spring Data Repositories worked before and what changes exactly this new feature introduced. The post Introduction to Spring Data AOT Repositories first appear
Convert IPv4 to IPv6 Address in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-22 06:14:40
Learn how to use Java for converting between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The post Convert IPv4 to IPv6 Address in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
This Week in Rust 648
This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-22 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
[Sponsor] Rec League
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-22 05:03:18
Rec League is a new app for sharing what you’re into. Catalog recommendations into tidy collections: your guide to Rome, your open tabs, your bookshelf. Follow people whose perspectives you trust, and discover brilliant, unexpected intel. Recently feature
The subject matter expert advantage in the AI era
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
You have probably heard the narrative by now: AI is coming for your job. Headlines suggest that entire professions will soon disappear, replaced by increasingly capable models that can analyze, code, write, and reason faster than any human. But is that rea
Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSPerformance improvements with speculative decoding in vLLM for gpt-ossApril 16, 2026 Harshith UmeshEvery millisecond of GPU latency is a drain on your enterprise AI budget. W
5 reasons to go with your team to Red Hat Summit 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-22 02:00:00
You no doubt have a limited budget and a lot of choices about what industry events to attend—but bringing your whole team to Red Hat Summit 2026 will deliver big benefits. Many organizations came to last year's Red Hat Summit with both decision makers and
Deploying cloud-based engineering workbenches with the Virtual Engineering Workbench on AWS
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-04-21 23:38:49
Introduction Organizations in automotive, manufacturing, and embedded systems increasingly rely on cloud-based development environments to reduce hardware dependency and accelerate software delivery. As vehicle architectures shift toward software-defined p
An AI Odyssey, Part 4: Astounding Coding Agents
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-21 22:14:40
AI coding agents improved greatly last summer, and again last December-January. Here are my experiences since my last post on the subject. The models feel subjectively much smarter. They can accomplish a much broader range of tasks. They seem to have a la
Scientists Revive Failing Cells With Mitochondria Transplants
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-21 22:08:48
A new tool that tethers healthy mitochondria to ailing cells has shown promise in mice with inherited blindness. The post Scientists Revive Failing Cells With Mitochondria Transplants appeared first on SingularityHub .
Trump on Tim Apple
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-21 21:17:34
The president of the United States, on his blog this morning (all capitalization, punctuation, and missing/wrong words verbatim): I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so y
ASF Plus One Newsletter: April 2026
ASF @ 2026-04-21 19:06:59
From the people who power the community to the programs shaping its future, this month’s Plus One issue highlights what keeps The ASF thriving. Meet Jean-Baptiste Onofré in the new Plus One People series, and see how mentorship at OpenSource4You in Taiwan
pnpm 11 Release Candidate: ESM Distribution, Supply Chain Defaults and a New Store Format
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 18:00:00
pnpm 11 RC has been released, featuring significant changes in performance, security, and configuration. Key updates include an SQLite-backed store index, tighter security defaults, and a consolidated build script setting. It now requires Node.js v22 or
Análisis de ajedrez | El asombroso Erdogmus, de 14 años
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-21 17:36:13
La profundidad de conceptos y cálculo del más joven de la historia en pasar de los 2.700 puntos Elo lo perfila como una estrella
Lessons from Log4Shell: Building a CRA-Ready Log4j
ASF @ 2026-04-21 17:36:11
By: Piotr P. Karwasz, VP Logging, Apache Software Foundation The disclosure of Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) on December 9, 2021 did not just expose a vulnerability: it exposed a way of building software that was no longer fit for purpose, and it helped brin
Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation
Deepmind @ 2026-04-21 16:54:15
Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world.
Anthropic Introduces Managed Agents to Simplify AI Agent Deployment
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:36:00
Anthropic introduces Managed Agents on Claude, a managed execution layer for agent-based workflows. It separates agent logic from runtime concerns like orchestration, sandboxing, state management, and credentials. The system supports long-running multi-s
Fragments: April 21
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-21 16:34:00
Last week Thoughtworks released the 34th volume of our Technology Radar . This radar is our biannual survey of our experience of the technology scene, highlighting tools, techniques, platforms, and languages that we’ve used or otherwise caught our eye. T
Slack Rebuilds Notification System, Reports 5X Increase in Settings Engagement
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 16:05:00
Slack has rebuilt its notification system with a unified architecture that separates activity from delivery, improving consistency across platforms. The redesign simplifies preferences, preserves legacy settings through transformation, and resulted in a
Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub?
old new thing @ 2026-04-21 16:00:00
Somehow xor became the most popular version. The post Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat
Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning
Kotlin news @ 2026-04-21 15:21:36
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplat
State preparation with parallel-sequential circuits
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 14:04:45
Quantum 10, 2079 (2026). We introduce parallel-sequential (PS) circuits, a family of quantum circuit layouts that interpolate between brickwall and sequential circuits, which introduces control parameters gover
GitHub Acknowledges Recent Outages, Cites Scaling Challenges and Architectural Weaknesses
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 14:00:00
GitHub has publicly addressed a series of recent availability and performance issues that disrupted services across its platform, attributing the incidents to rapid growth, architectural coupling, and limitations in handling system load. By Craig Risi
Estimating the best separable approximation of non-pure spin-squeezed states
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 13:40:29
Quantum 10, 2078 (2026). We discuss the estimation of the distance of a given mixed many-body quantum state to the set of fully separable states, applied to the concrete scenario of collective spin states. Conc
Resource-theoretic hierarchy of contextuality for general probabilistic theories
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 12:27:22
Quantum 10, 2077 (2026). In this work we present a hierarchy of generalized contextuality. It refines the traditional binary distinction between contextual and noncontextual theories, and facilitates their comp
Justice is geometric
AEON @ 2026-04-21 12:00:00
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon
Elevating Variational Quantum Semidefinite Programs for Polynomial Objectives
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 11:40:29
Quantum 10, 2076 (2026). Many practically important NP-hard optimization problems are inherently higher-order polynomial optimizations, which are typically addressed using approximation algorithms. Classical re
Comparing the performance of practical two-qubit gates for individual $^{171}$Yb ions in yttrium orthovanadate
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-21 10:39:26
Quantum 10, 2075 (2026). In this paper, we investigate three schemes for implementing Controlled-Z (CZ) gates between individual ytterbium (Yb) rare-earth ions doped into yttrium orthovanadate (YVO$_4$ or YVO).
La diferencia de impedancia entre dos redes sociales
brucknerite @ 2026-04-21 10:00:00
A «nivel usuario», entre Mastodón y Bluesky no hay demasiada diferencia. Sin embargo, comunicarse entre ambas redes, aunque posible, viene con una serie de condicionantes que se parecen mucho al desacoplamiento de impedancia entre redes de componentes elec
★ Another Day Has Come
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-21 05:59:41
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
Cloudflare Introduces Project Think: a Durable Runtime for AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-04-21 04:34:00
Cloudflare's Project Think introduces a new framework for AI agents, shifting from stateless orchestration to a durable actor-based infrastructure. It features a kernel-like runtime enabling agents to manage memory and run code securely. Innovations incl
Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 27: Obsolete Translation Resources Removed
Inside Java @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of obsolete translation resources in JDK 27.
Unlock enterprise-ready, secure AI with Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
As enterprise IT enters the era of autonomous workflows, we are excited to introduce the Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud, now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is an enterprise-ready tool desi
The Open Accelerator joins the Google for Startups Cloud Program to empower the next generation of innovators
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
In the tech world, we often talk about the "next big thing." But as I’ve shared before, real innovation isn’t just about the initial spark of an idea; it’s about the collective effort required to move that idea from a research lab into a resilient, product
Open source transparency defines the future of sovereign AI in Europe
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
In early 2025, I wrote that uncertain times call for greater operational control and IT resiliency. Today, those uncertainties have materialized into a permanent shift in how European organizations view their digital future. By moving AI from the sandbox t
Now generally available: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support drives digital autonomy for global enterprise
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-21 02:00:00
Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstrac
DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:38:00
Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news
‘Community Letter From Tim’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 23:37:22
Tim Cook, in a letter addressed, simply, “To the Apple community”: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share
Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 22:44:58
Apple Newsroom, with a veritable “boom”: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effect
Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-20 21:38:06
New artificial neurons fire so realistically they can activate living brain cells in mouse tissue. The post Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-20 19:09:30
Apple Newsroom: In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress toward Apple 2030, the company’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of this decade. Apple’s greenhouse gas emis
Análisis de ajedrez | Barceló, de 9 años, logra su 4ª medalla en cuatro meses
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-20 19:03:03
El español gana la plata en el Mundial Relámpago sub-10 tres días después del oro en el Mundial Rápido
Announcing Daniel Ruggeri as Executive Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation
ASF @ 2026-04-20 18:15:20
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has appointed Daniel Ruggeri to be the new Executive Vice President (EVP) of The ASF. A History of Contribution Daniel’s journey with The ASF began with a practical necessity: fixing a problem he encountered at work. W
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-04-20 17:53:21
Claude Opus 4.7 arrives in Amazon Bedrock with improved agentic coding and a 1M token context window. AWS Interconnect reaches general availability with multicloud private connectivity and a new last-mile option. Plus, post-quantum TLS for Secrets Manager,
Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-20 17:02:08
Open source infrastructure depends on more than new features. It also depends on the steady, often unseen work of identifying risks, improving processes, and making systems easier to maintain over time. That is exactly what the Beach Cleaning Project set
What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-20 17:00:16
The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life. The post What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Designing Memory for AI Agents: inside Linkedin’s Cognitive Memory Agent
InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 16:59:00
LinkedIn introduces Cognitive Memory Agent (CMA), generative AI infrastructure layer enabling stateful, context-aware systems. It provides persistent memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural layers, supporting multi-agent coordination, retrieval
Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57
This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n
Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)
Kotlin news @ 2026-04-20 16:39:57
This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for iOS and Android is n
How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory?
old new thing @ 2026-04-20 16:00:00
You still have to use aligned accesses, even though the pixels might not be aligned. The post How did code handle 24-bit-per-pixel formats when using video cards with bank-switched memory? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
More on Newton’s diameter theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-20 15:50:33
A few days ago I wrote a post on Newton’s diameter theorem. The theorem says to plot the curve formed by the solutions to f(x, y) = 0 where f is a polynomial in x and y of degree n. Next plot several parallel lines that cross the curve at n points a
Pretext.js Bypasses DOM Layout Reflow, Enabling Advanced UX Patterns at 120 FPS
InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:59:00
Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like infinite lists, masonry layouts, and scroll position
Subagents in Gemini CLI Enable Task Delegation and Parallel Agent Workflows
InfoQ @ 2026-04-20 14:26:00
Google has introduced subagents in Gemini CLI, a new capability designed to help developers delegate complex or repetitive tasks to specialized AI agents operating alongside a primary session. By Robert Krzaczyński
The engineering method
AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:01:00
How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Fuel for thought
AEON @ 2026-04-20 12:00:00
A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations - by Hannah Critchlow Read on Aeon
Quantum recurrences and the arithmetic of Floquet dynamics
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-20 10:38:15
Quantum 10, 2074 (2026). The Poincaré recurrence theorem shows that conservative systems in a bounded region of phase space eventually return arbitrarily close to their initial state after a finite amount of ti
Caer con estilo
brucknerite @ 2026-04-20 10:00:00
La degradación gradual o controlada es una técnica de diseño empleada frecuentemente en ingeniería cuando se desea proteger la función principal del sistema a expensas de otras, consideradas secundarias. Pero ¿se usa en todos los casos en los que se deberí
Fly swatter
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-20 08:45:00
New approach to block potentially malicious requests with less collateral damage
Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 20:51:43
Marc Malkin, Variety: Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her political thriller series “The Savant.” [...] “Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain to
WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-19 19:37:01
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines it
Análisis de ajedrez | Antón cae del podio del Europeo cuando aspiraba al oro
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-19 18:55:19
Tras un torneo magnífico, que incluye esta victoria muy brillante, el español perdió en la última ronda
How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code
Inside Java @ 2026-04-19 02:00:00
This video explores generics, JVM internals, and the road to Valhalla generics...
Podcast CB SyR 554: Inocentadas de 1 de abril, marcas auriñacienses, señales SETI y transporte de antimateria
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-18 21:05:05
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 554 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Papers de Broma; Signos; Memristores; SETI; Antimateria”, 16 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 554
★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 19:52:56
Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.
Marc Barceló gana el Mundial Rápido sub-10
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-18 19:19:25
El español, aún con 9 años, sigue engrosando su lista de grandes éxitos con la resiliencia como principal virtud
Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 18:48:37
Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with 32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” on
Gaussian distributed weights for LLMs
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 16:49:27
The previous post looked at the FP4 4-bit floating point format. This post will look at another 4-bit floating point format, NF4, and higher precision analogs. NF4 and FP4 are common bitsandbytes 4-bit data types. If you download LLM weights from Hugging
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 18)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 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 April 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .
4-bit floating point FP4
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-18 03:08:54
In ancient times, floating point numbers were stored in 32 bits. Then somewhere along the way 64 bits became standard. The C programming language retains the ancient lore, using float to refer to a 32-bit floating point number and double to refer to a flo
Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:43:35
Apple Design: Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can be irritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion of your app. Consider allowing at least a week or two between requests, prompting again after people demonstrate add
Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-18 02:31:16
I wrote yesterday: And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized. On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded : Review prompts are the difference between a gre
Norwegian Man Cured of HIV by His Brother’s Stem Cells
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-18 00:44:39
Fewer than 10 people worldwide have eradicated the virus with stem cells. But this case was special—no one knew his brother's cells carried a protective mutation until transplant day. The post Norwegian Man Cured of HIV by His Brother’s Stem Cell
AsiaBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Saikeo
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-18 00:06:41
I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days at the National Taiwan Normal University from March 19–22, 202
Schroedingers Honeypot
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-17 21:03:00
How to use Fail2Ban to block potentially malicious requests and still reduce logging of PII
Au revoir: Day 5 of TED2026
TED Blog @ 2026-04-17 21:00:10
After 11 extraordinary years in Vancouver, TED’s time in our beloved British Columbia conference home is up. To celebrate the final day of TED2026, thinkers, doers and legends — mainstays of the TED community and newcomers alike — came together to cr
Análisis de ajedrez | El pundonor de Caruana
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-17 19:28:33
El estadounidense luchó hasta la última ronda, donde firmó esta partida modélica, a pesar de que ya estaba descartado varios días antes
Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-04-17 18:22:37
A couple weeks ago I gave at talk in Marseille on the general topic of Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors. I’ll make a few comments here on the content of the slides. The idea of the talk was to explain … Continue reading →
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-17 16:25:21
Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things. The post Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundam
Forgotten message from the past: LB_INITSTORAGE
old new thing @ 2026-04-17 16:00:00
Preallocating memory to avoid quadratic behavior. The post Forgotten message from the past: <CODE>LB_<WBR>INITSTORAGE</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Java Weekly, Issue 642
Baeldung @ 2026-04-17 12:45:25
Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 642 first appeared on Baeldung .
The invention of the soul
AEON @ 2026-04-17 12:00:00
Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language – turning sentience into something sacred - by Nicholas Humphrey Read on Aeon