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slashdot @ 2026-10-27 08:00:00

Susanne Rust of the Los Angeles Times reports (paywalled) that industry executives knew for decades that microplastics were infiltrating the human body. Slashdot reader joshuark shares an excerpt from the report: Scientists today say we're just beginning t

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 05:45:00

Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026 finds the share of developers saving ten or more hours a week with AI dropped from 68% to 26% year over year, while only 28% report noticeably less friction than before AI. Engineering leaders report spendin

slashdot @ 2026-10-27 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. designated helium as a critical material on Friday because it's indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of dis

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 01:30:08

Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link): Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-27 01:12:40

OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 00:54:26

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique

slashdot @ 2026-10-27 00:00:00

The critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) have now been successfully exploited in the wild, just days after patches were released and initial exploitation attempts failed. BleepingComputer reports: The malicious activity

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-26 23:41:53

It's widely believed AI's inner workings are largely inscrutable. A former OpenAI researcher now says this narrative could be wrong. The post Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought appeared first on Sing

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 23:00:00

At AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation added OpenSandbox, Open Responses, Agent Skills, and OpenEnv, reaching ten projects in its first year. Keynotes from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and UC Berkeley focused on MCP in production

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 23:00:00

Skydance, as it begins integrating Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees and imposing a five-day-a-week office requirement. Layoffs are also expected as the company targets more than $6 billion in annualized

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 22:59:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 22:35:28

Related: The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] - Comments URL: Points: 718 # Comments: 313

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 22:26:00

OpenTofu 1.13 adds convert and assume... functions that let module authors give the planner type and value hints for unknown values, so more expressions resolve during tofu plan. If a value unknown during planning later violates a guarantee, OpenTofu rep

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 22:00:00

Mozilla launched a new ad campaign for Firefox that leverages early internet nostalgia in a bid to win back users who switched browsers. "Today's internet tracks you, interrupts you, and asks for permissions it already took. But it wasn't always that way,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 21:03:53

Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. Wh

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 21:00:00

Instagram is testing a new longform, horizontal video format called "Features" as it pushes further into YouTube territory and expands its presence on TVs. The Verge reports: Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 20:05:41

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slashdot @ 2026-10-26 20:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: Walter Koenig, the actor who played Pavel Chekov in the original "Star Trek" series and several movies, has died, his rep confirmed to CBS News. He was 90. Koenig died Sunday night at his home

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 19:39:32

The previous three post have been part of a series on geometric duality. The traditional but somewhat mysterious terminology is the pole of a line and the polar of a point. As explained here, the terminology was first coined in the context of spherical ge

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 19:31:39

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 19:04:34

Pros: OLED display, nano-texture option, A20 Pro chip, thinner and lighter. Cons: no Face ID, no ProMotion.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 19:01:17

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 19:00:00

DigitalOcean has announced the public preview of Learning Services and Agent Data Services, enabling developers to build, evaluate, and continuously improve AI agents within a unified, AI-native, cloud platform. By Sergio De Simone

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 19:00:00

Highway thieves have stolen more than $100 million in data center equipment since June, employing increasingly sophisticated tactics such as forging driver IDs and spoofing GPS tracking systems. NBC News (paywalled) reports that thieves have "made away wit

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 18:57:29

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 18:00:11

Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed . Lock the screen. I mentioned in my r

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 18:00:00

Apple has unveiled a redesigned iPad Mini with a larger 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro chip, twice the peak brightness and slimmer bezels while maintaining roughly the same footprint. It starts at $699 ($200 more than its predecessor) and will be availa

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 17:35:44

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slashdot @ 2026-10-26 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Seattle Times: Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or roughly a quarter of its workforce, as the company tries to control its head count while avoiding layoffs. The Redmond-based tech giant

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 16:51:23

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slashdot @ 2026-10-26 16:07:00

Anthropic has filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, setting the stage for a potentially record-setting IPO that could value the Claude developer at more than $2 trillion. Alongside the extraordinary cost of its AI expansion, Anthropic warn

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 16:04:10

If you’ve got or get a Duo and don’t try this out, you’re not hooked up right.  ★ 

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-26 16:02:24

A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the poi

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 16:00:00

A preview of three November InfoQ online certification cohorts covering production AI systems, retrieval and agent design, engineering team flow, AI roles, and measurement, facilitated by Adi Polak, Lan Chu, and Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-26 15:54:29

A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 15:35:00

This week's Java roundup for October 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: the proposed release schedule for JDK 28; the eMudhra Intermediate CA certificates breach; the October 2026 Critical Patch Update; Azul and BellSoft CPUs; GA releases of WildFly

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 15:07:00

ReadyOn has detailed a four-layer tenant isolation architecture for its Harmony platform on Amazon EKS. The design combines Kubernetes namespaces, dedicated Karpenter node pools, VPC security groups, and per-tenant Aurora databases, with controls evaluat

old new thing @ 2026-10-26 15:00:00

Mimicking the operation more accurately. The post Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 14:04:50

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The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 13:04:54

This blog is the main place I write, but I also use other platforms, either to write new content or to announce blog posts. X (née Twitter) I have a several X accounts, one personal account (@JohnDCook) and several specialized accounts (@CompSciFact, @Alg

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 12:34:00

Kotaku reports: r/opensource, Reddit's primary "subreddit for everything open source related," has banned all AI-assisted and AI-related projects.... As reported by The Verge, the subreddit's October 24 post, titled "Your tokens aren't valuable: No more

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 12:15:50

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 11:32:14

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 11:20:00

Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway, picking a model per request from a classifier that scores complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence. Cloudflare’s own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:01:00

A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:00:00

From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can - by Azize Aslan Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 09:46:09

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 09:00:00

Microsoft announced version 2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, which implements the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol with stateless HTTP servers by default, standardised routing headers and Multi Round-Trip Requests. Releases 2.1 to 2.3 hav

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 08:34:00

Brazil's 80-year-old president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected Sunday, reports the Guardian, "defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power." And the results could impact the climate,

slashdot @ 2026-10-26 05:34:00

The problem? Understanding how AI coding agents interact with the software you build. "Whether you're maintaining an SDK, building a command-line interface, or publishing an MCP server or skills... you need to understand whether agents can discover and use

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-26 04:31:11

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slashdot @ 2026-10-26 02:34:00

"59% of maintainers report growing contribution volume since the rise of GenAI," according to a new study published by Linux Foundation Research. But 25% of their incoming pull requests "are estimated to be low-quality, also known as 'AI slop'." And on lar

Rust blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund or sponsor the RustNL Maintainers Team To fund specific features and improvements, sponsor fundable Rust Project Goals To fund individual contributors, donat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

Many enterprise AI conversations start with the same question: Which model should we use? With models becoming more and more commoditized, the big differentiator is whether your data is ready for any model or any agent to use.The stakes are higher now that

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

New tools can find potential flaws faster than teams can assess and fix them. When a serious flaw is discovered, the central challenge is ensuring maintainers, distributors, and operators receive the clear information and time necessary to defend their use

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

If you followed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this edge AI machine learning operations (MLOps) series, you've seen how a model goes from training and optimization through packaging, signing, and deployment across an edge fleet. We've reached a point where

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:50:00

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring last week at DF. Sunnny’s pitch to B2B companies is simple: you store valuable customer information across a myriad of systems, making it hard to get a simple overview. Sunnny consolidates your customer data, cleans it,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:47:57

Some guy on Reddit (with an illustration video): Saw this online, tried it, and it works beautifully. Basically, I registered the lowest part of my right index finger. That part of the finger sits naturally when you go to swipe up at the phone. This

Emilian Bold @ 2026-10-25 21:41:32

There's an interesting phenomenon I've noticed and I'm not sure I have a good word for it. One has various ideas jumping around in their head. Some of them are little pearls, beliefs big and small that seem significant and some of which may be quite old.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-25 21:30:49

(Lance and Bill did a vidcast about the OpenAI Document Drop. See  here . My spellcheck thinks that vidcast and OpenAI are not words.)   The Metric TSP problem is TSP where, for all vertices \(x,y,z\),         

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 20:45:05

The previous two posts have been about polar triangles. The first used a polar triangle to derive a theorem, and the second showed how to compute polars using linear algebra. But what exactly is a polar triangle and why is it called that? Poles and polars

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-25 20:37:30

El gran maestro polaco muestra su profundidad estratégica con un sacrificio de pieza nada obvio a medio plazo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 20:03:13

Special guest: Joanna Stern. Special topic: The iPhone Duo. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfast item per box for one year, while supplies last, with code talkshow50off . Notion : The coll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 19:09:19

Speaking of Johnnie Manzari, he wrote a post yesterday marking the 10 year anniversary of Portrait Mode: Initially, Portrait mode was seen as a giant math problem. You’d do disparity calculations on the two sensors and output a depth map. The problem

InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 19:07:00

PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whet

InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 19:00:00

Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Google's TPUs, at PyTorch Conference North America 2026, and Meta said it plans to move larger LLM workloads onto TPUs with it. AWS released TorchNeuron for Trainium the same week, while

InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 18:00:00

Google has released ML Drift, an open-source, cross-platform GPU compute engine designed for on-device AI and machine learning inference. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it abstracts the complexities of different GPU hardware and low-level APIs, supporting Op

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-25 12:00:00

Ein letzter Spaziergang mit Henry

InfoQ @ 2026-10-25 07:27:00

PingCAP recently confirmed unauthorized access to its internal systems and the theft of source code and customer-related data. The attacker, cyber extortion group FulcrumSec, claimed to have stolen 10.6 TB of data, including TiDB Cloud control-plane reco

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:01:55

The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar tr

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:28:20

I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles

Inside Java @ 2026-10-25 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:15:00

Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video ), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier, even compared with competing f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:08:17

Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters: CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a video ​posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A kno

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 23:10:06

Jay Peters, The Verge: The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 22:47:28

Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he sp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 21:15:45

I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values . Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-24 18:39:18

Kuandykuly, campeón del mundo de su edad con 10,5 puntos en once partidas, muestra una consistencia muy excepcional

InfoQ @ 2026-10-24 18:00:00

Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import time b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:50:02

It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary . Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:03:44

Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-24 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 October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-24 10:34:00

Google has made Data Agent Kit generally available, a free set of MCP tools and 37 open-source skills that connect coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. Two kinds of guardrail ship with it, and practitioners need to tell them apa

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-23 18:58:32

Agents spend much of their time waiting on tools. A coding agent may start a build that runs for twenty minutes, a triage agent may wait hours for the next pull request on a repository, and an assistant may wait until the next morning for an approval. Most

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 18:52:56

Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube ): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-23 18:20:11

La bella danza de los corceles en este final artístico de Rusz tiene además un gran valor didáctico para el buen manejo de este tipo de posiciones

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-23 16:54:10

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 16:42:06

Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it t

old new thing @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

It cleans up at the wrong time. The post Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-23 12:40:44

Quantum 10, 2247 (2026). Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently,

AEON @ 2026-10-23 12:00:00

Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-10-23 10:00:00

En mi trabajo de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles hemos empezado a montar unos vídeos divulgativos sobre la evolución de diferentes tecnologías ferroviarias. Este es el primero, sobre las traviesas.

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo. By the way, did I mention iPhone Duo?

Inside Java @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Pooled confined arenas provide a significant performance improvement for short-lived native allocations.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

An organization might first encounter open source when it adopts an open source library, operating system, database, or application. But robust open source engagement goes much further than just using software. Organizations need to understand how to parti

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

We've spent the last 2 years watching AI agents trudge from exciting experiments into actual business operations. The KPMG Q1 2026 AI Pulse Report confirms it: 54% of organizations are now deploying agents across core systems.Most of us have first-hand exp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates Agentic AI Security Capabilities Across the Open Hybrid CloudRed Hat and NVIDIA expanded their collaboration around Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, spanning agent security through OpenShell, optimized open weight

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-22 22:33:10

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hour

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 21:10:10

Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone D

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 20:49:38

Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Reg

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-22 20:00:08

Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-r

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:55:41

Quantum 10, 2246 (2026). Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:50:45

Quantum 10, 2245 (2026). We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relie

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:43:48

Quantum 10, 2244 (2026). Mean-field Hartree theory is a central tool for reducing many-body dynamics to an effective one-particle evolution. This approximation has been employed when the Hamiltonian governing t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:32:18

Quantum 10, 2243 (2026). In this work, we examine the consequences of the existence of a finite group of matrix product unitary (MPU) symmetries for matrix product states (MPS). We generalize the well-understoo

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:26:22

Quantum 10, 2242 (2026). We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangl

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-22 18:12:54

The API format that a growing number of model providers use to call language models now has a vendor-neutral home. Open Responses has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a project, bringing it under open governance alongside MCP and A2A. Based on th

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-22 17:54:59

Kazajistán arrasó los Mundiales de Edades (sub-7 a sub-17) en Roquetas ganando más de un tercio de las medallas en juego

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 17:12:10

A Python script that worked a few days ago wouldn’t work today. I suspect it might have something to do with my updating everything I could think of in response to recent security breaches. I got an error message that said error: The script contains

Deepmind @ 2026-10-22 16:30:24

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-22 16:29:41

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading U

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 16:01:55

You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secr

old new thing @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

Looking more closely at the function's behavior and requirements. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Co­Register­Initialize­Spy</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A trio of papers showcases AI-designed molecular scissors and an upgraded tool that builds proteins atom by atom. The post This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 13:08:51

An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of poin

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:01:00

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:00:00

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 10:44:47

Quantum 10, 2241 (2026). We show that, for sudden quenches, the work distribution reduces to the statistics of the traces of powers of Haar unitaries, which are random unitary matrices drawn uniformly from the

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-22 07:46:34

Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. Just ignore it. Don’t let big AI control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl pr

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, previously scheduled for October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352), has been postponed. A new activation date has not been set. This update supersedes the schedule and activation instructions in the Hoodi testnet a

Inside Java @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

It's 2 AM Friday night when you get alerts your primary business application stopped responding and user tickets are piling up. For situations like these, you need to have already captured the data that can help you quickly get a sense of what's going wro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Modern IT engineering organizations face a new reality: the mindset of people relying on “manual” work is simply no longer valid. Furthermore, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced an entirely new layer of complexity and urgency to

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift uses TLS certificates across many platform components to establish trust and secure communications. As platforms grow and evolve over years of operation, managing these certificates consistently becomes increasingly difficult.For years, R

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Part 4 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the Layered Zero Trust Validated Pattern.Zero trust is easy to describe. The hard part is making it repeatable.Zero trust is often described succinctly in a memorable sentence

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 00:59:14

It’s been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I’ve gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I’d want to buy and carry.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-21 20:32:02

In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan Håstad of his switching lemma . I spent many hours decoding the notation and working through the messy conditional probabi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-21 20:00:36

Algunos necesitan un cojín para ver las piezas sentados, pero los conocimientos técnicos de los mejores del mundo de su edad son asombrosos

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 17:16:51

The NIST elliptic curves have been in the news twice lately. A few days ago Anthropic posted a paper on the NIST curve seeds that I wrote about here. Now the curves are in the news again, this time over broken certificates. My post a few days ago was abou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-21 16:00:07

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-10-21 16:00:00

Too many requirements, some of which bring us full circle. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-21 14:33:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 575 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Radioseñal; Peste; Dimensión Oscura; Tumores; Cristales de Tiempo”, 15 oct 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 575: Radioe

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 14:04:06

I was watching a video by John Higgins this morning about the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, one of the most famous passages in the Bible. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a t

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-21 12:51:00

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and ef

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

AEON @ 2026-10-21 12:01:00

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-21 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

Inside Java @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 543: Structured Concurrency

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

New NVIDIA GPUs typically arrive before a standard enterprise Linux release can carry every driver, kernel change, and virtualization patch those systems need. The usual result is a bad choice: wait, or stand the first cluster up on an operating system the

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-20 23:05:34

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial appeared first on SingularityHu

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-20 20:05:00

El subcampeón estuvo muy cerca del oro en la última ronda de los campeonatos que 715 participantes de 81 países han disputado en Roquetas de Mar (Almería)

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-20 19:03:38

Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary infrastructure on your behalf, with all resources created directly in your account.

ASF @ 2026-10-20 18:00:00

Apache Iggy™ is one of the ASF’s newest Top-Level Projects. In this Spotlight, the ASF spoke with PMC members Piotr Gankiewicz and Kranti Parisa about the engineering choices behind Iggy, the long road to clustering, and the community that has grown

YC @ 2026-10-20 17:30:50

Vin found Nowadays on Work at a Startup, saw a codebase he could fix, and joined as the first engineer. Now he builds AI voice tools and mentors the team.

old new thing @ 2026-10-20 16:00:00

PowerPoint presentation jargon. The post Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:48:54

Quantum 10, 2240 (2026). We study the error-correction properties of multi-mode Fock-state codes under amplitude-damping (AD) noise, focusing on the asymptotic regime in which the total excitation of the code s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:35:21

Quantum 10, 2239 (2026). We consider the problem of testing and learning from data in the presence of resource constraints, such as limited memory or weak data access, which place limitations on the efficiency

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 15:09:38

All your B2B customer data. In that nice California sunnn. Early access now!  ★ 

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 14:49:19

Quantum 10, 2238 (2026). We introduce a numerical framework for reliably estimating conditional von Neumann entropies, a central quantity in device-independent quantum cryptography and randomness generation. Ou

AEON @ 2026-10-20 12:00:00

Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon