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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 23:00:00

A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected medical, family, pregnancy, or paren

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-14 22:25:28

On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty people in a meeting room

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 22:00:00

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis is calling for a U.S.-led AI standards body to review frontier models for national security risks such as cybersecurity and biological threats. His proposal would create a federally overseen public-private organization,

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 21:00:00

Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402 protocol. Backed by companies including AWS, American Express, Cloudflare, Google,

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 20:00:00

OnePlus will reportedly announce this week that it is shutting down its brand in the U.S. and Europe, following months of signs that parent company Oppo was winding down the brand's global presence. India and China are reportedly unaffected, but it's uncle

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 19:50:48

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-14 19:11:24

El estadounidense de origen ruso, primer cabeza de serie, cumple el pronóstico y lo hace con un juego de muy alta calidad en varias partidas

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 19:00:00

IBM shares plunged after the company warned that Q2 revenue and earnings would miss expectations, blaming customers' sudden shift in spending toward AI hardware instead of software services. However, CEO Arvind Krishna did not place all the blame on IBM's

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 18:57:54

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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 18:00:00

New York has become the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, pausing construction for one year over concerns that AI-driven data center growth is raising utility bills, straining water supplies, and burdening communities. "As

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 17:18:13

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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers -- connections reported by CBC News last w

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-14 16:24:12

I’ve been thinking about ICD-10 codes; they come up a lot in my work. The ICD-10-CM standard is divided into 21 chapters, which generally correspond to the first letter of a code. However, a chapter may contain blocks beginning with more than one le

old new thing @ 2026-07-14 16:00:00

Please, tell me more. The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:40:00

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dyn

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:00:00

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieve

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-14 14:51:00

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describ

Baeldung @ 2026-07-14 14:19:11

Learn how to retrieve the current Java process ID using ProcessHandle , RuntimeMXBean , and legacy approaches across different Java versions. The post How Does a Java Program Get Its Own Process ID first appeared on Baeldung .    

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

The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for K

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 13:49:48

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 13:21:32

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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 13:00:00

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) have created what they describe as the world's most detailed 3D cellular atlas of the human brainstem, linking whole-brain MRI views to individual neurons across more than 500 tissue sections

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 12:17:00

Google released the Genkit Agents API in preview for TypeScript and Go. The open-source framework packages message history, tool loops, streaming, and state persistence behind a single chat() interface. Detached turns let agents work after clients discon

AEON @ 2026-07-14 12:00:00

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future - by Ali Rıza Taşkale Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 10:34:57

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:08:00

Drawing from the enduring adaptability of HTML and HTTP, Seph Gentle proposes embedding self-contained schemas directly into file headers, ensuring data remains readable without external definitions. His experimental format prioritises forward, backward

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:00:00

The 2027 release of SwiftData introduces support for persisting custom and third-party types via Codable, along with the ability to organize data into SwiftUI list sections. It also adds new capabilities for observing data store changes through ResultsOb

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 09:05:00

Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries and self-tanners, in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way. While not essential for life itself, the molecule can convert into a form thought to be important for life's origins, add

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-14 07:02:00

Paper is a professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs and fewer translations between what you design and what ships. Paper works both ways: code to design, and design to code.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 06:31:48

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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Hundreds of economists say in an open letter that institutions "must act now" to address how artificial intelligence could transform the economy and could put many people out of work. The state

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 04:27:20

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Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers minds from across Ethereum and beyond: builders, researchers, maintainers, organizers, and anyone curious a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

As modern applications expand across multiple clusters, clouds, and hybrid regions, traditional security mechanisms, such as long lived secrets, static certificates, or cloud provider specific identity and access management, struggle to keep up with the sc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Navigating the complexities of 5G and AI requires telecommunications service providers to move beyond the restrictive, vendor-locked vertical architectures of the past. Legacy, single-vendor vertical stacks, once the industry standard, have become the prim

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

We continue to see many organizations accelerate their infrastructure modernization plans and choose Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as their future-ready foundation for traditional virtual machine (VM) workloads. That being said, when you’re tasked with

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 delivers a platform designed to meet the necessary balance of agility, security, and efficiency for your IT team. This release introduces significant advancements across the board, from hardening zero-trust security and streamlining

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

As organizations accelerate AI investments and scale across the hybrid cloud, technology choice only becomes more important. Choice is now a fundamental driver of corporate financial strategy, legal risk mitigation, and long-term asset protection. This mea

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 01:12:22

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 01:10:32

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 01:00:00

Microsoft is overhauling Windows 11 search to prioritize local apps, files, and settings over web results while removing ads, promotions, MSN/Bing clutter, and other distractions. "You've have been asking for search that is faster, more relevant, and easie

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 00:00:00

CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to disguise attacks against critical infrastructure. The advisory urges users to disab

slashdot @ 2026-07-13 23:12:00

German textile firm ZEGO has filed for insolvency and is blaming a March cyberattack that shut down production for nearly six weeks. "ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fa

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-13 22:01:43

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slashdot @ 2026-07-13 22:00:00

A coalition of 12 states led by California is suing to block the $111 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution, blockbuster films, and basic cable licensing. The challenge (PDF) defies t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-13 21:57:55

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slashdot @ 2026-07-13 21:00:00

According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple agreed to use Intel's U.S. chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washing

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-13 20:53:53

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AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 20:13:57

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages bet

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-13 19:53:52

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AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 18:18:20

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builde

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-13 18:06:08

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-13 18:06:00

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of

Baeldung @ 2026-07-13 17:25:40

Learn how to log HTTP request and response bodies using a Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor. The post How to Get The RequestBody and ResponseBody in HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 17:24:53

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings , on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consis

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-13 16:22:22

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 16:14:00

A panel on data ownership challenged the definition of "ownership," arguing it must extend beyond simple account control to include structural independence, interoperability, and community governance. Speakers like Zenna Fiscella, Paul Frazee, Boris Mann

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 16:08:00

DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-based tooling, and an intelligence layer with persistent consumer memory and live backend data. Early resu

old new thing @ 2026-07-13 16:00:00

Guard pages all the way down? The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 14:40:00

This week's Java roundup for July 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 5.0; point releases of JHipster, Keycloak and Google ADK; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and Micronaut; the OmniFish Build of Payara

Deepmind @ 2026-07-13 14:37:28

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-13 13:49:35

La teoría general de la relatividad predice un arrastre de los sistemas de referencia inerciales (frame-dragging). En un campo gravitacional débil y rotación lenta, como en el entorno de la […] La entrada LARES-2 y LAGEOS miden el efecto Lense–Th

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:01:00

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:00:00

We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 09:07:00

Jake Lazaroff discussed the AT Protocol as a framework for distributed applications beyond social networking. He emphasised a local-first architecture where users maintain data in PDSs while leveraging shared infrastructure for synchronisation and update

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-13 09:06:50

Aún es posible innovar con gran brillantez en los primeros movimientos, como demostró Castellanos en la 8ª ronda del abierto pirenaico

Rust blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Another six months have passed since our last development update , and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "Code"

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

It was 6 AM when the first alert fired. Then the second. Then the third.The on-call engineer opened her laptop to find 3 unrelated failures from a single AI agent. The agent handled support tickets, processed billing adjustments, and answered customer ques

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Kubernetes won. It is officially the backbone of modern enterprise infrastructure. At Red Hat, we are celebrating this open source milestone because Kubernetes is the trusted core engine built right into Red Hat OpenShift. When open source wins, our enterp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Running a Kubernetes fleet means your infrastructure is constantly evolving. But as you scale to hundreds of clusters across public clouds, datacenters, and the edge, new friction points naturally emerge. Toggling between rigid dashboard views, manually ve

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

It’s no secret that AI-fueled research projects are placing a spotlight on vulnerabilities across the industry. While large catalogs of vulnerabilities have been created, automation plays a key role in your organization’s ability to address them before the

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-13 00:49:37

The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrated by Robert J Lewis, (I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News,  here .) has an appe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 00:17:54

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, and weeks of infrastructure b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 23:18:24

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times , included in iOS Dev Weekly , inspired May’s edition of the Swift Blog Carnival , and was

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:51:16

These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in clarity, everywhere. Today we live in an age when it’s degrading in clarity, everywhere.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:48:09

Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov: The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see. Why care about every frame? It builds trust. Users can’t see the code, so UI is the only way for them to

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 21:26:29

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how the posterior mea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 20:04:05

Guilherme Rambo: Apple ships the fm command-line tool in macOS 27, which can be used to run inference with the local system model or Private Cloud Compute from Terminal or scripts. You know what else can run command-line tools? Mac apps! 😃 I deci

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 19:48:14

Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignore previous information or new information. How much should new data c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:45:57

Elon Musk , linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”: He takes scamming to a whole new level Sam Altman : homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters Mus

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:19:36

After linking to Stacks , his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of clicking around the rest of Jeff Halter’s website, and fell upon Lunacy: Created by Ben Haller and released in the early ’90s as part of the Maci

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-12 19:16:23

El bicampeón absoluto de Baleares, de 15 años, comparte el 5º puesto de 511 participantes en el Open de Benasque

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 17:42:21

Well this is just delightful: Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator required! Browse the Internet Archive’s HyperCard collection and run stacks with one-click. Period-accurate typography. Sound, instruments, and MacinTa

Baeldung @ 2026-07-12 11:57:58

Learn how to use the Embabel Agent Framework in Java to gain observability over AI agent tool-call selection reasoning. The post LLM Tool Call Reasoning Using Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .      

InfoQ @ 2026-07-12 08:18:00

Cloudflare recently documented how its development team identified and fixed a rare bug in the widely used Rust HTTP library hyper that could silently truncate large HTTP responses while still returning a successful 200 OK status. The issue had existed f

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-12 02:00:00

Every time I put text on a TFT display with TFT_eSPI I end up staring at the same built-in fonts: chunky, jagged, and very 1980s. Which is a shame, because the library has been able to draw beautiful anti-aliased “smooth fonts” for years. The rendering wa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:38:39

One more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to the new “super” app version: Follow the prompt in the app to download the new ChatGPT desktop app. Then sign in with the same ChatGPT account. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:24:20

OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the ChatGPT desktop app when included for your plan and workspace. Work on web and mobile runs i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:16:21

Benedict Evans with a succinct review on Threads: Wow, what a total mess. What is the difference between a project, a task and a chat? Why did chats get a crappy floating window but tasks and projects don’t? Why does choosing ‘plugins’ get me ‘t

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-11 23:30:11

Years ago I wrote about Gilbreath’s conjecture. It’s a simple conjecture; you could explain it to anyone who understands what prime numbers are. See the linked post for a description of the problem. Gilbreath’s conjecture is simple, but

Baeldung @ 2026-07-11 23:18:07

Learn how to test Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor using @WebMvcTest and MockMvc without starting the full application. The post Testing Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 21:43:35

Remembrances, tributes, and stories.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 20:02:17

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice co

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-11 19:37:28

Uno de los remates más bellos que se verán en el abierto pirenaico será sin duda este del jugador vasco frente a un gran maestro de EEUU

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-11 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 July 11) appeared first on SingularityHub .

luajit @ 2026-07-11 14:37:49

Reported by Matt Gerassimoff.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:45:00

“Yeah, who’s this?” “You know who this is.” “Yes I do, yes I do. I sent a guy to deliver the package ... he didn’t call. Is everything alright?” “Tell you what. Forget the money.”  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:41:00

Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel ): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:14:28

Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leader

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:04:10

The AP: Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany. The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:01:41

Frank Landymore, writing for Futurism: Look past its gaudiness, though, and you’ll notice some things that’re a little off in the finer details. The talons are horribly deformed and shaped differently from each other. The entire legs are uneven, too,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 04:10:49

Cryan.com: The “View as Buttons” option was a distinctive feature of the Macintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed users to view the contents of a folder as clickable buttons, each representing a file or application. This view was particularly useful for quic

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 03:58:55

Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is this: Is mandating the squircle a concession to the much-rumored upcoming touchscreen MacBooks? No. The visible shape and appearance of an app ic

Baeldung @ 2026-07-10 23:30:52

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 654 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 23:01:43

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design. He departed the company in February 2024 to work with Jony Ive.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-10 17:51:39

El primer cabeza de serie, Mijaíl Antípov, debe recurrir a un doble sacrificio de calidad para doblegar al insigne y veterano gran maestro Daniel Cámpora

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 17:16:00

Cloudflare has recently introduced temporary accounts that let AI agents deploy Cloudflare Workers immediately, without first creating or authenticating with a permanent account. If left unclaimed, the accounts and their deployments expire automatically

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-10 16:51:48

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first ap

old new thing @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Decoding where those integer came from. The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Separate teams discovered the same target in solid cancers, enabling a powerful two-pronged attack on both tumors and the cells shielding them. The post CAR T Revolutionized How We Treat Blood Cancers. Now It’s Closing In on Solid Tumors. appear

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 15:48:00

Agentic testing is an AI-driven approach to end-to-end test automation introduced by Slack engineering. It uses AI agents that execute workflows based on intent rather than fixed scripts, adapting to UI and system changes at runtime. The approach aims to

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 14:00:00

The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a new industry-wide initiative aimed at defending the world's most critical open source software against a rapidly evolving generation of AI-enabled cyber threats. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 12:00:00

GitHub has made the redesigned GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface generally available. It adds a tabbed layout for sessions, gists, issues, and pull requests; an in-session, form-driven setup for MCP servers, skills, and plugins that avoids hand-editi

AEON @ 2026-07-10 12:00:00

Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 02:35:59

Berber Jin and Anissa Gardizy, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave. She communicated her decision in a note to staff Thursd

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

Xcode 27 Beta 3, OpenAI Sol release, Fable 5 extensions

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

In our previous post, we walked through the agent mesh for software modernization architecture we built on Red Hat AI for modernizing legacy systems at the scale that mission environments actually require. The post covered the harness pattern, the workflow

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-10 01:21:02

A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years now. It took me a while to understand what goes on in … Continue reading →

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 00:34:39

SpudCell is a big step toward synthetic biology's dream of building life from scratch. The post This Synthetic Cell Grows, Copies Its DNA, and Produces Offspring—But It Isn’t Alive appeared first on SingularityHub .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-07-10 00:00:01

As announced in June , new Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. To support this, th

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-09 23:16:33

As organizations move to adopt agentic capabilities to accelerate their business objectives, they are challenged with enabling those capabilities within a security and governance framework that complies with enterprise requirements. Some organizations lean

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 22:13:57

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Code

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:50:58

Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley):

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:17:37

What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-09 18:22:57

Todo indicaba que el flamante bronce en el Mundial sub-18 iba a ganar también la 4ª partida del Open, cuando ocurrió algo muy excepcional

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 16:10:59

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. When Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence image generator call

old new thing @ 2026-07-09 16:00:00

You need to rebuild everything that was dependent on the change. The post I’ve decoded a <CODE>#pragma detect_mismatch</CODE> error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-09 15:39:13

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-09 15:28:10

Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the organization itself. Jim Larus, editor-in-chief of the CACM, writes  Wither ACM? Publish and Perish? ACM no

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:01:00

Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:00:00

From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 03:45:08

App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize the work, what holds up under scrutiny, and what client teams and security researchers can take from it. This

Rust blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.97.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

OpenJDK recently resurrected Project Detroit, an effort to ease Java's interoperability with Python and JavaScript.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 00:38:06

Back in the primordial days of AI, Parry was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to Eliza (a.k.a. “Doctor”). Vint Cerf published the tran

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 23:03:21

Tyler Hall: We all know about macOS Tahoe’s terrible app icons and how 3rd party developers have been confined to squircle jail . If you’re lucky enough to distribute an app outside the Mac App Store, you can break free of squircle jail using NS

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 22:02:10

After reading my posts earlier today about Eliza, the first “hit” chatbot from the 1960s, DF reader AP sent me a link to the Kickstarter page for Searching for SmarterChild , a project from documentary filmmakers Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies to make

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:17:13

Quantum 10, 2157 (2026). Uncloneable encryption is a cryptographic primitive which encrypts a classical message into a quantum ciphertext, such that two quantum adversaries are limited in their capacity of bein

ASF @ 2026-07-08 21:16:53

This month’s Plus One celebrates the people and projects shaping the ASF community. We reflect on the role of mentorship through the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, share the latest for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026, and welcome Apache Livy and Ap

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:13:00

Quantum 10, 2156 (2026). Encoding a qubit in a larger Hilbert space of an oscillator is an efficient way to protect its quantum information against decoherence. Promising examples of such bosonic encodings are

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:08:31

Quantum 10, 2155 (2026). In continuous-variable quantum computation, identifying key elements that enable a quantum computational advantage is a long-standing issue. Starting from the standard results on the ne

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 21:04:08

Quantum 10, 2154 (2026). Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging du

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-08 20:55:35

Quantum 10, 2153 (2026). The state of a finite-dimensional quantum system is described by a density matrix that can be decomposed into a real diagonal, a real off-diagonal and and an imaginary off-diagonal part

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 19:33:05

I vaguely recall first trying some version of Eliza back in the 1990s. I never found it all that impressive nor understood its stature in the AI literature. It’s better than a bunch of if/then statements but not by much. There’s some natural language gram

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 19:20:44

The Eliza Archaeology Project: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created at MIT in the 1960s as part of Project MAC by it’s [ sic ] designer and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 16:36:57

Dr. Drang, in a post replete with examples of icons of popular apps from the original Macintosh, in their one-bit glory: You can see that Apple liked the idea of app icons being a tilted rectangle with some image inside the rectangle to indicate what

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-08 16:21:36

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? The post Is Life Just Different? first appeared o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-08 16:15:28

Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, weeks of infrastructure before you write a line of product code. WorkOS Pipes handles it

old new thing @ 2026-07-08 16:00:00

A two-in-one package. The post The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-08 13:57:00

Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-08 13:20:36

Pocos días después de su medalla de bronce en el Mundial-sub 18, el español firma una victoria muy instructiva en el clásico abierto pirenaico

AEON @ 2026-07-08 12:01:00

Confronted with the horrifying reality of gendered violence, radically different people unite in resistance and protest - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-08 09:26:45

Agentic coding benchmarks are getting closer to real-world software development. For Kotlin teams, the most important question is how reliably AI agents can complete end-to-end Kotlin tasks, from reading an issue to producing a solution that passes validat

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-08 09:26:45

Agentic coding benchmarks are getting closer to real-world software development. For Kotlin teams, the most important question is how reliably AI agents can complete end-to-end Kotlin tasks, from reading an issue to producing a solution that passes validat

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-08 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