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slashdot @ 2026-04-29 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech comp

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 19:40:01

A guide to fundamental algorithms implemented in Java. The post Algorithms in Java Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 19:00:00

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub's frequent outages have made it "no longer a place for serious work," prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform. The Register reports: "I've been

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 18:00:00

Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: Federal survey data shows that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Some educators and parents say this is a good thin

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 17:32:00

VoidZero has released an experimental Angular compiler in Rust, promising improved build performance compared to Angular CLI. Benchmarks indicate it is up to 6.4x faster than Angular CLI, especially for larger applications. Developed over two months with

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 17:15:29

Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting on Musk v. Altman from the courtroom in Oakland (gift link): Today the first witness was sworn in in *Musk v. Altman: *Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in cour

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 17:03:21

Matteo Wong, covering Musk v. Altman for The Atlantic (gift link): Musk is asking that Altman be removed from OpenAI’s board, that the company convert back to a nonprofit, and for the return of allegedly “ill-gotten gains” — some $150 billion — whic

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo's Haneda Airport -- part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-29 16:54:31

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. The post Why Math’s Final Axiom Proved So Controversial first appeared on Quanta Mag

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-29 16:50:04

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond. The post What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 16:43:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 3, the third preview of its upcoming Standard Term Support version due in November 2026. The update spans the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and .NET MAUI, with Runtime Async leaving the preview-fea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 16:35:42

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times from the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland (gift link): On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-29 15:50:04

My favorite quote about networking came from Jim Kurose. The Internet works so well because it doesn't have to. The IP and lower layers of the internet stack make no promises of delivery. Complete failure fulfills the protocol. This allows for simpler

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 15:38:22

Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer manage

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-29 15:23:00

Chris Parsons has updated his guide on using AI to code . This is his third update, what I like about it is that he gives a lot of concrete information about how he uses AI, with sufficient detail that we can learn from him. His advice also resonates wit

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-29 14:28:26

Quantum 10, 2089 (2026). We introduce regular language states, a family of quantum many-body states. They are built from a special class of formal languages, called regular, which has been thoroughly studied in

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 14:00:00

Sauce Labs has announced the general availability of Sauce AI for Test Authoring, an AI-driven agent designed to translate business intent directly into executable test suites, marking a shift toward what the company calls Intent-Driven Testing. By Cra

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-29 13:05:47

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. As a developer, logging is usually the first technique that you reach for when something goes wrong in your application. You add a few log statements at the start and end of a function and in the except

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-29 13:05:47

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. As a developer, logging is usually the first technique that you reach for when something goes wrong in your application. You add a few log statements at the start and end of a function and in the except

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 13:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted a quick review of three experimental psychedelic drugs meant to treat major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It's the latest move by the Tru

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 12:20:00

Mistral AI has launched Workflows, an orchestration layer for enterprise AI that is now in public preview. This release addresses a significant challenge as AI models and agents become more advanced, while reliably deploying them in production remains di

AEON @ 2026-04-29 12:01:00

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 12:00:00

The schedule for QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2) is now live. The two-day program groups sessions around context engineering, inference economics, agent reliability, and how AI is changing the software development lifecycle. Speakers include engineers fro

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 11:13:00

AWS Interconnect reached general availability, offering managed private Layer 3 connections to Google Cloud and a last-mile capability via Lumen. Azure and OCI support is planned for later in 2026. AWS published the underlying specification on GitHub und

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 10:43:50

A series of tutorials on building AI applications with Spring AI. The post Spring AI Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 10:00:00

GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the problem where large pull requests are hard to review, slow

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 09:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from The Times: More than two-thirds of babies under two use screens, a report has found, and some are exposed for up to eight hours a day. Nearly a third of newborns were found to be watching screens for more than three hours a day, w

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 08:59:57

A curated series of guides to building AI-powered applications in Java. The post AI in Java Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 08:53:00

AWS has introduced the public preview of OpenTelemetry metrics support in Amazon CloudWatch. This update allows developers to send metrics directly to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry protocol and view them alongside existing AWS service metrics. By

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-29 08:27:01

You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (total: 13,922)521 commits (total: 38,545)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt()

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 05:30:00

Elon Musk testified on day two of his trial against OpenAI, saying he helped create the company as a nonprofit counterweight to Google and would not have backed it if the goal had been private profit. CNBC reports: Musk on Tuesday was the first witness cal

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

Q1 2026 continued our focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations, with sustained investment in core domains like cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, security, and protocol research. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts we supported

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

In the telecommunications industry, the Radio Access Network (RAN) has moved from a set of fixed functions to a dynamic, software-defined environment that is characterized by cloud-native technologies and methodologies that will be fundamental within the A

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

Every organization faces the same pressures: do more with less, move faster, and reduce risk while preparing for an AI-powered future. In this environment, automation is no longer optional—it’s the foundation that makes everything else possible.That’s why

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

When Vodafone New Zealand separated from the Vodafone Group to become One New Zealand (One NZ), it faced an opportunity to go beyond a mere rebrand. Like many telecommunications providers, One NZ faced a 2-stack challenge as it managed legacy virtual machi

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 01:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee -- so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him.

slashdot @ 2026-04-29 00:00:00

Apple's Vision Pro has been used in what's described as the world's first cataract surgery performed with the headset. MacRumors reports: [New York opthalmologist] Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD completed the initial procedure in October 2025 and has since

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-28 23:44:58

Someone said a technique is a trick that works twice. I wanted to see if I could get anything interesting by turning the trick in the previous post into a technique. The trick created a high-order approximation by subtracting a multiple one even function

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 23:00:00

To sustain productivity in long-running agent systems, Slack engineers moved away from accumulating chat logs and started using structured memory, validation, and distilled truth to maintain coherence and accuracy of long-running agent systems. By Serg

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 23:00:00

Sony is reportedly rolling out a 30-day online check-in requirement for some digital PS4 and PS5 games, meaning players could temporarily lose access if their console does not reconnect to renew the license. Tom's Hardware reports: In the info page of an a

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 22:00:00

Apple is adding a new App Store subscription option that lets developers offer lower monthly prices in exchange for a 12-month commitment. "This model will allow developers to offer discounted rates to customers in exchange for more predictable long-term r

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software's dizzying scrolls of numbers and text

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 20:41:28

Quantum 10, 2088 (2026). We prove new monogamy of entanglement bounds for two-local qudit Hamiltonians of rank-one projectors without one-local terms. In particular, we certify the maximum energy in terms of th

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-28 20:11:39

At the "What's Next with AWS" 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthca

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 20:00:00

Google has reportedly signed a classified agreement allowing the Pentagon to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." While the deal is said to discourage domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight, it apparentl

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 19:55:00

Google Cloud has introduced Agents CLI within its Agent Platform, aiming to streamline the development lifecycle of AI agents from local prototyping to production deployment. The release targets a common challenge in agent development, where tooling and

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-28 19:00:00

The CDC reported in April 2026 that the U.S. general fertility rate fell to 53.1 in 2025, a record low in data going back to 1909.

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 19:00:00

fjo3 writes: The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday that it would exit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (source paywalled; alternative source), or OPEC, along with the wider group of partners known as OPEC+, effective May 1, in wha

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-28 18:01:29

El vigente campeón del mundo, Gukesh, no termina de asumir el peso de la corona, pero sí exhibe destellos de su gran talento

slashdot @ 2026-04-28 18:00:00

Bay Area homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan is trying to swap a 13-acre Mill Valley property for Anthropic equity instead of cash. He created a LinkedIn page for the home, describing the move as a "diversification play" because he is "under-conce

old new thing @ 2026-04-28 16:00:00

A pot of tokens. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-28 16:00:00

AI long ago surpassed humans at games like chess and Go. Now it's powering robots that can challenge top athletes. The post Sony’s Table-Tennis Robot Beat Elite Human Players With Unorthodox Moves appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-28 15:09:42

Suppose you have an arc a, a portion of a circle of radius r, and you know two things: the length c of the chord of the arc, and the length b of the chord of half the arc, illustrated below. Here θ is the central angle of the arc. Then the length of the a

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-28 15:02:00

LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been using them for their teams and have developed a method and workflow called Structured Prom

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 14:00:00

GitHub has introduced a new approach to improving deployment safety by leveraging eBPF, enabling the company to detect and prevent hidden circular dependencies that could block recovery during outages. By Craig Risi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-28 12:36:21

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 555 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Apagón; Empédocles; 3I/ATLAS; Hail Mary”, 23 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 555:

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 12:04:13

Quantum 10, 2087 (2026). In unitary circuit games, two competing parties, an "entangler" and a "disentangler", can induce an entanglement phase transition in a quantum many-body system. The tran

AEON @ 2026-04-28 12:00:00

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many meanings - by Vivek V Venkataraman Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 11:05:00

Effectively measuring the performance of applications that are leveraging Large Language Models (LLM) is critical to the adoption of AI technologies in organizations. Legare Kerrison and Cedric Clyburn from RedHat team recently spoke at Arc of AI 2026 Co

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 10:19:54

Quantum 10, 2086 (2026). We introduce $\texttt{RandomMeas.jl}$, a modular and high-performance open-source software package written in Julia for implementing and analyzing randomized measurement protocols in qu

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 10:00:00

OpenChoreo, the open-source internal developer platform built on Kubernetes, has shipped its 1.0 release and been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox. The project is designed to give engineering teams a complete foundation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 09:09:21

Quantum 10, 2085 (2026). The coupling of a quantum system to an environment leads generally to decoherence, and it is detrimental to quantum correlations within the system itself. Yet some forms of quantum corr

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 09:00:00

npmx is an open-source package browser for the npm registry, developed by Daniel Roe and over 250 contributors. It emphasizes speed and features absent in the official npmjs.com interface, such as install size calculations and outdated dependency warning

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 08:57:05

Quantum 10, 2084 (2026). The question of “non-locality of a single photon'', which started with a paper by Tan, Walls and Collett (TWC, 1991) stirred a thirty years long debate. This hampered attempts

InfoQ @ 2026-04-28 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for April 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: updates on OpenJDK JEPs; JDK 27 release schedule finalized; the Oracle Critical Patch Updates for April 2026 and corresponding patch updates from BellSoft and Azul; the April 2026

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-28 02:48:30

My thanks to Rec League for sponsoring last week at DF. Rec League is a new app/social network for sharing what you’re into. (Get it? The “rec” in “Rec League” is for recommendations. It’s a damn clever name, and sometimes a clever name is half the battle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

In today’s global volatility, corporate boards are being defined by their ability to manage seismic shifts in risk and navigate constant change. While geopolitical shifts and supply chain disruptions have long been staples of risk committee agendas, a new

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

In the financial services industry, standing still is equivalent to falling behind. As VyStar Credit Union approached the $14 billion asset mark, it faced a pivotal crossroads: The organization had to maintain its growth while meeting the rigorous complian

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

We are delighted to welcome Daniel Aw in his new role as the general manager for Red Hat’s Asia Pacific region. In this role, Daniel will lead the next phase of the company’s growth in the region, and advance customer success with AI and open hybrid cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

This week, I developed a community operating system image for running AI agents: an agentic OS prototype. It is built using fedora-bootc, a community project that allows for defining a bootable Linux OS directly in a Containerfile. The creation of this age

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 44, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 44 below and don’t forget to ensure your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-28 01:42:25

Weekly “sponsor the whole week at DF” spots are sold out until August 24 . That’s a great sign that sponsorships here work. But it’s not so great if you have a product or service that you’d like to promote now, or soon, to the DF audience — savvy listene

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-27 21:00:00

After Apollo 17 in 1972, every crewed mission stayed inside low Earth orbit. Artemis II broke that streak in April 2026 on a lunar flyby of 406,771 km.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-27 20:46:32

David Pierce: On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay are joined by Daring Fireball ’s John Gruber to talk about their reactions to the news, the ( mostly ) smooth transition Apple seems to have pulled off, and what we should really make

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-27 19:14:10

Algorithmic advances are steadily lowering the bar for quantum attacks—even before large-scale hardware exists. The post Quantum Computers Are Coming to Break Cryptography Faster Than Anyone Expected appeared first on SingularityHub .

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-27 17:21:00

Redirecting instead of rejecting!

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-27 17:08:23

Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find. The post Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-27 17:01:28

Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advanc

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-27 16:13:38

El vencedor del Cerrado, Nihal Sarin, castigó de manera didáctica y brillante un error de cálculo de Rapport

old new thing @ 2026-04-27 16:00:00

It's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse. The post Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-27 15:00:33

Today, we’re introducing a new way that people can pay for your auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment. This new payment option allows you to offer subscribers more affordable options. People can

AEON @ 2026-04-27 12:01:00

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-27 12:00:00

Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural - by Denva Gallant Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-04-27 10:00:00

Estamos familiarizados con el estampido sónico que produce un avión al rebasar la velocidad del sonido, pero los trenes de alta velocidad también pueden crear sus estampidos, aunque sus velocidades sean menores, al entrar en un túnel. ¿Cómo lo hacen?

Deepmind @ 2026-04-27 09:00:06

Google DeepMind and Korea partner to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI models

Inside Java @ 2026-04-27 02:00:00

JDK 26 / JEP 500 take first steps towards making final fields truly immutable by issuing warnings when they are mutated through the reflection API. This article discusses common scenarios in which final fields are mutated through reflection and what altern

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-27 02:00:00

At Red Hat, our deep focus on security doesn't stop at the code, it extends to how we communicate vulnerability information to our partners and customers. Based on valuable feedback from our partner community, Red Hat Product Security is announcing a major

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-27 02:00:00

In Norse mythology, the god Heimdall protects the rainbow bridge Bifröst from invaders, a bridge that connects the realm of the gods to the realm of humans. This legend provided the name for Exercise HEIMDALL, a unique initiative held this past February i

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-26 23:16:12

A few months ago in Oxford, Bernard Sufrin, an emeritus fellow, said he's looking to hire a student to implement LEAP (Logic Engine for Argument by Pointing), a way to teach logic by proving basic logic theorems via pointing and clicking. Rahul Santhanam

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 21:30:00

[ Update: The store is now closed. Thanks to everyone who ordered — you should start getting shipping notices very soon.] It’s really just a coincidence, but it was 20 years ago this week that I went full-time writing Daring Fireball (after writing the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 21:28:59

Software brain says *Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow.* Hardware brain says *Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.*

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-26 21:00:00

On April 26, 2026, Kenya's Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 at London to become the first man to break two hours in a record-eligible marathon.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 19:39:40

Ben Schoon, 9to5Google: In March, a report revealed some of the internal cuts Samsung has been making for its mobile division, with the company initially concerned it could post an operating loss for the first time ever. It’s a big deal, as Samsung’

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-26 14:30:00

Solaris 11.4 moves from three to two SRUs per quarter

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-26 11:11:36

Otra bella demostración de la enorme creatividad de Rapport, capaz de vencer con una miniatura al supersólido Leinier Domínguez

Inside Java @ 2026-04-26 02:00:00

In this session, we'll introduce Project Babylon and examine how it's used by HAT (Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit) to make GPU programming more approachable for Java developers. We'll focus on new HAT features that leverage code reflection to create lay

Baeldung @ 2026-04-25 23:46:41

Learn how the @NamedEntityGraph annotation works when using Hibernate and different ways to employ it. The post A Guide to @NamedEntityGraph in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 19:02:39

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 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 18:16:12

The previous post looks at the nonlinear pendulum equation and what difference it makes to the solutions if you linearize the equation. If the initial displacement is small enough, you can simply replace sin θ with θ. If the initial displacement is larger

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-25 17:51:01

El húngaro Richard Rapport, de 30 años, ha brillado desde su adolescencia como uno de los jugadores más creativos del mundo

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 15:12:39

There’s a nice formula for the nth derivative of a product. It looks a lot like the binomial theorem. There is also a formula for the nth derivative of a quotient, but it’s more complicated and less known. We start by writing the quotient rule

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-25 02:56:12

Every single word of the November 2025 Financial Times report, which Mark Gurman derided as “simply false”, was, in fact, exactly correct.

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 01:53:29

The equation of motion for a pendulum is the differential equation where g is the acceleration due to gravity and ℓ is the length of the pendulum. When this is presented in an introductory physics class, the instructor will immediately say something like

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 00:34:04

A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. The post A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon appeared first on Singular

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-24 19:37:38

El ganador del torneo abierto, Abhimanyu Mishra, es el gran maestro más joven de la historia, y produjo esta brillante miniatura

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 18:09:50

My spitball idea for a generational law to keep more young people from ever starting a tobacco habit — and thus, nicotine addiction — would be through scaled taxation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 16:18:03

I think about this scene more and more lately.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-24 16:17:44

“Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales. The post A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience first appeared

old new thing @ 2026-04-24 16:00:00

But maybe it's not worth it. The post Defending against exceptions in a <CODE>scope_exit</CODE> RAII type appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:28:41

Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title for a short-lived GitHub repo, allo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:12:55

Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands o

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-24 15:00:15

DEVELOPER STORIES THE POWER OF PUFFIES. The delightful game puffies. combines the satisfying snap of a jigsaw puzzle with the nostalgic delight of a sticker book. This 2025 Apple Design Award finalist for Inclusivity is brimming with virtual puffy

AEON @ 2026-04-24 12:00:00

Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead - by Flora Champy Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-24 10:43:51

Quantum 10, 2083 (2026). Quantum information is fragile and must be protected by a quantum error-correcting code for large-scale practical applications. Recently, highly efficient quantum codes have been discov

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 22:00:00

New Java version for Solaris/SPARC

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

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

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 .              

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-23 21:03:00

Now with even more honey!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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°

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

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

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.

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

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.

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