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The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 03:35:05

Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these matrices arise in appl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 03:05:26

Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old's. The post Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue appeared first on Singular

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developme

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 01:54:21

NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for transmission using a

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 01:00:00

Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, l

slashdot @ 2026-08-14 00:00:00

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise develop

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 23:00:00

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader "super app" launch later this year. "Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the 'Microsoft Copilot' name but features

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 22:00:00

Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers' content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don't want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch's ow

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab's debut the largest-ever init

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 20:00:00

Heart Aerospace's X1, billed as the world's largest battery-electric aircraft, completed a 27-minute maiden flight in New York using more than 1 MW of power and only about $5 worth of electricity. The 106-foot-wingspan demonstrator is a precursor to the co

Deepmind @ 2026-08-13 19:04:18

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 19:00:00

Apple is reportedly negotiating multi-year deals with news publishers to give its redesigned Siri access to current news and other information, with payments potentially tied to how often publishers' content is used. The talks come as Apple prepares to lau

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 17:46:41

Philip Michaels, writing last September for Tom’s Guide: iPhone 17 torture test videos done by JerryRigEverything indicate that Ceramic Shield 2 certainly resists scratching, with scratch testing leaving only light scratches at level 7 on the Mohs s

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 17:37:00

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls. By Daniel Dominguez

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-13 17:02:41

A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entires are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques Hadamard. Sylvester

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 17:00:00

"In order to salve the mental health of freshman students, the University of Michigan has implemented a Pass/No Credit system for new students to improve their mental health," writes Slashdot reader Ol Olsoc. "The process, called 'Grade Covering,' is aimed

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:57:13

Quantum 10, 2192 (2026). We present a comprehensive and pedagogical formulation of Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation. Within this framework, we analyse the role of measurement incompatibility and estab

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:51:22

Quantum 10, 2191 (2026). We show that the $T$-depth of any single-qubit $z$-rotation can be reduced to $3$ if a certain catalyst state is available. To achieve an $\epsilon$-approximation, it suffices to have a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:35:33

Quantum 10, 2190 (2026). We develop a theoretical framework for fast, robust and high-fidelity topological quantum state transfer in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings, motivated by chains of Ryd

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:32:15

Quantum 10, 2189 (2026). Graph states are central resources for quantum information processing, supporting applications in computation, communication, and error correction. In photonic systems, they are typical

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 13:28:00

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle a

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 13:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader sbinning shares a press release: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of a new clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin to treat major depression in Veterans, including those wit

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 12:10:00

Anthropic conducted an audit of 141006 evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox escape disclosure. The review identified three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet due to misconfigurations. These incidents involved unauthorised attacks on li

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:01:00

After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:00:00

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 09:00:00

After 13 years of observations and data processing, astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, "offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky," rep

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

Astro 7 focuses on build performance, utilizing native tooling and a rewritten compiler in Rust. The new version includes faster Markdown processing and stricter HTML rules. Recent updates introduced advanced routing and incremental builds, while issues

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain's enclaves on Morocco's northern coast, a newspaper there posted a video on TikTok and Instagram showing two young wo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 03:03:45

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But t

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 03:00:00

The Trump administration today unveiled a new program that will allow vetted U.S. companies to conduct cyber surveillance and offensive cyber operations against foreign transnational criminal organizations. A presidential memorandum signed August 12 direct

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Enterprise AI has reached a critical turning point as organizations move from isolated, chat-based experimentation to complex reasoning models and autonomous agents. While the productivity gains are real, underlying infrastructure costs are escalating rapi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 includes general availability support for Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaas) for OpenShift, enabling organizations to manage bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), and application containers using the same consistent platform.What

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 01:00:00

Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is rapidly moving from the lab into workplaces and homes, with companies including Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity. Researchers warn that as these systems im

slashdot @ 2026-08-13 00:00:00

Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, says the biggest AI risk in education may be students losing the motivation and agency to learn, rather than simply using the technology to cheat. She argues against banning AI outright, saying it can be valuable when u

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 23:23:30

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you cu

slashdot @ 2026-08-12 23:00:00

The CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in New York, claiming the state's lawsuit against the prediction market created a "market emergency." They said it acted "to ensure market stability" and "ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 22:58:15

David Imel, The Verge: But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. “The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:45:58

Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: With this year’s Pixel 11 series launch, Google is thinking more agentic AI to complete your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users will be able to order groceries, book rides, or get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini can call b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:40:51

Sam Rutherford, writing for Engadget: Granted, the P11 Pro Fold still includes IP68 dust and water resistance, which is better than what you get on the Z Fold 8 line (IP48). But after making an absolute tank of a foldable phone with last year’s model,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:38:03

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 20:51:01

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty i

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-12 19:38:49

Sufriendo hasta el último minuto, el noruego logró ganar el Torneo de Candidatos de 2013, lo que le convirtió en retador de Anand

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 17:06:05

Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicio

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-12 17:00:03

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea rece

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:48:04

Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:43:11

Basic Apple Guy: Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for the new Chess icon in macOS 27 Beta 5. This is not just a tweak or small improvement. This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon.  ★ 

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 16:30:00

Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homegrown solution over the years. The company mapped the capabilities previously created in-house to Kueue’s functional

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 16:26:00

Spotify introduced external indexing architecture for Apache Parquet data lakes that enables low-latency point queries without replicating datasets into operational databases. The approach maps lookup keys to Parquet files and row locations, allowing ta

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-12 16:14:42

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magaz

Deepmind @ 2026-08-12 16:01:59

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

old new thing @ 2026-08-12 16:00:00

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-12 15:32:31

Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-12 15:17:03

Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your head for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-12 13:42:18

Quantum 10, 2188 (2026). Recent work by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig showed that there exists a search problem that a constant-depth quantum circuit can solve, but that any constant-depth classical circuit with b

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

Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-12 11:48:00

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction split between developers calling it a rediscovery of R

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-12 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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Your agent works. It reasons, calls tools, and returns answers in the demo that impress everyone. But between that notebook and a production deployment sits a gap having nothing to do with your model or your framework. Three failures hit a single AI agent

Inside Java @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Learn how a Java MCP server can embrace the latest MCP specification without breaking existing integrations or forcing immediate client upgrades.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 23:37:06

The Economist (‘twas a gift link, but alas, I guess gift views have been used up — here’s an archive link in case the gift link is vexing you): You can discover AI’s hallmarks by comparing the writing of man and machine. To do this you need a baseli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:56:13

Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into see

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:46:49

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:36:36

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “ The AI Future Is for Everyone ”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 20:54:53

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “ Is Netflix Washed Now? ”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting immin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 19:59:22

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put

ASF @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workl

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 16:09:46

I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then again this is lim

old new thing @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered. The post The little-known <TT>winstart.bat</TT> batch file appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations. The post Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease appeared f

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 14:20:00

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence,

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 14:04:24

Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only do attackers

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 14:00:00

IBM and Red Hat have announced an expansion of Lightwell, introducing new commercial offerings designed to help organizations establish trusted, verifiable software supply chains for the age of AI-assisted software development. By Craig Risi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-11 13:59:10

El ‘número uno’ de 2012 dejó claro en la mayor universidad de América que estaba en plena forma, también en partidas rápidas

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-11 13:39:00

My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so

AEON @ 2026-08-11 12:00:00

Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 09:25:00

JetBrains has described how it began centralising AI usage after development-related spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. Rather than restricting engineers to a small set of approved tools, the company built a shared access and accounting la

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renew

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have bee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Policy enforcement has moved to the forefront. Let’s break down why this is the case and how policies can help you improve governance as you stay in control of operations.First, let’s examine your current production environment. Compliance, governance, and

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Modern IT environments are complex. Development and operations teams must constantly balance resolving current infrastructure challenges with planning for scalable, future growth. This requires deep product expertise and technical skills from internal team

Inside Java @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Take a guided tour of the JDK Flight Recorder, the powerful event recording framework for the JVM. We'll cover the basics for getting started, show how to capture and analyze rich telemetry data, and demonstrate real-world workflows for investigating perf

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 00:36:58

The system combines quantum dots and an OLED display, translating infrared light into a range of visible colors. The post Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 00:25:00

Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-10 23:54:43

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 565 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Introgresión; Eclipse; Inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz; Piezoquiralidad”, 06 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 23:54:25

Zac Hall at 9to5Mac has a good rundown of new features and changes in beta 5. Some app icons got tweaks (the Siri app in particular looks much cooler now), and a bunch of the existing American and British Siri speaking voices now have the Pace and Express

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:47:43

Apple Newsroom: For the first time, baseball fans can take in all the action of “Friday Night Baseball” live in Apple Immersive on Apple Vision Pro, leveraging 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view. On August 28, viewers with Vision

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:18:48

Michael Tsai: I’m really unhappy about this, both for my role in spreading a false story and because I think it will hurt the cause of reforming App Review. I know there are many crazy rejections and have experienced some first-hand. This story was

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 22:00:00

Cloudflare announced a developer preview that lets any website enable a WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) interface with a single dashboard switch. This allows browser-based AI agents to interact with unmodified web pages through structured tools inste

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 18:42:01

Ernie Smith at Tedium: I’m seeing email after email suggesting these users built a thing they’re truly passionate about. But if we can’t trust that this passion is real, legit, and from the heart, we’re in trouble. Take a step back. Is this thing yo

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-10 17:45:03

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 17:21:29

Kalley Huang, reporting from San Francisco, and Ana Swanson, from Washington, for The New York Times (gift link): Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent price increases, is working with other consumer electronics companies to pus

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-10 17:00:16

Un pequeño fallo táctico del noruego desata su creatividad y le obliga a un brillante sacrificio para atacar al rey

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-10 16:56:34

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:34:21

The following extraordinary paragraph comes from Knuth’s TAOCP Volume 4A, right before the last set of exercises. Many of the exercises below ask a modern reader to find and/or to correct errors in the literature of bygone days. The point is not to

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:32:42

In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential equation, analytically or numerically, to see how the solutions behave. You might also do th

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 16:32:00

JEP 401, integrated into JDK 28, introduces value objects. These new class instances feature final fields, altered behavior for equality checks, and stricter construction and synchronization rules. It aims to enhance efficiency and reduce memory allocati

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 16:14:00

Canva redesigned session revocation infrastructure to support 100M active sessions while reducing database lookups. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for durable revocation records and distributes compact, in-memory indexes to application gateways. Canva s

old new thing @ 2026-08-10 16:00:00

Try one of the fancier alternatives to Copy­File . The post How can I perform a <CODE>Copy­File</CODE> in unbuffered mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 14:45:00

This week's Java roundup for August 3rd, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 535, Shenandoah GC: Generational Mode by Default, targeted for JDK 28; point releases of A2A Java SDK, Apache Camel and Gradle; a maintenance release of GlassFish; the fifth m

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:01:00

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

Pinterest has revealed the Resource Provisioner Pipeline (RPP), its own Terraform execution engine. It ensures least-privilege access and needs dual-control reviews. This is important for the company’s AWS infrastructure, as it adds strict guardrails to

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping? - by Tom Ralston Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-10 08:39:29

Quantum 10, 2187 (2026). Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising candidates for the demonstration of quantum advantage within the next ten years, and several studies have proposed end-to-end resourc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-10 02:00:00

When people think about AI infrastructure, most attention naturally gravitates toward model training. Training large models requires massive datasets, distributed compute, and specialized hardware accelerators. The engineering involved in orchestrating tra

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-10 02:00:00

The managed services market is navigating an unprecedented inflection point: For many service providers, recent changes in virtualization licensing and vendor partner tiers have elevated costs from a standard operational challenge into an existential threa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 01:54:18

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents . Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice or ne

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-09 23:23:36

(Some of this came from a Reddit post  I read, and some of  the comments on it.)  Here are theorems with names that I think are funny or unusual. The names are also pointers to the Wikipedia entry on them or some other source. The Chicke

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 19:17:42

I was reading a book on the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA [1] and was surprised by a few passing references to Bessel functions. According to Claude, When X-rays are diffracted by a helical structure, the resulting diffraction pattern b

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 18:46:59

At the end of my post on how not to calculate cosine I said that the first step in calculating cosine, particularly cosine of a large number, would be to do range reduction. This post will present a simple range reduction method by Cody and Waite that is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:55:24

A pesar de su juventud (21 años recién cumplidos), el ‘número uno’ castigaba de manera implacable cualquier error de sus rivales

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:40:01

Esta espléndida partida frente a Krámnik terminó en tablas porque el noruego, muy apurado de tiempo, no se atrevió a seguir arriesgando

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-09 05:16:24

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 22:32:11

Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. B

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 21:31:52

Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to present

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-08 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 August 8) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2026-08-08 12:07:32

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 658 first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-08 03:20:25

I have a program that shares files between my laptop and my phone. It works well, except for apostrophes. When I type an apostrophe ' on my laptop, it becomes ’ on my phone. And when I type 's on my phone, it becomes 痴 on my laptop. Apparently th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 22:36:58

Simon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 21:43:23

Jeremy Hsu, Ars Technica: Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth — before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the poten

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 21:39:15

A bunch of mine are stored here.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 20:13:55

Simon Willison: So that’s Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Google Gemini really needs to catch up on accidentally cyberattacking other companies. I’m surprised Willison hasn’t heard about how much momentum Gemini has .  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 20:05:03

Meta AI: We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable models on the way. [...] Muse Code takes on comp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:45:22

Joe Fabisevich, on Mastodon: I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software this way. He’s not an outlier; I see comments like this

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:23:17

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence research lab: We have arrived at a pivotal moment in human history. I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand. It’s c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:05:02

Steven Levy, writing for Wired: Today it’s official: After almost 27 years, Dean is leaving Google, along with Ghemawat and two other top-tier AI scientists, to found a company called Discovery Loop . Even though Google will take a stake in the new

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-07 17:53:45

Impresiona ver la aparente facilidad de esta victoria sobre Ivanchuk en la última ronda de Bilbao 2011, previa a otra en el desempate rápido

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-07 17:43:26

Nakamura ganó el torneo de Wijk aan Zee 2011, pero sufrió esta derrota, que alivió al noruego tras algunos tropiezos

Swift blog @ 2026-08-07 17:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift is built by contributors working on far more than the language and compiler. Alexander Sandberg reflects on what that kind

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 17:11:10

Calculus professors with no experience in numerical computing will tell students that computers calculate trig functions with power series. They don’t. I worked on the implementation of trig functions in hardware, and I can assure you we didn’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 17:00:46

Meghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 16:10:44

Quantum 10, 2186 (2026). Non-Hermitian dynamics is ubiquitous in various physical systems. While recent study shows that such a dynamics leads to an area-law scaling of the entanglement entropy due to the non-H

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

Cheating with std::unique_ptr . The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-07 16:00:00

Today's AI is neither able to improve itself recursively nor is it intelligent like us. Between prompts it remains a static mathematical object. The post Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong. appeared first on Sin

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-07 15:55:32

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeare

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 15:47:43

Quantum 10, 2185 (2026). We develop new approximate compilation schemes that significantly reduce the expense of compiling the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for solving the Max-Cut problem.

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 15:19:07

In a footnote to the previous post, I said that Python’s math library can calculate the logarithm of extremely large numbers but not the cosine. This post will expand on that comment. In this post I’ll use n = 200! as my example rather than 10

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 14:48:40

Quantum 10, 2184 (2026). The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, oft

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

The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists - by Andrew Bartlett & Jamie Lewis Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:22:20

Learn how to integrate Google’s Gemini models into a Spring Boot application using the Gemini Developer API. The post Introduction to Google GenAI Chat and Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .            

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:11:28

Learn how an agent decides what to remember about a user or project with Spring AI AutoMemoryTools. The post Spring AI AutoMemoryTools first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 04:59:48

Learn how to make your AI agents to discover each other and communicate efficiently using A2A and SpringAI. The post Exploring Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#