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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 19:00:00

A coalition of online safety and consumer advocacy groups has sued five of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies, asking a California judge to halt the development and deployment of new AI models until the companies can address what the pla

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-13 18:27:56

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica: A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting users of Microsoft email, cloud, and AI services. Microsoft has documente

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-13 18:14:40

David Sacks, on X: Bombshell story. The spy narrative is collapsing already. Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy? AG says no. (“no conclusions reached”). CIA says no. (“not yet convinced”). DNI says no

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 18:09:58

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang's return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to internal correspondence reviewed by WIRED. An internal "s

InfoQ @ 2026-11-13 17:00:00

Apple released the Siri AI Developer Preview in the 27.3 beta releases of its operating systems, enabling developers and apps to integrate with the assistant and hand off actions to it. During the Preview, access to Siri AI is restricted to developer bui

slashdot @ 2026-11-13 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google's announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-13 16:40:52

Paresh Dave and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang’s return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to internal correspondence reviewed by Wired. An i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-13 16:31:22

Ana Swanson, Tripp Mickle, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swan, in a long deeply-sourced profile of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (gift link): There is broad agreement among most senior Trump administration officials that the United States should m

old new thing @ 2026-11-13 16:00:00

Remove the need to have to type out the name of the helper. The post How can I make it easier to use the helper class that lets me pass more than one parameter to <CODE>co_await</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-13 16:00:00

To attribute agency to a computer program, we must be convinced no human is needed to stand behind its goals. The post Do AI Agents Have Minds? A Philosopher Explains appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-13 15:54:38

Kepler’s third law A recent article from Smithsonian magazine says a new dwarf planet candidate is 46 times further from the sun as earth is, and it takes 281.1 years to orbit the sun. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and thought something w

InfoQ @ 2026-11-13 14:53:00

Google has open-sourced AQuA, a reference implementation that analyzes production AI agent sessions, verifies recurring failure patterns, and investigates root causes against deployed source snapshots. In a 32-session replay, developers reduced seat sele

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 14:51:27

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 13:10:24

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

Netflix is developing an ontology-driven knowledge graph to accelerate production investigations and provide AI agents with a shared understanding of its operational environment. By Craig Risi

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-13 12:59:31

A permutation rearranges the elements of a list. The number of arrangements, say of a deck of cards, is finite, so eventually you have to arrive at an arrangement you’ve produced before, and history will repeat itself. Along the way, some cards may

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 12:13:46

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 12:00:00

The FAA is expanding its $875 million AI-powered SMART system to all 22 U.S. air traffic control centers across the country. Since being implemented over Washington, DC, on September 21, the system has helped reroute 180 flights, saving an average of 10 mi

AEON @ 2026-11-13 12:00:00

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge - by Shahram Khosravi Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 11:18:13

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 08:00:00

The European Space Agency has released the largest dataset yet from its Euclid space telescope, containing 1.7 petabytes of observations covering more than 900 million galaxies. "The data unveiled on Thursday covered a survey of the sky equal to about 9,50

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 07:18:23

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InfoQ @ 2026-11-13 07:15:00

Dropbox engineers described a Playwright-based auditor that checks cookie consent behavior across more than 200 web surfaces. It runs three tests per page: US visitor, EU visitor, and Global Privacy Control signal. Cookie rules are kept outside the code.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 06:08:23

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 05:54:53

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hill: Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion into building two data centers in Texas and Arizona, the company announced Thursday, marketing them as projects that will boost local communities am

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 04:08:08

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 03:16:24

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 02:40:00

Whoop has launched Humans, a social network built into its fitness app where every account is a real person with a "verified heartbeat." The wearable company claims its platform is "entirely human," unlike other social media platforms that are "saturated w

iOS Weekly @ 2026-11-13 01:00:00

From XCTest to Swift Testing, Good Bye to the Apple Support Community, Tripod, Whio, swiftCon 2026, Deep Dish Swift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-13 01:00:00

When I joined Red Hat 27 years ago, we shipped Linux in boxes to retailers. A lot has changed since then. We’ve grown, evolved, and helped shape an industry that never stands still. But through it all, one thing has remained constant: the people who make R

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-13 01:00:00

Moving from vSphere to bare-metal Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat OpenShift has supported bare metal from the start. But for much of its history, most deployments ran on top of an existing virtualization layer like VMware vSphere or Nutanix. That’s shifting. As m

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-13 01:00:00

If you've spent the last year provisioning AI and infrastructure capacity for tenants who can't use a public cloud, you've felt this firsthand: the hardware is local, but the operational model still isn't. Keeping data on local soil is only the first step.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-13 01:00:00

Catch up on Red Hat's news at KubeConRed Hat’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 Book of News gathers product announcements, partnerships, and open source milestones in one place—covering AI in production, Red Hat OpenShift 5, RHEL security upda

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-13 00:06:17

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slashdot @ 2026-11-13 00:00:00

Nintendo has issued four DMCA takedown notices targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware such as Picofly, SX Core and HWFLY. As a result, 144 repositories containing firmware used to circumvent the console's

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 23:03:09

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slashdot @ 2026-11-12 23:00:00

Reuters reports that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a third woman (source paywalled; alternative source ), an unnamed Nvidia employee. The revelation follows reports of two other extramarital affairs: one with Nvidia VP Ki

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 22:56:11

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 22:32:07

Aisha Malik, TechCrunch: Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said on Thursday, according to reports from Bloomberg and NBC News . Huang, who stepped down as CEO follo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 22:20:29

Emine Yücel, reporting for TPM: Mississippi prosecutor Scott Colom officially defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Wednesday night. Colom will be the first Democrat to represent Mississippi in the Senate since 1982 and he will also become t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 22:13:26

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slashdot @ 2026-11-12 22:00:00

Singapore says U.S. authorities provided limited assistance in its investigation of Megaspeed, the company run by Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence suspects is a Chinese spy and whose relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 21:54:43

Actual headline from an actual press release: “Peacock Extends Its Vertical Video Leadership With a Reimagined Mobile Experience”. Please tell me that someone printed up some t-shirts and hats with “Vertical Video Leadership” on them.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 21:41:35

Lingling Wei, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: Before the affair that threatened his job as Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang was introduced to his future romantic interest, Alice Huang, by a Chinese businessman he’d known for a decade, Kan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 21:12:11

Reuters: Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar ​with the matter, Reuters has ​learned. The revelation follows two other extramarital affairs that led to his resignation ​

slashdot @ 2026-11-12 21:00:00

Microsoft is suffering a major Microsoft 365 outage that's disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint for users across the Americas, with more than 129,000 problem reports logged on Downdetector shortly after the disruption began. Microsoft blames t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 20:51:33

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-12 20:40:54

Albert-László Barabási explains how the same organizing principles shape everything from the internet to the cell, and how mapping the networks inside our bodies could change how we treat disease and think about food. The post Can Network Scie

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 20:05:33

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slashdot @ 2026-11-12 20:00:00

Google is launching its first Gemini-powered smart glasses, with Samsung supplying the computing hardware. Given their built-in 12-megapixel camera, Google is emphasizing privacy protections, including a tamper-resistant recording light, automatic face red

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 19:52:01

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 19:39:05

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-12 19:34:21

El maestro internacional canario, cerca del podio a falta de tres rondas, empezó el Mundial de Veteranos +65 con una victoria tan brillante como instructiva

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 19:24:06

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-12 19:22:22

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Deepmind @ 2026-11-12 19:00:50

slashdot @ 2026-11-12 19:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: On April 10 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the centre of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 18:32:42

The president of the United States, on his blog: NOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take his place — TIM COOK of Apple. A Legend replaces a Legend! President DONALD J. TRUMP Nope

slashdot @ 2026-11-12 18:00:00

A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code and potentially take control of affected server processes. Tracked as CVE-2026-119618, the vulnerability affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.55

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-12 17:20:28

Creative, interdisciplinary, and bold, the study of the origins of life has entered a new age. Welcome to Quanta Magazine’s special series on the origins of life. The post A New Era for the Dawn of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine

slashdot @ 2026-11-12 17:00:00

Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO of Nvidia after 33 years leading the company, with CFO Colette Kress taking over as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. "The Board has full confidence in Colette and the leadership team,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 16:55:12

Jenson Huang, in an on-stage interview with Garry Tan at Y Combinator’s “Startup School”, three months ago, on how Nvidia is organized (starting at 17m:00s): Huang: You’re going to build an F1 racer, but you’re going to build it in a way that you ca

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-12 16:45:27

After decades of bickering about which molecules came first, a new generation of scientists is rethinking what life was, is, and could be. The post The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 16:19:07

Nvidia Newsroom: Nvidia Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately. Colette Kress, current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Of

old new thing @ 2026-11-12 16:00:00

The co_await operator takes only one parameter, but it can be a big parameter. The post How can I pass more than one parameter to <CODE>co_await</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-12 16:00:00

AI models that learn like kids could reveal the secrets of our early years and inspire more efficient machine minds. The post This AI Learned Language From the Recordings of a Baby’s First 1,000 Days appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-12 15:15:00

When we use LLMs in a specialized domain, such as the operations of any reasonably-large organization, there is a lot of specialized vocabulary. Such words and specialized meanings will be foreign to an LLM because they aren't in its training set, making

InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 12:05:00

Technical debt is not necessarily a sign of poor engineering. It can be the price of learning through software in use. As AI accelerates code production beyond our capacity to understand code and context, technical debt increasingly becomes a sociotechni

AEON @ 2026-11-12 12:01:00

A strange man on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott retells her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) - by Andrew T Brenner Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 11:23:00

Microsoft has released a public preview of the logicapp extension for the Azure CLI, adding local project creation, workflow authoring, a runtime lifecycle, connector management, run inspection, and test scaffolding for Logic Apps Standard, work that pre

InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 11:06:00

Google Cloud has open-sourced TPU Sync, a native C++ library that moves KV cache blocks and model weights between TPU HBM, host DRAM, shared storage, and the data center network. By Daniel Dominguez

InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 10:28:00

finprim is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library that offers IBAN, BIC, card, sort code, VAT, routing number and loan functions through one API with no runtime dependencies. Its author built it after duplicated validators drifted apart across web and mobile

InfoQ @ 2026-11-12 10:00:00

In a recent post, LinkedIn revealed it has replaced Argo CD with its own GitOps engine. This new system deploys applications across over 250 Kubernetes clusters. It supports more than 4,000 services and manages over 100,000 deployments each week. By Cl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 05:59:59

Rohan Goswami, Reed Albergotti, and Ashley Gold, reporting for Semafor at 10:27pm ET: Some members of Nvidia’s board favor appointing Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO at the beleaguered chipmaker if CEO and founder Jensen Huang is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:57:43

Nina Trentmann and Ian King, reporting tonight for Bloomberg: Nvidia Corp.’s board has been working with an outside firm to identify potential replacements for Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang following reports of multiple extramarital affairs, in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:42:05

Robbie Whelan, Josh Dawsey, Amrith Ramkumar, reporting for The Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the NYT’s scoop that Huang was having an affair with an Nvidia vice president too: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-12 04:35:21

Ryan Mac, Tripp Mickle, and Georgia Gee, reporting for The New York Times: Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, also had an extramarital relationshi

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-11-12 03:00:00

ZFS mirrors are not limited to two or three devices

Rust blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.100.0. 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 1.100.0 with:

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00

Your virtual machines (VM) run applications the business depends on. Managing vulnerabilities in those workloads remains essential as you bring them onto Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 5 introduces vulnerability managem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed started as a simple chat assistant, right there in the Red Hat OpenShift console. All you had to do was ask it a question, something like, "How do I expose my application with a route?" It would give you an answer, referencing

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-12 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift is built on open source software. In fact, it’s composed of more than 50 different projects. You could download and install every one of those individual components directly and run them. Yet thousands of enterprises—including 58% of the

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-11 22:26:23

The “shepherds” of the OpenAI Yang-Mills proof yesterday released the Lean code of the proof, together with a validation and an assessment. The OpenAI press release of October 26 claimed to have proved “Existence of quantum chromodynamics

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 20:17:32

Jason Snell: These message boards were an embarrassment for Apple. Not only were they very much out of step with what the web has come to be over the last couple of decades, but their presence under an apple.com domain meant that they ranked highly in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 20:02:58

Austin Mann: Honestly, the idea of a folding iPhone didn’t immediately appeal to me. I usually like smaller devices, but when I first started playing with the Duo in September, I realized it’s really something special and I couldn’t wait to get my han

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-11 20:00:44

AWS Emulator is a free, open-source local emulator in Rust that lets developers test applications against nearly every AWS service on their own machine using the same CLI and SDK commands, with fidelity measured against real AWS behavior.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 19:36:34

This is a really good and fair Duo review.  ★ 

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-11 19:34:59

Las partidas muy didácticas, además de bellas, no sólo se dan entre profesionales; esta es del aficionado Miguel Ángel Martínez Piqueras

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-11 19:29:17

Mike McIntire and Eli Murray, reporting for The New York Times (gift link) For nearly two decades, judges across the country have invoked this language to strike down gun-control laws. It is a pivotal legal test. It is also based on a misquote. Ju

InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 18:00:00

GitHub Agentic Workflows is generally available, running coding agents in GitHub Actions with read-only defaults and separately scoped write jobs. Those protections do not cover direct write permissions or custom jobs, so they depend on how each workflow

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-11 17:38:02

Each fall I try to predict the upcoming job market for theoretical computer science faculty and give suggestions to those pursuing these positions. Last year I wrote  that we should get set for a rocky ride, with AI’s disruption of computer science,

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-11 16:17:00

Automated testing in the age of AI coding assistants is problematic: when AI agents write both production and test code, developers risk losing the assurance that automated tests protect against functional errors. Matteo Vaccari makes three claim

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-11 16:10:30

Energetic pathways that make and break complex molecules are critical to all life. It’s even possible that these self-sustaining cycles could have been key at life’s beginning. The post How a Metabolic Spark Could Have Jump-Started Life first

Deepmind @ 2026-11-11 16:00:15

Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.

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

My program was a fairly simple one. The post I didn’t write a program with emoji, but I did use a control character appeared first on The Old New Thing .

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

Some researchers say the findings show the glimmers of AI introspection—others aren't so sure. The post AI Models Can Tell When Researchers Plant Concepts in Their Neural Networks. Is It Self-Reflection? appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 15:28:00

JioHotstar evaluated 6 approaches to code retrieval for AI coding agents using SWE, CodeScale Bench, and an internal question-answering harness. Structural search performed well on concrete tasks, while semantic retrieval helped with ambiguous requiremen

Baeldung @ 2026-11-11 14:16:37

Learn how to customize the Spring Authorization Server UserInfo endpoint handling. The post Customize the OpenID Connect 1.0 UserInfo Response in Spring Authorization Server first appeared on Baeldung .          

AEON @ 2026-11-11 12:01:00

Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness’ - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

QCon AI New York has published its full program for December 15–16, 2026. Engineers from LinkedIn, Netflix, DoorDash, Figma, Pinterest, Honeycomb, Harvey, Google DeepMind and OpenAI describe AI systems they run in production. Talks cover agent permission

Swift blog @ 2026-11-11 10:00:00

Welcome to the latest edition of “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, news, and discussions from the Swift project and community. To start things off, our guest contributor shares a timely reminder for anyone relying on CocoaPods: Hi

InfoQ @ 2026-11-11 08:06:00

The Angular team has introduced ngp, a compiler preprocessor that rewrites the analysis stage in Rust using Oxc. It replaces ngc's dependence on the Transformer API, which TypeScript 7.0 removed. An early benchmark showed 2x to 3x faster cold builds. Ado

This Week in Rust @ 2026-11-11 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

Rust blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00

The Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the third time this year. This time we had 13 projects, and our dear contributors have been working very hard on them for several months. As usual, the projects had various durations, s

Inside Java @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00

We have decided to cease development of Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch. The draft JEP that would have been the sixth preview of this feature will be withdrawn, and the feature will be removed from JDK

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00

In Red Hat OpenShift 5, observability, powered by Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, transforms cluster management through 3 core capabilities designed to accelerate incident response while maintaining enterprise-grade safety and human control.Autonomous troubl

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00

As organizations navigate rising hypervisor licensing costs, ongoing hardware scarcity and procurement delays, and the race to support AI workloads, IT teams face a difficult balancing act. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization meets this challenge by giving en

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-11 01:00:00

A growing Kubernetes fleet brings more than compute. It also creates more places to search, policies to maintain, and upgrade paths to watch.That work adds up fast. Red Hat's 2026 fleet management research found that 85% of organizations grew their fleets

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-11 00:05:57

Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 23:16:25

Gary Marcus: When a business needs exponentially increasing amounts of capital to make modest increases in quality in an intensely competitive market and still owes far more money than it has ever made, there is a serious problem. I continue to be

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 21:59:25

Electronic Materials Office is the brainchild of Andrew Emerson. Back in 2023 he launched the Altar I, a rather distinctive mechanical keyboard. Much thinner than most, very opinionated in its industrial design and keycap typography. I got one and I don

TED Blog @ 2026-11-10 21:07:49

On May 14, 2026, more than 100 policymakers, educators, creators and leaders filled the TED World Theater in New York City to test one question: What if play isn’t a break from learning and work, but the engine behind them? How Play@TED started In November

InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 20:14:00

Cloudflare has announced the general availability of Basin, a serverless analytics platform built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage. The managed service supports open data formats and integrates with tools such as DuckDB, Snowflake, and Apache Spar

InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 19:00:00

In a recent article, Google senior staff software engineer Sam Saccone and senior staff data scientist Madhuri Garikapati highlighted the cost of agent distraction, where AI coding agents get derailed by stale technical debt, such as old TODO comments, o

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-10 18:38:16

Tras ganar invicto el Campeonato de España de su edad este verano, el aragonés está cerca de los primeros en el continental

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 18:06:01

Mackenzie Hawkins, reporting yesterday for Bloomberg: Despite that stance, in the months after Teter’s initial call with Kessler, Nvidia gave BIS an incomplete account of its business with Megaspeed. After several visits to Megaspeed’s data centers — 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 18:01:06

Steve Jobs to 60 Minutes in 2003: “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” (I linked to this just a few months ago , but thought it worth a re-link today .)  ★ 

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-10 18:00:12

Apple is proud to support the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs with the Swift Student Challenge. The Challenge gives students from around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and app development skills. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 17:32:26

Steven Levy at Wired, in a terrific post-event follow-up to his exclusive early look at the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): I first met Ternus in 2015, when I spent a day with him at Apple’s Input Design Lab, a testing facility in Cupertino. He’d ris

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-10 17:18:21

"Self-driving" labs could free scientists to analyze results, refine hypotheses, and brainstorm ideas. The post AI Agents Ran a Biology Lab. Humans Popped in to Empty the Trash. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 17:03:47

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-10 17:00:59

In this supersized edition: Join us at Europe’s first Apple Developer Center. Say hello to Touch on Mac. Learn about the Swift Student Challenge 2027. Browse new App Review help articles. Explore new subscription features. Read now

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 16:15:17

My thanks to OurCal for sponsoring last week at DF. You ever have a discussion that starts with “I didn’t see you put that on the calendar”? Could be with your colleagues, could be with your family. But the problem is familiar: Shared calendars solved sch

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-10 16:08:35

Is self-enclosure life’s greatest trick? According to the lipid-first theory, a cell membrane enabled life by giving chemistry a place to gather. The post The Case for a Bubble at Life’s Start first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-11-10 16:00:00

The Microsoft product catalog. The post Microsoft employee price list from 1987 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:47:10

Nick Heer, Pixel Envy: There are a whole bunch of features and fixes coming to Safari with Apple’s OS 27.3 update. One that is not in the beta release notes but appears nevertheless is support for Global Privacy Control . This new standard is effec

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:36:18

Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): It is curious, then, that, as news came out that the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, had had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who was also an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Secu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:35:38

Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett, reporting yesterday for The New York Times (gift link): Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial in

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:30:00

It’s that time of the year when the November Thoughtworks Technology Radar appears. Again my colleagues have taken a sweep of the technologies that our teams have used in the field, and pulled together a summary of what’s popped up in the last six month

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 15:26:21

Suppose you have n different fertilizers you want to test. The simplest experiment would be to take a big plot of land, divide it into n sections, and apply each fertilizer to a section. That’s fine if you have one big enough plot of land, and the l

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:10:00

Long-horizon agents can automate complex tasks that take days or weeks to complete and involve multiple exchanges with people and external systems. Many things can go wrong during this time, including process crashes, network failures, and unantici

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 14:42:35

Quantum 10, 2270 (2026). Many-body ground state preparation is an important subroutine used in the simulation of physical systems. In this paper, we introduce a flexible and efficient framework for obtaining a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:59:58

Quantum 10, 2269 (2026). We introduce a general framework for the analysis of non-Gaussian entanglement in bosonic states of finite stellar rank. The central result is the full characterization of their entangl

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:42:35

Quantum 10, 2268 (2026). We show that a distribution related to Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) on graphs can be sampled classically in polynomial time. Graphical applications of GBS typically sample from this di

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:32:31

Quantum 10, 2267 (2026). The surface code is the most studied error-correcting code thanks to its high threshold, simple decoding, and locality in two dimensions (2D). A key component of any code is its encodin

Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 13:02:28

AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:51:20

Quantum 10, 2266 (2026). The paper presents variational formulae for entropy-like functionals, including Segal and Rényi entropies, for normal states on semifinite von Neumann algebras. The considered functiona

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:34:59

Quantum 10, 2265 (2026). X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a leading technique for understanding structural changes in advanced battery materials such as lithium-excess cathodes. However, extracting critic

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:22:19

Quantum 10, 2264 (2026). We derive a nonperturbative bound on the distance between evolutions of open quantum systems described by time-dependent generators. We show how this result can be employed to provide a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:13:50

Quantum 10, 2263 (2026). Quantum money is a representative application in cryptography that utilizes quantum technology to achieve security that is unattainable with classical systems. Since the theoretical pro

Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 12:13:04

Foundational precipitation and geostationary satellite datasets to observe the planet clearly.

AEON @ 2026-11-10 12:00:00

Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 11:03:38

Quantum 10, 2262 (2026). In adaptive quantum circuits classical results of mid-circuit measurements determine the upcoming gates. This allows POVMs, quantum channels or more generally quantum instruments to be

brucknerite @ 2026-11-10 10:00:00

11 de noviembre. ¿Parar o no? He reflexionado con cuidado y tengo 137 palabras para vosotros, sin contar estas.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 05:14:31

An agent’s job isn’t known until it runs, so a role assigned in advance is always too much or too little. Give the agent a task instead, and every call it makes gets checked against that intent, whether it’s reading a Linear issue or emailing a distributi

ASF @ 2026-11-10 03:00:00

By Achim Nierbeck and Jamie Goodyear Ask anyone who ships a language model a simple question: which data was this trained on, and what license comes with it? The honest answer today is a shrug with a bibliography. Training corpora are assembled from dozen

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 02:38:48

The last several posts have been building up to this one, moving from tangible to more abstract. The posts on finite geometry gave examples of Steiner triples and more generally Steiner systems, introduced in the previous post. Combinatorial designs take

Inside Java @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

In this tutorial, we will cover a brief history of G1, its key design concepts, and how to use it.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 00:46:17

Mackenzie Hawkins, Andy Lin, and Kari Soo Lindberg, reporting for Bloomberg last year on December 22 ( Archive.today link ): In an industry run by titans, a Singapore AI firm called Megaspeed International Pte. is drawing an unusual amount of attentio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:57:04

Culper Research is a short-seller that published a report ( PDF and in a thread on X ) in May alleging that Nvidia “had a China problem”. From the start of its report: Nvidia claims that its business in China went to “zero” after April 2025 U.S.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:32:27

Fred Lambert, writing for Electrek: Tesla painted a very different picture just two years ago. At its 2024 shareholder meeting , it showed this slide of its lineup: the Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, Cybertruck, and Semi, plus three vehicles und

Deepmind @ 2026-11-09 20:51:47

Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-09 18:55:26

Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 18:47:22

Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Julian E. Barnes, and Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Rubio’s memo was circulated to administration officials with high-level security clearances ahead of a trip Mr. Trump took to China i

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 18:01:43

Steiner triples Several examples from the recent posts on finite geometry are special cases of Steiner triples. A Steiner triple system, written STS(n), is a collection of three-element subsets, called blocks, of a set X with n elements, such that every t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-09 17:06:47

La española, campeona en 2023, es primera en solitario tras cinco rondas de las once previstas

old new thing @ 2026-11-09 16:00:00

It knows what it did. The post If the Windows Update hot patcher checks that the function hasn’t already been patched, does that mean you can’t install two hot-patches? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:26:09

Euclid’s fifth postulate says that given a line ℓ and a point P not on ℓ , there is a unique line through P parallel to ℓ. In the projective plane there are no parallel lines, and in the hyperbolic plane there are at least two lines through P parall

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:21:49

The previous post was on finite projective planes. This post will look at finite affine planes and the next will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Affine geometry is essentially what remains of Euclidean geometry if you keep the incidence properties, e.g.

AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:01:00

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00

In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-09 02:31:45

LANCE: You should take a break from all the AI stuff and talk about your book! BILL: I will!  But it's not my book  its co-authored with Erik Demaine and Mohammad Hajiaghayi. The title is Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmi

Inside Java @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Learn how to pack a short ticker symbol into one int with a value class implementing CharSequence and Comparable.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 00:56:32

Julian E. Barnes, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur, and Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times on Friday: John Rizzo, an Nvidia spokesman, said that the company does not share classified information with its customers, and that customers do not ask

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 00:23:49

The idea of finite geometries sounds like an oxymoron the first time you hear of it, something like dry water or cold fire, but the axioms of some kinds of geometry can indeed be satisfied by finite models. The axioms of projective plane geometry are as f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-08 22:50:31

Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times: Nvidia said on Sunday that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, its chief executive and co-founder, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business ex

luajit @ 2026-11-08 20:07:27

This is not a security issue, as the FFI is considered unsafe. Reported by ZeroVuln Labs.

luajit @ 2026-11-08 18:56:47

Thanks to javacty. #1541

Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:31:31

Learn how to handle a missing tools.jar on newer JDK versions that may be defined as a system dependency in an older Maven project. The post How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files first appeared on Baeldung .

Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:20:05

Learn how to access shadow DOM elements with Selenium, understand shadow-root boundaries, and compare native WebDriver support with JavaScript-based approaches. The post Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung . &#

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-08 09:09:37

Pogorélov, flamante campeón de España +65, de origen ucranio, firma una virtuosa ofensiva con las piezas negras en el Mundial de veteranos

Inside Java @ 2026-11-08 01:00:00

Modern software increasingly interacts with AI models, query languages, and other specialized programming models, forcing you to switch contexts, embed foreign code, or write verbose wrappers to bridge the gap. What if you could express logic from outside

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-07 22:14:09

Tyler Stalman and David Altizer were kind enough to have me on their show this week. These new MacBook Pros are very fun computers that are very fun to talk about. (We even sneak in some love for Ricoh’s legendary GR line of compact cameras. I used my

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-07 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 November 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Code Capsule @ 2026-11-07 14:06:27

AI is increasingly enabling technically skilled engineering managers to identify business needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and build features independently. This may drive product and engineering roles to merge within 1.5-3 years, creating AI-native

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-07 11:35:50

El excampeón de España de veteranos, muy culto y gran conversador, tuvo una vida intensa, siempre compatible con su pasión por el ajedrez

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 20:50:46

Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles, the new MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays, and the state of the Macintosh platform.