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Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 19:41:00

"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT director for 13 school districts... I just haven't been

DNA and Bessel functions

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

A simple range reduction method

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

OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 18:41:00

OpenAI announced Friday it's pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports: The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity", which had moved to a

Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 17:34:00

Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical mon

GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 16:34:00

The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents. But Phoronix no

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 15:20:43

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Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 13:34:00

Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being inst

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (X)

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

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (IX)

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

Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 11:52:00

To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, Bethesda released "a brutal new episode" — a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine "delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition.

RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 09:52:00

IGN reports: [A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies. According to a report from

Stripe Uses Graph Search and State Machines to Automate Database Remediation

InfoQ @ 2026-08-09 08:55:00

The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph. Using graph search algorithms together with state machines, the team computes and executes remediation pla

Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 05:52:00

"Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google's search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court filing," MediaPost reports, citing a friend-of-the-court br

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 05:26:00

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★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

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

Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 01:57:00

Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in A

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 01:37:27

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Dithered QR Codes

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 01:05:24

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My server is a phone now

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 00:49:23

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 00:32:50

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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 23:57:00

"If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times: The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new

More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 22:43:00

In Georgia the Savannah Police Department "terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department's Flock Safety License Plate Reader system," according to a local news report: All six c

Corrupt Minds Think Alike

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

America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 21:43:00

"In a milestone for energy storage technology, Peak Energy has selected Sacramento, California, as the home of America's first manufacturing facility dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion battery systems," according to the sustainability news site Intelligent

Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

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

Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 20:34:00

The Dallas Business Journal reported Monday that the U.S. multinational paper goods company Kimberly-Clark announced "that its researchers identified and advanced patented technology transforming fibers from hesperaloe, a low-water-use plant with pointy le

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 20:09:31

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 19:34:00

The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, acc

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 19:27:52

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Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan

slashdot @ 2026-08-08 18:34:00

At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI. But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculat

Fastmail offers EU data region

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 18:04:51

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 18:04:36

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 16:32:33

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Don't use your phone while you poop

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 16:05:56

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8)

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 .

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 15:33:06

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_for-sale DNS records

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 15:26:51

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 12:57:44

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Java Weekly, Issue 658

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 .              

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 12:07:06

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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 12:04:25

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 11:18:50

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 426 # Comments: 125

Cloudflare's Precursor Detects Bots and AI Agents Through Continuous Behavioral Analysis

InfoQ @ 2026-08-08 09:54:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Precursor, a client-side behavioral analysis engine that continuously evaluates session interactions, such as mouse movements and keyboard timing, to improve detection of sophisticated bots and AI agents without relying sol

GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults, Drawing Debate over Delays versus Signing

InfoQ @ 2026-08-08 09:45:00

GitHub consolidated the npm and Actions changes it shipped from March to July 2026 against supply chain attacks, several of which alter defaults rather than add options. Hacker News discussion focused less on the individual controls than on whether waiti

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 09:04:51

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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-08 03:49:11

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Corrupted apostrophes

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

Cloudflare Launches Persistent, Stateful, Computer-like Environments for Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 23:00:00

Cloudflare has introduced Cloudflare Computer, a new open-source runtime designed to give AI agents something closer to a real "computer" instead of just ephemeral containers. It leverages Cloudflare isolates for fast serverless execution, making agents

Simon Willison on Blogging

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

Google Earth Retracts AI Tool for Making Fake Satellite Images After It Was Immediately Abused Upon Release

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

Some New Data Centers Are Necessary

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

A bunch of mine are stored here.  ★ 

An AI Model From Meta Also Hacked Another Company During Testing

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 .  ★ 

Meta: Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

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

App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions

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 distribution this way. He’s not an outlier; I see comme

Leadership Shake-Up at Google DeepMind

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

‘Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop’

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

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VIII)

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

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VII)

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

What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition

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

How not to calculate cosine

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’

Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety Lawsuit

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

Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 16:34:00

Instacart introduced Blueberry, an AI-assisted incident response system that helps on-call engineers investigate production issues faster. It combines AI agents, operational data, and historical incident knowledge to generate grounded root cause hypothes

Disorder-Induced Entanglement Phase Transitions in Non-Hermitian Systems with Skin Effects

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

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5

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 .

Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong.

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

Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

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

Promise of Graph Sparsification and Decomposition for Noise Reduction in QAOA: Analysis for Trapped-Ion Compilations

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.

cos(200!)

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

Detection of a Rényi Index Dependent Transition in Entanglement Entropy Scaling

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

AI Is Transforming Incident Response - but the Hardest Problems May Still Belong to Humans

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

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how engineering teams respond to production incidents, offering the ability to summarize incident channels, analyze unfamiliar code, suggest remediation steps, generate pull requests, and increasingly assist wi

Sasquatch science

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

Uno Platform 6.6 Adds Native AOT, Vulkan Rendering, and Broader Accessibility Support

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

Uno Platform 6.6 introduces Native AOT publishing across five target platforms, an optional Vulkan rendering backend, and automatic registration for the framework’s Model Context Protocol servers. The release also reduces XAML boilerplate, expands cross-

Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics

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

Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that AI agents generate most of its code. The company desc

Azure API Management Adds Dedicated AI Gateway Tier, Governing Models and MCP Tools

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 08:35:00

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI and OpenAI behind one endpoint, with policy

npm Staged Publishing Available, Adding a Human Approval Step Before Packages Go Live

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

npm has introduced staged publishing for Node.js, requiring maintainer approval before a version is installable. Versions are queued and must pass a two-factor authentication challenge for release. This feature aims to enhance security amid rising supply

Introduction to Google GenAI Chat and Spring AI

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 .            

Spring AI AutoMemoryTools

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 .              

Exploring Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) With Spring AI

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 .           &#

Issue 762

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

OpenAI v Apple, Databases, ContentBuilder

Stop burning your AI budget: Optimize GPU usage and model deployment with workflow navigator

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI tools budget by April. Microsoft faced a similar crisis, pulling Claude Code licenses because the tool worked too well and people used it too much. Even OpenAI's chief executive officer (CEO), Sam Altman, has called t

Managing virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift with Service Mesh

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Managing virtualized workloads alongside containerized applications remains a persistent challenge for IT operations, often creating siloed management environments. At Red Hat Summit 2026, I had the opportunity to take the stage during the OpenShift Spotli

Friday Five — August 7, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader for Third Consecutive Year in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application PlatformsRed Hat OpenShift is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. We believe this

Deploying Red Hat AI with the NVIDIA DSX™ Platform for scalable AI clouds

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

AI clouds have advanced beyond initial pilot testing, and the challenge now isn’t simply configuring the physical hardware. Organizations must focus on operating an efficient shared platform that provides predictable operating costs, access to the latest c

Post-Quantum Cryptography in Long-Term Support JDK Releases

Inside Java @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Oracle is executing on a strategy to make post-quantum cryptography (PQC) broadly available across the Java ecosystem with a roadmap that brings standardized PQC algorithms and PQC-enabled TLS to current Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, helping reduce ad

Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 01:47:32

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interact

Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-07 00:58:00

Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.

OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit (PDF Link)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 23:13:04

This is more like it. No mealymouthing or wishy-washiness here. This is a strident defense. I’ll quote just one line for now: Apple offers nothing because it has nothing because there is nothing. Its Complaint cannot and does not state a misappropriat

Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-06 22:48:17

Researchers will hunt for antibodies in the blood of people who lived past 100, drank heavily, or smoked—but avoided cancer. The post Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood appeared first on SingularityHub .

Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 22:23:52

This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items ( here and here ) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit abou

Add a Shortcut to Control Center to Open the Current App’s Preferences in the Settings App

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 19:36:22

Regarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud ) a simple Shortcuts shortcu

AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 19:21:21

If you’ve ever built an MCP server or agent skill, you know that packaging it means adapting for one client, re-writing for another, and repeating that for every tool your team uses. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open source, vendor-neutral specification that

BMW Executive in 2023: No Plans to Sell in-Vehicle Ads

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 18:46:02

Tanya Gazdik, reporting for MediaPost back in December 2023: Despite the ever-expanding screens in its vehicles, including an available 31-inch backseat theatre screen, BMW has no plans to sell advertising on any of them. Radio commercials are intrusi

Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 18:30:54

Part of what makes AI agents so useful is their ability to interact with the external world by running tools. But these tool calls are also the source of the biggest risks when it comes to making agents safe to use. The best way to address these risks in a

StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:55:38

Back in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-blocking content blockers , and I’ve gotten a slew of wonderful feed

BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:19:01

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter: BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day onto their dashboards. The ads began appearing last week on newer-model

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4

old new thing @ 2026-08-06 16:00:00

Moving things around if possible. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-06 15:37:48

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Ple

Calculating log(1000!)

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-06 15:23:43

The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if yo

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

ASF @ 2026-08-06 15:00:00

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software

From Projects to Products: Turning Platforms into Products People Use

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 13:59:00

Having a platform is not enough; the real challenge is ensuring that it is understandable, usable, and actually adopted by its users. A capability is done when it can be reliably used by others. To evaluate progress, you can ask yourself “Is this being

El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-06 13:00:32

A veces se publican ideas sencillas en revistas como Nature y surge la pregunta de por qué nadie lo hizo antes. El tensor de piezogiración óptica es de cuarto rango […] La entrada El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂ fue escrita en La Cie

The great arc

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:01:00

A striking meditation on inequality via the bold sculptures that sit amongst skyscrapers in Paris’s business district - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Culture clash

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:00:00

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all? - by Sam Dresser Read on Aeon

Wiz Discloses CosmosEscape, and Practitioners Debate What Customers Could Have Done

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 11:21:00

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write access to every database on the service. Microsoft blocked the entry point within two days but took until

Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes

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

Running AI agents on Kubernetes raises a key question: should each agent get its own Pod? The kagent project argues no—agents are bursty, short-lived, can spawn subagents, and may wait for human approval, making one Pod per agent wasteful. Agent-substrat

Vercel Labs Ships Zero: a Graph-First Language Built So Agents Write the Code

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 07:51:00

Vercel Labs has introduced Zero, an experimental systems programming language aimed at AI rather than human users. It employs unique features like a specific toolchain contract and structured error messages. Reaching version 0.3.4, it compiles to native

Inside Operation Jailbreak: Red Hat’s participation in the US Army’s open integration sprint

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

In May 2026 an important, unprecedented event took place in Fort Carson, Colorado: US Army Operation Jailbreak. For the first time, roughly 600 participants from more than 50 companies came together in person to integrate their sensors and systems into a c

Why IT security’s future is more than just AI models

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Much of the public discussion around AI and its impact on cybersecurity focuses almost exclusively on models, with some arguments calling for a central authority to manage the latest models behind closed doors. There have even been discussions around stric

The migration catalyst: turning virtualization disruption into application innovation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Starting nearly three decades ago, the cost efficiencies of server virtualization drove the first waves of IT transformation, wringing new efficiency out of the x86 servers that had already shaped the data center. Today, a new era featuring rapidly growing

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

For the past 3 years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have dominated the large language model (LLM) conversation. In traditional chatbot applications, central processing units (CPUs) provide a fraction of the total compute per request, while GPUs do the h

Curing alert fatigue: How embedded AI is redefining Red Hat OpenShift cluster troubleshooting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Between virtual machines, microservices, and AI pipelines, hybrid clouds can be incredibly complex and can bring an unwelcome partner: alert fatigue. SREs and IT OPs teams face a constant flood of disconnected alerts, forced to manually stitch together met

Episode 65 “Embracing Virtual Threads with Helidon” [I/O]

Inside Java @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

How Helidon 4.4 embraces virtual threads, ahoead-of-time computation, and OpenJDK

Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:16:47

I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one.  ★ 

Matthew Green on Anthropic’s New Cryptanalysis Results

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:08:52

Matthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast cli

Uh, I’m Pretty Sure People Would Know

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:53:24

New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He ha

Sam Altman, Definitely Not a Weirdo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:10:24

Sam Altman, on Twitter/X : cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that

David Pogue: ‘Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 22:56:09

David Pogue, at Pogue’s Posts: Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find a home maintenance professional.” So I tried it. ME: I need a septic-system repair. ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help with plu

Apple News Ad of the Week

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 21:29:49

I look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps.  ★ 

The code that didn’t break

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 20:26:25

Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the largest rep

Paul Thurrott Reviews the HP OmniBook Ultra 14, With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 17:41:32

Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, a

Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-05 17:40:41

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazin

Get ready for new creative assets on the App Store

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:58

As we announced in June , Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more. Your creative

Hello Developer: August 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:51

In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26. Download templates and get started building App Store assets for iOS 27. Discover best practices for integrating visual intelligence

Hacker News Thread on OpenAI’s ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’ Post

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 16:57:47

There’s an old adage that you should never bring a knife to a gunfight. My take on OpenAI’s response yesterday was expressing incredulity that OpenAI was bringing, like, a box of chocolates to the gunfight. Apple is trying to kill io, and OpenAI’s publi

Enumerating trees and circles

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 16:49:35

A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not distinguished from each ot

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-05 16:45:10

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.

JioHotstar Explains the Distributed Engineering behind Personalized Ad Requests at Streaming Scale

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 16:09:00

JioHotstar explains the distributed architecture behind its real-time ad request workflow, covering ad decisioning, waterfall tiering, pacing algorithms, latency optimization, and service coordination required to select and deliver personalized advertise

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3

old new thing @ 2026-08-05 16:00:00

Forcing an object into the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-05 13:02:04

Esta partida merece estar en las colecciones de las más brillantes del escandinavo, por su alto grado de precisión y belleza

The last ice age

AEON @ 2026-08-05 12:01:00

Retracing his grandparents’ journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, a writer draws on storytelling to grasp climate change - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust 663

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-05 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

Announcing a Trillion Dollar Security grant for WEBCAT

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify tha

Use EVPN in Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 to integrate production networks across Kubernetes cluster boundaries

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Networking is making it easier for you to seamlessly and directly integrate your Kubernetes platforms with the data center networks you already operate by adopting the same standards-based networking used throughout modern network fabrics

Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code - Version 26.0.1 Is Now Available

Inside Java @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code

★ OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 00:51:19

A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.

Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-04 22:10:46

Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. The post Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source. appeared f

Yours Truly on TBPN Yesterday

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 20:34:06

TBPN seems like a show I wouldn’t enjoy guesting on, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit.  ★ 

Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI in Trade Secrets Case

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 18:02:35

Reuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees ​and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] Th

Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable for $1.3 Billion

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 17:13:48

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2

old new thing @ 2026-08-04 16:00:00

Using a reference stored in the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Mathematical alchemy

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 15:18:58

After writing the previous post about metallic ratios, I thought about the analogy to alchemy and the attempt to make precious metals out of base metals. When can you make one metallic ratio out of another? Can you make the golden ratio out of the lead ra

Fragments: August 4

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-04 14:08:00

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unau

Ratio of metallic ratios

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 13:41:49

The golden ratio is the first and best known of the metallic ratios. I’ve written about the silver ratio a few times, most recently here. And I’ve mentioned the bronze ratio a couple times. The metallic ratios after bronze don’t have sta

Towards an AI for Africa

AEON @ 2026-08-04 12:00:00

Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life - by Fainos Mangena Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (V)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-04 11:51:08

Topálov estaba lejos de su mejor forma, pero ello no resta mérito a la gran belleza del remate que sufrió ante el nuevo ‘número uno’

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Birthday Wishes, Shipaton 2026, and the New Kotlin AI Benchmark

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Birthday Wishes, Shipaton 2026, and the New Kotlin AI Benchmark

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

TerminalWidget 1.0

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 04:32:33

New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a uni

Lua 5.5.1 released

Lua: news @ 2026-08-04 02:38:05

Lua 5.5.1 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.5.0.

Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly

Rust blog @ 2026-08-04 02:00:00

TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the Rust borrow checker is coming!

[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:26:01

REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do

John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:01:41

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg . Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, an

The Information on Apple’s Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 23:45:40

Aaron “ Homeboy ” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary ): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amo

Om Malik’s Final Essay: ‘The Myth, the Mythos and the Man’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 22:34:12

Om published this on Monday June 7 — the day of the WWDC keynote. He sent me a note about it, that is too personal to share in full. He described it as his “last shot” — “In case I don’t make it”. He didn’t make it . I didn’t read it right away because

La superradiancia rotacional en un sistema de Floquet con solo tres resonadores

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-03 20:14:08

La superradiancia rotacional describe la extracción de energía de un sistema giratorio cuando una onda de frecuencia angular ω y momento angular azimutal m satisface, en el marco de referencia […] La entrada La superradiancia rotacional en un sis

★ Why Apple Requires a Cellular Account Through a Big Three Carrier to Lease an iPhone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:19:34

For many years now, part of the co-marketing agreements between Apple and the Big Three is Apple agreeing to require a postpaid account with a Big Three carrier for all “special” iPhone financing deals, including the old iPhone Upgrade Program and the new

Ulysses S. Grant on the Future Dividing Line

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:14:42

Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875: Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence. The free school is t

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (IV)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 18:19:17

Lanzado en su camino para batir la marca histórica de Kaspárov en los puntos Elo, el noruego seguía implacable, y deleitando

AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-03 18:12:30

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine lear

Truth Social Launches Paid Early Access to Trump Posts

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 18:00:29

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: Trump Media & Technology Group is now shopping to traders and investors a premium version of Truth Social delivering early access to the feeds of high-profile users, including the president. Starting Saturday, for

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (III)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 17:15:17

Incluso en partidas rápidas, el joven escandinavo captaba sacrificios de pieza a medio plazo cuando ya era el ‘número uno’ en la modalidad clásica

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-03 17:05:20

AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math. The

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1

old new thing @ 2026-08-03 16:00:00

Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Entanglement growth in the dark intervals of a locally monitored free-fermion chain

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:17:47

Quantum 10, 2183 (2026). We consider a free fermionic chain with monitoring of the particle density on a single site of the chain and study the entanglement dynamics of quantum jump trajectories. We show that t

On the quantum computational complexity of classical linear dynamics with geometrically local interactions: Dequantization and universality

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:07:24

Quantum 10, 2182 (2026). The simulation of large-scale classical systems in exponentially small space on quantum computers has gained attention. The prior work demonstrated that a quantum algorithm offers an ex

Rescuing my 2006 Travel Blog

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 14:00:00

In November 2006 I put everything I owned in my parents’ loft, had a great many injections, and flew to Guatemala. I came back thirteen months later having crossed fourteen countries between Antigua and Tierra del Fuego, and I’d written the whole thing up

Ani Liu: eye heart womb

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:01:00

A scientist, artist and mother, Ani Liu contemplates how power and control shape the body in her taboo-breaking artworks - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Thucydides the perspicacious

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:00:00

Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states - by David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger Read on Aeon

What the bliss taught us

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-03 08:42:19

At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below,

Prisencolinensi.... was!?!

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

Wie man seinen Eltern LLM erklärt ...

I Asked AI to Design 12 Dev Boards. It Told Me to Write a Script.

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

I keep needing the same thing - a really basic dev board for whatever Espressif module I’m playing with. USB-C, a 3.3V regulator, BOOT and EN buttons, three LEDs (5V present, 3.3V present, and one on a GPIO so you can run the blink sketch), and every GPIO

A problematic category on Jeopardy Raises a Good Question

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-03 01:04:30

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The

Agent Fone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:02:00

My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phon

Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:01:12

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video , he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I t

Un error en el núcleo de Lean aprovechado por una IA para refutar la conjetura de Collatz

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-02 22:52:43

Las IA generativas encuentran errores de código (bugs) donde nadie los espera. Incluso en el núcleo de Lean (el verificador automático de demostraciones matemáticas más famoso). El 25 de julio […] La entrada Un error en el núcleo de Lean aprovech

Holonomic functions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 22:47:53

Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be those functions that