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Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US

slashdot @ 2026-07-31 05:30:00

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws in New York State, vandalized with paint in Oakland, California, and rammed with a truck in Idaho. Flock claims its services fight crime,

Friday Five — July 31, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

How leading companies are turning AI vision into business valueEnterprises are focused on moving beyond theoretical AI pilots to operationalizing it at scale, optimizing costs, and governing its actions. Chris Wright shares a few highlights from our custom

Building Intelligent Document Processing with Apache Camel, Docling and LangChain4j

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:35:25

Build an AI-powered document processing system using Apache Camel, Docling, and LangChain4j. The post Building Intelligent Document Processing with Apache Camel, Docling and LangChain4j first appeared on Baeldung .       

CTE Support in Hibernate

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:28:05

Learn how to use Common Table Expressions in Hibernate to help simplify writing complex queries by using intermediate named HQL result sets. The post CTE Support in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .          

LLM Integration With Apache Camel OpenAI Component

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:25:13

Learn about LLM integration with the Apache Camel OpenAI component with examples. The post LLM Integration With Apache Camel OpenAI Component first appeared on Baeldung .              

A Guide to Ahead-of-Time Cache in the Java

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:21:22

Learn how to use Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache to reuse a build's output, so your app can start faster in the subsequent excecutions. The post A Guide to Ahead-of-Time Cache in the Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

A Guide to Short-Term Memory Sessions in Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:16:25

Discover Spring AI Session, an event-sourced short-term memory layer for managing conversation history efficiently. The post A Guide to Short-Term Memory Sessions in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .         

New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption

slashdot @ 2026-07-31 01:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP's

A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack

slashdot @ 2026-07-31 00:00:00

joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘The AI Future Is for Everyone’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 23:09:51

Mark Zuckerberg, in an op-ed Tuesday for The Wall Street Journal (gift link; and irony isn’t lost that “everyone” needs a paid WSJ subscription to read this): We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people w

Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 23:00:00

Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it "would eclipse Nvidia's $440 billion addition, following

Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:41:43

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include mi

Rogue Amoeba: Unobtrusive Update Notifications

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:33:59

Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog back in April: Though Sparkle serves us very well, it has one notable downside. Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time: right after you’ve launched the app. You want to start

ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship'

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 22:00:00

ABC accused FCC Chair Brendan Carr of "attempted censorship," arguing that an early review of its eight broadcast licenses is politically motivated retaliation over the network's coverage and could chill the entire media industry. "The retaliation against

Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon's Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safety agency said on Thursday.

‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-30 20:08:36

One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. The post ‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI appeared first on SingularityHub

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 20:00:00

A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been prevented with basic Excel training, after an employee unknowingly shared a hidden worksheet containing their details. The Independent r

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 19:00:00

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 combines vision, language, and action models to control multiple types of robots, including humanoids performing tasks such as organizing shelves, tying bags, and replacing lightbulbs. "It's another milestone in our path

Looking for the Catch in Apple Upgrade

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 18:59:39

Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! An

Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is expanding its answer to Apple's age-assurance tools with Wednesday's news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Braz

The Differences Between the New ‘Apple Upgrade’ and the Old ‘iPhone Upgrade Program’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 17:56:10

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Upgrade launched this week, and the iPhone Upgrade Program is being discontinued as a result. But despite some similarities, the two offerings are not the same. Here are the key differences. I wrote yes

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Deepmind @ 2026-07-30 17:00:59

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 17:00:00

GCC has adopted a policy rejecting substantial code contributions generated by or derived from LLMs. "This covers not just code copied directly from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or GitHub Copilot, but also any versions of the code later edited or rewritten

Análisis de ajedrez | Arte en Xàbia y joyas históricas en agosto

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-30 16:21:55

Una gema de Kubbel ilustra el célebre Ajedrez Viviente alicantino y sirve de aperitivo de la continuación de las partidas más brillantes de Carlsen desde este sábado

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9

old new thing @ 2026-07-30 16:00:00

Maybe it doesn't matter. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Who’s Writing Open Source Code?

tecosystems @ 2026-07-30 15:11:05

As AI steadily reshapes the software industry around it as open source once did before it, it’s useful to try and understand where those two forces intersect. Open source has, as it has with virtually every other industry software category, had an enormous

Who’s Writing Open Source Code?

Sogrady @ 2026-07-30 15:11:05

As AI steadily reshapes the software industry around it as open source once did before it, it’s useful to try and understand where those two forces intersect. Open source has, as it has with virtually every other industry software category, had an enormous

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-30 15:04:00

Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more…

AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action

InfoQ @ 2026-07-30 13:30:00

AI is an amplifier; strategic focus on the organizational system brings the greatest returns. DORA's 2025 research on AI in software development provides team profiles and success capabilities that can be used to put the research into practice. By Ben

Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 13:00:00

A former Comcast retail employee alleges that a Connecticut store manager tied the lowest-performing salesperson to a chair each month and had co-workers smash a cream pie into their face, recording the incidents as a sales-motivation tactic. The plaintiff

Mud below, sun above

AEON @ 2026-07-30 12:01:00

Meet Bể, part of Vietnam’s vital but overlooked network of recyclers – a workforce predominantly made up of elderly women - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

How art invented humanity

AEON @ 2026-07-30 12:00:00

When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images - by J F Martel Read on Aeon

Quantifiers and witnesses for the nonclassicality of measurements and of states

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-30 10:20:20

Quantum 10, 2180 (2026). In recent work [Phys. Rev. X 16, 021050], we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, mea

AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit

InfoQ @ 2026-07-30 09:57:00

AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly in customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota and raising the managed default from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package limits are unchanged, and UpdateFunctionCode is

Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 09:00:00

Qantas completed a record-breaking 24-hour, 24-minute test flight from Melbourne to Toulouse on Tuesday. "The specially adapted A350-1000ULR airliner is due to debut with the Australian carrier's nonstop Sydney-London route from 2027," reports The Guardian

AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands

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

An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel in American history for the boom unde

Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots?

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

The FCC's ban on Chinese-made robots extends well beyond humanoids to quadrupeds, research platforms, and many robot vacuums from allied countries. Supporters call it a major boost for domestic robotics, but critics warn that cutting researchers and startu

Episode 64 “JIT Compiler From the Ground Up” [AtA]

Inside Java @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

An introduction to key concepts of just-in-time compilation: speculation and traps, inlining and constant folding, escape analysis and scalar replacement, and more

Under the HAT: Empowering GPU Acceleration for Java

Inside Java @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Explore the latest work on the HotSpot JVM, with a focus on auto-vectorization and the Vector API.

Firefox and Thunderbird as RHEL Flatpaks: What it means for you

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2, Firefox and Thunderbird are delivered as Flatpaks by default. If you install RHEL with a graphical desktop, your browser and email client will now come from the Red Hat Flatpak registry instead of traditi

Why self-hosted inference is essential: Building a reliable, sovereign inference layer

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

Your agent can reach its tools. Identity is scoped. Governance is in place. None of that matters if the model behind the agent cannot reliably call those tools.I have watched this play out. A team builds an agent on LangChain or CrewAI. It works in develop

Make every GPU-hour count: Progress tracking in Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-30 02:00:00

It's Friday evening. Priya, a machine language (ML) engineer at a financial services firm, queues up a fraud-detection fine-tuning job on an GPU cluster costing $55 an hour. The run should take about 40 hours—roughly $2,200 in compute. She double-checks th

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows

slashdot @ 2026-07-30 01:00:00

Valve is funding Collabora's experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle u

Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 22:56:33

Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Re

An Update on the FreeBSD Journal: New Editor, New Format

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-29 22:16:39

We have a couple of updates to share about the FreeBSD Journal. A New Editor Please join us in welcoming Matt Slaybaugh as the Journal’s new editor. Matt brings years of editorial and content management experience, including his ongoing work with th

Apple Upgrade — New Program With Klarna for Leasing iPhones, Macs, iPads, and More for Near-Zero Interest

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 18:51:15

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced Apple Upgrade , a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United Stat

Pastebot 3

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 18:07:03

New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps —  Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar  — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for yea

ASF Plus One Newsletter: July 2026

ASF @ 2026-07-29 18:00:00

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.** Community News The Conference Planners for the the ASF are very pleased to announce the redesign and launch of the new Community Over Code website! The new site will serv

Análisis de ajedrez | La prodigiosa Sivanandan

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-29 17:56:35

Tiene 11 años, con resultados que recuerdan -salvando las distancias temporales- a los de Judit Polgar, y victorias tan brillantes como esta, sobre el campeón de Francia

Count Those Underscores

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 17:28:02

Nate Anderson, reporting for Ars Technica under the headline “A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months”: Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), bu

Join us at TED2027 in San Diego, March 1-4

TED Blog @ 2026-07-29 17:25:30

If you feel like the world is moving at an exponentially faster pace, you’re not alone. That’s why we’ve given TED2027 a pretty stark theme: Our terrifying, exhilarating future. This is a moment that demands we look at what’s coming with clear eyes a

Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more.

Confluent @ 2026-07-29 17:00:10

Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more

Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-29 16:53:08

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results. The post Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up. first appeared

‘eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga Ends With a $56 Million Settlement’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-29 16:43:24

Emma Roth, The Verge: eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC . The settlement wi

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 8

old new thing @ 2026-07-29 16:00:00

Exceptions hiding in lambda captures. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 8 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Stabilizer Ranks, Barnes Wall Lattices and Magic Monotones

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 14:19:22

Quantum 10, 2179 (2026). In 2024, Kliuchnikov and Schönnenbeck showed a connection between the Barnes Wall lattices, stabilizer states and Clifford operations. In this work, we study their results and relate th

Microsoft Three-Layer LLM Routing Architecture for AI Agents on AKS

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 14:00:00

Microsoft has released a reference architecture for routing agent traffic on Azure Kubernetes Service. It breaks down the issue into three key choices: which model answers a call, how the call is managed, and which GPU replica handles it. By Claudio Ma

Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-29 13:28:21

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API developm

Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-29 13:28:21

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API developm

Modulator-Assisted Zeno Control of Energy Transfer in Quantum Batteries

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 13:15:42

Quantum 10, 2178 (2026). Efficient operation of quantum batteries requires not only fast energy transfer but also the ability to halt the charging process to prevent reverse flow. Existing approaches typically

Cloudflare Makes Internal DNS Generally Available

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 12:30:00

Cloudflare has launched its Internal DNS service, providing authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks. This service simplifies DNS management by consolidating private and public DNS operations on a single platform. By Gianmarco Nalin

How to spot pseudoscience

AEON @ 2026-07-29 12:01:00

We are living in a golden age of pseudoscience. Here are three helpful tools for separating science from its imitator - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

atommovr: An open-source simulation framework for rearrangement in atomic arrays

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 11:46:44

Quantum 10, 2177 (2026). The task of atom rearrangement has emerged in the last decade as a fundamental building block in the development of neutral atom-based quantum processors. As such processors grow to tho

Dynamical codes for hardware with noisy readouts

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-29 10:48:52

Quantum 10, 2176 (2026). Dynamical stabilizer codes may offer a practical route to large-scale quantum computation. Such codes are defined by a schedule of error-detecting measurements, which allows for flexibi

.NET 11 Preview 6 Modernises MAUI CollectionView and Android Shell

InfoQ @ 2026-07-29 10:00:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6 with several architectural and reliability improvements for .NET MAUI. The update brings the next-generation CollectionView implementation to Windows, moves Android Shell toward the handler model, improves Native

This Week in Rust 662

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-29 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

Ethereum Foundation Board Update

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

We are pleased to share that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the Ethereum Foundation Board. pc is a long time contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, a co-founder and lead of SEAL 911, and has been a member of the EF's Silviculture Society, which provides inf

Newsletter: JDK 27 Rampdown Phase is Closing - Default G1 in All Environments

Inside Java @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

OpenJDK Quality Outreach July 2026 Newsletter

Sovereign by design: Lessons from Red Hat Summit

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Digital sovereignty used to sit somewhere between a compliance checkbox and a future roadmap item. That’s changing fast. At Red Hat Summit, Mohammed Retmi of Core42 in the United Arab Emirates and A.S. "Raj" Rajgopal of NxtGen in India joined me for a roun

No time to lose: Why post-quantum security for financial services must start now

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Post-quantum cryptography: The emerging threatThe transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is becoming an urgent priority for the global financial sector due to the rapid evolution of quantum computing. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers exi

Lights on! Real-time threat response with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

Part 2 of a series on implementing zero trust in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern (ZTVP)In our previous article, we explored why network policies, specifically a default-deny posture combined with strict ingress and egress ru

Architecting for maintainability: Lessons from a global multicluster platform blueprint

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-29 02:00:00

How can a large organization achieve 100% uptime and zero security breaches at a massive scale? It requires moving past standard management techniques and focusing on a critical metric: maintainability. At the recent Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in

Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-29 01:11:22

Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. The post Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI appeared first on Singulari

GitHub Introduces Default "Cooldown" Policy for Dependabot Version Updates

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 21:00:00

Instead of immediately opening pull requests when newer dependency versions are released, Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting upgrades, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious releases are identified and removed before they can be int

Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 18:22:51

Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services

Inverse factorial improved

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 16:11:30

A couple years ago I wrote about how to compute the inverse of factorial. I used that code in writing the previous post because the post required solving the equation ⌊log2(n!)⌋ ≥ b given b. That is, given a number of bits b, find the smallest value of n 

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 7

old new thing @ 2026-07-28 16:00:00

Further explorations into exception safety. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 7 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Orchestrator's Tax

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 15:10:00

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that c

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-28 14:32:00

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit

Cryptographic Keys and Decks of Cards

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 14:13:17

The previous post looked at the idea of storing a cryptographic key in the order of a deck of cards. A deck of 52 cards can store 225 bits of data because ⌊log2(52!)⌋ = 225. Here ⌊x⌋ is x rounded down to the nearest integer. If we want to store bigger key

Grafana Assistant Expands to More Than 30 Data Sources

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 14:00:00

Grafana Labs has expanded the capabilities of Grafana Assistant, enabling its AI-powered observability assistant to query and correlate data across more than 30 different data sources through natural language. By Craig Risi

A partition function framework for estimating logical error curves in stabilizer codes

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-28 13:47:12

Quantum 10, 2175 (2026). Based on the mapping between stabilizer quantum error correcting codes and disordered statistical mechanics models, we define a ratio of partition functions that measures the success pr

Análisis de ajedrez | Firouzja brilla mucho, pero incumple sus compromisos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-28 12:37:50

El francés de origen iraní, de 23 años, rompe su contrato con el Grand Chess Tour porque prefiere jugar un torneo de ‘esports’

The light narrows

AEON @ 2026-07-28 12:00:00

My father’s death sent me to the jiu-jitsu mat. Then came defeat, low testosterone and the lure of a chemical cheat code - by Wes Brown Read on Aeon

Remix 3 Beta Preview Ditches React for a Web-Standards Full-Stack Framework

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 11:02:00

Remix 3 is a full-stack web framework that moves away from React, focusing on web platform primitives. It integrates routes, request handlers, and UI components into a single structure, utilizing a forked Preact for the frontend. Unlike previous versions

KotlinLLM is Going Open Source 

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

KotlinLLM is Going Open Source 

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-28 09:50:41

TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kot

AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 09:14:00

AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable th

Uber’s Zero Growth Stack: Scaling Services, While Optimising Infrastructure and AI Cost

InfoQ @ 2026-07-28 09:07:00

Uber's "Zero Growth Stack" focuses on scalable infrastructure that separates capacity growth from business demand, reducing hardware needs while enhancing service scaling. Central to this is garbage collection optimisation. Additionally, generative AI is

[Sponsor] Introducing Agent Fone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:31:54

Every phone now ships with an assistant. You ask, it answers. Lame. We built a phone that writes software instead. The app idea you’ve had in your notes for years. The side hustle you will never get around to building. The weird thing only you would want.

‘Always Choose the Good Soap’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-28 03:13:55

Jason Snell: Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products ar

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 28: jlink cacerts plugin

Inside Java @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a new plugin being added to the `jlink` command-line tool for adding cacerts.

Substituting IP address evaluation with hardware-rooted sovereign zero trust

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent years. These demands have been generally addressed by fragile, costly, and outdated models based on IP ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 10 is coming to Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-28 02:00:00

Every OpenShift admin knows the calculus. A new Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ships with capabilities you want: better hardware support, updated crypto policies, kernel improvements. But adopting it has always meant adopting it everywhere. Your hardware

Hiding data in permutations

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-28 01:08:59

The latest issue of Paged Out! has an article by Stephen Hewitt “An off-line backup of your cryptographic key using playing cards.” The idea is to use a deck of 52 to store a 128-bit cryptographic key. To erase the key, shuffle the deck. Hewit

Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-27 22:58:17

A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. The post Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:32:51

Putting themselves in customers’ shoes today, how many ads do Apple’s executives want stuck in the results when they search for an app in the App Store?

WorkOS MCP

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-27 18:30:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP se

Análisis de ajedrez | El alfil-fénix de Chigáev

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-27 18:20:51

A dos meses de su debut en una Olimpiada de Ajedrez con la bandera española, el gran maestro ruso firma una victoria modélica

Counting permutations with roots

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 18:03:44

My post from yesterday on permutation roots ends with a Mathematica code for finding the probability that a permutation of n elements has a kth root. This is done by finding the coefficient of xn in the generating function I wanted to say more about this,

Printing floating point numbers in binary

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-27 17:34:05

It’s well known that you can convert the base 16 (hex) representation of an integer to the base 2 (binary) representation by simply converting each digit from hex to binary. For example, CAFEhex = 1100 1010 1111 1110two I imagine it’s less wel

Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 6 with Language and Framework Updates

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 17:09:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. C# adds extension indexers and built-in union support types. ASP.NET Core brings async validation, automatic CSRF protection, and OpenAP

AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-27 16:54:41

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. W

A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-27 16:40:59

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet. The post A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6

old new thing @ 2026-07-27 16:00:00

Exception-safety, the invisible bug. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: Simple JSON API, JEPs for JDK 28, Oracle CPUs, Embabel 1.0, Azul Payara, Helidon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 15:00:00

This week's Java roundup for July 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: two JEPs proposed to target for JDK 28; new JEPs 540 and 541, Simple JSON API (Incubator) and Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal, respectively; the July 2026 Critical Patch U

In search of the northern cassowary

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:01:00

Join the search for the elusive cassowary, a big bird that plays an outsized role in maintaining its rainforest home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The taming of Black thought

AEON @ 2026-07-27 12:00:00

Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance - by Takeshi Morisato Read on Aeon

Netflix Details its In-House LLM Serving Platform with Triton and vLLM

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 09:33:00

Netflix has described the production lessons behind bringing LLM inference into its internal serving platform, including the challenges of supporting different model sizes, hardware requirements, and rapidly evolving inference engines. By Matt Foster

HTTP Message Signatures with curl

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-27 08:55:03

The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatur

TanStack Table V9 Beta: Tree-Shakable Features, TanStack Store State, and Lower Memory Usage

InfoQ @ 2026-07-27 07:45:00

TanStack Table V9 is a beta release of a headless UI library for creating tables in various JavaScript frameworks. It features improved state management, memory usage, and extensibility. The notable change is an opt-in feature model, allowing developers

Would Erdos have been happy with the resolution of the Erdos Unit Distance Problem? How to find out?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-26 23:01:08

Let's say there is a statement in math T that you wonder whether it's true or false.  You may even make a conjecture of which way it goes. Do you have a rooting interest?  I may think T is true, but if someone proves T or proves NOT(T) my main c

Permutation roots

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-26 22:32:02

Let σ be a permutation on n elements. If there is a permutation τ such that applying τ twice has the same effect on the list of elements as applying σ once, we say σ = τ² and τ is a square root of σ. If we let our n elements be the integers 0 […] T

exp_q

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-26 20:20:36

The function expq(x) is defined by taking the power series for exp(x) and keeping only the terms whose index is a multiple of q. For example, exp2(x) keeps only the even-numbered terms in the exponential power series and so equals cosh(x). In general, The

Requiem for a Field?

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-26 20:15:44

Kevin Hartnett posted the following Friday: My profile of @Jacob_Tsimerman, published the morning he won the Fields Medal, and hours before he announced he’s going to @OpenAI, reads like a requiem for a field. While I’m trying to not spend R

Análisis de ajedrez | El desastre de Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-26 14:02:41

El vigente campeón del mundo, de 20 años, ha perdido 19 puntos en el torneo de Chennai y es ahora el trigésimo del escalafón

AI-Enabled Security Researchers Discover How a Crafted Video Can Provide Attackers Access to Your PC

InfoQ @ 2026-07-26 11:09:00

JFrog Security Research revealed "PixelSmash," a vulnerability in the FFmpeg media framework, allowing for Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service attacks. Present for sixteen years, it affects numerous applications using the MagicYUV decoder. Exploi

We have proof automation now

ImperialViolet @ 2026-07-26 02:00:00

I've long had a soft spot for dependently-typed languages like Coq Rocq and Lean. They offer the possibility of a type system capable of encoding and enforcing arbitrarily subtle invariants. The sort of thing that, in regular languages, ends up (at best

Application Startup Tracking in Spring

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 21:15:03

Learn how to track and analyze Spring application startup with ApplicationStartup , BufferingApplicationStartup , FlightRecorderApplicationStartup , and custom startup steps. The post Application Startup Tracking in Spring first appeared on Baeld

Introduction to Apache Causeway

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 21:11:34

Learn about Apache Causeway by using it to build a domain-driven asset management application, including a generated UI, REST API, persistence, and business rules. The post Introduction to Apache Causeway first appeared on Baeldung .   &#

FFI: Fix widening semantics for 64 bit arithmetic.

luajit @ 2026-07-25 20:53:11

Thanks to Frityet. #1492

‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 20:15:12

Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their bo

Java Weekly, Issue 656

Baeldung @ 2026-07-25 20:06:00

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 656 first appeared on Baeldung .              

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 19:44:13

The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its oblig

Análisis de ajedrez | El tercer iraní sube mucho

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-25 19:34:12

Tabatabaei, de 25 años, se consolida en la élite tras un ascenso lento pero muy consistente en el último lustro

Court Grants SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Google Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 19:27:19

Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the cou

Apple Maps to Power Navigation Experience for Ford’s New EVs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 18:21:00

Apple Newsroom: Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK. Coming to Ford’s UEV Platform in 2027, this integr

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 18:06:52

Teddy Rosenbluth, reporting for The New York Times: On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set last year , when mea

bIRC — A New Native IRC Client for Mac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-25 17:39:51

For a long time the best native Mac IRC client was Textual , but although Textual still works, it’s been sunset by the author. Not to fear, however. Fredrik Blank just launched bIRC: Creating an IRC client in 2026 is not something that will pay t

1,500 curl authors

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-25 16:29:28

It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository holds the accumulated efforts from 1,500 separate an

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-25 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Excel column numbering

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-25 15:37:30

I was working with a wide spreadsheet from a client the other day and I had to convert between Excel column labels and column numbers. I had never paid attention to how Excel labels columns and implicitly thought it was base 26 using letters rather than d

Thock

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-07-25 02:00:00

Tastatur und Flasche auf Jörgs Schreibtisch. Als das Wasser floss.

Pairing In-Process and Hosted Embeddings for Java MCP Tool Development

Inside Java @ 2026-07-25 02:00:00

Discover why a Java MCP tool can benefit from both in-process and hosted embeddings: in-process embeddings keep development, testing, and conformance fast and reliable, while external provider-backed embeddings offer production-quality semantic scoring be

Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-24 23:47:42

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. The post Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 22:57:20

Ultimately, when you install a content blocker extension, you take responsibility for any overzealousness in what they block.

Coiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 20:51:29

Speaking of dickovers , here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic: Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining . Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marke

Dickover of the Week: Tomtoc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 18:43:43

Here’s a real gem that a reader sent me. Tomtoc is a maker of laptop bags and sleeves. Visit their homepage and, of course, you’ll get a dickover asking you to join their mailing list “for exclusive updates and get a chance to win a free tech pouch ever

Sixers Sign LeBron James

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 18:40:00

The betting odds for the Sixers to win the NBA championship went from 20-1 to 10-1. Here’s James on Twitter/X , explaining his decision: This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this

The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-24 17:44:11

Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion : Try the p

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5

old new thing @ 2026-07-24 16:00:00

Making sure to use the non-agile delegate non-agile-ly. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Invaders! is back: rescued from a forgotten Bitbucket account

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-24 14:00:00

Fresh from resurrecting Tanks! Mayhem , I went digging for the other game I wrote back in the early App Store days: Invaders! , a 2009 Space Invaders homage for the iPhone. It wasn’t a straight clone - the aliens teleport in, some of them carry bubble s

Signal then storm

AEON @ 2026-07-24 12:00:00

Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped - by Stephani Sutherland Read on Aeon

El arcoíris desde el infrarrojo cercano hasta el ultravioleta

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-24 10:20:52

Imagina que eres un cíborg con ojos biónicos capaces de ver desde el infrarrojo (IR) hasta el ultravioleta (UV). ¿Cómo verías el arcoíris? Un artículo en Applied Optics ha calculado […] La entrada El arcoíris desde el infrarrojo cercano hasta el

Análisis de ajedrez | El arte del recontragolpe

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-24 09:43:21

El excelso compositor Martin Minski vuelve a deleitar, esta vez con una cascada de recursos tan sorprendentes como bellos