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slashdot @ 2026-06-05 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 y

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 02:43:33

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules . Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own vir

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

InfoWorld - IBM and Red Hat want to become the ‘security clearinghouse’ for open source applications in the enterpriseInfoWorld looks at IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by 20,000 engineers to act as an AI-powered securit

slashdot @ 2026-06-05 01:00:00

Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention. The company says a global ability to pause or sl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-05 00:17:05

The gap between what AI can do in biology and what governance systems are prepared to handle is growing. The post AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity. appeared first

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 00:05:05

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you sho

slashdot @ 2026-06-05 00:00:00

A new npm supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages with Rust-based infostealer malware called IronWorm. According to BleepingComputer, the malware "targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS,

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:42:35

All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider , Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 M

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:25:27

Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link): This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO Sa

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 22:12:11

One reason people study Latin is that it is the ancestor of many modern languages. English derives from West Germanic languages, not from Latin, but much of English vocabulary, perhaps as much as 60%, derives from Latin, either directly or indirectly thro

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 22:11:20

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slashdot @ 2026-06-04 22:00:00

Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesd

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 21:36:48

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-04 21:10:16

El actual poseedor del trono sigue en una baja forma alarmante a cinco meses de su defensa contra Sindárov

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 21:00:00

The U.S. and its Five Eyes intelligence partners issued a joint warning (PDF) that Chinese military intelligence services are using LinkedIn and other professional networking sites to recruit people with access to government, military, foreign policy, or s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:43:47

Peter Borg: Lingon makes scheduling apps, scripts, shortcuts, and commands feel simple. Create a task in minutes, run it on a schedule, and stay in control. Lingon helps you run whatever you want whenever you want without living in Terminal. Schedul

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:10:19

Loren Brichter , back in 2020: Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process) [1] , and made my whole computer slow

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision (PDF)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 19:39:13

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 19:29:26

Two months ago Google launched a new native Mac app for Gemini. I’ve been trying it, on and off, since. It’s ... not bad. Certainly better than Claude’s Electron shitbox. But the Gemini app isn’t all that good, either. I’m sticking with ChatGPT, which rem

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 19:18:40

Several posts lately have looked at the function f(x) = cos(sin(x) + x). This post will look at the function from a different angle. It’s a smooth function with period 2π, and it’s very flat at odd multiples of π, i.e. the first five derivativ

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 19:00:00

schwit1 shares a report from NJ.com: Samsung is pulling up stakes in New Jersey and heading to Texas, a move that could leave roughly 1,000 Garden State workers facing a stark choice: relocate or risk losing their jobs. The South Korean tech giant confirme

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 18:20:17

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Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-04 18:00:00

A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 18:00:00

joshuark shares a report from The Verge: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas' App Store Acc

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers' content in its AI-generated search features. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Goo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 16:36:39

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-04 16:12:35

The podcast returns with 12 all-new episodes that explore the biggest questions in basic science and mathematics. The post More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on Quanta Maga

InfoQ @ 2026-06-04 16:02:00

Uber introduced a high-throughput financial ledger processing system designed to handle hot account write contention at scale. Using 250ms batching, Redis coordination, and optimistic atomic updates, the system supports 30+ updates per second per account

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 15:48:56

I was thinking more about the cosine approximation to the Gaussian exp(−z²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(z) + z))/2 that I wrote about last week. The two expressions above are close along the real axis but not along the imaginary axis. If z = iy, the right side grows m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 15:43:26

Jason Snell at Six Colors, looking ahead to WWDC next week: These days, I’m getting emails pitching me for an endless stream of new Mac apps. It’s quite remarkable because there was a period five or ten years ago when it seemed like all app developmen

tecosystems @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

Sogrady @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 15:00:51

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ASF @ 2026-06-04 15:00:00

Apache® Livy, a REST service for Apache Spark™, becomes a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE –  June 4, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apachy Livy has becom

InfoQ @ 2026-06-04 13:54:00

To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven conversations where SLOs and SLAs were democratised. Surviving

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 13:39:28

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 13:17:34

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slashdot @ 2026-06-04 13:00:00

NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after the Mars orbiter stopped responding in December, apparently after an unexpected spin drained its batteries and knocked out communications. Launched in 2013 and orbiting Mars since 2014, MAVEN spent more tha

Swift blog @ 2026-06-04 12:00:00

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup ! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 10:56:10

You can get a 2h free trial by solving a proof-of-work captcha when topping up your account for the first time. If you'd like to learn more, an independent interview was posted a couple of weeks ago [1], and the FAQ [2] has a lot of information as well.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 10:45:36

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InfoQ @ 2026-06-04 10:25:00

AWS disclosed that Resilient Network Graphs, a flat network architecture based on quasi-random graph theory, is now the default for most new data center builds. The design replaces fat-tree hierarchies with direct ToR-to-ToR mesh connections using passiv

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 09:00:00

Amazon has reportedly killed its planned new Stargate series despite giving it a series order in 2025. According to Variety, studio executives were worried it would only appeal to longtime fans. ScreenRant reports: Reports of what became Gero's Stargate se

InfoQ @ 2026-06-04 08:47:00

Vercel has released Next.js 16.2, featuring performance enhancements that make development startup 400% faster and rendering up to 60% quicker. The update includes AI-assisted development tools, improved Turbopack efficiency, and better error reporting.

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere's r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:26:50

I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:23:25

Back in 2011, when he was a tech columnist at The New York Times, Nick Bilton figured out that Apple was soon going to launch an Apple branded-television set, with no remote control. You’d just talk to it. This made no sense of course, as I pointed out .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 02:56:32

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

In the dynamic digital landscape of the Middle East, we are seeing a shift from AI experimentation to production-ready innovation. This transition is becoming a key factor in driving national competitiveness and economic resilience across the region.The op

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

Telecommunications (telco) service providers face a landscape of massive operational complexity. As they adopt 5G standalone architectures and multivendor radio access networks (RANs), they must manage billions of events across hundreds of thousands of net

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

As we at Red Hat continue to evolve our products, we are also transforming how you consume the information needed to run them. We are excited to announce a wave of significant enhancements coming to the Red Hat documentation experience at docs.redhat.com.T

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

It’s no surprise that AI has altered the technology landscape and added more complexity for IT teams. And when it comes to vulnerability management and patching, scheduled security is now outpaced by AI-detected vulnerabilities. This new complexity means o

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-04 02:00:00

Future historians will remember spring 2026 as the dawn of AI-driven security vulnerability reporting. On April 7, Anthropic announced a preview of its Claude Mythos AI model, made available to select companies as part of Project Glasswing. The initiative

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-04 01:37:18

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 01:19:28

Scott Pelley, in a statement posted on Instagram (which I’ll quote in full, as the original is locked behind a dickwall if you’re not signed in to an Instagram account): There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday traditio

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 01:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Fedora Linux 43 users upgrading to the latest Dovecot mail server discovered something rather unsettling: some older Microsoft Outlook configurations may have been silently ignoring SSL/TLS settings for POP3 email connections for years

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-04 00:37:29

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plu

slashdot @ 2026-06-04 00:00:00

Ancient Slashdot reader whitroth shares a report from Politico, with the caption: "shutting down Microsoft Office for the International Criminal Court (ICC) was clearly a wake-up call." From the report: The EU is moving to counter American dominance in tec

Swift blog @ 2026-06-03 23:45:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 23:32:52

Paramount’s “Press Express” page promoting 60 Minutes still lists all eight correspondents from the 2025–2026 season, the program’s 58th. (Perhaps they fired the person responsible for keeping the cast page up to date.) In the order they appear on Paramou

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-03 21:58:03

Yesterday, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt delivered her last annual State of the Sciences Address . Overall the talk basically calls us to adapt to the new reality that industrial and foundation support for research has taken a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:49:56

Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum: In a formal letter to Mr. Pelley, which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Bilton wrote that the correspondent had been “terminated for cause effective immediately.” The letter is a must-read. No sum

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:39:13

Joanna Stern, on YouTube: People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing b

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-03 21:02:26

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-03 19:00:22

Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. As previously announced , this includes age

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-03 18:58:39

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Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-03 18:00:00

U.S. gas prices jumped nearly 60% since January in the 2026 oil crisis, but adjusted for inflation they sit below the 1981, 2008, and 2022 peaks.

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-03 17:13:24

Suppose you run across the power series for the exponential function and decide to code it up. Good idea: you’ll probably learn something, though maybe not what you expect. Maybe you decide a tolerance of 10−12 is good enough, and so you sum the ter

TED Blog @ 2026-06-03 17:00:13

The interstitial program of TED2026 was a mixed celebration of the acutely human and the purely robotic. We were brought back to basic tenets of human connection through the rhythmic dance piece “Nemesis”; an animated short where music is the thread tying

InfoQ @ 2026-06-03 16:54:00

Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, and configuration propagation across distributed services. The approach enables consistent measurement acr

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-03 16:34:29

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” The post Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. first appeared on Quanta

old new thing @ 2026-06-03 16:00:00

We've seen this before. The post Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-03 16:00:00

A new process for mining lithium-rich rock could slash costs and pollution—and decentralize global lithium production. The post Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip. appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-03 14:38:48

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 560 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “OVNIs; Cetáceos; Sag A*; IA en Matemáticas; Arqueoastronomía Solar”, 28 may 2026. «La […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 560: OVNIs de Trump

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-03 14:00:13

Apple Developer Centers are dedicated spaces designed for in-person developer sessions, labs, workshops, and appointments across a wide range of Apple technologies and platforms. With locations in Cupertino, Shanghai, Bengaluru, and Singapore, these p

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-03 13:31:43

La kazaja es, ante todo, una competidora feroz, más allá del talento imprescindible para llegar a la élite y triunfar

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

Kotlin news @ 2026-06-03 12:14:55

The Kotlin 2.4.0 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.0 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.0 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest ve

InfoQ @ 2026-06-03 08:40:00

Node.js will change its release schedule starting with version 27 in October 2026, moving from two major releases per year to one. All releases will become Long-Term Support (LTS), removing the distinction between odd and even versions. An Alpha channel

This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-03 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-03 02:00:00

Every day, I talk to IT executives, commercial leaders, and partners who are facing the exact same pressure: How do we move from AI experimentation to true enterprise production?If you glance at the tech headlines today, you’d think the answer is simple. T

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 23:54:43

James Pero, summarizing for Gizmodo this paywalled report by Jyoti Mann for The Information: But, wait, there’s more: in addition to the fall releases, The Information reports that Meta also has a pair slated for December, codenamed “Mojito VIP.” Th

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-02 23:26:52

The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:48:08

One more bit of “ metaverse fever dream ” follow-up. The one company in the field that Nick Heer doesn’t mention is Apple, makers of the best-known (albeit not best-selling) virtual reality headset. Think and say what you want about the Vision platform

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 22:42:33

A follow-up point from my post yesterday linking to Nick Heer’s blockbuster “ The Metaverse Fever Dream ”. In particular, the connection Heer draws between the rise of “metaverse” hype and the pandemic. I always sort of knew that metaverse hype roughl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 21:53:47

Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a s

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-02 21:22:35

Praggnanandhaa aprovecha el ansia por ganar del noruego y le derrota por 2ª vez en una semana con un juego muy consistente

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-02 21:09:49

From April 24–26, the FreeBSD community held its first regional hackathon in the Frankfurt area (Germany). The three-day event brought together 25 attendees, including seasoned project committers and guests interested in learning more about the FreeBSD co

Microsoft Quantum Blog @ 2026-06-02 20:30:00

Majorana 2 contains qubits that are 1,000x more reliable than those in our previous quantum processing unit. This rapid progress, enabled by AI, has cut our timeline in half for delivering a scalable quantum computer—now anticipated by 2029. The post M

tecosystems @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

Sogrady @ 2026-06-02 19:32:32

The term “open source” was coined in 1998, at least in part, because the term that preceded it was unclear and required explanation. Free software was descriptive and understood within technical communities familiar with it, but misleading to newcomers who

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-02 19:00:00

Across 40 OECD economies, the countries that log the most annual hours have the lowest output per hour. Why working longer rarely means producing more.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 18:10:24

Jason Zweig, back in 2018: My father , who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking for

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-02 17:50:09

Join us in celebrating these extraordinary apps and games. Meet the 2026 Apple Design Award winners

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 17:08:12

Neil Panchal, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Of all the dickovers, the dickover that blueballs you with some first-time buyer incentive. “Sign up and get 10% discount, new accounts only”, the dickover boasts. Never understood why you’d ever penalize

old new thing @ 2026-06-02 16:00:00

Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-06-02 14:00:00

OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale. By Craig Risi

Martin Fowler @ 2026-06-02 11:21:00

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more prod

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-02 10:16:58

Quantum 10, 2125 (2026). We construct a local decoder for the 2D toric code using ideas from the hierarchical classical cellular automata of Tsirelson and Gács. Our decoder is a circuit of strictly local quantu

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-02 10:00:32

I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay off people, and oligarchs are using it to extract lots of

InfoQ @ 2026-06-02 08:33:00

Google has released a new CLI for Google Workspace, offering a unified interface for various services like Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Built in Rust, the tool dynamically adjusts to API changes and features over 100 bundled skills. It requires Node.js an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 03:45:43

Mux is what developers reach for when they need to do more with video. Video files are packed with data and context waiting to be unlocked. Mux Robots are AI workflows that unlock that data inside your video for summarization, caption translation, moder

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-02 02:59:55

A huge analysis of gene expression across species revealed genetic hallmarks of aging and could accelerate anti-aging treatments. The post How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have the Answer appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 02:24:39

Nick Heer, at Pixel Envy, last week published a remarkable essay surveying — with copious receipts — the rise and fall of “metaverse” hype: The obsession with the metaverse seems to have solidified in Silicon Valley after Matthew Ball published an e

Rust blog @ 2026-06-02 02:00:00

If you want to financially support the development of Rust, please consider donating to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. A few months ago, the Rust Foundation announced the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Proje

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

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces highly anticipated networking design flows to simplify network management. Tailored to VM network requirements, this complete workflow lets you more efficiently create networks, configure them on specific no

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

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Copy-Fail (CVE-2026-31431) and how Red Hat OpenShift’s defense-in-depth approach prevented container escape despite a vulnerable kernel. I spent time actively trying to break out of an OpenShift container, achieved root

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

Industrial teams are eager to implement AI in critical locations: on factory floors, at logistics hubs, in remote field operations, and as the intelligence driving robots. However, a significant number of such projects fail to move past the pilot phase. Th

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

JFR simplifies troubleshooting and profiling by capturing detailed JVM event data—and with the JFR Streaming API, you can access those insights in real time. But what if you could go further and stream live JFR data straight into an AI system to enhance mo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-02 01:31:54

Hamilton Nolan, writing at How Things Work: There are only a few reasons why you might be hired for a prestigious job that you are obviously not qualified for. One is “they have recognized you for the genius that you are.” The urge to conclude that th

Baeldung @ 2026-06-02 00:08:16

Learn what Alibaba Nacos is, how to set it up, and how to use it for service discovery, centralized configuration management, and coordination in distributed applications. The post Introduction to Alibaba Nacos first appeared on Baeldung .  

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-01 23:33:28

OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock's high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token prici

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 23:30:00

This week's Java roundup for May 25th, 2026, features news highlighting: lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; the eighth milestone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 22:05:17

Om Malik: The Adventures of Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881, aimed at Italian children in the way the 19th century aimed things at children, full of suffering, consequence, and moral instruction delivered through catastrophe. The pupp

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-01 21:44:16

So concede el empate a Gukesh con una ventaja de casi 20 minutos en una posición muy complicada

Confluent @ 2026-06-01 19:13:13

Apache Kafka 4.3, a release powered by 25 new KIPs. Apache Kafka 4.3 includes first-class support for preserving record headers in Kafka Streams

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-01 19:00:00

Of the 16.4 million who served in World War II, the VA projects about 31,000 U.S. veterans are still alive in 2026, nearing zero by the early 2040s.

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 18:55:00

Anthropic introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new capability for Claude Code designed to handle complex software engineering tasks by coordinating large numbers of AI agents within a single workflow. The feature allows Claude to dynamically create orchestra

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 18:41:51

Katie Notopoulos, a month ago at Business Insider: Amazon has launched a new feature that uses AI to generate a short, podcast-like audio segment where two “hosts” discuss the merits and reviews of a specific product. I think it could be one of th

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-06-01 17:20:33

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, but very slowly. The sum of the reciprocals of the first 100 primes is 2.106… The sum of the reciprocals of the first 1,000 primes is 2.457… For the first 10,000 it’s 2.709… And it

Physics Phorums @ 2026-06-01 17:20:33

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, but very slowly. The sum of the reciprocals of the first 100 primes is 2.106… The sum of the reciprocals of the first 1,000 primes is 2.457… For the first 10,000 it’s 2.709… And it

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-01 16:44:57

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began. The post The Dirt That Refused To Die first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-01 16:25:33

In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops I’ve been delivering. Last week I was back at it, this time in Denver for a two-day AI-DLC workshop, where I helped faci

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 16:25:00

Shopify introduced GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution. The redesign improves large-scale GraphQL performance with up to 15x faster field execution, 6x lower GC overhead, and +4s P50 laten

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-01 16:00:22

WWDC26 is just one week away. Get ready for five days of technology, creativity, and community — all online and free. Learn more

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 16:00:00

BadHost is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in the widely used Python web framework Starlette, with 325 million weekly downloads. The flaw allows attackers to use malformed HTTP Host headers to bypass path-based access controls and acc

old new thing @ 2026-06-01 16:00:00

Modern this and that. The post The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-01 15:02:03

 Odd Scenarios about Research Claims I blogged about OpenAI's achievement of having AI solve a math problem  here . My post had a few comments about authorship of such results. Lance had a post about co-authorship and AI  here There are

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-01 14:42:12

There is still active discussion on X about the approximation exp(−x²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(x) + x))/2 and some are saying this can just be explained by Taylor series: the series for the two sides differ for the first time at the x6 term, so that’s why yo

Swift blog @ 2026-06-01 14:00:00

Goodnotes has been helping millions of users take handwritten notes on iPad for over a decade, earning recognition as Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022. Today, the same Swift code that powers our iOS app also runs seamlessly in web browsers through We

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 13:54:59

Quantum 10, 2124 (2026). We present a new simulation-secure quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocol based on one-way functions in the plain model. With a focus on practical implementation, our protocol surpas

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-01 13:01:26

Readers have subscribed to this blog via email almost from its beginning in 2008, but how they have subscribed has changed several times. I’ve used several services to provide email subscription that have come and gone. For the past two years I̵

InfoQ @ 2026-06-01 11:55:00

A security researcher found that adding a trailing slash to AWS HTTP API paths bypassed Lambda authorizer authentication entirely, enabling unauthenticated wire transfers at a fintech. The root cause is a path normalization mismatch between HTTP API's gr

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 10:01:22

Quantum 10, 2123 (2026). We investigate quantum cellular automata (QCA) on one-dimensional spin systems defined over a subalgebra of the full local operator algebra – the symmetric subalgebra under a finite Abe

Baeldung @ 2026-06-01 09:59:55

Explore two approaches to solving the Sock Merchant Problem in Java. The post How to Solve the Sock Merchant Problem in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-01 09:49:33

Quantum 10, 2122 (2026). This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formali

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 03:59:00

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you sho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 03:55:40

My thanks to exe.dev for sponsoring last week at DF (with a very cool graphic ad  — just love the way it looks). exe.dev is a cloud for the agent era — it gives you a pool of VMs with SSH, root, and web auth by default. Secrets injected at the network

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-01 02:15:44

Mark Gurman, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ) Kelsey Peterson, the Apple AI employee who introduced the never-launched Siri revamp in 2024, just started at OpenAI — so we’ll be getting someone new next month for Attempt 2 at WWDC. Pretty sure we were

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-31 21:10:40

Después de tres derrotas en cinco rondas, el ‘número uno’ vence al líder, quien le había ganado en la ronda inaugural

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:27:48

Explore various strategies for waiting until a JavaScript-heavy page is fully loaded in Selenium WebDriver. The post Waiting for Complex Page With JavaScript to Load in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:19:02

Learn how to build a subagent orchestration system using Spring AI and Spring AI Community Agent Utils. The post Guide to Subagent Orchestration in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-05-31 19:16:19

Learn how to build a Spring AI MCP server, connect it to Claude Desktop, and embed interactive HTML UIs directly inside AI chat conversations. The post Embedding HTML UIs in MCP Servers With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .    

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-31 18:15:49

The function (1 + cos(x))/2 gives a fair approximation to the Gaussian density exp(−x²) You can make the approximation much better by raising it to a power. The function ((1 + cos(x))/2)4 gives a good lower bound and ((1 + cos(x))/2)3.5597 gives a good up

InfoQ @ 2026-05-31 13:17:00

DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was previously mostl

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-30 23:06:49

If a polynomial identity holds at a few random points, it’s very like true. We’ll make this statement more precise, but first let’s look at some applications. You may want to test an identity that naturally presents itself as a statement

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-30 21:32:53

El noruego olvida sus propios análisis en las horas previas, se lanza a ganar cuando estaba peor y cae de forma inapelable

InfoQ @ 2026-05-30 21:00:00

Arm has open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework designed to autonomously uncover complex software vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional pattern-based tools, Metis applies semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 17:34:02

Sarah Perez, reporting for TechCrunch: Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 17:27:20

Daniel Jalkut, on Mastodon (cross-posted to Bluesky and Threads ): My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. I concur with this take completely. ( Sidenote: The diff

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-30 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 May 30) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-30 14:28:10

Fun show, good questions I thought.  ★ 

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-30 01:24:39

Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining on lithium in consistency and fast charging. The post Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-29 22:58:56

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newslet

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-29 19:12:37

Jiner Zhu, estrella emergente del ajedrez femenino, y Assaubáyeva, subcampeona del Candidatas, disputaron una lucha trepidante

Baeldung @ 2026-05-29 19:00:42

Getting to value classes and mechanically enforced security in this era of AI. A solid week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 648 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-29 18:22:10

Paul Krugman, describing a few striking data visualizations: YouGov’s surveys subdivide Republicans into those who do and those who don’t support MAGA — and the economic views of these two groups are very different. A remarkable 65 percent of non-MAGA

old new thing @ 2026-05-29 16:00:00

A variation where we try only once. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-29 15:54:11

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the surprising power of ordinary “classical” machines. The post Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Requir

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-29 14:24:30

Canonical example The sample variance of a set of numbers is defined in terms of the sum of the squared distances from each point to the mean. So it would seem that you first need to calculate the mean, then go back and compute the squared differences fro

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:31:23

Quantum 10, 2121 (2026). A rigorous characterization of the information content of any highest-spin three-fermion wave function is presented. It is based upon a formal decomposition of the wave function into a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:14:38

Quantum 10, 2120 (2026). Haar random states are fundamental objects in quantum information theory and quantum computing. We study the density matrix resulting from sampling $t$ copies of a $d$-dimensional quant

AEON @ 2026-05-29 12:00:00

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:45:14

Quantum 10, 2119 (2026). Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) have emerged as a valuable tool in the study of parameterized quantum circuits, helping to characterize both their expressiveness and trainability. In part

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:31:21

Quantum 10, 2118 (2026). We propose an efficient classical algorithm to estimate the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) associated with a broad class of quantum neural networks. These networks consist of arbitrary uni

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:16:34

Quantum 10, 2117 (2026). The availability of certain entangled resource states (catalyst states) can enhance the rate of converting several less entangled states into fewer highly entangled states in a process