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slashdot @ 2026-08-10 23:00:00

Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhe

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 22:01:00

Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 21:00:00

Nvidia is working with Wall Street heavyweights on a potential $500 billion financing package for AI infrastructure (source paywalled; alternative source). The consortium includes BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Gol

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 20:00:00

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta's closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 19:00:00

Taiwan deliberately throttled mobile internet across the Taichung area during its annual Han Kuang war games, "simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster," reports Reuters. The drill accompanied air-raid exerci

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News & Headlines: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 17:32:04

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 17:00:00

Paramount is making commitments to major theater chains to release 30 films annually for three years if its Warner Bros. deal goes through. According to Deadline, the written commitment was sent to "at least one of the top two circuits" (specifically Regal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 16:06:22

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 14:26:05

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slashdot @ 2026-08-10 13:34:00

Three years ago environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside California's Chiquita Canyon Landfill, reports the Los Angeles Times. [Alternate URL here.] "Few imagined the calamity that would follow. "Somehow the landfill's pollution co

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 12:10:02

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GitHub Code Quality is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team. The service combines CodeQL analysis with AI-assisted detection of maintainability and reliability problems, then uses Copilot Autofix to suggest changes for revie

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 09:34:00

Futurism reports: 404 Media revealed that a July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General caught the department's ALPR cameras generating 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — each one ending wit

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 09:00:00

Cloud Native Buildpacks, which graduated within the CNCF in July 2026, move base image choice out of per-service Dockerfiles into a single builder owned by platform engineering, enabling fleet-wide patching. BellSoft's hardened Paketo builder is the late

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

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

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

Angular v22, Google's TypeScript-first framework, has introduced API stabilizations, ergonomic templates, and tooling enhancements for AI integration. Key developments include the stabilization of Signal Forms, improved change detection strategies, and a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 08:02:38

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slashdot @ 2026-08-10 06:34:00

Microsoft's cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . "The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite apparently being a beta application aimed at consumer functio

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 06:04:00

The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model of Kubernetes' landscape. From core infrastructure to high-level orc

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-10 05:50:00

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slashdot @ 2026-08-10 03:59:00

With nearly 70% of the market, "Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit," writes the Los Angeles Times. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they're being filmed, "the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 02:59:00

Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate. But there's something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. "By the time the Lin

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

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

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 01:15:00

A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littletonâ(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..." Littleton had temporarily

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 00:15:00

NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations." "Mal

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-08-09 23:15:00

XDA Developers reports: On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight lin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 21:16:49

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 19:23:22

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 17:21:46

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 16:32:53

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

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 13:30:48

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

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-09 06:30:26

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8) appeared first on SingularityHub .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A bunch of mine are stored here.  ★ 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OpenAI v Apple, Databases, ContentBuilder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-08-06 17:06:15

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.  ★ 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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 @ 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

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

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

New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code

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.

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

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.  ★ 

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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