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Cloudflare Develops Public Certificate Authority for Post-Quantum Web Security
InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 15:35:00
Cloudflare is developing a public certificate authority for Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) to reduce the bandwidth overhead of post-quantum cryptography. A Chrome experiment served billions of MTCs to 50% of Chrome Beta 146 for selected domains, reporti
Finite hyperbolic planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:26:09
Euclid’s fifth postulate says that given a line ℓ and a point P not on ℓ , there is a unique line through P parallel to ℓ. In the projective plane there are no parallel lines, and in the hyperbolic plane there are at least two lines through P parall
Finite Affine Planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:21:49
The previous post was on finite projective planes. This post will look at finite affine planes and the next will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Affine geometry is essentially what remains of Euclidean geometry if you keep the incidence properties, e.g.
Orbiter Detects Signs of Possible Volcanic Activity on Mars
slashdot @ 2026-11-09 13:34:00
Futurism reports: While many scientists have long held that Mars is "geologically dead" inside, new research is adding to the growing body of evidence to the contrary. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, an internationa
A trip to upside-down world
AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:01:00
Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
AWS Launches TorchNeuron to Run PyTorch Models on AWS Trainium Without Modifications
InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00
At the recent PyTorch Conference North America 2026, Amazon introduced TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend that enables developers to run existing PyTorch code on AWS Trainium AI chips with virtually no code modifications. By Sergio De Simone
Equality talk
AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00
In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon
Surprise for Cast of 'Return of the Living Dead' Sequel. They Were Replaced by AI
slashdot @ 2026-11-09 09:34:00
A crowdfunded sequel to the movie Return of the Living Dead was uploaded last weekend — but producer Richard Driscoll is drawing criticism for what he did to the 1985 punk/zombie classic. Kotaku reports: [The release of the movie] came to the surpr
Pinterest Replaces Journey Clustering with 4B Qwen3 LLM, Reports Improved Engagement
InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 08:25:00
Pinterest has moved its user-journey inference system from a multi-stage clustering pipeline to a fine-tuned 4-billion-parameter language model, reporting a 1.1% improvement in email click-through and 1.3% higher push opens. By Matt Foster
Tokio Releases Topcoat: A Batteries-Included Full-Stack Rust Framework
InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 07:42:00
Topcoat is an open-source, server-rendered full-stack web framework for Rust from the Tokio team, now public at version 0.9. It uses Rust expressions translated to JavaScript for reactivity instead of WebAssembly. It targets typical database-driven apps.
Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering
slashdot @ 2026-11-09 06:35:00
It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed... They have announced that
Electric Cars Are Close to Overtaking Petrol In the UK, Data Shows
slashdot @ 2026-11-09 03:34:00
69 million people people live in the United Kingdom. And now >Electrek reports: Battery-electric cars took 32% of the UK's new car market in October, while petrol cars fell to just 37.2%, according to new data from the SMMT. That's the closest the tw
Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi have written a book that is a sequel to Garey and Johnson
Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-09 02:31:45
LANCE: You should take a break from all the AI stuff and talk about your book! BILL: I will! But it's not my book its co-authored with Erik Demaine and Mohammad Hajiaghayi. The title is Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmi
Can CrowdStrike's New 'AI Kill Switch' Shut Down Rogue AI Agents?
slashdot @ 2026-11-09 01:21:00
CrowdStrike's "Falcon Guardian" protects Windows systems by enforcing policy, restricting unauthorized applications and blocking USB devices, notes Gartner. And now CrowdStrike says they're giving security teams "the ultimate human control over AI agents"
A Valhalla Ticker in One int
Inside Java @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00
Learn how to pack a short ticker symbol into one int with a value class implementing CharSequence and Comparable.
Jensen Huang Betrayed Nvidia, Not Just His Family
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 00:56:32
Julian E. Barnes, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur, and Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times on Friday: John Rizzo, an Nvidia spokesman, said that the company does not share classified information with its customers, and that customers do not ask
Finite Projective Planes
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 00:23:49
The idea of finite geometries sounds like an oxymoron the first time you hear of it, something like dry water or cold fire, but the axioms of some kinds of geometry can indeed be satisfied by finite models. The axioms of projective plane geometry are as f
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Was Banging a Chinese Spy, Who Was Feeding Information Back to Beijing
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-08 22:50:31
Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times: Nvidia said on Sunday that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, its chief executive and co-founder, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business ex
Nvidia CEO Admits Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy. Investigation Opened
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 22:34:00
CNBC reports new details about the relationship of alleged Chinese spy with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Huang told Nvidia staff in a email on Sunday that he had an affair with the woman and that Nvidia's board of directors had opened an independent investiga
Parents Sue Google Over AI Safety Risks On School Chromebooks
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 21:34:00
The New York Times reports: After chatting for months with Google's artificial intelligence on a school-issued Chromebook laptop, a 13-year-old student made plans to end her life, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday, the l
Salon, One of the Web's Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 20:34:00
"It has been an extraordinary privilege," says the subheading on Thursday's announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under the byline "Salon". It remembers that Salon "was an idea
FFI: Fix array initializer overflow check.
luajit @ 2026-11-08 20:07:27
This is not a security issue, as the FFI is considered unsafe. Reported by ZeroVuln Labs.
Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 19:34:00
Be careful with the file .claude/settings.local.json, warns The Hacker News: Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user select
FFI: Sign-extend negative integers cast to 64 bit pointers.
luajit @ 2026-11-08 18:56:47
Thanks to javacty. #1541
Do Data Centers Have a Smaller Effect on Electricity Prices Than We Think?
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 18:34:00
"According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, data centers are probably having only a small effect on residential electricity prices," reports the Washington Post. "The researchers calculated that thes
Norwegians Release FOSS GNOME Software for Music Recording, Internet Radio, and Cameras
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 17:34:00
ole (Slashdot reader #19,909) writes in about his free, Norwegian open-source music recording studio for GNOME called GarageJam, which he says allows musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet. The latest release, Gar
Python's CVEs Triple. Anthropic Funds a New Security Developer
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 16:34:00
In the last year CVEs have increased 3x for Python and its package manager Pip, according to Python's security developer in residence Seth Larson. "And the amount of malware published and removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) is up 60%." Securing Py
How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files
Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:31:31
Learn how to handle a missing tools.jar on newer JDK versions that may be defined as a system dependency in an older Maven project. The post How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files first appeared on Baeldung .
Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver
Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:20:05
Learn how to access shadow DOM elements with Selenium, understand shadow-root boundaries, and compare native WebDriver support with JavaScript-based approaches. The post Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung .
Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 13:34:00
"Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year," writes FSF deputy director Sean O'Brien. "November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose contributions helped shape the modern internet." The Int
Entire's Git Forge Rethinks Git Collaboration for Coding Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 12:00:00
Entire is a Git forge designed specifically for collaboration between human developers and AI coding agents. Its premise is that traditional software development infrastructure, particularly the pull request (PR) model, is not well suited to an environme
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran ataque sin miedo
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-08 09:09:37
Pogorélov, flamante campeón de España +65, de origen ucranio, firma una virtuosa ofensiva con las piezas negras en el Mundial de veteranos
NASA Announces It's Looking for New Astronauts
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 09:03:00
Saturday NASA officials announced it's accepting applications for a new astronaut class, reports the Associated Press: With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits as it looks to expand humanity's presence beyond low-Earth orbit as
Google Cloud Adds Self-Managed VMware Cloud Foundation on Bare Metal
InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 08:16:00
Google Cloud has made a self-managed VMware solution generally available, running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x on dedicated Z3 bare metal with root access across ESXi, vCenter and NSX in 22 regions. It sits beside the Google-managed VMware Engine and matc
Cloudflare Scales D1 Control Plane to Millions of Databases
InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 07:34:00
In a recent article, Cloudflare shared the redesign of the control plane of its D1 serverless SQL database to support millions of databases, avoiding centralized bottlenecks, implementing retries and idempotency, and using eventual consistency. By Rena
Scifi Magazine 'Starlog' Relaunches, and Back Issues Return to Internet Archive
slashdot @ 2026-11-08 05:03:00
Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news about the classic science ficdtion magazine Starlog. It's 33-year run from 1976 to 2009 is now available on the Internet Archive. And 17 years after publishing its final issue, Starlog is relaunching, publishing one
Java and the Next Generation of Programming Models
Inside Java @ 2026-11-08 01:00:00
Modern software increasingly interacts with AI models, query languages, and other specialized programming models, forcing you to switch contexts, embed foreign code, or write verbose wrappers to bridge the gap. What if you could express logic from outside
Yours Truly on Full Stack Creator, Talking About the New MacBook Pros With PROLED XDR Displays
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-07 22:14:09
Tyler Stalman and David Altizer were kind enough to have me on their show this week. These new MacBook Pros are very fun computers that are very fun to talk about. (We even sneak in some love for Ricoh’s legendary GR line of compact cameras. I used my
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 7)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-07 16:00:00
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Rise of the Product Engineer
Code Capsule @ 2026-11-07 14:06:27
AI is increasingly enabling technically skilled engineering managers to identify business needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and build features independently. This may drive product and engineering roles to merge within 1.5-3 years, creating AI-native
How Grab Improved Mobile App Stability by Safely Handling Surge in AI-Generated Code Changes
InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 12:00:00
The growing adoption of AI coding assistants has accelerated development and increased the volume of code changes per release, bringing more opportunities for defects and crashes, says Grab. To address these challenges, they implemented a layered defense
Análisis de ajedrez | Adiós a César Estrada
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-07 11:35:50
El excampeón de España de veteranos, muy culto y gran conversador, tuvo una vida intensa, siempre compatible con su pasión por el ajedrez
Open Source pg_vectorsearch Brings More Scalable Vector Search to PostgreSQL
InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 10:49:00
Tiger Data has released pg_vectorsearch, an open source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search, currently in alpha. Its PRISM index uses data partitioning and compression instead of the graph-based approach used by pgvector’s HNSW index, reduc
Varlock Releases Bumpy: a File-Based Versioning Alternative to Changesets
InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 07:54:00
Bumpy is an MIT-licensed, TypeScript tool for version management and changelogs in monorepos. It follows the changesets workflow, using markdown bump files, and adds support for workspace and catalog protocols, custom publish commands, and branch-based p
★ Touch and Glow
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 20:50:46
Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles, the new MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays, and the state of the Macintosh platform.
Java Weekly, Issue 670
Baeldung @ 2026-11-06 18:35:09
Agentic refactoring which is actually cheap? Yes please. The post Java Weekly, Issue 670 first appeared on Baeldung .
Análisis de ajedrez | Ajedrez y música en Simpson’s
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-06 17:06:14
El gran maestro Luke McShane ofrece pistas sobre el mate de alfil y caballo durante una exhibición a ciegas en Londres
A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-06 16:48:54
Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument. The post A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality firs
Apple Support: ‘About the Illuminated Apple Logo on MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:03:51
Apple Support: To make the Apple logo dark in all lighting conditions, you can turn off its illumination using Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. You can also use Spotlight to find and open it. Type or paste this
The President is Coping Well
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:00:22
The WSJ, “Trump Signs Proclamation He Says Will Protect Oval Office From Major Changes”: President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as landmarks to prevent future presiden
Why are we all worked up about atomicity when applying hot-patches if we can just suspend all the threads?
old new thing @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00
Suspending all the threads stops the threads that are there now, those are not the only possible sources of change. The post Why are we all worked up about atomicity when applying hot-patches if we can just suspend all the threads? appeared first on
What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean?
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00
Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is—or might one day become—truly intelligent. The post What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean? appeared first on SingularityHub .
Yelp Combines Native and Server-Driven UI for its AI Assistant
InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 15:25:00
Yelp combines native mobile controls with server-driven conversation rendering in its AI Assistant using the CHAOS framework. The architecture separates view configuration from conversation data, supports backend-driven chat interactions, and enables fas
GitLab 19.5 Makes Agentic Development a Governed Part of the DevOps Platform
InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 13:00:00
GitLab 19.5, released on October 15, puts agentic software development and governance at the centre of the platform, making its GitLab MCP server generally available while expanding how external AI agents can interact with GitLab. By Craig Risi
TypeScript 7.1 Beta: Restores the Compiler API and Makes Vue and Svelte First-Class
InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 12:06:00
TypeScript 7.1 Beta, announced October 20, 2026, restores the compiler API removed in 7.0, now split into separate entry points. It adds content mappers, letting tools like Vue check non-standard files. One Vue project's type checks fell from 14.19 to 3.
Celestial nuisance
AEON @ 2026-11-06 12:00:00
The cosmos has become a lab for the Big Questions in physics. Along the way, we’ve lost sight of its glorious messiness - by Dylan Jow Read on Aeon
AWS Ships Continuum for Code Vulnerabilities
InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 11:00:00
AWS has made Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available in two regions. The service proves exploitability by running real exploits in a sandbox, then opens fixes as pull requests. Published pricing charges per finding processed as well as per
All you need is Trotter
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 10:40:19
Quantum 10, 2261 (2026). The work here enables a cost scaling of $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T ^{1+o(1)} {\rm log}^2 (1/\epsilon)}{\varepsilon}\right)$ and maximum depth $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T^{1+o(1)} {\rm log} (
Vault Fork OpenBao Adds External Keys and Quantum-Ready TLS
InfoQ @ 2026-11-06 10:00:00
OpenBao has released version 2.7, adding read scaling for PostgreSQL-backed deployments, support for external hardware security module (HSM) and key management service (KMS) keys, and post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. The release also introduces con
Bounding the entanglement of a state from its spectrum
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 09:00:23
Quantum 10, 2260 (2026). We introduce a framework to upper bound the entanglement content of a bipartite quantum state from its spectrum alone. Using linear maps and their inverses, we derive rigorous constrain
Issue 775
iOS Weekly @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
macOS vs iPadOS, Siri AI, WebKit goes dark, PictureWriter, Stream, DeviceMCP, App Store 2026 in numbers
EIP-8037/EIP-8038 Glamsterdam
Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
Glamsterdam, the next update for Ethereum, is currently being tested on testnets. During these tests Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely on certain invariants. These invariants will be broken by
Friday Five — November 6, 2026 | Red Hat
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
Smart Talks with IBM: The $5 Billion effort to help secure the world’s shared softwareProject Lightwell commits $5 billion and aims for 20,000 engineers to help secure open source software. Malcolm Gladwell talks with Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson among cybe
5-minute demo: How to manage applications at scale with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00
Operating cloud-native applications at enterprise scale is rarely a single-cluster affair. As businesses continue to expand across public cloud providers, private datacenters, and edge locations, platform and security teams run into a common operational is
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Is Open: Win a Trip to KotlinConf
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back! Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest Is Open: Win a Trip to KotlinConf
Kotlin news @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21
The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back! Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola
Salon Ceases Publication
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 22:31:04
Salon, in an unsigned goodbye post: Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them. Salon helped demonst
Meta Releases Mac Version of Edits
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 21:27:05
From Instagram’s Edits blog: I’m Brett Westervelt, and I lead the Edits app. In just over a year, 50 million people have made Edits part of how they bring ideas to life, and we’re excited to expand what Edits can do for creators. Today we’re bringin
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
Deepmind @ 2026-11-05 18:05:16
Análisis de ajedrez | El buen ojo de Àlvar
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-05 17:15:00
En una partida muy didáctica sobre el doble filo de las ventajas de espacio, el gran maestro español exhibe su profundidad de conceptos
You shouldn’t change the style of a Win32 static control after it has been created
old new thing @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00
It doesn't really handle that case. The post You shouldn’t change the style of a Win32 static control after it has been created appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Science Is Littered With AI Slop. A New Detector Could Filter It Out.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00
Rather than relying on text alone, the algorithm looks for clues in a paper’s reasoning. The post Science Is Littered With AI Slop. A New Detector Could Filter It Out. appeared first on SingularityHub .
The Data Product Platform Navigator
Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-05 15:11:00
Many organizations adopting data mesh and data products face a common challenge. They may be tasked with building a self-service platform for data products and data mesh from scratch, or they may have an existing platform that suffers from low adop
Post-selection games
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-05 13:41:52
Quantum 10, 2259 (2026). In this paper, we introduce post-selection games, a generalization of nonlocal games where each round can be not only won or lost by the players, but also discarded by the referee. Such
GSoC 2026 Showcase
Swift blog @ 2026-11-05 12:30:00
The Swift project once again participated in Google Summer of Code in 2026, pairing newcomers to open source with mentors to build new features for Swift and its ecosystem. This year, we ran three projects, all of which were completed successfully:
Their eyes
AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:01:00
In Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, low-paid labour fuels the driverless future of the Global North - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Methodical/mercurial
AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:00:00
I need order and routine – just as much as I crave excitement and variety. What’s life like with both autism and ADHD? - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
Episode 74 “Ask the Architects at Devoxx” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00
Recent and upcoming Java features (e.g. value classes, withers, and lazy constants) make it easier to define, construct, copy, and access immutable data
Bridging the open source remediation gap: Introducing two new lessons on Lightwell
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00
Modern enterprise development runs on open source. With this reliance, securing the open source software supply chain has reached a critical inflection point, especially as AI-assisted vulnerability discovery accelerates the speed and volume of CVE disclos
5-minute demo: How to build modern applications with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00
Building and deploying enterprise applications is no longer just about launching containers—it’s about managing the entire software lifecycle with a focus on security, intelligence, speed, and predictability. As a result, modern development teams must meet
3 recent enhancements to Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00
The product and engineering teams behind Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console are always working on ways to improve the user experience. Recently, we delivered a simplified and more customizable presentation that works the way our users do, and this article covers
Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
AWS Blog @ 2026-11-05 00:34:52
You can now migrate existing Apache Hive datasets in Amazon S3 to fully managed Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 Tables, with no pipelines to build or compute to provision, while production workloads keep running.
Análisis de ajedrez | Tres peones 1 – Pieza 0
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-04 21:36:39
Las masas de infantería avanzando con vigor suelen parecer arrasadoras, pero existen muchos matices que esta partida ilustra
New Morning
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-04 20:18:19
Waking up today to the news that US democracy seems to be on its way to recovery has changed my mood dramatically. All of a sudden I’m an optimist. The US will be all right. Even if the French do … Continue reading →
Microsoft’s Medical AI Is Over Twice as Good Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-04 19:55:52
The system, MAI-DxO, was not only more accurate, but it also spent much less on tests to make its diagnoses. The post Microsoft’s Medical AI Is Over Twice as Good Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors appeared first on SingularityHub .
Another Step Towards Optiland
Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-04 17:45:09
When the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the Millennium Prize Problems back in 2000, we joked that if you proved P = NP, you wouldn't only get the $1 million prize for solving P v NP, but you would get $7 million since you could use P = NP to solve
Now available: Retention messages for subscriptions
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-04 17:00:56
Reduce cancellations with retention messages that remind subscribers of your subscription's value as they decide whether to cancel. Retention messages appear in the cancellation flow and can include text, images, or a special offer. In App Store Conne
What’s New in Q4’26 Confluent Data Streaming Platform: The Most Complete, Performant, and Open Foundation for Streamhouse
Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:55:22
Learn about Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, multi-tenancy for CPC, Tableflow for Google Cloud, and other Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and WarpStream updates.
A Tale of Two Houses: A Comparison Between Streamhouse and Lakehouse
Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:53:00
Compare streamhouse and lakehouse data architectures, learn which workloads each one fits and how they complement each other.
Your Business, Always Current. Streamhouse - The Data Architecture for the Age of AI.
Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:52:47
A Streamhouse is a data architecture that continuously captures, processes, governs and serves current business state and context across distributed systems, making them available to applications, AI agents, and analytics.
New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-04 16:32:52
By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. The post New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts first appeared on Quanta Magazine
This Election Will Not Look Surprising in History
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 16:15:51
This striking map from Apple News tells the story of the magnitude of the shift since 2024. The late Lindsey Graham, on Twitter back in May 2016 (punctuation sic ): If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. T
There are things with ranks, but it’s not always clear what the ranks mean
old new thing @ 2026-11-04 16:00:00
The problem with documentation written by people who know the feature too well. The post There are things with ranks, but it’s not always clear what the ranks mean appeared first on The Old New Thing .
‘Political Reckoning Shatters Trump’s Grip on Washington’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 15:56:47
Aaron Zitner, reporting for the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal: Rarely in American politics has a president traded away so much political support so quickly. The losses that Republicans suffered on Tuesday marked one of the most decisive r
Like aliens
AEON @ 2026-11-04 12:01:00
Like living metaphors, these self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
This Week in Rust 676
This Week in Rust @ 2026-11-04 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
Letting Claude Code Drive Xcode: Setting Up the Xcode MCP Server
The Syndicate @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
If you’ve spent any amount of time with Claude Code on a project for Apple’s various platforms, then you’ve probably hit a wall. Claude is genuinely good at Swift. It understands SwiftUI, it can reason through Swift Concurrency, and it’ll
Project Detroit: From Foreign Libraries to Foreign Language Runtimes
Inside Java @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard. Project Detroit paves a new way forw
Why Lightwell pairs dependency backports with upstream collaboration
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
Enterprise applications rarely break because of custom business logic; instead, the issue is often related to changes in underlying open source dependencies. When a high-severity vulnerability is found in a third-party library, organizations face a difficu
Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Google Cloud’s sovereign regions
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00
Data residency rules and sovereignty mandates often determine where a workload is allowed to run. To meet those requirements and keep the platform your teams know and trust, Red Hat is expanding its commitment to digital sovereignty. Red Hat OpenShift Cont
Apple Begins Opening Siri AI to Developers
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:58:49
Apple Developer: Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their
iPad Mini (A20 Pro) Review Roundup
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:45:18
David Pierce at The Verge , on the Acoustic Display: It means the sound fires out of the front panel rather than from speaker holes. (Some TVs currently work the same way.) It doesn’t sound any better than before, maybe a tiny bit bassier, but it als
MKBHD on the New A20 Pro iPad Mini
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:25:25
Marques Brownlee describes the two color choices as “annoyingly, slightly not black and slightly not white,” which is apt. He digs the acoustic display enough that he can imagine Apple bringing it to a future high-end iPhone (like if they do a big redesig
Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Vertical Tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 20:26:41
Juli Clover, MacRumors: With iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, and macOS Golden Gate 27.3, Apple is making major updates to Safari. The browser is getting a Vertical Tabs layout, which can be used instead of the standard horizontal tab bar. It’s a change that pa
Siri AI is now open to all developers
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 19:00:20
Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their customers. Siri A
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Deepmind @ 2026-11-03 18:01:49
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
Get ready with the latest beta releases
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 17:00:26
The beta versions of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, tvOS 27.3, visionOS 27.3, and watchOS 27.3 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 27.3 to take advant
The New York Times (et al.) Sues Brave for Copyright Infringement, Selling Scraped Content to AI Companies for Model Training
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:46:25
Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reporte
Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:40:34
After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even if Google were right, and the real issue is “closed” versus “open,” it is worthwhile t
QwaveMPS: An efficient open-source Python package for simulating non-Markovian waveguide-QED using matrix product states
Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-03 16:01:24
Quantum 10, 2258 (2026). QwaveMPS is an open-source Python library for simulating one-dimensional quantum many-body waveguide systems using matrix product states (MPS). It provides a user-friendly interface for
How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage?
old new thing @ 2026-11-03 16:00:00
You just store it all in memory, in your own program. The post How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Chance Miller Reviews the New A20 Pro iPad Mini
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:51:14
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Unfortunately, the new iPad mini’s screen has one limitation: it doesn’t support ProMotion, or a 120Hz refresh rate of any kind. Instead, it’s still locked to 60Hz. This is an incredibly frustrating decision that I c
Fraction comparison trick revisited
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 15:41:25
A few years ago I wrote about a curious result: a/b is usually greater than c/d when a + d is greater than b + c. And “usually” means with probability 11/12. As stated in the post, you can make this statement rigorous by choosing integers up t
Apple’s Analyst Calls Have Been Scripted for Decades
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:39:03
Bloomberg opinion columnist Dave Lee : Apple investors and fans hoping to get an insight into the philosophy of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus on Monday were left sorely disappointed. The 51-year-old’s first earnings call was a timid affair,
Apple’s New iPhone Release Schedule Seems to Pay Off
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:30:40
Horace Dediu, tweeting yesterday on Apple’s results: iPhone grew at 17% sales which is amazing considering they did not launch the 18 or the Duo or the new Air in the quarter. The Duo didn’t launch until October, which is Q1 (in Apple’s financial
Euclidean, Spherical, and Projective Geometry
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 13:33:10
Spherical geometry is very tangible because we live on a sphere. Projective geometry seems much more exotic, and yet they’re closely related. To show how they’re connected, let’s go back to the origins of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclidea
Believing and thinking
AEON @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00
The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon
How a programming might reinvent the projective plane
The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 11:45:19
This post will show how a graphic programmer’s hack could lead to a rigorous definition of the projective plane. As mentioned in the previous post, we start by adding some “points at infinity” to Euclidean plane to take care of exception
Scrutinize our assessments
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-03 10:16:17
I recently blogged about how the curl project switched to doing all handling of vulnerabilities at severity LOW and MEDIUM in the public. Let me now describe how you can follow along this process and help out. Add your opinions, comments and assessments to
Análisis de ajedrez | Gran calidad relámpago (y II)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-03 09:10:04
En una lucha trepidante, Sindárov no encuentra esta vez el estrecho camino para evitar la derrota ante Praggnanandhaa
Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language
Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-03 01:19:54
New AI tools could help more biologists experiment with problems once restricted to a handful of specialists. The post Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple Announces Record $114.5B Fourth-Quarter Results
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 01:10:53
Jason Snell, Six Colors: On Monday, Apple announced record fourth-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $114.5B, up 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 17.5%, Mac revenue was up 23.7%, and Services revenue was up 9.8%. Wear
Designing for sovereignty: Ethereum for digital public infrastructure
Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
Public services increasingly rely on digital systems that enable institutions to collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Such cooperation may involve government agencies verifying documents issued by other authorities, or humanitarian or
Announcing rustup 1.29.3
Rust blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new
Trustworthy AI starts with community governance
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
Developers are using AI to write code, generate tests, and ship features faster than ever. The tools are becoming more capable, and the amount of work they can perform is expanding quickly. As code generation accelerates, open source communities face an en
Moving Lightwell patches into production by orchestrating the release lifecycle
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
In this article:Vulnerability remediation requires more than just merging code: While opening a pull request (PR) updates a dependency, that's not the end of the process. Safely moving that change to production requires integration testing, change manageme
Future-proofing enterprise AI: The impact of post-quantum cryptography on Red Hat AI Enterprise
Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00
We are rapidly approaching an intersection of 2 generational technology shifts: The explosive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and the looming reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs). While AI is transforming how
[Sponsor] OurCal
Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-02 23:43:59
“I didn’t see you put that in the diary.” Sound familiar? Shared calendars solved scheduling, not communication. OurCal connects any calendar, new or existing, to a group chat. Changes post there automatically, so nobody misses them. Because it’s a
OpenAI Conference at KITP
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-02 21:55:03
There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading ͛
Upcoming: New age rating content descriptors in App Store Connect
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-02 18:30:07
Starting November 16, 2026, App Store Connect will include new content descriptors to help ensure your app’s age ratings accurately reflect its features and are in accordance with local regulations. When completing the age rating questionnaire in App St
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-11-02 17:45:48
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams alrea
Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-02 16:48:57
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Qu