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

"Consumer PC parts aren't the only things being gobbled up by the 'AI' industry," writes PCWorld's Michael Crider. "A Starcraft-inspired strategy game is shutting down its multiplayer servers because the hosting company got bought out for 'AI.'" The game w

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

Building fewer targets by default On 2026-05-01 , docs.rs will make a breaking change to its build behavior. Today, if a crate does not define a targets list in its docs.rs metadata , docs.rs builds documentation for a default list of five ta

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-04 01:56:32

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

Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions effectively offline for an extended period and forcing Amazon to urge teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere. "These two re

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-04 00:55:24

Received the following email from Anthropic: Hi, Starting April 4 at 12pm PT / 8pm BST, you’ll no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. You can still use them with your Claude account, but the

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

Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan from 2026 to 2029 to expand AI infrastructure, boost local cloud capacity, train 1 million engineers and developers, and deepen cybersecurity cooperation with the Japanese government. Reuters reports: The inve

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 23:00:00

A Rome court ruled that several Netflix price hikes in Italy were unlawful because the company's contracts didn't adequately explain or justify future pricing changes. As a result, Netflix has been ordered to issue refunds that could total roughly 500 euro

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-03 22:36:40

Organizational safeguards are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, enabling centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Organization.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 22:21:23

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-03 22:20:23

With billions invested and prototypes being tested outside the lab, the quantum era is starting to take shape. The post Five Ways Quantum Technology Could Shape Everyday Life appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 22:00:00

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its "beta" label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it's no longer technica

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 21:35:02

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-03 21:28:36

Jason Snell: Last December I complained that Apple was withholding iOS 18 security updates from iPhones capable of running iOS 26 , leaving users who didn’t want to upgrade to Apple’s latest OS version yet in some security peril. Well, I have good

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 -- titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Rep

Baeldung @ 2026-04-03 20:40:45

JEP 514 and JEP 515 are both part of the OpenJDK Project Leyden effort to improve Java startup and warmup performance. Learn how they work together. The post Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking first appeared on Baeldung .     

Baeldung @ 2026-04-03 20:35:46

Learn how to deserialize JSON into a Java object using multi-parameter constructors. The post JSON Deserialization with Multiple Parameters Constructor Using Jackson first appeared on Baeldung .            

Baeldung @ 2026-04-03 20:29:17

Learn what a JMOD file is, how it differs from a JAR file, and when to use it. The post JMOD File Format in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-03 20:20:04

John Voorhees, at MacStories: It’s a new month and you know what that means: time for a roundup of everything coming to Apple TV and Apple Arcade for April 2026. What’s still not coming: Jessica Chastain’s political thriller The Savant , origin

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 20:00:00

The Wall Street Journal shares the "wild behind-the-scenes story" of how the world's largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. "At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million com

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 19:22:20

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-03 19:00:00

Swift 6.3 advances Swift cross-platform story with official Android support, improves significantly C interoperability through the new @c attribute, and continues extending embedded programming support. It also strengthens the ecosystem with a unified bu

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 19:00:00

Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: When it comes to using AI, it seems some lawyers just can't help themselves. Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence t

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-03 18:31:54

I used the term perilune in yesterday’s post about the flight path of Artemis II. When Artemis is closest to the moon it will be furthest from earth because its closest approach to the moon, its perilune, is on the side of the moon opposite earth. P

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-03 18:23:10

El veinteañero uzbeko demuestra una preparación muy superior a la del estadounidense y sólo consume una hora para derrotarlo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 18:21:32

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 18:00:44

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-03 18:00:01

Infinity Nikki is a literally glowing example of what video game graphics can be. The fifth in a series of dress-up titles from Infold Games, Infinity Nikki is also the first to embrace elements of RPG action-adventure. But instead of tracking dow

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-03 18:00:01

Plane Finder is a sparkling example of what happens when a small team grows with a platform. Launched in 2009, Plane Finder didn’t scale over the years by adding headcount, vendors, or complexity. Instead, founders Jodie and Lee Armstrong made a l

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 18:00:00

Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, nearly half of planned U.S. data center projects are being delayed or canceled. "One major reason behind these setbacks is the availability of key electrical components -- such as transformers, switchg

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-03 17:19:16

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. The post New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever first appeared on Quanta M

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity's AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without us

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 16:29:26

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 16:29:12

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old new thing @ 2026-04-03 16:00:00

File copying is not a fundamental operation, nor is it even detectable at the file system layer. The post How can I use <CODE>Read­Directory­ChangesW</CODE> to know when someone is copying a file out of the directory? appeared firs

Baeldung @ 2026-04-03 15:52:02

Instrument your code quickly and document your high-level technical context carfully. The post Java Weekly, Issue 640 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 14:33:45

With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Mini

InfoQ @ 2026-04-03 14:00:00

A major security incident affecting the widely used open source vulnerability scanner Trivy has exposed critical weaknesses in software supply chain security, after maintainers confirmed that a malicious release was briefly distributed to users. By Cra

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 13:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: CU Boulder researchers are reporting that they have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 12:58:51

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-03 12:12:00

Module Federation 2.0, an open-source micro-frontend mechanism introduced with webpack 5, offers significant updates including dynamic TypeScript type hints, decoupled runtime layers, and Node.js support. It enhances compatibility across various bundlers

AEON @ 2026-04-03 12:00:00

Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking - by Cathy Otten Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 11:52:20

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 11:36:33

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 11:35:16

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 11:15:34

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brucknerite @ 2026-04-03 10:00:00

Un método matemático para jugar dinero y una extraña tradición centenaria ayudan a entender el por qué de la suerte de los milmillonarios.

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 09:00:00

Renewables made up nearly half of global installed electricity capacity by the end of 2025, "accounting for 85.6% of global capacity expansion," reports the Register, citing the International Renewable Energy Agency's (IRENA) 2026 Renewable Capacity Statis

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Responding to public health concerns about microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's drinking water, the Trump administration for the first time has placed them on a draft list of contaminants maintaine

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-03 03:38:49

I was looking through an old geometry book [1] and saw a hyperbolic analog of Napier’s mnemonic for spherical trigonometry. In hindsight of course there’s a hyperbolic analog: there’s a hyperbolic analog of everything. But I was surprise

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-03 02:00:19

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-03 02:00:00

Legacy software doesn't retire itself. It sits in production, accumulating technical debt, resisting change, and quietly becoming a risk—not because of what it does, but because of what it can no longer support.That's the challenge facing leading systems i

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-03 02:00:00

Many SAP environments are deployed in a hybrid landscape where applications may run on-premise, or on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Red Hat has three product solutions to support SAP work

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-03 02:00:00

Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, PremiumRed Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, offering a predictable 14-year life cycle for major releases. This new subscription simp

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 01:00:00

schwit1 shares a report from the Kathmandu Post: In Nepal, helicopter rescue on high altitude is, by any measure, a genuine lifesaving operation. At high altitude, where oxygen thins and weather changes without warning, the ability to airlift a stricken tr

slashdot @ 2026-04-03 00:00:00

OpenAI is acquiring tech news podcast TBPN, a fast-growing daily show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial independence, even though the acquisition is widely viewed as part of a broader effort to influence public

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-02 22:33:32

With data center power demand expected to nearly triple by 2030, tech companies are bankrolling new plants and even their own "shadow grid." The post The Mad Scramble to Power AI Is Rewiring the US Grid appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 22:12:07

John Buck at The Verge (gift link), excerpted from his great book, Inventing the Future : Steve Perlman: Almost everyone at Apple, and definitely everywhere else, assumed that multimedia would always require specialized hardware — and be expensi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 21:37:10

Great roundup of links from Stephen Hackett: The crew is made up of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They are now on their way to the moon, set to return in 10 days. Their rocket m

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-02 21:00:00

Community mirrors of the @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package spilled roughly 513k lines of TypeScript. Four charts break down the directory tree, the accident timeline, a hidden buddy simulator, and the forty tool modules.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 20:58:50

Katie Deighton, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; also on News+ ): OpenAI bought TBPN to encourage constructive conversation around the changes AI creates by helping the show grow, according to a memo sent by Fidji Simo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 20:42:39

StepSecurity: If you have installed axios@1.14.1 or axios@0.30.4, assume your system is compromised. There are zero lines of malicious code inside axios itself, and that’s exactly what makes this attack so dangerous. Both poisoned releases injec

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-02 20:24:29

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-02 20:22:03

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-02 20:13:41

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 20:12:11

Back in March 1991, Saturday Night Live ran what I consider the best Apple parody ad ever made: “McIntosh Jr.” Siracusa and I talked about it on The Talk Show this week, celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary, so I looked it up for the show notes. Alas, th

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-02 19:00:00

Gründonnerstagsfehler

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 18:53:02

Jason Snell, writing at Macworld, regarding joining the staff at MacUser back in 1993: But as amazing and revelatory as the Mac was for me as a writer and editor of print and online publications, I rapidly discovered that the Apple of the period was a

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-02 18:42:00

As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of what a system does. Margaret-Anne Storey thinks a good way of thinking about these problems is to con

Deepmind @ 2026-04-02 18:00:49

Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 17:17:27

60 Minutes published a short clip of a 2003 Dan Rather interview with Steve Jobs, and it’s a good one. Seems apt both regarding Apple’s continued success after Jobs’s death, and a refutation of the personality cult in The White House.  ★ 

ASF @ 2026-04-02 17:00:00

By: Chia-Ping Tsai (ALC Taipei Lead) At OpenSource4You (ALC Taipei), an Apache Local Community chapter based in Taiwan, mentorship is our core. We recently watched an incredible story unfold: a single student’s work on Apache Mahout inspired peers a

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-02 17:00:00

Die eigene Stimme aus der Vergangenheit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 16:57:28

A veritable encyclopedia of Apple history. Just a remarkable, essential, and unique work.

InfoQ @ 2026-04-02 16:45:00

GitHub has launched a continuous AI-powered workflow to manage accessibility feedback at scale. Using GitHub Actions, Copilot, and Models APIs, the system centralizes reports, analyzes WCAG compliance, and automates triage while maintaining human validat

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 16:15:45

David Pogue, on his new blog at Substack: When the iPhone was about to go on sale in 2007, a thousand people lined up around the block at New York City’s Apple Store. I’d written a parody of “My Way,” with the crazy idea of filming a music video wit

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-02 16:14:44

The Artemis II mission launched yesterday. Much like the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, the goal is to go around the moon in preparation for a future mission that will land on the moon. And like Apollo 13, the mission will swing around the moon rather than ent

old new thing @ 2026-04-02 16:00:00

Tempting but misleading. The post Why doesn’t the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-04-02 15:53:00

On March 31, 2026, two versions of the Axios library were compromised and found to contain a Remote Access Trojan. The malicious packages were published through a hijacked maintainer account. The Axios team is investigating how the breach occurred and ha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 15:48:45

The New York Times (gift link): Critics warn it still has many issues — its portico is too big, its stairs lead nowhere, its columns will block views from inside the ballroom. And that’s just the portico. This is a really good piece, with animat

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-02 15:10:00

Last month Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about the recently developed notion of Harness Engineering. She's been researching and thinking more about this in the weeks since and has now written a thoughtful mental model for u

InfoQ @ 2026-04-02 15:00:00

Oracle has released version 4.4.0 of Helidon, their microservices framework, featuring alignment with the OpenJDK release cadence, support via the new Java Verified Portfolio, new core capabilities, and agentic AI support for LangChain4j. By Michael Re

InfoQ @ 2026-04-02 13:04:00

As organizations scale, communication overload, loss of shared context, and trust gaps emerge, Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg mentioned. Trust must be built team by team; it can’t be replicated. Trust is interpersonal, while psychological safety is among

InfoQ @ 2026-04-02 12:17:00

GitHub will use Copilot interaction data from Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train AI models starting April 24, opting in by default. Collected data includes code snippets, inputs, outputs, and navigation patterns from active sessions, including private re

AEON @ 2026-04-02 12:01:00

Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-02 12:00:00

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief - by Andrew Deming Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-02 08:34:59

“Over the last three to five years, many of the promises that drew people to tech have been called into question.” The tech industry has long promised opportunity, growth, and the chance to build things that reach millions of people. Today, many of those a

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-02 08:34:59

“Over the last three to five years, many of the promises that drew people to tech have been called into question.” The tech industry has long promised opportunity, growth, and the chance to build things that reach millions of people. Today, many of those a

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-02 05:20:00

Which disk do you live on?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 02:10:29

Kalley Huang, writing for The New York Times (gift link): As that happened, Apple laid off staff “again and again and again,” Mr. Espinosa said. His manager told him that he had been spared because he had worked for the company for so long that his se

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

One of the strengths of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is its flexible automation of an array of use cases across ITOps. It includes multiple options to help you jumpstart new automation projects, using Ansible Content Collections. With Ansible Conten

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

The promise of large language models (LLMs) is clear. From code generation to customer support, from document analysis to creative workflows, organizations everywhere are racing to integrate LLMs into their products and operations. The enterprise LLM marke

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

Red Hat is proud to announce industry-leading results from the latest MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmarks, achieved through deep engineering co-design with NVIDIA. These results demonstrate that when you combine Red Hat’s open-source leadership with NVIDIA’s

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

For organizations managing mission-critical workloads, long-term stability and predictability are not just preferences—they are necessities. Recognizing this need, Red Hat is proud to introduce Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Extended Life Cycle, Premium,

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

As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, we have seen a shift in the role of network automation. It's no longer a "nice to have" and instead is a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments. For network ope

Inside Java @ 2026-04-02 02:00:00

The Java tool jcmd ("j command") sends diagnostic commands to the JVM, which will react by supplying the desired information: from finalizer queues to heap and thread dumps, from GC insights to virtual thread scheduler statistics. At the moment, this requi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-02 01:47:37

Who better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa? Sponsored by: Sentry : A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Notion : The AI workspace where

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-02 01:31:24

Amazon ECS Managed Daemons gives platform engineers independent control over monitoring, logging, and tracing agents without application team coordination, ensuring consistent daemon deployment and comprehensive host-level observability at scale.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-02 00:42:18

Antes de barrer a Caruana del tablero, el joven uzbeko tumbó con las piezas negras a Praggnanandhaa en otro combate muy violento

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-01 23:59:13

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 551 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Ryugu; Gravitondas; DeepMind y Debate IA; Criogenización; Consciencia”, 26 mar 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 22:27:02

Lex Friedman (with an embedded video to prove it): If you reverse the new Apple video that plays in “rewind,” it’s the Think Different ad music, pitched up. Of course it is. And, regarding that “◀︎◀︎ REW” button where the “REW” was set in bitmap

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 22:10:41

Lots of fun things I’ve never seen before in this 7-minute video. Best not to spoil them.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 21:59:43

By far the dumbest Internet Jackass Day “joke” I’ve seen so far is this one from the official New Jersey state account on Twitter/X, claiming that effective immediately, they’re lifting the statewide ban on self-service gasoline. For those of you who’ve

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 21:34:11

Ryan D’Agostino, writing at Esquire ( News+ link , in case Esquire stiffs you with their paywall): Cook was at Jobs’s house the day he died. As he drove back to the office to announce it to the employees and, in so doing, to the world, he felt a stran

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 20:45:54

Jacob Krol, writing at TechRadar: To understand exactly what that means five years on, TechRadar sat down with Apple VP of Platform Architecture Tim Millet and Director of Audio Product Marketing Eric Treski to unpack how AirPods Max 2 is finally catc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 19:39:36

The AP: Hershey said Wednesday it will use classic recipes for all Reese’s products starting next year, a change that comes after the grandson of Reese’s founder criticized the company for shifting to cheaper ingredients. Running to the press

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 18:39:34

The Apple.com homepage has a nice little animation showing sketches of the company’s most iconic products. The video file itself is hosted here , but I’m not sure how permanent that link is. Tim Cook posted a different video on Twitter/X , a VHS-style

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-01 18:35:23

El ascendente joven uzbeko tumba de manera inapelable a Caruana, el otro líder del Candidatos, en la 4ª ronda

InfoQ @ 2026-04-01 17:27:00

ESLint version 10 has removed the legacy eslintrc configuration system, finalizing a long transition to flat config. The update enhances developer experience, especially for plugin authors and monorepo teams, by changing configuration file location and i

TED Blog @ 2026-04-01 17:00:50

Dear Democracy, How are you holding up? You’ve had some tough days lately, it seems. The last few years haven’t been very kind to you. Despite democracy being at a modern-day high at the end of 2017 (Drew Desilver, Pew Research), a 2025 report from the Uni

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-01 16:58:31

The winning entries in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest showcase the beauty of toil and discovery. The post A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-04-01 16:35:00

Pinterest engineering teams have deployed a production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem that allows AI agents to automate complex engineering tasks and integrate diverse internal tools. Domain-specific MCP servers, a central registry, and hum

old new thing @ 2026-04-01 16:00:00

What are we reading about here? The post The cover of <I>C++: The Programming Language</I> raises questions not answered by the cover appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-01 15:23:42

Pentagonal numbers are truncated triangular numbers. You can take the diagram that illustrates the nth pentagonal number and warp it into the base of the image that illustrates the (2n − 1)st triangular number. If you added a diagram for the (n − 1)st tri

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-01 14:18:00

I blogged about Pope Leo XIV  here . Pope Leo XIV has an undergraduate degree in mathematics. He saw my post and asked for my help with his latest encyclical.  LEO: Let's have lunch together at Popeyes. BILL: Why Popeyes? LEO: The name is Pop

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-01 13:59:21

Quantum 10, 2051 (2026). Maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases are useful throughout quantum physics, both in a foundational context and for applications. To date, it remains unknown if complete sets of mutua

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-01 13:23:41

Quantum 10, 2050 (2026). We propose a class of metrological resource states whose quantum Fisher information scales optimally in both system size and noise rate. In these states, qubits are partitioned into sen

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-01 13:05:45

Quantum 10, 2049 (2026). The conditional disclosure of secrets (CDS) setting is among the most basic primitives studied in information-theoretic cryptography. Motivated by a connection to non-local quantum comp

InfoQ @ 2026-04-01 12:11:00

Cloudflare has released Dynamic Worker Loader into open beta, offering V8 isolate-based sandboxing for AI-generated code execution. The company claims isolates start in milliseconds, using megabytes of memory, making them roughly 100x faster and up to 10

AEON @ 2026-04-01 12:01:00

The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-01 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

The Syndicate @ 2026-04-01 02:00:00

Humanity continues to move forward, and technology is the driving force that moves us to new horizons. As MartianCraft celebrates its 22nd year in business, alongside the 50 years of Apple, we look back to see what humanity’s past can tea

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-01 02:00:00

Most leaders I speak with are well past the hype cycle of AI. The question is no longer whether AI matters. The question is how to move from experimentation to production in a way that is security-focused, supportable, and repeatable across teams.From wher

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-01 02:00:00

Red Hat is proud to announce our strong results from the latest industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark. Our submission includes four AI workloads (Whisper-Large-v3, GPT-OSS-120B, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, and Llama-2-70b) on NVIDIA (H200, B200, L40S)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-01 01:01:03

Grace Kay, Ashley Stewart, and Pranav Dixit, writing for Business Insider ( News+ ): “Part of bringing me on, and giving me the responsibilities of a CEO, was to make sure that I could really run that part of the company with autonomy,” Simo, whose ti

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-31 23:36:35

Hana Kiros, writing for The Atlantic: Recently, a Costco in Florida instituted a new store policy. An employee told me that he was asked to open up every desktop computer displayed in the electronics section and remove the memory chips. Otherwise, the

InfoQ @ 2026-03-31 23:00:00

Discovered by FutureSearch researcher Callum McMahon, a supply chain attack against LiteLLM on PyPI resulted in over 40 thousand downloads of a compromised version that installed a malicious payload capable of harvesting and exfiltrating sensitive inform

InfoQ @ 2026-03-31 22:30:00

Paul Duvall recently discussed his library of engineering patterns for AI assisted development and practices that ground high quality delivery. Related discussions from Paul Stack and Gergely Orosz highlight a shift toward remixing and specification driv

ASF @ 2026-03-31 21:46:16

Jean-Baptiste Onofré, ASF Board of Directors, PMC Chair, PMC Member and Committer The Apache Software Foundation thrives because of the individuals who contribute their time, expertise, and leadership across its global community. In this installment of ou

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-31 21:40:58

AI companies may be reluctant to risk lower engagement with models that push back. The post Chatbots ‘Optimized to Please’ Make Us Less Likely to Admit When We’re Wrong appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-31 21:04:00

AWS announces the Sustainability console, a new standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting and resources, giving sustainability teams independent access to Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data without requiring billing permissions.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-31 17:54:25

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, during an on-stage interview at The Hill & Valley Forum last week, was asked “What do you see as America’s unique advantages that other countries don’t have?” His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique adv

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-31 17:50:24

El portento chino pierde en 19 jugadas ante Caruana tras aplicarle una aguda preparación de laboratorio

Baeldung @ 2026-03-31 17:46:13

Learn how to configure Spring Boot so that all unknown routes are redirected to the SPA's index.html The post Configure Spring Boot to Redirect 404 to a Single Page Application first appeared on Baeldung .          

Baeldung @ 2026-03-31 17:43:00

Learn about Transient or Serializable in Java to overcome Sonar's related warnings. The post Fix Sonar’s “Make Transient or Serializable” Warning in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-31 17:36:13

The White House: The Council will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios. The following individuals have been appointed: Marc Andreessen Sergey Brin Safra Catz Michael Dell Jacob DeWitte Fred Ehrsam Larry Ellison David Fried

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-31 17:20:00

AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring, s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-31 17:11:08

Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version: Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSigna

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-31 16:43:06

I’m skeptical that quantum computing will become practical. However, if it does become practical before we’re prepared, the world’s financial system could collapse. Everyone agrees we should prepare for quantum computing, even those of u

Swift blog @ 2026-03-31 16:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift 6.3 has been released , expanding Swift into new domains and improving developer ergonomics. A highlight of its release is

old new thing @ 2026-03-31 16:00:00

It was going to be like that when I got here. The post Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn’t a problem before the update appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-31 15:00:33

To help your apps and games reach more people worldwide — especially in India — App Store Connect now supports localized metadata for 11 new languages, bringing the total number of supported localizations to 50. The new languages include Bangla, Gujara

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-31 14:12:31

Peter Vogel posted the following image on X yesterday. The receive side of the coin is a decision tree for decoding Morse code. The shape is what makes this one interesting. Decision trees are typically not very compact. Each branch is usually on its own

InfoQ @ 2026-03-31 14:00:00

As adoption of Kubernetes autoscalers like Karpenter accelerates, a new set of platform-agnostic observability practices is emerging, shifting focus from traditional infrastructure metrics to deeper insights into provisioning behavior, scheduling latency

InfoQ @ 2026-03-31 13:52:00

TanStack Start has introduced a import protection, which aims to prevent server and client code from being mixed in full-stack React applications. This Vite plugin automatically checks imports during development and build processes. It blocks harmful imp

AEON @ 2026-03-31 12:00:00

A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state - by Miles Kellerman Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-03-31 11:27:05

March was a busy month for Kotlin, with a new language release, fresh tooling, ecosystem updates, and plenty of inspiration ahead of KotlinConf’26. From practical improvements to exciting steps in AI and multiplatform, there’s a lot worth explo

Kotlin news @ 2026-03-31 11:27:05

March was a busy month for Kotlin, with a new language release, fresh tooling, ecosystem updates, and plenty of inspiration ahead of KotlinConf’26. From practical improvements to exciting steps in AI and multiplatform, there’s a lot worth explo

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-03-31 10:20:01

Amper 0.10.0 is out, and it brings a variety of new features, such as JDK provisioning, custom Kotlin compiler plugins, a Maven-to-Amper converter, and numerous IDE improvements! Read on for all of the details, and see the release notes for the full list o

Kotlin news @ 2026-03-31 10:20:01

Amper 0.10.0 is out, and it brings a variety of new features, such as JDK provisioning, custom Kotlin compiler plugins, a Maven-to-Amper converter, and numerous IDE improvements! Read on for all of the details, and see the release notes for the full list o

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-31 03:00:15

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features, updated policies, and clarifications. Please review the changes and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms. Definitions, Section 3.3.3(B), Section

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-31 01:38:44

The genetically engineered cells can be rewired to tackle a range of bacteria in the battle against antibiotic resistance. The post Forget Antibiotics: These Killer Cells Wipe Out Deadly Superbugs in a Day appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 23:23:19

Stop scaling headcount. Scale your workspace. Most security teams don’t have a talent problem, they have a noise problem. Manual phishing remediation, chasing risky OAuth permissions, and auditing file shares shouldn’t be a full-time job. Material S

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-30 21:00:00

Engraving dominated the 1800s until photography killed it. Knitting spiked during WWI. Ceramics replaced pottery as the prestige term. 270 years of book data show how every generation picks its own art forms.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-30 21:00:00

The U.S. had roughly 12,000 bowling alleys at the peak of the bowling boom in the mid-1960s. By 2023, only 3,154 remained.

luajit @ 2026-03-30 20:41:59

Reported by Huang Haiyang. #1451

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-30 18:55:05

Tras empatar con negras ante el rocoso Bluebaum, el chino hace tablas con blancas ante el pujante Praggnanandhaa en una lucha interesante

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 18:46:31

Paul Graham: So when you have a world defined only by brand, it’s going to be a weird, bad world. Graham’s thoughtful essay focuses on the mechanical watch industry. But I disagree with his conclusion. I think the market for mechanical watches has

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-30 18:24:40

Scott Knaster: The Big Mac is about 22 times the size of the little Mac.  ★ 

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-30 18:11:28

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase wher

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-30 17:16:35

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand. The post In Expanding de Sitter Space, Quantum Mechanics Gets Even More Elusive first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-30 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and watchOS 26.5 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 26.5 beta to take a

old new thing @ 2026-03-30 16:00:00

Why is this even a question? The post A question about the maximimum number of values in a registry key raises questions about the question appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-03-30 12:01:00

When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-03-30 12:00:00

ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-03-30 10:00:00

¿Cuál es la relación entre un tren de alta velocidad y el martín pescador? Es una historia bastante conocida en el mundillo del ferrotrastorno, división niponófila (un saludo desde aquí a Luis, mitad de Japonismo). Eiji Nakatsu era director de desarrollo t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:50:00

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring the week at DF. Their latest is a CLI that launches an AI agent, powered by Claude , that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration into your codebase. No signup requi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:49:00

For your weekend listening enjoyment: Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro. Sponsored by: Squarespace :

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:48:36

For your weekend viewing enjoyment: But in almost every way that mattered, the Macintosh was right . Right about how we’d use computers going forward. Right about the idea that computers needed to be less complicated. Right about the fact that cari

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-29 22:14:00

Occasionally I run into what I consider fun problems in complexity, that require just a little bit of out of the box thinking. They require some background in theory, but nothing too deep. Some of these problems have been mentioned before on my blog or soc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 22:11:49

Look, I’m all for democracy, but a poll whose results currently have the Extended Keyboard II down at #47 is a poll that makes me angry.  ★ 

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-29 20:49:22

El 3º del mundo doblega al 2º, Nakamura, tras presionarlo con altibajos en la 1ª ronda del Candidatos

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-29 14:12:06

Yesterday I was at Peter Scholze’s Seminaire Bourbaki talk, his write-up is available here. It was advertised as an exposition of the recent proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, but Pierre Colmez accurately describes it as something much more

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-29 10:30:00

Using RewriteCond with -f

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-29 09:30:00

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John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-29 07:06:58

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet’. Each one is made of an up, down or strange quark and an

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-29 07:06:58

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet’. Each one is made of an up, down or strange quark and an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 00:47:39

Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: I’ve thought a lot about the bad timing Jones mentions. Had Apple stuck to the original timeline, and killed off the 2013 Mac Pro in favor of an iMac “specifically targeted at large segments of the pro market,” back

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-29 00:25:47

While I’m bitching about Netflix’s craptacular new video player on Apple TV, let me quote from a piece I wrote two years ago (also complaining about Netflix’s tvOS app): Turns out there are two better ways: If you use the Control Center Apple T

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 22:57:01

This feature from Harry McCracken is just spectacularly good. (And it’s a gift link that’ll get you past Fast Company’s paywall.) 50 years is a long time and there are some key players in Apple’s origin story who are gone — but because everyone was so you

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-28 18:27:56

La gran irregularidad del campeón vigente augura un duelo incierto por el título a fin de año; pero el indio también firma partidas excelentes, como esta

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:52:08

Amanda Kondolojy, writing for Pocket-lint: Though the Netflix app is largely the same on most platforms, over the weekend several Apple TV users on the unofficial Apple TV Reddit noticed some small changes to the tvOS version of the app that are mak

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:21:55

Alan Rappeport, reporting for The New York Times: President Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The decision to have Mr. Trump’s John Hancock on America’s paper currency represented

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-28 16:02:42

The New York Post (I’m not sure if I should tell you to take this with a grain of salt, because it’s the Post and their journalistic standards are low, or, to assign this extra credibility because it’s the Post, a right-wing Murdoch rag that Trump lacke

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-28 15:00:00

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 March 28) appeared first on SingularityHub .