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slashdot @ 2026-08-19 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-19 02:22:36

A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area. For odd n, the solution is what you might expect: a regular n-gon. I would expect this to b

slashdot @ 2026-08-19 01:00:00

Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built directly into its AI coding environment. The company is initially positioning Origin as a low-risk layer on top of GitHub, keeping GitHub as the "source of truth," but the launch landed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:39:40

Joe Flint, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:23:45

Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple , the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and s

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

Comcast is activating Wi-Fi motion sensing on millions of compatible Xfinity gateways, allowing the routers to detect movement by measuring disruptions in signals between the gateway and connected devices. The free feature, part of Xfinity Shield, can send

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 23:00:00

Disney and ABC are suing the FCC to block an early review of eight station licenses, arguing the Trump administration is using the agency's regulatory power to punish the network over programming and editorial decisions it dislikes. Reuters reports: In a l

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 22:03:00

RAM prices have exploded over the past year, with some DDR5 kits approaching 500% year-over-year increases and a 128GB kit now selling for $3,399, which is more than 10 times its previous low. Tom's Hardware reports: Things improve as you step down the mem

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your iPhone, SamsungGalaxy, andGoogle Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended service plan, you'll pay a hefty fee if you damage the screen and need a replacement (around

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 20:49:17

Paresh Dave and Aarian Marshall, reporting for Wired ( News+ link in case Wired hits you with their paywall): The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to P

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 20:00:00

Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive trove of anonymized Spirit Airlines data following the carrier's shutdown, including internal communications, spreadsheets, booking and frequent-flyer records, transactions, and employee information. CNN r

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-18 19:24:25

El triunfo del noruego en el Mundial de Rápidas de 2014 no fue tan arrasador como en otros; pero esta partida es magnífica

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 19:00:00

Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle its Digital Markets Act dispute, simplifying the fee structure and "[resolving] Apple's disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution." Developers can sign the new te

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 18:03:32

Stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian, under the splendid headline “Dickovers, Baggravation and Botiquette: 18 New Words to Describe Our Tech Hellscape”: The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer,

ASF @ 2026-08-18 18:00:00

What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks throu

InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 18:00:00

Cloudflare is introducing WriteGuard, now in private beta, to provide fine-grained security controls for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. It aims to make AI agents safer by controlling their access to tools that can modify data or perform actions, r

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

Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, cataloging 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've had over the years. His analysis finds that Microsoft product names survive an average of two years and eleven months. The si

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 17:54:57

The imbalance conjecture is now a theorem. James Alexander Schreib and Yousof Yavari posted a proof last week. What does the conjecture theorem say? Start with a graph G with no edge between two nodes of the same degree. Then for every edge, calculate the

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-18 17:04:00

Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard wo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:38

Apple is making changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. The changes reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business t

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:32

Attachment 14 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been added to specify updated terms for apps in the European Union, including alternative distribution, alternative payments, and business terms. These terms will go into effect on Octo

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly. There is no card machine, no cash, and -- mo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 16:54:28

Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:11

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:10

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-18 15:58:41

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech professionals who want to walk through

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 15:42:06

Suppose you have a planet in an elliptical orbit around a star. The math is identical for any light object orbiting a heavy object, such as a moon or satellite orbiting a planet, but we’ll call the heavy object a star and the light object a planet.

luajit @ 2026-08-18 15:01:31

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 15:00:00

Netflix open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference (OCI) that reduces toil in causal analysis. Given observational data and the human user's analysis plan, the agent uses an actor-critic loop to estimate causality, write a report

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 14:32:38

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button. Nice. But these changes can’t improve fast enough for me — I am impa

InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 14:00:00

GitHub has announced that Stacked Pull Requests are now available in public preview, introducing native support for breaking large software changes into smaller, dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged independently. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 13:00:00

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. "I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humi

AEON @ 2026-08-18 12:00:00

Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon

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

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 7 with a substantial set of .NET MAUI updates, including cross-platform passkey authentication, a new incremental XAML Hot Reload implementation, Shell route templates, and additional AOT-safe bindings. The release

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 09:33:00

AleRunner writes: "Solar has been doing the 'heavy lifting' to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves," Euronews tells us. Meanwhile, as Europe's energy demands rise with the heat, jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and

InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 07:05:00

As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act Article 50 requires AI systems to mark synthetic outputs in a machine-detectable manner. Major vendors are implementing statistical watermarking methods, which influence natural language generation without affecting pe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 05:37:14

Oops.  ★ 

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 04:20:00

Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, UDFs, and PTFs while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 02:55:13

I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts su

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked . The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key nudges the ge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Large language model (LLM) API costs have a way of sneaking up on a business. What begins as a promising chatbot prototype often transforms into an invoice nightmare as users consume tokens at an unpredictable rate.A significant portion of these costs stem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

The AI industry is shifting its attention from training models to running models more efficiently. Enterprise AI applications generate millions of inference requests as they coordinate multiple models, tools, and agents. Inference is the process where a tr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

The release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 marks the beginning of a new era for Red Hat automation. AI capabilities—including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, automation intelligent assistant, and the automation dashboard—are just some of

slashdot @ 2026-08-18 01:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied w

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-18 00:42:15

For communities in the crosshairs, every extra hour counts. The post DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting appeared first on SingularityHub .

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

Apple Wallet's driver's license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without han

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:55:29

The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago . Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:43:50

The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief executive Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkk

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-17 23:27:36

This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 20:02:00

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can interact with websites, applications, inboxes, and other tools. By Daniel Dominguez

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-17 18:02:36

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Founda

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-17 17:11:17

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appea

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 16:18:00

JEP 540, Simple JSON API, has progressed to Target status for JDK 28. It introduces a compact API for parsing and generating JSON documents without external dependencies. Focused on core tasks, it provides an immutable value hierarchy. The API allows sim

old new thing @ 2026-08-17 16:00:00

The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 15:41:00

Grab is using AI agents to automate analytics workflows, cutting mechanical analyst work from 44% in February to 30% in June. Its approach combines agent autonomy, certified data, context management and human oversight, with self service analytics increa

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 15:00:00

Cloudflare has released cloudflare/ci, a CI SDK that defines pipelines in TypeScript on top of Cloudflare Workflows, giving each step durable retries and replay, concurrent steps by default and Sandbox snapshot caching. It targets the Workers runtime and

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 13:11:44

El noruego no ha logrado el gran objetivo de superar los 2.900 puntos Elo, aunque estuvo muy cerca en 2014 tras victorias excelsas, como esta

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 13:01:00

Shadcn, a design engineer at Vercel, has introduced new components for chat interfaces within the shadcn/ui project. This release includes components like MessageScroller and Message, focusing on conversation functionality. The approach emphasizes modula

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:01:00

In this bittersweet portrait of a farm town in Canada, taxidermied gophers preserve a place that no longer exists - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00

Grafana Labs has announced general availability for two tools that let AI coding agents query live observability data during development: the gcx CLI and the Grafana MCP server. Both allow agents to pull metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and Synthetic Monitor

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them - by Ella Browning Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 10th, 2026, features news highlighting: Simple JSON API proposed to target for JDK 28; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the August 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of LangChain4j; maintenance releases of Eclips

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-17 03:16:39

The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

tl;dr: Meet Platåberget: Glamsterdam's (Gloas + Amsterdam) early testing ground open to public participation. This upgrade comes with breaking changes for application developers. Notably, any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit (think wallet

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Telecom infrastructure teams often face the same bottleneck: Every new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server is a custom job. Images multiply. Hardening is inconsistent. Patching and compliance become manual follow-up work after the machine is already liv

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Managing a sprawling, diverse hybrid cloud can feel like trying to schedule a meeting that works for 4 different time zones, 3 different business units, and that 1 stakeholder who is “tentatively” available. It can be really, really tedious.That’s where Re

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Sellers need information in order to do their jobs. At most organizations, this information already exists in various internal systems. The challenge facing every sales team isn't finding that information; it's turning it into action fast enough to matter.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 01:57:59

Esta partida es una obra maestra sobre cómo maniobrar para que un alfil en g2 sea el amo del tablero

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:30:00

Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:26:33

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generat

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-16 21:20:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 566 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Odisea; Eclipse”, 13 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclips

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-16 21:14:02

Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT  here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.) Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us al

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-16 19:50:30

I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved …

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 19:30:00

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 18:34:12

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Ho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 16:33:16

XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at [...] Using an instance of Nitter

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 14:00:00

F’you, Claude, you are driving me absolutely bananas: The house convention is a short phrase naming the defect, and the archive is full of it: “A citation that names nothing”, “The safe zone that only the spawner obeys”, “One word that means five t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:26:00

AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rather than one request in isolation. It covers approvals, rate limits and running totals, ships under Apache 2

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:21:00

Amazon DynamoDB recently introduced native vector search, allowing developers to store embeddings alongside application data and run approximate nearest-neighbor queries directly from DynamoDB without using a separate vector database. The feature support

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 07:05:00

Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the browser. It assists backend developers and site reliability engineers in understanding SQL and the dynamic

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 02:00:00

I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap . It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no one can affor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-15 23:40:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 18:33:56

Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the original pixel cou

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 17:40:43

Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error correcting code used

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-15 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 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:31:35

El noveno asalto del Mundial de Chennai fue dramático y de enorme calidad hasta que Anand demostró que es humano mientras su rival parecía un chip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:17:30

Dos meses antes del Mundial contra Anand, el aspirante dominó a un rival duro, Kamski, en la Copa Sinquefield con maniobras finísimas

Baeldung @ 2026-08-15 12:23:09

Equality in Java is evolving. The post Java Weekly, Issue 659 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Here’s a response Claude came up with recently. I was asking it to review some of the code it had been writing for my “Open Vibe Code” Elite clone - you can play it here in your browser , it’s surprisingly good. “Twenty-seven echoes; most a

Inside Java @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Work on values progresses, JSON API incubation proposed to target 28, PQC in LTS, and more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 19:16:15

The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 18:33:55

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a

old new thing @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same. The post Biology Needs an AI Declaration appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-14 15:10:26

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.” The post Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown first appea

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-14 13:20:32

tldr: the live version is here: How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many pro

AEON @ 2026-08-14 12:00:00

The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 03:35:05

Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these matrices arise in appl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 03:05:26

Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old's. The post Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue appeared first on Singular

Inside Java @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

An exhaustive switch on a sealed type covers the permitted subtypes the compiler knows about; it does not cover future additions, which can cause MatchException at run time. API authors should document the expected evolution of sealed types so that client

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

The program’s participants, pictured on their first day at Red HatOn June 1, the first cohort of student athletes arrived at the Raleigh office to take part in the Red Hat Sales Combine Accelerator Program. The group of 6 engaged in a newly launched 3-wee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developme

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

Imagine finding out your core platform contract is ending, leaving you with a multi million-dollar liability—and just 10 months to move 1,500 critical workloads. That was the reality for the engineering team at State Farm.While they had previously used Piv

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 01:54:21

NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for transmission using a

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-13 19:53:27

Cinco meses antes de su duelo por el título con Anand, el noruego barrió del tablero al indio en Moscú de manera fulminante

Deepmind @ 2026-08-13 19:04:18

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 17:46:41

Philip Michaels, writing last September for Tom’s Guide: iPhone 17 torture test videos done by JerryRigEverything indicate that Ceramic Shield 2 certainly resists scratching, with scratch testing leaving only light scratches at level 7 on the Mohs s

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-13 17:02:41

A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entries are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques Hadamard. Sylvester

old new thing @ 2026-08-13 16:00:00

Another RAII-style wrapper. The post A little helper class for managing <CODE>LPPROC_<WBR>THREAD_<WBR>ATTRIBUTE_<WBR>LIST</CODE>s appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:57:13

Quantum 10, 2192 (2026). We present a comprehensive and pedagogical formulation of Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation. Within this framework, we analyse the role of measurement incompatibility and estab

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 15:51:22

Quantum 10, 2191 (2026). We show that the $T$-depth of any single-qubit $z$-rotation can be reduced to $3$ if a certain catalyst state is available. To achieve an $\epsilon$-approximation, it suffices to have a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:35:33

Quantum 10, 2190 (2026). We develop a theoretical framework for fast, robust and high-fidelity topological quantum state transfer in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings, motivated by chains of Ryd

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-13 13:32:15

Quantum 10, 2189 (2026). Graph states are central resources for quantum information processing, supporting applications in computation, communication, and error correction. In photonic systems, they are typical

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:01:00

After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:00:00

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 03:03:45

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 23:23:30

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you cu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 22:58:15

David Imel, The Verge: But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. “The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:45:58

Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: With this year’s Pixel 11 series launch, Google is thinking more agentic AI to complete your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users will be able to order groceries, book rides, or get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini can call b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:40:51

Sam Rutherford, writing for Engadget: Granted, the P11 Pro Fold still includes IP68 dust and water resistance, which is better than what you get on the Z Fold 8 line (IP48). But after making an absolute tank of a foldable phone with last year’s model,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:38:03

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 20:51:01

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty i

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-12 19:38:49

Sufriendo hasta el último minuto, el noruego logró ganar el Torneo de Candidatos de 2013, lo que le convirtió en retador de Anand

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 17:06:05

Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicio

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-12 17:00:03

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea rece

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:48:04

Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:43:11

Basic Apple Guy: Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for the new Chess icon in macOS 27 Beta 5. This is not just a tweak or small improvement. This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon.  ★ 

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-12 16:14:42

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magaz

Deepmind @ 2026-08-12 16:01:59

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

old new thing @ 2026-08-12 16:00:00

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-12 15:32:31

Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-12 15:17:03

Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your head for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-12 13:42:18

Quantum 10, 2188 (2026). Recent work by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig showed that there exists a search problem that a constant-depth quantum circuit can solve, but that any constant-depth classical circuit with b

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

Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon