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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

InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 13:00:00

LinkedIn has built an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry platform that connects what members do in its iOS, Android, and web applications with the backend services processing those interactions. By Craig Risi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-11-03 12:25:50

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 577 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Planeta Enano; Errores en IAs; Romper Agujeros Negros; Habitabilidad Química; Virus y Monos”, […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 577: Nuevo

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00

A coalition of security firms working with Japan's National Police Agency has disrupted a botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices across 200+ countries. "We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, depl

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 08:00:00

At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, Chinese space officials publicly outlined the most detailed roadmap yet for landing astronauts on the Moon "before 2030." Ars Technica reports: China's lunar landings will involve a lunar-orbit rende

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: The world's leading EV maker is showing no signs of slowing down. BYD sold 490,168 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in October, up 11% from the prior year and the company's highest monthly total in 2026. BYD's b

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 .

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Snap has settled a lawsuit brought by two teenagers who alleged Snapchat was deliberately designed to be addictive and contributed to their mental health problems, avoiding a trial that was scheduled to begin this week. Snap was the last defendant to settl

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Recently, reports emerged that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly "off." Some of those voice commands were then sto

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 23:00:00

According to The Information, Apple is developing a $1,000 HomeView Ultra smart home hub with a 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a motorized arm that can follow users around a room and autonomously respond to its surroundings. It's also said to be experimenti

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 22:00:00

SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post's source

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 ͛

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a "PR blitz" for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to w

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 20:00:00

The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the compa

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 19:00:00

Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. "The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its

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

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs. It enables PyTorch workloads to execute on TPU hardware with minimal code modifications, supporting eager and compil

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

This week's Java roundup for October 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 8.0; point releases of JNoSQL, Endive, JBang, JReleaser and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of JobRunr; beta releases of Hibernate ORM and Hiberna

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

Marvell has agreed to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. "AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental architectural shift toward optical connectivity, creating an opportunity t

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one

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

old new thing @ 2026-11-02 16:00:00

Wait, that's not him. The post Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-02 15:44:02

In my newsletter I give an introduction to the latest few posts and occasionally give some additional commentary. In my latest newsletter I wrote Projective space and homogeneous coordinates seemed like arbitrary abstractions when I was a student because

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 14:53:00

Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 13:34:00

The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: "take a guess." As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, "the surge has been almost entirely down to

AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:01:00

What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-11-02 12:00:00

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 10:00:00

Shopify has introduced Overexposed. This internal scanner locates Kubernetes Ingresses on GKE and Cloud Run services. It checks for those that are accessible from the internet without authentication By Claudio Masolo

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 09:34:00

"Police continue to blindly trust Flock cameras above and beyond the evidence in front of their own eyes," reports Jalopnik.com. "After incorrectly connecting Rosalyn Crump's car to a shooting that had occurred the previous day, police had her car towed

slashdot @ 2026-11-02 06:04:00

From the blog It's FOSS Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the community replacement. He also co-founded CIQ, the company offering enterprise support around Roc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift migration advisor helps you assess your VMware inventory of virtual machines (VMs) and plan migrations to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Over the past few months, we’ve focused on making assessments easier to read and share, and more u

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00

For the past few years, AI felt like a high-stakes exhibition game. Teams across every industry were on the pitch experimenting with large language models, running rapid proofs-of-concept, and testing what was possible. That period of passive experimentati

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 23:04:25

Aunque Praggnanandhaa fue el más brillante, Sindárov supo aprovechar su oportunidad con suma eficacia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-01 22:22:56

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and th

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-01 21:29:54

I wrote several posts on poles and polars a few days ago. First, I wrote about the dual of a spherical triangle, called the polar triangle. Then I wrote about poles and polars in plane geometry and briefly mentioned the extension to projective geometry. P

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-01 21:23:06

(Throughout this post I will assume that the recent results by OpenAI and Anthropic contain correct proofs of what they claim.) I wrote the following about 2 years ago but did not post it. It's dated, but that's the point. BEGIN DOCUMENT FROM TWO YEARS

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 18:01:01

A tres semanas del duelo por la corona frente a Gukesh, el uzbeko gana un torneo relámpago de élite con una victoria espléndida sobre Nakamura

InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 09:03:00

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with part of 2028 already allocated, while the company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Practitioners discussing the remarks re

InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 07:32:00

AWS has recently released File Mover Express, an open-source application under the Apache 2.0 license for transferring large files between local systems and Amazon S3. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it supports parallel transfers, automatic per

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 20:56:00

Cloudflare has moved a post-quantum rebuild of GeoKey Manager into closed beta, guarding geo-fenced keys with hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 instead of the attribute-based encryption used since 2022. Keys live only in kernel memory on verified regional ser

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 18:00:00

OpenBSD 8.0 is a substantial upgrade bringing broader hardware compatibility, enhanced security, an expanded virtual address space, and support for modern architectures, including Intel Arc A-Series graphics support, ARM64 hibernation, RISC-V improvement

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-31 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 October 31) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 14:30:00

There was a flurry of activity during the week of October 19th, 2026, highlighting: first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring HAT

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-31 13:17:48

Consolidado entre los mejores del mundo tras su paréntesis universitario, el chino se mantiene como un potencial candidato a la corona

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 09:18:00

Fortanix's CoCo integration connects workload attestation to decryption-key release for Kubernetes AI workloads. GPU-verification settings affect protection, while upstream Trustee and Azure Secure Key Release offer alternative routes to attestation-base

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 08:57:00

LocalStack has opened its Azure emulator to a free public preview, running Azure services locally and accepting existing ARM, Bicep, and Terraform without rewrites. Its own documentation reports partial operation coverage per service and a consistent pat

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 07:20:00

According to a paper published by Google, its AI-powered security agent has uncovered more than 500 XSS vulnerabilities across its web applications since entering full operation in January. PageBreak uses Gemini models to autonomously investigate potenti

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-31 00:30:54

Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late . Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 22:56:10

I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish writing my full thoughts on the redesigned hardware and displays for the PROLED XDR models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:53:41

Marcin Wichary on the original iPod easter egg on Apple Music’s website 404 page: I am usually not a fan of easter eggs — most of them are poorly made — but this might be the best iPod recreation I’ve seen, and it’s an interesting thing to study:

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:31:21

From ICPC World Finals to competitive programming clubs to building generalist audio models as the first engineer at a YC startup.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:29:49

Dylan left Minnesota for San Francisco to build AI agents for CAD software as the first engineer at Adam (W25).

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:27:50

A principal engineer left consumer-scale software to build AI-native scientific analysis tools as the founding engineer at 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:26:08

A math major who turned down safe internships to lead high-stakes deals at a YC S26 startup supplying data for frontier AI labs.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:23:22

A veteran engineer finds his next act helping scientists discover cures, one amino acid at a time, at YC W26 startup 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:21:48

After 10 years at Google Research and DeepMind, Yair Alon joined Poetiq to build an AI that improves itself.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:18:56

Jonathan Stempel, reporting for Reuters: General Motors will pay $220 million to settle ​allegations that it illegally sold drivers’ private behavior and location data to brokers, who then sold the information to insurers that used it to set and somet

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:17:26

From Lyft's self-driving division to fixing HSA/FSA payments, Varsha joined Flex as its first engineer and built from scratch.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:12:49

A layoff, two years of travel, and a self-taught pivot to software led Sherif Amer to become the founding engineer at Indemni.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 18:53:09

Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stew

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 17:16:14

Java 21 to 25 upgrades and lots of solid security releases. As expected after the weeks we've had :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 669 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-30 15:52:05

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New Map of ‘Empty’

Deepmind @ 2026-10-30 15:18:30

Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times

old new thing @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

Lots of rumors, little confirmation. The post The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

How is AI affecting collaboration and creativity? Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to find out. The post AI May Quickly Generate Ideas—but Teams of People Are Still More Creative appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-30 14:31:00

DoorDash reduced grocery reorder latency from 16 to 2 seconds by precomputing recurring purchase needs using batch LLM inference and deterministic validation. Live catalog resolution keeps product selections current, while an editable shopping interface

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

InfoQ @ 2026-10-30 13:00:00

Netflix has detailed how it is building a reliability platform for large-scale GPU training and inference, using layered health checks, automated remediation, and fault-tolerant training to keep jobs running despite hardware failures. By Craig Risi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-30 12:53:25

La solución de este final artístico parece imposible incluso después de un cálculo profundo; y ahí surge un recurso genial muy antiguo

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:51:20

Learn how to set up query transformation in Spring AI for retrieval augmented generation. The post Query Transformation in Spring AI Modular RAG first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:42:54

Learn various strategies for handling forwarded headers in a Spring Boot application. The post Handle Forwarded Headers in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-30 11:13:12

Quantum 10, 2257 (2026). The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifyin

AEON @ 2026-10-30 11:00:00

A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age - by Jay Miller Read on Aeon

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

MacBook with Touch, more iPhone Duo, Australian App Store?, Going Closed-source, Feedler

Inside Java @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Now that the JDK 27 has been released, I thought it would be time to discuss interesting changes in OpenJDK’s stop-the-world collectors in the HotSpot VM once more.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Becoming a parent brings so much excitement, and can have its fair share of challenges. At Red Hat, parental leave is designed so work isn't one of those worries. In 2025, we set an ambitious goal to implement a Global Paid Parental Leave policy, providing

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red HatRed Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling inference and agent services. Rising token costs and sovereignt

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

When migrating virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud, virtualization engineers hit a familiar wall: how do you route traffic directly to a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization guest VM using that VM’s own IP address?OpenShift Virtualization has long offered a so

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 23:03:42

Apple Developer News: Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:57:21

Craig Hockenberry: If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week. Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of Word

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:44:11

Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. S

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-29 18:54:44

El portento ruso, que brilla desde los 8, está a un paso de ser el gran maestro más joven de la historia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 17:06:56

How Jason Snell beat me to linking to this, I don’t know. But like I said back in February , when it comes to signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-29 16:11:57

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-29 16:00:56

Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Ta

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 15:28:00

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read o

old new thing @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

Then again, that is what they asked for. The post The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

The first patient received a dose of the high-precision gene editor in a new clinical trial for Wilson disease. Researchers hope it's a one-and-done fix. The post CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body for the First Time appeared first on

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 14:50:00

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-29 14:19:24

Quantum 10, 2256 (2026). Quantum data re-uploading has proved powerful for classical inputs, where repeatedly encoding features into a small circuit yields universal function approximation. Extending this idea

luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:45:28

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1537

luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:40:59

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1536

AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:01:00

A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:00:00

Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 06:06:15

Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keybo

Inside Java @ 2026-10-29 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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Lately I hear many customers saying the same thing in different words—they added an AI layer to their environment, expected everything to get better, but haven't really noticed anything different yet.In practice, the addition I see first usually sits upstr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Sovereignty debt is emerging as a critical board-level liability across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The concept of technology debt is not new. It has challenged organizations through successive technology cycles, from data analytics to public cloud ado

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-28 20:15:04

In this week's big news (though it's only Wednesday), OpenAI announced a proof that the exponential-time hypothesis is false , with a Lean proof . Later Anthropic released their own paper . Ryan O'Donnell  and Shiva Kintali  posted follow-

Deepmind @ 2026-10-28 18:00:58

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-28 18:00:55

Start getting ready for MacBook Pro with Touch today. Watch new developer videos, sign up for Group Labs, and check out new articles and resources. Explore now

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-28 17:04:18

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 16:58:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selec

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:43:07

Quantum 10, 2255 (2026). Data privacy and authentication are two main security requirements for remote access and cloud services. While QKD has been explored to address data privacy concerns, oftentimes its use

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:34:12

Quantum 10, 2254 (2026). Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:24:36

Quantum 10, 2253 (2026). This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture for the trace distance based optimal state transformation problem proposed by Coutts et al. [Quantum 5, 448 (2021)]. Th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:03:02

Quantum 10, 2252 (2026). We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of f

old new thing @ 2026-10-28 15:00:00

You are taking the scenic route. The post C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using <CODE>make_self</CODE> and immediately converting it to the projected interface appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-28 13:55:00

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-28 12:51:51

The classification of finite simple groups (CFSG) has been called the biggest theorem in mathematics. It is big, not necessarily in terms of its importance, but in the sense that its proof developed over the course of decades and thousands of pages of jou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 11:36:06

Quantum 10, 2251 (2026). We investigate optimal metrological protocols for phase estimation in the presence of correlated dephasing noise, including spin-squeezed state sensing strategies as well as parallel an

AEON @ 2026-10-28 11:01:00

Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-28 09:59:00

En la 2ª ronda del Europeo rápido para ciegos, el español ganó una partida tan corta como sustanciosa y vibrante, que confirmó su momento dulce

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-28 05:00:00

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

YC @ 2026-10-28 03:59:08

Alex Lee left his own startup to join Magic Patterns as founding engineer — and built a slide deck feature in a weekend.

Inside Java @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

Get an overview of the Secure Coding Guidelines for Java and best practices. Examples will be provided to show insecure practices that may lead to security vulnerabilities. Learn how to avoid issues by applying the guidelines. We'll also cover recent upda

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

IT leaders today must balance core operations to run smoothly while rapidly transforming infrastructure to drive new business value. From navigating budget constraints and complex multicloud environments to accelerating developer productivity and integrati

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

For an enterprise, AI sovereignty starts with this primary requirement: Retain control of its own data and infrastructure. But as organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it in real business processes, control over the models themselves h

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 00:19:39

Apple Newsroom yesterday: With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 00:00:04

Apple Newsroom, with software news for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” week: Apple today introduced transformative updates to Apple Creator Studio , the powerful collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of modern creators

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 22:24:20

Even if you’re a decent designer (or believe yourself to be), it’s liberating not to have a say in the matter. Constraints are sometimes freeing.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-27 21:50:16

By chilling roundworms, scientists traced a molecular pathway hinting at one way cold might extend lifespan. The post Study Could Help Explain Why Colder Body Temperature Extends Lifespan in Many Species appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 19:59:47

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple on Wednesday will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring touch-enabled OLED displays with thinner bezels, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a lighter and slightly thinn

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:44:10

Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good . Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1700 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:03:08

An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:00:46

Apple Newsroom’s “Pro and Tell” announcement week continues: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 , delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business user

Deepmind @ 2026-10-27 17:01:38

Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 16:51:46

Quantum 10, 2250 (2026). We provide the first systematic technique for deriving witnesses of contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios. More specifically, we show how linear quantifier elimination ca

old new thing @ 2026-10-27 15:00:00

Hurry up and wait. The post Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:53:18

Quantum 10, 2249 (2026). Engineering the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is fundamental to the design of quantum systems. Automating Hamiltonian design through gradient-based optimization can dramatically accel

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:38:36

Quantum 10, 2248 (2026). Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps in the argument for classical hardness of GBS is the so-cal