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slashdot @ 2024-04-27 04:02:00

The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contract

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 03:25:00

In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft reported a 30% drop in Xbox console sales, after reporting a 30% drop last April. "It blamed the nosedive on a 'lower volume of consoles sold' during the start of 2024," reports Kotaku. From the rep

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 02:45:00

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating that ISPs offer $15 broadband plans to low-income families. Ars Technica reports: The ruling (PDF) is a l

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 02:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new campaign tracked as "Dev Popper" is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). The developers are

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 01:20:00

The free tax filing pilot from the IRS that rolled out in 12 states last month saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for federal returns, said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. CNBC reports: This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers su

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 00:40:00

Tobias Mann reports via The Register: Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualizatio

slashdot @ 2024-04-27 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Darktrace is set to go private in a deal that values the U.K.-based cybersecurity giant at around $5 billion. A newly formed entity called Luke Bidco Ltd., formed by private equity giant Thoma Bravo, has

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 23:20:00

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by superconductivity physicist Ranga Dias against his employer, the University of Rochester in New York. From a report: In February, a university investigation found that he had committed scientific misconduct by, am

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 22:43:00

The head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency warned the country's leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperilling national security. The Record: "We know that our universities are being a

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 22:02:00

Noise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found. From a report: Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long-term negative effects on their health, growth

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-26 21:45:02

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 461 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [Acast A, Acast B; iVoox A, iVoox B; iTunes A y iTunes B], titulado “Ep461: Oppenheimer; Filosofía Natural de Kant», 25 abr 2024. «La tertulia semanal en […] La entra

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 21:22:00

A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years since its creators lost control of it and remains active on thousands, possibly millions, of machines, researchers said Thursday. ArsTechnica: The worm -- w

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-26 21:11:02

La presión paulatina que el ítalo-estadounidense aplica para lograr esta victoria contra Vidit explica por qué es el 2º del mundo

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 20:40:00

Captchas that aim to distinguish humans from nefarious bots are demanding more brain power. WSJ: The companies and cybersecurity experts who design Captchas have been doing all they can to stay one step ahead of the bad actors figuring out how to crack the

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 20:02:00

The GNOME Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the GNOME desktop environment, has been operating at a deficit for several years, depleting its financial reserves. Robert McQueen, the foundation's president, has announced plans to increase fundr

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-26 20:00:50

The App Store was created to be a safe place for users to discover and get millions of apps all around the world. Over the years, we‘ve built many critical privacy and security features that help protect users and give them transparency and control — from

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 19:33:56

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Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-26 19:26:22

Genomics is revolutionizing medicine and science, but current approaches still struggle to capture the breadth of human genetic diversity. Pangenomes that incorporate many people’s DNA could be the answer, and a new project thinks quantum computers will be

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 19:20:00

U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it [non-paywalled link], prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial and consumer drone markets. The New York Times: DJI is on a Def

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-26 19:16:21

Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact. The post How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2024-04-26 18:40:00

Some Android-powered TVs can expose the contents of users' email inboxes if an attacker has physical access to the TV. Google initially told the office of Senator Ron Wyden that the issue, which is a quirk of how software is installed on these TVs, was exp

Baeldung @ 2024-04-26 18:26:20

Jakarta Data, multimodal LLMs, deprecating Dates in Hibernate, vector API, and Agile as a silver bullet (or not).              

InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 18:16:00

At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools

iOS Weekly @ 2024-04-26 17:52:21

Comment Visiting WWDC is always a special experience, but attending is harder than with many other conferences. You have to win the ticket lottery due to the demand, almost everyone will need a flight of some dur

InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 17:00:00

JetBrains IDE Services aims to help enterprises manage their JetBrains tool ecosystem more efficiently and boost developer productivity at the enterprise scale through the integration of AI, remote collaboration, and more. By Sergio De Simone

old new thing @ 2024-04-26 16:00:00

Comparing the two algorithms. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 8 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 14:23:15

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 12:00:00

This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions,

AEON @ 2024-04-26 12:00:00

In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian - by Mark Fisher Read at Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 10:44:43

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 09:30:00

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which pr

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 09:17:24

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 06:36:39

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 03:34:07

WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, supporting SSO, SCIM, user management, and RBAC. Free up to 1 million MAUs, WorkOS brings a modular approach to B2B Auth with enterprise-ready features like SSO, SCIM, and User Management. The APIs are

Inside Java @ 2024-04-26 02:00:00

Six years ago we accelerated the pace of new releases in order to keep Java vibrant in an ever-changing world of competing platforms and new styles of application deployment. We’ll take a look back at features delivered recently, and a brief look ahead at

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 01:40:58

While I’m on a follow-up kick today, my item yesterday regarding Ed Zitron’s compelling essay on the corruption of Google Search quality by putting it in the hands of Prabhakar Raghavan, formerly head of ads at Google, reminded me of this oft-cited qu

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 01:20:36

Another follow-up post, this one regarding my post yesterday regarding how “greasy”-looking keyboard keys are not, in fact, in need of cleaning, but instead are worn away because they’re made from soft ABS plastic , not hard PBT plastic . DF reader Br

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 01:11:14

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 23:42:06

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 23:14:46

It’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs.

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-25 23:08:51

Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity . The post Making Light of Gravity appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-25 22:25:29

CRISPR has revolutionized science. AI is now taking the gene editor to the next level. Thanks to its ability to accurately edit the genome, CRISPR tools are now widely used in biotechnology and across medicine to tackle inherited diseases. In late 2023, a

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 22:14:10

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 18:08:05

I am proud to present my solo hobby project NAND. This year-long undertaking follows the completed Nand to Tetris course, but ported to the web with its own runtime, user interface, and IDE. Using the "Load example program" selector, you can try out some

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-04-25 17:52:45

With the Kotlin 2.0.0 release drawing ever closer, the K2 compiler is now available for you to try! In this blog post, we explore the performance of the K2 compiler in various projects and give you the tools to collect your own performance statistics. The

Kotlin news @ 2024-04-25 17:52:45

With the Kotlin 2.0.0 release drawing ever closer, the K2 compiler is now available for you to try! In this blog post, we explore the performance of the K2 compiler in various projects and give you the tools to collect your own performance statistics. The

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 17:31:16

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 17:30:00

When Microsoft Engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releas

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 16:43:27

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Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-25 16:10:35

The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas. The post Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2024-04-25 16:00:00

Going free-threaded. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 7 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-25 15:00:22

Tired of running into the same connection errors in PostgreSQL? In this blog post, we tackle the most common and show you how to fix them.

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-25 15:00:01

Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with molecular nutritionist Elizabeth Johnson about her research into the impact of human milk on a healthy microbi

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 14:51:44

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-25 14:43:04

El otro juvenil indio también ha brillado en el Candidatos, pero no es tan contundente como Gukesh en el aprovechamiento de las ventajas

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-25 14:13:51

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InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 13:30:00

Behind every InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon software development conference is a collective of distinguished senior software practitioners who carefully curate the topics based on the crucial trends and essential best practices you need to know about. These a

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-25 13:21:38

The traditional approach to teaching differential equations is to present a collection of techniques for finding closed-form solutions to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These techniques seem completely unrelated [1] and have arcane names such as

InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 13:14:00

Technological improvements like containers, VMs, infrastructure-as-code, software-defined-networking, collaborative version control, and CI/CD can make it possible to fix cultural issues around organisational dynamics and bad product delivery. According

AEON @ 2024-04-25 12:01:00

For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 12:00:00

The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential

AEON @ 2024-04-25 12:00:00

Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe? - by Rupert Read Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 10:53:00

The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future.

Baeldung @ 2024-04-25 06:56:14

Let's explore various methods and techniques for calculating moving averages, ranging from traditional approaches to libraries and Stream API's.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-25 06:53:45

Learn the main differences between PersistenceUnit vs. PersistenceContext in the JPA context.              

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 01:56:56

Kyle Chayka, writing for The New Yorker: Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided to trade out their iPhones for more low-tech devices. They’d heard about so-called dumbp

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 00:55:25

Absolutely scathing dissection of what’s gone wrong at Google Search, by Ed Zitron for his newsletter/blog: In an interview with FastCompany’s Harry McCracken from 2018 , Gomes framed Google’s challenge as “taking [the PageRank algorithm] from one ma

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 00:26:37

Jeff Gamet on Mastodon: Know why you can’t clean the greasy spots off your compute keyboard? Because that isn’t grease. Lots of computer keys are made from ABS plastic, which is soft and cheaper than PBT plastic. Those shiny spots are where you polish

YC @ 2024-04-24 21:30:45

Last week we shared some awesome news: David Lieb, the creator of Bump (part of the summer 2009 batch!) and Google Photos, has joined YC as a Group Partner. I sat down with David to hear more about his incredible story so far.

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-24 21:15:00

Guest post by  Martin Bullinger Very recently,  Vijay Vazirani 's paper  A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length  got accepted to Mathematics of Operations Research. For the first time, it

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-04-24 18:25:48

Introduction This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to easily manipulate and visualize your data using the Kotlin DataFrame and Kandy libraries. The tutorials are aimed at regular Kotlin developers, so no previous experience of data analysis or

Kotlin news @ 2024-04-24 18:25:48

Introduction This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to easily manipulate and visualize your data using the Kotlin DataFrame and Kandy libraries. The tutorials are aimed at regular Kotlin developers, so no previous experience of data analysis or

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-24 18:18:41

PostgreSQL has emerged as the de facto database standard. Here is why this is happening and why it matters.

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-24 16:27:09

More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning? The post Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Ke

old new thing @ 2024-04-24 16:00:00

Using a change counter with coalescing. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2024-04-24 12:01:00

There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-24 12:00:00

Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-04-24 08:43:38

We provide an official curl container. Why would you use curl in a container? We actually don’t ask, we just provide the image, but I can think of a few reasons… Six billion as of now The official curl docker repository now (as of 06:43 UTC Apr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-24 07:55:52

El doble subcampeón no quiso atacar, ni siquiera suavemente, en una partida trascendental en la penúltima ronda con Nakamura

This Week in Rust @ 2024-04-24 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

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-24 04:36:52

Cristiano Lima-Strong, reporting for The Washington Post: Congress late Tuesday passed legislation to ban or force a sale of TikTok, delivering a historic rebuke of the video-sharing platform’s Chinese ownership after years of failed attempts to tackl

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-24 03:32:06

Apple Newsroom: Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and “superior sci-fi,” Apple TV+’s hit, award-winning space drama series “For All Mankind” has landed a renewal f

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-24 02:19:22

Julia. Scala. Lua. TypeScript. Haskell. Go. Dart. Various computer languages new and old are sometimes proposed as better alternatives to mainstream languages. But compared to mainstream choices like Python, C, C++ and Java (cf. Tiobe Index)—are the

Inside Java @ 2024-04-24 02:00:00

As a JVM Sustaining Engineer, my focus has always been on discovering ways to make it easier to diagnose and troubleshoot JVM issues, enhancing JVM serviceability, and enabling users gain critical insights into their Java runtime environments. Recently, I

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 23:12:18

Bertrand Serlet —  who was Apple’s SVP of software engineering from 2003–2011 and a staple during WWDC keynotes during that era — is now a YouTuber. Great 30-minute lecture explaining how LLMs and AI in general actually work.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 23:00:44

The FTC: Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation. “

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 22:02:54

Happy ending to this saga . Remarkable engineering.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:58:15

Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog , and Tom Bridge’s site about how our friend and Take Control author Charles Edge died

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:49:48

Viola Zhou, reporting for Rest of World on TSMC’s massive, but now much-delayed, chip fabrication campus outside Phoenix: The American engineers complained of rigid, counterproductive hierarchies at the company; Taiwanese TSMC veterans described their

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-23 21:43:34

The surprising relationship between age and success in rebellions. The post The Age of Rebellion appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:19:52

Made by Windmill recently launched a fantastic Mac App for GitHub and GitLab issues. When it launched two months ago (and sponsored DF ), it was named Sonar. They’ve changed the name to Taska, but it’s the same great app from the same great team. As I w

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 20:26:28

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube as usual. The event invitation has a

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-04-23 20:03:10

Until about a year and a half ago, the way to get funding in physics was to somehow associate yourself to the hot trend of quantum computing and quantum information theory. Large parts of the string theory and quantum gravity … Continue reading 

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 18:00:52

Apple Search Ads helps you drive discovery of your app or game on the App Store. We caught up with the Apple Search Ads team to learn more about successfully using the service, including signing up for the free online Apple Search Ads Certification c

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-23 16:00:56

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe. The post AI Starts to Sift Through String Theor

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 16:00:37

Drive discovery and downloads on the App Store with Apple Search Ads in 70 countries and regions, now including Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Paraguay. Visit the Apple Search Ads si

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-23 16:00:08

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth, eventually leading t

old new thing @ 2024-04-23 16:00:00

Using a change counter. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

ASF @ 2024-04-23 15:01:00

The intermediate data service for big data computing engines has graduated from incubation Wilmington, DE, April 23, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source pr

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 15:00:46

Join us for a special Apple Event on May 7 at 7 a.m. PT. Watch online at apple.com , on Apple TV, or on YouTube Live.

InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 15:00:00

Stability AI recently released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), an AI model that can generate 3D mesh object models from a single 2D image. SV3D is based on the Stable Video Diffusion model and produces state-of-the-art results on 3D object generation benchmarks.

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-23 14:12:44

Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century—see here. His work in theoretical physics radically reshaped our un

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:55

The instruction-tuned large language models have been pre-trained on over 15 trillion tokens of data—a training dataset seven times larger than that used for Llama 2 models.

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:51

With Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, you can implement safeguards in your generative artificial intelligence applications that are customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies.

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:47

With Agents for Amazon Bedrock, applications can use generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to run tasks across multiple systems and data sources. Starting today, these new capabilities streamline the creation and management of agents: Quick ag

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:43

This new capability helps you to incorporate generative AI into your application by letting you select the foundation model that gives you the best results for your particular use case.

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:40

With Amazon Bedrock, you have access to a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies that make it easier to build and scale generative AI applications. Some of these models provide publicly availab

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:37

All images generated by Titan Image Generator contain an invisible watermark to help reduce the spread of misinformation by providing a mechanism to identify AI-generated images.

InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 13:15:00

Patterns can help us to understand how things work and how cultures develop. The game in an organisational system is about recognizing patterns and anti-patterns. According to Tiani Jones, leaders should work on the system rather than in the system and c

InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 12:25:00

AWS announced the availability of the Mistral Large Foundation Model on Amazon Bedrock during the recent AWS Paris Summit. This announcement comes days after the release of Mistral AI Models on Amazon Bedrock. By Daniel Dominguez

InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 12:00:00

At the Cloud Next Conference, Google unveiled its enterprise-focused AI Code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, which is available in public preview for Apigee API Management and Application Integration. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AEON @ 2024-04-23 12:00:00

I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging - by Jessica Buchleitner Read at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2024-04-23 10:00:00

El próximo sábado 27 de abril a las 11:35, en el auditorio de Guardo (Palencia) estrenaré (?) mi charla «La maldición de la pata de mono». Es tradición de los eventos Naukas abrir el apetito publicando con antelación la primera diapositiva del material grá

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 00:09:49

Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels: The backbone of the system would need to accept modules from Apple and other companies, letting users build what they needed in terms of functionality, as D’Agostino writes: (Fitch) designed a simple hardwa

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-22 23:28:01

El estadounidense, que empató con Carlsen el duelo por el título en 2018, desaprovechó varias posiciones ganadoras en una partida clave

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-22 23:08:42

If you are managing lots of accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources, sharing and then associating many DNS resources to each VPC can present a significant burden. You often hit limits around sharing and association, and you may hav

Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:05:17

Learn why converting strings to OffsetDateTime objects is crucial for handling date and time in Java applications.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:03:36

Learn how to implement a Builder Pattern in Java 8.             Related Stories Builder Pattern and Inheritance  

Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:00:19

Discover when casting to String or using String.valueOf() is most useful.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 22:29:22

Learn different approaches to performing update-or-insert operations using Spring Data JPA.              

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-22 22:28:03

From Covid boosters to annual flu shots, most of us are left wondering: Why so many, so often? There’s a reason to update vaccines. Viruses rapidly mutate, which can help them escape the body’s immune system, putting previously vaccinated people at risk of

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 22:21:21

Alex Heath, The Verge: Meta has started licensing the operating system for its Quest headset to other hardware makers, starting with Lenovo and Asus. It’s also making a limited-run, gaming-focused Quest with Xbox . On the theme of opening up, Me

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-22 22:18:30

A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote. The post The Feminist Botanist appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 21:58:51

Re: my previous item on LLMs being RAM-hungry while iPhones are relatively low on RAM, this certainly isn’t news to Apple. Back in December, a team of eight researchers from Apple published this paper, which states in its abstract: This paper tackle

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-22 21:14:25

Issue 54 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our January and February 2024 online issues. It includes contributions from bestselling author Tom Vanderbilt,  theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, journalist Mark MacNam

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 21:04:40

Ron Amadeo, writing for Ars Technica on a purported leak of a trio of Pixel 9 phones: Rozetked says (through translation) that the phone is “similar in size to the iPhone 15 Pro.” It runs a Tensor G4 SoC, of course, and — here’s a noteworthy spec — 

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-22 19:32:54

AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (

InfoQ @ 2024-04-22 18:00:00

At QCon London, Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis from Spotify led a session explaining how they have evolved the plugin architecture of Backstage to enable easier extensibility. Going into the background of Backstage's inception, Nilsson explained how Backs

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-22 17:22:13

Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes. The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2024-04-22 16:00:00

What if the UI thread isn't there to save you? The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-22 15:16:23

This weekend I ran across a blog post The Rodeo Clown Theory of Personal Development. The title comes from a hypothetical example of a goal you don’t know how to achieve: becoming a rodeo clown. Let’s say you decide you want to be a rodeo clown. And

AEON @ 2024-04-22 12:01:00

For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-04-22 12:00:00

Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards? - by Sean H Vanatta Read at Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-04-22 09:59:53

Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to on

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 03:16:00

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. The September 2023 MGM hack is one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent years. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 03:15:00

“*The entire Mac product line is set for annual speed-bump Apple silicon updates*” is, as far I can tell, the actual story. Not “*Mac sales are in the tank and Apple is overhauling the whole product line to change its focus to AI.*”

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-22 02:21:44

Tras eludir la preparación de Nakamura, el indio logra una pequeña ventaja y acepta un final de tablas con la esperanza de que le sirva para ganar el torneo

Ethereum blog @ 2024-04-22 02:00:00

TL;DR: The EPF concluded the fourth cohort and is preparing for a fifth cohort. Applications will be open soon. In the meantime, explore the new EPF.wiki and sign up to get notified when they open. The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship recently completed its f

Martin Fowler @ 2024-04-22 00:21:00

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Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:53:49

Learn how to get the compressed data in a byte array when using the GZIP file format.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:49:13

Explore the reasons behind the “Not a Managed Type” Exception in Spring Data JPA.              

Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:39:15

Explore the process of setting up Simple Java Mail and learn how to send emails, including attachments and HTML content, handle exceptions, and more.              

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-21 20:56:00

I posted (see here ) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions: 1) Hardy thought Math was a young man's game. I got some good comments on this. Some agreed and some disagreed. 2) Hardy thought applied math is dull

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-21 02:17:59

Ni la presión del momento ni la del peligroso Firouzja ni la del reloj impidieron el triunfo del juvenil indio

Inside Java @ 2024-04-21 02:00:00

Let's take a look at what's new in JDK Mission Control 9!

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-20 19:27:20

Vencer por obligación nunca es fácil, y menos aún a los 17 años en un Torneo de Candidatos a tres rondas de la clausura

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-20 17:54:28

There’s a little program called strings that searches for what appear to be strings inside binary file. I’ll refer to it as strings(1) to distinguish the program name from the common English word strings. [1] What does strings(1) consider to b

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-20 16:00:17

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024 Eliza Strickland | IEEE Spectrum “Each year, the AI Index lands on virtual desks with a louder virtual thud—this year, its 393 pages are a testament to the fact that AI is co

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-20 14:31:59

Arshad Khan left a comment on my post on the less and more utilities saying “on ubuntu if I do less on a pdf file, it shows me the text contents of the pdf.” Apparently this is an undocumented feature of GNU less. It works, but I don’t s