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slashdot @ 2026-05-13 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 19:00:00

The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the fr

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 18:00:00

Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades h

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by

InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 16:46:00

Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles that separate global user identity from externally visible profiles, preventing cross-context linkage. Th

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 16:45:00

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 16:36:00

JEP 533, Structured Concurrency, has reached integrated status for JDK 27. It refines exception handling and type safety in its API, particularly focusing on exception flow with a new ExecutionException type. Changes include an updated Joiner interface a

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-13 16:04:30

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible. The post How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evoluti

old new thing @ 2026-05-13 16:00:00

Keeping things moving. The post The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts appeared first on The Old New Thing .

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 13:00:00

Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: CERN, a longtime Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad ("KEE-kad"), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional electroni

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-13 12:54:17

Una de las virtudes más asombrosas del prodigio turco es su consistencia, que en esta partida se traduce en una total ausencia de errores

AEON @ 2026-05-13 12:01:00

How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 11:12:54

Quantum 10, 2106 (2026). Quantum paradoxes show that the outcomes of different quantum measurements cannot be described by a single measurement-independent reality. Any theoretical description of a quantum meas

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 10:00:00

Grafana Labs has launched Pyroscope 2.0, a rearchitected open-source continuous profiling database. This version improves storage costs, query performance, and operational complexity. Key changes include single write paths for profiles, stateless query p

InfoQ @ 2026-05-13 09:31:00

AWS announced that Amazon WorkSpaces can now serve as managed virtual desktops for AI agents in public preview. Agents authenticate through IAM and operate legacy applications via computer vision and input simulation without APIs. Reflex benchmarks show

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 09:01:35

Quantum 10, 2105 (2026). This work considers a teleportation task for Alice and Bob in a scenario where Bob cannot perform corrections. In particular, we analyse the task of $\textit{multicopy state teleportati

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 09:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from Phys.org: Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading blood

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 08:50:41

Quantum 10, 2104 (2026). A class of quantum resource theories, based on non-convex star-shape sets, presented in this work captures the key quantum properties that cannot be studied by standard convex theories.

Baeldung @ 2026-05-13 05:47:58

Learn three distinct ways to query records between two dates in Hibernate: HQL, Criteria API, and Native SQL. The post Query Records Between Two Dates With Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .            

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 05:45:00

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slashdot @ 2026-05-13 05:30:00

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Musk's la

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-13 04:22:16

Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

The past few years have been a period of significant change and challenges in the virtualization industry. Customers are forced to re-evaluate their virtualization platforms while adapting to the rapid rise of AI and infrastructure as well as supply chain

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

Modern IT is driven just as much by economic decisions as it is by technical concepts. The costs of hardware, cloud services, storage, and more all factor into how CIOs and IT leaders budget and deploy their strategies. And now with AI, we have another cro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

We’re continuing to navigate a fundamental shift in digital infrastructure. Over the past 18 months, the predictability of the virtualization layer has shed nearly 20 years of stability driven by an unrelenting cost crisis. But this is just a symptom of a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

If you ship software in containers, you know the vulnerability treadmill: Scanners surface a flood of CVEs, backlogs swell, and teams chase patch velocity as if it were the core business of the company (as opposed to serving customers and stakeholders). Co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

It has been about a year since the last review of Red Hat’s partner ecosystem for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. We've had a lot of success in the infrastructure space, including improvements to storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery (DR), a

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 01:00:00

South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a p

slashdot @ 2026-05-13 00:00:00

Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, says it reached an agreement with the hackers who stole 3.5 terabytes of student and university data. The company says it received "digital confirmation" that the information was des

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 23:06:21

Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com ( r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is ef

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:31:49

Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google , I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:22:20

Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-se

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:05:28

Jacob Parry and Laura Greenhalgh, reporting for Politico, one month ago: The EU’s landmark tech regulations are a “success story” that are beginning to level the playing field between Silicon Valley’s giants and their digital competitors in Europe, sa

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 22:00:00

Google is teasing a new line of "Googlebook" laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says C

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 21:34:00

Foo Yun Chee, reporting for Reuters back on March 23: Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung’s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU’s toughest tech rules because of their growing market power, the world’s largest broadcasters told EU a

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 21:00:00

Microsoft and G42's planned $1 billion AI data center in Kenya has stalled amid disagreements over power commitments, with President William Ruto saying the country would need to "switch off half the country" to support the project at full scale. Tom's Har

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 20:52:12

Juli Clover, MacRumors: To comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Apple is letting third-party wearables access some features that have historically been limited to the Apple Watch and AirPods. Proximity pairing  — Third-party earbuds are abl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-12 20:28:00

The wireless rings read 100 common signs from two sign languages and "autocomplete" sentences. The post These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 20:00:00

The EU plans to target "addictive design" features on TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms, including endless scrolling, autoplay, push notifications, and recommendation loops that can steer children toward harmful content. European Commission President

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-12 19:00:00

The U.S. registered nurse workforce has split into two extremes: 1 in 5 RNs are now 65 or older, and the under-30 share fell to a 10-year low.

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 19:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: EBay on Tuesday rejected a $56 billion takeover bid from the much smaller GameStop over financing doubts, calling the proposal "neither credible nor attractive." EBay, which has roughly four times GameStop'

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-12 18:16:48

Entre las partidas más interesantes del noruego en el torneo Sigeman figura esta, contra la muy talentosa china Jiner Zhu

ASF @ 2026-05-12 18:11:00

By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes to elect a Board of Directors, admit new members, and decide the direction of one of the oldest and most i

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-12 18:05:12

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton, run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU. Its integrated data lake query engine supports open table formats such as Apache Iceberg.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-12 18:00:16

In this edition: Meet inspiring developers, advocates, and educators. Prepare your app for Accessibility Nutrition Labels. Meet the team behind the stylish open-world adventure Infinity Nikki. Get the most out of your Apple Developer accou

slashdot @ 2026-05-12 18:00:00

The FCC has softened its ban on foreign-made consumer routers, allowing vendors to keep issuing broader software and firmware updates for devices already in use in the U.S. through at least January 2029. Dark Reading reports: Under the original FCC ruling,

tecosystems @ 2026-05-12 16:10:00

While it’s been almost eighteen months since the OSI released its open source AI definition, the debate around where, whether and how open source licenses might be applied to AI models continues. The view here remains unchanged, which is that open source s

Sogrady @ 2026-05-12 16:10:00

While it’s been almost eighteen months since the OSI released its open source AI definition, the debate around where, whether and how open source licenses might be applied to AI models continues. The view here remains unchanged, which is that open source s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 16:01:08

Quantum 10, 2103 (2026). Fermionic quantum processors are a promising platform for quantum simulation of correlated fermionic matter. In this work, we study a hardware-efficient protocol for measuring complex e

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 15:53:47

Quantum 10, 2102 (2026). Quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT) have provided a unified framework for understanding many quantum algorithms, including factorization, ma

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-12 15:30:00

Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 15:06:51

Quantum 10, 2101 (2026). Quantum low-density parity-check codes are a promising approach to fault-tolerant quantum computation, offering potential advantages in rate and decoding efficiency. In this work, we in

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-12 15:00:26

A free Apple Developer account provides access to the tools, resources, and support you need to build and test apps and games. A free developer account is separate from an Apple Developer Program membership. Even if your organization holds the paid mem

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-12 14:33:30

Quantum 10, 2100 (2026). Classical machine learning has proven remarkably useful in post-processing quantum data, yet typical learning algorithms often require prior training to be effective. In this work, we e

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 14:20:20

If you look very closely at my previous post, you’ll notice that I initialize a 128-bit integer with a 64-bit value. The 128-bit unsigned integer represents the internal state of a random number generator. Why not initialize it to a 128-bit value? I

InfoQ @ 2026-05-12 14:00:00

GitHub has announced the general availability of secret scanning support through its MCP Server, extending automated credential detection and remediation capabilities into AI-assisted and agent-driven development workflows. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-05-12 13:26:00

AdonisJS version 7 introduces end-to-end type safety and reworked starter kits, alongside improved documentation. The release includes 45+ updated packages and three new ones for OpenTelemetry, typed content. It requires Node.js 24, allowing the use of n

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 13:07:31

A couple days ago I wrote about hacking the Mersenne Twister. I explained how to recover the random number generator’s internal state from a stream of 640 outputs. This post will do something similar with the lehmer64 random number generator. This g

AEON @ 2026-05-12 12:00:00

We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface - by James Dinneen Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-05-12 10:00:00

Si un político exige nuevas infraestructuras, lo más probable es que esté hablando de carreteras de alta capacidad. Autovías para llegar allá, autovías para circunvalar aquí, autovías para saltarse autovías colapsadas. Ese sesgo nos está saliendo muy caro.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-12 10:00:00

Two recent Linux kernel vulnerabilities have been disclosed: Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) on April 29, 2026, and Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500) on May 7, 2026. Both allow local users to gain root access, affecting multiple Linux distributio

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 05:09:56

Explore various methods for converting between ByteBuffer and byte arrays in Java. The post Convert Between ByteBuffer and Byte Array in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 02:54:08

Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-12 02:49:41

This morning I wrote a post about the probability that a random matrix over a finite field is invertible. If the field has q elements and the matrix has dimensions n × n then the probability is In that post I made observation that p(q, n) converges very q

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 02:13:27

Learn how to create and customize snippets in Visual Studio Code to reduce repetitive coding and improve development efficiency. The post How to Create Shortcut Snippets in Visual Studio Code? first appeared on Baeldung .      

Ethereum blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today launched an open standard designed to end blind signing — a structural flaw that has contributed to billions i

Inside Java @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

Get a deep dive with live coding showing how to specify, allocate, and work with native memory and how to link and call native functions. We'll also demo how to use the automatic binding generator tool jextract to effortlessly generate Java bindings to the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

If you watched the day one keynote at Red Hat Summit 2026, you heard me talk about critical inflection points that have defined the IT industry. Linux and Kubernetes formed two big waves in recent memory, and AI is undeniably causing another shift. Each of

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

The age of generative AI brings great opportunity and new risks. As large organizations adopt agentic AI and face increasingly strict digital sovereignty requirements, the underlying infrastructure must provide integrity, isolation, and identity management

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are transforming industries from financial services to healthcare. However, the use of AI models introduces risk around protecting models, weights, and data from malicious actors. While the industry has established ro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

You've tried it. You've pulled a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from a GitHub repo, wrestled it into a container, sorted out authentication yourself, and hoped it would hold up in production. That is the state of MCP adoption in the enterprise today—p

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-12 02:00:00

As enterprises move from the hype of generative AI to building governed, production-ready AI applications, several new challenges have emerged. Currently, many businesses route all of their prompts to massive, cloud-based LLMs, which can result in excessiv

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:46:04

Learn various ways a the virtual thread gets pinned to the corresponding platform thread. The post Synchronize Virtual Thread Without Pinning first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:20:37

Learn about Key Derivation Function API in Java 25. The post Key Derivation Function API in Java 25 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-05-12 01:14:10

Learn how to use Anthropic with agent skills for structured output in specific formats via Spring AI. The post Anthropic Agent Skills Support in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 00:57:00

Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encr

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 23:56:00

Prof. Dan Ghica, who leads the Programming Languages Lab at Huawei’s Edinburgh Research Centre, recently presented Cangjie (CJ), a new application development language that features algebraic data types and effect handlers. The open-sourced language is p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 22:48:05

Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say , take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order,

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-11 22:20:00

In David Marcus's guest post on good coding style (see  here )  he reviewed a book from 1986 called  "Professional Pascal." I wondered if it was still in print and could be bought: 1) I went to Amazon and searched all products for Pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 20:32:03

Apple stopped selling the Power Mac G5 (with space) in August 2006, so I’m not sure how much they care about Kraft using “PowerMac” (sans space) as a trademark for protein-enhanced macaroni and cheese. (I feel like there’s got to be a joke to be made here

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-11 19:55:47

Mark Gurman, in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg over the weekend: Though the Mac software introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26, the design language hasn’t translated as smoothly to the larger displays and different input met

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 19:00:00

Coder Agents is a model-agnostic platform designed to let organizations run AI coding agents on their own infrastructure, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This allows teams to maintain full control over code, data, and execution environments.

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-11 18:08:26

My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Str

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-11 17:30:30

What is the inverse of shifting a sequence to the right? Shifting it to the left, obviously. But wait a minute. Suppose you have a sequence of eight bits abcdefgh and you shift it to the right. You get 0abcdefg. If you shift this sequence to the left you

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 16:36:00

Netflix improves Apache Druid performance with interval aware caching, serving 84% of analytics results from cache and reducing query load by 33%. The system decomposes rolling window queries into reusable time segments, enabling partial cache reuse and

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-11 16:15:13

A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography. The post How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-05-11 16:00:00

Putting the handles in a private container. The post Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by <CODE>Create­Process</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-11 16:00:00

Far from shore, the server farms would be powered by waves, cooled by seawater, and networked by satellite. The post In the Scramble to Power AI, Investors Bet $140 Million on Data Centers at Sea appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-11 15:25:13

The two latest posts have involved invertible matrices with 0 and 1 entries. If you fill an n × n matrix with 0s and 1s randomly, how likely is it to be invertible? What kind of inverse? There are a couple ways to find the probability that a binary matrix

AEON @ 2026-05-11 12:01:00

In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-11 12:00:00

The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 10:00:00

Google Cloud's DORA team released a report detailing a framework for assessing the ROI of AI in software development. It emphasizes that successful AI implementation depends on organizational systems rather than just tools. The report introduces a J-Curv

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 09:30:00

Netflix has developed a graph-based architecture for managing machine learning systems, called the Model Lifecycle Graph. This system maps interconnections between datasets, models, features, and workflows, addressing challenges in scaling ML operations.

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-11 08:01:35

yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would no

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-11 06:44:19

Sólo meses después del estreno del documental que reavivó su escándalo con Carlsen, el estadounidense logra el mayor éxito de su carrera, a los 22 años

InfoQ @ 2026-05-11 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for May 4th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; the sixth milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; the first milestone release of Grails 8.0; the first alpha release of Groovy 6.0; a point release of J

Ethereum blog @ 2026-05-11 02:00:00

A semi-regular gathering of Ethereum core devs from various client teams, or interop, recently took place in Svalbard, Norway. Over the week-long event, teams focused on hardening and preparation for the next upgrade, Glamsterdam. Several important milest

Inside Java @ 2026-05-11 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 533: Structured Concurrency (Seventh Preview)

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-10 23:00:00

Über Bewusstsein, Maschinen und ein Buch, das ich mir wieder gekauft habe

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-10 20:51:40

The previous post looked at the tempering step of the Mersenne Twister, formulating a sequence of bit operations as multiplication by a matrix mod 2. This post will look at the components more closely. The theorems of linear algebra generally hold indepen

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-10 19:32:02

The Mersenne Twister (MT) is a random number generator with good statistical properties but bad cryptographic properties. In buzzwords, it’s a PRNG but not a CSPRNG. This post will show how the internal state of a MT generator can be recovered from

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-10 19:16:58

El argentino completa su título de gran maestro al ganar la penúltima ronda en Cerdeña porque el Elo de Niepómniashi, rival en la última, le garantiza la hazaña

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-10 16:05:00

My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly nee

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-10 16:04:19

Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, pa

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-10 12:09:32

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 557 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Venter; NSF; Telaraña; Marte; Demencia; Horizontes”, 07 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada Podcast CB Sy

InfoQ @ 2026-05-10 08:30:00

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 9.7.0, marking the start of a new 9.7 LTS release series and the first major one since MySQL 8.4. The release arrives amid community concerns about declining MySQL development activity and Oracle's l

AHL's blog @ 2026-05-10 02:00:00

JSON Schema isn’t a great way to describe data… but it’s both a popular and pervasive way to describe data. For the past several years I’ve been working on a Rust crate typify that compiles JSON Schema into Rust types. In a previous post, I wrote

Atomic14 @ 2026-05-10 02:00:00

ESP-IDF v6 dropped back in March and the GitHub releases page is already showing v6.0.1 - so I figured it was time to stop hiding in the v5.x cave and actually try it out. This is a nice gentle introduction. We’ll install the IDF, wire it up

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-09 19:00:00

Year over year, U.S. federal civilian employment is shrinking faster than at any point since 1939 outside wars and the decennial Census.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-09 16:00:00

Artificial Intelligence AI Is Starting to Build Better AIMatthew Hutson | IEEE Spectrum “In 1966, the English mathematician IJ Good wrote that ‘an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines;... The post This Week’s Awes

InfoQ @ 2026-05-09 11:46:00

Fonttrio is an open-source font pairing registry designed for shadcn/ui projects, featuring 49 curated font combinations that can be installed via a single command. Developed by Dima Kapish, it streamlines font selection and configuration for web applica

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-08 23:57:55

El ganador invicto del torneo tuvo que doblegar en la última ronda a Iturrizaga, y lo hizo con gran calidad

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-08 18:30:46

Following changes to Brazil’s fixed-odds betting regulation, apps with fixed-odds betting (gambling) features can now be distributed on the App Store in Brazil with a valid fixed-odds betting license from the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA) . If any

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-08 17:19:32

El noruego aprovechó un pequeño error del turco en la última ronda de Malmoe y luego se impuso en el desempate rápido a Erigaisi

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-08 16:50:43

It should be possible, but getting there will require a greater understanding of subsurface physics. The post Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-05-08 16:00:00

You can track the file ID. The post Developing more confidence when tracking renames via <CODE>Read­Directory­ChangesW</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-08 16:00:00

For years, tech companies have profiled users for targeted ads. AI is about to take it to the next level. The post You Probably Wouldn’t Notice if a Chatbot Slipped Ads Into Its Responses appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-08 15:54:18

Curvature is conceptually simple but usually difficult to calculate. For a level set curve f(x, y) = c, such as in the previous couple posts, the equation for curvature is Even when f has a fairly simple expression, the expression for κ can be complicated

Baeldung @ 2026-05-08 14:10:36

Evolving and adapting in the age of AI - some interesting pieces this week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 645 first appeared on Baeldung .              

AEON @ 2026-05-08 12:00:00

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move - by Carissa Véliz Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-08 10:31:48

Quantum 10, 2099 (2026). Current and near-term quantum hardware is constrained by limited qubit counts, circuit depth, and the high cost of repeated measurements. We address these challenges for solid-state Ham

The Geomblog @ 2026-05-08 06:04:21

 AAAI did an experiment this year where they supplemented human reviews with AI-generated reviews and solicited feedback from authors and the review hierarchy about the process. They've now written up the experiment .  The paper isn't too long

iOS Weekly @ 2026-05-08 02:00:00

From tinkering with Objective-C to writing a little newsletter for almost fifteen years. 😱

Inside Java @ 2026-05-08 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 532: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Fifth Preview)

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-08 00:27:50

  I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting things. My own biggest recent surprise was this: the number pla

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-08 00:27:50

  I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting things. My own biggest recent surprise was this: the number pla

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-07 23:27:27

Stu Maschwitz: Prolost Watches is an iPhone app for managing your watch collection. It’s part database, part journal; designed for the detail-obsessed mind of the watch fanatic. As you log each day’s choice of watch, insights are revealed. Wear logs

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-07 20:19:24

The previous post constructed a triangular analog of the squircle, the unit circle in the p-norm where p is typically around 4. The case p = 2 is a Euclidean circle and the limit as p → ∞ is a Euclidean square. The previous post introduced three functions

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-07 19:00:00

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts. East Asia shows the opposite pattern.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-07 18:45:07

Luis Cabezuelo, del club Elipa, de Madrid, fue muy eficaz en el aprovechamiento de las imprecisiones de la gran maestra

ASF @ 2026-05-07 18:00:00

The schedule for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 is live, with an expansive program: 168 sessions across 18 tracks, spanning four days in October. Whether you’re running infrastructure at hyperscale, modernizing a fintech stack, or trying to figure

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-07 17:21:34

I’m sure there’s a scene marker right at the cut, so that’s why an ad got inserted there. But, my god. Someone at Amazon should go to prison for this. (I think it’s a total coincidence that the Febreze ad seems roughly color-matched to the sky. But scro

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-07 16:45:45

In the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, mentors and mentees worked together on real Kotlin open-source projects to make their first meaningful community contribution. Four pairs successfully completed the two-month program, and one eligible pair

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-07 16:45:45

In the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, mentors and mentees worked together on real Kotlin open-source projects to make their first meaningful community contribution. Four pairs successfully completed the two-month program, and one eligible pair

old new thing @ 2026-05-07 16:00:00

Otherwise, it'll get mapped back down to the 8-bit code page. The post When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-07 16:00:00

The heart's constant motion makes it largely immune to cancer. The discovery could help protect other organs. The post The Heart Rarely Gets Cancer. Scientists Think They Know Why. appeared first on SingularityHub .

AEON @ 2026-05-07 12:01:00

What if the tools for sustainable space exploration could be found in cellular life on Earth? A NASA astrobiologist explains - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-07 12:00:00

Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture - by Kiran Kumbhar Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-05-07 00:20:39

Learn how to monitor a Camel Standalone or Spring Boot application via Apache Camel in Java. The post A Guide to Camel Observability Services first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-06 22:33:51

Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to St

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-06 21:53:29

TimF left a comment on my guitar pick post saying the image was a “squircle-ish analog for an isosceles triangle.” That made me wonder what a more direct analog of the squircle might be for a triangle. A squircle is not exactly a square with r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-06 21:41:36

That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “ How Claris Is Building for What’s Next ”: Ev

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-06 21:29:08

Apple Newsroom, back in August 2024 : Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and tech