Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Clo Tweet
The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida. CNN reports: After meeting on Saturday morning, NASA's Artemis team decided to forgo the Septe Tweet
HashiCorp has announced the release of the 1.3 version of Terraform. This release introduces optional object type attributes with defaults and expands the capabilities of moved blocks. By Matt Campbell Tweet
Saul Kripke, a math prodigy and pioneering logician whose revolutionary theories on language qualified him as one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers, died on Sept. 15 in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 81. The New York Times reports: His death, at Penn Me Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Beast: Luis Eduardo Garrido couldn't wait to test out his colleague's newest creation. Garrido, a psychology and methodology researcher at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican R Tweet
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would require crypto financial-service businesses to get a special license to operate, calling it premature and costly. Bloomberg reports: Newsom on Friday declined to sign the legislation known as the Di Tweet
A person may take knowing the local time for granted, but an official review revealed that there is no single, accurate map showing the nation's time zones and local observance of Daylight Saving Time. CNN reports: Federal transportation officials are now Tweet
Citing McDonald's shelved meat-free burger trial and a 70% dip in Beyond Meat's stock, The Guardian suggests plant-based meats may not interest Americans as much as investors thought. From the report: Getting meat eaters in the US to adopt plant-based alte Tweet
According to Phoronix, Google has released a new AOM-AV1 update -- version 3.5, that drastically improves encode times when streaming, rendering, or recording from the CPU. At its best, the update can improve encoding times by up to 34%. Tom's Hardware rep Tweet
Earlier this week, Uber disclosed that the recent breach it suffered was made possible through a multi-factor fatigue (MFA) attack where the attacker disguised themselves as Uber IT. By Sergio De Simone Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Smithsonian Magazine: It's an increasingly common sight on vacation, particularly in tourist destinations: An influencer sets up in front of a popular local landmark, sometimes even using props (coffee, beer, pets) Tweet
Code repositories for the Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash were relisted on GitHub on Thursday. CoinDesk reports: The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) banned Americans last month from using Tornado Cash, a decentralized privacy s Tweet
New submitter cj9er writes: Considering all the privacy issues in today's online climate (all the issues with Meta right now), what is the best high-end smartphone to select? Apple: No way they don't sell your data... Sure, they have privacy for third-part Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: When researchers discovered a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source log4j system last year that could've affected hundreds of millions of devices, the executive branch snapped into action Tweet
A Room square is a variation on a Latin square. Room squares are named after Thomas Room, though there is an application to rooms as in compartments of a building that we’ll discuss below. In a Latin square of size n you have to assign one of n symb Tweet
AmiMoJo shares a report from Neowin: Anti-malware solutions maker Malwarebytes has recently uncovered a campaign which is serving tech support scams via malicious ads in Microsoft Edge's 'My Feed' section. They provided an image that shows a screenshot of Tweet
Coinbase is being sued by Veritaseum Capital LLC, which alleges that the crypto exchange has infringed on a patent awarded to Veritaseum founder Reggie Middleton. CoinDesk reports: According to Veritaseum, Coinbase has used the patent for some of its block Tweet
Artemis I update: @NASA is foregoing a launch opportunity Tuesday, Sept. 27, and preparing for rollback, while continuing to watch the weather forecast associated with Tropical Storm Ian. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3ReeAS2 Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In January this year, an undersea volcano in Tonga produced a massive eruption, the largest so far this century. The mixing of hot volcanic material and cool ocean water created an explosion that sent Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] Like most videos on YouTube, this is a video about nothing. But we’re a science channel, so we’ll talk about nine levels o Tweet
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] Like most videos on YouTube, this is a video about nothing. But we’re a science channel, so we’ll talk about nine levels o Tweet
Google Cloud recently announced different improvements to their managed databases. The cloud provider introduced free trial instances and fine-grained access control for Spanner to let developers try the managed service and configure access to data at th Tweet
Gregor Hohpe recently published an article proposing a paradigm shift to address vendor lock-in concerns on serverless cloud applications. Designing a solution using well-known patterns decouples its functional characteristics from the underlying cloud i Tweet
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is launching a podcast called "The Langley Files." As the agency explains, "The mission of 'The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast' is to educate and connect with the general public, sharing insight into the Agency's core mi Tweet
An island was just born before our eyes in the Kermadec-Tonga zone of the Pacific -- the most volcanic underwater location on Earth. Little Home Reef island is just two weeks old. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im… Tweet
We’ve got a few options when developing on the RaspberryPI. We can connect a mouse, keyboard and monitor and treat it like a desktop computer - but it’s not always very convenient. You can watch a video version of this blog post here: First Tweet
Future Yankees captain Aaron Judge is sitting at 60 home runs on the season. The legitimate single-season record belongs to Yankees legend Roger Maris at 61. What a game for Apple to land on Friday Night Baseball. ★ Tweet
HCPCS stands for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System. HCPCS codes are commonly pronounced like “hick pics.” I was curious/afraid to see what DALL-E would create with the prompt “HCPCS hick pics” and was pleasantly surprised t Tweet
Whether you think you have an incredible idea for a new mobile app or you want to develop one to expand your business and market reach, building a mobile application is a huge project to take on alone. From choosing which platforms to build for, to the man Tweet
Learn to copy a directory into a Docker image preserving the subdirectory structure. Related Stories Adding a Comment in a Dockerfile Updating PATH Environment Variable in Dockerfile Assign Tweet
Learn how to update the PATH variable in Docker. Related Stories Assign Static IP to Docker Container and Docker-Compose Adding a Comment in a Dockerfile Finding the Layers and Layer Size Tweet
Comment I had an email from Derek Lee this week informing me about his latest article on getting started with Kotlin Multiplatform . We also had KotlinSpeechFeatures by Raquib-ul Alam and Arjun Sunil a Tweet
Kohei Tokunaga has released buildg - an interactive tool for debugging Dockerfiles. The motivation for the project is to provide an easy-to-use interactive tool to inspect this build process. The tool also containers support for debugging Dockerfiles Tweet
When the first mainframes were running businesses seven decades ago, software was an afterthought. The real, differentiated and thereby commercial value lay in the design and construction of the hardware – everything from the processor to the storage Tweet
When the first mainframes were running businesses seven decades ago, software was an afterthought. The real, differentiated and thereby commercial value lay in the design and construction of the hardware – everything from the processor to the storage Tweet
Recently Microsoft announced a series of updates around Azure Space, their offering combing cloud and space. The company now brings Azure Orbital to general availability (GA), offers a new service with Azure Orbital Cloud Access in preview, and advances Tweet
MicroStream is an alternative to a database engine. It allows for direct storage of Java objects with queries performed using stream-like APIs. We look at how this new technology can be used. Tweet
Amazon is announcing the public preview of AWS DataSync Discovery. This new feature of AWS DataSync enables users to better understand on-premises storage usage through automated data collection and analysis, quickly identify data to migrate, and evaluat Tweet
2022-09-23 10:20:06 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 382 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep382: Terremotos; JWST; Meteoritos en Marte; Anillos y Lunas; El Apocalipsis de Chicxulub», 22 sep 2022. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Pod Tweet
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced the graduation of SPIFFE and SPIRE. SPIFFE defines a standard to authenticate software services through the use of platform-agnostic, cryptographic identities. SPIRE is an implementation of the SPIFFE A Tweet
Something hot appears to be whipping around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, at about 30% the speed of light. eso.org/public/news/eso2212/… Tweet
I just want to start this issue with a big shout-out to the Fermyon team who I bumped into at the Linux Foundation Europe Summit. I don’t often have the opportunity to meet members of the WebAssembly community in person. It was great to meet their enthu Tweet
Constellation is a Kubernetes engine that shields Kubernetes clusters from the rest of the cloud infrastructure using confidential computing and confidential VMs. This creates a confidential context that ensures data is always encrypted, both at rest and Tweet
A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems. The post The New Math of Wrinkling first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
I was spelunking around in Unicode and found that there are assigned characters for representing domino tiles and that the characters are enumerated in a convenient order. Here is the code chart. There are codes for representing tiles horizontally or vert Tweet
Microsoft announced last August that its multi-platform UI framework called MAUI has been officially released and out of preview, with the launch of Visual Studio 2022 for Windows. The release marks the official launch of the new framework for .NET progr Tweet
Google has announced the general availability of Kubernetes control plane metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). These metrics are directly integrated with Google Cloud Monitoring providing a single solution for troubleshooting issues with GKE. Integ Tweet
2022-09-22 05:59:28 @ Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the end game like a machine — Rudolf Spielmann Kenneth Regan is my dear friend and co-writer of this blog. He obtained his doctorate—technically D.Phil not PhD—in 1986 for Tweet
This is an opinionated, “quick-start” guide to using passkeys as a web developer. It’s hopefully broadly applicable, but one size will never fit all authentication needs and this guide ignores everything that’s optional. So take it as a worked example, bu Tweet
When it comes to physics, says Sean Carroll, you need the math. The post Are We Getting the Real Stuff in Popular Science? appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
Trying to answer a silly question can take you through some serious science. The post Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
We have posted a revised version of Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi The book is here . (For the original post about it, edited it to use the new title (see below), see&nb Tweet
Ran across a great quote from Liv Boeree recently: The problem with raging against the machine is that the machine has learned to feed off rage. Someone appropriately replied with a screenshot from an episode of Star Trek TOS, Day of the Dove, about a bei Tweet
Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing As part of our commitment to helping all developers grow on our platform, at Google Play we have various programs focused on supporting small games studios. A few weeks ago we a Tweet
Let’s count non-crossing paths through the all points of a convex polygon. There is a very simple formula for this, \(n2^{n-3}\) undirected paths through an \(n\)-gon, but why? Here’s a simple coloring-based argument that immediately gives this formula. Tweet
A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. The post High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last first appeared on Quan Tweet
Neptune among the galaxies: the full new image from the Webb telescope. The spiral galaxy at lower left is about a billion light years farther away. webbtelescope.org/contents/m… Tweet
Despite receiving just 1/1000th as much sunshine as Earth does, Neptune is wracked with huge, fast-changing storms. JWST's infrared eyes literally see them in a new light. nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201… Tweet
This new JWST image of Neptune also shows its moons, including Triton, a captured dwarf planet. Our best view since Voyager 2 in 1989. webbtelescope.org/contents/n… #JWST Tweet
The latest version of Falco introduces support for gVisor, Google's application kernel providing an additional isolation layer between applications and the host OS. Using Falco 0.32.1 users can monitor security events from gVisor to detect threats and au Tweet
This post will give a detailed example of working in a field with nine elements. This is important because finite fields are not often treated concretely except for the case of prime order. In my first post on Costas arrays I mentioned in a footnote that Tweet
By identifying usage trends, you can proactively adjust load, scaling, and routing to better handle the load on particular parts of the globe when you know it will peak there. Data about how users interact with your application can be used to design futu Tweet
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? Tweet us at @ThisW Tweet
Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign. Brought to you by these fine sponsors: Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Hullo Pi Tweet
Federico Viticci has some screenshots showing the tweaked battery-with-digital-percentage display in 16.1 beta 2. In 16.0, you could either have the remaining charge displayed graphically, as a “meter” within the battery icon, or digitally, as a numeric p Tweet
Here's the full technical paper on "The Photon Ring in M87*", which could also be titled "Einstein's theory verified...yet again." iopscience.iop.org/article/1… Tweet
Hidden within the first image of a supermassive black hole is something else remarkable: the first image of a *photon ring* where light loops completely around the black hole before escaping and reaching us. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/phot… Tweet
ForecastAdvisor: ForecastAdvisor will show you the accuracy of the major weather forecasters, including Accuweather, AerisWeather, Foreca, the National Weather Service, Open Weathermap, The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Wetter, World Weather O Tweet
One question for Sarah Chellappa, a neuroscientist at the University of Cologne. The post What Can Night-Shift Workers Do to Feel Better? appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
Delightful new weather app for iPhone and Apple Watch. If you, like me, miss the infographic-based layout of the late great Weather Line , I dare say you must check out Mercury Weather. Great presentation, and I’m particularly digging the dearth of setti Tweet
2022-09-20 19:09:29 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
El problema de la constante de Hubble podría estar causado por errores sistemáticos en la distancia a las cefeidas usadas para calibrar las supernovas Ia (SN Ia). El telescopio espacial […] La entrada Las primeras cefeidas de JWST confirman a HST Tweet
A couple days ago I wrote about Costas arrays. In a nutshell, a Costas array of size n is a solution to the n rooks problem, with the added constraint that if you added wires between the rooks, no two wires would have the same length and slope. See the ea Tweet
Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com, in an interview with Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar for AIGA’s Eye on Design: In the beginning, I figured we would do floppy disks, but never CDs. Eventually, we got into CDs and I said we’d never do DVDs. A cou Tweet
I am pleased to announce the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. It means that starting today, you can deploy your Amazon EKS cluster entirely on Outposts: both the Kubernetes control plane and Tweet
Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors: In a tweet , Young said he expects the Dynamic Island to be available on the standard iPhone 15 models next year. However, he still does not expect the standard iPhone 15 models to be equipped with an LTPO displa Tweet
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has four observing modes. On Aug. 24, a mechanism that supports one of these modes, known as medium-resolution spectroscopy (MRS), exhibited what appears to be increased friction during setup Tweet
Field research suggests a new explanation for the synchronized flashing in fireflies and confirms that a novel form of “chimeric” synchrony occurs naturally. The post How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer. first appeare Tweet
In response to the overwhelming popularity of Adam Grant’s interviews on the WorkLife podcast, TED Audio Collective has launched a new podcast, ReThinking with Adam Grant, to explore the science of what makes us tick. TED speaker and organizational p Tweet
It not what we say, it’s what our attendees say that’s important. Business of Software Conference USA, Boston MA is coming up next week, 26-28 September. Check out some some short video summaries of previous conferences here. BoS Conference Att Tweet
Llegó y se fue, una vez más, la fiesta anual de la divulgación científica con mayúsculas, el Naukas Bilbao 2022, celebrado durante los pasados días 16 y 17 de septiembre en el Palacio Euskalduna… Tweet
We can’t wait to be back in person for BoS Conference USA. IT’S NEXT WEEK…! Business of Software Conference USA, Boston MA is coming up next week, 26-28 September. As we prepare for our first in-person US conference for three whole years, Tweet
Sami Fathi, reporting for MacRumors: As user annoyance with the behavior boils high, Apple has finally responded, saying the constant pop-up is not how the feature is intended to work. MacRumors reader Kieran sent an email to Craig Federighi and Tim C Tweet
2022-09-20 03:01:41 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use the eur Tweet
Kyle Wiens, writing for iFixit: The best feature of the iPhone 14 is one that Apple didn’t tell you about. Forget satellite SOS and the larger camera, the headline is this: Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easi Tweet
Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app. Warp’s input area is a real text editor so users can use IDE keyboard shortcuts to write commands. It groups command input and output together so users Tweet
The ISO 3166-1 standard defines three codes for each country: a 2-letter abbreviation, a 3-letter abbreviation, and a 3-digit code. The 2-letter abbreviations may be familiar because it is very often (but not always [1]) also the country code top-level do Tweet
Things are heating up in Seattle, with preparation for AWS re:Invent 2022 well underway. Later this month the entire News Blog team will participate in our now-legendary “speed storming” event. Over the course of three or four days, each of the AWS service Tweet
Alice and Bob have the following conversation. =============================== ALICE: In your book you define INT PROG as, given a matrix A and vectors b,c, find the integer vector x such that Ax\le b and c DOT x is maximized. This is not correct! You Tweet
2022-09-19 20:53:02 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 381 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox, iTunes], titulado “Ep381: Dall.E 2; Cirugía Paleolítica; Tetraneutrón; Exoplanetas», 15 sep 2022. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas […] La entrada Tweet
The @HiRISE camera orbiting Mars discovered three new craters on the planet, caused by fragments of the large meteorite that struck on September 5, 2021. mars.nasa.gov/news/9264/nasa… Tweet
Hear the actual sound of a meteor entering the atmosphere of Mars, breaking up, and hitting the ground. Strangely, it's more like a "bloop" than a "bam!" Recorded by the seismometer aboard @NASAInSight . jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-insi… Tweet
It may seem strange that JWST images of galaxies look more detailed than its images of nearby planets. The explanation: Galaxies are far away but they're HUGE. This is the current apparent size of Mars, compared to the recent JWST image of Stephan's Quint Tweet
JWST is examining the spectra of Mars, looking at its composition & searching for traces of methane and hydrogen chloride in the atmosphere. These studies also help compare the worlds we know with planets circling other stars. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/ Tweet
In addition to studying distant galaxies, @NASAWebb is a powerful tool for exploring our own solar system -- like these new infrared Mars images, which provide a global perspective that complements data from space probes. blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/09/… Tweet
A week ago I posted some pairs of similar flags on Twitter, and later I found that Mathematica’s CountryData database contains flag descriptions. So I thought I’d use the flag descriptions to see which flags Mathematica things are similar. For Tweet
A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology. The post How Mathematical Curves Enable Advanced Communication first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
2022-09-19 16:00:55 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Like the groundbreaking women it spotlights, the Rebel Girls app has a remarkable story. It began a mere six years ago with a book called Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls . Written and art-directed by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, the pre Tweet
Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of Mars Sept. 5. The telescope, an international collabo Tweet
#GOESEast is closely monitoring #HurricaneFiona , which made landfall in Puerto Rico near Punta Tocon yesterday afternoon and caused catastrophic flooding and power outages. #Fiona is lashing the Dominican Republic today. Get the latest: hurrican Tweet
Apple added a new layout guide in iOS 16 to help maximize the size of content with a certain aspect ratio within the safe area. I don’t remember seeing this mentioned during WWDC. I learnt about it from this Twitter thread by Tyler Fox . Safe Tweet
My thanks to iMazing for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. iMazing is a native Mac — and Windows — app that enhances local management of iOS and iPadOS devices with powerful and convenient features beyond what Apple provides in its own desktop tool Tweet
Learn how Docker manages IP allocation and how to add a static address to a container. Related Stories Executing Multiple Commands in Docker Compose Adding a Comment in a Dockerfile Finding Tweet
The famous n queens problem is to find a way to position n queens on a n×n chessboard so that no queen attacks any other. That is, no two queens can be in the same row, the same column, or on the same diagonal. Here’s an example solution: Costas arr Tweet