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Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge in Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers' bid to force a sale of Google's online advertising exchan

Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 19:00:00

Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in

ASF Plus One Newsletter: August 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-02 18:00:00

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.**  Community News The ASF has announced the keynote speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow, taking place October 11–14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineup feature

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 18:00:00

A dark-web identity theft service called Nexus claims to be selling scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses, along with millions of other identity documents. "Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for

Hello Developer: September 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-02 17:00:02

In this edition: Get ready for a special Apple Event, take advantage of Analytics in App Store Connect, and sign up for new developer events in Cupertino. Read now

Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 17:00:00

Dell reported record fiscal Q2 results as AI server demand surged, booking $60.9 billion in AI server orders and ending the quarter with a $95 billion backlog. From a report: The company posted record revenue of $47 billion, up 58% year over year. Earnings

An Accidental Blackboard

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 16:45:00

Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git rep

What is a Computer?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-02 16:27:33

Ben Brubaker has a new Quanta essay Does Computer Science Need Computers ?  Despite the title (and authors generally don't choose their titles), Brubaker's essay really addresses the question as to whether computer science is about computers. He st

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-02 16:21:02

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble f

Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 15:55:00

Swiggy developed an in house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 15:32:00

TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the mor

OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 14:20:00

OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the

Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 13:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you've heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy o

Reducing Spatial and Temporal Dimensionality in the Multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett Model

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 12:33:28

Quantum 10, 2201 (2026). Focusing on the real-time dynamics of the reduced density matrix of the multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett model, several techniques are adopted in this paper to reduce the spatial and t

Análisis de ajedrez | Pichot, campeón de España

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-02 11:28:56

El polaco-argentino, con bandera española desde 2023, revierte con este triunfo su crisis del último año

Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics in First Quantization

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 11:26:47

Quantum 10, 2200 (2026). The study of real time dynamics of nuclear systems is of great importance to provide theoretical predictions of cross sections relevant for both terrestrial experiments as well as appli

Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 11:07:00

Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exis

NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider

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

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate a dedicated Mars telecommunications network for current and future missions to the Red Planet. Blue Origin is expected to deliver the spacecraft by the end of 2028, with

curl 8.22.0

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-02 07:52:46

Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 cha

LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 05:30:00

New submitter greytree shares a report from Brown University: LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate -- but resear

What risk-aware model deployment looks like in regulated industries

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-02 02:00:00

Regulators don't ask banks whether their portfolios look healthy. They require documented proof of how they hold up under adversarial conditions—rate shocks, liquidity crunches, market crashes. The same logic applies to AI models headed for production. Bef

Red Hat Satellite 6.20 limited availability: Early access registration now open

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-02 02:00:00

In November 2026, Red Hat will release a limited availability (LA) version of Red Hat Satellite 6.20 – the next generation of Red Hat’s premiere platform for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at scale. This release focuses on 2 foundational changes

Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-02 01:37:23

As AI eats traffic, the best sites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find. The post Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract appeared first on SingularityHub .

GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger

slashdot @ 2026-09-02 01:00:00

GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into

Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?

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

John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Ap

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 23:00:00

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work. "For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains," reports VentureBeat.

Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 22:00:00

Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash while you brush. Regular toothpaste and mouthwash will work with the C

Fragments: September 1

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-01 21:50:00

Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page p

BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 21:00:00

BT could make more than $2.7 billion by recycling copper from its aging UK landline network as BT subsidiary Openreach replaces legacy wiring with full-fiber broadband. Engadget reports: BT's recovered copper was previously valued at around $2 billion. But

OpenClaw 2.0 Releases with Simplified Setup and Collaborative Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 20:47:00

OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, plugins, security, and collaboration features. By Daniel Dominguez

Tim Cook’s Departure Memo on His Last Day as CEO

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 20:11:57

Tim Cook: There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the op

OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegr

Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in OpenAI Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 19:36:08

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s fi

Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 19:10:00

Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. "Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to ex

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 18:00:00

TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia's only representative this

Upcoming changes to Rosetta support for Intel-based macOS apps

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 17:00:41

In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year , we’re now concluding this transition. What this means for developers who have macOS apps:

Microspeak: Funded / unfunded

old new thing @ 2026-09-01 16:00:00

People are our most valuable asset. The post Microspeak: Funded / unfunded appeared first on The Old New Thing .

“The impact was the biggest surprise“: Swiggy’s transition to native pays off

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 15:00:01

Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout . And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tool

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the gl

The Apache® Software Foundation Advances Open Source Infrastructure and Celebrates Community Growth in FY26

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source soft

InfoQ previews the September cohorts of its online certification programs

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran. By Artenisa Chatziou

HCP Terraform Positions Itself as the Control Plane for AI-Driven Infrastructure

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 14:00:00

HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to v

More nothing now

AEON @ 2026-09-01 12:00:00

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon

Symmetry-enriched topological order in tensor networks: Defects, gauging and anyon condensation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 11:17:41

Quantum 10, 2199 (2026). We study symmetry-enriched topological order in two-dimensional tensor network states by using graded matrix product operator algebras to represent symmetry-induced domain walls. A clos

[Sponsor] WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 09:59:07

Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro gana a Carlsen una partida relámpago

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-01 09:29:43

El prodigio argentino, de 12 años, muestra un juego muy consistente en un duelo que perdió ante el ‘número uno’ por 5,5-2,5

A brief history of quantum vs classical computational advantage

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 09:06:58

Quantum 10, 2198 (2026). In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequen

Announcing rustup 1.29.1

Rust blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The

5 ways to augment security risk management in the AI era

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts every day from threat intelligence sources, such as vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed, and more. The challenge is identifying, correlating, and addressing impactful

Why the virtualization decision keeps getting deferred

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

If double-paying during a platform transition is stalling your virtualization migration, removing that first-year cost overlap can get your project moving again.Most infrastructure teams I speak with have spent the best part of 2 years working out what to

How Ask Red Hat earns trust in enterprise AI troubleshooting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

A recent review of 562 empirical studies on human trust in AI found that capability, explainability, transparency, and individual user factors consistently predict whether people will rely on an AI-generated answer. In production, the question is narrower

Automate AI red teaming: Large language model risk identification and mitigation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that bypass safety controls and produce unwanted content. To help engineering and security teams identify these vulnerabilities systematically, Red Hat OpenShift AI includes an automated

Patented application of linear algebra

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-01 01:26:12

I just found out Brian Beckman and I got a patent on work we did for GSI Technology [1]. Nearly all the work I do is under an NDA, so I don’t often get a chance to talk about my projects. This work is public now that it’s in a patent; I suppos

This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-31 23:33:36

Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzhe

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 21:53:34

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.

A recent OS on the old Asus C201P

Emilian Bold @ 2026-08-31 20:02:20

There are people that easily sell and swap computers. I get somewhat attached to them, which explains why I have a growing collection of old gear. Even my first beige PC with a Cyrix CPU has been restored and boots! The Asus C201P is special because it c

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 16:45:25

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes

DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks Through Cloud-Based Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 16:28:00

DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker mi

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-31 16:24:27

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful

old new thing @ 2026-08-31 16:00:00

All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Jakarta Data, JNoSQL, Azul Payara, WildFly, Quarkus, Atmosphere

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 13:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 24th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Atmosphere 4.0; point releases of GraalVM, Azul Payara and Quarkus; a maintenance release of WildFly 41; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Eclipse JNoSQL;

Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 12:18:00

Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; c

The Singapore strategies

AEON @ 2026-08-31 12:00:00

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Bodhana Sivanandan hace historia a los 11 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 11:07:10

Por si hubiera alguna duda sobre su inmenso talento, la británica de familia india es la campeona nacional más joven de todos los tiempos

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (y XXXI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:33:47

Kariakin acepta un peón que no parecía peligroso en una partida rápida, y poco después queda perdido

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:32:27

Dos años antes de defender su título mundial ante Niepómniashi, el campeón doblegó al ruso en una deliciosa lucha rápida

FlexGanttFX is Open Source

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 05:48:00

Dirk Lemmerman has released FlexGanttFX as an open-source resource-scheduling framework under the AGPL license. This JavaFX library enables Gantt chart creation for various industries, optimizing performance with a Canvas rendering method. The framework

Claude and Colorblind Questions

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-31 04:18:29

BILL: Lance, I have a question and a meta question: a) List all the presidents and vice presidents who were colorblind. b) Do you know this sort of thing since you are colorblind, and hence might have looked this up in the past? LANCE: (b) No. And if

Cloudflare Extends AI Search to Make it Easier for Agents and Developers to Search Custom Data

InfoQ @ 2026-08-30 21:00:00

Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare to

Finalist 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-30 20:35:22

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about

AWS Open Sources Kiro Crew for Asynchronous Coding Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-08-30 10:23:00

Amazon recently announced Kiro Crew, an open-source system for running multiple Kiro coding agents across sessions, tools, and tasks. The new workspace lets developers assign asynchronous coding tasks to AI agents, allowing work such as incident investig

Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio SWIFT, efecto bouba-kiki en pollitos, organoides longevos, birrefringencia del vacío en magnetares y eclipse de Luna

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-29 23:24:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 568 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “SWIFT; Bouba-Kiki; Organoides; Magnetar; Luna”, 27 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio S

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-29 19:53:34

It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-29 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Cloudflare Workers Accept Inbound TCP, with gRPC the First Protocol on Top

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 11:55:00

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming t

FreeToken Unlocks Frontier MoE Inference on Consumer Hardware via Dynamic Co-Execution

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 07:05:00

Researchers from UC Berkeley and MIT have developed FreeToken, an open-source inference engine that enhances the utility of Mixture-of-Experts models on consumer hardware. By implementing a dynamic scheduling policy and optimising weight management, Free

Apple Announces Price Increase for Apple TV and Apple One Subscriptions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:52:37

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the full details on the price increases: Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99) Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99) Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95) Prices for other Apple One plans are

‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:35:22

Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence e

‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:27:21

I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect.  ★ 

We Certainly Have Made a Hames Out of This

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 21:42:59

I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame , and that hames is rathe

Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-28 18:45:11

Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope . The post Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not. appeared first on SingularityHub .

‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 18:25:33

Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describing him euphemistically ), on Twitter/X (retweeting the official White House account’s announc

From the DF Archive: ‘Golfo Del Gringo Loco’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 17:00:39

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXIX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-28 16:38:24

Otra lección magistral de cómo sacrificar peones para abrir líneas decisivas, esta vez ante Grischuk

Making the unnecessary easier

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-28 16:35:36

I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a

Uber Builds GitFarm to Run Git Operations as a Service for Large-Scale Monorepos

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 16:30:00

Uber’s GitFarm provides Git operations as a centralized service, eliminating local repository clones across large scale monorepo workloads. The platform uses prewarmed checkouts, ephemeral sandboxes, repository synchronization, and gRPC streaming to redu

Trump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 16:02:53

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countrie

On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2

old new thing @ 2026-08-28 16:00:00

Explicitly denying that you implement the method. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-28 15:30:34

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 04:59:46

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, ​the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal c

Issue 765

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

UISceneDelegate mandate, M6 Mac mini, Apple layoffs, Headless Xcode MCP, Embedded Swift 6.4, SwiftTUI

Managing enterprise AI at scale: Hosting, deployment patterns, and Day 2 operations

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

In our previous article, Enterprise AI model selection: Balancing performance, privacy, and operational fit, we described the 4 layers that make up an effective enterprise AI architecture. In this article, we'll talk about who operates each layer, where w

Learning while building: How Red Hat Training accelerates technical growth

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Managing complex data systems and learning new software platforms can feel like navigating a maze in the dark. Whether you’re stepping into a command-line environment for the 1st time or mapping intricate relationships across enterprise platforms, practica

Friday Five — August 28, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Streamlining container security: Red Hat Hardened Images now supported in AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanningAWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images. This integration helps software security and development

Celebrating excellence: Honoring the Red Hat Academy APAC award winners

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

The future of technology depends on a workforce equipped with practical, industry-relevant skills. As organizations accelerate their adoption of open source, cloud, automation, and enterprise technologies, educational institutions play a critical role in p

Afterglow — Classic After Dark Screen Savers on Today’s MacOS

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:49:50

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy ), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-27 23:13:16

Can AI replace lawyers—at least in some circumstances? The post An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:09:42

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words the

Elizabeth Warren’s Incoherent Outrage Regarding Apple’s Tariff Refund

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:46:08

Speaking of tariff refunds , here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — eac

Hemut: Building the Internet of Freight on Real-Time Data

Confluent @ 2026-08-27 22:23:15

Hemut uses Confluent, real-time data streaming, and AI to automate trucking operations, improve fleet efficiency, and build the Internet of Freight.

Panic Is Refunding Tariff Fees to Playdate Buyers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:10:13

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We t

Ads in Apple Maps Have Now Launched

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:02:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users. There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app: Before searching:

‘How Europe Is Killing Makers and Micro-Entrepreneurs’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 21:42:48

Alain Pannetrat, founder of Lectronz: Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts

Tax and price updates for apps, In-App Purchases, and subscriptions

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-27 21:00:43

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 43 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or forei

On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1

old new thing @ 2026-08-27 16:00:00

Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXVIII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-27 15:50:28

La relatividad de la ventaja material, y en concreto de los peones, es una de las lecciones que el noruego aprendió de AlphaZero

Second solutions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-27 15:14:35

This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations have a second

Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-27 15:11:00

Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

ASF @ 2026-08-27 15:00:00

Introducing Apache Iggy™, a persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, and Apache Sourcelume, open source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance Wilmington, DE –  August 27, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 14:59:16

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Non-Gaussian Noise Magnetometry Using Local Spin Qubits

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-27 13:50:42

Quantum 10, 2197 (2026). Atomic scale qubits, as may be realized in nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, offer the opportunity to study magnetic field noise with nanometer scale spatial resolution. Using t

Podcast CB SyR 567: Gran intercambio biótico americano, diversidad lingüística, cristales fotónicos temporales y nueva hipótesis sobre Tabby

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-27 12:45:10

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 567 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Intercambio Americano; Diversidad Lingüística; Time Crystals; Tabby”, 20 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 5

La IA y, o, para, contra el Arte

brucknerite @ 2026-08-27 10:00:00

Una consulta de la Comisión Europea está recogiendo opiniones sobre el papel de la inteligencia artificial en la cultura. Es el momento de quejarse contra un futuro justo al revés del que nos prometieron, en el que nosotros haremos los trabajos tediosos y

Da steht ein Auto auf der Straße

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Warum Rennradfahrer in parkende Autos fahren. Gedanken zur Situation und Diskussion.

Episode 68 “Operator Overloading with Type Classes” [AtA]

Inside Java @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

How OpenJDK's Project Valhalla is improving Java's support for custom numerical types.

LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework

Baeldung @ 2026-08-27 00:02:05

Learn to how to use Embabel AI to automatically parse objects as the data arrive in a stream from the large language model you use in your application. The post LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .  

POSIWID: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 22:18:04

Wikipedia: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer , who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it c

Apple’s Polishing Cloth Is Now Just $9

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:18:40

Chance Miller: Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio , Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $

‘Surprise and Shine’ Apple Event: Wednesday 9 September

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:16:34

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and t

What is the quality of software that AI writes?

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 20:51:13

AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should elim