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slashdot @ 2026-05-29 20:28:00

Spaceflight Now shared their video of the explosion, which the Orlando Sentinel describes as showing Blue Origin's rocket "become engulfed in flames. The fireball expands out and covers the entire launch pad as the fuselage of the rocket can be seen crumbl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-29 18:22:10

Paul Krugman, describe a few striking data visualizations: YouGov’s surveys subdivide Republicans into those who do and those who don’t support MAGA — and the economic views of these two groups are very different. A remarkable 65 percent of non-MAGA R

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 17:46:24

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slashdot @ 2026-05-29 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny. Par

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 16:40:47

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-29 15:54:11

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the surprising power of ordinary “classical” machines. The post Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Requir

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 15:50:25

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The Endeavour @ 2026-05-29 14:24:30

Canonical example The sample variance of a set of numbers is defined in terms of the sum of the squared distances from each point to the mean. So it would seem that you first need to calculate the mean, then go back and compute the squared differences fro

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-29 14:00:57

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If w

InfoQ @ 2026-05-29 14:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has highlighted a new AI-assisted migration approach that enabled engineers to migrate 60 ingress-nginx resources to Higress in roughly 30 minutes, demonstrating how artificial intelligence is increasingly being appl

slashdot @ 2026-05-29 13:00:00

A senior CIA official, David Rush, was arrested after investigators found more than $40 million in gold bars and about $2 million in cash at his Virginia home. According to the New York Times, "The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:31:23

Quantum 10, 2121 (2026). A rigorous characterization of the information content of any highest-spin three-fermion wave function is presented. It is based upon a formal decomposition of the wave function into a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 12:14:38

Quantum 10, 2120 (2026). Haar random states are fundamental objects in quantum information theory and quantum computing. We study the density matrix resulting from sampling $t$ copies of a $d$-dimensional quant

AEON @ 2026-05-29 12:00:00

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-29 10:30:00

GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running daily “auditor” and “optimizer” agents. A token-usage.jsonl artefact and an Effective Tokens metric help

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:45:14

Quantum 10, 2119 (2026). Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) have emerged as a valuable tool in the study of parameterized quantum circuits, helping to characterize both their expressiveness and trainability. In part

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:31:21

Quantum 10, 2118 (2026). We propose an efficient classical algorithm to estimate the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) associated with a broad class of quantum neural networks. These networks consist of arbitrary uni

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-29 09:16:34

Quantum 10, 2117 (2026). The availability of certain entangled resource states (catalyst states) can enhance the rate of converting several less entangled states into fewer highly entangled states in a process

slashdot @ 2026-05-29 09:00:00

NASA has outlined a three-phase plan to build a lunar base at the moon's south pole. The first phase, from 2026 to 2029, will focus on robotic missions, landers, rovers, reactors, satellites, and Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance test. Later phases

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 07:45:36

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slashdot @ 2026-05-29 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 05:01:00

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 03:16:38

iOS Weekly @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

WWDC26 anticipation builds alongside deep dives into SwiftData, custom layouts, and open-source AI agent tooling.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

For a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or VP of Infrastructure, the term "digital sovereignty" often arrives as a regulatory burden to support a collection of acronyms like DORA (the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act), NIS2 (the updated Network and Info

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI EraIBM and Red Hat committed $5 billion to Project Lightwell, deploying over 20,000 engineers and advanced AI. This enterprise clearinghouse actively identifies and remediat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

I've had this conversation dozens of times with infrastructure teams. They've just finished, or are deep into, a VM migration off a legacy hypervisor. The hard part is nearly done. Or, so they think.Here's the thing most people don't talk about: migration

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-29 02:00:00

As enterprise IT organizations push deeper into operationalizing AI, the conversation has shifted from theoretical capability to hard execution metrics. Whether your team is talking with customers about scaling large language models (LLMs) on restricted lo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-29 01:42:47

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slashdot @ 2026-05-29 01:00:00

A new Grundfos report warns that Europe's datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the rep

Confluent @ 2026-05-29 00:49:56

Unify customer data with AI-powered insights. Customer Intelligence Hub helps GTM teams detect risk, uncover growth, and act faster with real-time context.

slashdot @ 2026-05-29 00:00:00

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research pre

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 23:45:54

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-28 23:19:02

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The post An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-05-28 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In an era where Silicon Valley's conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it's strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 22:25:21

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slashdot @ 2026-05-28 22:00:00

Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday passed a landmark AI safety bill (SB 315) that would require major AI companies to publish safety plans, submit annual third-party testing reports, report serious incidents quickly, and protect whistleblowers who flag emergi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 21:43:14

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AWS Blog @ 2026-05-28 21:29:55

AWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and org

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 21:24:09

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-28 21:10:43

Un año después de la derrota más dolorosas de su vida, el ‘número uno’ doblegó con las piezas negras y mucha claridad al campeón del mundo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 21:02:18

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slashdot @ 2026-05-28 21:00:00

Valve's Steam Deck has sold out again despite a steep price increase that pushed the 1TB OLED model as high as $949 -- about $300 above its original price. "Even with the $300 price bump, the Steam Deck sold out after less than 24 hours back in stock," rep

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 20:41:46

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AWS Blog @ 2026-05-28 20:26:16

AWS rebuilt Amazon OpenSearch Serverless from the ground up for agentic AI and dynamic workloads. Get instant autoscaling and up to 60% cost savings.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 20:09:44

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slashdot @ 2026-05-28 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: The technology giant Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands' regulatory agencies to the US House of Representatives. The civil servants affected by th

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-28 19:36:47

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Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-28 19:00:00

A streamgraph of 1.2 million master-level games shows the King's Pawn losing ground, the Queen's Pawn rising, and the Sicilian taking over after 1945.

slashdot @ 2026-05-28 19:00:00

IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called "Project Lightwell," which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-28 18:51:57

I’m not sure if this link works outside the US, but Apple TV’s MLS Wrap-Up show has highlight from the LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo FC match they shot exclusively using iPhone 17 Pros . Follow the link, choose “English”, and then choose “Full Replay” —

ASF @ 2026-05-28 18:00:00

From the rise of Apache Iceberg and the modernization of Apache Geode, to a behind-the-scenes look at the rebuild of Apache STeVe v3, this month’s Plus One highlights how open collaboration continues driving innovation across the ASF ecosystem. We’re also

slashdot @ 2026-05-28 18:00:00

Robinhood is launching beta support for a new feature that will let AI agents make payments and trade stocks on users' behalf. The company is also rolling out a virtual credit card for AI agents, with spending limits and approval controls. TechCrunch repor

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-28 17:25:02

Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome. We find inspiration, we share experiences, we learn from each other and we dream and plan of future endeavors and t

slashdot @ 2026-05-28 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-28 16:16:52

Over hundreds of years, increasingly sophisticated instruments have revealed — and continue to reveal — the secrets of our star. The post How We See the Beautiful, Violent Sun first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-28 16:11:03

Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica: The technique, laid out in a research paper , exploits a side channel , a form of leak resulting from physical manifestations such as electromagnetic emanations, data caches, or the time required to complete a

old new thing @ 2026-05-28 16:00:00

Just let each person take turns trying. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-28 13:08:00

AI bias mirrors human bias; both stem from our language and lived experiences. Ethics and AI are inseparable, but AI changes affordances, making harmful actions easier to carry out. The EU regulations apply to AI, since digital products are products. The

slashdot @ 2026-05-28 13:00:00

Last.fm announced that it is independent again after separating from Paramount Skydance, nearly two decades after CBS acquired the music-tracking service in 2007. The company says accounts, scrobbles, privacy settings, Pro subscriptions, and billing inform

AEON @ 2026-05-28 12:01:00

In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-28 12:00:00

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-28 11:49:00

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based general-purpose server distribution for Azure VMs, the first time Microsoft has offered a supported Linux beyond container hosting. Azu

InfoQ @ 2026-05-28 08:23:00

Cloudflare recently added support for Claude Managed Agents, allowing developers to run and manage Claude agents within Cloudflare. Developers can connect agents to private systems, choose their runtime environment, and monitor agent activity using Cloud

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-28 07:00:00

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Baeldung @ 2026-05-28 04:00:36

Learn how to troubleshoot the "Communications link failure" error in Java/MySQL applications, typically thrown as CommunicationsException. The post How to Fix the Communications link failure Error in Java Applications With MySQL first appeared on B

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-28 03:35:54

Kullback-Leibler divergence Kullback-Leibler divergence is defined for two random variables X and Y by K-L divergence is non-negative, and it’s zero if and only if X and Y have the same distribution. But it is not a metric, for reasons explained her

Rust blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.96.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.96.0 with: $

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

In the era of hyper-distributed systems where AI agents traverse our networks, and hybrid clouds stretch from the edge to the core, the "who" and "what" of infrastructure access are more critical than ever. Managing identities across thousands of nodes is

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data. With the recent technology preview of the MCP server for Red Hat OpenShift, organizations can give AI agents controlled access to their clust

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

The model context protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes is moving toward technology preview (TP), and it’s bringing a powerhouse integration with it: the Kiali toolset. By integrating Kiali into the MCP server, we are bridging the gap between large language

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

The post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition is well underway in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In May 2025, RHEL 10 delivered post-quantum key exchange algorithms in three major cryptography libraries (OpenSSL, GnuTLS, and NSS), making post-quantum ke

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

Nearly two years ago, we launched image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to give customers a simpler way to deploy the foundation of their IT enterprise. Since then, I’ve heard users who have adopted image mode describe it as a lifestyle change. Th

Inside Java @ 2026-05-28 02:00:00

Java's use of memory, often chided for being excessive, is actually a strength as it trades more memory use for fewer CPU cycles, a tradeoff it can only make due to its moving garbage collectors.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-27 21:40:00

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented program

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-27 21:29:09

Relajado en exceso, sin el ‘instinto asesino’ que le define, el noruego cayó también ante Praggnanandhaa, en la 3ª ronda

InfoQ @ 2026-05-27 20:00:00

When LinkedIn engineers encountered short-lived, recurring outages where the database powering their user feed became unavailable and then recovered without leaving helpful traces, they had to devise a novel approach to uncover the root cause using off-C

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-27 19:08:07

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 559 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “CMS; Aviación; Hibernación; Neuroplasticidad; Inestabilidad de Pares”, 21 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-27 19:00:00

By the misery index the U.S. economy is unremarkable, yet consumer sentiment is at an all-time low. That breaks a 40-year link no single number explains.

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-27 18:15:05

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders n

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-27 17:15:51

I saw a post yesterday saying that the Meta logo is a Besace curve. A Besace curve has the implicit form and the parametric form where t ranges over [0, 2π]. So given a Besace curve, such as the Meta logo, how do you find the parameters a and b to fit the

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-27 17:01:00

Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-27 16:39:12

The technical paper for the Erdős Unit Distance Problem lists only "OpenAI" as an author. When Bill posted on Sunday about the Erdős distance problems, he mentioned the names of OpenAI researchers who prompted and checked the proof. Sebastien Bub

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-27 16:03:00

Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth Edeokoh share their experience while bui

old new thing @ 2026-05-27 16:00:00

Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-05-27 12:01:00

Selinna is 15 when she leaves her home in Nigeria, bound for Italy, a journey as perilous as it is transformative - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-27 11:45:00

Microsoft added sandboxed code interpreters to Azure Logic Apps, enabling agents within integration workflows to generate and execute Python, JavaScript, C#, and PowerShell in Hyper-V isolated sessions. Architects get full control over model selection pe

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-27 10:53:10

Last week at the KotlinConf 2026 keynote (watch the recording here), we announced Koog 1.0. Koog is JetBrains’ open-source framework for building AI agents in Kotlin and Java. It provides the core building blocks for agentic applications: tools, workflows,

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-27 10:53:10

Last week at the KotlinConf 2026 keynote (watch the recording here), we announced Koog 1.0. Koog is JetBrains’ open-source framework for building AI agents in Kotlin and Java. It provides the core building blocks for agentic applications: tools, workflows,

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-27 10:00:49

I never knew what was so great about the ‘great icosahedron’. Now I do. Take a regular icosahedron whose vertices have coordinates in the field ℚ[√5], which consists of numbers a + b√5 with a and b rational. Apply the nontrivial element of the

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-27 10:00:49

I never knew what was so great about the ‘great icosahedron’. Now I do. Take a regular icosahedron whose vertices have coordinates in the field ℚ[√5], which consists of numbers a + b√5 with a and b rational. Apply the nontrivial element of the

InfoQ @ 2026-05-27 09:45:00

Deep Research Agentic Systems are AI Agents designed to conduct multi-step research for complex tasks using dynamic reasoning, multi-hop information retrieval, and generate structured analytical reports. Sarang Kulkarni from Thoughtworks spoke at Arc of

InfoQ @ 2026-05-27 08:23:00

Pullfrog is an open-source AI-powered GitHub bot by Colin McDonnell, designed for automation in GitHub Actions. It supports a model-agnostic approach, allowing integration with various LLM providers. Key features include orchestration for pull request re

Baeldung @ 2026-05-27 07:34:07

Learn how to use quantum-resistant ML-KEM and ML-DSA in Java to securely establish a shared secret key. The post Quantum-Resistant ML-KEM and ML-DSA in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-27 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-27 02:00:00

Digital certificates quietly underpin almost everything that matters in modern IT: public websites, internal systems, APIs, and machine-to-machine traffic. For years, many teams treated renewal as a calendar exercise—tolerable when validity stretched beyon

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-26 22:45:12

The drops, tested on mice, healed eye damage using light-sensitive particles—sourced from ordinary spinach. The post Photosynthetic Drops Soothe Dry Eyes With Sunlight appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-26 21:53:48

Ambos estuvieron perdidos en un combate durísimo y de muy alta calidad, que terminó en tablas

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-26 20:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, macOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, and watchOS 26.6 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 26.5 to take advant

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-26 19:59:53

The previous post looked at the expected IQ range in a jury of 12. This post will look more generally at computing the expected range of n samples from a N(0, 1) random variable. This will give the expected range in units of σ, i.e. multiply the results b

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-26 19:40:00

Digitaler Nachlass

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-26 19:00:00

Felix Rosenqvist beat David Malukas by 0.0233 seconds at the 2026 Indianapolis 500, breaking the 1992 closest-finish record that had stood for 34 years.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-26 17:29:26

Earth’s largest volcanic system, hidden in mountain chains under the sea, has long been assumed to erupt only quietly. The shallow seafloor off Iceland tells another story. The post When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive first appeared

old new thing @ 2026-05-26 16:00:00

A difference in philosophy. The post If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-26 15:50:51

There’s been some discussion online lately about how a large difference in IQ makes it difficult for two people to communicate. There have been studies that confirm this effect. The difficulty is not insurmountable, but it takes deliberate effort to

Confluent @ 2026-05-26 15:11:39

Learn how to integrate RAG and GenAI into a real-time Customer 360 architecture to power compliant, personalized, and AI-driven financial services experiences.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-26 14:00:00

Platform Engineering Labs has announced a major update to its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code platform, formae, introducing full Kubernetes support, native Helm integration, direct .tfvars compatibility, and a new public plugin hub aimed at simplifyin

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

InfoQ expands its online certification portfolio with new AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture cohorts, giving senior practitioners a confidential peer group to pressure-test production AI, platform, team design, and architecture decisions. B

AEON @ 2026-05-26 12:00:00

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-26 11:00:00

Google's SynthID, designed to embed imperceptible signals into AI-generated content, is adding a new Content Detection API on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, after gaining adoption by several industry players including Nvidia and OpenAI.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-26 11:00:00

The call to action “to make 2026 the year of Java in the terminal” was quickly responded to by the launch of TamboUI. Inspired by Ratatui, the library used in Claude CLI, it promises support ranging from low-level terminal drawing to high-level APIs such

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-26 09:16:08

Quantum 10, 2116 (2026). The Frauchiger–Renner paradox derives an inconsistency when quantum theory is used to describe the use of itself, by means of a scenario where agents model other agents quantumly and re

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-26 08:01:39

I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my

InfoQ @ 2026-05-26 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for May 18th, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of WildFly 40, Micronaut 5.0, Maven Embedded GlassFish Plugin 8.0 and Apache Fory 1.0; the May 2026 edition of Open Liberty; point releases of Gatherers4j, Apache and Ka

Inside Java @ 2026-05-26 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 523: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector in All Environments

Inside Java @ 2026-05-26 02:00:00

Details and reflections on how I’ve been using AI to approach OpenJDK development.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-26 01:57:24

A cloud for the agent era. Use exe.dev to get a pool of VMs with SSH, root, and web auth by default. Secrets injected at the network edge stay out of the LLM’s hands. Persistent servers, internal tools, vibe coding, disposable devboxes, whatever. It’s j

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-26 00:57:41

Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy as a way to reset the immune system in lupus, Graves’ disease, and other conditions where the body’s defenses go rogue. The post A Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Could Transform Autoimmune Disease appeared fi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-25 22:32:29

Here’s a fun one. Back in 2014 I linked to a post by Jay Haynes in which he projected that with a very reasonable level of annual growth, Apple ought to reach a $3 trillion market cap within 10 years. At the time of his writing, Apple’s market cap was “

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-25 22:11:10

There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. He

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-25 21:23:32

Lizzie Dearden and Amelia Nierenberg, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The crime Alex Pikula reported to the police was one they had heard before: An e-bike rider had zoomed past as Mr. Pikula left a theater in London’s West End, ripping

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-25 21:20:49

El franco-iraní, de 22 años, fue más preciso y rápido que el noruego, y lo derrotó en la primera ronda del Norway Chess

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-25 20:54:37

Catie McLeod, The Guardian: Trump Mobile said in a statement that it was investigating the issue — “with the assistance of independent cybersecurity professionals” — in which the full names, addresses and phone numbers of people who filled out preorde

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-25 19:18:56

Merriam-Webster: The 1820s and 1830s shared another linguistic fad with today: an appreciation for deliberate misspellings. (Kewl, rite?) This trend, which had humorists adopting now-cringey bumpkin personas with ignorance manifested in uneducated spe

InfoQ @ 2026-05-25 18:30:00

Microsoft has introduced a new AI-driven vulnerability discovery system called MDASH, a multi-model agentic security platform designed to automate large-scale code auditing across Windows and other Microsoft software environments. The system combines mor

Confluent @ 2026-05-25 17:19:50

Design autonomous, agentic event-driven systems using real-time data streaming to enable closed-loop AI decisioning, orchestration, and scalable automation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-25 17:09:17

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring DF last week. The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing int

old new thing @ 2026-05-25 16:00:00

Putting them in a place that can access only if you call Start . The post A hypothetical redesign of <CODE>System.<WBR>Diagnostics.<WBR>Process</CODE> to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one

AEON @ 2026-05-25 12:01:00

Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-25 12:00:00

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts - by John Drake Read on Aeon

The observation deck @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

I just attended my thirtieth college reunion, and there were some clear trends among my mid-life peers. First among them: grave concern for what AI means for our future and for the future of our (broadly young adult) kids. Now, surely many gener

Rust blog @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Cargo incorrectly handled symlinks inside of crate tarballs downloaded from third-party registries, allowing a malicious crate to override the source code of another crate from the same registry. This vu

Rust blog @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Cargo incorrectly normalized the URLs of third-party registries using the sparse index protocol . If a hosting provider allowed multiple registries to be hosted with arbitrary names within the same domain

Inside Java @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 537: Vector API (Twelfth Incubator)

luajit @ 2026-05-25 01:26:26

Reported by Sergey Bronnikov. #1459

luajit @ 2026-05-25 01:25:32

Reported by Sergey Bronnikov. #1454

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-24 19:27:24

Terrific, poignant profile of Warriors head coach Steve Kerr by Wright Thompson for ESPN: Kerr doesn’t want the Warriors to end up like the New England Patriots, marred by grudges and grievances. He watched Michael Jordan retire, then unretire, then r

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-24 14:24:43

In a 1946 paper in the American Mathematical Monthly, Paul Erdős posed the Erdős Distinct Distance Problem and the Erdős Unit Distance Problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ERDŐS DISTINCT DISTANCE PROBLEM A n

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-24 11:43:36

Fallecido en 2016, el gran maestro que hizo tablas con Fischer en 1962, fue uno de los niños prodigio más populares de la España franquista

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-24 11:00:18

This post starts with the the slides of an elementary talk I gave at Sloans Bar and Grill, in Glasgow, as part of a wonderful series called A Pint of Science. At the end I include some fascinating details which I only had time to briefly touch on in my tal

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-24 11:00:18

This post starts with the the slides of an elementary talk I gave at Sloans Bar and Grill, in Glasgow, as part of a wonderful series called A Pint of Science. At the end I include some fascinating details which I only had time to briefly touch on in my tal

Inside Java @ 2026-05-24 02:00:00

These tutorials describe how to build accessible JavaFX applications.

Baeldung @ 2026-05-24 01:11:28

Learn how the HTTP Basic Authentication works and how to extract credentials from a HTTP request in a Spring-based application. The post Getting HTTP Basic Authentication from HttpServletRequest first appeared on Baeldung .      

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-23 18:52:27

Esta victoria frente a Van Foreest, quien no se conformó con el empate, deja al uzbeko muy cerca de su paisano Abdusattórov, 4º del escalafón

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-23 17:09:34

The previous post linked to a post I wrote a few years ago about the Hilbert transform and Fourier series. That post says that if the Fourier series of a function is then the Fourier series of its Hilbert transform is When I looked back at that post I tho

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-23 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 May 23) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-23 15:57:21

The previous post announced some notes I wrote up based on an article by Henry Baker implementing functions of a complex variable in terms of functions of a real variable. That is, it finds functions u(x, y) and v(x, y) such that f(x + iy) = u(x, y) + i v

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-23 05:24:10

A couple months ago I wrote about how to compute the sine and cosine of a complex number using only real functions of real variables using the equations You can do something analogous for all the elementary functions, though some of the equations are quit

Inside Java @ 2026-05-23 02:00:00

"Draw the Rest of the Owl: Leyden in Production and the Infrastructure Needed to Get It There." Learn how Netflix used Project Leyden to improve startup time of critical services and the software and SDLC they built to make that happen.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-22 23:32:42

Strong opposition kicks in when data center demand surpasses 5% of a country's power supply. The post Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begun appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 22:30:18

The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.