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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-25 20:19:58

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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

slashdot @ 2026-05-25 19:10:00

"The expansion of SpaceX's Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station," reports Spaceflight Now. The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to more than 10,000 al

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-25 15:56:39

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-25 14:27:11

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slashdot @ 2026-05-25 13:34:00

Tech industry layoffs may be worse at large tech companies than the rest of the IT industry. The New York Times argues those layoffs have now shifted the culture at Big Tech companies, after interviewing more than two dozen of their workers. "Cooperation a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-25 12:11:29

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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

InfoQ @ 2026-05-25 11:00:00

Gemma 4 can be paired with multi-token prediction (MTP) drafters that use speculative decoding to generate multiple tokens in parallel, allowing the model to verify them in a single pass and achieve up to ~3× faster inference without quality loss. By

slashdot @ 2026-05-25 09:34:00

"Think Olympics on steroids. Literally," quips the BBC, describing Sunday's controversial Enhanced Games event in Las Vegas featuring dozens of athletes "using performance-enhancing drugs to try and break world records in track, weightlifting and swimming.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-25 08:24:00

Matteo Collina has proposed a Virtual File System (VFS) for Node.js core through the node:vfs module. The proposal includes about 19,000 lines of code and addresses common workflow challenges. While it has community support, concerns have arisen regardin

slashdot @ 2026-05-25 06:34:00

Thursday California's governor issued an executive order "directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for AI-driven workforce disruption," reports San Francisco's KQED. In a statement the governor said "This moment demands that we reimagine

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-25 05:54:14

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-25 04:30:00

There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 18th, 2026, highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and three JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 27. The proposed release

slashdot @ 2026-05-25 03:34:00

AI "crashed the party" at this year's Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed "the fault lines reshaping cinema," their article argues, including how "AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise."

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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

Recent high-profile security events have created a cause for concern through the DevSecOps community. We have witnessed a sophisticated shift in the threat landscape: attackers are no longer just targeting the applications you build. They’re targeting the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

In distributed system management, defining the "ideal state" of a server is rarely black and white. Different operational goals often create tension between performance tuning and security hardening, where optimizing for one can inadvertently break the oth

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-25 02:00:00

Have you noticed the recent surge of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) roadmaps and Q-day countdowns? They’re hard to miss. Organizations across the industry are rushing to set PQC deadlines as research increasingly suggests the risk of a cryptographically-r

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

slashdot @ 2026-05-25 00:11:00

Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week's Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation: With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes

slashdot @ 2026-05-24 23:11:00

"Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "as part of an infrastructure modernization effort." The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warni

slashdot @ 2026-05-24 22:11:00

The Web Serial API lets websites write to (and read from) serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this week's Firefox 151 release introduced support for the Web Serial API on desktop. "Most folk

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 21:10:26

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slashdot @ 2026-05-24 20:42:00

It's "the first time in seven years that a new Star Wars film has launched on the big screen," writes CNBC. And Variety notes it's expected to earn $102 million through Monday: [B]ox office analysts are mixed on the results. On one hand, it's significant

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 20:31:42

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 20:28:11

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-24 19:55:00

Google has introduced Middleware for Genkit, its open-source framework for building AI-powered and agentic applications. The update adds a programmable interception layer around model calls, tool execution, and generation loops, giving developers more co

slashdot @ 2026-05-24 19:39:00

Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com. The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn't yet lead to a live web page, they believe it's tied to Apple's annual developers conference WWDC which st

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

slashdot @ 2026-05-24 18:34:00

Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas: According to new analysis from independent energy think tank Ember, wind and solar produced 22% of the world's electricity in April 2026, compared to 20

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 18:31:29

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slashdot @ 2026-05-24 17:34:00

"For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts," TechCrunch reports: [The scammers] have been able to set

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 17:25:43

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slashdot @ 2026-05-24 16:34:00

The It's FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates "which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr." (Original

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 16:09:33

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 15:02:06

Related ongoing thread: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent - - May 2026 (384 comments) Comments URL: Points: 690 # Comments: 269

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 14:55:53

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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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 14:07:34

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slashdot @ 2026-05-24 13:34:00

Developers for several top videogames have joined unions under the Communication Workers of America — including Call of Duty, Fallout, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. Last month workers on the online game Magic: The Gathering Arena team anno

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

InfoQ @ 2026-05-24 10:53:00

AWS has recently made its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server generally available, giving AI coding agents controlled access to AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standard interface. It provides a safer and more auditabl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 10:29:38

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slashdot @ 2026-05-24 09:34:00

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-24 06:51:22

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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

InfoQ @ 2026-05-23 10:42:00

At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and

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.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:39:05

Following up on yesterday’s item re: Apple’s petition to the Supreme Court, here’s the Ninth Circuit ruling. It starts with a “Summary” that is specifically intended for the convenience of the reader. Page 50 is where it covers Apple’s argument regardin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:15:00

Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday , and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization: It also doesn’t do away with the core problem. That problem is principally one of information de

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 19:12:10

James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link): He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own w

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-22 17:24:06

El uzbeko fue implacable al aprovechar las inexactitudes de Keymer, líder del Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest hasta esta derrota

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 16:32:00

Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness fro

old new thing @ 2026-05-22 16:00:00

You need to pump messages when idle, but maybe you are never idle. The post Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages if I see sample code creating STA threads and not pumping messages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Baeldung @ 2026-05-22 15:41:58

A look at the last few Java releases and feedback loops for agents. A solid week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 647 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 15:00:00

InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-22 14:45:19

Quantum 10, 2115 (2026). In classical information theory, the Doeblin coefficient of a classical channel provides an efficiently computable upper bound on the total-variation contraction coefficient of the chan

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 14:00:00

Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), enabling its small infrastructure team to automate large-scale ScyllaDB cluster management tasks that previou

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-22 13:41:34

Quantum 10, 2114 (2026). A defining feature of quantum many-body systems is the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space with the number of degrees of freedom. This exponential complexity naïvely renders a comp

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 12:24:00

xAI has released Grok Skills together with enhancements to the Responses API for Grok 4.3, enabling persistent custom expertise that the model retains across all conversations. By Daniel Dominguez

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

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace - by Tom Wooldridge Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-22 11:21:00

Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers platform, delivering 4x higher concurrency and 50% faster response times. The upgrade completes a six-layer agent infrastructure stack: compute (Dynamic Workers + Sandboxes), orchestration (Dynamic Wor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 03:00:47

Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. [...] In its petition, Apple is a

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-22 02:37:05

Researchers used two AI systems, Robin and Co-Scientist, to collapse the timeline from idea to drug candidate. The post AI Lab Partners Are Rewiring the Hunt for New Drugs appeared first on SingularityHub .

iOS Weekly @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

End of an era and new beginnings. Plus understanding animations, feature flags, and hot reloads.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

Multicluster management has been a rapidly evolving part of ITOps over the past several years. As organizations deploy hundreds to thousands of clusters across distributed environments, it’s important they assess their options for platforms that can handle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

Fierce Network: Red Hat CTO says these are 3 big things it’s working on with telcosVerizon took to the keynote stage at Red Hat Summit to talk up its network modernization work with the vendor. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright said it is also working with operato

Inside Java @ 2026-05-22 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it announces that JDK 27 approaches rampdown and final field mutation warnings heads-up.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-22 01:59:07

Speaking of Apple and sports, here’s another one from Apple Newsroom: This Saturday, May 23, Apple TV will present a special live Major League Soccer match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro — marking the first time iPhone will be used to capture

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-21 22:01:22

Starting June 18, 2026, age ratings on the App Store will be updated in Australia and Vietnam. Australia The 15+ age rating will no longer be available on the App Store in Australia. Apps currently rated 15+ with the following content descriptors will

Deepmind @ 2026-05-21 21:46:42

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 21:13:56

Apple Newsroom: Apple Sports — the free app for iPhone that gives fans access to real-time scores, stats, and more — is now available to download on the App Store in more than 170 countries and regions around the world, including more than 90 newly ad

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-21 19:31:13

“You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes you get what you need.” — The Rolling Stones Circular functions and hyperbolic functions aren’t invertible, but we invert them anyway. These functions map many points in the domain

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 19:03:00

Bintrail is a recently introduced layer that brings point-in-time queries and row-history lookups to MySQL, the only major relational database lacking native temporal querying. Using indexed binlogs behind ProxySQL and without modifying MySQL or applicat

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-21 17:53:56

The difference between a circular function and a hyperbolic function is a rotation or two. For example, cosh(z) = cos(iz). You can read that as saying that to find the hyperbolic cosine of z, first you rotate z a quarter turn to the left (i.e. multiply by

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 17:31:54

Tight edit but covers the whole thing. ( XCancel link ; Threads link .)  ★ 

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 17:15:00

QCon AI Boston 2026 is close to selling out. Discover six sessions where speakers engage directly with the gap between AI working in a demo and AI working in production. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-21 16:48:20

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. The post How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species’ Past first a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 16:39:19

Derek Sivers: When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place — only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are in a place right now, you can only speak of it in

old new thing @ 2026-05-21 16:00:00

Trick question: You can't. But maybe you can fake it. The post How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 14:56:28

Quantum 10, 2113 (2026). Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-21 14:09:19

Con motivos de peso para ser considerado uno de los mejores deportistas de la historia, el hexacampeón del mundo no puede salir de Rusia

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-21 13:49:00

Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people without any knowledge

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 13:35:00

Platform engineering should have a product focus, as developers are customers; they must provide composable, self-service capabilities, golden bricks rather than rigid golden paths, so teams can move quickly while maintaining consistency. Success is meas

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 13:06:56

Quantum 10, 2112 (2026). We investigate the Floquet spectrum of a detuned, driven two-level system and show that it exhibits exact quasienergy crossings when the detuning is an integer multiple of the energy qu

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 12:54:48

Quantum 10, 2111 (2026). Graph states are a key resource for a number of applications in quantum information theory. Due to the inherent noise in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era devices, it is impor

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer uses either IDE

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer uses either IDE

AEON @ 2026-05-21 12:01:00

It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:47:24

Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link): Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates ab

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:05:14

Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link): Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI. The company has started rolli

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

I recently saw OpenClaw referred to as a harness. I thought, “That’s interesting. OpenClaw isn’t a harness. It’s an agent runtime—it drives the agent loop.” So, what does the word "harness" even mean?The conversation so farThe structural baseline for the c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

One of the core principles of Red Hat’s open source culture is open exchange, which is the belief that information should be freely available and accessible to anyone. I recently represented Red Hat at Axe-con 2026, the free accessibility conference organi

Inside Java @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

Primitive defaults are chosen so that they are (probably) represented by memory set to one or more bytes with all bits set to zero; we call these all-zero-bits values. We want “primitive-like” classes to have similar optimization opportunities, even if som

The Geomblog @ 2026-05-20 23:49:07

 OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT has disproved a conjecture about one of Erdos's most famous problems: the unit distance problem. This problem is personal to me: I spent a good chunk of time during my Ph.D mulling over it, and it's what hooke

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 23:20:23

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link): For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.” But ov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 22:53:22

22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye , on TikTok: “Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral during quarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe it, in GarageBand on my school iPad. My high school gave us all

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-20 19:49:48

Let \(f\) be a function mapping binary strings of length \(m\) to strings of length \(n\) with \(n>m\). Since there are more strings of length \(n\) than \(m\), \(f\) is not onto. Can you find a string not in the range? This is known as the range avoid

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:52:19

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do. The post Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics Fro

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:50:37

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions? The post How Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematic

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-20 16:27:00

Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good at enforcing rules, but the rules were limited. B

old new thing @ 2026-05-20 16:00:00

You need to arrange to get one from the other. The post The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 12:32:50

Quantum 10, 2110 (2026). Quantum computing involving physical systems with continuous degrees of freedom, such as the quantum states of light, has recently attracted significant interest. However, a well-define

AEON @ 2026-05-20 12:01:00

After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 11:31:15

Quantum 10, 2109 (2026). We time-evolve a translationally invariant quantum state on the Quantinuum H1-1 trapped-ion quantum processor, studying the dynamical quantum phase transition of the transverse field Is

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 10:59:55

Quantum 10, 2108 (2026). There is great interest in generating and controlling entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates and similar ensembles for use in quantum computation, simulation, and sensing. One class

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-20 10:33:55

Todo indica que la pregunta de hasta dónde hubiera llegado el neerlandés con mayor valentía quedará para la eternidad

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-20 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

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 02:49:50

How should we define √(z² − 1)? Well, you could square z, subtract 1, and take the square root. What else would you do?! The question turns out to be more subtle than it looks. When x is a non-negative real number, √x is defined to be the non-negative rea

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Consider a medical device running Linux in a hospital. It processes patient data, adjusts dosing, and reports to clinical systems. Or an ATM on a street corner, processing transactions around the clock. Or a gateway device at the edge of a manufacturing ne

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications, security, and innovation. These updates enhance the core strengths of RHEL to help IT leaders, developers

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

AI agents are no longer passive assistants. They write code, call APIs, install packages, and interact with production systems. This shift from passive to active changes not only the usefulness of agents, but also the security question around their activit

Inside Java @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers thatJSON thread dumps now emit thread identifiers, thread counts, and the process identifier as numeric types.

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 01:37:31

The previous post derived the identity and said in a footnote that the identity holds at least for x > 1 and y > 1. That’s true, but let’s see why the footnote is necessary. Let’s have Mathematica plot The plot will be 0 where th

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-19 22:20:06

Enough hydrogen is leaking from a single mine to power hundreds of homes. Researchers say it's far from unique. The post 70% of the Rock Under Our Feet Can Produce Hydrogen. Tapping It Could Power Your Town. appeared first on SingularityHub .

tecosystems @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

Sogrady @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

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

From 2003 to 2025 the Atlantic named-storm total fell outside NOAA's May range 9 times, 8 of them underforecasts. NOAA's 2026 outlook lands May 21.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-19 18:38:00

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and en

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 17:42:38

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply p

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

old new thing @ 2026-05-19 16:00:00

The storage control blocks were destroyed. The post What is the history of the <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ARENA_<WBR>TRASHED</CODE> error code? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 15:16:26

Design an agentic fleet management architecture using real-time data streaming to optimize routing, maintenance, and autonomous decision-making at scale.

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-19 14:09:54

Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to f(x) + f(y) = f(z)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-19 12:38:40

El flamante vencedor del Torneo de Candidatos ha estado flojo en la primera mitad del Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest

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

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon

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

Enforce encryption & governance centrally with Confluent Private Cloud. Reduce brokers by 73% and secure legacy Kafka clients without code changes or sprawl.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:16

Connect your AI coding assistant to Confluent with MCP servers and Agent Skills. Direct platform access and domain expertise for streaming, now generally available.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q2 2026 release, including dbt adapter, Materialized Tables for Flink, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 03:27:00

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 integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecy

Inside Java @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Since JavaOne 2025, Java has moved from JDK 25, the latest LTS release, toward JDK 26, with major updates across the language, APIs, runtime, tooling, security, startup performance, and garbage collection. This talk reviews the most important changes from