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Will Some Programmers Become 'AI Babysitters'?
slashdot @ 2026-04-13 13:34:00
Will some programmers become "AI babysitters"? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: "AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scient
I am Sámi
AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:01:00
This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The sterilisation-seekers
AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:00:00
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity - by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward Read on Aeon
AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting
InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 10:00:00
AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an
Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
slashdot @ 2026-04-13 09:34:00
Anthropic recently "hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world" for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post: Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude's moral and spiritual
Anthropic Releases Claude Mythos Preview with Cybersecurity Capabilities but Withholds Public Access
InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 08:35:00
Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced AI model, improving significantly in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. Unlike previous releases, it will not be publicly available. Access is limited to a consortium of tech companies
Sam Altman's Home Targeted a Second Time, Two Suspects Arrested
slashdot @ 2026-04-13 05:34:00
"Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI's CEO," reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department: The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-13 04:53:10
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 249 # Comments: 229
Java News Roundup: JDK 27 Release Schedule, Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak, Helidon, Junie CLI
InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 04:30:00
This week's Java roundup for April 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the fifth preview of Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof and switch; the proposed release schedule for JDK 27; point releases of Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak and Google ADK
All elementary functions from a single binary operator
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-13 03:49:32
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 523 # Comments: 131
Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students
slashdot @ 2026-04-13 03:34:00
"Robotic bird decoys are being deployed at Grand Teton National Park," reports Interesting Engineering, "to influence the behavior of real sage grouse and help restore a declining population.". Robotics mentor Gary Duquette describes the machines as "kind
Lunar period approximations
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-13 01:42:01
The date of Easter The church fixed Easter to be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox. They were choosing a date in the Roman (Julian) calendar to commemorate an event whose date was known according to the Jewish lunisolar c
Has the Rust Programming Language's Popularity Reached Its Plateau?
slashdot @ 2026-04-13 01:32:00
"Rust's rise shows signs of slowing," argues the CEO of TIOBE. Back in 2020 Rust first entered the top 20 of his "TIOBE Index," which ranks programming language popularity using search engine results. Rust "was widely expected to break into the top 10," h
Zed — A Font Superfamily
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 00:00:00
My thanks to Typotheque for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Zed, their incredible new font superfamily. Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but wha
Viktor Orban Loses Election in Hungary, Concedes Defeat, Congratulates Opposition Winners
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 23:59:00
The New York Times: In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up.
How Good is Windows on Arm With Snapdragon X?
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 23:52:00
A new powerful chipset has arrived to take on x86 CPUs and Apple's M5, writes Wccftech. The blog Windows Central writes that "Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 processors are here" — and they run Windows: Microsoft has done a massive amount of work to i
'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' and 'Project Hail Mary' Combine for Best Box Office in 7 Years
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 22:13:00
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie "is officially the year's highest-grossing film to date with $629 million at the global box office," reports Variety — and it will likely earn over $1 billion. Project Hail Mary now becomes the year's second highest-gros
Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 21:53:08
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The peril of laziness lost
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 21:44:40
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 418 # Comments: 136
Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 21:37:15
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 237 # Comments: 79
Hisense's New Backlit RGB LED TV 'a Shot Against OLED's Bow', and Includes a DP Port
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 20:55:00
"RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year," argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers." And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China's Hisense — "the first look at the viability of the new backlig
Watch TED2026: All of Us — live online this week
TED Blog @ 2026-04-12 20:45:43
Can’t make it to Vancouver for TED2026 this week? No problem! You can stream the entire conference online with TED Live. TED Live brings the TED conference experience to your home – or anywhere you want to watch. Get exclusive access to every talk. S
Análisis de ajedrez | La tragedia de Giri
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-12 20:39:56
El neerlandés no logra doblegar a Yi Wei tras seis horas de lucha a pesar de conseguir varias posiciones donde disponía de golpes ganadores
Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 20:19:02
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Golden Tickets
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 19:39:26
More vintage graphic-design weekend fun — this time, a collection of Milwaukee bus tickets from the late 1940s to early 1950s, collected on the Present & Correct blog. So much variety in the colors and typography, but yet they all feel branded toget
Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 19:34:00
Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. "If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale w
Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 19:25:44
Hi HN! I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. T
DIY Soft Drinks
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 18:38:43
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 512 # Comments: 149
Neuroscientist's AI-Powered Startup Aims To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 18:34:00
Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 18:24:43
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: Points: 241 # Comments: 790
DNA-Level Encryption Developed by Researchers to Protect the Secrets of Bioengineered Cells
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 17:34:00
The biotech industry's engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes "an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including speciall
There is still life in these texts
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-12 17:00:00
Less known Solaris Features integrated to the website
Greg Kroah-Hartman Tests New 'Clanker T1000' Fuzzing Tool for Linux Patches
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 16:34:00
The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — "has made its way into the Linux kernel," reports the blog It's FOSS "thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-i
Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 15:21:39
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Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 15:15:31
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Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 15:06:44
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We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 14:42:25
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 276 # Comments: 245
Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 14:28:57
I just spent 1h+ debugging why my locally-hosted gitlab runner would fail to create pipelines. The gitlab job output would just display weird TLS errors when trying to pull a docker images. After debugging gitlab and the runner, I realized after a while
Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 14:21:26
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 577 # Comments: 331
The gap between Eastern and Western Easter
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-12 14:09:13
Today is Orthodox Easter. Western churches celebrated Easter last week. Why are the Eastern and Western dates of Easter different? Is Eastern Easter always later than Western Easter? How far apart can the two dates be? Why the dates differ Easter is on th
Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 12:34:00
Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates." And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..." It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell t
JVM Options Explorer
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 12:29:26
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 92
AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 11:16:35
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 338 # Comments: 606
GitHub Copilot CLI Reaches General Availability
InfoQ @ 2026-04-12 11:00:00
GitHub has launched Copilot CLI into general availability, bringing generative AI directly to the terminal. Integrated with the GitHub CLI, it offers natural language command suggestions and code explanations. Recent updates introduce "agentic" workflows
Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 10:38:56
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Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 10:38:11
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 228 # Comments: 34
AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 09:34:00
Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free"? It was Anthropic's experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon
I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-12 08:00:00
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Análisis de ajedrez | Sindárov resiste ante Caruana en la 11ª ronda de 14
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-12 07:41:14
El estadounidense presionó con pequeña ventaja durante más de cinco horas, pero el uzbeko se mantuvo firme
Lessons from the past
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-12 06:10:00
Less known Solaris Features eBook back online
Latin America's Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
slashdot @ 2026-04-12 06:07:00
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system "Pix", developed by the country's central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed t
The peril of laziness lost
The observation deck @ 2026-04-12 02:00:00
In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to tal
Feldspars
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-04-11 19:55:10
Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite. This mineral creates an eerie blue shimmer in the sunlight: a phenomenon called ‘labradorescenceR
Feldspars
Physics Phorums @ 2026-04-11 19:55:10
Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite. This mineral creates an eerie blue shimmer in the sunlight: a phenomenon called ‘labradorescenceR
Pan American Luggage Labels
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-11 18:55:24
Some graphic design fun for the weekend: achingly gorgeous art pieces recreating vintage Pan Am luggage tags, by Ella Freire. I love them all. The colors, the type, the shapes — sublime. ( Via Dan Cederholm’s Studio Notes .) ★
How to Build Better Digital Twins of the Human Brain
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-11 16:00:00
Brain twins where regions are allowed to compete for resources behave more like the real thing. The post How to Build Better Digital Twins of the Human Brain appeared first on SingularityHub .
Alan Turing play in Cambridge MA
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-11 15:01:00
Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code . It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if you’re in the Boston area this m
Etsy Migrates 1000-Shard, 425 TB MySQL Sharding Architecture to Vitess
InfoQ @ 2026-04-11 09:13:00
The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems to Vitess using vindexes, enabling capabilities such as reshar
Fast Gaussian Blur Implementation in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-11 07:45:20
Explore a faster, more computationally efficient solution for implementing Gaussian blur in Java. The post Fast Gaussian Blur Implementation in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
Atomic14 @ 2026-04-11 02:00:00
I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not
★ Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 23:29:46
Regarding Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s epic profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker.
Anthropic’s Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-10 20:33:01
It's a step change in cybersecurity. Exploits that would take experts weeks to develop can now be generated in hours. The post Anthropic’s Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser appeared first on SingularityHub
Podcast CB SyR 553: Misión de Artemis II, brecha de masas en agujeros negros y evolución de la respiración en anfibios
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-10 20:17:39
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 553 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Artemisa II; Brecha de Masas; Respiración”, 09 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 553: Mi
Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 18:35:03
This new museum in Utrecht (about 30–40 minutes south of Amsterdam) seems just astonishing. The rainbow wall of iMacs alone is incredible. ( Via Juli Clover .) ★
Distribution of digits in fractions
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-10 16:29:49
There’s a lot of mathematics just off the beaten path. You can spend a career in math and yet not know all there is to know about even the most basic areas of math. For example, this post will demonstrate something you may not have seen about decima
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-10 16:25:09
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. The post Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?, part 2
old new thing @ 2026-04-10 16:00:00
Waiting for the waiting thread to acknowledge the change. The post How do you add or remove a handle from an active <CODE>WaitForMultipleObjects</CODE>?, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
CNCF and Kusari Partner to Strengthen Software Supply Chain Security across Cloud-Native Projects
InfoQ @ 2026-04-10 14:00:00
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kusari have announced a new collaboration aimed at strengthening software supply chain security across cloud-native projects, providing free access to Kusari's AI-powered security tooling for CNCF-hosted p
Análisis de ajedrez | Pragg plantea mal y se enreda ante Sindárov
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-10 12:47:18
El duelo entre un portento en gran forma y otro desdibujado fue muy desigual desde la apertura, mal elegida por el indio
Patterns without desires
AEON @ 2026-04-10 12:00:00
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Does AI threaten them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon
Java Weekly, Issue 641
Baeldung @ 2026-04-10 11:51:00
Doing things that don't scale has real value. Oh and S3 is now a filesystem :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 641 first appeared on Baeldung .
Google Cloud Highlights Ongoing Work on PostgreSQL Core Capabilities
InfoQ @ 2026-04-10 11:30:00
Google Cloud has outlined its recent technical contributions to PostgreSQL, emphasizing improvements in logical replication, upgrade processes, and overall system stability. The update reflects ongoing collaboration with the upstream community and focuse
Safari Adds Scrollend Event Support, Completing Baseline Browser Coverage
InfoQ @ 2026-04-10 11:06:00
Safari's release of version 26.2 in December introduced support for the scrollend event, completing its alignment with major browsers. This event signals when scrolling has definitively ended, enabling more reliable interactions without the need for work
Computing quantum magic of state vectors
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-10 10:15:50
Quantum 10, 2059 (2026). Non-stabilizerness, also known as “magic,'' quantifies how far a quantum state departs from the stabilizer set. It is a central resource behind quantum advantage and a useful
A streamlined quantum algorithm for topological data analysis with exponentially fewer qubits
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-10 08:45:44
Quantum 10, 2058 (2026). Topological invariants of a dataset, such as the number of holes that survive from one length scale to another (persistent Betti numbers) can be used to analyze and classify data in mac
Afterthoughs on Banach Tarski and the Miracle of loaves and Fishes
Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-10 03:35:00
I posted about using the Banach-Tarski Paradox(BT) to explain the miracle of Loaves and Fishes (LF) here . Darling says that whenever I fool my readers or my students then I have to tell them later, so I'll tell you now: The story about me me
Issue 747
iOS Weekly @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00
Is Swift growing bigger than Xcode? Yes, and it has been for a while! 🚀
Checkpoint #9: Apr 2026
Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00
Ethereum's All Core Developer calls can be a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for periodic high-level updates, depending on what's happening in core development. See the previous update here. !image...
Friday Five — April 10, 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00
Don't forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta! Register by February 23 for the lowest rates, or save further with group discounts for three or more attendees from your organization. Secure your spot
AI for scientific research: Building the research platform that science needs with Red Hat AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00
In a previous article, we focused on the capability that turns large language models (LLMs) from general-purpose tools into instruments of research through domain-specific customization. Fine-tuned models are how research teams encode domain expertise, ins
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 00:14:13
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug : Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minut
Cloudflare Introduces EmDash: TypeScript CMS Positioned as WordPress Successor
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 22:39:00
Cloudflare recently announced the preview of EmDash, a new open-source CMS it describes as a “spiritual successor to WordPress.” Designed to rebuild the CMS model around a serverless, developer-focused architecture, EmDash includes AI-native features, de
Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-09 22:35:30
“thenickdude”, on Reddit: They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website. When you visit , they load this image using JavaScript:
The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 19:54:21
Saw a post on X saying that the latitude of the Pyramid of Giza is the same as the speed of light. I looked into this, expecting it to be approximately true. It’s exactly true in the sense that the speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s and the
Random hexagon fractal
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 19:25:08
I recently ran across a post on X describing a process for creating a random fractal. First, pick a random point c inside a hexagon. Then at each subsequent step, pick a random side of the hexagon and create the triangle formed by that side and c. Update
Lickspittle of the Week: Todd Blanche
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-09 19:10:48
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking of the president of the United States in a totally normal way: I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks
The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 45 New Members
ASF @ 2026-04-09 18:46:30
The ASF welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on March 5, 2026: C. Scott Andreas, Clay Baenziger, Alessandro Benedetti, Arturo Bernal, Ronny Berndt, Jürg Billeter, Zhaofeng Chen, Raúl Cumplido, Amo
How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?
old new thing @ 2026-04-09 16:00:00
You can't, but you can cooperate with the other thread. The post How do you add or remove a handle from an active <CODE>WaitForMultipleObjects</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Uber’s Hive Federation Decentralizes 16K Datasets and 10+ PB for Zero-Downtime Analytics at Scale
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 15:54:00
Uber has decentralized its Hive data warehouse, migrating 16,000 datasets totaling over 10 petabytes using pointer-based federation. The migration ensures zero downtime, strict ACL enforcement, improved governance, and scalable, domain-specific datasets
Fragments: April 9
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-09 15:23:00
I mostly link to written material here, but I’ve recently listened to two excellent podcasts that I can recommend. Anyone who regularly reads these fragments knows that I’m a big fan of Simon Willison, his (also very fragmentary) posts have earned a reg
AAIF's MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 15:10:00
The MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, held on April 2-3 at the New York Marriott Marquis, gathered about 1,200 attendees. Hosted by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, discussions focused on the Model Context Protocol's evolution and enterpris
Análisis de ajedrez | Caruana también cae ante Giri en el Candidatos
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-09 14:19:33
En una partida típica del neerlandés cuando está en su mejor forma, mantuvo una pequeña ventaja durante horas y la remató con brillo
Inocentadas en arXiv del 1 de abril de 2026
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-09 14:08:33
Las inocentadas en España están permitidas el 28 de diciembre, Día de los Inocentes; en el mundo anglosajón lo están el 1 de abril, April Fools’ Day. Todos los años, artículos […] La entrada Inocentadas en arXiv del 1 de abril de 2026 fue escrit
Developing Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 13:10:00
Work isn’t the only place where you can develop valuable leadership skills, Sophie Weston mentioned in the video The Principal Engineer’s Path from her QCon London talk. She suggested thinking about the things you do outside of your job where you can lea
Nudging machines
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-09 13:00:00
Optimising a Jekyll blog with an LLM, and the parallels to a team exercise from the 1990s
Travelling at the speed of light
AEON @ 2026-04-09 12:01:00
A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
White-collar sweatshops
AEON @ 2026-04-09 12:00:00
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon
Podcast CB SyR 552: RBH-1 como galaxia en lugar de agujero negro, misión Celeste, multicelularidad paleoproterozoica y la habitación china
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-09 11:05:08
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 552 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B, iVoox C], titulado “Agujeros Negros; Multicelularidad; Habitación China”, 02 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcast CB Sy
Google Brings MCP Support to Colab, Enabling Cloud Execution for AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 10:30:00
Google has released the open-source Colab MCP Server, enabling AI agents to directly interact with Google Colab through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project is designed to bridge local agent workflows with cloud-based execution, allowing develop
.NET Aspire 13.2 Released with Expanded CLI, TypeScript AppHost Preview, and Dashboard Improvements
InfoQ @ 2026-04-09 10:30:00
Aspire 13.2 brings expanded CLI with detached mode and process management, TypeScript AppHost support in preview, dashboard telemetry export and import, stable Docker Compose publishing, Microsoft Foundry integration, Azure Virtual Network support, and a
Root prime gap
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 02:18:57
I recently found out about Andrica’s conjecture: the square roots of consecutive primes are less than 1 apart. In symbols, Andrica’s conjecture says that if pn and pn+1 are consecutive prime numbers, then √pn+1 − √pn < 1. This has been emp
Episode 54 “How JDK 26 Improves G1’s Throughput” [AtA]
Inside Java @ 2026-04-09 02:00:00
G1 is Java's default garbage collector in most environments and its throughput has been considerably improved in JDK 26 by streamlining its write barriers, which are discussed in this episode together with regions, concurrent marking, and card tables.
Planning your upgrade path to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-09 02:00:00
The release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 marks a pivotal milestone. Before you begin your upgrade, there are 3 key things you need to know to make your transition smoother:This is the last version with an RPM-based installer. Red Hat Ansible
A Three- and a Four- Body Problem
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 01:30:15
Last week I wrote about the orbit of Artemis II. The orbit of Artemis I was much more interesting. Because Artemis I was unmanned, it could spend a lot more time in orbit. The Artemis I mission took 25 days while Artemis II will take 10 days. Artemis I to
The Apache Software Foundation Launches $10M Responsible AI Initiative with Initial $1.75M Donation
ASF @ 2026-04-08 19:00:00
New targeted sponsorship effort advances trusted open source infrastructure powering today’s AI ecosystem Wilmington, DE — April 8, 2026 — The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announc
Anthropic’s New Claude Mythos Is So Good at Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities That They’re Not Releasing It to the Public
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-08 17:49:15
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team: Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview , a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board, but it is strikingly capable at computer security tasks. In response, we have launc
Tailwind CSS 4.2 Ships Webpack Plugin, New Palettes and Logical Property Utilities
InfoQ @ 2026-04-08 16:48:00
Tailwind CSS version 4.2.0, released on February 18, 2026, includes a webpack plugin for streamlined integration and four new color palettes. It expands logical property utilities and improves recompilation speed by 3.8x. This update is particularly bene
Análisis de ajedrez | Nakamura derriba a Caruana
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-08 16:37:00
Todo indicaba que el final de torres terminaría en empate; pero el subcampeón del mundo de 2018 quiso forzar, y erró
Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-08 16:20:38
Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that would solve multiple mysteries. But recent experiments have killed hope of finding these phantoms, leaving physicists to wonder wh
How do you add or remove a handle from an active MsgWaitForMultipleObjects?
old new thing @ 2026-04-08 16:00:00
You can't, but you can arrange for the waiter to do it for you. The post How do you add or remove a handle from an active <CODE>MsgWaitForMultipleObjects</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Feedback Flywheel
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-08 15:28:00
Rahul Garg finishes his series on reducing the friction in AI-Assisted Development. He proposes a structured feedback practice that harvests learnings from AI sessions and feeds them back into the team's shared artifacts, turning individual experience
A Remarkable Application of Zassenhaus Formula to Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 14:45:11
Quantum 10, 2057 (2026). We show that the Zassenhaus decomposition for the exponential of the sum of two non-commuting operators, simplifies drastically when these operators satisfy a simple condition, called t
Recursive algorithm for constructing antisymmetric fermionic states in first quantization mapping
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 14:40:42
Quantum 10, 2056 (2026). We devise a deterministic quantum algorithm to produce antisymmetric states of single-particle orbitals in the first quantization mapping. Unlike sorting-based antisymmetrization algori
Your opinion, please
AEON @ 2026-04-08 12:01:00
From poetry to politics, this radio show asked listeners to speak their minds. Decades later, their words still resonate - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Expanding Swift's IDE Support
Swift blog @ 2026-04-08 12:00:00
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift e
Trans-dimensional Hamiltonian model selection and parameter estimation from sparse, noisy data
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 10:59:17
Quantum 10, 2055 (2026). High-throughput characterization often requires estimating parameters and model dimension from experimental data of limited quantity and quality. Such data may result in an ill-posed in
Power-law distributions in nonequilibrium open quantum systems
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 10:39:56
Quantum 10, 2054 (2026). Power-law probability distributions are widely used to model extreme statistical events in complex systems, with applications to a vast array of natural phenomena ranging from earthquak
Fermionic Averaged Circuit Eigenvalue Sampling
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 10:23:41
Quantum 10, 2053 (2026). Fermionic averaged circuit eigenvalue sampling (FACES) is a protocol to simultaneously learn the averaged error rates of many fermionic linear optical (FLO) gates simultaneously and sel
An Operational Framework for Nonclassicality in Quantum Communication Networks
Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-08 10:16:06
Quantum 10, 2052 (2026). Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing
This Week in Rust 646
This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-08 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
Thoughts: Mond
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-08 06:00:00
Untergang in schlechten Nachrichten
Java and Post-Quantum Cryptography
Inside Java @ 2026-04-08 02:00:00
In this session, we'll show how the Java Platform is preparing for this paradigm shift in security by adding support for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), which are algorithms designed to be secure against quantum computer attacks. Come to this session to l
What’s new at Red Hat Summit 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-08 02:00:00
This year, Red Hat Summit 2026 is headed to Atlanta for an experience that’s more hands-on and interactive than ever! Whether you’re a long-time attendee or joining us for the first time, this year’s event promises new ways to move from “what if” to “what’
Navigating the Mythos-haunted world of platform security
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-08 02:00:00
The preview release of Claude Mythos presents a massive challenge for IT security experts, as well as an opportunity (at least for the organizations that can afford it). Mythos represents a new category of frontier model that can not only identify complex
MCP security: Logging and runtime security measures
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-08 02:00:00
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers often execute code or commands as instructed by an AI agent, exposing them to various risks. To help mitigate these risks, you should implement strict runtime security measures to contain what the server can do and to s
Handle “No Suitable HttpMessageConverter” in Spring RestTemplate
Baeldung @ 2026-04-08 01:02:40
Learn how to prevent one of the most common RestClientExceptions when using RestTeamplate. The post Handle “No Suitable HttpMessageConverter” in Spring RestTemplate first appeared on Baeldung .
Flip the Bits of a Number in Java
Baeldung @ 2026-04-08 00:58:58
Learn standard and alternative ways to invert the value of all bits or only the significant bits of a number in Java. The post Flip the Bits of a Number in Java first appeared on Baeldung .
Multi-Factor Authentication in Spring Security 7
Baeldung @ 2026-04-08 00:52:17
Spring Security 7 introduces built-in support for multi-factor authentication, allowing developers to enforce multiple authentication steps using the existing authorization model. The post Multi-Factor Authentication in Spring Security 7 first appeare
Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-08 00:23:27
Kottke: This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit . Follow NASA on Flickr for more. Update: In a follow-up post , Kottke has assembled a slew of gr
Sam Altman, in a Video Released by OpenAI, Apparently Thinks AGI Is Going to Hit Society Like a Once-a-Century Pandemic
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-08 00:23:07
Not sure why they think this comparison is reassuring rather than terrifying. I also have to say that Altman’s claims, today, that OpenAI employees were obsessed with COVID weeks ahead of the rest of the world feels more than a little like Donald Trump’
★ OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-08 00:07:08
I don’t see the path from here to there, where *there* is a justification for a trillion-dollar-ish valuation.
Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems
AWS Blog @ 2026-04-07 21:18:32
Amazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and interactive file capabilities while enabling seamless data sharing with ~1ms latencies.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces $1.5M Donation from Anthropic
ASF @ 2026-04-07 20:00:00
Wilmington, DE, April 7, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced a $1.5M donation from Anthropic to support the ASF’s infrastructure, security, and community behind its
Om Malik and Ben Thompson on OpenAI Buying TBPN
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-07 18:52:44
Om Malik : “A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser.” — Vladimir Lenin In 1902, Lenin argued that his revolution needed a newspaper of its own, and that newspaper was (uni
Flighty Airports Meltdown Map
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-07 18:44:06
Live data with major airport delay times for North America. Available on the web — with a nice “TV Mode” too — and, of course, within the app. ★
The Data Drop: Every iPhone
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-07 18:34:14
Just lovely data visualization work from Sheets.works — a consulting firm that specializes in, I swear, Google Sheets. ★
Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them?
old new thing @ 2026-04-07 16:00:00
The permanently ineligible list. The post Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-07 16:00:00
An AI system unearthed a trove of CRISPR-like proteins in minutes instead of weeks or months. The post MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools appeared first on SingularityHub .
Principles of Mechanical Sympathy
Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-07 15:39:00
Modern hardware is remarkably fast, but software often fails to leverage it. Caer Sanders has found it valuable to guide their work with mechanical sympathy - the practice of creating software that is sympathetic to its underlying hardware. The
Hello Developer: April 2026
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-07 15:00:16
In this edition: Join us on bilibili and LinkedIn. Catch up on essential sessions before WWDC26. Build a travel app with sample code. Browse the latest edition of our new design gallery. Learn about the biggest-ever update to Analytics in A
Living without my self
AEON @ 2026-04-07 12:00:00
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence - by Mette Leonard Høeg Read on Aeon
Análisis de ajedrez | Caruana derritió a Bluebaum
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-07 09:03:41
La única derrota del alemán, quien siempre juega a no perder, llegó con su Defensa Petrov, tan ultrasólida como él
Toffoli gates are all you need
The Endeavour @ 2026-04-07 02:33:23
Landauer’s principle gives a lower bound on the amount of energy it takes to erase one bit of information: E ≥ log(2) kB T where kB is the Boltzmann constant and T is the ambient temperature in Kelvin. The lower bound applies no matter how the bit i
Overcoming inference challenges
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-07 02:00:00
Once organizations move beyond experimenting with a small handful of large language models (LLMs), the limits of manual model deployment become clear. What may work for early testing and development quickly turns inefficient, expensive, and difficult to sc
Managed identity in Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Deploy in just a few clicks with the Azure portal
Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-07 02:00:00
We recently announced the general availability (GA) of managed identity and workload identity for Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters. With this, users benefit from short-lived, limited permission credentials that enhance security and reduce operati
[Sponsor] Zed, a Font Superfamily
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-06 21:15:05
Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but what works for the widest possible range of readers. We tested Zed with visually impaired patients at a French op
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked the Entire Claude Code CLI Source Code
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-06 21:04:54
Samual Axon, reporting last week for Ars Technica: Early this morning, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code npm package — but it was quickly discovered that package included a source map file, which could be used to access the entirety of
Análisis de ajedrez | Único momento malo de Sindárov en el Candidatos
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-06 19:28:15
Un desacierto estratégico en la 1ª ronda puso en peligro al uzbeko ante Yesipenko, pero terminó ganando, por un error táctico de su rival
Two Years of Valkey
tecosystems @ 2026-04-06 18:59:15
Two years ago last month, a group of former contributors to the Redis project announced their intention to collaborate instead on a competitive fork. Triggered by the decision to shift Redis away from the permissive open source BSD license to source availa
Two Years of Valkey
Sogrady @ 2026-04-06 18:59:15
Two years ago last month, a group of former contributors to the Redis project announced their intention to collaborate instead on a competitive fork. Triggered by the decision to shift Redis away from the permissive open source BSD license to source availa
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS DevOps Agent & Security Agent GA, Product Lifecycle updates, and more (April 6, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-04-06 18:51:00
Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new AI user group, and we hope more people will join. I was able to strengthen my bond wi
Little Finder Guy Stars in Nine New Videos on TikTok and YouTube
Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-06 18:39:26
Juli Clover, at MacRumors: Apple has shared nine Little Finder Guy videos this week, and on TikTok, the thumbnails for the videos come together to make a Little Finder Guy mosaic on the Apple TikTok page. I hope this doesn’t jinx the negotiations,
Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner
YC @ 2026-04-06 18:00:00
We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. She brings deep fintech and infrastructure experience, a founder's instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who's been building companies since she wa
Call for testing: introducing the Laptop Integration Testing project
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-06 17:37:49
2026 is off to a great start for the Laptop Support and Usability Project. We’ve seen lots of exciting updates to major areas such as graphics and Wi-Fi drivers, as well as FreeBSD installer improvements to support the KDE Plasma desktop environment
An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-06 17:08:33
A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are racing to understand exactly how, with essential stores of carbon at stake. The post An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital
Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Illegal use of -> when there is no -> in sight
old new thing @ 2026-04-06 16:00:00
If the compiler is complaining about things you didn't write, find out who wrote them. The post Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Illegal use of <TT>-></TT> when there is no <TT>-></TT> in sight appeared first on The
US Issues Grand Challenge: The First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2028
Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-06 16:00:00
Today's error-prone quantum computers are still far from practical. But a bold deadline could galvanize the field. The post US Issues Grand Challenge: The First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2028 appeared first on SingularityHub .