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FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-07-15 23:10:16

Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background — it just takes someone willing to show up and talk about why this project matters. Whether that’s presenting at a local meetup or bringing FreeBSD into a

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 23:00:00

A hacker who breached Suno reportedly revealed source code and training-library details showing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs and lyrics from sources including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and podcast RSS fee

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-15 22:51:23

Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fields Medal winners. This year there won’t be much surprise, since evidently someone found … Co

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-15 22:07:14

If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over the name tags we wrote yesterday t

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 22:00:00

The FCC plans to vote on repealing local TV ownership limits, including the 39% national audience cap that currently restricts how much of the U.S. market a single broadcast group can reach. Engadget reports: On August 6, commissioners will hold a ballot t

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Big changes are coming to Android apps, but they're not the changes Google wanted. The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies' long-running antitrust battle is being

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 20:00:00

FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final dependency was disabled. Phoronix reports: This ticket to retire dialog was opened b

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 19:00:00

OpenAI's first hardware device is a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro that lets users monitor and control AI coding agents. Axios reports: Codex Micro is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware company known for customizab

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 18:00:00

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a joint $60.50-per-share offer to buy PayPal, valuing the payments company at more than $53 billion. The bid is said to represent a 28% premium to PayPal's latest closing price and is

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-15 17:24:33

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use. The post Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow first appeared on Quanta Magazine

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: Microsoft today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fi

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-15 16:55:50

Herman Chernoff passed away on July 6, 5 days after turning 103. Ravi Boppana wrote a guest post about Chernoff's life for his 100th birthday.  Let me talk about his most famous work, the Chernoff Bounds themselves. If you have a coin

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 16:25:00

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on executio

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 16:07:46

Quantum 10, 2162 (2026). We present a two-step protocol for quantum measurement tomography that is light on classical co-processing cost and still achieves optimal sample complexity. Given measurement data from

old new thing @ 2026-07-15 16:00:00

Watching the bits disappear. The post The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:46:28

Quantum 10, 2161 (2026). The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. Thi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 15:29:55

Quantum 10, 2160 (2026). The preparation of quantum many-body systems faces the difficulty that in a realistic scenario only few control parameters of the system may be accessible. In this context, an interesti

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-15 14:59:09

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 13:04:00

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and ro

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 13:00:00

Astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission successfully captured diagnostic X-ray images in orbit for the first time. The milestone gives space medicine a second imaging option beyond ultrasound and could help future crews diagnose injuries, inspect equipment, a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 12:40:54

Quantum 10, 2159 (2026). We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By

AEON @ 2026-07-15 12:01:00

What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-15 09:26:06

Quantum 10, 2158 (2026). The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) tackles combinatorial optimisation problems by encoding their solutions into the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian prepared by a

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 09:00:00

The House voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and end the twice-yearly clock change. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, "where one G.O.P. leader said it was unclear wh

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-15 08:28:00

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slashdot @ 2026-07-15 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the confl

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Red Hat AI 3.4 is officially available. While it is packed with incredible engineering milestones, business leaders care less about the underlying code and more about one critical question: How does this platform help scale the business?For organizations c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Edge computing environments present distinct hurdles as companies move processing capabilities nearer to where data is generated. Customers across industries, especially in retail, industrial, and telecommunications sectors, are increasingly demanding high

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

Every company that depends on physical operations is dealing with the same set of problems today. The infrastructure that was built years ago demands changes faster than operations teams can adapt. Repetitive tasks done by humans at high speed produce erro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-15 02:00:00

In many cases, using agentic AI for incident response automation means sending infrastructure logs to frontier AI models. Every job failure log (complete with hostnames, IP addresses, and system topology) would leave infrastructure the moment it hit a larg

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 01:00:00

OpenAI is reportedly developing a screen-free, portable smart speaker meant to act as a personalized home computer and humanlike AI companion. "It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the r

InfoQ @ 2026-07-15 00:00:00

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone

slashdot @ 2026-07-15 00:00:00

Google Images is getting a Pinterest-like redesign that turns image search into a personalized discovery feed, with "For You" galleries, real-time updates, and collections for saving visual ideas. "Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 23:48:06

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress. The post Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 23:00:00

A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected medical, family, pregnancy, or paren

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-07-14 22:25:28

On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty people in a meeting room

slashdot @ 2026-07-14 22:00:00

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis is calling for a U.S.-led AI standards body to review frontier models for national security risks such as cybersecurity and biological threats. His proposal would create a federally overseen public-private organization,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 21:55:31

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slashdot @ 2026-07-14 21:00:00

Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402 protocol. Backed by companies including AWS, American Express, Cloudflare, Google,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 19:58:35

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-14 19:11:24

El estadounidense de origen ruso, primer cabeza de serie, cumple el pronóstico y lo hace con un juego de muy alta calidad en varias partidas

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The Endeavour @ 2026-07-14 16:24:12

I’ve been thinking about ICD-10 codes; they come up a lot in my work. The ICD-10-CM standard is divided into 21 chapters, which generally correspond to the first letter of a code. However, a chapter may contain blocks beginning with more than one le

old new thing @ 2026-07-14 16:00:00

Please, tell me more. The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:40:00

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dyn

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 15:00:00

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieve

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-14 14:51:00

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describ

Baeldung @ 2026-07-14 14:19:11

Learn how to retrieve the current Java process ID using ProcessHandle , RuntimeMXBean , and legacy approaches across different Java versions. The post How Does a Java Program Get Its Own Process ID first appeared on Baeldung .    

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 14:00:00

The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for K

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 12:17:00

Google released the Genkit Agents API in preview for TypeScript and Go. The open-source framework packages message history, tool loops, streaming, and state persistence behind a single chat() interface. Detached turns let agents work after clients discon

AEON @ 2026-07-14 12:00:00

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future - by Ali Rıza Taşkale Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-14 10:34:57

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:08:00

Drawing from the enduring adaptability of HTML and HTTP, Seph Gentle proposes embedding self-contained schemas directly into file headers, ensuring data remains readable without external definitions. His experimental format prioritises forward, backward

InfoQ @ 2026-07-14 10:00:00

The 2027 release of SwiftData introduces support for persisting custom and third-party types via Codable, along with the ability to organize data into SwiftUI list sections. It also adds new capabilities for observing data store changes through ResultsOb

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-14 07:02:00

Paper is a professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs and fewer translations between what you design and what ships. Paper works both ways: code to design, and design to code.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers minds from across Ethereum and beyond: builders, researchers, maintainers, organizers, and anyone curious a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

As modern applications expand across multiple clusters, clouds, and hybrid regions, traditional security mechanisms, such as long lived secrets, static certificates, or cloud provider specific identity and access management, struggle to keep up with the sc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Navigating the complexities of 5G and AI requires telecommunications service providers to move beyond the restrictive, vendor-locked vertical architectures of the past. Legacy, single-vendor vertical stacks, once the industry standard, have become the prim

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

We continue to see many organizations accelerate their infrastructure modernization plans and choose Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as their future-ready foundation for traditional virtual machine (VM) workloads. That being said, when you’re tasked with

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 delivers a platform designed to meet the necessary balance of agility, security, and efficiency for your IT team. This release introduces significant advancements across the board, from hardening zero-trust security and streamlining

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-14 02:00:00

As organizations accelerate AI investments and scale across the hybrid cloud, technology choice only becomes more important. Choice is now a fundamental driver of corporate financial strategy, legal risk mitigation, and long-term asset protection. This mea

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-14 01:10:32

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 20:13:57

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages bet

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-13 18:18:20

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builde

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-13 18:06:00

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of

Baeldung @ 2026-07-13 17:25:40

Learn how to log HTTP request and response bodies using a Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor. The post How to Get The RequestBody and ResponseBody in HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 17:24:53

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings , on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consis

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-13 16:22:22

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 16:14:00

A panel on data ownership challenged the definition of "ownership," arguing it must extend beyond simple account control to include structural independence, interoperability, and community governance. Speakers like Zenna Fiscella, Paul Frazee, Boris Mann

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 16:08:00

DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-based tooling, and an intelligence layer with persistent consumer memory and live backend data. Early resu

old new thing @ 2026-07-13 16:00:00

Guard pages all the way down? The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 14:40:00

This week's Java roundup for July 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 5.0; point releases of JHipster, Keycloak and Google ADK; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and Micronaut; the OmniFish Build of Payara

Deepmind @ 2026-07-13 14:37:28

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-13 13:49:35

La teoría general de la relatividad predice un arrastre de los sistemas de referencia inerciales (frame-dragging). En un campo gravitacional débil y rotación lenta, como en el entorno de la […] La entrada LARES-2 y LAGEOS miden el efecto Lense–Th

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:01:00

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-13 12:00:00

We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-07-13 09:07:00

Jake Lazaroff discussed the AT Protocol as a framework for distributed applications beyond social networking. He emphasised a local-first architecture where users maintain data in PDSs while leveraging shared infrastructure for synchronisation and update

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-13 09:06:50

Aún es posible innovar con gran brillantez en los primeros movimientos, como demostró Castellanos en la 8ª ronda del abierto pirenaico

Rust blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

Another six months have passed since our last development update , and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "Code"

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-13 02:00:00

It was 6 AM when the first alert fired. Then the second. Then the third.The on-call engineer opened her laptop to find 3 unrelated failures from a single AI agent. The agent handled support tickets, processed billing adjustments, and answered customer ques

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-13 00:49:37

The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrated by Robert J Lewis, (I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News,  here .) has an appe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-13 00:17:54

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, and weeks of infrastructure b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 23:18:24

Paulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than I expected. It was mentioned on Mastodon several times , included in iOS Dev Weekly , inspired May’s edition of the Swift Blog Carnival , and was

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:51:16

These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in clarity, everywhere. Today we live in an age when it’s degrading in clarity, everywhere.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 21:48:09

Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov: The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see. Why care about every frame? It builds trust. Users can’t see the code, so UI is the only way for them to

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 21:26:29

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how the posterior mea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 20:04:05

Guilherme Rambo: Apple ships the fm command-line tool in macOS 27, which can be used to run inference with the local system model or Private Cloud Compute from Terminal or scripts. You know what else can run command-line tools? Mac apps! 😃 I deci

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-12 19:48:14

Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignore previous information or new information. How much should new data c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:45:57

Elon Musk , linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”: He takes scamming to a whole new level Sam Altman : homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters Mus

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 19:19:36

After linking to Stacks , his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of clicking around the rest of Jeff Halter’s website, and fell upon Lunacy: Created by Ben Haller and released in the early ’90s as part of the Maci

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-12 19:16:23

El bicampeón absoluto de Baleares, de 15 años, comparte el 5º puesto de 511 participantes en el Open de Benasque

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 17:42:21

Well this is just delightful: Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator required! Browse the Internet Archive’s HyperCard collection and run stacks with one-click. Period-accurate typography. Sound, instruments, and MacinTa

Baeldung @ 2026-07-12 11:57:58

Learn how to use the Embabel Agent Framework in Java to gain observability over AI agent tool-call selection reasoning. The post LLM Tool Call Reasoning Using Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .      

InfoQ @ 2026-07-12 08:18:00

Cloudflare recently documented how its development team identified and fixed a rare bug in the widely used Rust HTTP library hyper that could silently truncate large HTTP responses while still returning a successful 200 OK status. The issue had existed f

Atomic14 @ 2026-07-12 02:00:00

Every time I put text on a TFT display with TFT_eSPI I end up staring at the same built-in fonts: chunky, jagged, and very 1980s. Which is a shame, because the library has been able to draw beautiful anti-aliased “smooth fonts” for years. The rendering wa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:38:39

One more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to the new “super” app version: Follow the prompt in the app to download the new ChatGPT desktop app. Then sign in with the same ChatGPT account. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:24:20

OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the ChatGPT desktop app when included for your plan and workspace. Work on web and mobile runs i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-12 00:16:21

Benedict Evans with a succinct review on Threads: Wow, what a total mess. What is the difference between a project, a task and a chat? Why did chats get a crappy floating window but tasks and projects don’t? Why does choosing ‘plugins’ get me ‘t

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-11 23:30:11

Years ago I wrote about Gilbreath’s conjecture. It’s a simple conjecture; you could explain it to anyone who understands what prime numbers are. See the linked post for a description of the problem. Gilbreath’s conjecture is simple, but

Baeldung @ 2026-07-11 23:18:07

Learn how to test Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor using @WebMvcTest and MockMvc without starting the full application. The post Testing Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 21:43:35

Remembrances, tributes, and stories.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 20:02:17

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice co

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-11 19:37:28

Uno de los remates más bellos que se verán en el abierto pirenaico será sin duda este del jugador vasco frente a un gran maestro de EEUU

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-11 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 July 11) appeared first on SingularityHub .

luajit @ 2026-07-11 14:37:49

Reported by Matt Gerassimoff.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:45:00

“Yeah, who’s this?” “You know who this is.” “Yes I do, yes I do. I sent a guy to deliver the package ... he didn’t call. Is everything alright?” “Tell you what. Forget the money.”  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:41:00

Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel ): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:14:28

Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leader

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:04:10

The AP: Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany. The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 05:01:41

Frank Landymore, writing for Futurism: Look past its gaudiness, though, and you’ll notice some things that’re a little off in the finer details. The talons are horribly deformed and shaped differently from each other. The entire legs are uneven, too,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 04:10:49

Cryan.com: The “View as Buttons” option was a distinctive feature of the Macintosh OS 9 Finder. It allowed users to view the contents of a folder as clickable buttons, each representing a file or application. This view was particularly useful for quic

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-11 03:58:55

Another bit of follow-up on squircle jail on MacOS. The most-asked question in my inbox from readers is this: Is mandating the squircle a concession to the much-rumored upcoming touchscreen MacBooks? No. The visible shape and appearance of an app ic

Baeldung @ 2026-07-10 23:30:52

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 654 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 23:01:43

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The lawsuit names Chang Liu and Tang Tan as two of the defendants. Tang Tan served as VP of product design at Apple, leading iPhone and Apple Watch product design. He departed the company in February 2024 to work with Jony Ive.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-10 17:51:39

El primer cabeza de serie, Mijaíl Antípov, debe recurrir a un doble sacrificio de calidad para doblegar al insigne y veterano gran maestro Daniel Cámpora

InfoQ @ 2026-07-10 17:16:00

Cloudflare has recently introduced temporary accounts that let AI agents deploy Cloudflare Workers immediately, without first creating or authenticating with a permanent account. If left unclaimed, the accounts and their deployments expire automatically

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-10 16:51:48

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first ap

old new thing @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Decoding where those integer came from. The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 16:00:00

Separate teams discovered the same target in solid cancers, enabling a powerful two-pronged attack on both tumors and the cells shielding them. The post CAR T Revolutionized How We Treat Blood Cancers. Now It’s Closing In on Solid Tumors. appear

AEON @ 2026-07-10 12:00:00

Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking - by Valerie Trouet Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-10 02:35:59

Berber Jin and Anissa Gardizy, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave. She communicated her decision in a note to staff Thursd

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-10 02:00:00

Xcode 27 Beta 3, OpenAI Sol release, Fable 5 extensions

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-07-10 01:21:02

A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years now. It took me a while to understand what goes on in … Continue reading →

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-10 00:34:39

SpudCell is a big step toward synthetic biology's dream of building life from scratch. The post This Synthetic Cell Grows, Copies Its DNA, and Produces Offspring—But It Isn’t Alive appeared first on SingularityHub .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-07-10 00:00:01

As announced in June , new Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. To support this, th

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-07-09 23:16:33

As organizations move to adopt agentic capabilities to accelerate their business objectives, they are challenged with enabling those capabilities within a security and governance framework that complies with enterprise requirements. Some organizations lean

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 22:13:57

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Code

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:50:58

Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley):

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 21:17:37

What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-09 18:22:57

Todo indicaba que el flamante bronce en el Mundial sub-18 iba a ganar también la 4ª partida del Open, cuando ocurrió algo muy excepcional

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-09 16:53:46

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Da

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 16:10:59

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. When Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence image generator call

old new thing @ 2026-07-09 16:00:00

You need to rebuild everything that was dependent on the change. The post I’ve decoded a <CODE>#pragma detect_mismatch</CODE> error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-09 15:39:13

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-09 15:28:10

Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the organization itself. Jim Larus, editor-in-chief of the CACM, writes  Wither ACM? Publish and Perish? ACM no

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:01:00

Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-07-09 12:00:00

From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help - by Stephanie Dorais Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 03:45:08

App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize the work, what holds up under scrutiny, and what client teams and security researchers can take from it. This

Rust blog @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. 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 1.97.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-07-09 02:00:00

OpenJDK recently resurrected Project Detroit, an effort to ease Java's interoperability with Python and JavaScript.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-09 00:38:06

Back in the primordial days of AI, Parry was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to Eliza (a.k.a. “Doctor”). Vint Cerf published the tran