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Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 23:00:00

Gemini has become Google's fastest-growing product ever, reaching 1 billion monthly active users faster than any of the company's 13 other billion-user services. Ars Technica reports: Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and servic

A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday,

Alex Micek on BMW’s iDrive ‘Special Surprises’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:56:13

Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into see

BMW Probably Paid Sony for the Spider-Man Dashboard Ads, Not the Other Way Around

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:46:49

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations

Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:36:36

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “ The AI Future Is for Everyone ”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however,

The Talk Show: ‘Getting the Snack Right’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% o

Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artist identities with "AI Persona" badges and exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations unless users explicitly follow them. The company says the designation applies to wheth

Netflix Has Peaked

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 20:54:53

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “ Is Netflix Washed Now? ”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting immin

Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 20:00:00

Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to begin moving the studio out of California on October 1 if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to enter settlement talks over the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The company would reported

Anthropic Posts ‘How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content’ Without Explaining How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 19:59:22

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put

France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 19:00:00

Starting today, unsolicited telemarking calls are banned in France unless consumers explicitly consent to them. Companies that violate the law can face fines of up to 375,000 euros per call, though existing customers can still be contacted with related off

From Friction to Flow: How ASF Tooling Is Lowering Barriers for Maintainers

ASF @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workl

England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show. The target of treating 80% of all known cases has alre

Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 17:00:00

Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer. The Silicon Val

Dogs and fat tails

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 16:09:46

I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then again this is lim

Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations. The post Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease appeared f

How Netflix Scaled Its Real-Time Service Map

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 14:20:00

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence,

Manually unbreakable cryptography

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 14:04:24

Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only do attackers

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell to Strengthen Trust and Governance for AI-Era Open Source

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 14:00:00

IBM and Red Hat have announced an expansion of Lightwell, introducing new commercial offerings designed to help organizations establish trusted, verifiable software supply chains for the age of AI-assisted software development. By Craig Risi

TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-11 13:39:00

My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so

Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 13:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year

A second sexual revolution

AEON @ 2026-08-11 12:00:00

Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon

The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 10:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking the approach after a trail of canceled contracts and questions about whether

JetBrains Details Its First Steps to Bring Rapidly Growing AI Spend Under Control

InfoQ @ 2026-08-11 09:25:00

JetBrains has described how it began centralising AI usage after development-related spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. Rather than restricting engineers to a small set of approved tools, the company built a shared access and accounting la

Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 07:16:00

An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has "spent more than two decades staring at maps" and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link betw

The Power of JDK Flight Recorder: Efficient Profiling and Troubleshooting for Java Applications

Inside Java @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Take a guided tour of the JDK Flight Recorder, the powerful event recording framework for the JVM. We'll cover the basics for getting started, show how to capture and analyze rich telemetry data, and demonstrate real-world workflows for investigating perf

Stop preventable outages: Intelligent Windows certificate rotation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renew

Red Hat on FHIR: Why an informatics nerd joined Red Hat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have bee

Policy as code: What happens when you layer policy enforcement onto the automation you already have

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Policy enforcement has moved to the forefront. Let’s break down why this is the case and how policies can help you improve governance as you stay in control of operations.First, let’s examine your current production environment. Compliance, governance, and

4 ways a Red Hat TAM maximizes IT investments, according to Forrester TEI study

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Modern IT environments are complex. Development and operations teams must constantly balance resolving current infrastructure challenges with planning for scalable, future growth. This requires deep product expertise and technical skills from internal team

Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 01:00:00

A routine security assessment found that cameras aboard Royal Navy Kraken unmanned surface vessels were sending "heartbeat" signals to an IP address in China. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or

Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 00:36:58

The system combines quantum dots and an OLED display, translating infrared light into a range of visible colors. The post Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color appeared first on SingularityHub .

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 00:25:00

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A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond

slashdot @ 2026-08-11 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal infor

Podcast CB SyR 565: Introgresión en homininos, eclipse total, inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz y piezoquiralidad

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-10 23:54:43

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 565 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Introgresión; Eclipse; Inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz; Piezoquiralidad”, 06 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast

What’s New in iOS 27 Beta 5

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 23:54:25

Zac Hall at 9to5Mac has a good rundown of new features and changes in beta 5. Some app icons got tweaks (the Siri app in particular looks much cooler now), and a bunch of the existing American and British Siri speaking voices now have the Pace and Express

Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 23:00:00

Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhe

‘Friday Night Baseball’ Will Start Broadcasting Games Live, in Apple Immersive, on Vision Pro

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:47:43

Apple Newsroom: For the first time, baseball fans can take in all the action of “Friday Night Baseball” live in Apple Immersive on Apple Vision Pro, leveraging 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view. On August 28, viewers with Vision

Michael Tsai on My Retraction of the Astrology/Astronomy App Store Rejection Story

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:18:48

Michael Tsai: I’m really unhappy about this, both for my role in spreading a false story and because I think it will hurt the cause of reforming App Review. I know there are many crazy rejections and have experienced some first-hand. This story was

First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 22:01:00

Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third

CloudFlare Previews Automatic WebMCP Support for Web Pages

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 22:00:00

Cloudflare announced a developer preview that lets any website enable a WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) interface with a single dashboard switch. This allows browser-based AI agents to interact with unmodified web pages through structured tools inste

Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal

slashdot @ 2026-08-10 21:00:00

Nvidia is working with Wall Street heavyweights on a potential $500 billion financing package for AI infrastructure (source paywalled; alternative source). The consortium includes BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Gol

‘The Problem With Vibe-Coded Flattery’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 18:42:01

Ernie Smith at Tedium: I’m seeing email after email suggesting these users built a thing they’re truly passionate about. But if we can’t trust that this passion is real, legit, and from the heart, we’re in trouble. Take a step back. Is this thing yo

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-10 17:45:03

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in

The NYT and WSJ on Apple, China, and the RAM Crisis

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 17:21:29

Kalley Huang, reporting from San Francisco, and Ana Swanson, from Washington, for The New York Times (gift link): Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent price increases, is working with other consumer electronics companies to pus

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-10 17:00:16

Un pequeño fallo táctico del noruego desata su creatividad y le obliga a un brillante sacrificio para atacar al rey

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-10 16:56:34

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Learning from historical mistakes

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:34:21

The following extraordinary paragraph comes from Knuth’s TAOCP Volume 4A, right before the last set of exercises. Many of the exercises below ask a modern reader to find and/or to correct errors in the literature of bygone days. The point is not to

Inverse differential equations

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:32:42

In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential equation, analytically or numerically, to see how the solutions behave. You might also do th

Project Valhalla's First Preview: JEP 401 Redefines == for Java Objects

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 16:32:00

JEP 401, integrated into JDK 28, introduces value objects. These new class instances feature final fields, altered behavior for equality checks, and stricter construction and synchronization rules. It aims to enhance efficiency and reduce memory allocati

Canva Shares S3 Based Architecture for Session Revocation Across Hundreds of Millions of Sessions

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 16:14:00

Canva redesigned session revocation infrastructure to support 100M active sessions while reducing database lookups. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for durable revocation records and distributes compact, in-memory indexes to application gateways. Canva s

How can I perform a Copy­File in unbuffered mode?

old new thing @ 2026-08-10 16:00:00

Try one of the fancier alternatives to Copy­File . The post How can I perform a <CODE>Copy­File</CODE> in unbuffered mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: Shenandoah GC, TeamCity CVE, A2A Java SDK, Camel, Gradle, GlassFish, Groovy

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 14:45:00

This week's Java roundup for August 3rd, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 535, Shenandoah GC: Generational Mode by Default, targeted for JDK 28; point releases of A2A Java SDK, Apache Camel and Gradle; a maintenance release of GlassFish; the fifth m

Khosheutovsky khurul

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:01:00

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

How Pinterest Secures AWS Infrastructure at Scale with a Centralized Terraform Pipeline

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

Pinterest has revealed the Resource Provisioner Pipeline (RPP), its own Terraform execution engine. It ensures least-privilege access and needs dual-control reviews. This is important for the company’s AWS infrastructure, as it adds strict guardrails to

How we meet the future

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping? - by Tom Ralston Read on Aeon

GitHub Code Quality Targets Maintainability as AI-Generated Code Increases

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

GitHub Code Quality is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team. The service combines CodeQL analysis with AI-assisted detection of maintainability and reliability problems, then uses Copilot Autofix to suggest changes for revie

Buildpacks Move the Container Hardening Control Point Away From the Dockerfile

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 09:00:00

Cloud Native Buildpacks, which graduated within the CNCF in July 2026, move base image choice out of per-service Dockerfiles into a single builder owned by platform engineering, enabling fleet-wide patching. BellSoft's hardened Paketo builder is the late

Quantum Resource Comparison for Two Leading Surface Code Lattice Surgery Approaches

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-10 08:39:29

Quantum 10, 2187 (2026). Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising candidates for the demonstration of quantum advantage within the next ten years, and several studies have proposed end-to-end resourc

Google Releases Angular v22 with Stable Signal Forms, OnPush by Default and Experimental WebMCP

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 08:12:00

Angular v22, Google's TypeScript-first framework, has introduced API stabilizations, ergonomic templates, and tooling enhancements for AI integration. Key developments include the stabilization of Signal Forms, improved change detection strategies, and a

Beyond Consensus: The Fragmentation of AI Policy Across the Linux Ecosystem

InfoQ @ 2026-08-10 06:04:00

The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model of Kubernetes' landscape. From core infrastructure to high-level orc

The hidden complexity of AI inference systems

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-10 02:00:00

When people think about AI infrastructure, most attention naturally gravitates toward model training. Training large models requires massive datasets, distributed compute, and specialized hardware accelerators. The engineering involved in orchestrating tra

Beyond the hypervisor: How a service provider migrated thousands of workloads to a unified application platform

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-10 02:00:00

The managed services market is navigating an unprecedented inflection point: For many service providers, recent changes in virtualization licensing and vendor partner tiers have elevated costs from a standard operational challenge into an existential threa

WorkOS: Connect Your Agents to Your API

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 01:54:18

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents . Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice or ne

Math Concepts With Funny Names

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-09 23:23:36

(Some of this came from a Reddit post  I read, and some of  the comments on it.)  Here are theorems with names that I think are funny or unusual. The names are also pointers to the Wikipedia entry on them or some other source. The Chicke

DNA and Bessel functions

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 19:17:42

I was reading a book on the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA [1] and was surprised by a few passing references to Bessel functions. According to Claude, When X-rays are diffracted by a helical structure, the resulting diffraction pattern b

A simple range reduction method

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-09 18:46:59

At the end of my post on how not to calculate cosine I said that the first step in calculating cosine, particularly cosine of a large number, would be to do range reduction. This post will present a simple range reduction method by Cody and Waite that is

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (X)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:55:24

A pesar de su juventud (21 años recién cumplidos), el ‘número uno’ castigaba de manera implacable cualquier error de sus rivales

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (IX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-09 12:40:01

Esta espléndida partida frente a Krámnik terminó en tablas porque el noruego, muy apurado de tiempo, no se atrevió a seguir arriesgando

Stripe Uses Graph Search and State Machines to Automate Database Remediation

InfoQ @ 2026-08-09 08:55:00

The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph. Using graph search algorithms together with state machines, the team computes and executes remediation pla

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-09 05:16:24

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustr

Corrupt Minds Think Alike

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 22:32:11

Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. B

Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-08 21:31:52

Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to present

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8)

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

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Java Weekly, Issue 658

Baeldung @ 2026-08-08 12:07:32

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 658 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Cloudflare's Precursor Detects Bots and AI Agents through Continuous Behavioral Analysis

InfoQ @ 2026-08-08 09:54:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Precursor, a client-side behavioral analysis engine that continuously evaluates session interactions, such as mouse movements and keyboard timing, to improve detection of sophisticated bots and AI agents without relying sol

GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults, Drawing Debate over Delays versus Signing

InfoQ @ 2026-08-08 09:45:00

GitHub consolidated the npm and Actions changes it shipped from March to July 2026 against supply chain attacks, several of which alter defaults rather than add options. Hacker News discussion focused less on the individual controls than on whether waiti

Corrupted apostrophes

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-08 03:20:25

I have a program that shares files between my laptop and my phone. It works well, except for apostrophes. When I type an apostrophe ' on my laptop, it becomes ’ on my phone. And when I type 's on my phone, it becomes 痴 on my laptop. Apparently th

Simon Willison on Blogging

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 22:36:58

Simon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number

Google Earth Retracts AI Tool for Making Fake Satellite Images After It Was Immediately Abused Upon Release

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 21:43:23

Jeremy Hsu, Ars Technica: Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth — before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the poten

Some New Data Centers Are Necessary

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 21:39:15

A bunch of mine are stored here.  ★ 

An AI Model From Meta Also Hacked Another Company During Testing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 20:13:55

Simon Willison: So that’s Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Google Gemini really needs to catch up on accidentally cyberattacking other companies. I’m surprised Willison hasn’t heard about how much momentum Gemini has .  ★ 

Meta: Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 20:05:03

Meta AI: We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable models on the way. [...] Muse Code takes on comp

App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:45:22

Joe Fabisevich, on Mastodon: I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software this way. He’s not an outlier; I see comments like this

Leadership Shake-Up at Google DeepMind

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:23:17

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence research lab: We have arrived at a pivotal moment in human history. I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand. It’s c

‘Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 19:05:02

Steven Levy, writing for Wired: Today it’s official: After almost 27 years, Dean is leaving Google, along with Ghemawat and two other top-tier AI scientists, to found a company called Discovery Loop . Even though Google will take a stake in the new

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VIII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-07 17:53:45

Impresiona ver la aparente facilidad de esta victoria sobre Ivanchuk en la última ronda de Bilbao 2011, previa a otra en el desempate rápido

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VII)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-07 17:43:26

Nakamura ganó el torneo de Wijk aan Zee 2011, pero sufrió esta derrota, que alivió al noruego tras algunos tropiezos

What's new in Swift: July 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-08-07 17:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Swift is built by contributors working on far more than the language and compiler. Alexander Sandberg reflects on what that kind

How not to calculate cosine

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 17:11:10

Calculus professors with no experience in numerical computing will tell students that computers calculate trig functions with power series. They don’t. I worked on the implementation of trig functions in hardware, and I can assure you we didn’

Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 17:00:46

Meghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing

Disorder-Induced Entanglement Phase Transitions in Non-Hermitian Systems with Skin Effects

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 16:10:44

Quantum 10, 2186 (2026). Non-Hermitian dynamics is ubiquitous in various physical systems. While recent study shows that such a dynamics leads to an area-law scaling of the entanglement entropy due to the non-H

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5

old new thing @ 2026-08-07 16:00:00

Cheating with std::unique_ptr . The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-07 16:00:00

Today's AI is neither able to improve itself recursively nor is it intelligent like us. Between prompts it remains a static mathematical object. The post Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong. appeared first on Sin

Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-07 15:55:32

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeare

Promise of Graph Sparsification and Decomposition for Noise Reduction in QAOA: Analysis for Trapped-Ion Compilations

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 15:47:43

Quantum 10, 2185 (2026). We develop new approximate compilation schemes that significantly reduce the expense of compiling the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for solving the Max-Cut problem.

cos(200!)

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 15:19:07

In a footnote to the previous post, I said that Python’s math library can calculate the logarithm of extremely large numbers but not the cosine. This post will expand on that comment. In this post I’ll use n = 200! as my example rather than 10

Detection of a Rényi Index Dependent Transition in Entanglement Entropy Scaling

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 14:48:40

Quantum 10, 2184 (2026). The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, oft

Sasquatch science

AEON @ 2026-08-07 12:00:00

The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists - by Andrew Bartlett & Jamie Lewis Read on Aeon

Introduction to Google GenAI Chat and Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:22:20

Learn how to integrate Google’s Gemini models into a Spring Boot application using the Gemini Developer API. The post Introduction to Google GenAI Chat and Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .            

Spring AI AutoMemoryTools

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:11:28

Learn how an agent decides what to remember about a user or project with Spring AI AutoMemoryTools. The post Spring AI AutoMemoryTools first appeared on Baeldung .              

Exploring Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) With Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 04:59:48

Learn how to make your AI agents to discover each other and communicate efficiently using A2A and SpringAI. The post Exploring Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

Issue 762

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

OpenAI v Apple, Databases, ContentBuilder

Post-Quantum Cryptography in Long-Term Support JDK Releases

Inside Java @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Oracle is executing on a strategy to make post-quantum cryptography (PQC) broadly available across the Java ecosystem with a roadmap that brings standardized PQC algorithms and PQC-enabled TLS to current Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, helping reduce ad

Stop burning your AI budget: Optimize GPU usage and model deployment with workflow navigator

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI tools budget by April. Microsoft faced a similar crisis, pulling Claude Code licenses because the tool worked too well and people used it too much. Even OpenAI's chief executive officer (CEO), Sam Altman, has called t

Managing virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift with Service Mesh

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Managing virtualized workloads alongside containerized applications remains a persistent challenge for IT operations, often creating siloed management environments. At Red Hat Summit 2026, I had the opportunity to take the stage during the OpenShift Spotli

Friday Five — August 7, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader for Third Consecutive Year in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application PlatformsRed Hat OpenShift is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. We believe this

Deploying Red Hat AI with the NVIDIA DSX™ Platform for scalable AI clouds

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

AI clouds have advanced beyond initial pilot testing, and the challenge now isn’t simply configuring the physical hardware. Organizations must focus on operating an efficient shared platform that provides predictable operating costs, access to the latest c

Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 01:47:32

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interact

Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-07 00:58:00

Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.

OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit (PDF Link)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 23:13:04

This is more like it. No mealymouthing or wishy-washiness here. This is a strident defense. I’ll quote just one line for now: Apple offers nothing because it has nothing because there is nothing. Its Complaint cannot and does not state a misappropriat

Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-06 22:48:17

Researchers will hunt for antibodies in the blood of people who lived past 100, drank heavily, or smoked—but avoided cancer. The post Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood appeared first on SingularityHub .

Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 22:23:52

This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items ( here and here ) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit abou

Add a Shortcut to Control Center to Open the Current App’s Preferences in the Settings App

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 19:36:22

Regarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud ) a simple Shortcuts shortcu

AWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent Extensions

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 19:21:21

If you’ve ever built an MCP server or agent skill, you know that packaging it means adapting for one client, re-writing for another, and repeating that for every tool your team uses. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open source, vendor-neutral specification that

BMW Executive in 2023: No Plans to Sell in-Vehicle Ads

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 18:46:02

Tanya Gazdik, reporting for MediaPost back in December 2023: Despite the ever-expanding screens in its vehicles, including an available 31-inch backseat theatre screen, BMW has no plans to sell advertising on any of them. Radio commercials are intrusi

Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agents

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 18:30:54

Part of what makes AI agents so useful is their ability to interact with the external world by running tools. But these tool calls are also the source of the biggest risks when it comes to making agents safe to use. The best way to address these risks in a

StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:55:38

Back in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-blocking content blockers , and I’ve gotten a slew of wonderful feed

BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:19:01

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter: BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day onto their dashboards. The ads began appearing last week on newer-model

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4

old new thing @ 2026-08-06 16:00:00

Moving things around if possible. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-06 15:37:48

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Ple

Calculating log(1000!)

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-06 15:23:43

The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if yo

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects

ASF @ 2026-08-06 15:00:00

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software

El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-06 13:00:32

A veces se publican ideas sencillas en revistas como Nature y surge la pregunta de por qué nadie lo hizo antes. El tensor de piezogiración óptica es de cuarto rango […] La entrada El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂ fue escrita en La Cie

The great arc

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:01:00

A striking meditation on inequality via the bold sculptures that sit amongst skyscrapers in Paris’s business district - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Culture clash

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:00:00

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all? - by Sam Dresser Read on Aeon

Episode 65 “Embracing Virtual Threads with Helidon” [I/O]

Inside Java @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

How Helidon 4.4 embraces virtual threads, ahoead-of-time computation, and OpenJDK

Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:16:47

I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one.  ★ 

Matthew Green on Anthropic’s New Cryptanalysis Results

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:08:52

Matthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast cli

Uh, I’m Pretty Sure People Would Know

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:53:24

New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He ha

Sam Altman, Definitely Not a Weirdo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:10:24

Sam Altman, on Twitter/X : cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that

David Pogue: ‘Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 22:56:09

David Pogue, at Pogue’s Posts: Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find a home maintenance professional.” So I tried it. ME: I need a septic-system repair. ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help with plu

Apple News Ad of the Week

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 21:29:49

I look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps.  ★ 

The code that didn’t break

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 20:26:25

Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the largest rep

Paul Thurrott Reviews the HP OmniBook Ultra 14, With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 17:41:32

Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, a

Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-05 17:40:41

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazin

Get ready for new creative assets on the App Store

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:58

As we announced in June , Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more. Your creative

Hello Developer: August 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:51

In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26. Download templates and get started building App Store assets for iOS 27. Discover best practices for integrating visual intelligence

Hacker News Thread on OpenAI’s ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’ Post

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 16:57:47

There’s an old adage that you should never bring a knife to a gunfight. My take on OpenAI’s response yesterday was expressing incredulity that OpenAI was bringing, like, a box of chocolates to the gunfight. Apple is trying to kill io, and OpenAI’s publi

Enumerating trees and circles

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 16:49:35

A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not distinguished from each ot

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-05 16:45:10

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.

Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3

old new thing @ 2026-08-05 16:00:00

Forcing an object into the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (VI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-05 13:02:04

Esta partida merece estar en las colecciones de las más brillantes del escandinavo, por su alto grado de precisión y belleza

The last ice age

AEON @ 2026-08-05 12:01:00

Retracing his grandparents’ journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, a writer draws on storytelling to grasp climate change - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust 663

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-05 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

Announcing a Trillion Dollar Security grant for WEBCAT

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify tha

Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code - Version 26.0.1 Is Now Available

Inside Java @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code

★ OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 00:51:19

A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.