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Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 20:11:57

Tim Cook: There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the op

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 19:36:08

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s fi

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 19:10:00

Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. "Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to ex

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 18:00:00

TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia's only representative this

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 17:00:00

schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he's removing Flock camera from state roadways. The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers. On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock ca

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the gl

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source soft

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran. By Artenisa Chatziou

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 14:00:00

HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to v

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 13:00:00

California lawmakers have passed a bill that would legalize plug-in "balcony" solar systems, allowing residents to connect small solar panels directly to a standard wall outlet after completing a simple online registration. The systems would be capped at 1

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

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 11:17:41

Quantum 10, 2199 (2026). We study symmetry-enriched topological order in two-dimensional tensor network states by using graded matrix product operator algebras to represent symmetry-induced domain walls. A clos

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 09:59:07

Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-01 09:29:43

El prodigio argentino, de 12 años, muestra un juego muy consistente en un duelo que perdió ante el ‘número uno’ por 5,5-2,5

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 09:06:58

Quantum 10, 2198 (2026). In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequen

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 09:00:00

Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower. In experiments, thousands of charged droplets degraded Teflon and corroded the copper beneath it, while uncharg

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has "mixed results" in his election endorsements. In the latest example of

Rust blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts every day from threat intelligence sources, such as vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed, and more. The challenge is identifying, correlating, and addressing impactful

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

If double-paying during a platform transition is stalling your virtualization migration, removing that first-year cost overlap can get your project moving again.Most infrastructure teams I speak with have spent the best part of 2 years working out what to

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

A recent review of 562 empirical studies on human trust in AI found that capability, explainability, transparency, and individual user factors consistently predict whether people will rely on an AI-generated answer. In production, the question is narrower

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that bypass safety controls and produce unwanted content. To help engineering and security teams identify these vulnerabilities systematically, Red Hat OpenShift AI includes an automated

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-01 01:26:12

I just found out Brian Beckman and I got a patent on work we did for GSI Technology [1]. Nearly all the work I do is under an NDA, so I don’t often get a chance to talk about my projects. This work is public now that it’s in a patent; I suppos

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 01:00:00

The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, accusing the company of secretly inflating advertising prices through undisclosed changes to its auction system that may have extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019. "Amazon has

slashdot @ 2026-09-01 00:00:00

According to The Information (paywalled), Apple reportedly moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models after unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for Macs capable of running AI workloads. MacRumors reports: Apple normally releases new Mac m

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-31 23:33:36

Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzhe

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 23:00:00

Broadcom is launching "TrueSource," an effort to curate and secure open-source components used with its Tanzu platform, including Spring, RabbitMQ, and libraries across Java, Python, and Node.js. "The idea is to provide a set of solutions focused on provid

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 22:00:00

Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding he failed to fully cooperate with an insider-trading investigation. He is also being fined $71,356, according to a filing (PDF) on its website. Engadget report

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 21:53:34

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 21:00:00

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is warning that advanced "frontier" AI models could materially increase cyber risk across the global financial system by making attacks faster, cheaper, and more scalable. In a letter to G20 finance officials, he said

Emilian Bold @ 2026-08-31 20:02:20

There are people that easily sell and swap computers. I get somewhat attached to them, which explains why I have a growing collection of old gear. Even my first beige PC with a Cyrix CPU has been restored and boots! The Asus C201P is special because it c

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his last day in the role, Cook penned an emotional memo to Apple employees today. In the memo sent to employees

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 19:00:00

MapQuest's refusal to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has sent its app surging up the charts, making it the No. 1 navigation app in the U.S. and driving "hundreds of thousands" of new downloads. In contrast, Google Maps announced on Saturday that it

slashdot @ 2026-08-31 18:00:00

A massive 12TB archive of old Steam2 content has surfaced online, apparently containing nearly every version of games uploaded to Valve's servers between 2003 and 2013, including unreleased prototypes, playtest builds, and cut content. Early discoveries in

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 16:45:25

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 16:28:00

DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker mi

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-31 16:24:27

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-08-31 16:00:00

All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 13:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 24th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Atmosphere 4.0; point releases of GraalVM, Azul Payara and Quarkus; a maintenance release of WildFly 41; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Eclipse JNoSQL;

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 12:18:00

Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; c

AEON @ 2026-08-31 12:00:00

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 11:07:10

Por si hubiera alguna duda sobre su inmenso talento, la británica de familia india es la campeona nacional más joven de todos los tiempos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:33:47

Kariakin acepta un peón que no parecía peligroso en una partida rápida, y poco después queda perdido

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:32:27

Dos años antes de defender su título mundial ante Niepómniashi, el campeón doblegó al ruso en una deliciosa lucha rápida

InfoQ @ 2026-08-31 05:48:00

Dirk Lemmerman has released FlexGanttFX as an open-source resource-scheduling framework under the AGPL license. This JavaFX library enables Gantt chart creation for various industries, optimizing performance with a Canvas rendering method. The framework

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-31 04:18:29

BILL: Lance, I have a question and a meta question: a) List all the presidents and vice presidents who were colorblind. b) Do you know this sort of thing since you are colorblind, and hence might have looked this up in the past? LANCE: (b) No. And if

InfoQ @ 2026-08-30 21:00:00

Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-30 20:35:22

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about

InfoQ @ 2026-08-30 10:23:00

Amazon recently announced Kiro Crew, an open-source system for running multiple Kiro coding agents across sessions, tools, and tasks. The new workspace lets developers assign asynchronous coding tasks to AI agents, allowing work such as incident investig

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-29 23:24:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 568 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “SWIFT; Bouba-Kiki; Organoides; Magnetar; Luna”, 27 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio S

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-29 19:53:34

It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-29 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 29) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 11:55:00

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming t

InfoQ @ 2026-08-29 07:05:00

Researchers from UC Berkeley and MIT have developed FreeToken, an open-source inference engine that enhances the utility of Mixture-of-Experts models on consumer hardware. By implementing a dynamic scheduling policy and optimising weight management, Free

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:52:37

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the full details on the price increases: Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99) Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99) Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95) Prices for other Apple One plans are

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:35:22

Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:27:21

I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 21:42:59

I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame , and that hames is rathe

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-28 18:45:11

Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope . The post Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 18:25:33

Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describing him euphemistically ), on Twitter/X (retweeting the official White House account’s announc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 17:00:39

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-28 16:38:24

Otra lección magistral de cómo sacrificar peones para abrir líneas decisivas, esta vez ante Grischuk

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-28 16:35:36

I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 16:30:00

Uber’s GitFarm provides Git operations as a centralized service, eliminating local repository clones across large scale monorepo workloads. The platform uses prewarmed checkouts, ephemeral sandboxes, repository synchronization, and gRPC streaming to redu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 16:02:53

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countrie

old new thing @ 2026-08-28 16:00:00

Explicitly denying that you implement the method. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-28 15:30:34

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 14:00:00

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams balance the efficiency benefits of automated node consolidation with applicatio

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:43:00

Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. By Matt Foster

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:07:00

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers h

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 04:59:46

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, ​the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal c

iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

UISceneDelegate mandate, M6 Mac mini, Apple layoffs, Headless Xcode MCP, Embedded Swift 6.4, SwiftTUI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

In our previous article, Enterprise AI model selection: Balancing performance, privacy, and operational fit, we described the 4 layers that make up an effective enterprise AI architecture. In this article, we'll talk about who operates each layer, where w

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Managing complex data systems and learning new software platforms can feel like navigating a maze in the dark. Whether you’re stepping into a command-line environment for the 1st time or mapping intricate relationships across enterprise platforms, practica

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Streamlining container security: Red Hat Hardened Images now supported in AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanningAWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images. This integration helps software security and development

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

The future of technology depends on a workforce equipped with practical, industry-relevant skills. As organizations accelerate their adoption of open source, cloud, automation, and enterprise technologies, educational institutions play a critical role in p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:49:50

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy ), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-27 23:13:16

Can AI replace lawyers—at least in some circumstances? The post An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:09:42

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:46:08

Speaking of tariff refunds , here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — eac

Confluent @ 2026-08-27 22:23:15

Hemut uses Confluent, real-time data streaming, and AI to automate trucking operations, improve fleet efficiency, and build the Internet of Freight.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:10:13

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:02:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users. There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app: Before searching:

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 21:42:48

Alain Pannetrat, founder of Lectronz: Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-27 21:00:43

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 43 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or forei

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 18:11:32

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 17:50:00

After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 2026, highlighting first milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring I

old new thing @ 2026-08-27 16:00:00

Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-27 15:50:28

La relatividad de la ventaja material, y en concreto de los peones, es una de las lecciones que el noruego aprendió de AlphaZero

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-27 15:14:35

This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations have a second

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-27 15:11:00

Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand

ASF @ 2026-08-27 15:00:00

Introducing Apache Iggy™, a persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, and Apache Sourcelume, open source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance Wilmington, DE –  August 27, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 14:59:16

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-27 13:50:42

Quantum 10, 2197 (2026). Atomic scale qubits, as may be realized in nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, offer the opportunity to study magnetic field noise with nanometer scale spatial resolution. Using t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-27 12:45:10

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 567 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Intercambio Americano; Diversidad Lingüística; Time Crystals; Tabby”, 20 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 5

brucknerite @ 2026-08-27 10:00:00

Una consulta de la Comisión Europea está recogiendo opiniones sobre el papel de la inteligencia artificial en la cultura. Es el momento de quejarse contra un futuro justo al revés del que nos prometieron, en el que nosotros haremos los trabajos tediosos y

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Warum Rennradfahrer in parkende Autos fahren. Gedanken zur Situation und Diskussion.

Inside Java @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

How OpenJDK's Project Valhalla is improving Java's support for custom numerical types.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Enterprises rarely lack AI options, they lack a coherent way to use them. Moving from "we should use AI" to production-ready capability is an architecture problem shaped by which models you adopt, what infrastructure runs them, and how you deploy and opera

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Before joining Red Hat, senior product manager for edge computing Luke Thompson spent 7 years of his career working at a large industrial automation company, where he had considerable opportunity to talk with customers and learn about the operational chall

Baeldung @ 2026-08-27 00:02:05

Learn to how to use Embabel AI to automatically parse objects as the data arrive in a stream from the large language model you use in your application. The post LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .  

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 22:18:04

Wikipedia: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer , who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:18:40

Chance Miller: Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio , Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:16:34

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and t

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 20:51:13

AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should elim

Baeldung @ 2026-08-26 19:15:42

IntelliJ IDEA Conf is back, JDK 27 got its first RC and JDK 28 is already looking solid The post Java Weekly, Issue 661 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-26 19:14:44

Incluso cuando estaba en crisis (2016-2018), el campeón del mundo siguió produciendo obras maestras en partidas rápidas y relámpago

Deepmind @ 2026-08-26 19:01:00

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-26 17:00:55

Join us for a special Apple Event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. Watch on apple.com , Apple TV, or YouTube Live.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-26 16:30:35

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-08-26 16:00:00

The smallest perturbation. The post In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-26 15:34:40

There's a scene in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, asks Houston control to check his calculations, which they do using a slide rule.  My father told me that when he was in college (1950s) that engineers measured their te

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 14:16:17

When you’re interested in studying a family of functions, it can be useful to look at a differential equation that the functions solve. This is a theme I’ve written about several times, most recently here and here, but also three years ago her

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 12:51:32

When I hear the term ultraspherical I think of something extremely spherical. For example, a baseball is spherical, but a billiard ball is more spherical. Maybe a highly polished billiard ball is ultraspherical. Using this line of thought, the term ultras

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-26 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

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-26 05:49:05

The Economist today reports that New theories and experiments should shine light on string theory. This is more of the promotional campaign for Cumrun Vafa’s “dark dimension”. We’re told that a torsion balance experiment in Austria

Rust blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li ( @rami3l ), Chris Denton ( @ChrisDenton ), Alejandra González ( @blyxyas ), León Liehr ( @fmease ), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:44:18

XCancel: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:39:12

Bill Friskics-Warren for The New York Times: Her death was announced in a video posted on social media by her nephew Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided. Concerns about Ms. Parton’s health were raised last year as she postponed and later canceled a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:17:40

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface looks like this: Both of the available M5 Max

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 22:35:27

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. The post Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains appeared first on SingularityHub .