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Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules For Data Centers

slashdot @ 2026-03-03 04:00:00

Linn County, Iowa has adopted what may be one of the nation's strictest local zoning ordinances for data centers, requiring detailed water studies, formal water-use agreements, 1,000-foot residential setbacks, noise and light limits, and infrastructure com

An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-03 03:40:22

I recently talked with a contact who repeated what he’d heard regarding agentic AI systems—namely, that they can greatly increase productivity in professional financial management tasks. However, I pointed out that though this is true, these t

British Columbia To End Time Changes, Adopt Year-Round Daylight Time

slashdot @ 2026-03-03 02:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks. The province will be permanently adopting daylight time and the March 8 "spring forward" will be the

[Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 01:20:21

npx workos launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly into your existing codebase. It’s not a template generator. It reads your code, understands your stack,

New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-03 00:47:26

The flower-shaped device wraps around brain organoids and maps nearly all electrical activity. The post New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 00:41:11

What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a significant difference in the day-to-day usability of MacOS.

Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri

slashdot @ 2026-03-03 00:00:00

Apple has reportedly asked Google to look into "seting up servers" for a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri that meets Apple's privacy standards. The Verge reports: Apple had already announced in January that Google's Gemini AI models would help power the upgr

Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 23:59:41

Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung (which is just an incredibly good and fun weblog): Half of my education in URLs as user interface came from Flickr in the late 2000s. Its URLs looked like this: flickr.com/photos/mwichary/favorites flickr.com/photo

The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 23:32:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 648 # Comments: 364

Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 23:00:00

“People often overestimate how harshly others judge their minor social mistakes” The post Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent appeared first on Nautilus .

HBO Max and Paramount+ To Merge Into One Streaming Service

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 23:00:00

Paramount Skydance plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming platform following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. "As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct

How to Build Autonomous Data Systems for Real-Time Decisioning

Confluent @ 2026-03-02 22:30:13

Learn how real-time decisioning and autonomous data systems enable organizations to act on data instantly using streaming, automation, and AI.

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 22:23:40

I built a voice agent from scratch that averages ~400ms end-to-end latency (phone stop → first syllable). That’s with full STT → LLM → TTS in the loop, clean barge-ins, and no precomputed responses. What moved the needle: Voice is a turn-taking problem,

ChangeTheHeaders

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 22:10:50

During the most recent episode of The Talk Show , Jason Snell brought up a weird issue that I started running into last year. On my Mac, sometimes I’d drag an image out of a web page in Safari, and I’d get an image in WebP format. Sometimes I wouldn’t

Welcome (back) to Macintosh

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 22:09:47

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 266 # Comments: 179

New Jellyfish Species Gets Its Michelin Star Moment

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 22:00:00

The newly described species went mislabeled for years The post New Jellyfish Species Gets Its Michelin Star Moment appeared first on Nautilus .

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communications Commission permission to buy Cox and surpass Comcast as the country's largest home Internet service pro

What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL?

old new thing @ 2026-03-02 21:55:53

You get notifications that might not make sense. The post What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of <CODE>IDCANCEL</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 21:30:52

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 478 # Comments: 262

Welcome (Back) to Macintosh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 21:27:52

Jesper, writing at Take: My hope is that Macintosh is not just one of these empires that was at the height of its power and then disintegrated because of warring factions, satiated and uncurious rulers, and droughts for which no one was prepared, ruin

SerpApi Filed Motion to Dismiss Google’s Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 21:03:02

Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: Google thinks it owns the internet. That’s the subtext of its lawsuit against SerpApi, the quiet part that it’s suddenly decided to shout out loud. The problem is, no one owns the internet. And the law makes that clear

How Human Is Human?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 21:00:00

The robot pioneer who gets under our skin The post How Human Is Human? appeared first on Nautilus .

Microsoft Bans 'Microslop' On Its Discord, Then Locks the Server

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 21:00:00

Over the weekend, Windows Latest noticed that Microsoft's official Copilot Discord server began automatically blocking the term "Microslop." As shown in a screenshot, any message containing the word is automatically prevented from posting, and users receiv

AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-02 20:05:12

This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through

Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 20:00:00

At MWC 2026, Motorola announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to bring the hardened, Google-free Android variant to future devices. Until now, the OS had been designed exclusively for Google Pixel phones. "We are thrilled to be partnering wi

‘Anthropic and Alignment’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 19:20:13

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery: In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentiviz

The Surprising Reason Female Caribou Grow Antlers

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 19:00:00

Shed antlers offer a valuable mineral supplement for moms The post The Surprising Reason Female Caribou Grow Antlers appeared first on Nautilus .

Editor At 184-Year-Old Ohio Newspaper Pushes To Let AI Draft News Articles

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 19:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-s

WSJ: ‘Trump Administration Shuns Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI in Clash Over Guardrails’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 18:56:51

Amrith Ramkumar, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Trump’s announcement came shortly before the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic to agree to let the military use its models in all lawful-use cases, a concession the

Seasonal Color Updates to Apple’s iPhone Cases and Apple Watch Bands

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 18:52:59

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A seasonal color refresh arrived today for a variety of Apple accessories, including iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, and the Crossbody Strap. All of the accessories in the latest colors are available to order on Apple.com st

Apple Introduces New iPad Air With M4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 18:40:30

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance at the same starting price. With a faster CPU and GPU, iPad Air boosts tasks like editing and gaming, and is a powerful devic

Análisis de ajedrez | Navara firma una joyita

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-02 18:37:37

El prestigioso gran maestro checo, de 40 años, es el 2º en Praga después de cinco rondas tras producir esta obra maestra del ataque

Apple Introduces iPhone 17e With MagSafe and A19

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 18:00:00

Apple today announced the iPhone 17e with support for MagSafe and an upgraded A19 chip. The base model also gets a bump to 256GB of storage at $599, and Apple is equipping the device with its new scratch-resistant Ceramic Shield 2 glass that's supposedly 3

Hyperfunctions

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-02 17:12:57

I’ve been trying to understand (not entirely successfully yet…) Wick rotation using hyperfunctions, which are a sort of distributions not as well-known as they should be. Some notes about them are in a separate pdf. What is well-known is that &

Differential equation with a small delay

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-02 17:08:49

In grad school I specialized in differential equations, but never worked with delay-differential equations, equations specifying that a solution depends not only on its derivatives but also on the state of the function at a previous time. The first time I

60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 17:00:00

Homo sapiens were grooving on geometry in the Stone Age The post 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts appeared first on Nautilus .

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 17:00:00

South Korean tax authorities lost millions in seized cryptocurrency after publishing high-res photos of Ledger hardware wallets that clearly displayed the wallets' seed phrases, allowing an unknown party to drain the funds. Gizmodo reports: South Korea's N

What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-02 16:12:31

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way. The post What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Apple Introduces the iPhone 17e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 16:03:16

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced iPhone 17e , a powerful and more affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup. At the heart of iPhone 17e is the latest-generation A19, which delivers exceptional performance for everything users do. iPhone 17e al

Hybrid Cloud Data at Uber: How Engineers Solved Extreme-Scale Replication Challenges

InfoQ @ 2026-03-02 16:00:00

Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data lakes. Enhancements include task parallelization, Uber jobs for small transfers, and improved observability, enabling 5x replication

OpenAI Codex-Spark Achieves Ultra-Fast Coding Speeds on Cerebras Hardware

InfoQ @ 2026-03-02 16:00:00

In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on Cerebras wafer-scale chips rather than traditional Nvidia GPUs. The new model offers delivers improved throughput and low-latency, e

Japan To Ban In-Flight Use of Power Banks

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 16:00:00

Japan will effectively ban the in-flight use of power banks starting in mid-April after a "recent series of alarming incidents," reports the Asahi Shimbun. From the report: Currently, mobile batteries in Japan are classified as "spare batteries" and are pr

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 15:54:58

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Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 15:21:19

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 355 # Comments: 180

New iPad Air, powered by M4

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 15:11:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 335 # Comments: 535

What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-03-02 15:05:00

Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience. FOSDEM is the largest open source conference in the world, and this year Swift was

iPhone 17e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 15:03:00

Comments URL: Points: 206 # Comments: 280

What's Driving the SaaSpocalypse

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 15:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: One day not long ago, a founder texted his investor with an update: he was replacing his entire customer service team with Claude Code, an AI tool that can write and deploy software on its own. To Lex Zh

OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 14:38:02

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 261 # Comments: 304

Microslop Manifesto

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 14:05:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 211 # Comments: 82

Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs

Nautilus blog @ 2026-03-02 14:00:00

Justin Smith-Ruiu takes a philosophical and first-person look at psychedelics The post Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs appeared first on Nautilus .

Stack Overflow Adds New Features (Including AI Assist), Rethinks 'Look and Feel'

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 13:34:00

"At its peak in early 2014, Stack Overflow received more than 200,000 questions per month," notes the site DevClass.com. But in December they'd just 3,862 questions were asked — a 78 percent drop from the previous year. But Stack Overflow's blog an

Great art explained: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581

AEON @ 2026-03-02 12:01:00

Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Who is Walter Mignolo?

AEON @ 2026-03-02 12:00:00

A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed - by Federico Perelmuter Read on Aeon

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 11:23:06

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Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 11:21:24

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 436 # Comments: 190

U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 10:20:06

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 344 # Comments: 325

/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 10:09:44

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 612 # Comments: 360

Does a New Theory Finally Explain the Mysteries of the Planet Saturn?

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 09:36:00

"Saturn and some of its 274 moons are pretty weird," writes Smithsonian magazine: [Saturn moon] Titan has strangely few impact craters, Hyperion is tiny and misshapen, and Iapetus has a tilted orbit. What's more, planets tend to wobble along their rotatio

How to talk to anyone and why you should

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 08:30:12

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 559 # Comments: 512

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 07:48:07

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 2083 # Comments: 742

Lenovo Unveils an Attachable AI Agent 'Companion' for Their Laptops

slashdot @ 2026-03-02 06:35:00

As the Mobile World Conference begins in Spain, Lenovo brought a new attachable accessory for their laptops — an AI agent. CNET reports: The little circular module perches on the top of your Lenovo laptop display, attached via the magnetic Magic Bay

Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 05:06:00

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Java News Roundup: Lazy Constants, TornadoVM 3.0, NetBeans 29, Quarkus, JReleaser, Open Liberty

InfoQ @ 2026-03-02 04:00:00

This week's Java roundup for February 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEP 531 Candidate, Lazy Constants; GA releases of TornadoVM 3.0 and NetBeans 29; point releases of Quarkus, JReleaser, Chicory and RefactorFirst; maintenance releases of Mi

Goodhart's law: Ken Jennings and Types of Knowledge

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-02 02:50:00

Goodhart's law :  When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a measure.    I was watching the show Masterminds where Ken Jennings is one of the Masterminds. Here is what happened:  Brook Burns (the host) : The only vice presid

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 01:27:52

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 464 # Comments: 375

2025 State of Rust Survey Results

Rust blog @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

Hello, Rust community! Once again, the survey team is happy to share the results of the State of Rust survey, this year celebrating a round number - the 10th edition! The survey ran for 30 days (from November 17th to December, 17th 2025) and collected

Java 26 for DevOps

Inside Java @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

Let's review the observability and runtime changes coming in Java 26.

Strategic momentum: The new era of Red Hat and HPE Juniper network automation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

Network automation is essential for organizations today. However, simply implementing tools isn't enough; without a unified strategy, isolated automation efforts often hinder the progress they were meant to accelerate.To address this challenge, Red Hat and

Digital sovereignty in the banking industry

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

A decade ago, neither nations nor financial institutions considered digital sovereignty a top priority, nor was it even relevant enough for a coffee discussion in most cases. Supply chain globalization was the mainstream for most procurement categories, an

AI trust through open collaboration: A new chapter for responsible innovation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

The news late last year about Red Hat's acquisition of Chatterbox Labs is just one part of how we plan to accelerate trusted AI for the enterprise. In the age of generative AI, having a transparent, flexible, and reliable platform for innovation is more cr

I taught AI, but AI didn’t write this: A workshop reflection

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-02 01:00:00

I occupy a peculiar space in the workforce: I’m an Elder Millennial. This means I’m old enough to remember landlines, but young enough to scroll TikTok, understand why “67” was a trend, and adapt to the ever-growing glossary of slang younger generations ar

Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-02 00:15:16

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WebMCP is available for early preview

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-01 23:13:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 355 # Comments: 200

Análisis de ajedrez | Antón agobia a Abdusattórov

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-01 20:00:34

El español somete al 4º del mundo con un claro dominio posicional, pero comete una imprecisión y debe conformarse con el empate

Shell variable ~-

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-01 19:15:16

After writing the previous post, I poked around in the bash shell documentation and found a handy feature I’d never seen before, the shortcut ~-. I frequently use the command cd - to return to the previous working directory, but didn’t know ab

Sentry

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-01 16:44:23

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “ Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry ”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user

The Talk Show: ‘Bad Dates’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-01 16:43:02

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card, MacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Creator Studio, along with what we expect/hope for in next week’s Apple product announcements. Sponsored by: Notion : The AI workspace whe

Podcast CB SyR 547: Física teórica con GPT-5.2 Pro, dieta de los espinosaurios y teorías de la consciencia (I)

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-03-01 14:16:37

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 547 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Física con GPT; Espinosaurio; Consciencia (I)”, 27 feb 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast

El primer gran éxito de la inteligencia artificial generativa en física teórica

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-03-01 12:56:08

Las inteligencias artificiales generativas (IAG) prometen revolucionar cómo se hacen matemáticas y, por ende, física teórica. Las calculadoras y los ordenadores ya revolucionaron la experimentación en matemáticas y en física. […] La entrada El pr

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-01 02:00:00

TL;DR Starting with Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, you can override retention.policy and retention.period.grace when doing a zfs send/receive , allowing you to create a copy of a dataset with different (or no) retention settings. Previously this was blocked.

Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI

Inside Java @ 2026-03-01 01:00:00

JFR simplifies troubleshooting and profiling by capturing detailed JVM event data—and with the JFR Streaming API, you can access those insights in real time. But what if you could go further and stream live JFR data straight into an AI system to enhance mo

Red Hat, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks collaborate to deliver an integrated, security-first foundation for AI-native telecommunications

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-01 01:00:00

AI-driven network operations are increasingly becoming central to how service providers manage network complexity, optimize performance, and deliver services faster and more efficiently. AI is no longer just an application-layer technology, it’s becoming f

Powering the telco to techco evolution through polycloud, agentic AI, and digital trust

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-01 01:00:00

The clock is ticking for communications service providers (CSPs). To survive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, every CSP should consider making steps to transition to a “techco” model, where CSPs don’t just provide connectivity but also software

Argo CD 3.3 Brings Safer GitOps Deletions and Smoother Day‑to‑Day Operations

InfoQ @ 2026-03-01 00:30:00

The application deployment and lifecycle management tool Argo CD has reached a new milestone with the release of version 3.3, extending the capabilities of the popular GitOps continuous delivery tool while addressing several long-standing pain points for

Osterwalder-Schrader and Euclidean Spinor Fields

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-28 22:04:31

If one tries to Wick rotate a quantum field theory with spinor fields, it’s well-known that problems arise, something first recognized in Schwinger’s earliest papers on the subject. I’ll try and outline here the 1972 proposal by Osterwald

Análisis de ajedrez | Los vaivenes de Niemann

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-28 19:34:49

El estadounidense logra con frecuencia posiciones ganadoras tras un juego muy vistoso, pero yerra en su conversión en victoria

Working with file extensions in bash scripts

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-28 19:20:37

I’ve never been good at shell scripting. I’d much rather write scripts in a general purpose language like Python. But occasionally a shell script can do something so simply that it’s worth writing a shell script. Sometimes a shell script

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-28 17:04:41

Tom Nichols, writing for The Atlantic: When the 2003 war with Iraq ended, U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine said that when American diplomats embarked on reconstruction, they ruefully joked that “there were 500 ways to do it wrong and two or three ways t

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 28)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-28 16:00:00

Computing Breaking Encryption With a Quantum Computer Just Got 10 Times EasierKarmela Padavic-Callaghan | New Scientist ($) “In 2019, Craig Gidney at Google Quantum AI co-authored a paper that reduced... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Sto

MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling

InfoQ @ 2026-02-28 09:34:00

MySQL is changing the way foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the SQL layer rather than the InnoDB storage engine. This will improve change tracking, replica

Thoughts: Mitte

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-28 01:00:00

Ich bin bei meiner Bücherwahl nie irgendeinem Kanon gefolgt. Reich-Ranicki würde bei meinem Bücherregal die Hände über dem Kopf zusammenschlagen. Wahrscheinlich berechtigt. Beim literarischen Quartett würde ich hoffnungslos verlieren. Einige einzelne Büch

JDK 26 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes

Inside Java @ 2026-02-28 01:00:00

The OpenJDK project is about to release JDK 26 in a few days. This is a good opportunity to add information about notable changes to the stop-the-world collectors in the Hotspot VM.

Astronomers Capture Largest Image of Milky Way Ever

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-28 00:30:00

“It’s a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail” The post Astronomers Capture Largest Image of Milky Way Ever appeared first on Nautilus .

Harmonic Oscillators

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-27 23:51:09

This is related to the Osterwalder-Schrader posting, but is much, much more elementary. I’ll write up some basic facts about the quantum harmonic oscillator and explain what bothers me about the relation to Osterwalder-Schrader. Every quantum mechani

Early Exposure to Junk Food Has Brain-Altering Effects

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 23:30:00

That first hit of burger and fries can leave quite the impression The post Early Exposure to Junk Food Has Brain-Altering Effects appeared first on Nautilus .

Implementing Frog River One in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 23:14:07

Explore two ways of solving the Frog River One problem. The post Implementing Frog River One in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Bedbugs Fear Water

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 22:00:00

Because their ancestors evolved in dry places The post Bedbugs Fear Water appeared first on Nautilus .

West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 20:28:44

Mike Masnick, writing for Techdirt: Read that again. If West Virginia wins — if an actual court orders Apple to start scanning iCloud for CSAM — then every image flagged by those mandated scans becomes evidence obtained through a warrantless governme

Here’s Why Locusts Swarm

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-27 20:00:00

The insects undergo a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation The post Here’s Why Locusts Swarm appeared first on Nautilus .

How to Block the ‘Upgrade to Tahoe’ Alerts and System Settings Indicator

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 19:45:16

Rob Griffiths, writing at The Robservatory : So I have macOS Tahoe on my laptop, but I’m keeping my desktop Mac on macOS Sequoia for now. Which means I have the joy of seeing things like this wonderful notification on a regular basis. Or I did, until

★ A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26 Phone App

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 19:12:53

Apple’s solution to this dilemma — to show the “Tap Recents to Call” in Settings if, and only if, Unified is the current view option in the Phone app — is lazy. And as a result, it’s quite confusing.

TUDUMB

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 17:32:49

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Of course, Netflix could have absorbed such a cost. It’s a $400B company (well, before this deal, anyway) —  double Disney! Paramount Skydance? They’re worth $11B. Yes, they’re paying almost exactly $100B more than th

Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-27 16:40:38

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces. The post Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Block Lays Off 4,000 (of 10,000) Employees

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 16:33:15

CNBC: Block said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its head count. The stock skyrocketed as much as 24% in extended trading. “Today we shared a difficult decision with our team,” Jack Dorsey, Block’s co-founder and

Análisis de ajedrez | David Antón revive con un gran golpe

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-27 16:33:08

Según las máquinas, Van Foreest tenía ventaja, pero el español encontró una idea oculta, con sacrificio de pieza incluido

What’s New in Confluent Clients for Kafka: Python Async GA, Schema Registry Upgrades

Confluent @ 2026-02-27 16:00:05

Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio GA, Schema Registry improvements, security updates, and performance enhancements across languages.

Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, fine-tuning the message filter

old new thing @ 2026-02-27 16:00:00

Making sure it triggers when you need it, and not when you don't. The post Intercepting messages inside <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE>, fine-tuning the message filter appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy: How to Solve AI’s ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Problem

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-27 16:00:00

We need to give models knowledge that anchors their behavior to the realities of our world. The post Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy: How to Solve AI’s ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Problem appeared first on SingularityHub .

Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 15:30:00

Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers, it categorizes rules based on impact, assisting in e

Resolving the “Cannot instantiate the type” Compilation Error

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:45:17

Learn about the "Cannot instantiate the type" compilation error in Java. The post Resolving the “Cannot instantiate the type” Compilation Error first appeared on Baeldung .              

Matching Currency Symbols in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:40:43

Learn the best ways to match and validate currency symbols in Java. The post Matching Currency Symbols in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Convert an InputStream to a DataHandler in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-02-27 13:37:15

Learn how to convert an InputStream to a DataHandler while maintaining memory efficiency. The post Convert an InputStream to a DataHandler in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Kubernetes Introduces Node Readiness Controller to Improve Pod Scheduling Reliability

InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 13:00:00

The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by making the API server’s view of node readiness more accurate. By Craig Risi

There are no psychopaths

AEON @ 2026-02-27 12:00:00

Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? - by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen Read on Aeon

Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-02-27 09:00:00

Microsoft's Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios, datasets, and an evaluation harness to assess agent performance across tools like

Apple Announces F1 Broadcast Details, and a Surprising Netflix Partnership

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 02:30:25

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Perhaps the most surprising announcement on Thursday was that Apple and Netflix, which have had a rather stand-offish relationship when it comes to video programming, have struck a deal to swap some Formula One-rel

Energym

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 01:37:25

“An interview from 2036 with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman.” This is what AI video generation was meant for.  ★ 

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-27 01:17:31

The New York Times: Netflix said on Thursday that it had backed away from its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a stunning development that paves the way for the storied Hollywood media giant to end up under the control of a rival bidder, the te

Issue 744

iOS Weekly @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

How do we avoid software being average if we let AI write everything? 🎢

This Is Fine (Until the Grant Runs Out)

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethereum c

Data Oriented Programming, Beyond Records

Inside Java @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

We've had some good discussions here, and I've got some updates to the ideas outlined in the previous snapshot. There's a lot here, including a lot that I'm identifying as likely future directions but which should not be the topic of current discussion; I

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 6)

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Pa

From operations to outcomes: The business value of automation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58 minutes. Multiply that by 100 times and you had your ROI. Today’s IT leaders are moving beyond these basic stopwatch metrics;

Friday Five — February 27, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-27 01:00:00

SDTimes - Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from pilot to production. Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for managing mod

US Solar Surged 35% in 2025, Overtaking Hydro for the First Time

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-27 00:28:40

Fossil fuels still dominate the energy mix. But growth in renewables offset nearly 75% of new power demand. The post US Solar Surged 35% in 2025, Overtaking Hydro for the First Time appeared first on SingularityHub .

iPhone and iPad Approved to Handle Classified NATO Information

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 22:42:15

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations. This enables iPhone and iPad to be used with classified information up to the NAT

Steve Jobs in Exile by Geoffrey Cain

joecieplinski's blog @ 2026-02-26 21:49:16

Back in 2013 , I suggested the story of Steve Jobs would best be told as a 5-act opera, with the most crucial part of the story being Act III. Act III: The NeXT / Pixar years. Includes an initial period of Jobs not knowing what he wants to do. Then

AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-26 19:52:06

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through a single, simplified experience.

‘Steve Jobs in Exile’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 19:04:33

New book, shipping May 19, from author Geoffrey Cain: For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of t

Microsoft Adds Additional Markdown Features to Windows Notepad

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:50:08

Still feels a bit ridiculous to me that Markdown is now an editing mode in Notepad.  ★ 

Prediction ‘Market’ Kalshi Accuses MrBeast Editor of Insider Trading

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:36:26

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: An editor who works for YouTube’s biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It’s

Research Firm Says Podcasts Have Passed AM/FM Talk Radio in Spoken-Word Listening Time

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:27:04

Edison Research: In 2015, AM/FM radio accounted for 75% of the time Americans spent with spoken-word audio sources. AM/FM radio was not only the most dominant spoken-word audio listening platform, but it was fully sixty-five percentage points higher t

New York Sues Valve, Says Its ‘Loot Boxes’ Are Gambling

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 18:14:58

Reuters: New York’s attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of “loot boxes.” In a

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Deepmind @ 2026-02-26 17:01:50

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Pinterest’s CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes only changed records, supports incremental updates an

Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter

old new thing @ 2026-02-26 16:00:00

Using an Is­Dialog­Message extension point. The post Intercepting messages inside <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE>, installing the message filter appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Análisis de ajedrez | Niemann, como Vinicius

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-26 15:53:53

El joven estadounidense alimenta la controversia, pero esta partida frente al campeón del mundo reconfirma su enorme talento

New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:10:34

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.

Kafka Copy Paste (KCP): How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Use Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) to automate Kafka migration with infrastructure generation, ACL and schema mapping, and offset-preserving data replication.

New in Confluent Cloud: Data Streaming for Any Workload, at Any Scale

Confluent @ 2026-02-26 15:00:13

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q1 2026 release, including Queues for Kafka, new migration tooling KCP, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

15 Things To Do Before, During, and After KotlinConf’26

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

15 Things To Do Before, During, and After KotlinConf’26

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-26 13:40:38

So, you’re coming to KotlinConf’26? Maybe it’s your first time in Munich, or even your first time at KotlinConf. You have your tickets, you’ve learned the schedule by heart, but it might still feel a little overwhelming. Let me show you how you can have th

ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1 Brings New Blazor Components, Improved Navigation, and WebAssembly

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 13:00:00

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row click events, IHostedService support in WebAssembly, environme

Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 12:03:00

Thiago Ghisi explained how he guided managers and senior ICs to build a resilient leadership group beneath him in his talk Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations at QCon London. Regular syncs, expectation calibration, and alignment on broader goa

Love immortal

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:01:00

In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The presence of power

AEON @ 2026-02-26 12:00:00

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel - by Shomik Dasgupta Read on Aeon

curl up 2026

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-26 09:42:29

The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia. We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much! curl up This is a cozy and friendly event that normall

Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 09:00:00

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete for what is planned in version 1.0, setting the stage f

Java Weekly, Issue 635

Baeldung @ 2026-02-26 08:58:00

Quick a busy, performance-focused installment this week :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 635 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Thoughts: Cineastisches Tinder

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 05:00:00

Ich bin in meiner Kindheit lange nicht ins Kino gegangen. Es gab schlicht in meinem Heimatort keines. Ich glaube, mein erster Film im Kino war “Spaceballs”. Mit der Klasse. Was bin ich einigen Mitschülerinnen bis heute dankbar, dass sie sich damals nicht

Hyperbolic versions of latest posts

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-26 02:10:37

The post A curious trig identity contained the theorem that for real x and y, This theorem also holds when sine is replaced with hyperbolic sine. The post Trig of inverse trig contained a table summarizing trig functions applied to inverse trig functions.

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-26 02:00:00

TL;DR kill -9 -1 can send a lot of processes to their untimely demise and can blow up your system. Since Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, this is blocked as the new process flag PRIV_PROC_SENDTOALL allowing sending a signal to all is not set by default. If you

Episode 48 “HTTP/3 in Java 26” [AtA]

Inside Java @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

HTTP/3 is the next version of the internet's most important application layer protocol. In this Inside Java Podcast episode, Nicolai Parlog talks to Daniel Fuchs and Daniel Jelinski about HTTP/3's integration into Java's HTTP client.

The nervous system gets a soul: why sovereign cloud is telco’s real second act

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-26 01:00:00

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain to command it. The telecom industry spent billions on the most sophisticated nervous system the world has ever seen in

‘H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:53:00

When re-hanging signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Terry Godier: ‘Phantom Obligation’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:52:42

Terry Godier, in a thoughtful essay on the design of RSS feed readers: There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the f

Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-26 00:38:45

Emily Glazer, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: The billionaire said he met with Epstein starting in 2011, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. Gates said he was aware of some “18-month thing” tha

Cilium at Ten Years: Stronger Encryption, Safer Policies, and Clearer Visibility for Large Clusters

InfoQ @ 2026-02-26 00:00:00

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead, it focuses on security hardening, tightening encryption, refining network policy

Greg Knauss: ‘Lose Myself’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:53:08

Greg Knauss: People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst kind of true — it also misses the point. Industr

The Talk Show: ‘Serious Opinionators’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 23:17:57

Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple’s version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 21:59:30

Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5 Google: When activated, Privacy Display changes how the pixels in your display emit light, making it harder or near-impossible to view the display at an off-angle. At its default setting, it definitely works, but the conte

Getting ready for the Cyber Resilience Act

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 19:42:06

Please note that the information provided in this document is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project for 2026 to prepare the Foundation, th

Warper: Rust Powered React Virtualisation Library

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 18:00:00

Warper 7.2 is a cutting-edge open-source React virtualization library utilizing Rust and WebAssembly for unmatched performance. With zero-allocation hot paths and O(1) circular buffer operations, Warper achieves 120 FPS even with 100,000 items. Its compa

ASF Plus One Newsletter: February 2026

ASF @ 2026-02-25 17:54:18

This month’s newsletter brings exciting opportunities to connect, learn, and stay informed across The ASF community. The Call for Presentations for Community Over Code 2026 is now open, and this year’s event includes a new co-located, standalone event, La

★ My 2025 Apple Report Card

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 17:49:10

A mixed year.

The Man Who Stole Infinity

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-25 17:23:43

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism. The post The Man Who Stole Infinity first appeared on

Major Candy Brands Are Switching From Actual Chocolate to ‘Chocolatey Candy’ (Read: Brown Candle Wax)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 16:33:41

Jim Vorel, writing just yesterday for Jezebel: It can be hard to know what exactly to call the substances that are now found coating many major candy bars such as Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Almond Joy, Mr. Goodbar or Rolos. Food scientists refer to it a

Intercepting messages before Is­Dialog­Message can process them

old new thing @ 2026-02-25 16:00:00

Process the message before you let Is­Dialog­Message see it. The post Intercepting messages before <CODE>Is­Dialog­Message</CODE> can process them appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Fragments: February 25

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-25 15:56:00

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things . But some talks are worth a watch, and I do suggest this overview on how organizations are currently using AI by Laura Tacho. There’s various nuggets of

I Am Nothing if Not a Man of Science

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 15:19:34

After writing a few days ago about the current brouhaha over the severe decline in the edibility of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups , and linking to Trader Joe’s shade-throwing description of their own , I of course had to try theirs. In the name of science,

Divers

AEON @ 2026-02-25 12:01:00

The meticulous preparation and fleeting ecstasy of elite high-diving captured in all its breathtaking shapes and sounds - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Trig of inverse trig

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 12:00:54

I ran across an old article [1] that gave a sort of multiplication table for trig functions and inverse trig functions. Here’s my version of the table. I made a few changes from the original. First, I used LaTeX, which didn’t exist when the ar

Análisis de ajedrez | El bello caos del ‘freestyle’

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-25 11:49:54

Los argumentos en contra de la modalidad por su falta de armonía en la posición inicial son sólidos, pero hay partidas electrizantes

FreeBSD Foundation Q4 2025 Status Update

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-02-25 11:25:16

Written as part of the FreeBSD Project’s 4th Quarter 2025 Status Report, check out the highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through both technical and non-t

Google Brings its Developer Documentation into the Age of AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-02-25 11:00:00

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API. It comes with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This gives AI development tools a simple, machine-readable way to reach Google's official developer documentation. By Claudio M

A Probability Challenge

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-25 10:20:00

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Bellos in Oxford. Among other things Bellos writes the Guardian Monday puzzle column . He gave me a copy of his latest book, Puzzle Me Twice , where the obvious answer is not correct. I got more right than wr

curl security moves again

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-25 07:55:38

tldr: curl goes back to Hackerone. When we announced the end of the curl bug-bounty at the end of January 2026, we simultaneously moved over and started accepting curl security reports on GitHub instead of its previous platform. This move turns out to have

This Week in Rust 640

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-25 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

[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 02:00:30

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to: Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue. Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstr

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 02:00:00

TL;DR In Solaris 11.4 SRU 90, beadm can mark a boot environment with a preserve policy, preventing accidental deletion via beadm destroy . This does not protect against manual zfs destroy operations. Preserve boot environments For certain syste

Thoughts: Isses aber nicht

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-25 01:00:00

Es war ja eine der Dichotomien in meiner Jugend. Grönemeyer oder Müller-Westernhagen. Kannte niemanden, der beides mochte. Oder niemanden, der es zugab. Ich hätte irgendwann beim Hören eines Grönemeyer-Lieds am liebsten auch zum ölgetränkten Lappen gegrif

A curious trig identity

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-25 00:33:41

Here is an identity that doesn’t look correct but it is. For real x and y, I found the identity in [1]. The author’s proof is short. First of all, Then Taking square roots completes the proof. Now note that the statement at the top assumed x a

Upgrade: ‘The Shifting Sands of Liquid Glass’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-25 00:29:21

Jason Snell and Myke Hurley: We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2025 in depth, with our added opinions on every category. Jason chooses to be a rascal, and Myke tries to give ten out of five. Upgrade is always a good po

More Space Junk Is Plummeting to Earth. Earthquake Sensors Can Track It by the Sonic Booms.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-24 22:50:18

Scientists are co-opting seismic sensors to detect space debris streaking through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. The post More Space Junk Is Plummeting to Earth. Earthquake Sensors Can Track It by the Sonic Booms. appeared first on SingularityH

Apple in 2025: The Six Colors Report Card

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 22:49:10

Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea her

FFI: Fix constructor index resolution in JIT compiler.

luajit @ 2026-02-24 22:13:15

Reported by Vladimir Davydov and Sergey Kaplun. #1441

Apple Will Begin Manufacturing Mac Minis in Houston Later This Year

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:35:12

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and

PageMaker Pioneer Paul Brainerd Dies at 78

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:27:07

Todd Bishop, writing at GeekWire: Paul Brainerd , who went on to coin the term “desktop publishing” and build Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge Island,

Looks Like it is Happening…

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-24 20:26:11

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date. Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates For 12/1 to 12/31 the … Continue

FTC Chairman Sends Letter to Apple Complaining That MAGA ‘News’ Sources Aren’t Represented in Apple News

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:18:42

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors back on February 12: In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times , FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (M

The Steve Jobs Archive: ‘Letters to a Young Creator’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 20:11:17

Laurene Powell Jobs, in her introduction to the newest publication from the Steve Jobs Archive: Among the books that mattered to Steve was Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet . I’m struck by this line from its pages: “Live the questions for now. Perhaps

Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-24 19:55:11

AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instag

Acme Weather

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:49:52

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weat

Age requirements for apps distributed in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-24 19:00:48

Today we’re providing an update on the tools available for developers to meet their age assurance obligations under upcoming U.S. and regional laws, including in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Updates to the Declared Age Range API are

Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway

old new thing @ 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Intercepting the flow in your message loop. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Knowledge Priming

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-24 15:40:00

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these : primin

The Audacious Project reveals its 2025 cohort and $1B catalyzing change

TED Blog @ 2026-02-24 15:00:20

The Audacious Project, the collaborative funding platform within TED, is thrilled to announce its newest cohort of grantee innovators. This new cohort extends the vital on-the-ground work of Audacious grantees on key global issues, including reducing the f

Análisis de ajedrez | Un torneo que Leuza mereció

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-24 14:24:59

El cubano Albornoz ganó el viernes un memorial en Pamplona en honor de un entrañable ajedrecista navarro, modelo de pasión infinita

decomplexification continued

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-02-24 13:09:04

Last spring I wrote a blog post about our ongoing work in the background to gradually simplify the curl source code over time. This is a follow-up: a status update of what we have done since then and what comes next. In May 2025 I had just managed to get t

The six-second hug

AEON @ 2026-02-24 12:00:00

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits - by Julian Baggini Read on Aeon