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InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 10:00:00

Datadog has released Scout, a model trained to investigate production problems. It runs inside Bits Investigation, the company's AI SRE product, where it can pick up an alert, look through telemetry and suggest what caused the problem. Datadog engineers

InfoQ @ 2026-10-29 08:14:00

Cloudflare has recently launched a beta Web Search API through AI Gateway. Available through REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, it provides unified logging, access controls, and billing, and supports bring-your-own-provider keys. By Renato Losio

slashdot @ 2026-10-29 08:00:00

A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica reports that Ole Bielfeldt "beat out 1,802 other entries haili

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 05:06:15

Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keybo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 04:33:42

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 04:30:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TechCrunch: In an email blast to customers titled "Protecting your finances in the Al World," Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 01:25:45

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Inside Java @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Recent and upcoming Java features (e.g. value classes, withers, and lazy constants) make it easier to define, construct, copy, and access immutable data

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-29 00:35:02

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slashdot @ 2026-10-29 00:00:00

An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain. "There's no more point in giving you a little React challenge t

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 23:00:00

A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS's Okta login system, reveals phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting relatio

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 22:13:21

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 22:03:24

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slashdot @ 2026-10-28 22:00:00

Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker, allowing Alexa to visually identify objects, help with tasks and remotely monitor a room. For those concerned about privacy, Amazon is keeping a camera-free version available. The Next Web reports: The

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-28 20:15:04

In this week's big news (though it's only Wednesday), OpenAI announced a proof that the exponential-time hypothesis is false , with a Lean proof . Later Anthropic released their own paper . Ryan O'Donnell  and Shiva Kintali  posted follow-

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 20:00:00

Ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Tom's Hardware, adding: "Huh. Looks like consuming one's own slop does not turn the wheels of industry." From the report: Amazon wants its engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI u

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 19:00:00

Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, reversing a position the company held for more than 15 years that touchscreens were poorly suited for laptops. 9to5Mac reports: The new machine features a light-up Apple logo, tandem OLED, and touch inp

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 18:13:29

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 18:10:37

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 18:01:23

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Deepmind @ 2026-10-28 18:00:58

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-28 18:00:55

Start getting ready for MacBook Pro with Touch today. Watch new developer videos, sign up for Group Labs, and check out new articles and resources. Explore now

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 18:00:00

"EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!" writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at a

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-28 17:04:18

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 17:01:53

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slashdot @ 2026-10-28 17:00:00

The FCC has approved (PDF) Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion acquisition of satellite operator Globalstar, giving the Starlink rival additional infrastructure and spectrum to expand into direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Engadget reports: You may not know

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 16:46:30

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 16:31:58

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slashdot @ 2026-10-28 16:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access app stores in Google Play by court order, international us

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 15:58:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selec

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:43:07

Quantum 10, 2255 (2026). Data privacy and authentication are two main security requirements for remote access and cloud services. While QKD has been explored to address data privacy concerns, oftentimes its use

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 15:38:22

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:34:12

Quantum 10, 2254 (2026). Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 15:30:26

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:24:36

Quantum 10, 2253 (2026). This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture for the trace distance based optimal state transformation problem proposed by Coutts et al. [Quantum 5, 448 (2021)]. Th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:03:02

Quantum 10, 2252 (2026). We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of f

old new thing @ 2026-10-28 15:00:00

You are taking the scenic route. The post C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using <CODE>make_self</CODE> and immediately converting it to the projected interface appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 14:53:00

Airbnb extended its Chronon feature platform with Push Mode and Near Real-Time Model Transform to update sequence-based recommendation embeddings within seconds. The architecture reduced embedding staleness from nearly two days to under a minute and impr

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 14:41:30

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 14:25:11

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-28 13:55:00

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 13:49:45

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 12:54:23

Previously: Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network - - April 2026 (119 comments) Comments URL: Points: 230 # Comments:

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-28 12:51:51

The classification of finite simple groups (CFSG) has been called the biggest theorem in mathematics. It is big, not necessarily in terms of its importance, but in the sense that its proof developed over the course of decades and thousands of pages of jou

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 12:03:40

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slashdot @ 2026-10-28 12:00:00

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system's sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations confirm it is massive enough to be round. Located about 46

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 11:36:06

Quantum 10, 2251 (2026). We investigate optimal metrological protocols for phase estimation in the presence of correlated dephasing noise, including spin-squeezed state sensing strategies as well as parallel an

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 11:30:00

Microsoft's latest monthly security update addresses 1415 vulnerabilities across multiple products. One vulnerability affecting Windows Shell has been exploited in the wild, while 85 are classified as critical. Affected products include Windows OS, Offic

AEON @ 2026-10-28 11:01:00

Petty disputes, pleas for help and requests for gold – explore letters sent to Egyptian pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 10:32:00

Google has opened a Chrome origin trial for the Email Verification API, a WICG proposal that lets the browser confirm email ownership without sending a message. Gmail is the first provider. Developers add form hints and validate a signed token server-sid

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-28 09:59:00

En la 2ª ronda del Europeo rápido, el español ganó una partida tan corta como sustanciosa y vibrante, que confirmó su momento dulce

InfoQ @ 2026-10-28 09:57:00

Cloudflare has put Quicksilver, the internal key-value store behind nearly every request it serves, into private beta as a Workers KV mode. Reads resolve in 1.62 ms at p99 against 287 ms for classic KV. The constraints decide the use case: 10,000 keys, o

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 09:48:21

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slashdot @ 2026-10-28 08:00:00

The CDC estimates that 19 drug-resistant pathogens cause 9.7 million infections and more than 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with resistance continuing to outpace development of new treatments. "The agency considers this problem to be one of our most

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-28 05:00:00

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

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Levels of the three main greenh

YC @ 2026-10-28 03:59:08

Alex Lee left his own startup to join Magic Patterns as founding engineer — and built a slide deck feature in a weekend.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-28 02:47:50

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

For an enterprise, AI sovereignty starts with this primary requirement: Retain control of its own data and infrastructure. But as organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it in real business processes, control over the models themselves h

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

IT leaders today must balance core operations to run smoothly while rapidly transforming infrastructure to drive new business value. From navigating budget constraints and complex multicloud environments to accelerating developer productivity and integrati

Inside Java @ 2026-10-28 01:00:00

Get an overview of the Secure Coding Guidelines for Java and best practices. Examples will be provided to show insecure practices that may lead to security vulnerabilities. Learn how to avoid issues by applying the guidelines. We'll also cover recent upda

slashdot @ 2026-10-28 00:00:00

Ford's upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV. Owners will still need additional Ford home hardware for f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:19:39

Apple Newsroom yesterday: With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 23:00:04

Apple Newsroom, with software news for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” week: Apple today introduced transformative updates to Apple Creator Studio , the powerful collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of modern creators

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 22:24:20

Even if you’re a decent designer (or believe yourself to be), it’s liberating not to have a say in the matter. Constraints are sometimes freeing.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-27 21:50:16

By chilling roundworms, scientists traced a molecular pathway hinting at one way cold might extend lifespan. The post Study Could Help Explain Why Colder Body Temperature Extends Lifespan in Many Species appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 18:59:47

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple on Wednesday will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring touch-enabled OLED displays with thinner bezels, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a lighter and slightly thinn

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:44:10

Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good . Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1700 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:03:08

An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing

Deepmind @ 2026-10-27 17:01:38

Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 17:00:46

Apple Newsroom’s “Pro and Tell” announcement week continues: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 , delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business user

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 16:51:46

Quantum 10, 2250 (2026). We provide the first systematic technique for deriving witnesses of contextuality in prepare-transform-measure scenarios. More specifically, we show how linear quantifier elimination ca

old new thing @ 2026-10-27 15:00:00

Hurry up and wait. The post Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:53:18

Quantum 10, 2249 (2026). Engineering the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is fundamental to the design of quantum systems. Automating Hamiltonian design through gradient-based optimization can dramatically accel

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-27 14:38:36

Quantum 10, 2248 (2026). Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps in the argument for classical hardness of GBS is the so-cal

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-27 13:22:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 576 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Entropía; Neandertales; Tesla; Exoplaneta; Agujeros Negros; Eirenesfera”, 22 oct 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB S

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-27 13:13:21

If you have an expression in n Boolean variables, how long does it take to find out whether some assignment of values to the variables makes the expression true? There is an obvious upper bound: you can find out in 2n steps by exhaustive search, trying al

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 13:00:00

Uber has introduced Normalized Compute Units (NCUs) to make CPU allocation more consistent across its highly heterogeneous server fleet. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 12:25:00

Anthropic recently detailed how it migrated its monorepo from Git to Scion. Scion is a source control system that moves repository operations to the server side and uses content-addressed storage and tiered caches for agent and CI workloads. The design s

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-27 11:04:12

El ciego español, de 35 años, de origen venezolano, es a la vez campeón del mundo y de Europa en ajedrez clásico, además de sus medallas en rápidas

AEON @ 2026-10-27 11:00:00

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 10:00:00

Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 08:34:00

Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test a

InfoQ @ 2026-10-27 05:45:00

Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026 finds the share of developers saving ten or more hours a week with AI dropped from 68% to 26% year over year, while only 28% report noticeably less friction than before AI. Engineering leaders report spendin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 01:30:08

Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link): Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-27 01:12:40

OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of p

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), enterprise IT is undergoing a fundamental shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer restricted to isolated sandboxes or pilot projects. Autonomous AI agents, embedded software-as-a-service (SaaS) fe

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

Agentic AI deployments are accelerating across enterprises. Recent research from the Cloud Security Alliance shows 70% of organizations now have AI components in production, yet 82% lack real-time visibility into AI runtime behavior. Furthermore, only 21%

Inside Java @ 2026-10-27 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the introduction of value classes and strict fields

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-27 00:54:26

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-26 23:41:53

It's widely believed AI's inner workings are largely inscrutable. A former OpenAI researcher now says this narrative could be wrong. The post Is AI Really a Black Box? Neural Networks May Be Easier to Understand Than We Thought appeared first on Sing

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 23:00:00

At AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation added OpenSandbox, Open Responses, Agent Skills, and OpenEnv, reaching ten projects in its first year. Keynotes from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and UC Berkeley focused on MCP in production

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 22:26:00

OpenTofu 1.13 adds convert and assume... functions that let module authors give the planner type and value hints for unknown values, so more expressions resolve during tofu plan. If a value unknown during planning later violates a guarantee, OpenTofu rep

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 21:03:53

Glenn Fleishman, writing at Six Colors, “Why Notes Will Never Let Us Edit Markdown”: The Notes app added Markdown import and export in the version 26 operating system releases, and the macOS 27 Golden Gate update lets us copy and paste as Markdown. Wh

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 19:39:32

The previous three post have been part of a series on geometric duality. The traditional but somewhat mysterious terminology is the pole of a line and the polar of a point. As explained here, the terminology was first coined in the context of spherical ge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 19:04:34

Pros: OLED display, nano-texture option, A20 Pro chip, thinner and lighter. Cons: no Face ID, no ProMotion.

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 19:00:00

DigitalOcean has announced the public preview of Learning Services and Agent Data Services, enabling developers to build, evaluate, and continuously improve AI agents within a unified, AI-native, cloud platform. By Sergio De Simone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 18:00:11

Federico Viticci: Don’t like that the iPhone Duo doesn’t auto-lock when you close it? You can fix it with this simple Shortcuts automation. Two steps: A conditional for when the iPhone is Closed . Lock the screen. I mentioned in my r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-26 16:04:10

If you’ve got or get a Duo and don’t try this out, you’re not hooked up right. Update: But as Cabel Sasser notes , though incredibly fun, this was clearly made by a young Claude-aided developer who never used any of these actual old computers. Let’

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-26 16:02:24

A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the poi

InfoQ @ 2026-10-26 16:00:00

A preview of three November InfoQ online certification cohorts covering production AI systems, retrieval and agent design, engineering team flow, AI roles, and measurement, facilitated by Adi Polak, Lan Chu, and Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-26 15:54:29

A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-10-26 15:00:00

Mimicking the operation more accurately. The post Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-26 13:04:54

This blog is the main place I write, but I also use other platforms, either to write new content or to announce blog posts. X (née Twitter) I have a several X accounts, one personal account (@JohnDCook) and several specialized accounts (@CompSciFact, @Alg

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:01:00

A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-26 11:00:00

From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can - by Azize Aslan Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-26 09:50:52

El checo, autor de esta espléndida victoria, es ahora el 3º mejor de su edad, tras el turco Erdogmus y el estadounidense Woodward

Rust blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

TLDR: To fund general maintenance, donate to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund or sponsor the RustNL Maintainers Team To fund specific features and improvements, sponsor fundable Rust Project Goals To fund individual contributors, donat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

New tools can find potential flaws faster than teams can assess and fix them. When a serious flaw is discovered, the central challenge is ensuring maintainers, distributors, and operators receive the clear information and time necessary to defend their use

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

If you followed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this edge AI machine learning operations (MLOps) series, you've seen how a model goes from training and optimization through packaging, signing, and deployment across an edge fleet. We've reached a point where

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-26 01:00:00

Many enterprise AI conversations start with the same question: Which model should we use? With models becoming more and more commoditized, the big differentiator is whether your data is ready for any model or any agent to use.The stakes are higher now that

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:50:00

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring last week at DF. Sunnny’s pitch to B2B companies is simple: you store valuable customer information across a myriad of systems, making it hard to get a simple overview. Sunnny consolidates your customer data, cleans it,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 22:47:57

Some guy on Reddit (with an illustration video): Saw this online, tried it, and it works beautifully. Basically, I registered the lowest part of my right index finger. That part of the finger sits naturally when you go to swipe up at the phone. This

Emilian Bold @ 2026-10-25 21:41:32

There's an interesting phenomenon I've noticed and I'm not sure I have a good word for it. One has various ideas jumping around in their head. Some of them are little pearls, beliefs big and small that seem significant and some of which may be quite old.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-25 21:30:49

(Lance and Bill did a vidcast about the OpenAI Document Drop. See  here . My spellcheck thinks that vidcast and OpenAI are not words.)   The Metric TSP problem is TSP where, for all vertices \(x,y,z\),         

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 20:45:05

The previous two posts have been about polar triangles. The first used a polar triangle to derive a theorem, and the second showed how to compute polars using linear algebra. But what exactly is a polar triangle and why is it called that? Poles and polars

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-25 20:37:30

El gran maestro polaco muestra su profundidad estratégica con un sacrificio de pieza nada obvio a medio plazo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 20:03:13

Special guest: Joanna Stern. Special topic: The iPhone Duo. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfast item per box for one year, while supplies last, with code talkshow50off . Notion : The coll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 19:09:19

Speaking of Johnnie Manzari, he wrote a post yesterday marking the 10 year anniversary of Portrait Mode: Initially, Portrait mode was seen as a giant math problem. You’d do disparity calculations on the two sensors and output a depth map. The problem

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-10-25 12:00:00

Ein letzter Spaziergang mit Henry

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:01:55

The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar tr

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:28:20

I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles

Inside Java @ 2026-10-25 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:15:00

Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video ), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier, even compared with competing f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:08:17

Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters: CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a video ​posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A kno

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 23:10:06

Jay Peters, The Verge: The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 22:47:28

Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he sp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 21:15:45

I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values . Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-24 18:39:18

Kuandykuly, campeón del mundo de su edad con 10,5 puntos en once partidas, muestra una consistencia muy excepcional

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:50:02

It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary . Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:03:44

Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-24 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 October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Inside Java @ 2026-10-24 02:00:00

As has been widely reported, the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. This page summarizes how to check whether your runtime is at risk and mitigation actions.

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-23 18:58:32

Agents spend much of their time waiting on tools. A coding agent may start a build that runs for twenty minutes, a triage agent may wait hours for the next pull request on a repository, and an assistant may wait until the next morning for an approval. Most

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 18:52:56

Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube ): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-23 18:20:11

La bella danza de los corceles en este final artístico de Rusz tiene además un gran valor didáctico para el buen manejo de este tipo de posiciones

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-23 16:54:10

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 16:42:06

Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it t

old new thing @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

It cleans up at the wrong time. The post Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-23 12:40:44

Quantum 10, 2247 (2026). Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently,

AEON @ 2026-10-23 12:00:00

Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-10-23 10:00:00

En mi trabajo de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles hemos empezado a montar unos vídeos divulgativos sobre la evolución de diferentes tecnologías ferroviarias. Este es el primero, sobre las traviesas.

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo. By the way, did I mention iPhone Duo?

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

We've spent the last 2 years watching AI agents trudge from exciting experiments into actual business operations. The KPMG Q1 2026 AI Pulse Report confirms it: 54% of organizations are now deploying agents across core systems.Most of us have first-hand exp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

An organization might first encounter open source when it adopts an open source library, operating system, database, or application. But robust open source engagement goes much further than just using software. Organizations need to understand how to parti

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates Agentic AI Security Capabilities Across the Open Hybrid CloudRed Hat and NVIDIA expanded their collaboration around Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, spanning agent security through OpenShell, optimized open weight

Inside Java @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Pooled confined arenas provide a significant performance improvement for short-lived native allocations.

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-22 22:33:10

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hour

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 21:10:10

Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone D

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 20:49:38

Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Reg

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-22 20:00:08

Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-r

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:55:41

Quantum 10, 2246 (2026). Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:50:45

Quantum 10, 2245 (2026). We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relie

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:43:48

Quantum 10, 2244 (2026). Mean-field Hartree theory is a central tool for reducing many-body dynamics to an effective one-particle evolution. This approximation has been employed when the Hamiltonian governing t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:32:18

Quantum 10, 2243 (2026). In this work, we examine the consequences of the existence of a finite group of matrix product unitary (MPU) symmetries for matrix product states (MPS). We generalize the well-understoo

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:26:22

Quantum 10, 2242 (2026). We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangl

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-22 18:12:54

The API format that a growing number of model providers use to call language models now has a vendor-neutral home. Open Responses has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a project, bringing it under open governance alongside MCP and A2A. Based on th

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-22 17:54:59

Kazajistán arrasó los Mundiales de Edades (sub-7 a sub-17) en Roquetas ganando más de un tercio de las medallas en juego

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 17:12:10

A Python script that worked a few days ago wouldn’t work today. I suspect it might have something to do with my updating everything I could think of in response to recent security breaches. I got an error message that said error: The script contains

Deepmind @ 2026-10-22 16:30:24

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-22 16:29:41

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading U

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 16:01:55

You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secr

old new thing @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

Looking more closely at the function's behavior and requirements. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Co­Register­Initialize­Spy</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A trio of papers showcases AI-designed molecular scissors and an upgraded tool that builds proteins atom by atom. The post This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 13:08:51

An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of poin

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:01:00

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:00:00

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon