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August Was World's Joint-Hottest Month On Record, Scientists Say
slashdot @ 2026-09-11 09:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU's climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence
Advancing Embedded Go: Recoverable Panics, UEFI, Radio and Hardware Dev Kit
InfoQ @ 2026-09-11 07:05:00
TinyGo version 0.42 introduces significant updates, including recoverable panics and support for Go 1.27 and LLVM 22, improving error handling and enabling Go code to run as UEFI applications. The TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO facilitates har
Climate 'Feedback Loops' Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds
slashdot @ 2026-09-11 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world's forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global hea
Friday Five — September 11, 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-11 02:00:00
Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container ManagementRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinforces OpenShift’s abil
Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent
slashdot @ 2026-09-11 01:00:00
Apple's new Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 are drawing privacy concerns because they can process nearby conversations without explicit consent from everyone involved. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a c
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
slashdot @ 2026-09-11 00:00:00
Anthropic says it has disrupted several cases this year in which scientists used Claude for biological research that could potentially aid bioweapons development. "In a report describing misuses of its A.I. models, Anthropic said it could not determine whe
Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-10 23:18:30
Startup Isar Aerospace delivered a payload of satellites to orbit on its second try. Rivals in Germany and Spain are hot on its heels. The post Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit appeared first on SingularityHub .
Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 23:00:00
Android is rolling out a system-level way to securely transfer passwords and passkeys between credential managers, eliminating the need to export passwords as unencrypted text files or manually recreate passkeys. The feature initially supports Google Passw
Apple’s OS 27 Updates Will Be Released on Monday, 14 September
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 22:15:52
9to5 Mac has the iOS 27 release notes too. I haven’t spent much time using Golden Gate, but I’ve been using iOS 27 full-time ever since WWDC. It’s in excellent shape for a .0 release. Now I need to think about how long I want to still hang onto MacOS
ABC Show Won't Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 22:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Commu
Building an Agentic SOC on a Stream
Confluent @ 2026-09-10 21:19:05
Discover how our security team built an automated multi-agent investigation pipeline that scaled alert triage throughput using a continuous streaming architecture.
What’s New in Jackson 3?
Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 21:10:48
Learn what's new in Jackson 3, how it differs from Jackson 2, and what you need to do in order to migrate from Jackson 2.x to the new version. The post What’s New in Jackson 3? first appeared on Baeldung .
OpenAI Targets Work of Wall Street Junior Bankers
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 21:02:00
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a Wall Street-focused version of ChatGPT Work developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore that can research companies, analyze financial data, and build presentations using the company's latest and most ad
HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26
Baeldung @ 2026-09-10 20:50:56
Learn how HttpClient API supports HTTP/3 now, and how to set your apps to use HTTP/3. The post HTTP/3 Support in HTTP Client API in Java 26 first appeared on Baeldung .
IMDb Adds 'Digital Creator' Profiles For the First Time
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 20:00:00
IMDb is introducing "Digital Creator" as a new professional category on IMDb and IMDbPro, giving streamers, vloggers, influencers, video essayists, and other online creators a "dedicated way to represent [their] work and connect with audiences, industry pe
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use
InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 19:49:00
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. By Daniel Dominguez
Joanna Stern on the iPhone Duo
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-10 19:29:30
One thing I learned from this video is that I’m way, way too careful when playing with the hands-on area demo units. I handle them like museum pieces; Stern treats them like hot dog buns. ★
Automattic's Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 19:00:00
Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee depa
Introducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the background
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-10 18:01:44
Give an agent a task actually worth delegating and you’ll be waiting a while. Ask it what needs your attention this morning and it has to read your mail, your messages, and your task list before it can answer. Then it stops halfway, because one step needs
The Apple Watch Gets Its Siri AI Upgrade
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 17:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today during itsSeptember hardware event. The new models retain the signature designs of their predecessors but add a faster S11 chip, new health and f
The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-10 16:27:36
By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof f
Bayesian OCR
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-10 14:32:31
The Greek letter β (beta) and the German letter ß (eszett) look similar, especially in some fonts. Now suppose an OCR program sees some character that could be a beta or could be an eszett. It could calculate some kind of distance between between the pixe
Europe May Finally Have Found a Space Entrepreneur Who Is Meeting the Moment
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 13:00:00
French entrepreneur Helene Huby is emerging as one of Europe's most ambitious space leaders, with The Exploration Company raising a record $450 million Series C as it develops the Nyx cargo capsule, a crewed spacecraft, and a reusable heavy-lift rocket. Hu
Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development
InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 12:29:00
Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the
The Chinese room
AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:01:00
Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Medieval mental health
AEON @ 2026-09-10 12:00:00
Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon
Sparse quantum state preparation with improved Toffoli cost
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:50:51
Quantum 10, 2208 (2026). The preparation of quantum states is one of the most fundamental tasks in quantum computing, and a key primitive in many quantum algorithms. Of particular interest to areas such as quan
Streaming Belief Propagation on Mixed-Alphabet Tanner Graphs for Practical Quantum Memory
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:37:47
Quantum 10, 2207 (2026). Reliable quantum memory under circuit-level noise requires decoders that can process syndrome information continuously and at a rate comparable to its generation. In practical quantum e
Solving the Nonlinear Vlasov Equation on a Quantum Computer
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-10 11:28:17
Quantum 10, 2206 (2026). The practical applicability of a recent Carleman-linearization-based quantum algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with quadratic nonlinearities is investigated f
Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 09:00:00
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers found
IETF Publishes RFC 10008, Adding the QUERY Method for Safe Requests With a Body
InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 08:27:00
In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008, introducing the QUERY method to HTTP, the first new standard HTTP verb since 2010. QUERY enables developers to send richer query filters in the request body while maintaining cacheable, safe, and idempotent sem
CPython Officially Adds RISC-V Support As a Tier 3 Platform
InfoQ @ 2026-09-10 07:05:00
The Python core development team has officially recognized RISC-V as a Tier 3 platform in CPython, following extensive community collaboration on its implementation. Ongoing efforts aim to enhance integration into the continuous testing pipeline and move
Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amid industry soul-searching about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime if perpetrated b
Episode 69 “Declassifying Java 27” [IJN]
Inside Java @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00
Java 27 is set to be released on September 15th, let's review what's coming!
Insights-client updates standardize RHEL package management
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00
If you manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems connected to Red Hat Lightspeed, you're likely familiar with insights-client, the tool responsible for reading system information and reporting it to Red Hat Lightspeed's hosted services.Starting with R
Closing the loop: From network policy intent to verified reality
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00
Part 3 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern.Kubernetes NetworkPolicies are one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—security primitives available to platform engineers. Th
Build a compliance assistant with AutoRAG and Red Hat OpenShift AI
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-10 02:00:00
If you run AI platforms for a bank, an insurer, or anyone else living under a stack of regulations, you already know the use case everyone asks for first: let our compliance and risk teams ask questions against our own policy documents and get an answer th
Get ready for iPhone Duo
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:05:23
Start getting ready for iPhone Duo today. Watch new videos, sign up for Group Labs, and take part in Q&As on the Apple Developer Forums. Explore now
App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-10 01:00:38
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence,
Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 01:00:00
Google plans to invest at least $15 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland through 2028, its largest single investment in Europe. The company also signed a 22-year power agreement with Finnish utility Fortum and said it will explore business models that c
Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-10 00:01:47
AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.
Apple's New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn't AI
slashdot @ 2026-09-10 00:00:00
Apple is introducing a new "Reference Image" mode on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that uses the camera sensor to digitally sign captured data and create an "unalterable" version of a photo, giving users a way to verify what the camera actually saw before
A Modest Proposal
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-09 20:26:16
The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’l
Meta's Recipe for Building Agents as "Organizational Second Brains"
InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 20:00:00
Meta describes how an AI agent can be designed to capture the logic and expertise of domain experts, rather than simply storing documents or retrieving relevant information. The system, dubbed an "organizational second brain", was built for a specialized
Social Media Engagement: summer 2026
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-09 18:21:00
A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…
Navier-Stokes and Lean
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-09 17:32:18
I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI . And then yesterday OpenAI announced a solution to Navier-Stokes, one of the Millennium problems.
A 50-year-old computer-assisted proof
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:59:48
The idea of using computers to assist with proofs is not new. The first major computer-assisted proof was published in 1976, the proof of the four color theorem by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. The authors reduced the proof of the four color theorem t
What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-09 16:44:13
Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. The post What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? f
AI is an intelligence multiplier
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 16:17:20
A rising tide may lift all boats, but the AI tide lifts some boats much more than others. By all accounts, the best programmers have had the biggest productivity boost from AI. And top tier mathematicians are using AI to settle long-standing mathematical
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
old new thing @ 2026-09-09 16:00:00
It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-09 14:43:36
Yesterday OpenAI announced a proof that settled a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations from fluid dynamics. The announcement has created a lot of buzz, as one would expect. But there’s an aspect of OpenAI’s work that I have
Podcast CB SyR 569: Telescopio espacial Roman, neurolingüística, materia oscura en LZ y neutrinos en XENONnT, y principio de equivalencia en cuántica
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-09 13:56:57
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 569 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Roman Telescope; Neurología; Materia Oscura; Principio de Equivalencia en Cuántica”, 03 sep 2026. […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 569: Te
Making revisions
AEON @ 2026-09-09 12:01:00
Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Reaches GA with Licensing Details Unpublished
InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 10:54:00
Microsoft has made Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid generally available. Session hosts run on customer hardware through Azure Arc while brokering stays in Azure. The Hybrid service license is unpriced, Windows Server support requires RDS CALs with Software A
Breaking the Orthogonality Barrier in Quantum LDPC Codes
Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-09 10:00:06
Quantum 10, 2205 (2026). Classical low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a widely deployed and well-established technology, forming the backbone of modern communication and storage systems. It is well known
vim.async's Addition Modernizes Neovim’s Async Architecture for Better Stability
InfoQ @ 2026-09-09 08:06:00
Neovim has introduced a structured concurrency library in its Lua standard library via the vim.async namespace. This framework provides a standardized method for managing async workflows, addressing issues related to task management and error propagation
This Week in Rust 668
This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-09 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
★ The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 02:55:53
One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.
Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026
Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community mem
The Lightwell reality check
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
We’ve been talking with business leaders about Lightwell for the past few months, and the conversation always starts with enthusiasm. AI-driven exploits are moving at unprecedented speeds, and enterprise security teams are feeling a level of urgency we hav
Red Hat sponsors the OpenClaw Foundation to advance an open future for production AI agents
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
In July, the OpenClaw Foundation was announced with Red Hat joining as a sponsor to bring open, more secure infrastructure to autonomous AI agents. OpenClaw has quickly become a premier open source autonomous agent framework, and Red Hat’s involvement aims
Red Hat AI 3.5: Scaling and governing AI agents in production
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
Enterprise teams have moved past early experimentation. Pilots succeed, prototypes impress, and individual teams deliver initial results. The challenge every platform engineering and ITOps team hits next is much harder: operating AI with the same operation
Rafay and Red Hat publish joint reference architecture for sovereign AI cloud as a service
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
Red Hat has published Sovereign AI Cloud as a Service, a joint reference architecture built with Rafay for telecommunications providers, sovereign cloud operators, and NeoClouds that want to turn distributed GPU infrastructure into a governed, self-service
Accelerating post-quantum security migration with Red Hat Certificate System
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-09 02:00:00
The realities of quantum computing and its inevitable impact on enterprise cryptography are already taking shape:Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been post-quantum cryptographically (PQC)-capable since the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) in 2025.H
‘Modern Day Typographer’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-09 00:57:00
There are good Elle Cordova videos, and there are great ones. ( Last mentioned here for her “ Fonts Hanging Out ” trilogy.) ★
Build full-stack AWS applications in minutes with AI-powered scaffolding
AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-08 23:24:59
AI assistants can stand up an app or website that runs on AWS in minutes. Getting to a production-ready version you would put in front of real customers is still the hard part. Security, observability, type-safety, and resilience are non-negotiable for pro
Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-08 19:33:08
Elderly mice on the popular weight-loss drug semaglutide aged slower and lived longer, mimicking the longevity effects of caloric restriction. The post Could GLP-1 Drugs Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life? appeared first on SingularityHub .
Análisis de ajedrez | Oro brilla en Madrid
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-08 19:23:57
Aún con 12 años, el argentino es el mejor del mundo de su edad y sigue firmando hermosas victorias
Navier-Stokes in the news
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-08 17:26:08
There are rumors that a long-standing math problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, has been solved. The problem concerns technical properties of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations [1], a set of equations that describe the dynamics of fluid fl
Fragments: September 8
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 17:22:00
Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not
★ SuperDuper 4
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 16:55:20
SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Deepmind @ 2026-09-08 16:00:15
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
HashiCorp Packer 1.16 Adds Native SLSA Provenance Generation and Verification for Machine Images
InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00
HashiCorp has released Packer v1.16.0, adding native support for generating, signing, and verifying SLSA provenance attestations for every image the tool builds. The release provides teams with a secure, tamper-proof record of how a machine image was mad
A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95
old new thing @ 2026-09-08 16:00:00
For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the <CODE>winstart.bat</CODE> file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Do you even need a presentation?
Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-08 15:42:00
Like me, Sumeet Gayathri Moghe is tired of poor presentations with bad slide decks. He's started to write a series of posts on how to avoid these calamities, beginning with a post that questions whether a presentation is needed at all. more
GitLab Warns That AI Agent Sandboxes Are Only as Secure as Their Network Access
InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 14:00:00
GitLab warns that isolating an AI coding agent in a sandbox does not necessarily make the agent safe. In a new security analysis, the company describes an internal evaluation in which an AI agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a vulnerable package pro
Our eloquent hands
AEON @ 2026-09-08 12:00:00
Physicians reject palmistry as nonsense. But reading the creases of our palms for hidden meaning is what doctors have always done - by Alison Bashford Read on Aeon
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-08 10:43:52
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Prob
Does ICANN Open the Door on Identity Theft by Dropping 3rd Level .name Domains Registrations?
InfoQ @ 2026-09-08 10:08:00
Neil Fraser's disclosure highlights a regulatory change affecting the .name top-level domain. Following ICANN's approval, Verisign will eliminate third-level registrations due to declining usage. This affects about 22,000 registrants and raises security
The Situation at Columbia XXXVII
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-08 03:46:35
Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this
The context wall: What happens when your AI agent hits the GPU memory ceiling
Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-08 02:00:00
Every model has a physical limit to how much it can hold in active memory at once. When production workloads hit that limit, they hit the context wall, and the failure is silent.An AI model's context window is the amount of text it can hold and reason over
[Sponsor] Glyphs 4
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:16:26
Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge glyph sets, explore variable vector designs with complex higher-order interpolation. Build and man
Trackables 1.5
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:01:27
Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:09:27
The Onion: The Onion: How did you get into the entertainment industry? Ellison: I remember going to the movies as a kid, and when the houselights went down and that hush fell over the crowd, I’d think to myself: I’d like to build a massive propaga
McKinley 1.0
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:00:00
Crackerjack new Mac app for creating and editing custom SF Symbols , from developer Amy Worrall: McKinley is an all-in-one studio for drawing and annotating SF Symbols. It bundles vector tools with knowledge of the SF Symbols structure, so you can ed
Matt Birchler’s Folding iPhone Predictions
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 21:59:36
Matt Birchler: So, yeah, I do think that, especially this year, unit sales will far lag behind the 18 Pro models, the normal iPhone 18, and probably the Air 2 and 18e. I think they will lag next year as well for similar reasons. I don’t know if this w
Ngram error rate
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-07 20:35:45
The Online Etymological Dictionary gives the following etymology for grok: grok (v.) “understand empathically,” 1961, an arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book “Stranger in a Strange
★ And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 18:31:55
What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-07 16:48:42
As an antidote to the overwhelmingly depressing news of the world, I highly recommend reading the new article in the New York Times about this mathematical result. There have been some articles about this earlier in places like Scientific American …
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-09-07 16:24:08
Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-
Netflix Moves toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30,000+ Streaming Jobs
InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 16:06:00
Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler for more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level approach addresses limitations of Netflix’s cluster level autoscaler for complex, stateful pipelines. Net
Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous?
old new thing @ 2026-09-07 16:00:00
Imagining how to report a memory allocation failure for a sparse page. The post Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Kotlin 2.4.20 Released
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57
The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers
Kotlin 2.4.20 Released
Kotlin news @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57
The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers
Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2
InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 12:09:00
Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone
The planet is… up to something
AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:01:00
An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Continental divide
AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:00:00
A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon
Análisis de ajedrez | Un formato divertido
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-07 11:22:23
Partidas rápidas con sistemas de puntuación que estimulan la combatividad generan partidas tan trepidantes como esta
CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian for its Accelerator Controls Infrastructure
InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 09:07:00
CERN engineers announced a shift from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian for its accelerator control systems. This decision stems from Red Hat's tightening compiler mandates, which threatened legacy hardware. The transition, focused on 2,200 specializ
vlt 1.0 Ships as a Drop-in npm Replacement with Phased Installs, Graph Queries, and Malware-Blocking
InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 08:31:00
vlt, created by the original npm team, has launched version 1.0 as a drop-in replacement for npm. It features phased installations to prevent automatic script execution, a queryable dependency graph with over 60 selectors, and hosted registries that bloc
EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List
Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00
This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, o
EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities
Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00
In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Pr
Rust debugging survey 2026 results
Rust blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00
One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey , in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what pro
MCP Logging in Spring AI
Baeldung @ 2026-09-07 01:19:21
Learn about MCP logging in Spring AI, both in an MCP server and a client. The post MCP Logging in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung . Comments In reply to Hayrullah. Hey,
Meta AI Has a Native Mac App Now, and It Seems Decent
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 22:44:27
Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit an
WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:06:27
My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay kee
Matt Haughey: ‘The Car Industry A/B Tested Selling a Car With and Without CarPlay and the Results Are Not Shocking’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:04:12
Matt Haughey: One case in point is the Honda Prologue EV. It’s a partnership between Honda and Chevrolet, where the Prologue is basically a Chevy Blazer EV with Honda badges, slight visual differences in the sheetmetal and interior, but all the underp
Trump Administration Launches Rip-Off Video Games at Arcade.gov
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:51:09
A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and, most notably , Tetris (the one where you “build a wall” to keep border-crossing migrants out) — the copyright to which i
Gurman on Schiller’s Departure and Ternus’s Goals for the App Store
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:00:01
Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable. Unlike Maestri, he still had a real job: The veteran executive ran the App Store and Apple Events. The App Store portion alone is no joke. I
Dickover of the Week: Slashdot Put One in Their RSS Feed
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:30:00
How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into an RSS feed via iframes in the entry bodies? ★
Litterbox: Safari Extension for Viewing X Tweets
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:19:31
In the wake of Nitter/XCancel’s demise , here’s a delightful new Safari extension from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur fame): But sometimes people still post X content. Maybe you want to see Gruber roast Google Design . Maybe you want to see posts by
Análisis de ajedrez | Sindárov sigue muy consistente
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-06 17:03:06
A diez semanas del duelo por el título mundial contra el desdibujado Gukesh, el uzbeko es el 4º del escalafón a los 20 años
The E6 Root Polytope
John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33
I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w
The E6 Root Polytope
Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33
I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w
Java Weekly, Issue 662
Baeldung @ 2026-09-06 11:25:19
The three Loom pillars and, more importantly, the tooling. Plus IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 getting close. The post Java Weekly, Issue 662 first appeared on Baeldung .
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 21:42:43
Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simp
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 5)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-05 20:27:05
Computing Why Everyone in Quantum Computing Is Buzzing About Google’s Move Into ‘Neutral Atoms’Adam Bluestein | Fast Company “Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived.... The post This Week’s Awesome
Proof of the rank-trace theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-05 19:04:13
The previous post discussed the motivation for and application of the rank-trace theorem. This post will give a proof. Suppose A is a real symmetric matrix. The rank-trace inequality says where tr is the trace operator, the sum of the elements along the d
‘Bob and Van’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 18:08:24
Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass
Análisis de ajedrez | El genio chico gana al mayor
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-05 10:47:31
Esta trepidante pelea podría haber sido mucho mejor, pero los 57 años de Ivanchuk cobraron su factura ante los 15 de Erdogmus
Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Replacing Shantanu Narayen
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 02:05:47
Annie Palmer, CNBC: Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year. Chakravarthy, who most recently served as president of Adobe’s customer exper
The revolt of the reader
The observation deck @ 2026-09-05 02:00:00
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not onl
NBA Brings the Hammer on the Clippers — $30 Million Fine, 5 First-Round Draft Picks, and Steve Ballmer Is Banned for a Year
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 01:23:34
Mike Vorkunov, reporting for The Athletic (gift link): The NBA levied the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday after a year-long investigation determined that they circumvented the league’s sal
Análisis de ajedrez | Un Ave Fénix que galopa
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-04 22:32:18
Un final artístico del israelí Michael Pasman que aúna belleza, utilidad práctica y gran valor didáctico
Apple Fixed TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 22:04:47
I wrote two weeks ago about how the v4.3.0 update to TestFlight (released on July 21) broke the sort order for apps in the sidebar. Apple yesterday released v4.3.1, with these helpful release notes: This update includes stability improvements and bu
Vinted
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 21:55:45
Remarking on MapQuest taking the #1 spot in the App Store (in the wake of their decision to ignore President Trump’s fiat renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America”), I mentioned yesterday that I’d never heard of Vinted, the #3 app. (A day later and Map
Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment
Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-04 21:08:33
A new system allows agents to orchestrate complex experimental processes and extends Anthropic's reach into the physical world. The post Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment appeared first on SingularityH
★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 20:07:18
It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.
What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition
Swift blog @ 2026-09-04 18:30:00
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 18:15:43
Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 mill
Richard Stearns (1936-2026)
Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-04 16:45:10
Richard Stearns (right) and Juris Hartmanis in May 1963. The main theorem from their seminal paper is on the blackboard. Stearns sent Lance this picture to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the paper . Richard Stearns died on Aug
Computing a lower bound on matrix rank
The Endeavour @ 2026-09-04 16:16:16
Suppose you want to know the rank of an n × n matrix A, the number of linearly independent rows of A, or equivalently the number of linearly independent columns. There are at least three difficulties. Difficulties in computing rank First of all, rank is n
What happens if you change a window class’s GCL_CBWNDEXTRA?
old new thing @ 2026-09-04 16:00:00
You're changing the value for future windows. The post What happens if you change a window class’s <CODE>GCL_<WBR>CBWNDEXTRA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Upend the trickle-down
AEON @ 2026-09-04 12:00:00
Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon