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InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 12:13:00

Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 compute allowance from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM with no public announcement. Support agents gave conflicting answers on whether PAYG accounts are affected. Documentation states the new limits

slashdot @ 2026-07-03 12:00:00

The US age-adjusted death rate fell to a record low in 2025, likely pushing life expectancy to a record high as overdose deaths declined and mortality improved across all age groups. CNN reports: There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the

AEON @ 2026-07-03 12:00:00

The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain - by Julie Reshe Read on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-03 11:57:13

KotlinConf 2026 marked a milestone for the Kotlin community: the very first Golden Kodee Community Awards. The awards recognize the individuals and communities whose passion and dedication help the Kotlin ecosystem thrive. From creating educational content

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-07-03 09:53:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 564 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B], titulado “Disclosure Day; Francois Englert; 3I/ATLAS; Estrellas de Mar”, 25 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 564: Obit

InfoQ @ 2026-07-03 08:38:00

Google has released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for AI agents to declare user interface intent across multiple platforms without arbitrary code. The update emphasizes alignment with existing design systems. It includes a new SDK for Python,

slashdot @ 2026-07-03 08:00:00

Amazon says its Leo satellite network now has enough spacecraft in orbit to begin limited commercial internet service, with 396 satellites providing "continuous service across initial latitudes." Early performance will likely be uneven, however, and well b

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-03 06:16:17

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slashdot @ 2026-07-03 04:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cance

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-03 02:01:06

Recent and related: Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau - - June 2026 (604 comments) Comments URL: Points: 264

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-03 02:00:00

IBM, Red Hat, and Deloitte Announce Lightwell Collaboration to Help Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain TrustDeloitte is teaming up with IBM and Red Hat to support Lightwell and strengthen the enterprise open source software supply chain. By back

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-03 00:57:35

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-03 00:30:40

Mike Dano, in a long ( too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app ): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:55:31

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247 , we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 23:31:04

EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very mu

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 23:05:00

The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, that's the lowest participation rate since June 1976. CNBC reports: The decline in the l

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 23:03:45

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 22:32:31

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 22:00:00

Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack carried out end to end by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited exposed systems, stole credentials, established persistence, compromised a production database, and destroyed data. The research t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:38:45

After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 21:14:31

Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. He promised a quick, cheap fix. Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned t

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 21:00:00

The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. "It is time for us to recognize that these problems

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 20:41:19

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 20:29:01

Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 20:05:00

Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features. According to Wired, "[U]sers will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for their smart glasses, whether it's the Ray-Ban, Oakley

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 19:09:42

Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly , is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to int

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 19:00:00

OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, potentially alongside similar contributions from other major AI companies. "Such a deal would help improve the industry's relations with the Trump administration and could help gar

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 18:13:13

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody knows . My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, w

Swift blog @ 2026-07-02 18:00:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. June was an exciting month for Swift, featuring announcements at WWDC and community events around the globe. We invited the organ

InfoQ @ 2026-07-02 18:00:00

Announced at WWDC 2026, the latest SwiftUI release brings a new Document protocol for efficient disk access and snapshot-based updates, along with improved APIs for reordering items in lists, grids, and sections. In addition, it expands presentation feat

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp this week started rolling out username reservations ahead of the broader launch planned later this year. The feature -- which lets people find and message each other by handle instead of phone n

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 17:55:57

Jason Koebler, a month ago at 404 Media: Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. One

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 17:25:16

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 17:02:26

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slashdot @ 2026-07-02 17:00:00

OnePlus is directing customers in some European markets toward OPPO devices, with its German website presenting OPPO as the natural upgrade path for existing users. The regional handoff adds to "months of speculation that the smartphone brand is slowly bei

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-02 16:57:31

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true. The post Astrophysicists Puz

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 16:23:09

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 16:13:26

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old new thing @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00

Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that. The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-02 16:00:00

A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause. The post Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking M

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 15:43:41

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InfoQ @ 2026-07-02 13:27:00

A company shifted from project- to product-thinking after their platform outgrew single-team use. The limitations that they felt with their platform were one-off deliveries, lack of product vision, and weak feedback loops. They have moved toward a self-s

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 13:17:45

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slashdot @ 2026-07-02 13:00:00

IEEE Spectrum argues that orbital data centers remain far from economically or technically practical despite Elon Musk's prediction that space will become the cheapest place to run AI within a few years. Deploying SpaceX's proposed million-satellite conste

InfoQ @ 2026-07-02 12:04:00

Apple chose Google Cloud to run Private Cloud Compute outside its own data centers for the first time, using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Intel TDX, and Google's Titan chip. Apple maintains an independent append-only hardware ledger and dual-vendor attestation

AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:01:00

‘Society, in fact, is neighbourhoods’ – how Karl Hess transformed from a Republican speechwriter into a radical welder - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 12:00:27

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AEON @ 2026-07-02 12:00:00

In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains - by Skye C Cleary Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 10:34:13

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-07-02 10:01:15

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brucknerite @ 2026-07-02 10:00:00

La sostenibilidad del sector del transporte requiere reducir a un mínimo las emisiones de CO₂, pero hay una circunstancia en la que disponer de una flota activa de locomotoras diésel es no ya aconsejable, sino necesario.

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 09:00:00

According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX showed investors an early prototype of a slim, "handset-like" AI device running a proprietary operating system and integrating xAI technology. Elon Musk, however, denied the report, calling it "utterly false." T

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs. The trend could even un

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

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4 is generally available with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.30, and Kiali to 2.27. Several updates to Is

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

Explore the latest work on the HotSpot JVM, with a focus on auto-vectorization and the Vector API.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-02 01:26:45

Cellular download speed and reception is nearly a solved problem for my needs. Battery life is not.

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 01:00:00

T-Mobile appears to be migrating its 303,000-core VMware environment to another platform while fighting Broadcom in court for the extended support it says its perpetual-license agreement guarantees. "The matter is somewhat urgent," The Register reports, be

slashdot @ 2026-07-02 00:00:00

Meta is reportedly developing its own cloud business that could sell access to its AI models and lease data-center computing capacity to other companies. The move would put Meta in direct competition with Amazon, Google, and SpaceX. Engadget reports: The c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 21:55:26

Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up t

Computational Complexity @ 2026-07-01 21:19:17

Harry Lewis pointed Bill and me to Gottfried Leibniz's 1677 treatise  The True Method  (translated from the original French ). I highly recommend taking the time to read this three page document where he talks about formalizing all human knowle

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 20:04:29

Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While this might seem like an easy solution, it doesn’t align with our beliefs about how healthy ecos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-01 19:36:39

Praggnanandhaa doblega a Keymer con una lección magistral sobre el peligro de un par de alfiles en posición muy abierta

AWS Blog @ 2026-07-01 19:20:30

Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-ri

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 17:48:09

The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta. Sponsored by: Coax :

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-01 16:42:02

Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses. “Apple Hide My Email

InfoQ @ 2026-07-01 16:05:00

Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces retailer-specific implementations with a shared execution engine, enabling scalable personalization, fast

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-01 16:00:02

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab. The post For the First Time, a Cell Bui

old new thing @ 2026-07-01 16:00:00

Unlocking the door from the inside. The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Changing administrative settings appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 15:14:45

Quantum 10, 2152 (2026). Non-local quantum computation (NLQC) replaces a local interaction between two systems with a single round of communication and shared entanglement. Despite many partial results, it is k

InfoQ @ 2026-07-01 14:16:00

HeroUI v3 is a redesigned React component library, previously NextUI, offering over 75 components, including 21 new ones, and a new React Native library with 37 components. Built on React Aria and Tailwind CSS v4, it emphasizes accessibility and customiz

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 12:50:10

Quantum 10, 2151 (2026). The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-01 12:39:06

Quantum 10, 2150 (2026). We provide a complete mathematical theory for the entanglement of mixtures of Dicke states. These quantum states form an important subclass of bosonic states arising in the study of ind

AEON @ 2026-07-01 12:01:00

Hand-painted animations bring to life Isamu Noguchi’s ideas for playgrounds that could integrate art with everyday life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-01 11:50:23

Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, includ

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-01 11:50:23

Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, includ

This Week in Rust @ 2026-07-01 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 Endeavour @ 2026-07-01 02:21:21

This morning I wrote a post that included the central Delannoy numbers. The nth central Delannoy number Dn counts the number of ways a king can move from one corner of a chessboard to the diagonally opposite corner without backtracking. The more general D

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

Noch lange nicht genug — ein Vierteljahrhundert bei Sun und Oracle

Ethereum blog @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

Current global shifts clearly signal a critical need for shared, neutral digital public infrastructure outside the control of any single centralized actor. As a public, programmable network designed to operate without reliance on any single party, Ethereum

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

At Red Hat Summit 2026, the conversation centered on a critical reality: AI agents are arriving in enterprise IT faster than most environments can govern them. Across the keynotes and more than 50 technical sessions, Red Hat made its position clear—organiz

Red Hat blog @ 2026-07-01 02:00:00

Insights from a customer roundtable at Red Hat Summit 2026Platform engineering and operations leaders from across industries—including airlines, utilities, financial services, higher education, and government—gathered for a candid conversation about agenti

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 23:30:33

AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 22:56:44

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local N

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 22:54:32

Gnome is a deceptively clever animated GIF app by Lex Friedman: The truest thing about animated GIFs is that they are a critical pillar of modern human communication, and yet getting one into a Slack message or an iMessage thread or an email reply usu

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-30 22:15:11

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and doma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 22:12:08

Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings , they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month , ordering: APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 pre

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 21:40:38

Josh Marshall, writing at TPM (gift link): As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship by a 6 — or perhaps 5½ — vote margin. See Kate Riga’s report on the majority decision and Josh Kovensky’s piece on t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 20:52:47

Google no longer collects this information in a way that is susceptible to geofence warrants, and, more importantly, Apple never did.

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-30 20:51:36

Imagine the following dialog. Professor: f is a function of a real variable x that takes a real parameter k. Student: What’s a parameter? Professor: It’s a constant that can vary. Student: Then if it can vary, isn’t it a variable? Profes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 20:50:54

I know there’s been a lot of exciting World Cup action this week, but this 2018 clip from Japan is the best soccer video I’ve seen in a long while.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 18:33:55

The UK Competition and Markets Authority: ‘Steering’ — the ability for developers to engage with customers about off‑platform options — is currently banned by Apple and restricted by Google in the UK. Lifting these constraints would allow developers

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-06-30 18:24:36

The Travel Grant Application for EuroBSDCon 2026 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend EuroBSDCon through our travel grant program. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel expense

Deepmind @ 2026-06-30 18:02:40

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 17:44:49

Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters: Britain’s competition regulator ​on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside Apple and Alphabet’s Google app stores to cut fees and boost competition. The Comp

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-30 16:36:14

Golden rectangles The defining property of golden rectangle is that if you stick a square on its longer side, you get another golden rectangle. The smaller vertical rectangle is similar to the larger horizontal rectangle. This means φ / 1 = (1 + φ) / φ wh

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-06-30 16:03:02

Hi everyone! May and June brought so much Kotlin news that I needed a little extra space for this roundup. Kotlin turned 15, Kotlin 2.4.0 arrived with new capabilities for developers on every platform, and I found plenty of ways to learn, experiment, build

Kotlin news @ 2026-06-30 16:03:02

Hi everyone! May and June brought so much Kotlin news that I needed a little extra space for this roundup. Kotlin turned 15, Kotlin 2.4.0 arrived with new capabilities for developers on every platform, and I found plenty of ways to learn, experiment, build

old new thing @ 2026-06-30 16:00:01

Made it to another midpoint. The post 2026 mid-year link clearance appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2026-06-30 16:00:00

Finding an illicit place to hide data. The post A compatibility note on the abuse of Windows window class extra bytes appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-30 16:00:00

Switches drive nearly every machine. A new one, made of folded DNA, does the same work at the scale of molecules. The post This DNA Switch Could Control Molecular Machines appeared first on SingularityHub .

ASF @ 2026-06-30 15:00:00

Apache® Magpie provides open source maintainers with platform infrastructure for agent-assisted repository maintainership Wilmington, DE –  June 29, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on,

InfoQ @ 2026-06-30 15:00:00

Elastic open-sourced Atlas, a system built on Elasticsearch that maintains three categories of memory for agents. Atlas integrates with agents via MCP and maintains per-user isolation of memories. When evaluated on question-answering capability, it score

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 14:58:48

Quantum 10, 2149 (2026). Fault-tolerant quantum computers will depend crucially on the performance of the classical decoding algorithm which takes in the results of measurements and outputs corrections to the e

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 14:16:33

Quantum 10, 2148 (2026). The quantum Zeno effect is a fundamental mechanism for implementing the effective dynamics of projected Hamiltonian and Lindbladian systems. It approximates the target projected evoluti

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 14:09:58

Quantum 10, 2147 (2026). There has been a surge of recent interest in the Wigner's Friend paradox, sparking several novel thought experiments and no-go theorems. The main narrative has been that Wigner

InfoQ @ 2026-06-30 14:00:00

Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, extending AI-powered vulnerability remediation to teams using Azure Repos. By Craig Risi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 13:57:30

Quantum 10, 2146 (2026). We present efficient and practical protocols to measure the second Rényi entropy, whose exponential is known as the purity. Our approach is based on expressing the purity in terms of tr

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-30 13:27:52

La selección de EEUU es tan fuerte que el vencedor del torneo continental, un jugador fortísimo, es el 10º de la lista

AEON @ 2026-06-30 12:00:00

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand - by Carlo Cordasco Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 11:59:07

Quantum 10, 2145 (2026). Recent discoveries in asymptotically good quantum codes have intensified research on their application in quantum computation and fault-tolerant operations. This study focuses on the ad

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-30 11:33:36

Quantum 10, 2144 (2026). We prove that any $n$-qubit unitary can be implemented (i) approximately in time $\tilde O\big(2^{n/2}\big)$ with query access to an appropriate classical oracle, and also (ii) exactly

InfoQ @ 2026-06-30 11:09:00

AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation, snapshot-based rapid launch, and state preservation for up to eight hours. Redd

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-30 03:06:12

Here’s kind of a strange problem with an interesting solution: find a function f such that the derivative of f equals the inverse of f for all positive x. f ′(x) = f−1(x) This is a differential equation, but a very unusual one, one that cannot be so

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 02:59:08

Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, and Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, ​and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web by the ransomware group that stole

Rust blog @ 2026-06-30 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.96.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.96.1 is as

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-30 02:00:00

Maintaining operational stability while securing infrastructure against an ever-growing list of vulnerabilities is a daily balancing act. Red Hat Lightspeed provides the core services required to manage your infrastructure at scale.However, getting the mos

Inside Java @ 2026-06-30 02:00:00

ZGC is a concurrent garbage collector, meaning all heavy GC tasks are performed alongside application threads, resulting in sub-millisecond pause times. This talk will explore a brief history of ZGC, its internal mechanisms, the performance in JDK 25, and

InfoQ @ 2026-06-30 01:30:00

This week's Java roundup for June 22nd, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of Hardwood 1.0 and Endive 1.0; the June 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Quarkus, LangChain4j; the first beta release of WildFly 41; and introducing

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-30 01:17:38

Day One recognizes that many people struggle with journaling not because they can’t write, but because they don’t know how to begin or what a “good” journal entry about their day looks like. That’s why we built Daily Chat, a guided reflection experience t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-29 18:41:01

Pocas partidas relámpago añaden a la emoción tanta calidad e interés didáctico como esta, entre Firouzja y Abdusattórov

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-29 18:30:30

It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless services to solve real p

Confluent @ 2026-06-29 17:58:55

Learn how Confluent Cloud powers real-time fraud detection with, multi-layered encryption, and built-in financial compliance

Confluent @ 2026-06-29 17:58:33

Bridge the governance gap in real-time streaming. Learn how Confluent Stream Governance makes compliance an inherent property of data in motion.

InfoQ @ 2026-06-29 16:50:00

Asymm Systems has released Eliya 25.0.3, an OpenJDK 25 LTS distribution aimed at improving production diagnostics in Java environments. It consolidates several HotSpot features into an opt-in Production profile. Eliya is designed for teams needing reliab

InfoQ @ 2026-06-29 16:26:00

Target built a generative AI system to improve marketing campaign forecasting by retrieving and ranking similar historical campaigns. Using embeddings, vector search, and LLM ranking, it replaces rule-based workflows. Evaluation shows 75% top-1 and 100%

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-29 16:00:09

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it manage the strain? The post What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-06-29 16:00:00

The intended usage is encoded in the prefix. The post The evolution of window and class extra bytes in Windows appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-29 16:00:00

Let loose on existing regulations, AI models sniffed out known loopholes—and exposed entirely new ones too. The post Forget Code: AI Is Learning to Hack Society appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-29 14:12:05

The calculator utility bc has a minimal math library. For example, there’s no tangent function because you’re expected take the ratio of sine and cosine. (The Gnu version of bc does have a function for tangent, but the POSIX version does not.)

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-06-29 14:02:16

Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. The plugin will remain available on an open-source model so the community can continue its development.  Below, we explain why we’re

Kotlin news @ 2026-06-29 14:02:16

Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. The plugin will remain available on an open-source model so the community can continue its development.  Below, we explain why we’re

AEON @ 2026-06-29 12:01:00

When 13 billion years of the cosmos get condensed into 10 epic minutes, when in the timelapse do you think humans appear? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-06-29 12:00:00

Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index - by Yadvinder Malhi Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-06-29 10:00:00

GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report highlights an AI Paradox: although 78% of developers say they code faster, overall software delivery has not accelerated due to downstream testing and review bottlenecks and new challenges for enterprise governance

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-29 09:47:43

Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on how to submit a truly excellent vuln

Baeldung @ 2026-06-29 04:50:03

Learn how to use Tool Search Tool in Spring AI to find available tools without wasting extra tokens. The post Spring AI’s Dynamic Tool Discovery first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-06-29 04:46:15

Explore all key features introduced in Java 26. The post New Features in Java 26 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-06-29 04:37:29

Explore the Java API for Apache Paimon and learn how to perform CRUD operations on a Paimon database. The post A Guide to Apache Paimon Java API first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-29 03:32:24

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. (Who’d have thunk that I’d be getting paid to promote new uses for Markdown 22 years after releasing it ?) Sign-up forms were built f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-29 03:21:49

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography , often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-29 03:08:13

Matt Mullenweg: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-29 02:25:37

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and Insi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-29 02:00:00

AI is rapidly transforming how system administrators and developers interact with their environments. In 2025, we introduced the command line assistant, an optional tool available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that allows users to ask questions and ge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-29 02:00:00

Every telecommunications service provider is operationalizing AI right now. Use cases include customer care-bots, network operation co-pilots, and managed AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) for external enterprise customers and others. The uncomfortable part is corre

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-29 02:00:00

The velocity at which new features are added and applications evolve directly drives up architectural complexity. This relentless pace isn't just driven by the desire for new features; it is increasingly forced by the constant discovery of new vulnerabilit

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-28 21:19:23

Peter Brass is a prior NSF theory director. He has written an intelligent guest post on the new NSF guidelines that we present here. You have received many mails regarding the proposed OMB Uniform Guidance for federal grant making. It is a very long d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-28 19:21:42

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): If you’ve visited a cannabis club in Spain, [Sammy] Azdoufal says, chances are your photo ID was among them — and possibly your phone number, address, your favorite strains of cannabis, and how much y

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-28 13:50:01

El trabajo constante durante más de diez años con su entrenador, Jesús de la Villa, se nota en partidas como esta del multimedallista español

InfoQ @ 2026-06-28 10:00:00

Currently available as a beta in Xcode 27, Swift 6.4 introduces a range of enhancements: better C interoperability, simplified OS availability check, fine-grained warning control, async support in defer, efficient iteration for non-noncopyable types, up

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-28 02:33:33

Here’s a crazy bash one-liner I found via an article by Peter Krumins: echo {w,t,}h{e{n{,ce{,forth}},re{,in,fore,with{,al}}},ither,at} This prints 30 English words: when, whence, whenceforth, where, wherein, wherefore, wherewith, wherewithal, whithe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-28 01:35:00

Sanders’s tweet is better punctuated and capitalized, but it’s the same argument as Trump’s. Zero economic sense, 100 percent ideological wishful thinking.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-28 01:30:00

From the bottom of Rolfe Winkler’s report for The Wall Street Journal Thursday, on Apple’s unprecedented price increases (gift link): Apple’s price hikes arrived the day after Micron Technology, the big American maker of memory and storage, reported b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-28 00:39:51

From a September 2022 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, co-signed by Marco Rubio (then a Republican senator from Florida, currently secretary of state) and Mark Warner (Democratic senator from Virginia): We write to convey

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-28 00:15:28

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. Last October, we incre

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 22:24:18

Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, alas): Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 21:57:52

Grace Kay and Theo Wayt, writing for the paywalled-with-no-gift-links The Information: xAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with ri

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 21:49:41

OpenAI yesterday: We’re beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2× cheaper a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 21:37:58

Reed Albergotti and Ben Smith, reporting last night for Semaphor: The decision, in a letter sent Friday afternoon to Anthropic, is a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump Administration and one of the world’s most valuable private

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 21:14:16

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the same basic goal: to effortlessly play proprietary games on a TV screen. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have spent dec

Baeldung @ 2026-06-27 20:53:49

Learn about what causes the CommitFailedException when working with Kafka in Java and some approaches to help avoid it occurring. The post Understanding and Avoiding CommitFailedException in Kafka first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2026-06-27 20:48:47

Learn how to use HQL to query a string column against a regular expression. The post Regular Expression Support in HQL first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-06-27 20:42:09

Learn how to initialize Spring beans in the background using @Bean(bootstrap = BACKGROUND) to reduce startup latency while preserving dependency safety and lifecycle consistency. The post Bean Background Initialization in Spring Framework first appe

Baeldung @ 2026-06-27 20:36:54

Learn how to use jCasbin to define an access control model for Java applications, making use of standard approaches such as ACLs and RBAC. The post Authorization using jCasbin first appeared on Baeldung .          

Baeldung @ 2026-06-27 20:33:15

Learn how to use the new @EmbeddedTable annotation of Hibernate to map embeddable objects to secondary tables more cleanly. The post Guide to @EmbeddedTable in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .           &

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-27 20:12:03

The previous post looked at how many digits are in the reduced fraction for the nth harmonic number. I was curious about how long the cycle of digits in a harmonic number might be. I wrote about the period length for the digits of fractions almost a decad

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-27 18:54:31

Dos años después del oro sub-16 (y diez más tarde del sub-8 en el Europeo), el español termina 3º tras rozar el primer puesto todo el torneo

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-27 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 June 27) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-27 14:51:42

The previous post looked at writing the harmonic numbers as reduced fractions and estimating the number of digits in the numerator and denominator based on asymptotics. This is a follow up post with plots. We’ll choose our base b to be 2. And weR

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-27 03:51:03

The nth harmonic number is the sum of the reciprocals of the first n positive integers. Hn = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + … + 1/n The product of all the denominators is n!, so you could write Hn as a fraction Hn = p/q where p = n! Hn is an integer and q = n!. Wh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-27 01:22:50

This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-26 20:58:54

There's a vast difference between launching satellites and operating an industrial-scale computing infrastructure in orbit. The post Orbital Data Centers Are Seductive on Paper, but They Face Daunting Challenges in Reality appeared first on Singulari

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-26 19:31:59

Siempre efervescente por muchas horas que juegue, el prodigio argentino alumbra un maratón de 67 horas en la capital peruana

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-26 18:38:31

Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors: The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-26 17:39:38

Via MacRumors’s Buyer Guide, the current third-gen Apple TV 4K models were introduced in October 2022 , and sport the A15 Bionic chip that debuted with the iPhones 13 in 2021. It’s widely believed that new hardware models are coming this fall. I men

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-26 17:26:29

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful. The post After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade first app

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-06-26 16:16:08

IT support teams face a persistent challenge: employees expect instant answers to common questions (VPN setup, single sign-on troubleshooting, new-hire onboarding), but novel or complex issues still require human expertise. An AI agent that confidently ans

old new thing @ 2026-06-26 16:00:00

Tying two bugs together. The post The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Baeldung @ 2026-06-26 14:57:04

The agent harness seems to be the one thing in 2026. For really good reason. The post Java Weekly, Issue 652 first appeared on Baeldung .              

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-26 13:34:00

One of my favorite visuals for known vulnerabilities in curl is the mountain. It shows how many currently known vulnerabilities were present in the code through-out curl’s history. In the end of June 2026 it looks like this: Over time we get more vul