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

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

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

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

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

Reported by Vladimir Davydov and Sergey Kaplun. #1441

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 22:00:00

Researchers have been on a quest for simple, reliable Alzheimer’s tests for years The post New Blood Test Could Predict When Alzheimer’s Symptoms Will Present appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 22:00:00

The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use o

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 21:00:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-states in

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

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

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

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

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

For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state of hep-th for quite a while. Sabine … Continue read

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

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

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 20:00:00

Apple's Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and text, and interact with apps by, e.g., reading messages, checking health data, and more

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 20:00:00

It’s the first known direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris re-entry The post Fiery Crash of SpaceX Rocket Causes Huge Lithium Plume appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 20:00:00

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will

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

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

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 19:23:03

Related ongoing thread: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona - - Feb 2026 (282 comments) Comments URL: Points: 364 # Comme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 19:01:28

Speaking of OpenClaw, here’s Scott Shambaugh: I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting library. At ~130 million downloads each month it’s some of the most widely used software in the world. We, like many other open source p

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 19:01:00

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 -- neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z i

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

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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:53:15

Sam Altman, last week on Twitter/X: Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful th

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

Erin Griffith and Karen Weise, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): More than he did at any other major tech company, Mr. Epstein found success boring into the inner sanctums of Microsoft. Leveraging one connection into the next, he became pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 18:23:33

Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge (gift link): With Spencer’s retirement official, Microsoft is hitting the reset button on Bond’s Xbox strategy instead of embracing it further. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma is now promising “the return of Xbox,”

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 18:21:11

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 18:15:17

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slashdot @ 2026-02-24 18:01:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 18:00:00

Colorectal cancer in young people has been rising for 30 years. We still don't know why—and that's killing people. The post The Cancer No One Can Explain appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 17:19:23

Abby Haddican: Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For example, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon . To the untrained eye, Times New Resistanc

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 17:04:00

Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix-like subscription platform, and the result is that nobody -- possibly not even Microsoft -- can clearly articu

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Here’s when Earth’s climate became chaotic The post The Ancient Cold Snaps That May Have Shaped Human Evolution appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 16:00:00

Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. From a report: In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord's head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the company "

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

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

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

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

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

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

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 15:00:00

Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for "abetting terrorist activities," [non-paywalled source] in the latest sign that his uneasy relationship with the Kremlin has broken down. From a report: Two Russian newspapers, includ

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

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 14:04:16

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 14:03:51

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 14:00:00

Its outsized nasal cavities helped it maintain body temperature The post How the Triceratops Used Its Giant Nose appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 14:00:00

Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 13:16:45

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 13:00:00

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud. By Craig R

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 12:59:14

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

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

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 11:16:00

Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Economic research shows "vibe coding" weakens the user engagement that sustains open s

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 11:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: A team of researchers working at Quantinuum in the United Kingdom and QuSoft in the Netherlands has now developed a quantum algorithm that solves a specific sampling task -- known as complement sampling -- d

InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 09:00:00

Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle complex SRE tasks like context propagation. I

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 08:00:00

U.S. battery storage installations hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025, and Texas is now poised to surpass California as the nationâ(TM)s largest storage market in 2026. Electrek reports: According to the US Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from the So

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 06:47:23

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John Carlos Baez @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you wh

Physics Phorums @ 2026-02-24 04:53:45

Say you want to find all the N-tone equal tempered scales that have better fifths than any scale with fewer notes. Mathematically this means you want to find all fractions that come closer to than any fraction with a smaller denominator. Let me show you wh

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston's door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries. According to Huddleston, th

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 04:10:16

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InfoQ @ 2026-02-24 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of H

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 03:27:14

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slashdot @ 2026-02-24 03:02:00

In her first major interview as Microsoft's new gaming chief, Asha Sharma said that "great games" must deliver emotional resonance and a distinct creative voice, while making clear that she has "no tolerance for bad AI." Stepping in after Phil Spencer's re

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-24 02:56:23

I was doing some research today and ran into a couple instances where part of one law was copied and pasted verbatim into another law. I suppose this is not uncommon, but I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t have that much experience comparing laws. I

Confluent @ 2026-02-24 02:30:25

Learn how to safely break off your first microservice from a monolith using a low-risk, incremental migration approach.

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 02:25:00

joshuark quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users. This bug has been acknowledged almost two months after the first

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 02:00:00

Brent Simmons, last month: The big change from 6.2.1 is that it adopts the Liquid Glass UI and it requires macOS 26. (Note to people who aren’t on macOS 26: we fixed a lot of bugs in 6.2 and 6.2.1 knowing that many people might skip, or at least del

slashdot @ 2026-02-24 01:45:00

A 7,000-word "doomsday" thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, "painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work," reports the Wal

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 01:38:02

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 01:33:06

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-24 01:31:00

Norbert Heger: In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved. You’ll never guess what happened between the RC (release candidate) version and the actua

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Douglas Adams schrieb in “Lachs im Zweifel”: Alles, was es schon gibt, wenn du auf die Welt kommst, ist normal und üblich und gehört zum selbstverständlichen Funktionieren der Welt dazu. Alles, was zwischen deinem 15. und 35. Lebensjahr erfunde

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury....

Inside Java @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

This article analyzes why we need to look beyond GC pauses to enable maximal infrastructure efficiency and introduces the new Java API for GC CPU in OpenJDK 26. These capabilities empower engineers and researchers to quantify the collector's CPU overhead,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model should come with predictable outcomes, rather than uncertainty. Our third-party model v

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-24 01:00:00

Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload migrations in the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11, included i

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-24 00:58:45

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-24 00:00:00

New research offers an elegant explanation The post Why This Region of Space Appears to Be Populated by Snowmen appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 23:55:08

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-23 23:35:51

A new tool takes relatively few resources to chart algorithms' inner workings and steer their behavior. The post Researchers Break Open AI’s Black Box—and Use What They Find Inside to Control It appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 23:11:34

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 23:05:27

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 22:44:28

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:40:48

Trader Joe’s: Like their milk chocolate brethren on our shelves, our Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are made with real peanut butter that’s made with slowly roasted and ground Virginia peanuts. The luscious, smooth, rich, dark chocolate enveloping

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-23 22:28:14

Brad Reese, on LinkedIn last week : My grandfather, H. B. Reese (Who Invented Reese’s), built Reese’s on a simple, enduring architecture: Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Not a flavor idea. Not a marketing construct. A real, tangible product identity

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 22:15:20

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Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-23 22:00:00

But recognize that it’s a useful survival trait The post Blame Your Parents for Your Extreme Aversion to Snakes appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 21:16:08

"I Want to Wash My Car. The Car Wash Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive?" This question has been making the rounds as a simple AI logic test so I wanted to see how it holds up across a broad set of models. Ran 53 models (leading open-source, open-

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-23 21:05:15

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The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 20:20:23

John Coltrane’s song Giant Steps is known for its unusual and difficult chord changes. Although the chord progressions are complicated, there aren’t that many unique chords, only nine. And there is a simple pattern to the chords; the difficult

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-23 20:00:00

Bananas could get wiped out, it’s happened before The post New Gene Discovery Could Postpone the Bananapocalypse appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-02-23 19:24:30

We’re introducing Strands Labs, a new Strands GitHub organization designed to give developers the ability to get hands-on with experimental, state-of-the-art approaches to agentic AI development. The Strands Agents SDK – available for both Python and TypeS

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-23 19:20:41

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others. The post How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-23 18:00:00

New cannabis research shows why we get snacky when we get high The post The Brain Science Behind the Munchies appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-23 17:56:24

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Ki

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-23 17:50:51

Muy pocos pueden exhibir una victoria sobre el multicampeón Kárpov tan contundente como esta del genial neerlandés antes de ser una gran estrella

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing, head-of-line blocking mitigation, adaptive auto-rebalancing, and

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Welcome to CSI: Cretaceous Period The post Paleontologists Solve a Prehistoric Murder Mystery appeared first on Nautilus .

old new thing @ 2026-02-23 16:00:00

Sniffing the synchronous keyboard state is still not precise enough. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:35:29

Quantum 10, 2009 (2026). Quantum computing is deemed to require error correction at scale to mitigate physical noise by reducing it to lower noise levels while operating on encoded logical qubits. Popular quant

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 14:14:27

Quantum 10, 2008 (2026). Unitary designs are essential tools in several quantum information protocols. Similarly to other design concepts, unitary designs are mainly used to facilitate averaging over a relevant

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 14:00:00

TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual successor to TSLint, it offers near-instant diagnostics and fixes, levera

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:57:38

Quantum 10, 2007 (2026). We study the task of localizing multipartite entanglement in pure quantum states onto a subsystem by measuring the remaining systems. To this end, we fix a multipartite entanglement mea

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-23 13:50:12

Big moves in roots can correspond to small moves in chords. Imagine the 12 notes of a chromatic scale arranged around the hours of a clock: C at 12:00, C♯ at 1:00, D at 2:00, etc. The furthest apart two notes can be is 6 half steps, just as the furthest a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:35:42

Quantum 10, 2006 (2026). We propose modifying topological quantum error correcting codes by incorporating space-time defects, termed “time vortices,'' to reduce the number of physical qubits required

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-23 13:35:00

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security, has some advice on how to mitigate the risks. While there is no proven safe way to run high-permis

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-23 13:00:03

Quantum 10, 2005 (2026). In stochastic modeling, the excess entropy – the mutual information shared between a process's past and future – represents the fundamental lower bound of the memory needed to simu

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:01:00

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-23 12:00:00

Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness - by Carlos Santana Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 11:44:00

Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding libraries, though productivity gains were not statistically significant. Those who used AI for conceptual inquiry scored 65% or highe

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 09:00:00

Rivet Sandbox Agent SDK provides a universal API for coding agents, allowing developers to work with different agent runtimes like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp without rewriting their integration for each one. It addresses the fragmentation acro

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 06:19:26

Learn that the 'elements were left unbound' Spring Boot exception is a deliberate design choice to enforce strict configuration correctness and prevents subtle runtime bugs. The post Resolving Spring Boot Exception: The Elements Were Left Unbound firs

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 05:00:00

iostat was enabled to show latency distributions in Solaris 11.4. However, there is another tool able to show latencies. The fsstat command got this capability as well with the -l option. With this tool you can check latencies from the perspective

InfoQ @ 2026-02-23 03:30:00

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 16th, 2026, highlighting the second milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Integration; Spring Modulith; and Spring AMQP; along with the first milesto

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Mit 14 kann man also mit sozialen Netzwerken umgehen? Einfach so? So von einem Tag auf den anderen? Halte ich für eine gewagte These. Ich bin kein Vater, werde auch keiner mehr werden. Ich gebe zu, dass mir die schwierigen Seiten der Erziehung fremd si

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption. We want to see DeFi thr

Rust blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

We're launching a Rust Debugging Survey . Various issues with debugging Rust code are often mentioned as one of the biggest challenges that annoy Rust developers. While it is definitely possible to debug Rust code today, there are situations where it

Inside Java @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

This episode presents Project Amber lead Brian Goetz’s recent email “Data Oriented Programming, Beyond Records”, wherein he describes plans to improve Java’s data handling capabilities by introducing carrier classes, a generalization of records...

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Sovereignty isn’t something that’s purely discussed in boardrooms in 2026—it’s a strategic initiative centered around business continuity and a way for organizations to reclaim autonomy, control, and choice across their technology stacks. However, sovereig

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-23 01:00:00

Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a "soft" cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your developer platform will actually deliver business value.I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where companies

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:32:06

Explore the most practical ways to retrieve raw XML from SOAP messages in Java using SAAJ, JAX-WS, Apache CXF, or Spring Web Services. The post How to Get Raw XML From a SOAP Message in Java first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:25:57

Learn about Apache Spark executors and how to set them in both static and dynamic allocation modes. The post Set Amount of Spark Executors first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-02-23 00:22:07

Discover the security improvements that the JDK 24 release brings.  The post JDK 24 Security Enhancements first appeared on Baeldung .              

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-22 23:05:00

A commenter on  this post  asked for me (or anyone) to solve the problem without AI: A,B,C,D,E are digits (the poster said A could be 0 but I took A to be nonzero)  such that ABCDE + BCDE + CDE + DE + E = 20320. I solved it complete

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-22 21:58:55

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

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 20:17:58

The previous post looked at the Bitcoin network hash rate, currently around one zettahash per second, i.e. 1021 hashes per second. The difficulty of mining a Bitcoin block adjusts over time to keep the rate of block production relatively constant, around

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 19:30:40

When I first heard of cryptographic hash functions, they were called “one-way functions” and seemed like a mild curiosity. I had no idea that one day the world would compute a mind-boggling number of hashes every second. Because Bitcoin mining

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-22 19:05:37

El neerlandés inmortal fue un rival muy temible para todas las estrellas de su época, incluido Gari Kaspárov, a quien tumbó en esta vibrante lucha

InfoQ @ 2026-02-22 11:25:00

Databricks has recently announced the general availability of Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. Lakebase is designed to integrate with the Databricks platform, providing a hybrid solutio

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-22 02:00:31

I’ve written a couple times about Fibonacci numbers and certificates. Here the certificate is auxiliary data that makes it faster to confirm that the original calculation was correct. This post puts some timing numbers to this. I calculated the 10 m

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-21 19:40:42

Como es lógico en alguien que fue 2º jugador del mundo, el neerlandés buscó siempre que sus composiciones de finales tuvieran, además de enorme belleza, una gran utilidad práctica

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-21 19:13:13

I’ve written before about computing big Fibonacci numbers, and about creating a certificate to verify a Fibonacci number has been calculated correctly. This post will revisit both, giving a different approach to computing big Fibonacci numbers that

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 16:47:00

The TypeScript team recently released TypeScript 6 in beta. The release serves as a key transition point rather than a full feature release. It focuses on technical debt elimination and standardization, preparing the ecosystem for TypeScript 7, a rewrite

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 16:14:00

OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line production system. The platform integrates observability, architectural constraints, and structured documentation to automate key

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-21 16:00:00

Computing Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 YearsGayoung Lee | Gizmodo “Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Ar

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 11:33:00

In a blog post, AWS recently described an event-driven pattern for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, allowing developers to trigger Lambda functions in response to database events via CloudWatch Logs and SQS. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ @ 2026-02-21 10:00:00

NET 11 Preview 1 is released, featuring Runtime Async as the headline change, moving async method handling from the compiler into the runtime itself. The preview also brings CoreCLR WebAssembly work, native Zstandard compression, C# 15 collection express

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Es gibt Jobs, die will man nicht haben. Kläranlagentaucher beispielsweise. Ich möchte diesem Beruf nicht nachgehen. Sicherlich gut bezahlt. Sicherlich interessant. Aber das Bad in den Abwässern einer Stadt erscheint mir nicht wünschenswert. Ein Beruf g

Inside Java @ 2026-02-21 01:00:00

Serialization has been a part of the Java Platform since the 1.1 release. While serialization brings with it a lot of utility and was key in Java's early success, it does have some pretty significant issues as well. In this episode of Stack Walker, we revi

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 21:00:00

Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.

Confluent @ 2026-02-20 17:00:09

Advanced best practices for running MongoDB Atlas Source and Sink Connectors on Confluent Cloud with high throughput, schema integrity, and production resilience.

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-02-20 17:00:00

Compare seven enterprise AI evaluation platforms on deployment, compliance, and pricing to find the right fit for your organization in 2026.

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:01

The pocket reference guide for 2026/2027. The post The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Sniffing the asynchronous keyboard state. The post Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-20 16:00:00

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements? The post What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-20 15:45:17

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds. The post Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-20 14:41:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 546 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cafeína; Cuántica y Números Complejos; Altruismo y Ética; Supernova”, 19 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 12:27:25

Quantum resistant cryptogrphy coming to JDK 27 The post Java Weekly, Issue 634 first appeared on Baeldung .              

AEON @ 2026-02-20 12:00:00

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-20 11:40:15

Fallecido este miércoles, activo en ajedrez hasta su último día, el neerlandés fue una gran estrella y deja una obra maravillosa

Swift blog @ 2026-02-20 11:00:00

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics , a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across p

brucknerite @ 2026-02-20 10:00:00

Imaginad la escena. Una pareja, chico y chica. Un coche. El capó levantado transmitiendo la señal universal de «avería». Él, fuera del coche, de pie, en la actitud que ordenan las leyes no escritas del patriarcado. Mira hacia las profundidades del motor co

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 02:00:00

There are actually several ways to restart a Solaris system. On one hand, there is what one might call the normal reboot. This is triggered with reboot -p . This reboot goes through the firmware respectively. Consequently, the reboot can also take a bit

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Es ist Samstag. Einkaufen, nicht nur für mich. Darf ich eigentlich auf dem Mutter-und-Kind-Stellplatz parken, wenn ich meine Mutter zum Einkaufen fahre? Der Kofferraum voll. Ich sitze wieder im Auto. Rückwärtsgang eingelegt. Ich schüttle den Kopf. Über Fu

Inside Java @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In 2026, Java keeps evolving: Project Valhalla is gunning for merging its value types preview in the second half of this year; Babylon wants to incubate code reflection; Loom will probably finalize the structured concurrency API; Leyden plans to ship AOT c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is no

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We no

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-20 01:00:00

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push tow

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-20 00:29:06

Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport: IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV, which has taken over

Baeldung @ 2026-02-20 00:28:34

Learn how to use IDs sorted by their generation times. The post Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers with Hypersistence TSID first appeared on Baeldung .              

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-19 23:57:31

I’ve been trying to write up some new ideas about Wick rotation for a long time now, keep getting stuck as it becomes clear at various points that I haven’t gotten to the bottom of what is going on. To … Continue reading →

Confluent @ 2026-02-19 19:58:55

Learn how to design future-proof architectures for hybrid and multicloud environments, balancing portability, resilience, and long-term flexibility.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-19 17:41:56

Las posiciones iniciales con alfiles en los rincones son de las más controvertidas de la modalidad y pueden originar partidas tan convulsas como esta

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-19 17:25:00

At JetBrains, we aim to make Kotlin development as accessible and efficient as possible across the entire ecosystem. While IntelliJ IDEA remains the premier IDE for Kotlin, we recognize that many developers use Visual Studio Code for a variety of tasks and

Deepmind @ 2026-02-19 17:06:14

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

old new thing @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Summarizing the flow. The post Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-19 16:00:00

Running on a brain-like chip, the 'eye' could help robots and self-driving cars make split-second decisions. The post This ‘Machine Eye’ Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 15:42:00

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe . I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design , since its very earliest days, having the good fortune to be a sounding board for Eric Evans when he wrote his seminal

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-19 14:57:00

If you've hung around agile circles for long, you've probably heard about the concept of servant leadership , that managers should think of themselves as supporting the team, removing blocks, protecting them from the vagaries of corporate life. That's ne

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:01:00

Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-02-19 12:00:00

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time - by Carlo Iacono Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-19 05:41:38

A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live immersive sports broadcasting

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Many years ago, when I was younger and thought a PhD sounded like a sensible life choice, I started one. Early on, a lecturer gave me a piece of advice that stuck: “Don’t watch the program run.” He meant the long jobs. Training a neural net. Runn

Rust blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

We are happy to announce that the Rust Project will again be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 , same as in the previous two years. If you're not eligible or interested in participating in GSoC, then most of this post likely isn't releva

Inside Java @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Java's checked exceptions are both an integral part of the language and one of its most contested features. Whether their introduction was a mistake and whether they should all be turned unchecked are frequently discussed topics but since the former is not

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the intersection of complex technology challenges and open source-based, community-driven innovation. Over the last few year

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-19 01:00:00

No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an architect scaling a global fleet, the most impactful stories are those where expertise and coll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 22:15:10

Paul Ford, in an op-ed for The New York Times (gift link): All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingl

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-18 18:07:15

La modalidad más moderna obliga a un cuidado extremo en la apertura, como demuestra esta didáctica miniatura de Aronián sobre Sindárov

ASF @ 2026-02-18 18:00:00

By: Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks ahe

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-18 17:09:15

Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals. The post The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Deepmind @ 2026-02-18 17:01:38

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-18 16:53:00

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced Rachel Laycock and I to do a quick video. We’re often asked if this even

old new thing @ 2026-02-18 16:00:00

I guess it could, but why bother? The post Could <CODE>Write­Process­Memory</CODE> be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-18 15:25:00

Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was a leader in the mathematical reasoning about knowledge. His paper with Yoram Moses,  Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Envir

AEON @ 2026-02-18 12:01:00

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-18 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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-18 01:08:45

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three major cities around the world. It is simply described as a “special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information about what it may entail. The invit

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-18 01:00:00

We introduced Protocol last June which organized our work around three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX. A lot has happened since then! In this post, we want to share what we accomplished last year, how our thinking has evolved,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-17 23:56:48

The self-spreading CRISPR tool increased editing efficiency roughly three-fold compared to older versions. The post Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus appeared first on SingularityHub .