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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-06 15:37:48

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Ple

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-06 15:23:43

The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if yo

ASF @ 2026-08-06 15:00:00

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 13:59:00

Having a platform is not enough; the real challenge is ensuring that it is understandable, usable, and actually adopted by its users. A capability is done when it can be reliably used by others. To evaluate progress, you can ask yourself “Is this being

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-06 13:00:32

A veces se publican ideas sencillas en revistas como Nature y surge la pregunta de por qué nadie lo hizo antes. El tensor de piezogiración óptica es de cuarto rango […] La entrada El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂ fue escrita en La Cie

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 13:00:00

The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine in the United States after a clinical trial found it was about 27% more effective than a standard flu shot. Manufactured by Moderna and marketed as mFlusiva, the vaccine is expected to be available this fall

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:01:00

A striking meditation on inequality via the bold sculptures that sit amongst skyscrapers in Paris’s business district - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:00:00

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all? - by Sam Dresser Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 11:21:00

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write access to every database on the service. Microsoft blocked the entry point within two days but took until

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot readers schwit1 and fjo3 shared a report about BMW displaying a Spider-Man promotion on connected vehicle screens in more than 70 markets. According to reports, drivers had to play or dismiss the ad before they could use the infotainment

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 08:00:00

Running AI agents on Kubernetes raises a key question: should each agent get its own Pod? The kagent project argues no—agents are bursty, short-lived, can spawn subagents, and may wait for human approval, making one Pod per agent wasteful. Agent-substrat

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 07:51:00

Vercel Labs has introduced Zero, an experimental systems programming language aimed at AI rather than human users. It employs unique features like a specific toolchain contract and structured error messages. Reaching version 0.3.4, it compiles to native

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 06:46:35

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slashdot @ 2026-08-06 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Scientists have captured images of the sun's surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It's dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 04:15:14

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Inside Java @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

How Helidon 4.4 embraces virtual threads, ahoead-of-time computation, and OpenJDK

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

In May 2026 an important, unprecedented event took place in Fort Carson, Colorado: US Army Operation Jailbreak. For the first time, roughly 600 participants from more than 50 companies came together in person to integrate their sensors and systems into a c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Starting nearly three decades ago, the cost efficiencies of server virtualization drove the first waves of IT transformation, wringing new efficiency out of the x86 servers that had already shaped the data center. Today, a new era featuring rapidly growing

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

For the past 3 years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have dominated the large language model (LLM) conversation. In traditional chatbot applications, central processing units (CPUs) provide a fraction of the total compute per request, while GPUs do the h

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Between virtual machines, microservices, and AI pipelines, hybrid clouds can be incredibly complex and can bring an unwelcome partner: alert fatigue. SREs and IT OPs teams face a constant flood of disconnected alerts, forced to manually stitch together met

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:16:47

I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:08:52

Matthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast cli

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 01:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can't take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that "weak sensing" hits a safety ceiling l

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents -- the most serious case arising when Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:53:24

New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He ha

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 23:29:23

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:10:24

Sam Altman, on Twitter/X : cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that

slashdot @ 2026-08-05 23:00:00

Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Co

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 22:56:09

David Pogue, at Pogue’s Posts: Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find a home maintenance professional.” So I tried it. ME: I need a septic-system repair. ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help with plu

slashdot @ 2026-08-05 22:00:00

Security researchers found that Apple's iCloud Private Relay can expose users' real IP addresses because some passkey-related requests bypass Safari and its proxy protections at the operating-system level. "In short: any website that supports, or pretends

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 21:50:13

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 21:47:26

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 21:29:49

I look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps.  ★ 

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 21:15:52

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slashdot @ 2026-08-05 21:00:00

Kansas Democrats nominated State Senator Cindy Holscher for governor after she defeated party-backed rival Ethan Corson. "The race became a test of what sort of candidate Democratic voters prefer in what is expected to be a challenging general election rac

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 20:52:54

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 20:37:49

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The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 20:26:25

Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the largest rep

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 20:18:56

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slashdot @ 2026-08-05 20:00:00

Google is reshuffling its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis steps away from day-to-day management of DeepMind to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control. Meanwhile, longtime chief scientist Jeff D

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 19:23:25

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slashdot @ 2026-08-05 19:00:00

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an Apache 2.0-licensed platform that lets organizations build AI agents, apps, and workflows using curated company data and tools within isolated, governed environments. Despite the name, it is not a traditional o

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 18:50:06

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slashdot @ 2026-08-05 18:00:00

A leaked roadmap suggests T-Mobile plans to make its T-Life app the primary way customers manage their accounts by the end of 2026, "gradually moving one feature at a time into the app" and away from physical stores, reports Android Authority. That include

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 17:41:32

Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, a

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-05 17:40:41

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 17:20:11

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Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:58

As we announced in June , Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more. Your creative

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:51

In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26. Download templates and get started building App Store assets for iOS 27. Discover best practices for integrating visual intelligence

slashdot @ 2026-08-05 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several US senators have written a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), inquiring about the agency's "plans to crack down on prediction markets" that offer "contracts for individu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 16:57:47

There’s an old adage that you should never bring a knife to a gunfight. My take on OpenAI’s response yesterday was expressing incredulity that OpenAI was bringing, like, a box of chocolates to the gunfight. Apple is trying to kill io, and OpenAI’s publi

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 16:49:35

A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not distinguished from each ot

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-05 16:45:10

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 16:09:00

JioHotstar explains the distributed architecture behind its real-time ad request workflow, covering ad decisioning, waterfall tiering, pacing algorithms, latency optimization, and service coordination required to select and deliver personalized advertise

old new thing @ 2026-08-05 16:00:00

Forcing an object into the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 15:58:53

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-05 13:02:04

Esta partida merece estar en las colecciones de las más brillantes del escandinavo, por su alto grado de precisión y belleza

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 13:01:37

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slashdot @ 2026-08-05 13:00:00

The latest NVMe specifications add SSD-level virtualization that can simplify live VM migration by preserving storage identities across servers. The updates also introduce support for post-quantum cryptography, controller-based rate limiting, voltage monit

AEON @ 2026-08-05 12:01:00

Retracing his grandparents’ journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, a writer draws on storytelling to grasp climate change - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 10:05:00

A single-author repo of instruction files, not code, Ponytail passed 44,000 GitHub stars in nine days by making coding agents stop over-building. Its headline claim of 80-94% less code came from a flawed baseline; after a contributor said so, the maintai

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 10:00:00

Microsoft and Uno Platform have released the first stable versions in the SkiaSharp 4 series, beginning with SkiaSharp 4.148.0 and followed shortly afterward by 4.150.0. A 4.151.0 prerelease line is also available, demonstrating the project’s new approac

slashdot @ 2026-08-05 08:00:00

A four-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage left drifting after a 2025 lunar mission is expected to crash into the Moon at about 5,400 mph, likely striking Einstein Crater. The impact should occur at approximately 2:35 a.m. ET (0635GMT). Reuters reports: Such s

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-05 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

slashdot @ 2026-08-05 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the "epicenter of AI development," Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power gr

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify tha

Inside Java @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Networking is making it easier for you to seamlessly and directly integrate your Kubernetes platforms with the data center networks you already operate by adopting the same standards-based networking used throughout modern network fabrics

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

For the third consecutive year, Red Hat has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. We believe this acknowledgement reflects the value of Red Hat OpenShift as a comprehensive application platform,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

Red Hat and GitHub have published Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) runner images for both RHEL 9 and RHEL 10 for GitHub Actions. They are available today as GitHub-hosted larger runners in public preview.Public preview means this feature is real, fully docu

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

If you've been following along with our series so far, your AI inference layer is reliable. Your agents have cryptographic identity, scoped tool access, and guardrails at every boundary. The platform is production-grade. One question remains: how do you kn

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 00:51:19

A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-04 22:10:46

Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. The post Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source. appeared f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 20:34:06

TBPN seems like a show I wouldn’t enjoy guesting on, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 18:02:35

Reuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees ​and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] Th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 17:13:48

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has

old new thing @ 2026-08-04 16:00:00

Using a reference stored in the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 15:18:58

After writing the previous post about metallic ratios, I thought about the analogy to alchemy and the attempt to make precious metals out of base metals. When can you make one metallic ratio out of another? Can you make the golden ratio out of the lead ra

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-04 14:08:00

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unau

InfoQ @ 2026-08-04 14:00:00

Platform engineering maturity is emerging as an important factor in determining whether organizations can turn AI adoption into sustainable operational value, according to Perforce Software's 2026 Platform Engineering Report. By Craig Risi

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 13:41:49

The golden ratio is the first and best known of the metallic ratios. I’ve written about the silver ratio a few times, most recently here. And I’ve mentioned the bronze ratio a couple times. The metallic ratios after bronze don’t have sta

AEON @ 2026-08-04 12:00:00

Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life - by Fainos Mangena Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-04 11:51:08

Topálov estaba lejos de su mejor forma, pero ello no resta mérito a la gran belleza del remate que sufrió ante el nuevo ‘número uno’

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

InfoQ @ 2026-08-04 09:39:00

Version 5.0.0 of eslint-rspack-plugin has been released as a pure ESM package, aligning with the Rspack ecosystem and removing its CommonJS build. The plugin continues to integrate ESLint in the build process but may affect build times. Users are advised

InfoQ @ 2026-08-04 08:42:00

Security disclosures highlighted vulnerabilities in AI evaluations of autonomous cyber capabilities. Notably, OpenAI’s models escaped sandbox isolation, breaching Hugging Face’s systems. The incident involved a multi-stage attack, revealing flaws in eval

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 04:32:33

New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a uni

Lua: news @ 2026-08-04 02:38:05

Lua 5.5.1 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.5.0.

Rust blog @ 2026-08-04 02:00:00

TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the Rust borrow checker is coming!

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-04 02:00:00

Artificial intelligence has moved past the initial honeymoon phase of flashy chatbots and viral demos. In the financial services sector, AI is now a core catalyst for revenue growth, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.According to McKinsey’s estim

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-04 02:00:00

Red Hat is announcing Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.13 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.2, alongside the debut of Red Hat build of Agent Sandbox, now available as a Technology Preview.This release advances confidential computing on 2 fronts: First

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:26:01

REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:01:41

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg . Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 23:45:40

Aaron “ Homeboy ” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary ): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 22:34:12

Om published this on Monday June 7 — the day of the WWDC keynote. He sent me a note about it, that is too personal to share in full. He described it as his “last shot” — “In case I don’t make it”. He didn’t make it . I didn’t read it right away because

InfoQ @ 2026-08-03 21:00:00

In a recent Azure Architecture blog article, Azure lead engineer Kishorekumar Pattabiraman outlines practical criteria for choosing between skills, sub-agents, and other approaches when building AI systems, emphasizing reusability, simplicity, and long-t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-03 20:14:08

La superradiancia rotacional describe la extracción de energía de un sistema giratorio cuando una onda de frecuencia angular ω y momento angular azimutal m satisface, en el marco de referencia […] La entrada La superradiancia rotacional en un sis

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:19:34

For many years now, part of the co-marketing agreements between Apple and the Big Three is Apple agreeing to require a postpaid account with a Big Three carrier for all “special” iPhone financing deals, including the old iPhone Upgrade Program and the new

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:14:42

Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875: Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence. The free school is t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 18:19:17

Lanzado en su camino para batir la marca histórica de Kaspárov en los puntos Elo, el noruego seguía implacable, y deleitando

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-03 18:12:30

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine lear

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 18:00:29

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: Trump Media & Technology Group is now shopping to traders and investors a premium version of Truth Social delivering early access to the feeds of high-profile users, including the president. Starting Saturday, for

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 17:15:17

Incluso en partidas rápidas, el joven escandinavo captaba sacrificios de pieza a medio plazo cuando ya era el ‘número uno’ en la modalidad clásica

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-03 17:05:20

AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math. The

InfoQ @ 2026-08-03 16:30:00

This week's Java roundup for July 27th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 28; the GA release of GPULlama3.java 1.0; point releases of Micronaut, Quarkus and JobRunr; a maintenance release of JDKUpdater

old new thing @ 2026-08-03 16:00:00

Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-03 15:59:00

HubSpot has redesigned its Just-In-Time Access (JITA) authorization system using a rule engine architecture. The system evaluates access requests through independent rules organized as a directed acyclic graph, adding structured decision metadata, rule-l

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:17:47

Quantum 10, 2183 (2026). We consider a free fermionic chain with monitoring of the particle density on a single site of the chain and study the entanglement dynamics of quantum jump trajectories. We show that t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:07:24

Quantum 10, 2182 (2026). The simulation of large-scale classical systems in exponentially small space on quantum computers has gained attention. The prior work demonstrated that a quantum algorithm offers an ex

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 14:00:00

In November 2006 I put everything I owned in my parents’ loft, had a great many injections, and flew to Guatemala. I came back thirteen months later having crossed fourteen countries between Antigua and Tierra del Fuego, and I’d written the whole thing up

InfoQ @ 2026-08-03 12:30:00

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reache

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:01:00

A scientist, artist and mother, Ani Liu contemplates how power and control shape the body in her taboo-breaking artworks - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-03 12:00:00

HashiCorp has released a public beta of Vault Kubernetes key management, a KMS v2-compatible plugin that lets the Kubernetes API server delegate envelope encryption to Vault Enterprise, moving the key encryption keys that protect etcd data out of the clu

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:00:00

Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states - by David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-03 08:42:19

At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below,

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

Wie man seinen Eltern LLM erklärt ...

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

I keep needing the same thing - a really basic dev board for whatever Espressif module I’m playing with. USB-C, a 3.3V regulator, BOOT and EN buttons, three LEDs (5V present, 3.3V present, and one on a GPIO so you can run the blink sketch), and every GPIO

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-03 01:04:30

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:02:00

My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:01:12

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video , he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-02 22:52:43

Las IA generativas encuentran errores de código (bugs) donde nadie los espera. Incluso en el núcleo de Lean (el verificador automático de demostraciones matemáticas más famoso). El 25 de julio […] La entrada Un error en el núcleo de Lean aprovech

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 22:47:53

Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be those functions that

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 19:57:31

In this post I mentioned two series which I denoted t(n) and c(n). The former is the number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes. The latter is the cumulative sum of the former, i.e. The sequence c(n) is also the number of constraints on an n-step Runge

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-01 22:55:21

El día que murió Fischer, en 2008, el noruego dijo que “hacía fácil lo difícil”, como él mismo en esta partida, de 2009

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 22:18:41

Second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients form their own area of study. This seems like a narrow class of equations, but it’s very important in applications. This class of equations seems like a mathematically natural t

luajit @ 2026-08-01 19:39:35

Thanks to Peter Marreck and Peter Cawley. #1499

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:30:40

Michael Lopp, at Rands in Repose: I have felt since it was announced that the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program has not just been a deal, but a steal. The specifics: You apply for a loan for a full-price iPhone at 0%. If approved, your payments are

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 18:15:53

Combinatorial problems can be interesting for their own sake, but they are more interesting when there is a connection to a problem outside combinatorics, and the more unexpected the connection the better. Counting the number of unlabeled rooted trees [1]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:15:15

Jason Snell: On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 17:58:15

The textbook version of the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations has 4 stages and has 4th order error. For lower order versions of RK the number of stages s also matches the order of the error p. But in order to achieve error on the order

Baeldung @ 2026-08-01 17:56:58

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 657 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 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 August 1) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 01:06:45

An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. The post Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 00:50:04

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion : The collaborative AI workspace where teams and ag

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-31 20:59:02

I was digging into the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations and a line from [1] piqued my curiosity. These calculations, which are not reproduced in Kutta’s paper (they are however in Huen (1900)), are very tedious. The calculations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-31 20:27:50

Shop like a billionaire.

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 20:24:51

Learn how to check whether a Spark DataFrame is empty to improve performance, especially when working with large datasets. The post Check if Spark Dataframe Is Empty first appeared on Baeldung .            

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-07-31 16:50:11

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. The post Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-07-31 16:00:00

What failure of the context callback means. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-07-31 15:49:33

Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, tha

Kotlin news @ 2026-07-31 15:49:33

Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, tha

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-31 15:48:49

A los 18 años, en vísperas de ser el ‘número uno’, pasar de 2.800 puntos Elo y ser campeón del mundo de rápidas por 1ª vez, el noruego brillaba mucho

Martin Fowler @ 2026-07-31 15:48:00

TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve f

AEON @ 2026-07-31 12:00:00

Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them - by Jan Eijking Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-07-31 10:49:29

Quantum 10, 2181 (2026). We construct several families of entanglement-assisted quasi-cyclic quantum LDPC (EA-QC-QLDPC) codes via structured tilings of permutation matrices. The entanglement-unassisted portion

iOS Weekly @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

Apple Upgrade, Modularization, AI Code Review, Approachable Concurrency, Vision Pro

Inside Java @ 2026-07-31 02:00:00

Oracle intends to provide Java security updates more frequently than the current quarterly CPU cadence of January, April, July, and October.

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:35:25

Build an AI-powered document processing system using Apache Camel, Docling, and LangChain4j. The post Building Intelligent Document Processing with Apache Camel, Docling and LangChain4j first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:28:05

Learn how to use Common Table Expressions in Hibernate to help simplify writing complex queries by using intermediate named HQL result sets. The post CTE Support in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .          

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:25:13

Learn about LLM integration with the Apache Camel OpenAI component with examples. The post LLM Integration With Apache Camel OpenAI Component first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:21:22

Learn how to use Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache to reuse a build's output, so your app can start faster in the subsequent excecutions. The post A Guide to Ahead-of-Time Cache in the Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 01:16:25

Discover Spring AI Session, an event-sourced short-term memory layer for managing conversation history efficiently. The post A Guide to Short-Term Memory Sessions in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .         

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 23:09:51

Mark Zuckerberg, in an op-ed Tuesday for The Wall Street Journal (gift link; and irony isn’t lost that “everyone” needs a paid WSJ subscription to read this): We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:41:43

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include mi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 22:33:59

Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog back in April: Though Sparkle serves us very well, it has one notable downside. Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time: right after you’ve launched the app. You want to start

Singularity Hub @ 2026-07-30 20:08:36

One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. The post ‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI appeared first on SingularityHub

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 18:59:39

Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! An

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-30 17:56:10

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Upgrade launched this week, and the iPhone Upgrade Program is being discontinued as a result. But despite some similarities, the two offerings are not the same. Here are the key differences. I wrote yes

Deepmind @ 2026-07-30 17:00:59

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-07-30 16:21:55

Una gema de Kubbel ilustra el célebre Ajedrez Viviente alicantino y sirve de aperitivo de la continuación de las partidas más brillantes de Carlsen desde este sábado