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Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 16:15:17

My thanks to OurCal for sponsoring last week at DF. You ever have a discussion that starts with “I didn’t see you put that on the calendar”? Could be with your colleagues, could be with your family. But the problem is familiar: Shared calendars solved sch

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-10 16:08:35

Is self-enclosure life’s greatest trick? According to the lipid-first theory, a cell membrane enabled life by giving chemistry a place to gather. The post The Case for a Bubble at Life’s Start first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-11-10 16:00:00

The Microsoft product catalog. The post Microsoft employee price list from 1987 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:47:10

Nick Heer, Pixel Envy: There are a whole bunch of features and fixes coming to Safari with Apple’s OS 27.3 update. One that is not in the beta release notes but appears nevertheless is support for Global Privacy Control . This new standard is effec

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:36:18

Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): It is curious, then, that, as news came out that the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, had had a romantic relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who was also an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Secu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 15:35:38

Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett, reporting yesterday for The New York Times (gift link): Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial in

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:30:00

It’s that time of the year when the November Thoughtworks Technology Radar appears. Again my colleagues have taken a sweep of the technologies that our teams have used in the field, and pulled together a summary of what’s popped up in the last six month

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 15:26:21

Suppose you have n different fertilizers you want to test. The simplest experiment would be to take a big plot of land, divide it into n sections, and apply each fertilizer to a section. That’s fine if you have one big enough plot of land, and the l

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-10 15:10:00

Long-horizon agents can automate complex tasks that take days or weeks to complete and involve multiple exchanges with people and external systems. Many things can go wrong during this time, including process crashes, network failures, and unantici

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:42:35

Quantum 10, 2268 (2026). We show that a distribution related to Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) on graphs can be sampled classically in polynomial time. Graphical applications of GBS typically sample from this di

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 13:32:31

Quantum 10, 2267 (2026). The surface code is the most studied error-correcting code thanks to its high threshold, simple decoding, and locality in two dimensions (2D). A key component of any code is its encodin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-10 13:11:12

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Deepmind @ 2026-11-10 13:02:28

AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.

InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 13:00:00

Pinterest has partnered with Intel to extend gProfiler, an open-source continuous profiler that provides production performance visibility across an internet-scale fleet of infrastructure. By Craig Risi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:51:20

Quantum 10, 2266 (2026). The paper presents variational formulae for entropy-like functionals, including Segal and Rényi entropies, for normal states on semifinite von Neumann algebras. The considered functiona

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:34:59

Quantum 10, 2265 (2026). X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a leading technique for understanding structural changes in advanced battery materials such as lithium-excess cathodes. However, extracting critic

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:22:19

Quantum 10, 2264 (2026). We derive a nonperturbative bound on the distance between evolutions of open quantum systems described by time-dependent generators. We show how this result can be employed to provide a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 12:13:50

Quantum 10, 2263 (2026). Quantum money is a representative application in cryptography that utilizes quantum technology to achieve security that is unattainable with classical systems. Since the theoretical pro

slashdot @ 2026-11-10 12:00:00

Uber is launching Uber Parking, integrating technology from its SpotHero acquisition to let users find and reserve parking garages and lots directly through the Uber app. "You can also filter your results based on criteria like whether you want to self-par

AEON @ 2026-11-10 12:00:00

Roshi Joan Halifax is an original, generous, gritty and profound Buddhist teacher. How does she look back on her life? - by Ben Daitz Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-10 11:03:38

Quantum 10, 2262 (2026). In adaptive quantum circuits classical results of mid-circuit measurements determine the upcoming gates. This allows POVMs, quantum channels or more generally quantum instruments to be

brucknerite @ 2026-11-10 10:00:00

11 de noviembre. ¿Parar o no? He reflexionado con cuidado y tengo 137 palabras para vosotros, sin contar estas.

InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 09:39:00

Google Cloud has made spend caps on Cloud Billing Budgets generally available, pausing new usage of a service in a project once a monthly budget is hit, without deleting resources. GA adds an API, estimated live costs, and automatic monthly resets, but c

slashdot @ 2026-11-10 08:00:00

Boston Dynamics has equipped its Atlas humanoid with wheels, allowing the robot to rapidly roll across flat terrain while still using its articulated legs to navigate obstacles and uneven surfaces. "The 'experiment' combined classical model-based motor con

InfoQ @ 2026-11-10 07:33:00

Effect 4.0, a TypeScript framework for typed errors and structured concurrency, was released on 30 September 2026 with a rewritten fiber runtime. The team reports a bundle size drop from 35.6 kB to 7.1 kB and about 6.4x higher throughput, though these fi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-10 07:01:08

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 05:14:31

An agent’s job isn’t known until it runs, so a role assigned in advance is always too much or too little. Give the agent a task instead, and every call it makes gets checked against that intent, whether it’s reading a Linear issue or emailing a distributi

slashdot @ 2026-11-10 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that GLP-1 drugmakers must add a warning label about a rare eye condition that can cause sudden blindness. The condition, called nonarteritic anterior ischemic

ASF @ 2026-11-10 03:00:00

By Achim Nierbeck and Jamie Goodyear Ask anyone who ships a language model a simple question: which data was this trained on, and what license comes with it? The honest answer today is a shrug with a bibliography. Training corpora are assembled from dozen

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-10 02:38:48

The last several posts have been building up to this one, moving from tangible to more abstract. The posts on finite geometry gave examples of Steiner triples and more generally Steiner systems, introduced in the previous post. Combinatorial designs take

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-10 01:10:46

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-10 01:07:17

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slashdot @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 option that lets users permanently disable the Sticky Keys and Filter Keys activation prompts directly from the pop-ups themselves, ending a 31-year-old annoyance without requiring a trip into Settings. Windows Latest repo

Inside Java @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

In this tutorial, we will cover a brief history of G1, its key design concepts, and how to use it.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

An open source policy is more than a set of organizational rules. It shapes how people contribute to and maintain a project. Contributors need to understand it. Maintainers need to apply it consistently. Community members need opportunities to question it.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

If you've been planning a virtualization migration over the last few months, there's a good chance that the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) has come up, and probably at a point in the project where you'd have preferred it didn't. Many migration

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

Yesterday at OpenShift Commons in Salt Lake City, I announced a major milestone for our community: the next evolution of our application platform with Red Hat OpenShift 5.If you go back to Red Hat Summit earlier this year, I talked about how IT teams face

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ecosystem already runs the work your business depends on. Now it can run that work with the AMD next-gen 9006 Series processors on an operating system your organization already trusts.Red Hat is bringing 6th Gen AMD EPY

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

Ten years after a team that included Red Hat engineer Fabian Deutsch, one of KubeVirt's original developers, made its first commits, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that the project has graduated. This is the foundation’s highest

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-10 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 5 introduces 2 capabilities that help OpenShift administrators with OpenShift updates, both built on Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed. AI-powered update assessment is generally available, and agentic update is available as a Technology Previe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-10 00:46:17

Mackenzie Hawkins, Andy Lin, and Kari Soo Lindberg, reporting for Bloomberg last year on December 22 ( Archive.today link ): In an industry run by titans, a Singapore AI firm called Megaspeed International Pte. is drawing an unusual amount of attentio

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-10 00:08:13

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slashdot @ 2026-11-10 00:00:00

President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a woman alleged by U.S. intelligence to have gathered information for Beijing. "I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he'll

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 23:00:00

Epic Games says it plans to support its new Linux launcher on as many distributions as possible, specifically naming Fedora, SteamOS, CachyOS and Omarchy. GamingOnLinux's Liam Squires-Hand reports: Speaking to Jake Jones, Communications Director at Epic Ga

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 22:56:57

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slashdot @ 2026-11-09 22:00:00

France has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind last month's cyberattacks on fridges and freezers across the country. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:57:04

Culper Research is a short-seller that published a report ( PDF and in a thread on X ) in May alleging that Nvidia “had a China problem”. From the start of its report: Nvidia claims that its business in China went to “zero” after April 2025 U.S.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 21:32:27

Fred Lambert, writing for Electrek: Tesla painted a very different picture just two years ago. At its 2024 shareholder meeting , it showed this slide of its lineup: the Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, Cybertruck, and Semi, plus three vehicles und

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 21:20:00

Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 with "improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," while cutting Fable's input price and claiming 30% faster responses. TechCrunch reports: It's Anthropic's first model release since the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 21:04:55

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 20:58:59

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Deepmind @ 2026-11-09 20:51:47

Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips into China when

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 19:56:29

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 19:45:43

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InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 19:40:00

This week's Java roundup for November 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of TornadoVM, TornadoInsight, A2A for Java, Gradle and EclipseStore; the November 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the third release candidate of Open J Proxy; the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 19:27:58

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 19:01:10

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slashdot @ 2026-11-09 19:00:00

Google is expanding its AI chip lineup with two specialized TPUs arriving next year: the TPU 8tx, which encrypts sensitive data at the chip level for confidential computing, and the TPU 8i Max, which combines two TPU chips to provide more processing power

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 18:58:46

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AWS Blog @ 2026-11-09 18:55:26

Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 18:51:31

hey HN, i built this because I'm a satellite nerd who was bored this past weekend. type in any place and it finds every satellite that passed over it in the last 7 days (SGP4 on the CelesTrak catalog, tracking 17k+ objects and runs in your browser in abo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 18:47:22

Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Julian E. Barnes, and Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Rubio’s memo was circulated to administration officials with high-level security clearances ahead of a trip Mr. Trump took to China i

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 18:42:55

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 18:36:20

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The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 18:01:43

Steiner triples Several examples from the recent posts on finite geometry are special cases of Steiner triples. A Steiner triple system, written STS(n), is a collection of three-element subsets, called blocks, of a set X with n elements, such that every t

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 18:00:00

Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC it claims is made entirely from Chinese-manufactured components, including its own 10-core Kirin X90 processor and an enterprise version of HarmonyOS. "While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-09 17:06:47

La española, campeona en 2023, es primera en solitario tras cinco rondas de las once previstas

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 17:00:45

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slashdot @ 2026-11-09 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Alexis Ohanian wants to figure out the future of user-generated content. According to the Reddit cofounder, building social media apps is "not cool anymore" and so much of the internet has been compromised. "

InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 16:44:00

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon framing it as a general-purpose physical-reasoning model for robot control, Real2Sim scene construction, multimodal labeling of robot video, and iterative policy improvement, rather than as a single end-effector policy.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-09 16:23:57

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-09 16:20:29

Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough. The post Did Life Begin in an RNA World? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-11-09 16:00:00

It knows what it did. The post If the Windows Update hot patcher checks that the function hasn’t already been patched, does that mean you can’t install two hot-patches? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 15:35:00

Cloudflare is developing a public certificate authority for Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) to reduce the bandwidth overhead of post-quantum cryptography. A Chrome experiment served billions of MTCs to 50% of Chrome Beta 146 for selected domains, reporti

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:26:09

Euclid’s fifth postulate says that given a line ℓ and a point P not on ℓ , there is a unique line through P parallel to ℓ. In the projective plane there are no parallel lines, and in the hyperbolic plane there are at least two lines through P parall

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 15:21:49

The previous post was on finite projective planes. This post will look at finite affine planes and the next will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Affine geometry is essentially what remains of Euclidean geometry if you keep the incidence properties, e.g.

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 13:34:00

Futurism reports: While many scientists have long held that Mars is "geologically dead" inside, new research is adding to the growing body of evidence to the contrary. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, an internationa

AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:01:00

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00

At the recent PyTorch Conference North America 2026, Amazon introduced TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend that enables developers to run existing PyTorch code on AWS Trainium AI chips with virtually no code modifications. By Sergio De Simone

AEON @ 2026-11-09 12:00:00

In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 09:34:00

A crowdfunded sequel to the movie Return of the Living Dead was uploaded last weekend — but producer Richard Driscoll is drawing criticism for what he did to the 1985 punk/zombie classic. Kotaku reports: [The release of the movie came as a] surpris

InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 08:25:00

Pinterest has moved its user-journey inference system from a multi-stage clustering pipeline to a fine-tuned 4-billion-parameter language model, reporting a 1.1% improvement in email click-through and 1.3% higher push opens. By Matt Foster

InfoQ @ 2026-11-09 07:42:00

Topcoat is an open-source, server-rendered full-stack web framework for Rust from the Tokio team, now public at version 0.9. It uses Rust expressions translated to JavaScript for reactivity instead of WebAssembly. It targets typical database-driven apps.

slashdot @ 2026-11-09 06:35:00

It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed... They have announced that

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-09 02:31:45

LANCE: You should take a break from all the AI stuff and talk about your book! BILL: I will!  But it's not my book  its co-authored with Erik Demaine and Mohammad Hajiaghayi. The title is Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmi

Inside Java @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Learn how to pack a short ticker symbol into one int with a value class implementing CharSequence and Comparable.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 5 is now generally available. The Red Hat OpenShift team always tries to bring you the most requested features while, at the same time, pushing the envelope with new opportunities. You have environments combining containers, virtual machi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 5 is the next evolution of the cloud-native application platform you and your customers already trust.For distributors and resellers, Red Hat OpenShift 5 is more than a product release—it’s a growth opportunity: longer customer relationsh

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 5 represents the next evolution of your core application platform. It maintains the foundations you rely on: A consistent operational model built on Kubernetes, supporting containers, virtual machines (VMs), serverless workloads, and AI a

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-09 01:00:00

Every team wants to get AI models and modern apps into production quickly, but no platform engineer wants to gamble on unvetted code or leaky access boundaries. Red Hat OpenShift 5 is built to give platform and security teams the confidence to say "yes" to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-09 00:56:32

Julian E. Barnes, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur, and Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times on Friday: John Rizzo, an Nvidia spokesman, said that the company does not share classified information with its customers, and that customers do not ask

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-09 00:23:49

The idea of finite geometries sounds like an oxymoron the first time you hear of it, something like dry water or cold fire, but the axioms of some kinds of geometry can indeed be satisfied by finite models. The axioms of projective plane geometry are as f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-08 22:50:31

Tripp Mickle, reporting for The New York Times: Nvidia said on Sunday that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, its chief executive and co-founder, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business ex

luajit @ 2026-11-08 20:07:27

This is not a security issue, as the FFI is considered unsafe. Reported by ZeroVuln Labs.

luajit @ 2026-11-08 18:56:47

Thanks to javacty. #1541

Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:31:31

Learn how to handle a missing tools.jar on newer JDK versions that may be defined as a system dependency in an older Maven project. The post How to Fix the Error: Missing Artifact com.sun:tools:jar in pom.xml Files first appeared on Baeldung .

Baeldung @ 2026-11-08 14:20:05

Learn how to access shadow DOM elements with Selenium, understand shadow-root boundaries, and compare native WebDriver support with JavaScript-based approaches. The post Automating Shadow DOM in Selenium WebDriver first appeared on Baeldung . &#

InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 12:00:00

Entire is a Git forge designed specifically for collaboration between human developers and AI coding agents. Its premise is that traditional software development infrastructure, particularly the pull request (PR) model, is not well suited to an environme

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-08 09:09:37

Pogorélov, flamante campeón de España +65, de origen ucranio, firma una virtuosa ofensiva con las piezas negras en el Mundial de veteranos

InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 08:16:00

Google Cloud has made a self-managed VMware solution generally available, running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x on dedicated Z3 bare metal with root access across ESXi, vCenter and NSX in 22 regions. It sits beside the Google-managed VMware Engine and matc

InfoQ @ 2026-11-08 07:34:00

In a recent article, Cloudflare shared the redesign of the control plane of its D1 serverless SQL database to support millions of databases, avoiding centralized bottlenecks, implementing retries and idempotency, and using eventual consistency. By Rena

Inside Java @ 2026-11-08 01:00:00

Modern software increasingly interacts with AI models, query languages, and other specialized programming models, forcing you to switch contexts, embed foreign code, or write verbose wrappers to bridge the gap. What if you could express logic from outside

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-07 22:14:09

Tyler Stalman and David Altizer were kind enough to have me on their show this week. These new MacBook Pros are very fun computers that are very fun to talk about. (We even sneak in some love for Ricoh’s legendary GR line of compact cameras. I used my

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-07 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 November 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Code Capsule @ 2026-11-07 14:06:27

AI is increasingly enabling technically skilled engineering managers to identify business needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and build features independently. This may drive product and engineering roles to merge within 1.5-3 years, creating AI-native

InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 12:00:00

The growing adoption of AI coding assistants has accelerated development and increased the volume of code changes per release, bringing more opportunities for defects and crashes, says Grab. To address these challenges, they implemented a layered defense

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-07 11:35:50

El excampeón de España de veteranos, muy culto y gran conversador, tuvo una vida intensa, siempre compatible con su pasión por el ajedrez

InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 10:49:00

Tiger Data has released pg_vectorsearch, an open source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search, currently in alpha. Its PRISM index uses data partitioning and compression instead of the graph-based approach used by pgvector’s HNSW index, reduc

InfoQ @ 2026-11-07 07:54:00

Bumpy is an MIT-licensed, TypeScript tool for version management and changelogs in monorepos. It follows the changesets workflow, using markdown bump files, and adds support for workspace and catalog protocols, custom publish commands, and branch-based p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 20:50:46

Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles, the new MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays, and the state of the Macintosh platform.

Baeldung @ 2026-11-06 18:35:09

Agentic refactoring which is actually cheap? Yes please. The post Java Weekly, Issue 670 first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments Thanks for mentioning Dukehoff MCP :-). We've got

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-06 17:06:14

El gran maestro Luke McShane ofrece pistas sobre el mate de alfil y caballo durante una exhibición a ciegas en Londres

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-06 16:48:54

Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument. The post A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality firs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:03:51

Apple Support: To make the Apple logo dark in all lighting conditions, you can turn off its illumination using Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. You can also use Spotlight to find and open it. Type or paste this

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-06 16:00:22

The WSJ, “Trump Signs Proclamation He Says Will Protect Oval Office From Major Changes”: President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as landmarks to prevent future presiden

old new thing @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00

Suspending all the threads stops the threads that are there now, those are not the only possible sources of change. The post Why are we all worked up about atomicity when applying hot-patches if we can just suspend all the threads? appeared first on

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-06 16:00:00

Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is—or might one day become—truly intelligent. The post What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean? appeared first on SingularityHub .

AEON @ 2026-11-06 12:00:00

The cosmos has become a lab for the Big Questions in physics. Along the way, we’ve lost sight of its glorious messiness - by Dylan Jow Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 10:40:19

Quantum 10, 2261 (2026). The work here enables a cost scaling of $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T ^{1+o(1)} {\rm log}^2 (1/\epsilon)}{\varepsilon}\right)$ and maximum depth $\tilde{O}\left( \frac{T^{1+o(1)} {\rm log} (

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-06 09:00:23

Quantum 10, 2260 (2026). We introduce a framework to upper bound the entanglement content of a bipartite quantum state from its spectrum alone. Using linear maps and their inverses, we derive rigorous constrain

iOS Weekly @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00

macOS vs iPadOS, Siri AI, WebKit goes dark, PictureWriter, Stream, DeviceMCP, App Store 2026 in numbers

Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-06 01:00:00

Glamsterdam, the next update for Ethereum, is currently being tested on testnets. During these tests Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely on certain invariants. These invariants will be broken by

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-11-05 23:05:21

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back!  Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP).  The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Pola

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 22:31:04

Salon, in an unsigned goodbye post: Thirty-one years is a remarkable run, but what matters most is what happened during those years: the journalism, the ideas, the voices, the conversations and the community that grew around them. Salon helped demonst

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-05 21:27:05

From Instagram’s Edits blog: I’m Brett Westervelt, and I lead the Edits app. In just over a year, 50 million people have made Edits part of how they bring ideas to life, and we’re excited to expand what Edits can do for creators. Today we’re bringin

Deepmind @ 2026-11-05 18:05:16

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-05 17:15:00

En una partida muy didáctica sobre el doble filo de las ventajas de espacio, el gran maestro español exhibe su profundidad de conceptos

old new thing @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00

It doesn't really handle that case. The post You shouldn’t change the style of a Win32 static control after it has been created appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-05 16:00:00

Rather than relying on text alone, the algorithm looks for clues in a paper’s reasoning. The post Science Is Littered With AI Slop. A New Detector Could Filter It Out. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-11-05 15:11:00

Many organizations adopting data mesh and data products face a common challenge. They may be tasked with building a self-service platform for data products and data mesh from scratch, or they may have an existing platform that suffers from low adop

Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-05 13:41:52

Quantum 10, 2259 (2026). In this paper, we introduce post-selection games, a generalization of nonlocal games where each round can be not only won or lost by the players, but also discarded by the referee. Such

Swift blog @ 2026-11-05 12:30:00

The Swift project once again participated in Google Summer of Code in 2026, pairing newcomers to open source with mentors to build new features for Swift and its ecosystem. This year, we ran three projects, all of which were completed successfully:

AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:01:00

In Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, low-paid labour fuels the driverless future of the Global North - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-11-05 12:00:00

I need order and routine – just as much as I crave excitement and variety. What’s life like with both autism and ADHD? - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon

Inside Java @ 2026-11-05 01:00:00

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

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-05 00:34:52

You can now migrate existing Apache Hive datasets in Amazon S3 to fully managed Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 Tables, with no pipelines to build or compute to provision, while production workloads keep running.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-04 21:36:39

Las masas de infantería avanzando con vigor suelen parecer arrasadoras, pero existen muchos matices que esta partida ilustra

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-04 20:18:19

Waking up today to the news that US democracy seems to be on its way to recovery has changed my mood dramatically. All of a sudden I’m an optimist. The US will be all right. Even if the French do … Continue reading →

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-04 19:55:52

The system, MAI-DxO, was not only more accurate, but it also spent much less on tests to make its diagnoses. The post Microsoft’s Medical AI Is Over Twice as Good Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors appeared first on SingularityHub .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-04 17:45:09

When the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the Millennium Prize Problems back in 2000, we joked that if you proved P = NP, you wouldn't only get the $1 million prize for solving P v NP, but you would get $7 million since you could use P = NP to solve

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-04 17:00:56

Reduce cancellations with retention messages that remind subscribers of your subscription's value as they decide whether to cancel. Retention messages appear in the cancellation flow and can include text, images, or a special offer. In App Store Conne

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:55:22

Learn about Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, multi-tenancy for CPC, Tableflow for Google Cloud, and other Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and WarpStream updates.

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:53:00

Compare streamhouse and lakehouse data architectures, learn which workloads each one fits and how they complement each other.

Confluent @ 2026-11-04 16:52:47

A Streamhouse is a data architecture that continuously captures, processes, governs and serves current business state and context across distributed systems, making them available to applications, AI agents, and analytics.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-04 16:32:52

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. The post New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 16:15:51

This striking map from Apple News tells the story of the magnitude of the shift since 2024. The late Lindsey Graham, on Twitter back in May 2016 (punctuation sic ): If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. T

old new thing @ 2026-11-04 16:00:00

The problem with documentation written by people who know the feature too well. The post There are things with ranks, but it’s not always clear what the ranks mean appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 15:56:47

Aaron Zitner, reporting for the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal: Rarely in American politics has a president traded away so much political support so quickly. The losses that Republicans suffered on Tuesday marked one of the most decisive r

AEON @ 2026-11-04 12:01:00

Like living metaphors, these self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-11-04 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 Syndicate @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

If you’ve spent any amount of time with Claude Code on a project for Apple’s various platforms, then you’ve probably hit a wall. Claude is genuinely good at Swift. It understands SwiftUI, it can reason through Swift Concurrency, and it’ll

Inside Java @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

Interacting with foreign libraries from Java has never been easier, thanks to the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API. But interacting with entire foreign language runtimes, like JavaScript or Python, remains hard. Project Detroit paves a new way forw

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:58:49

Apple Developer: Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:45:18

David Pierce at The Verge , on the Acoustic Display: It means the sound fires out of the front panel rather than from speaker holes. (Some TVs currently work the same way.) It doesn’t sound any better than before, maybe a tiny bit bassier, but it als

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-04 00:25:25

Marques Brownlee describes the two color choices as “annoyingly, slightly not black and slightly not white,” which is apt. He digs the acoustic display enough that he can imagine Apple bringing it to a future high-end iPhone (like if they do a big redesig

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 20:26:41

Juli Clover, MacRumors: With iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, and macOS Golden Gate 27.3, Apple is making major updates to Safari. The browser is getting a Vertical Tabs layout, which can be used instead of the standard horizontal tab bar. It’s a change that pa

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 19:00:20

Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer to integrate their app with Siri AI, giving businesses and developers new ways to reach and serve their customers. Siri A

Deepmind @ 2026-11-03 18:01:49

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-03 17:00:26

The beta versions of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, tvOS 27.3, visionOS 27.3, and watchOS 27.3 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 27.3 to take advant

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:46:25

Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reporte

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 16:40:34

After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call. It’s a banger of a good read: You know, even if Google were right, and the real issue is “closed” versus “open,” it is worthwhile t