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Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 23:01:00

Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage su

This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-16 22:56:12

Scientists find coordination between key brain waves breaks down in people under anesthesia. The post This Brain Pattern Could Signal the Moment Consciousness Slips Away appeared first on SingularityHub .

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 22:25:23

AWS launches Amazon SageMaker AI Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs.

Visualizing orbital velocity

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-16 22:24:45

The shape of a planet’s orbit around a star is an ellipse. To put it another way, a plot of the position of a planet’s orbit over time forms an ellipse. What about the velocity? Is it’s plot also an ellipse? Surprisingly, a plot of the v

Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 22:00:00

Human software engineers and AI are currently in a "centaur phase" -- a reference to the mythical half-human, half-horse creature, where the combination outperforms either working alone -- but the window may be "very brief," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said

Giant Pythons Once Roamed Prehistoric Taiwan

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 21:00:00

The discovery of a vertebra is another piece of the puzzle of missing apex predators The post Giant Pythons Once Roamed Prehistoric Taiwan appeared first on Nautilus .

India's Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 21:00:00

New Delhi's air quality index averaged 349 in December and 307 in January -- levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies as hazardous -- and the months-long smog season that forces more than 30 million residents to endure respiratory illness

Here’s What the Whiskers on an Elephant’s Trunk Do

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 20:00:00

It’s an elephant’s way of getting a feel for their surroundings The post Here’s What the Whiskers on an Elephant’s Trunk Do appeared first on Nautilus .

Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 20:00:00

Instagram head Adam Mosseri told a Los Angeles courtroom last week that a teenager's 16-hour single-day session on the platform was "problematic use" but not an addiction, a distinction he drew repeatedly during testimony in a landmark trial over social me

Use protocols, not services

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 19:44:58

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14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 19:41:50

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KPMG Partner Fined Over Using AI To Pass AI Test

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 19:00:00

A partner at KPMG Australia has been fined $7,000 by the Big Four firm after using AI tools to cheat on an internal training course about using AI. From a report: The unnamed partner was forced to redo the test after uploading training materials into an AI

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-02-16 18:28:52

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every fe

This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 18:00:00

Maybe we should call mpox “squirrelpox” The post This Forest Rodent Serves as a Reservoir for the Deadly Mpox Virus appeared first on Nautilus .

Ireland Launches World's First Permanent Basic Income Scheme For Artists, Paying $385 a Week

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 18:00:00

Ireland has announced what it says is the world's first permanent basic income program for artists, a scheme that will pay 2,000 selected artists $385 per week for three years, funded by an $21.66 million allocation from Budget 2026. The program follows a

New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 17:06:00

The European Commission has adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear. From a report: The rules will help cut waste, reduce environme

Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 17:00:00

A cosmic timekeeper near a supermassive black hole has astrophysicists salivating The post Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories appeared first on Nautilus .

Análisis de ajedrez | La consistencia de Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-16 16:33:44

En esta partida ‘freestyle’, tan compleja como interesante, Abdusattórov tuvo primero ventaja, luego pudo forzar el empate y al final perdió

Agoda’s API Agent Converts Any API to MCP with Zero Code and Deployments

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

Agoda engineers developed API Agent, enabling a single MCP server to access any internal REST or GraphQL API with zero code and zero deployments. The system reduces overhead from multiple APIs, supports AI-assisted queries, and uses in-memory SQL post-pr

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 16:01:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a "supply chain risk" -- meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties wi

Get ready with the latest beta releases

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-02-16 16:00:14

The beta versions of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 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 26.4 beta to take a

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

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

Like their owners, many of them face diminished mental capacity in their old age The post Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too appeared first on Nautilus .

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 15:48:25

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What your Bluetooth devices reveal

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 15:39:32

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Sony May Push Next PlayStation To 2028 or 2029 as AI-fueled Memory Chip Shortage Upends Plans

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 15:06:00

Sony is considering delaying the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029 as a global shortage of memory chips -- driven by the AI industry's rapidly growing appetite for the same DRAM that goes into gaming hardware, smartphones, and lapt

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 14:30:07

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ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up.

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-16 14:00:00

AI consciousness expert Susan Schneider on being stalked by chatbot users, the Moltbook meltdown, and why agentic AI isn’t ready for prime time The post ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up. appeared first on Nautilus .

Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity?

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 13:34:00

IT productivity researcher Erik Brynjolfsson writes in the Financial Times that he's finally found evidence AI is impacting America's economy. This week America's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a 403,000 drop in 2025's payroll growth — while real

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 13:28:31

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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 13:00:42

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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 12:06:28

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Snow line

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:01:00

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The snowball effect

AEON @ 2026-02-16 12:00:00

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 10:32:21

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Google Explores Scaling Principles for Multi-agent Coordination

InfoQ @ 2026-02-16 10:00:00

Google Research tried to answer the question of how to design agent systems for optimal performance by running a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations. From this, the team derived what they call the "first quantitative scaling principles for

'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It'

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 09:34:00

Installing Linux on a MacBook Air "turned out to be a very underwhelming experience," according to the tech news site MakeUseOf: The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and insta

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-16 07:31:48

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Will Tech Giants Just Use AI Interactions to Create More Effective Ads?

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 06:34:00

Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI-generated email summaries to Gmail, notes the New York Times. And Meta didn't ask before making "Meta AI" an unremovable part of its tool in Instagram, WhatsApp and Messen

Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle

InfoQ @ 2026-02-16 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for February 9th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 26 and Gradle 9.4; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; beta releases of Open Liberty 26.0.0.2 and EclipseStore 4.

Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 02:41:00

Last week Scott Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a "hit piece" about him after he'd rejected the AI agent's pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica's senior AI reporter.) But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed qu

ESP32-C3 0.42 OLED

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

I’ve ended up with a bunch of these nice little ESP32-C3 modules . I’m a bit late to the party with them, so other people have done a lot of heavy lifting working out how to drive the display. I followed this blog . The only thing I didn’t quite l

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

Digital sovereignty is the ultimate strategic lever for innovation. It propels organizations beyond compliance into true operational freedom where you, not your cloud provider, dictates your business continuity.Red Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't b

From legacy VMs to the network brain: Why 2026 is the year of the common telco cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

As we prepare to head to the Fira and MWC Barcelona 2026, I find myself thinking about an industry question I am constantly asked: “Where is the value?” I’ve spent my career bridging the gap between engineering and the boardroom, worked in the telecoms ind

Building the foundation for an AI-driven, sovereign future with Red Hat partners

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-16 01:00:00

At Red Hat, we believe the telecommunications landscape is entering its most transformative chapter yet. To thrive, telecommunications service providers must transcend their traditional role as connectivity providers to become indispensable enablers of dig

WorkOS Pipes

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:39:14

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect s

Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-16 00:37:04

Joanna Stern (last week): After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can

Rivian's Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025

slashdot @ 2026-02-16 00:35:00

Rivian's stock skyrocketed 27% Friday after the electric car maker "shocked the market with strong earnings results," reports the Los Angeles Times, "proving itself an outlier in the EV market, which has been struggling with the end of government subsidies

India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically

slashdot @ 2026-02-15 23:35:00

Bloomberg reports: India tightened rules governing social media content and platforms, particularly targeting artificially generated and manipulated material, in a bid to crack down on the rapid spread of misinformation and deepfakes. The government on Tu

Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 23:29:43

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Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 23:17:10

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I’m joining OpenAI

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 22:54:15

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Assigning Open Problems in Class

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-15 21:16:00

I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: 1) Do you tell the students the problems are open? YES- it would be unfair for a student to work on something they almost surely won't get. NO- Some Open Problems are open becaus

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen también gana el Mundial ‘freestyle’, pero roza la derrota en la final ante Caruana

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-15 21:10:24

El noruego añade un nuevo trono a su larga colección con tremendos apuros: tres empates y una victoria desde una posición casi desesperada

Race between primes of the forms 4k + 1 and 4k + 3

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 20:19:08

The last few posts have looked at expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares. This is possible if and only if p is of the form 4k + 1. I illustrated an algorithm for finding the squares with p = 2255 − 19, a prime that is used in cryptography. It i

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 19:40:35

very much inspired by karpathy's microgpt of the same name. it's (by default) a 4000 param GPT/LLM/NN that learns to generate names. this is sorta an educational tool in that you can visualize the activations as they pass through the network, and click o

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 19:29:54

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Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 19:04:10

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Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 18:37:10

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LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 18:12:35

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EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 18:10:18

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Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-02-15 18:06:25

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LocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns

InfoQ @ 2026-02-15 08:30:00

LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that requires registration. Projects that currently pull the latest community image will

Thoughts: Tina

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

Vorwort Dieser Text ist der letzte Text, der aus der Dekonstruktion eines sehr langen Dokuments entstanden ist, das ich neben meinem Text zu meiner Herzoperation geschrieben habe. Entstanden aus einem Absatz in einem anderen Artikel. Es ist der Text,

Turning an ESP32 into a Thermal USB Webcam

Atomic14 @ 2026-02-15 01:00:00

In a previous project , I made an ESP32 pretend to be a USB webcam. This time, I wanted to do it properly - turn it into a real USB webcam with a real camera. I also wanted to push things a bit further - I’ve got an I2C thermal camera module - wh

Wagon’s algorithm in Python

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-15 00:06:41

The last three posts have been about Stan Wagon’s algorithm for finding x and y satisfying x² + y² = p where p is an odd prime. The first post in the series gives Gauss’ formula for a solution, but shows why it is impractical for large p. The

Finding a square root of -1 mod p

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 23:07:05

If p is an odd prime, there is a theorem that says x² = −1 mod p has a solution if and only if p = 1 mod 4. When a solution x exists, how do you find it? The previous two posts have discussed Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a

subscribe() vs assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:52:34

Discover the differences between subscribe() vs assign() methods in Kafka. The post subscribe() vs assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer first appeared on Baeldung .              

A Guide to Deep Java Library

Baeldung @ 2026-02-14 22:49:26

Learn about Deep Java Library (DJL), an engine-agnostic machine learning framework developed by AWS. The post A Guide to Deep Java Library first appeared on Baeldung .              

Finding a non-square mod p

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-14 22:35:54

The previous post briefly mentioned Stan Wagon’s algorithm for expressing an odd prime p as a sum of two squares when it is possible (i.e. when p = 1 mod 4). Wagon’s algorithm requires first finding a non-square mod p, i.e. a number c such tha

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 14)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-14 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 February 14) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Mundial rápido de ‘freestyle’

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-14 13:10:37

Lo interesante, para la mayoría de los aficionados, de la modalidad más moderna empieza en el medio juego, cuando la posición se parece a las clásicas

Sixteen Claude Agents Built a C Compiler without Human Intervention... Almost

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 13:00:00

In an effort to probe the limits of autonomous software development Anthropic used sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler from scratch. Working in parallel on a shared repository, the agents coordinated their changes and ultim

From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 12:32:00

A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in critical infrastructure operations and reduces incident response time by integrating in

Firestore Adds Pipeline Operations with over 100 New Query Features

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 11:11:00

Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an optional indexing model, allowing architects to prioritiz

Nuxt Studio Released: Open Source CMS for Content Editing in Production

InfoQ @ 2026-02-14 09:30:00

Introducing Nuxt Studio: the ultimate open-source content management solution for Nuxt websites, offering a powerful self-hosted module for complete control over your content. With an intuitive visual editor, real-time previews, and seamless Git integrat

Newsletter: JDK 26 Release Candidate | JavaOne and More Heads-Up

Inside Java @ 2026-02-14 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it announces the first Release Candidate builds of JDK 26 and an informal Quality Outreach gathering at JavaOne.

Vast ‘Blobs’ of Rock Have Stabilized Earth’s Magnetic Field for Hundreds of Millions of Years

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-14 00:41:11

A steady magnetic field protects the planet's surface, and all those living on it, from harmful radiation. The post Vast ‘Blobs’ of Rock Have Stabilized Earth’s Magnetic Field for Hundreds of Millions of Years appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Cosmic Collision That Formed Saturn’s Rings

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-13 21:30:00

Computer simulations offer new insights into the oddities of the ringed planet’s moons The post The Cosmic Collision That Formed Saturn’s Rings appeared first on Nautilus .

How the Fastest Land Animal in North America Got Its Need for Speed

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-13 20:00:00

Their speediness was likely an adaptation to dashing around increasingly patchy habitats The post How the Fastest Land Animal in North America Got Its Need for Speed appeared first on Nautilus .

Podcast CB SyR 545: Mujer y ciencia 11F, depredadores jurásicos, Sgr A* como materia oscura, genética en psiquiatría, AlphaGenome y vacunas origami de ADN

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 19:23:05

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 545 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “11F; Dinosaurios; Sag A*; Genes y Psiquiatría; AlphaGenome; ADN Origami”, 12 feb 2026. «La […] La entrada Podca

Is the Supervolcano in Yellowstone About to Erupt?

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-13 19:00:00

Weird things are happening in Yellowstone National Park The post Is the Supervolcano in Yellowstone About to Erupt? appeared first on Nautilus .

Podcast CB SyR 544: Cáncer de páncreas, virus Nipah, sismografía de la reentrada espacial, neurociencia de bebés con IA, y sensores cuánticos para buscar materia oscura

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 18:30:35

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 544 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Cáncer; Virus Nipah; Satélites; IA y Neurociencia; Materia Oscura”, 05 feb 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Po

Análisis de ajedrez | Dama y rey de precisión total

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-13 18:03:49

El compositor Luis Miguel González transforma en arte la técnica, que a veces exige una exactitud absoluta, en los finales de dama contra peones muy avanzados

When Galileo’s Cosmic Convictions Landed Him in Court

Nautilus blog @ 2026-02-13 18:00:00

More than 300 years later, the astronomer was finally vindicated The post When Galileo’s Cosmic Convictions Landed Him in Court appeared first on Nautilus .

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-13 16:48:51

Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide. The post Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Fragments: February 13

Martin Fowler @ 2026-02-13 16:45:00

I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not had as much time as I’d hoped to share more thoughts from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . I’m still workin

How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_CHAR message?

old new thing @ 2026-02-13 16:00:00

See if it matches the scan code. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>CHAR</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Fix compiler warning.

luajit @ 2026-02-13 14:21:42

Thanks to Holger Hoffstätte. #1436

Podcast CB SyR 543: Arte rupestre, Iberian Strings, de Sitter en teoría M, política científica, ASKAP, paleoantropología en China, senotoxina en el cáncer y síndrome de autofermentación

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-02-13 13:49:27

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 543 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B, iVoox C; ApplePod A, ApplePod B, ApplePod C], titulado “Arte Rupestre; Cuerdas; Radiofuente; Trump; Senescidio; Cervecería Intestinal”, 29 […] La e

Building Modular Monoliths With Kotlin and Spring

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-02-13 13:27:12

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. Over a decade ago, Netflix became one of the early adopters of microservice architecture, showcasing its potential at a large scale. Since then, many companies have jumped on the microservices bandwagon

Building Modular Monoliths With Kotlin and Spring

Kotlin news @ 2026-02-13 13:27:12

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. Over a decade ago, Netflix became one of the early adopters of microservice architecture, showcasing its potential at a large scale. Since then, many companies have jumped on the microservices bandwagon

Teleport Launches Agentic Identity Framework to Secure AI Agents across Enterprise Infrastructure

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

Teleport recently unveiled the Teleport Agentic Identity Framework, a new AI-centered security model designed to help enterprises safely deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents across cloud and on-premises environments. By Craig Risi

Guarding the guardians

AEON @ 2026-02-13 12:00:00

Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work? - by Julien Lie-Panis Read on Aeon

Shadcn Releases Visual Project Builder

InfoQ @ 2026-02-13 09:30:00

Introducing Shadcn's innovative visual project builder, accessible via `npx shadcn create`. This tool empowers developers to customize project setups visually before coding, ensuring a seamless design-first approach with real-time previews, extensive the

VillageSQL Launches as an Extension-Focused MySQL Fork

InfoQ @ 2026-02-13 07:52:00

A new open-source project, VillageSQL, has been introduced as a tracking fork of MySQL aimed at expanding extensibility and addressing feature gaps increasingly relevant to AI and agent-based workloads. By Robert Krzaczyński

Expressing a prime as the sum of two squares

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-13 03:34:58

I saw where Elon Musk posted Grok’s answer to the prompt “What are the most beautiful theorems.” I looked at the list, and there were no surprises, as you’d expect from a program that works by predicting the most likely sequence of

Issue 743

iOS Weekly @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Should an agent and your instructions to it live in the sidebar, or should it be front and center? 🤖

Executive Leadership Update

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. Th

An update from Tomasz

Ethereum blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

tl;dr I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me....

crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy

Rust blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

The crates.io team will no longer publish a blog post each time a malicious crate is detected or reported. In the vast majority of cases to date, these notifications have involved crates that have no evidence of real world usage, and we feel that publishi

Episode 45 “Announcement - The New Inside Java Podcast”

Inside Java @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Welcome to the new Inside Java Podcast. In this meta episode, Nicolai Parlog introduces you to the podcast's new structure with two shows under one umbrella: The long-form conversations you know become Ask the Architects episodes and they'll be accompanied

Zero CVEs: The symptom of a larger problem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

There has been much discussion lately regarding the "Zero CVE" movement. At Red Hat, we welcome this focus, emphasized by our recent announcement of Project Hummingbird to provide more frequently updated container images. Hummingbird represents a shift in

PNC’s infrastructure modernization journey with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

For Marcus Dobeck, vice president and head of container orchestration at The PNC Financial Services Group, if the challenge of 2025 could be summarized in a single word it would be demand. Like many organizations, PNC was moving from a place where they wer

Friday Five — February 13, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Don't forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit—heading to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026—and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of our most impactful yet. Register by February 23 to get our lowest pricing, and save

Extend trust across the software supply chain with Red Hat trusted libraries

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

Modern software development runs on open source, and that’s not hyperbole. Python alone pulls in dozens—sometimes hundreds—of third‑party libraries for even the simplest applications. While public repositories have fueled innovation at incredible speed, th

Chasing the holy grail: Why Red Hat’s Hummingbird project aims for "near zero" CVEs

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-13 01:00:00

In the world of enterprise software security, few metrics are as coveted, or as elusive, as "zero CVEs." Simply put, a zero CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) approach aims to deliver software components that are completely free of known security v

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Pivoting From Mars to the Moon

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-13 00:13:45

It's a dramatic shift from Musk’s long-standing goal of a permanent human presence on the red planet. The post Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Pivoting From Mars to the Moon appeared first on SingularityHub .

Gurman: New Siri Might Be Delayed Again

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-12 18:24:34

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4 — an operating system update slated for March — Apple is now working to spread them out over future versions, according to people familiar with the matter

More MacOS 26.3 Finder Column View Silliness

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-12 18:13:31

Jeff Johnson: In today’s macOS 26.3 update, Apple implemented a “fix” for an issue I blogged about a month ago, macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view . (At the behest of John Gruber and the Apple Style Guide , I’m now using the term “column view” ra

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

Deepmind @ 2026-02-12 17:15:09

Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.

Análisis de ajedrez | Visier: su vida en jaque (y II)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-12 17:07:39

Campeón de España en 1968, un año magnifico para él por varias razones, el maestro español firmó una partida inmortal en ese torneo

OpenAI Scales Single Primary PostgreSQL Instance to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT

InfoQ @ 2026-02-12 16:00:00

OpenAI described how it scaled PostgreSQL to support ChatGPT and its API platform, handling millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of users. By running a single-primary PostgreSQL deployment on Azure with nearly 50 read replicas, optimiz

How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_KEY­DOWN message?

old new thing @ 2026-02-12 16:00:00

Check whether it is an extended key. The post How can I distinguish between the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the <CODE>WM_<WBR>KEY­DOWN</CODE> message? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project

ASF @ 2026-02-12 15:00:00

Apache HugeGraph graduates from Apache Incubator Wilmington, DE –  February 12, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache HugeGraph has become a Top-Level Pro

Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0

InfoQ @ 2026-02-12 12:09:00

Diverse and empowered teams are impactful teams, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned in his talk on creating impactful software teams at QCon London. A session 0 helps set expectations and ensures that everyone is approaching the team in a compatible way.

Stephen and David’s toy cupboard

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

David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Subverting hell

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

In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation - by Charlie Ericson Read on Aeon

WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices

InfoQ @ 2026-02-12 11:24:00

WhatsApp has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, replacing 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of memory-safe code for 3 billion devices. The rollout, part of a system called Kaleidoscope, uses differential fuzzing to ensure bug-for-bug comp

Java Weekly, Issue 633

Baeldung @ 2026-02-12 10:59:00

Jakarta EE 12 is getting closer and JDK 26 and yes, 27 on the horizon :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 633 first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Future of Mathematics and Mathematicians

Computational Complexity @ 2026-02-12 10:24:00

A reader worried about the future. I am writing this email as a young aspiring researcher/scientist. We live in a period of uncertainty and I have a lot of doubts about the decisions I should make. I've always been interested in mathematics and physic

Stela C

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-02-12 04:40:32

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling

Stela C

Physics Phorums @ 2026-02-12 04:40:32

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion and Matthew Stirling

Thoughts: Montauk

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

Ich mag Jim Carrey nicht, aber auf der Liste der Filme, die ich mir immer wieder ansehen könnte, steht “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” ganz oben. Nur wenige Filme sind mir ähnlich wichtig. Vielleicht ist es auch nicht Jim Carrey, sondern die meist

Announcing Rust 1.93.1

Rust blog @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.93.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.93.1 is as

JEP targeted to JDK 27: 527: Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3

Inside Java @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 527: Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3

From challenge to champion: Elevate your vulnerability management strategy

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

In the world of cybersecurity, vulnerability management is frequently a collaborative effort between vendors, software maintainers, and customers. It's a continuous journey of discovery, prioritization, and remediation that we embark on together. Each chal

Building bridges to European Digital Sovereignty

Red Hat blog @ 2026-02-12 01:00:00

Europe stands at a critical digital crossroads. As the European Commission shapes the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy, the conversation has shifted toward a vital objective: achieving true digital sovereignty while driving global competitiveness.

Apple Creator Studio Usage Restrictions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-11 22:04:07

Andrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica at the end of January: Apple also outlines a number of usage restrictions for the generative AI features that rely on external services. Apple says that, “at a minimum,” users will be able to generate 50 ima

How to Put a Text Without Removing HTML Structures in Thymeleaf

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 17:39:22

Learn about the common mistakes that can break HTML structure when working with Thymeleaf and explore two approaches to fix them. The post How to Put a Text Without Removing HTML Structures in Thymeleaf first appeared on Baeldung .    

Java Code Formatting Using Prettier

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 17:36:09

Learn how to set up and use prettier with Java (IntelliJ IDE and others) and quirks of the configuration. The post Java Code Formatting Using Prettier first appeared on Baeldung .              

Análisis de ajedrez | Visier: su vida en jaque (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-11 16:57:13

Uno de los más insignes ajedrecistas españoles de su época publica el primer volumen de sus memorias, con partidas espléndidas

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-02-11 16:00:10

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems. The post Physicists Mak

How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode?

old new thing @ 2026-02-11 16:00:00

You can prevent the item from becoming hot-tracked. The post How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Aligning one matrix with another

The Endeavour @ 2026-02-11 14:23:50

Suppose you have two n × n matrices, A and B, and you would like to find a rotation matrix Ω that lines up B with A. That is, you’d like to find Ω such that A = ΩB. This is asking too much, except in the trivial case of A and B being 1 × 1 matrices.

Desi oon

AEON @ 2026-02-11 12:01:00

A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Complexity of geometrically local stoquastic Hamiltonians

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-11 11:38:00

Quantum 10, 2004 (2026). The QMA-completeness of the local Hamiltonian problem is a landmark result of the field of Hamiltonian complexity that studies the computational complexity of problems in quantum many-b

CloudFront Adds Origin mTLS Authentication for End-to-End Zero Trust

InfoQ @ 2026-02-11 11:17:00

Amazon CloudFront now supports mutual TLS authentication for origin servers, completing end-to-end zero-trust authentication from viewers to backends. The feature replaces IP allowlists and shared secrets with cryptographic verification, proving particul

This Week in Rust 638

This Week in Rust @ 2026-02-11 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

Resolving Java Exception: cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 01:04:09

Learn about ClassCastException and its connection with Comparable objects. The post Resolving Java Exception: cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable first appeared on Baeldung .              

MCP Elicitations With Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-02-11 00:59:29

Learn how to implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) Elicitations using Spring AI. The post MCP Elicitations With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Weil Anima

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-02-10 23:27:09

Dustin Clausen is giving a course at the IHES starting today on “Weil Anima” (or maybe “Weil-Moore Anima”. They’ve already put up video of the talk here (also available on Youtube). For an earlier talk by Clausen on this mater

Your Genes Determine How Long You’ll Live Far More Than Previously Thought

Singularity Hub @ 2026-02-10 21:23:25

The unexpectedly large impact of genetics could spur new efforts to find longevity genes. The post Your Genes Determine How Long You’ll Live Far More Than Previously Thought appeared first on SingularityHub .

Disaster Recovery in 60 Seconds: A POC for Seamless Client Failover on Confluent Cloud

Confluent @ 2026-02-10 19:32:51

Step-by-step POC showing how to orchestrate Kafka client failover using Confluent Cloud Gateway and Cluster Linking to reduce recovery time to under 60 seconds.

Community Over Code Call for Presentations Now Open: Introducing Lakehouse Day EU 2026 

ASF @ 2026-02-10 18:18:24

Conference organizers for The ASF are pleased to announce the Call for Presentations for two events coming in October. This year, Community Over Code Glasgow will feature a co-located, standalone, all-day conference: Lakehouse Day EU 2026. Lakehouse Day w

Besieged

tecosystems @ 2026-02-10 16:39:00

As the last digit on the calendar rolled over from five to six, it took less than a month to realize the coming year was going to be different than the year that preceded it. Arguably the stage was set late last year with the November “inflection point” bu

Besieged

Sogrady @ 2026-02-10 16:39:00

As the last digit on the calendar rolled over from five to six, it took less than a month to realize the coming year was going to be different than the year that preceded it. Arguably the stage was set late last year with the November “inflection point” bu

How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?

old new thing @ 2026-02-10 16:00:00

Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people. The post How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video <I>Buddy Holly</I> on the CD? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Compost modernity!

AEON @ 2026-02-10 12:00:00

The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms - by Yogi Hale Hendlin Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Una perlita de Lorca

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-02-10 11:29:53

Pablo Guirado, uno de los españoles sub-12 más brillantes, exhibió su gran talento en el tradicional torneo murciano

Theory of quantum error mitigation for non-Clifford gates

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-10 11:08:37

Quantum 10, 2003 (2026). Quantum error mitigation techniques mimic noiseless quantum circuits by running several related noisy circuits and combining their outputs in particular ways. How well such techniques w

On Certified Randomness from Fourier Sampling or Random Circuit Sampling

Quantum Journal @ 2026-02-10 10:58:11

Quantum 10, 2002 (2026). Certified randomness has a long history in quantum information, with many potential applications. Recently Aaronson and Hung proposed a novel public certified randomness protocol based

[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth

Daring Fireball @ 2026-02-10 02:43:40

Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforc

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 27: Removal of ThreadPoolExecutor.finalize()

Inside Java @ 2026-02-10 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of ThreadPoolExecutor.finalize().