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slashdot @ 2026-11-04 14:00:00

joshuark shares a report from Wired: After 22 years in orbit and a failed rescue mission this summer, it is highly likely that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will crash into Earth sometime next week. It is not known where on the planet the spacecraft -

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

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

Researchers have confirmed the presence of intact biomolecules and mineralized red blood cells inside the 115-million-year-old fossilized bones of a juvenile Aratasaurus museunacionali from Brazil. The discovery challenges assumptions about how long blood-

InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:49:00

AWS has released Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level ingress resource letting platform teams define networking once and application teams opt services in with a connector. Each service gets a generated hostname and routing is host-based, and neither the

InfoQ @ 2026-11-04 10:00:00

Docker has published a guide to five security risks that arise when AI agents are allowed to browse, run code and call tools with limited human oversight. They argue that the autonomy that makes agents useful also makes conventional application security

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-04 09:57:10

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slashdot @ 2026-11-04 07:30:00

Tuesday, November 3, was Election Day in the United States, and the results are (mostly) in: Democrats are projected to win control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms. The blue wave turned out to be more of a blue tsunami, ending Republican

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-04 04:40:50

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [S]tate-owned telecommunications company Rostelcom has raised the possibility of moving some Russian data centers underground in talks with the nickel and palladium mining company Norilsk, according to

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-04 01:33:22

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slashdot @ 2026-11-04 01:00:00

Apple is adding vertical tabs and an Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3. The December updates will also expand Siri's browser controls, including organizing tabs and clearing site-specific history, with a lat

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

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

An adviser to the EU's highest court says Google's Gemini may violate publishers' copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case be

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 23:00:00

During a video celebrating Bethesda's 40th anniversary, the studio officially confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI will be titled The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. "Thank you for 40 years of shared memories," wrote Bethesda in a separate tweet. "We can't wait

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 22:51:06

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slashdot @ 2026-11-03 22:05:00

Mozilla is testing a new Firefox Nightly feature called Mini Window that lets users pop an entire webpage into a small, always-on-top window stripped of most browser controls. "The idea behind the Firefox Mini Window feature is simple: allow users to move

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 21:00:00

Binance says hackers spent months infiltrating its systems through fake job interviews, a tampered developer tool and compromised internal AI tools before stealing $6.34 billion in crypto in the Oct. 29 attack. Co-CEO Richard Teng said Binance has replenis

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 20:32:13

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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

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 20:01:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: mag

InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 20:00:00

Google has introduced the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight C++ API that allows developers to build, customize, and optimize machine learning models directly for on-device execution. According to Google, it combines the flexibility of native model authori

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 19:00:00

Google will disable AI tools by default for K-12 students early next year unless school administrators explicitly enable them, but schools that choose to block AI entirely will also lose student access to Google Search. The New York Times reports: Executiv

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 18:40:00

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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.

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 18:00:00

SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying "automation and AI" are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 17:47:29

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InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 17:47:00

Vitest 5.0 focuses on speed, with reported gains of 8 to 25 percent in most setups and up to 53 percent in VM pools. It adds a vitest doctor command, Browser Mode Trace View, and vi.when. Defaults are stricter: clearMocks is true and unawaited async asse

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

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) reported today that they used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra language model to ra

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

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 16:38:04

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 16:29:15

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Quantum Journal @ 2026-11-03 16:01:24

Quantum 10, 2258 (2026). QwaveMPS is an open-source Python library for simulating one-dimensional quantum many-body waveguide systems using matrix product states (MPS). It provides a user-friendly interface for

old new thing @ 2026-11-03 16:00:00

You just store it all in memory, in your own program. The post How do you implement a random-access database when you don’t have random-access external storage? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 15:53:42

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 15:53:41

My company is pretty paranoid about leaking IP to the frontier labs through prompts, so we've all been diligent about disabling data sharing in Codex/Claude Code/etc. But yesterday my coworkers and I noticed that the setting had been silently reenabled i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:51:14

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Unfortunately, the new iPad mini’s screen has one limitation: it doesn’t support ProMotion, or a 120Hz refresh rate of any kind. Instead, it’s still locked to 60Hz. This is an incredibly frustrating decision that I c

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 15:41:25

A few years ago I wrote about a curious result: a/b is usually greater than c/d when a + d is greater than b + c. And “usually” means with probability 11/12. As stated in the post, you can make this statement rigorous by choosing integers up t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:39:03

Bloomberg opinion columnist Dave Lee : Apple investors and fans hoping to get an insight into the philosophy of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus on Monday were left sorely disappointed. The 51-year-old’s first earnings call was a timid affair,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 15:30:40

Horace Dediu, tweeting yesterday on Apple’s results: iPhone grew at 17% sales which is amazing considering they did not launch the 18 or the Duo or the new Air in the quarter. The Duo didn’t launch until October, which is Q1 (in Apple’s financial

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 13:33:10

Spherical geometry is very tangible because we live on a sphere. Projective geometry seems much more exotic, and yet they’re closely related. To show how they’re connected, let’s go back to the origins of non-Euclidean geometry. Euclidea

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 13:21:17

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InfoQ @ 2026-11-03 13:00:00

LinkedIn has built an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry platform that connects what members do in its iOS, Android, and web applications with the backend services processing those interactions. By Craig Risi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-11-03 12:25:50

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 577 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Planeta Enano; Errores en IAs; Romper Agujeros Negros; Habitabilidad Química; Virus y Monos”, […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 577: Nuevo

slashdot @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00

A coalition of security firms working with Japan's National Police Agency has disrupted a botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices across 200+ countries. "We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, depl

AEON @ 2026-11-03 12:00:00

The separation of church and state has an unspoken psychological basis: we choose what we believe, but not what we think - by Neil Van Leeuwen & Jacob Eisler Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-03 11:45:19

This post will show how a graphic programmer’s hack could lead to a rigorous definition of the projective plane. As mentioned in the previous post, we start by adding some “points at infinity” to Euclidean plane to take care of exception

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-11-03 10:16:17

I recently blogged about how the curl project switched to doing all handling of vulnerabilities at severity LOW and MEDIUM in the public. Let me now describe how you can follow along this process and help out. Add your opinions, comments and assessments to

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-03 09:10:04

En una lucha trepidante, Sindárov no encuentra esta vez el estrecho camino para evitar la derrota ante Praggnanandhaa

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-11-03 08:56:21

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slashdot @ 2026-11-03 08:00:00

At the Seventh Manned Spaceflight Conference in Beijing, Chinese space officials publicly outlined the most detailed roadmap yet for landing astronauts on the Moon "before 2030." Ars Technica reports: China's lunar landings will involve a lunar-orbit rende

Singularity Hub @ 2026-11-03 01:19:54

New AI tools could help more biologists experiment with problems once restricted to a handful of specialists. The post Scientists Can Now Ask AI to Design Proteins Using Plain Language appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-03 01:10:53

Jason Snell, Six Colors: On Monday, Apple announced record fourth-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $114.5B, up 12 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 17.5%, Mac revenue was up 23.7%, and Services revenue was up 9.8%. Wear

Ethereum blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Public services increasingly rely on digital systems that enable institutions to collaborate across organizational and national boundaries. Such cooperation may involve government agencies verifying documents issued by other authorities, or humanitarian or

Rust blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.3 This new

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Developers are using AI to write code, generate tests, and ship features faster than ever. The tools are becoming more capable, and the amount of work they can perform is expanding quickly. As code generation accelerates, open source communities face an en

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

In this article:Vulnerability remediation requires more than just merging code: While opening a pull request (PR) updates a dependency, that's not the end of the process. Safely moving that change to production requires integration testing, change manageme

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

We are rapidly approaching an intersection of 2 generational technology shifts: The explosive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and the looming reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs). While AI is transforming how

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-03 01:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 45, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 45 below and don't forget to make sure yo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-02 23:43:59

“I didn’t see you put that in the diary.” Sound familiar? Shared calendars solved scheduling, not communication. OurCal connects any calendar, new or existing, to a group chat. Changes post there automatically, so nobody misses them. Because it’s a

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-11-02 21:55:03

There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading ͛

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-11-02 18:30:07

Starting November 16, 2026, App Store Connect will include new content descriptors to help ensure your app’s age ratings accurately reflect its features and are in accordance with local regulations. When completing the age rating questionnaire in App St

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs. It enables PyTorch workloads to execute on TPU hardware with minimal code modifications, supporting eager and compil

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 18:00:00

This week's Java roundup for October 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 8.0; point releases of JNoSQL, Endive, JBang, JReleaser and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of JobRunr; beta releases of Hibernate ORM and Hiberna

AWS Blog @ 2026-11-02 17:45:48

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams alrea

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-11-02 16:48:57

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. The post Is There Anything Left in the Dream of Cold Fusion? first appeared on Qu

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

Wait, that's not him. The post Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-02 15:44:02

In my newsletter I give an introduction to the latest few posts and occasionally give some additional commentary. In my latest newsletter I wrote Projective space and homogeneous coordinates seemed like arbitrary abstractions when I was a student because

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 14:53:00

Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access

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

What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-11-02 10:00:00

Shopify has introduced Overexposed. This internal scanner locates Kubernetes Ingresses on GKE and Cloud Run services. It checks for those that are accessible from the internet without authentication. By Claudio Masolo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift migration advisor helps you assess your VMware inventory of virtual machines (VMs) and plan migrations to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Over the past few months, we’ve focused on making assessments easier to read and share, and more u

Red Hat blog @ 2026-11-02 01:00:00

For the past few years, AI felt like a high-stakes exhibition game. Teams across every industry were on the pitch experimenting with large language models, running rapid proofs-of-concept, and testing what was possible. That period of passive experimentati

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 23:04:25

Aunque Praggnanandhaa fue el más brillante, Sindárov supo aprovechar su oportunidad con suma eficacia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-11-01 22:22:56

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and th

The Endeavour @ 2026-11-01 21:29:54

I wrote several posts on poles and polars a few days ago. First, I wrote about the dual of a spherical triangle, called the polar triangle. Then I wrote about poles and polars in plane geometry and briefly mentioned the extension to projective geometry. P

Computational Complexity @ 2026-11-01 21:23:06

(Throughout this post I will assume that the recent results by OpenAI and Anthropic contain correct proofs of what they claim.) I wrote the following about 2 years ago but did not post it. It's dated, but that's the point. BEGIN DOCUMENT FROM TWO YEARS

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-11-01 18:01:01

A tres semanas del duelo por la corona frente a Gukesh, el uzbeko gana un torneo relámpago de élite con una victoria espléndida sobre Nakamura

InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 09:03:00

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with part of 2028 already allocated, while the company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Practitioners discussing the remarks re

InfoQ @ 2026-11-01 07:32:00

AWS has recently released File Mover Express, an open-source application under the Apache 2.0 license for transferring large files between local systems and Amazon S3. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it supports parallel transfers, automatic per

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 20:56:00

Cloudflare has moved a post-quantum rebuild of GeoKey Manager into closed beta, guarding geo-fenced keys with hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 instead of the attribute-based encryption used since 2022. Keys live only in kernel memory on verified regional ser

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 18:00:00

OpenBSD 8.0 is a substantial upgrade bringing broader hardware compatibility, enhanced security, an expanded virtual address space, and support for modern architectures, including Intel Arc A-Series graphics support, ARM64 hibernation, RISC-V improvement

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-31 15:00:00

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 October 31) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 14:30:00

There was a flurry of activity during the week of October 19th, 2026, highlighting: first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring HAT

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-31 13:17:48

Consolidado entre los mejores del mundo tras su paréntesis universitario, el chino se mantiene como un potencial candidato a la corona

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-31 10:18:09

One of my dreams is finally coming true: ecological modeling with the help of category theory! Topos Research UK, run by my friends and colleagues, will be providing computational support to ecological modelers using CatColab, their modeling software based

InfoQ @ 2026-10-31 09:18:00

Fortanix's CoCo integration connects workload attestation to decryption-key release for Kubernetes AI workloads. GPU-verification settings affect protection, while upstream Trustee and Azure Secure Key Release offer alternative routes to attestation-base

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-31 00:30:54

Sponsorships have continued selling briskly, of late . Knock on wood. As of yesterday, the next opening on the schedule wasn’t until the last week of December, and the Q1 2027 schedule is already filling up. However, due to some schedule rejiggering,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 22:56:10

I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish writing my full thoughts on the redesigned hardware and displays for the PROLED XDR models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:53:41

Marcin Wichary on the original iPod easter egg on Apple Music’s website 404 page: I am usually not a fan of easter eggs — most of them are poorly made — but this might be the best iPod recreation I’ve seen, and it’s an interesting thing to study:

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:31:21

From ICPC World Finals to competitive programming clubs to building generalist audio models as the first engineer at a YC startup.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:29:49

Dylan left Minnesota for San Francisco to build AI agents for CAD software as the first engineer at Adam (W25).

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:27:50

A principal engineer left consumer-scale software to build AI-native scientific analysis tools as the founding engineer at 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:26:08

A math major who turned down safe internships to lead high-stakes deals at a YC S26 startup supplying data for frontier AI labs.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:23:22

A veteran engineer finds his next act helping scientists discover cures, one amino acid at a time, at YC W26 startup 10x Science.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:21:48

After 10 years at Google Research and DeepMind, Yair Alon joined Poetiq to build an AI that improves itself.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 19:18:56

Jonathan Stempel, reporting for Reuters: General Motors will pay $220 million to settle ​allegations that it illegally sold drivers’ private behavior and location data to brokers, who then sold the information to insurers that used it to set and somet

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:17:26

From Lyft's self-driving division to fixing HSA/FSA payments, Varsha joined Flex as its first engineer and built from scratch.

YC @ 2026-10-30 19:12:49

A layoff, two years of travel, and a self-taught pivot to software led Sherif Amer to become the founding engineer at Indemni.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-30 18:53:09

Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stew

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 17:16:14

Java 21 to 25 upgrades and lots of solid security releases. As expected after the weeks we've had :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 669 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-30 15:52:05

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave of 3D mapping is bringing the interstellar medium’s dynamic nature into focus. The post A New Map of ‘Empty’

Deepmind @ 2026-10-30 15:18:30

Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times

old new thing @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

Lots of rumors, little confirmation. The post The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-30 15:00:00

How is AI affecting collaboration and creativity? Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to find out. The post AI May Quickly Generate Ideas—but Teams of People Are Still More Creative appeared first on SingularityHub .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

Kotlin news @ 2026-10-30 13:02:33

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks since my last roundup: the Shipaton 2026 winners are in, and three Kotlin Multiplatform apps took the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. In other news, Kotlin 2.5.0 is taking shape with its second Beta, KotlinConf 2027 is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-30 12:53:25

La solución de este final artístico parece imposible incluso después de un cálculo profundo; y ahí surge un recurso genial muy antiguo

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:51:20

Learn how to set up query transformation in Spring AI for retrieval augmented generation. The post Query Transformation in Spring AI Modular RAG first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-10-30 12:42:54

Learn various strategies for handling forwarded headers in a Spring Boot application. The post Handle Forwarded Headers in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-30 11:13:12

Quantum 10, 2257 (2026). The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifyin

AEON @ 2026-10-30 11:00:00

A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age - by Jay Miller Read on Aeon

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

MacBook with Touch, more iPhone Duo, Australian App Store?, Going Closed-source, Feedler

Inside Java @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Now that the JDK 27 has been released, I thought it would be time to discuss interesting changes in OpenJDK’s stop-the-world collectors in the HotSpot VM once more.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Becoming a parent brings so much excitement, and can have its fair share of challenges. At Red Hat, parental leave is designed so work isn't one of those worries. In 2025, we set an ambitious goal to implement a Global Paid Parental Leave policy, providing

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red HatRed Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling inference and agent services. Rising token costs and sovereignt

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-30 01:00:00

When migrating virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud, virtualization engineers hit a familiar wall: how do you route traffic directly to a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization guest VM using that VM’s own IP address?OpenShift Virtualization has long offered a so

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 23:03:42

Apple Developer News: Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:57:21

Craig Hockenberry: If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week. Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of Word

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 21:44:11

Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. S

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-29 18:54:44

El portento ruso, que brilla desde los 8, está a un paso de ser el gran maestro más joven de la historia

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 17:06:56

How Jason Snell beat me to linking to this, I don’t know. But like I said back in February , when it comes to signage, “Mind your P’s and Q’s” ought to be “Mind your H’s and S’s”.  ★ 

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-29 16:11:57

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-29 16:00:56

Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission. As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Ta

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 15:28:00

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read o

old new thing @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

Then again, that is what they asked for. The post The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-29 15:00:00

The first patient received a dose of the high-precision gene editor in a new clinical trial for Wilson disease. Researchers hope it's a one-and-done fix. The post CRISPR Prime Editing Rewrites DNA in the Human Body for the First Time appeared first on

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-29 14:50:00

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-29 14:19:24

Quantum 10, 2256 (2026). Quantum data re-uploading has proved powerful for classical inputs, where repeatedly encoding features into a small circuit yields universal function approximation. Extending this idea

luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:45:28

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1537

luajit @ 2026-10-29 12:40:59

Reported by aleksisch. Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1536

AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:01:00

A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-29 11:00:00

Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-29 06:06:15

Steven Levy, writing at Wired with the scoop on the new MacBook Pros ( News+ link ): This turnaround is a big deal to Apple fans. Ternus shrugs off the drama. “The Mac is first and foremost an indirect input device, built around the trackpad and keybo

Inside Java @ 2026-10-29 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

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-29 01:00:00

Sovereignty debt is emerging as a critical board-level liability across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The concept of technology debt is not new. It has challenged organizations through successive technology cycles, from data analytics to public cloud ado

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-28 20:15:04

In this week's big news (though it's only Wednesday), OpenAI announced a proof that the exponential-time hypothesis is false , with a Lean proof . Later Anthropic released their own paper . Ryan O'Donnell  and Shiva Kintali  posted follow-

Deepmind @ 2026-10-28 18:00:58

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-28 18:00:55

Start getting ready for MacBook Pro with Touch today. Watch new developer videos, sign up for Group Labs, and check out new articles and resources. Explore now

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-28 17:04:18

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a strong, flexible fiber. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-28 16:58:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A teaser video shared by Apple CEO John Ternus today hints at a potential name for the rumored MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays: MacBook Studio. [...] Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selec

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:43:07

Quantum 10, 2255 (2026). Data privacy and authentication are two main security requirements for remote access and cloud services. While QKD has been explored to address data privacy concerns, oftentimes its use

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:34:12

Quantum 10, 2254 (2026). Semidefinite relaxations of polynomial optimization have become a central tool for addressing the non-convex optimization problems over non-commutative operators that are ubiquitous in

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:24:36

Quantum 10, 2253 (2026). This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture for the trace distance based optimal state transformation problem proposed by Coutts et al. [Quantum 5, 448 (2021)]. Th

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-28 15:03:02

Quantum 10, 2252 (2026). We show that recent experiments in hybrid qubit-oscillator devices that measure the phase-space characteristic function of the oscillator via the qubit can be seen through the lens of f

old new thing @ 2026-10-28 15:00:00

You are taking the scenic route. The post C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using <CODE>make_self</CODE> and immediately converting it to the projected interface appeared first on The Old New Thing .