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slashdot @ 2026-09-24 03:04:00

Ars Technica reports: Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that too

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 01:41:46

Apple Developer: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the optio

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-24 00:15:05

I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 22:34:00

More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert. Whatever happened to those barrels? Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 22:12:16

Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 20:38:58

“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 19:31:23

Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is.

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 18:04:00

TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in

Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 18:00:57

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-23 17:25:14

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-23 17:18:39

The 59th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing takes place in Atlanta next June, part of the Federated Computing Research Conference . I don't usually do announcement posts but we need to talk about the Call for Papers  (deadline November 2) wh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 16:22:09

President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to contro

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-23 16:16:54

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike first appeared on Quanta Magaz

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 16:14:00

Graphify is an open-source tool designed to convert codebases and unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs. Launched in April 2026, it addresses challenges of multi-file reasoning for AI coding assistants. Recent updates have enhanced parser fea

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-23 16:11:52

In the novel Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a sailor asked Nathaniel Bowditch to teach him how to do navigational calculations, but the man only knows how to add and subtract by counting on his fingers. He had not heard of multiplication. Bowditch is surprised,

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 16:00:00

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second. By

old new thing @ 2026-09-23 16:00:00

Let the library do the math for you. The post When working with Win32 <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>, don’t forget that you have <CODE>std::chrono</CODE> now appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 15:22:00

Cloudflare redesigned the in-memory representation of its Big Pineapple DNS cache, reducing the per-entry footprint by 56% and freeing roughly 100 TB of working-set memory across its fleet. The Rust-based changes also increased cache insertion throughput

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 13:34:00

August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance: The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally... [

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 12:36:00

In a JetBrains interview, Zig creator Andrew Kelley expanded on the project’s formal ban on AI contributions and the motivation behind its migration off GitHub to Codeberg: automated code submissions decrease codebase quality and weaken the social constr

AEON @ 2026-09-23 12:01:00

Be it movie mythos or nostalgia for a ‘simpler’ time, there’s an undeniable allure in stepping into the American West - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 12:00:00

Google has added a Kernel Profiling suite to XProf. This is its open-source profiler for TPU workloads. Now, developers can see cycle-level details in custom Pallas kernels. Before, these kernels appeared as single opaque blocks in trace captures. By C

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 09:04:00

Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:58:59

Learn how to use FitNesse to write an acceptance test for your Java application. The post Introduction to FitNesse – An Acceptance Testing Framework first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 08:48:14

Learn to use NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server in Java to do object detection in images. The post Introduction to Triton Java API first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-09-23 08:44:00

AWS has added Cluster Mode to Elastic Beanstalk, running applications on EKS clusters the service creates and operates. Clusters are assigned by subnet set and cannot be changed afterward, direct cluster access is service-managed, and AWS recommends sepa

Baeldung @ 2026-09-23 05:55:47

Learn how to upgrade the Spring Framework version in a Spring Boot application by understanding dependency management, selecting a compatible Boot release, and verifying the resolved dependencies with Maven. The post Upgrading Spring Framework Version

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 04:34:00

U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intell

Inside Java @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a new JavaDoc tag `@note` to highlight the presence of additional information in API documentation.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The convergence of enterprise IT and physical computing is accelerating. As artificial intelligence transitions from purely digital environments into autonomous systems, industrial automation, and smart edge devices, the software foundation behind these sy

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

As organizations accelerate their cloud transformations, IT teams often find themselves trapped between 2 worlds—managing mission-critical legacy virtual machines (VMs) in isolated silos while simultaneously attempting to build cloud-native applications on

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The cluster is up. The team celebrated. A year later, the same 5 applications you migrated at launch are still the only workloads running on it. Developers are confused about what's expected of them. Operations is buried in manual processes and don’t have

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

Despite substantial investments in observability tools and automation, IT operations teams still spend critical incident response minutes context-switching across dashboards, copying data into chat channels, and evaluating whether a potential fix is safe t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-23 02:00:00

The rise of generative AI promised a silver bullet, but for most enterprises, especially banks, digital transformation remains a slow, complex, and costly endeavor. Early reports suggested massive developer productivity gains. But when AI is applied to com

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-23 00:51:09

Bill McCool, writing at Dieline: This past Wednesday, lettering artist, designer, and author Jessica Hische took to Threads to announce that she had worked alongside Meta’s team to create the icon and logotype for their agentic AI, Muse. Acknowledgi

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-23 00:23:14

Amazon CloudWatch Omni is the next evolution of CloudWatch — unified observability that brings your applications and AI agents into one reimagined experience, with auto-discovered topology, natural language queries, and AI-guided investigation powered by A

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-23 00:21:13

Learn how Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads. Trace, evaluate, and experiment with AI agents across any framework—directly from your IDE or a standalone web experience—using open s

slashdot @ 2026-09-23 00:04:00

On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share." It's a small survey, but "The steepest proportional decline is in Sof

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 23:26:24

Jason Aten, writing for Inc: Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were ha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:51:12

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: The number one response I’ve gotten to my thoughts on Meta’s Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of “I will never trust Meta with my data.” But the number two response is arguably more interesting (and re

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:43:32

Todd Bishop, reporting at GeekWire: Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers, after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to voluntarily exclude the e-commer

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 22:12:41

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5 Mac on Friday: Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. Muse by Meta only launched this month , although the a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 21:25:52

Apple Developer: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-22 20:41:15

The boy, whose liver cancer had spread to his lungs, suffered no dangerous side effects and remained cancer-free a year later. The post Three-Year-Old Boy’s Metastatic Cancer Disappears After Two Shots of Experimental Cell Therapy appeared first

slashdot @ 2026-09-22 19:34:00

The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But today the movie passed the $100 million mark. "You asked for

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-09-22 18:31:39

Picture this: an AI agent is answering a question about a patient population. To do it, the agent calls a tool, and the tool queries a clinical database. IAM has already given the green light — the agent can invoke this tool. OAuth scopes checked out. The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 17:44:45

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live. Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible cus

InfoQ @ 2026-09-22 16:14:00

Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful actors. It provides resource-efficient task suspension and resumption to optimise perf

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-22 16:01:30

A couple days ago a friend told me about the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a fictional account of the life of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838). I’ve been listening to the book on Audible, and apparently it’s only lightly fictionalized. Bowditch w

old new thing @ 2026-09-22 16:00:00

Right-clicking and shift-clicking. The post A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts appeared first on The Old New Thing .

slashdot @ 2026-09-22 15:04:00

Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon revie

InfoQ @ 2026-09-22 14:00:00

GitLab has expanded GitLab Duo Self-Hosted to support models deployed through Microsoft Foundry, letting organizations run GitLab's AI development capabilities against models hosted in their chosen Azure environment. By Craig Risi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-22 12:19:37

Sus logros como adolescente son incluso mayores que los de Carlsen a la misma edad en algunos aspectos, y su juego asombra

AEON @ 2026-09-22 12:00:00

When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more - by Eric Leas Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-09-22 10:34:00

Monday Google opened preorders for its "Googlebook" laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google's blog post added that "At launch, you can choose between Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Snapdragon X Elite processors" (paired with NPUs to power AI features). "D

InfoQ @ 2026-09-22 08:00:00

Changesets v3.0, released on August 11, 2026, introduces significant updates for JavaScript monorepos. It offers leaner installations, a rebuilt CLI, and changes to peer dependency management that resolve long-standing complaints. Upgrading involves conf

slashdot @ 2026-09-22 06:04:00

Meta's AI "personal agent" Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it's still showing more downloads as of Monday night. Muse now has over 2.5 million downloads since its debut less than two weeks ago,

Rust blog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership C

Inside Java @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

The Helidon team is pleased to announce Helidon 27, the first release under the Tip-and-Tail model used by OpenJDK.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 introduces many new enhancements designed to scale enterprise automation, improve platform engineering productivity, and bridge the gap with AI-driven operations. Key updates include high-level advancements in AI orc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

If you're an AI or machine learning engineer, you've seen the classic demo: ingest a clean PDF into a prototype, build a vector database index using standard tutorial code, and submit a simple question. The model returns a pristine answer, everyone nods, a

Secret Weblog @ 2026-09-22 02:00:00

The feeling when you slow down.

InfoQ @ 2026-09-22 01:57:00

Out-of-order HTML streaming, a user experience pattern popularized by front-end frameworks and that allows users to view and interact faster with a page before it is entirely loaded, is making its way to web browsers. The proposal has the browser patchin

slashdot @ 2026-09-22 01:34:00

Paramount Skydance just "emerged victorious" reports Reuters, "from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery" that will "dramatically concentrate power across Hollywood's film, TV, streaming and news businesses." The vict

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-22 01:13:22

Suppose you want to solve a triangle. You know two sides and the angle between them. Then you can solve for the third side using the law of cosines. Now suppose you want to solve a big triangle, a triangle on the surface of the earth so large that the cur

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 01:04:15

Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots, hosted AI workflows, turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, through one API call, with no model hosting to maintain

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-22 00:52:44

I first recommended Strategery back in May 2009 , including a link to Friedman’s review at Macworld . I described it thus: Strategery is a beautiful $2 Risk-like strategy game for the iPhone. Lots of fun and the gameplay has a great feel. Still

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 23:52:50

Joanna Stern, on X: GM has confirmed it is NOT rolling phone projection to GM EVs. Instead this announcement is specific to JUST their new gas powered light-duty pickups, which have always supported Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 23:23:01

MLB: Comerica Park has had several alternate identities since it became the Tigers’ home in 2000. Some have called it Comerica National Park for its spacious dimensions. Some fans simply came to call it Comerica, or abbreviated it to CoPa, as they gre

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 21:04:00

"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors): It peaks around 180 on average (and sometimes reache

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-21 20:22:48

La tremenda fuerza de la selección anfitriona no se limita a los astros Abdusattórov y Sindárov, sino que abarca a todo el equipo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:37:16

Sofia Schwarzwalder, reporting for The Seattle Times: Since turning 50, the Mariners legend has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, launched eight homers at the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby this summer and, most recently, tossed a 127-pitch shutout

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:31:58

Glenn Fleishman: Recent protectionist changes by the European Union further effectively exclude U.S. small businesses like mine from selling to EU customers. It’s a little complicated, but it has to do with how tax and customs fees are collected and e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:20:56

David Pogue: The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling. I used the beta-test version all sum

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 19:00:00

This week's Java roundup for September 14th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 27, LibericaJDK 27, Open J Proxy 1.0 and A2A Jakarta 1.0; point releases of Azul Payara, JHipster, JetBrains Ktor and BoxLang; and introducing Netflix ja

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 18:53:06

Matthew Butterick: So let’s not take the bait. Nor overcomplicate. We needn’t spin our collective wheels spitballing answers to big-picture, long-term Al-policy questions. We don’t know enough yet. The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big Al nee

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-21 18:11:24

Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself sc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 16:57:12

Seth Godin back in 2014: You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure this. (Vis-à-vis my sidenote over the weekend about Apple refusing to publish mAh battery specs f

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 16:37:00

Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The approach bounds shard dependencies, preserves replica isolation, and uses a greedy algorithm to select sha

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 16:34:00

There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher's Weekly. Yet "While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges." Googl

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 16:14:00

Cloudflare has introduced the Agent Development Lifecycle to enhance AI-driven engineering. The approach replaces the traditional SDLC, addressing bottlenecks in testing, deployment, and maintenance. Key components include automated software factories, d

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-21 16:12:36

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. The post How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution first appeared on Quanta Ma

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 16:08:35

Quantum 10, 2214 (2026). We study quantitatively the interplay between entanglement and non-stabilizer resources in violating the CHSH inequalities. We show that, while non-stabilizer resources are necessary, t

old new thing @ 2026-09-21 16:00:00

Being wary of how people use it and how it interacts with other types. The post What’s the highest legal <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>? Is it safe to use? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-21 14:44:05

Todos los años me hago eco de los Premios Ig Nobel y no podía ser de otra forma este año 2026. La ceremonia de la trigesimosexta entrega de premios se […] La entrada Premios Ig Nobel 2026 fue escrita en La Ciencia de la Mula Francis .

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 12:04:00

"Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports Reuters, "in what it said could be the first ban of its kind." But meanwhile "more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta'

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:01:00

As Indonesia builds a new capital city, the race is on to preserve the sounds of the rainforest before they vanish forever - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:00:00

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain - by Massimo Pigliucci Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 11:08:14

Quantum 10, 2213 (2026). The possibility of nonclassicality in networks unrelated to Bell’s original eponymous theorem has recently attracted significant interest. Here, we identify a sufficient condition for b

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 10:43:00

AWS has told customers it cannot restore resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 availability zone in the UAE, or exclusively in the Bahrain region, after damage during the conflict with Iran. The company says the Bahrain damage spanned mul

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 10:20:41

Quantum 10, 2212 (2026). Efficiently implementing Clifford circuits is crucial for quantum error correction and quantum algorithms. Linear reversible circuits, equivalent to circuits composed of CNOT\xspace gat

Baeldung @ 2026-09-21 06:05:19

Learn the fundamentals of Solon, including its architecture, dependency injection, configuration, HTTP handling, persistence, and testing, and see them in practice by building a REST API with MyBatis-Flex and H2. The post Introduction to Solon first

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 03:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.37, named "Garhwal", emphasizing its focus on stability, security, and AI/ML workload optimization. By Mostafa Radwan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:49:55

Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline: The release of The Savant is back on. A year after Apple TV put the thriller starring Jessica Chastain on hold three days before it was slated to premiere on Sept. 26, 2025, the streamer has rescheduled it fo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:37:18

I genuinely enjoyed that Sara Eisen laughed a little when introducing me as having written a 5,000-word review of the iPhone 18 Pro.  ★ 

Rust blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/ , allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is po

Inside Java @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation within the JVM is essential to Java's performance and plays a central role in ongoing OpenJDK projects such as Valhalla, Leyden, and Panama. JIT compilation is constantly evolving to support the evolution of the Java languag

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

In a post-Mythos world, IT teams face a mounting crisis. Many are doing more with the same staff, and security work hasn’t gotten simpler. Alerts still land without context. Compliance still means chasing down answers across tools. A single incident can co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

A year ago, I wrote about the road to quantum-safe cryptography in Red Hat OpenShift. At the time, much of that road was forward-looking: TLS 1.3 was not yet the default, Go did not support post-quantum algorithms, and the first NIST post-quantum cryptogra

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-20 21:13:11

The following conversation is fictional. --------------------------- ALICE: (Looking over a student's record.) Hmm, let's see. She wants to work in quantum computing. She's had the year-long quantum sequence in the physics department and has taken a cou

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 19:53:31

El irregular y controvertido portento cae ante Svane y provoca la derrota de su selección ante Alemania en la 5ª ronda de la Olimpiada

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:35:31

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week — a big week — at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:30:00

Natalie Neff, Autoweek: General Motors is reversing course after having begun to remove Apple CarPlay from its vehicles, showing off instead a redesigned infotainment interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups that melds the sma

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 17:35:55

He takes the same “ this is pretty much exactly what Apple used to label an ‘S’ year ” angle I did, so, unsurprisingly, I think his review is spot-on. Brownlee emphasizes one point that I should have, but didn’t: according to Apple’s published specs, the

Baeldung @ 2026-09-20 09:55:45

A better spec-driven development and the brain as example architecture. The post Java Weekly, Issue 664 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 08:47:56

El ucranio, genio y figura a los 57 años, cayó ante Caruana tras un sacrificio a largo plazo, correcto pero innecesario

The observation deck @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to pa

Inside Java @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 401: Value Objects (Preview)

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 18:29:00

Splendid video. Love that Stalman shot photos side-by-side with a film SLR using Kodak Portra 400, for comparison to Apple’s new film-look Photographic Styles.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 17:37:39

Austin Mann: I’m here at the beautiful Dunton River Camp in southwest Colorado, where I’ve spent the last week testing the new camera and features on the iPhone 18 Pro. Beyond the variable aperture and Pro Controls, Apple also built in a bunch of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 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 September 19) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-19 03:17:36

Nothing grows exponentially forever. What appears to be an exponential curve often turns out to be some sort of S curve, such as a logistic curve. Suppose you’re collecting data on the left side of the curve. If there’s even a small amount of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 00:11:54

The system, designed by Stanford researchers, identified which drugs are more likely to succeed in trials and even proposed a cancer treatment a major drugmaker later landed on too. The post Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 23:01:43

Miriam Pawel, in an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that the University of California should not bring back the SAT requirement for admission: What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 22:42:31

Will Oremus, writing for The Atlantic last week, “Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone” (gift link): Apple’s next big invention, the company revealed at a launch event in Cupertino, is a $2,000 iPhone that sports — get ready — a “remarkable hinge.” Is it

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:58:22

In addition to the Duo-specific 27.1 SDK, which allows third-party developers to get started adapting apps to the Duo’s new screen sizes and layouts, Apple’s developer site also has Figma and Sketch design kits.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:29:12

Warren Buffett, in a letter to Berkshire shareholders: Recently, I celebrated my 96th birthday with family and friends, including one of my great-grandchildren, who had just turned one. He’s moving a bit faster than I am these days. [...] So the tim

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:23:45

Let’s check in on the president of the United States, having a normal one on his blog: I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and cred

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 19:18:19

Page Six Hollywood: Ternus attended an intimate Apple party the night before the Emmys, filled with stars and powerbrokers, where some talent brazenly hit him up for the phone. “The new phone is big news,” said one top Hollywood exec, who added that

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-18 19:00:57

Get Xcode 27.1 beta. View downloads and release notes Get Figma and Sketch design kits for iPhone Duo from the Apple Design Resources. Download design kits from the Apple Design Resources Sign up for workshops around the world to learn how

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:58:25

Max Roberts, after looking at the list of MKBHD’s all-time most popular videos, and noting that his Duo first-look is #3, and a Duo follow-up is already at #36: Apple enters the category and in a week it blows past every other folding video. Now, th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:42:00

Cleaning up my notes this morning, I realized I forgot to write about the new under-display Face ID sensor in the iPhones 18 Pro, and the corresponding change to the Dynamic Island. I just added it to my review. For those of you who’ve already read the re

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:13:39

YouTube Help: Last year, we updated how we count public views for Shorts to better capture how viewers watch on YouTube. Now, we’re aligning all other video formats to this same standard for consistency across the platform. Beginning on 8/24/2026, a v

old new thing @ 2026-09-18 16:00:00

Do you try again or give up? The post Comparing exception behavior of magic statics, <CODE>std::<WBR>call_<WBR>once</CODE>, and <CODE>std::<WBR>async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-18 15:55:50

The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks. The post Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich first appeared on Quanta Magazine

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-18 15:02:06

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 571 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “LUCA; Mercurio; Diplodocus; Estética; Entrelazamiento”, 17 sep 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 571: Pará

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-18 14:45:19

El aspirante al título mundial inicia su actuación en la Olimpiada de Samarcanda con un remate antológico

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 12:13:44

Quantum 10, 2211 (2026). We study multiparty entanglement near measurement induced phase transitions (MIPTs), which arise in ensembles of local quantum circuits built with unitaries and measurements. In contras

AEON @ 2026-09-18 12:00:00

A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why? - by Richard Dyer Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 11:56:51

Quantum 10, 2210 (2026). According to Aumann's celebrated theorem, rational agents cannot agree to disagree. In other words, agents who once shared a common prior probability distribution and who have comm

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 11:35:22

Quantum 10, 2209 (2026). Gibbs state preparation, or Gibbs sampling, is a key computational technique extensively used in physics, statistics, and other scientific fields. Recent efforts for designing fast mixi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 04:05:11

It’s the best version of the most successful product ever made. And yet by nature of *how* the iPhone 18 Pro improved in the last year, it’s not exciting at all.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-18 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization PlatformsRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinf

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-18 00:01:12

We're fixated on the intelligence of single agents. The more profound challenge is what happens when millions of them interact at scale. The post The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence—It’s Artificial Societies appeared first on Singularity

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-17 23:11:48

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better pri

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-17 21:20:21

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that ru

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-17 20:51:37

El desconocido Lachawirapap tumba a una de las estrellas indias en la primera ronda de la Olimpiada de Samarcanda

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-17 18:48:14

There’s a common saying in discussion of fractals that the length of a coastline depends on how small a device you use to measure it. I thought this was a hypothetical, say as applied to the steps in the construction of the Koch snowflake. But the s

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-17 17:09:33

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. The post Where Does the Quantum Worl

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-17 16:54:56

ITMS 2026 Two years ago I attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show  in Chicago's McCormick Place and found a rather limited focus on artificial intelligence among the exhibitors. ITMS is back in town so I went again

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-17 16:41:53

Joe Rossignol at MacRumors over the weekend: Apple now says the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max uses the chip in every country except for the U.S. [...] Apple has yet to provide an explanation for this modem diffe

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-17 16:03:51

I recently bought a copy of Los Alamos Rolodex, a book displaying business cards from Los Alamos Nation Labs from 1967 to 1978. You can find some examples of the cards here. One of the cards in the book is for Eugene Frank, President of B & F Instrume

old new thing @ 2026-09-17 16:00:00

Simple vs complex machinery. The post <CODE>std::call_once</CODE> vs. <CODE>std::async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-17 15:50:00

I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI migh

AEON @ 2026-09-17 12:01:00

Probing the biology, beauty and mystery of animal eyes, this short poetic documentary explores an alien world - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-17 12:00:00

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world - by Liam Spradlin Read on Aeon