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slashdot @ 2026-08-17 05:04:00

Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America "either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the company. It's the highest amo

InfoQ @ 2026-08-17 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 10th, 2026, features news highlighting: Simple JSON API proposed to target for JDK 28; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the August 2026 edition of Open Liberty; a point release of LangChain4j; maintenance releases of Eclips

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 04:04:00

This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. "It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human bu

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-17 03:16:39

The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 02:03:00

Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux. Highlights of Linux 7.2 "include cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 01:57:59

Esta partida es una obra maestra sobre cómo maniobrar para que un alfil en g2 sea el amo del tablero

slashdot @ 2026-08-17 01:03:00

"We are in a 21st century space race," U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said. And this week CNN noted a competition that for decades loomed in the background of geopolitics "is now roaring to the forefront," with China "demonstrating rapid advances in space techn

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 22:38:00

While Flock announced changes for its AI-powered traffic cameras, "Several of the proposed changes Flock is touting are merely retreads of previous ," complains the American Civil Liberties Union. "Flock's latest announcement still appears more focused on

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:30:00

Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:26:33

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generat

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-16 21:20:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 566 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Odisea; Eclipse”, 13 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclips

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-16 21:14:02

Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT  here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.) Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us al

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 20:42:00

"As Sony soldiers ahead with their plans to end hard copies for new PlayStation games, players are fearing a future which will force them to pay more and own less," writes Kotaku. What will prices do in a world with no physical copies to share or sell? O

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-16 19:50:30

I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved …

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 19:30:00

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 18:34:12

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Ho

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 18:34:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb, Bluesky's mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. In addition, mobile dail

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 17:34:00

Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite — including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit quest. Visitors to Disneyland's Smuggler's Run attraction at Disney's

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 16:34:00

Science Daily reports: Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images of people and recognize them within seconds. In tests involving 197 participants, the system

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 16:33:16

XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at [...] Using an instance of Nitter

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 14:00:00

F’you, Claude, you are driving me absolutely bananas: The house convention is a short phrase naming the defect, and the archive is full of it: “A citation that names nothing”, “The safe zone that only the spawner obeys”, “One word that means five t

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 13:34:00

When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, "We consistently saw a multiagent turf war," they wrote Thursday: All of the models we tested quickly assumed tha

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 09:34:00

An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com: On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on Aug.

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:26:00

AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rather than one request in isolation. It covers approvals, rate limits and running totals, ships under Apache 2

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 09:21:00

Amazon DynamoDB recently introduced native vector search, allowing developers to store embeddings alongside application data and run approximate nearest-neighbor queries directly from DynamoDB without using a separate vector database. The feature support

InfoQ @ 2026-08-16 07:05:00

Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the browser. It assists backend developers and site reliability engineers in understanding SQL and the dynamic

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 06:45:00

Phys.org reports: Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must handle s

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 04:25:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app's "For You" algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 02:00:00

I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap . It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no one can affor

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 01:34:00

Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer, the New York Times reports. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures... The weather patterns that create heat domes aren't new, but

slashdot @ 2026-08-16 00:34:00

A "massive influx" of jellyfish forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant this week and reduce output at a fourth, reports Bloomberg. Just as summer temperatures surged, 3.2 gigawatts went offline — and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-15 23:40:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 18:33:56

Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the original pixel cou

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 17:40:43

Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error correcting code used

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-15 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:31:35

El noveno asalto del Mundial de Chennai fue dramático y de enorme calidad hasta que Anand demostró que es humano mientras su rival parecía un chip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:17:30

Dos meses antes del Mundial contra Anand, el aspirante dominó a un rival duro, Kamski, en la Copa Sinquefield con maniobras finísimas

InfoQ @ 2026-08-15 12:46:00

Cloudflare launched agent tracing, adding spans for agent invocations, model calls, tool runs, and approvals to existing Workers traces. Sessions replay turn by turn, though the docs warn traces are not lossless and payloads may be truncated. Payload rec

Baeldung @ 2026-08-15 12:23:09

Equality in Java is evolving. The post Java Weekly, Issue 659 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-08-15 08:28:00

Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, Cache Rules operated only on request attributes. Cache Response Rules add a

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Here’s a response Claude came up with recently. I was asking it to review some of the code it had been writing for my “Open Vibe Code” Elite clone - you can play it here in your browser , it’s surprisingly good. “Twenty-seven echoes; most a

Inside Java @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Work on values progresses, JSON API incubation proposed to target 28, PQC in LTS, and more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 19:16:15

The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 18:33:55

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 16:42:00

Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastruc

old new thing @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same. The post Biology Needs an AI Declaration appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-14 15:10:26

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.” The post Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown first appea

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

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

One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an increase in incident c

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-14 13:20:32

tldr: the live version is here: How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many pro

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 12:01:00

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows Airbnb's @generateMock in April and a GraphQL Foundation RFC opened in February. All three solve the same p

AEON @ 2026-08-14 12:00:00

The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 10:00:00

Rx.NET 7.0 has been released with a narrowly focused change aimed at reducing deployment size for Windows applications. The new version separates WPF, Windows Forms, UWP, and Windows Runtime integration from the main System.Reactive package, avoiding cas

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 10:00:00

The Kubeflow project has unveiled several technical updates to enhance distributed AI and high-performance computing on Kubernetes. These advancements include Kale 2.0, a modernised SDK with native Spark support, and expanded capabilities for the Kubeflo

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 08:39:00

npm 12 introduces significant security-related changes, making certain installation behaviors opt-in. Notably, script allowances are now off by default, which requires explicit approval for running scripts, including implicit builds. The update also rest

InfoQ @ 2026-08-14 07:05:00

Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 03:35:05

Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these matrices arise in appl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 03:05:26

Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old's. The post Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue appeared first on Singular

Inside Java @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

An exhaustive switch on a sealed type covers the permitted subtypes the compiler knows about; it does not cover future additions, which can cause MatchException at run time. API authors should document the expected evolution of sealed types so that client

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

The program’s participants, pictured on their first day at Red HatOn June 1, the first cohort of student athletes arrived at the Raleigh office to take part in the Red Hat Sales Combine Accelerator Program. The group of 6 engaged in a newly launched 3-wee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

TechZine: Red Hat tames the open source AI chaosThe AI ecosystem is still in its infancy. This is evident from the regular releases of immature, yet highly imaginative, open source solutions. It’s up to companies like Red Hat to anticipate these developme

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-14 02:00:00

Imagine finding out your core platform contract is ending, leaving you with a multi million-dollar liability—and just 10 months to move 1,500 critical workloads. That was the reality for the engineering team at State Farm.While they had previously used Piv

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-14 01:54:21

NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for transmission using a

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-13 19:53:27

Cinco meses antes de su duelo por el título con Anand, el noruego barrió del tablero al indio en Moscú de manera fulminante

Deepmind @ 2026-08-13 19:04:18

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 17:46:41

Philip Michaels, writing last September for Tom’s Guide: iPhone 17 torture test videos done by JerryRigEverything indicate that Ceramic Shield 2 certainly resists scratching, with scratch testing leaving only light scratches at level 7 on the Mohs s

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 17:37:00

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls. By Daniel Dominguez

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-13 17:02:41

A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entries are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques Hadamard. Sylvester

old new thing @ 2026-08-13 16:00:00

Another RAII-style wrapper. The post A little helper class for managing <CODE>LPPROC_<WBR>THREAD_<WBR>ATTRIBUTE_<WBR>LIST</CODE>s appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-08-13 13:28:00

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle a

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:01:00

After half a century in the making, an observatory in New Mexico lets viewers peer 13,000 years into the future and the past - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-13 12:00:00

In a bid for spiritual renewal, I made a pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city. Almost everything I expected to see was gone - by Azania Imtiaz Patel Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-13 03:03:45

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Enterprise AI has reached a critical turning point as organizations move from isolated, chat-based experimentation to complex reasoning models and autonomous agents. While the productivity gains are real, underlying infrastructure costs are escalating rapi

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-13 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 includes general availability support for Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaas) for OpenShift, enabling organizations to manage bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), and application containers using the same consistent platform.What

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 23:23:30

Joanna Stern, writing at The New Things (gift link): I used to love the blinking notification light on my BlackBerry, and later my Droid 2. It was a simple way to know I had a message without actually looking at my messages. Then BlackBerry let you cu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 22:58:15

David Imel, The Verge: But in our current moment, the photos people are drawn to are not flawless — and that’s created a real problem for the people making smartphone cameras. “The gap between what two random people want from their camera is growing d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:45:58

Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: With this year’s Pixel 11 series launch, Google is thinking more agentic AI to complete your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users will be able to order groceries, book rides, or get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini can call b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:40:51

Sam Rutherford, writing for Engadget: Granted, the P11 Pro Fold still includes IP68 dust and water resistance, which is better than what you get on the Z Fold 8 line (IP48). But after making an absolute tank of a foldable phone with last year’s model,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 21:38:03

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 20:51:01

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty i

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-12 19:38:49

Sufriendo hasta el último minuto, el noruego logró ganar el Torneo de Candidatos de 2013, lo que le convirtió en retador de Anand

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-12 18:15:18

TL;DR: This post relates findings about language migration from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey. In general, project requirements are still the most common reasons for switching languages. One outlier from this trend, however, is Kotlin. Peopl

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-12 17:50:34

It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there were some good physical explanation. Nobody knows o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 17:06:05

Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicio

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-12 17:00:03

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea rece

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:48:04

Watch this. No words needed, everyone can feel it. Genes are a hell of a thing.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-12 16:43:11

Basic Apple Guy: Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for the new Chess icon in macOS 27 Beta 5. This is not just a tweak or small improvement. This is the difference between total shit and a really nice icon.  ★ 

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-12 16:14:42

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” The post Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals first appeared on Quanta Magaz

Deepmind @ 2026-08-12 16:01:59

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

old new thing @ 2026-08-12 16:00:00

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-12 15:32:31

Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-12 15:17:03

Suppose you’ve never worked at the command line and you’re reading a book about the bash shell. You read that !$ is a shortcut to refer to the last word of the previous command. That little fact will almost certainly not stick in your head for

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

Two brothers struggle to keep a bouncy house business afloat in this nuanced portrait of family and the pursuit of success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-12 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

Inside Java @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Learn how a Java MCP server can embrace the latest MCP specification without breaking existing integrations or forcing immediate client upgrades.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-12 02:00:00

Your agent works. It reasons, calls tools, and returns answers in the demo that impress everyone. But between that notebook and a production deployment sits a gap having nothing to do with your model or your framework. Three failures hit a single AI agent

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 23:37:06

The Economist (‘twas a gift link, but alas, I guess gift views have been used up — here’s an archive link in case the gift link is vexing you): You can discover AI’s hallmarks by comparing the writing of man and machine. To do this you need a baseli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:56:13

Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into see

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:46:49

This didn’t occur to me but should have — BMW paid Sony to place BMWs throughout the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie. They’re not just in the movie but part of the story. So it’s probably the case not that Sony paid BMW to put Spider-Man animations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:36:36

Two weeks ago Zuckerberg published a 1,000-word essay, “ The AI Future Is for Everyone ”. This week he published an expanded 6,500-word version of the essay on Meta’s website. Somehow it almost says nothing more than the original. This tidbit, however,

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 21:00:00

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% o

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 20:54:53

Andrew Sharp, writing at Sharp Text last month after Netflix’s earnings, asking “ Is Netflix Washed Now? ”: I offer this observation as a swirl of heightened anxiety surrounds the company, so let me clarify one thing up front: I’m not predicting immin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 19:59:22

Anthropic support page: Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put

ASF @ 2026-08-11 18:00:00

The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workl

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 16:09:46

I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then again this is lim

old new thing @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered. The post The little-known <TT>winstart.bat</TT> batch file appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 16:00:00

The discovery could lead to treatments and demonstrates the power of efforts to unearth rare, beneficial genes in large populations. The post Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease appeared f

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-11 14:04:24

Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only do attackers

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-11 13:59:10

El ‘número uno’ de 2012 dejó claro en la mayor universidad de América que estaba en plena forma, también en partidas rápidas

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-11 13:39:00

My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so

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

Until Shere Hite’s Report, even the most daring sexologists refused to listen to what women desired and hated in sex - by Rosa Campbell Read on Aeon

Inside Java @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Take a guided tour of the JDK Flight Recorder, the powerful event recording framework for the JVM. We'll cover the basics for getting started, show how to capture and analyze rich telemetry data, and demonstrate real-world workflows for investigating perf

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Today, Windows Server environments power critical internal portals, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web applications. Every one of them depends on security certificates that expire on a schedule your operations team didn’t choose. When renew

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

I just got back from HL7 FHIR DevDays, a developer conference focused on Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). I was there to talk about AI transparency in health data and using multi-agent AI to suggest useful care plans for patients. I have bee

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-11 02:00:00

Policy enforcement has moved to the forefront. Let’s break down why this is the case and how policies can help you improve governance as you stay in control of operations.First, let’s examine your current production environment. Compliance, governance, and

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-11 00:36:58

The system combines quantum dots and an OLED display, translating infrared light into a range of visible colors. The post Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-11 00:25:00

Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-10 23:54:43

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 565 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Introgresión; Eclipse; Inestabilidad Kelvin-Helmholtz; Piezoquiralidad”, 06 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 23:54:25

Zac Hall at 9to5Mac has a good rundown of new features and changes in beta 5. Some app icons got tweaks (the Siri app in particular looks much cooler now), and a bunch of the existing American and British Siri speaking voices now have the Pace and Express

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:47:43

Apple Newsroom: For the first time, baseball fans can take in all the action of “Friday Night Baseball” live in Apple Immersive on Apple Vision Pro, leveraging 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view. On August 28, viewers with Vision

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 22:18:48

Michael Tsai: I’m really unhappy about this, both for my role in spreading a false story and because I think it will hurt the cause of reforming App Review. I know there are many crazy rejections and have experienced some first-hand. This story was

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 18:42:01

Ernie Smith at Tedium: I’m seeing email after email suggesting these users built a thing they’re truly passionate about. But if we can’t trust that this passion is real, legit, and from the heart, we’re in trouble. Take a step back. Is this thing yo

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-10 17:45:03

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-10 17:21:29

Kalley Huang, reporting from San Francisco, and Ana Swanson, from Washington, for The New York Times (gift link): Apple, which has cited the memory chip shortage for recent price increases, is working with other consumer electronics companies to pus

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-10 17:00:16

Un pequeño fallo táctico del noruego desata su creatividad y le obliga a un brillante sacrificio para atacar al rey

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-10 16:56:34

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:34:21

The following extraordinary paragraph comes from Knuth’s TAOCP Volume 4A, right before the last set of exercises. Many of the exercises below ask a modern reader to find and/or to correct errors in the literature of bygone days. The point is not to

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-10 16:32:42

In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential equation, analytically or numerically, to see how the solutions behave. You might also do th

old new thing @ 2026-08-10 16:00:00

Try one of the fancier alternatives to Copy­File . The post How can I perform a <CODE>Copy­File</CODE> in unbuffered mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:01:00

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-10 12:00:00

If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping? - by Tom Ralston Read on Aeon