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The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:01:55

The previous post defined the polar triangle of a spherical triangle in terms of its sides and angles, but it doesn’t construct the triangle. It only specifies one of a family of triangles located anywhere on the sphere. How do we know that polar tr

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-25 02:28:20

I’ve written before about the law of cosines on a sphere: cos(c) = cos(a) cos(b) + sin(a) sin(b) cos(C). But that’s just one of two laws of cosines on a sphere. The equation above is the law of cosines for sides. The law of cosines for angles

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-25 01:11:54

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:15:00

Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video ), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier, even compared with competing f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-25 00:08:17

Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters: CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a video ​posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A kno

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 23:47:31

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 23:10:06

Jay Peters, The Verge: The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 22:47:28

Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he sp

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 22:30:31

Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun! Comments URL: Points: 424 # Comments: 260

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 21:47:19

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 21:15:45

I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values . Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 21:06:55

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John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-24 20:59:16

Since the probability that a number is prime is roughly the number of primes is close to Indeed, if is the number of primes the recently proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis implies for some constants and If the Riemann hypothesis is true, any will do. But here

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-24 18:39:18

Kuandykuly, campeón del mundo de su edad con 10,5 puntos en once partidas, muestra una consistencia muy excepcional

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 18:06:26

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-24 18:00:00

Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import time b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:50:02

It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary . Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.  ★ 

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 17:20:01

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-24 17:03:44

Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 16:38:34

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Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-24 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 October 24) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 15:09:28

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 11:53:26

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InfoQ @ 2026-10-24 10:34:00

Google has made Data Agent Kit generally available, a free set of MCP tools and 37 open-source skills that connect coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. Two kinds of guardrail ship with it, and practitioners need to tell them apa

InfoQ @ 2026-10-24 10:10:00

Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-24 03:16:58

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slashdot @ 2026-10-24 01:00:00

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a machine-washable electronic fabric that can turn clothing into an interactive graphical user interface. The prototype reportedly survived 50 gentle machine washes and 1,000 bending cycles

slashdot @ 2026-10-24 00:00:00

Frustrated by intrusive ads, sluggish interfaces, and data tracking, smart TV owners are using AI coding tools and open-source projects to strip unwanted software from their televisions and build customized home screens. The Verge reports: Several vibe-cod

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-23 23:21:47

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slashdot @ 2026-10-23 23:00:00

Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media platforms beginning January 1, 2027. The legislation requires platforms to implement reliable age verification and parents to use government-backed apps to restrict access, with penalties

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 22:00:00

SpaceX is reportedly seeking access to at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile as a fourth nationwide wireless carrier. "We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there's broad-based connectiv

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-23 21:34:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-23 21:09:54

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slashdot @ 2026-10-23 21:05:00

The New York Knicks reportedly sent employees a fake offer of complimentary NBA championship rings as part of an internal phishing test, requiring anyone who clicked the link to attend mandatory cybersecurity training. "Congratulations, your Employee Champ

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 19:00:00

Microsoft has revealed pay-as-you-go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming, with introductory packages costing $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, or $11.99 for 50 hours. Starting in November, Game Pass subscribers will receive only 5 to 15 included cloud-gami

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-10-23 18:59:08

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AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-23 18:58:32

Agents spend much of their time waiting on tools. A coding agent may start a build that runs for twenty minutes, a triage agent may wait hours for the next pull request on a repository, and an assistant may wait until the next morning for an approval. Most

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 18:52:56

Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube ): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-23 18:20:11

La bella danza de los corceles en este final artístico de Rusz tiene además un gran valor didáctico para el buen manejo de este tipo de posiciones

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 18:00:00

Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged three major Yandex data centers as well as facilities serving Sberbank and VKontakte (the country's equivalent to Facebook), disrupting cloud services, banking, e-commerce, ride-hailing and other digital services across

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-23 16:54:10

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-23 16:42:06

Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it t

InfoQ @ 2026-10-23 16:30:00

CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte range reque

old new thing @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

It cleans up at the wrong time. The post Why didn’t we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-23 16:00:00

There is no big red button or glass box hiding a lever. The post Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-23 14:49:00

AWS recently introduced Lambda Web Functions, allowing developers to run Node.js web applications using frameworks such as Express and Hono directly on Lambda, with support for concurrent requests and response streaming. By Renato Losio

InfoQ @ 2026-10-23 14:00:00

Cloudflare has introduced on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers and Durable Objects, allowing developers to investigate performance bottlenecks in production using interactive flamegraphs. By Craig Risi

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 13:00:00

Physicists at Northwestern University have successfully trapped a single positron for an entire month, allowing researchers to study its quantum properties with unprecedented precision. "Further investigations using the trap might reveal the secret of why

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-23 12:40:44

Quantum 10, 2247 (2026). Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Consequently,

AEON @ 2026-10-23 12:00:00

Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-23 11:00:00

AI company Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in service to find vulnerabilities in open-source projects. Enrolled maintainers receive periodic security reports generated by the company's strongest models, including Claude Mythos. The report

InfoQ @ 2026-10-23 10:08:00

NgRx 22 adds experimental resource extensions that change Angular's resource behavior, so value() is retained during reloads and no longer throws on errors. It also introduces dynamic deep signals for union types, a SignalStoreFeatureType utility, and ES

brucknerite @ 2026-10-23 10:00:00

En mi trabajo de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles hemos empezado a montar unos vídeos divulgativos sobre la evolución de diferentes tecnologías ferroviarias. Este es el primero, sobre las traviesas.

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 09:00:00

For the first time, the UN has declared that exceeding the Paris Agreement's 1.5C warming limit is "imminent and unavoidable." "We are now saying this window has closed, but we can open it again by making the overshoot as brief as possible," UN Environment

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources te

iOS Weekly @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo, iPhone Duo. By the way, did I mention iPhone Duo?

Inside Java @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Pooled confined arenas provide a significant performance improvement for short-lived native allocations.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

An organization might first encounter open source when it adopts an open source library, operating system, database, or application. But robust open source engagement goes much further than just using software. Organizations need to understand how to parti

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

We've spent the last 2 years watching AI agents trudge from exciting experiments into actual business operations. The KPMG Q1 2026 AI Pulse Report confirms it: 54% of organizations are now deploying agents across core systems.Most of us have first-hand exp

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-23 02:00:00

Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA Accelerates Agentic AI Security Capabilities Across the Open Hybrid CloudRed Hat and NVIDIA expanded their collaboration around Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, spanning agent security through OpenShell, optimized open weight

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 01:00:00

Google is funding one of the nation's largest "virtual power plants," paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can be available for data centers. Under its expanded deal wi

slashdot @ 2026-10-23 00:00:00

joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and sup

slashdot @ 2026-10-22 23:00:00

The Browser Company is shutting down its Arc browser on December 22 and encouraging users to migrate to Dia, its newer AI-powered browser for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. Thurrott reports: In the message explaining why it was sunsetting Arc, The

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-22 22:33:10

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hour

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 21:10:10

Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone D

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 20:49:38

Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Reg

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-10-22 20:00:08

Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-r

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:55:41

Quantum 10, 2246 (2026). Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is i

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:50:45

Quantum 10, 2245 (2026). We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relie

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:43:48

Quantum 10, 2244 (2026). Mean-field Hartree theory is a central tool for reducing many-body dynamics to an effective one-particle evolution. This approximation has been employed when the Hamiltonian governing t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:32:18

Quantum 10, 2243 (2026). In this work, we examine the consequences of the existence of a finite group of matrix product unitary (MPU) symmetries for matrix product states (MPS). We generalize the well-understoo

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 18:26:22

Quantum 10, 2242 (2026). We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangl

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-10-22 18:12:54

The API format that a growing number of model providers use to call language models now has a vendor-neutral home. Open Responses has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a project, bringing it under open governance alongside MCP and A2A. Based on th

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-22 17:54:59

Kazajistán arrasó los Mundiales de Edades (sub-7 a sub-17) en Roquetas ganando más de un tercio de las medallas en juego

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 17:12:10

A Python script that worked a few days ago wouldn’t work today. I suspect it might have something to do with my updating everything I could think of in response to recent security breaches. I got an error message that said error: The script contains

Deepmind @ 2026-10-22 16:30:24

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-10-22 16:29:41

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading U

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 16:01:55

You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secr

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly because AI-generated co

old new thing @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

Looking more closely at the function's behavior and requirements. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Co­Register­Initialize­Spy</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-22 16:00:00

A trio of papers showcases AI-designed molecular scissors and an upgraded tool that builds proteins atom by atom. The post This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-22 13:08:51

An elliptic curve E over a finite field F consists of the set of points (x, y) satisfying the equation y² = x³ + ax + b with x and y in F. Typically in cryptography the field F is the integers mod p where p is a very large prime number. The number of poin

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:01:00

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-22 12:00:00

Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 11:33:00

Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim and a name conflict with

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 11:00:00

Docker announced that Harbor, the open-source agent evaluation framework, now works with Docker Sandboxes. This change allows each evaluation task to run in its own microVM. So, instead of sharing a container, tasks are isolated for better performance

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-22 10:44:47

Quantum 10, 2241 (2026). We show that, for sudden quenches, the work distribution reduces to the statistics of the traces of powers of Haar unitaries, which are random unitary matrices drawn uniformly from the

InfoQ @ 2026-10-22 09:41:00

A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build open-source replacements for seven Adobe applications, promoted them across Reddit with a projection of roughly 100% parity within a month, then told Hacker News the project was not anywhere close to ready. Its o

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-22 07:46:34

Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. Just ignore it. Don’t let big AI control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl pr

Ethereum blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, previously scheduled for October 26, 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352), has been postponed. A new activation date has not been set. This update supersedes the schedule and activation instructions in the Hoodi testnet a

Inside Java @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

It's 2 AM Friday night when you get alerts your primary business application stopped responding and user tickets are piling up. For situations like these, you need to have already captured the data that can help you quickly get a sense of what's going wro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift uses TLS certificates across many platform components to establish trust and secure communications. As platforms grow and evolve over years of operation, managing these certificates consistently becomes increasingly difficult.For years, R

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Modern IT engineering organizations face a new reality: the mindset of people relying on “manual” work is simply no longer valid. Furthermore, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced an entirely new layer of complexity and urgency to

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-22 02:00:00

Part 4 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the Layered Zero Trust Validated Pattern.Zero trust is easy to describe. The hard part is making it repeatable.Zero trust is often described succinctly in a memorable sentence

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-22 00:59:14

It’s been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I’ve gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I’d want to buy and carry.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-21 20:32:02

In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan Håstad of his switching lemma . I spent many hours decoding the notation and working through the messy conditional probabi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-21 20:00:36

Algunos necesitan un cojín para ver las piezas sentados, pero los conocimientos técnicos de los mejores del mundo de su edad son asombrosos

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 19:30:00

Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised, allowing attackers to forge certificates for any site. The keys were revealed due to low entropy, not through a known breach. Browsers blocked them using revocation lists,

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 17:16:51

The NIST elliptic curves have been in the news twice lately. A few days ago Anthropic posted a paper on the NIST curve seeds that I wrote about here. Now the curves are in the news again, this time over broken certificates. My post a few days ago was abou

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-21 16:00:07

Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-10-21 16:00:00

Too many requirements, some of which bring us full circle. The post Why didn’t we use <CODE>Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown</CODE> to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 15:45:00

Netflix has developed a workload attestation mechanism for Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR. The design combines AWS IAM identity with signed claims from Netflix’s control plane before issuing short-lived internal X.509 certificates, allowing mana

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-10-21 14:33:28

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 575 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Radioseñal; Peste; Dimensión Oscura; Tumores; Cristales de Tiempo”, 15 oct 2026. «La tertulia […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 575: Radioe

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-21 14:04:06

I was watching a video by John Higgins this morning about the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, one of the most famous passages in the Bible. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a t

Martin Fowler @ 2026-10-21 12:51:00

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and ef

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

Physics Phorums @ 2026-10-21 12:18:32

As part of their big theorem dump, an AI company recently emitted a proof of the ‘quasi-Riemann hypothesis’. Maksym Radziwiłł of New York University said the implications of this result are “staggering”, continuing: “In a sens

AEON @ 2026-10-21 12:01:00

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-10-21 12:00:00

Google DeepMind announced the global availability of SynthID Detector, a tool designed to help identify AI-generated content, including media created using AI tools from SynthID partners such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple support expected soon

This Week in Rust @ 2026-10-21 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 @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 543: Structured Concurrency

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

The agent problem at scaleAutonomous agents are powerful because they act. But when instructions are ambiguous, when tools don't behave as expected, or when a complex task takes an unexpected turn, the agent makes judgment calls. You can't expect an agent

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

New NVIDIA GPUs typically arrive before a standard enterprise Linux release can carry every driver, kernel change, and virtualization patch those systems need. The usual result is a bad choice: wait, or stand the first cluster up on an operating system the

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.22 has achieved NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisor status for NVIDIA HGX systems, validating near bare-metal GPU performance for representative AI and accelerated computing workloads.What this means for customersYou no longer ha

Red Hat blog @ 2026-10-21 02:00:00

Teaching a robot to perform its first task is thrilling, but turning that initial win into a repeatable, self-improving process capable of backing production fleets is a challenge. Communities like the one behind Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) have made t

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-20 23:05:34

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial appeared first on SingularityHu

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-20 20:05:00

El subcampeón estuvo muy cerca del oro en la última ronda de los campeonatos que 715 participantes de 81 países han disputado en Roquetas de Mar (Almería)

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-20 19:03:38

Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary infrastructure on your behalf, with all resources created directly in your account.

ASF @ 2026-10-20 18:00:00

Apache Iggy™ is one of the ASF’s newest Top-Level Projects. In this Spotlight, the ASF spoke with PMC members Piotr Gankiewicz and Kranti Parisa about the engineering choices behind Iggy, the long road to clustering, and the community that has grown

YC @ 2026-10-20 17:30:50

Vin found Nowadays on Work at a Startup, saw a codebase he could fix, and joined as the first engineer. Now he builds AI voice tools and mentors the team.

old new thing @ 2026-10-20 16:00:00

PowerPoint presentation jargon. The post Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:48:54

Quantum 10, 2240 (2026). We study the error-correction properties of multi-mode Fock-state codes under amplitude-damping (AD) noise, focusing on the asymptotic regime in which the total excitation of the code s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 15:35:21

Quantum 10, 2239 (2026). We consider the problem of testing and learning from data in the presence of resource constraints, such as limited memory or weak data access, which place limitations on the efficiency

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 15:09:38

All your B2B customer data. In that nice California sunnn. Early access now!  ★ 

Quantum Journal @ 2026-10-20 14:49:19

Quantum 10, 2238 (2026). We introduce a numerical framework for reliably estimating conditional von Neumann entropies, a central quantity in device-independent quantum cryptography and randomness generation. Ou

AEON @ 2026-10-20 12:00:00

Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-10-20 08:09:42

The curl project has decided to alter its vulnerability disclosure program procedure and starting October 26 2026, we insist that all vulnerability reports submitted to us that are deemed to be severity LOW or MEDIUM should instead be submitted as issues i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 03:12:26

Barack Obama, in a 430-word essay: It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is d

Rust blog @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.2. 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 1.29.2 Thi

Inside Java @ 2026-10-20 02:00:00

Java’s code reflection API, developed in OpenJDK Project Babylon, opens a new path to targeting foreign programming models directly from Java—including GPUs. This talk introduces the Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit (HAT), a Java parallel programming fra

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:36:15

Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote : I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior airline executives over the years, and I find that their knowledge about competitors

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:27:21

Greg Joswiak, on X: Can’t wait to pro and tell next week. Juli Clover, MacRumors : Rumors suggest Apple is planning to debut the new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen display, an M6 entry-level MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, an iPad mini with an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-20 00:04:04

No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like pre-ordering, at the crack of dawn, a new iPhone form fac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 23:15:57

Anthony D’Alessandro, reporting for Deadline: Dan Lin is out as film boss at Netflix in a move that has been largely speculated for weeks. Insiders at the streamer have denied that Lin and even Bela Bajaria were on the chopping block, but here we are.

YC @ 2026-10-19 20:58:11

Ryder flew to SF for a work trial, moved furniture in a Mystery Machine bus, and decided to stay. Here's what building from day one looks like.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 20:05:38

Fred Potter, on LinkedIn: So if you ever meet someone who tells you, “At Apple, I’m the one who did this,” take it with a grain of salt. They were probably part of the team that made it happen, and that’s already something to be proud of. Sometimes,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-10-19 19:58:32

Using a system called BootLoops, scientists produced 36 papers in three months. Paired with experts, the tool could pollinate ideas across fields. The post New AI Tool Could Help Scientists Make ‘Rare’ Cross-Disciplinary Leaps appeared fir

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 18:32:06

Joe Flint and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles with slowing growth and customer engageme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 18:17:14

Andrew Chow, writing for Time: Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John Ternus’ hands are shaking. On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who have

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-10-19 17:40:26

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-10-19 17:34:59

Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became somet

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-19 16:55:22

Splitting N! into N factors is trivial. It’s defined as the product of N integers, the integers 1 through N. Can you still split N! into N factors if you put a minimum size requirement on the factors? You can’t split 3! into three factors unle

old new thing @ 2026-10-19 16:00:00

An interrupt is not a fault. The post Why do we need <CODE>ud2</CODE> when <CODE>int 6</CODE> is right there? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-10-19 14:00:43

About 14% of English words can be spelled by stringing together chemical symbols. For example, sarcasm can be written S Ar Ca Sm using the symbols for sulfur, argon, calcium, and samarium. How would you write a program to determine whether a word can be w

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-19 12:50:00

El español Tabuenca y el lituano Nainys mantuvieron una lucha excelente y trepidante en la primera mesa de la octava ronda en Roquetas

AEON @ 2026-10-19 12:01:00

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-10-19 12:00:00

Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-10-19 10:00:00

Un diluvio de bazofia cae, impenitente, sobre la cultura humana. Diluyéndola. Llevándola a la media y al conformismo. ¿No es eso lo que pretendían los totalitarismos del siglo pasado, solo que «bien hecho»?

Inside Java @ 2026-10-19 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 546: Adaptive Heap Sizing for ZGC

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:53:00

Ruben Bolling’s long-running Tom the Dancing Bug is one of my favorite comic strips. I’ve been a huge fan since the early 1990s, when I started reading it in alternative newspapers. (Newspapers were sort of like websites, excepted they were printed daily

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:45:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Login looks simple until you’re building password resets, email verification, MFA, social providers, session management, and the enterprise SSO your first big customer asked for last week. WorkOS AuthKit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-19 00:20:06

Verizon, in a post headlined “Switch to Verizon and Get the New iPhone Duo Now. No Trade-In Needed.”: Verizon will support iPhone Handoff, giving customers the flexibility to use a single Verizon phone number seamlessly across two compatible iPhone mo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 23:58:33

Mark Gurman, today, in his weekly Power On column for Bloomberg (gift link): Without a serviceable version of the new assistant, Apple couldn’t deliver the experience it had envisioned. That left the hardware ready to go, but the software nowhere near

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 23:26:32

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting, wrongly, for The Information in January this year (paywalled; here’s MacRumors’s summary ) Apple’s pin joins a growing portfolio of AI-powered products the tech giant has under development, including AirPods equipp

Computational Complexity @ 2026-10-18 22:50:42

So what to make of OpenAI and the future of Math? Here are some points I've either: thought of myself or heard from a human or read from an AI. Throughout this post I use the term AI to mean an AI system that produces mathematical results.  I decli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 22:04:44

The Financial Times: Apple had originally promised delivery of the Duo by October 23, but within hours of orders opening, delivery times through Apple’s website had slipped into late January. US mobile carriers also saw delivery times for new orders p

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 21:34:45

Manton Reece: All I can come up with is that Apple doesn’t want you to buy the wall-mounted version unless you’re really sure that’s what you need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might buy it based on price, then be unhappy bec

Daring Fireball @ 2026-10-18 21:17:01

I do see some political content in my feed on X. For example, this extraordinary video posted by Abdul El-Sayed, who seems poised to become the next junior senator from Michigan. You should watch it. It’s so good you might suspect the questioner was a pla

luajit @ 2026-10-18 20:34:57

Reported by Max Rottenkolber. #1492

Baeldung @ 2026-10-18 19:55:03

Learn to create a custom advisor that inspects the model's response before Spring AI ChatClient hands it back to the user. The post Safeguarding LLM Output in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-10-18 14:32:49

El líder del Campeonato de EEUU conduce al talento emergente de 16 años a un final muy delicado de reyes y peones, para doblegarlo

Baeldung @ 2026-10-18 09:13:23

JDK 28 is shaping up nicely. And an interesting harness experiment. The post Java Weekly, Issue 668 first appeared on Baeldung .