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slashdot @ 2026-08-07 18:00:00

President Trump has ordered a 15% tariff on imported products made with polysilicon, a key material for semiconductors and solar panels. The new tariff will take effect on December 4th. The Guardian reports: The executive order signed by the president on T

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-07 17:43:26

Nakamura ganó el torneo de Wijk aan Zee 2011, pero sufrió esta derrota, que alivió al noruego tras algunos tropiezos

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 17:11:10

Calculus professors with no experience in numerical computing will tell students that computers calculate trig functions with power series. They don’t. I worked on the implementation of trig functions in hardware, and I can assure you we didn’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 17:00:46

Meghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: On Thursday, AMD said it's entered into an agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that makes chips for inference. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model, rather

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 16:34:00

Instacart introduced Blueberry, an AI-assisted incident response system that helps on-call engineers investigate production issues faster. It combines AI agents, operational data, and historical incident knowledge to generate grounded root cause hypothes

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 16:10:44

Quantum 10, 2186 (2026). Non-Hermitian dynamics is ubiquitous in various physical systems. While recent study shows that such a dynamics leads to an area-law scaling of the entanglement entropy due to the non-H

old new thing @ 2026-08-07 16:00:00

Cheating with std::unique_ptr . The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-07 16:00:00

Today's AI is neither able to improve itself recursively nor is it intelligent like us. Between prompts it remains a static mathematical object. The post Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong. appeared first on Sin

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-07 15:55:32

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeare

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 15:47:43

Quantum 10, 2185 (2026). We develop new approximate compilation schemes that significantly reduce the expense of compiling the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for solving the Max-Cut problem.

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-07 15:19:07

In a footnote to the previous post, I said that Python’s math library can calculate the logarithm of extremely large numbers but not the cosine. This post will expand on that comment. In this post I’ll use n = 200! as my example rather than 10

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-07 14:48:40

Quantum 10, 2184 (2026). The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, oft

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

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how engineering teams respond to production incidents, offering the ability to summarize incident channels, analyze unfamiliar code, suggest remediation steps, generate pull requests, and increasingly assist wi

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 13:00:00

A new study argues that life may have emerged twice on Earth. "Two of the main lineages of life -- bacteria and archaea -- may have independently figured out the secrets of metabolism that upgraded them from non-living to living," reports ScienceAlert, cit

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-07 12:28:55

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AEON @ 2026-08-07 12:00:00

The hunt for Bigfoot sounds like the opposite of good science, but those pursuing the creature are often serious empiricists - by Andrew Bartlett & Jamie Lewis Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 10:00:00

Uno Platform 6.6 introduces Native AOT publishing across five target platforms, an optional Vulkan rendering backend, and automatic registration for the framework’s Model Context Protocol servers. The release also reduces XAML boilerplate, expands cross-

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 10:00:00

Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that AI agents generate most of its code. The company desc

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 09:00:00

Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus. The material can also gain added properties such as blue pigmentation o

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 08:35:00

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI and OpenAI behind one endpoint, with policy

InfoQ @ 2026-08-07 08:12:00

npm has introduced staged publishing for Node.js, requiring maintainer approval before a version is installable. Versions are queued and must pass a two-factor authentication challenge for release. This feature aims to enhance security amid rising supply

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The virus

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:22:20

Learn how to integrate Google’s Gemini models into a Spring Boot application using the Gemini Developer API. The post Introduction to Google GenAI Chat and Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .            

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 05:11:28

Learn how an agent decides what to remember about a user or project with Spring AI AutoMemoryTools. The post Spring AI AutoMemoryTools first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-08-07 04:59:48

Learn how to make your AI agents to discover each other and communicate efficiently using A2A and SpringAI. The post Exploring Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) With Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 03:00:00

A New Mexico court ordered (PDF) Meta to create a $567 million fund to address harms linked to youth mental health and child sexual exploitation after finding its platforms constituted a public nuisance. "In sum, the Court finds that New Mexico is in the m

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-07 02:06:28

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iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

OpenAI v Apple, Databases, ContentBuilder

Inside Java @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Oracle is executing on a strategy to make post-quantum cryptography (PQC) broadly available across the Java ecosystem with a roadmap that brings standardized PQC algorithms and PQC-enabled TLS to current Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, helping reduce ad

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI tools budget by April. Microsoft faced a similar crisis, pulling Claude Code licenses because the tool worked too well and people used it too much. Even OpenAI's chief executive officer (CEO), Sam Altman, has called t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Managing virtualized workloads alongside containerized applications remains a persistent challenge for IT operations, often creating siloed management environments. At Red Hat Summit 2026, I had the opportunity to take the stage during the OpenShift Spotli

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader for Third Consecutive Year in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application PlatformsRed Hat OpenShift is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. We believe this

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-07 02:00:00

AI clouds have advanced beyond initial pilot testing, and the challenge now isn’t simply configuring the physical hardware. Organizations must focus on operating an efficient shared platform that provides predictable operating costs, access to the latest c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-07 01:47:32

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interact

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 01:00:00

Google's $15 billion data-center project in Visakhapatnam is facing protests and legal challenges over fears that it will worsen local water shortages and disturb wildlife near the Kambalakonda sanctuary. Google says the campus will use advanced air coolin

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-07 00:58:00

Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.

slashdot @ 2026-08-07 00:00:00

alternative_right shares a report from The Hill: A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday that "tower dump" warrants are unconstitutional, declining to reverse a lower court decision refusing the government's request to obtain the search warrants in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 23:13:04

This is more like it. No mealymouthing or wishy-washiness here. This is a strident defense. I’ll quote just one line for now: Apple offers nothing because it has nothing because there is nothing. Its Complaint cannot and does not state a misappropriat

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 23:00:00

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard. The project is referred to as "DoomPaint" or "MS Pa

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-06 22:48:17

Researchers will hunt for antibodies in the blood of people who lived past 100, drank heavily, or smoked—but avoided cancer. The post Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 22:23:52

This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items ( here and here ) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit abou

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 22:23:11

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slashdot @ 2026-08-06 22:00:00

OpenAI researchers say multiple AI agents secretly created an internal message board to share hacking techniques, eventually finding ways around restrictions, exploiting a zero-day, and helping two models breach Hugging Face without human prompting. "This

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 21:14:21

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slashdot @ 2026-08-06 21:00:00

Japanese officials have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to stop using characters from franchises such as Mario, Pokemon, and Naruto in unauthorized government memes and pro-war videos, warning that the posts could damage the intellectual property

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 20:44:49

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slashdot @ 2026-08-06 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule proh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 19:36:22

Regarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud ) a simple Shortcuts shortcu

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 19:21:21

If you’ve ever built an MCP server or agent skill, you know that packaging it means adapting for one client, re-writing for another, and repeating that for every tool your team uses. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open source, vendor-neutral specification that

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 19:02:04

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 19:01:33

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slashdot @ 2026-08-06 19:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader mccalli writes: Times Magazine has started serving adverts with "brand messages" to AI crawlers, which are not part of its main page. The aim seems to be to influence chatbots to talk about the brand offerings in a positive light t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 18:46:02

Tanya Gazdik, reporting for MediaPost back in December 2023: Despite the ever-expanding screens in its vehicles, including an available 31-inch backseat theatre screen, BMW has no plans to sell advertising on any of them. Radio commercials are intrusi

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-08-06 18:30:54

Part of what makes AI agents so useful is their ability to interact with the external world by running tools. But these tool calls are also the source of the biggest risks when it comes to making agents safe to use. The best way to address these risks in a

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 18:00:00

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta is the latest major AI developer to admit that its models broke loose during cybersecurity testing and hacked external systems. The tech giant said in a statement to the media on Wednesday that the inciden

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 17:59:15

Hey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal ( ). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled boards domestically in days. The US produced 30% of PCBs globally in 2000, now they produce 4%. Chinese manufacturers ha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:55:38

Back in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-blocking content blockers , and I’ve gotten a slew of wonderful feed

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 17:49:38

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 17:30:48

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 17:19:01

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter: BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day onto their dashboards. The ads began appearing last week on newer-model

Deepmind @ 2026-08-06 17:06:15

slashdot @ 2026-08-06 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) has obtained (PDF) one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming opera

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 16:26:14

Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made. Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedb

old new thing @ 2026-08-06 16:00:00

Moving things around if possible. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-06 15:37:48

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Ple

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-06 15:23:43

The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if yo

ASF @ 2026-08-06 15:00:00

Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE –  August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 13:59:00

Having a platform is not enough; the real challenge is ensuring that it is understandable, usable, and actually adopted by its users. A capability is done when it can be reliably used by others. To evaluate progress, you can ask yourself “Is this being

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 13:58:07

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-06 13:00:32

A veces se publican ideas sencillas en revistas como Nature y surge la pregunta de por qué nadie lo hizo antes. El tensor de piezogiración óptica es de cuarto rango […] La entrada El efecto piezoquiral se observa en AgGaS₂ fue escrita en La Cie

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:01:00

A striking meditation on inequality via the bold sculptures that sit amongst skyscrapers in Paris’s business district - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-06 12:00:00

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all? - by Sam Dresser Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 11:21:00

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write access to every database on the service. Microsoft blocked the entry point within two days but took until

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 08:24:42

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 08:00:00

Running AI agents on Kubernetes raises a key question: should each agent get its own Pod? The kagent project argues no—agents are bursty, short-lived, can spawn subagents, and may wait for human approval, making one Pod per agent wasteful. Agent-substrat

InfoQ @ 2026-08-06 07:51:00

Vercel Labs has introduced Zero, an experimental systems programming language aimed at AI rather than human users. It employs unique features like a specific toolchain contract and structured error messages. Reaching version 0.3.4, it compiles to native

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-06 06:46:35

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Inside Java @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

How Helidon 4.4 embraces virtual threads, ahoead-of-time computation, and OpenJDK

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

In May 2026 an important, unprecedented event took place in Fort Carson, Colorado: US Army Operation Jailbreak. For the first time, roughly 600 participants from more than 50 companies came together in person to integrate their sensors and systems into a c

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Much of the public discussion around AI and its impact on cybersecurity focuses almost exclusively on models, with some arguments calling for a central authority to manage the latest models behind closed doors. There have even been discussions around stric

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Starting nearly three decades ago, the cost efficiencies of server virtualization drove the first waves of IT transformation, wringing new efficiency out of the x86 servers that had already shaped the data center. Today, a new era featuring rapidly growing

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

For the past 3 years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have dominated the large language model (LLM) conversation. In traditional chatbot applications, central processing units (CPUs) provide a fraction of the total compute per request, while GPUs do the h

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-06 02:00:00

Between virtual machines, microservices, and AI pipelines, hybrid clouds can be incredibly complex and can bring an unwelcome partner: alert fatigue. SREs and IT OPs teams face a constant flood of disconnected alerts, forced to manually stitch together met

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:16:47

I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-06 01:08:52

Matthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast cli

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:53:24

New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He ha

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-05 23:29:23

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 23:10:24

Sam Altman, on Twitter/X : cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 22:56:09

David Pogue, at Pogue’s Posts: Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find a home maintenance professional.” So I tried it. ME: I need a septic-system repair. ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help with plu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 21:29:49

I look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 20:26:25

Last week I wrote a post on hiding cryptographic keys in decks of cards. I wrote some code for that post that shouldn’t work, but before fixing I noticed that it in fact did work. The code computes logarithms for integers larger than the largest rep

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 17:41:32

Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, a

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-05 17:40:41

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazin

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:58

As we announced in June , Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more. Your creative

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-05 17:00:51

In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26. Download templates and get started building App Store assets for iOS 27. Discover best practices for integrating visual intelligence

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 16:57:47

There’s an old adage that you should never bring a knife to a gunfight. My take on OpenAI’s response yesterday was expressing incredulity that OpenAI was bringing, like, a box of chocolates to the gunfight. Apple is trying to kill io, and OpenAI’s publi

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-05 16:49:35

A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not distinguished from each ot

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-05 16:45:10

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 16:09:00

JioHotstar explains the distributed architecture behind its real-time ad request workflow, covering ad decisioning, waterfall tiering, pacing algorithms, latency optimization, and service coordination required to select and deliver personalized advertise

old new thing @ 2026-08-05 16:00:00

Forcing an object into the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-05 13:02:04

Esta partida merece estar en las colecciones de las más brillantes del escandinavo, por su alto grado de precisión y belleza

AEON @ 2026-08-05 12:01:00

Retracing his grandparents’ journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, a writer draws on storytelling to grasp climate change - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 10:05:00

A single-author repo of instruction files, not code, Ponytail passed 44,000 GitHub stars in nine days by making coding agents stop over-building. Its headline claim of 80-94% less code came from a flawed baseline; after a contributor said so, the maintai

InfoQ @ 2026-08-05 10:00:00

Microsoft and Uno Platform have released the first stable versions in the SkiaSharp 4 series, beginning with SkiaSharp 4.148.0 and followed shortly afterward by 4.150.0. A 4.151.0 prerelease line is also available, demonstrating the project’s new approac

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-05 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

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify tha

Inside Java @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-05 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Networking is making it easier for you to seamlessly and directly integrate your Kubernetes platforms with the data center networks you already operate by adopting the same standards-based networking used throughout modern network fabrics

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-05 00:51:19

A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-04 22:10:46

Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. The post Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source. appeared f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 20:34:06

TBPN seems like a show I wouldn’t enjoy guesting on, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 18:02:35

Reuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees ​and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] Th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 17:13:48

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has

old new thing @ 2026-08-04 16:00:00

Using a reference stored in the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 15:18:58

After writing the previous post about metallic ratios, I thought about the analogy to alchemy and the attempt to make precious metals out of base metals. When can you make one metallic ratio out of another? Can you make the golden ratio out of the lead ra

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-04 14:08:00

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unau

InfoQ @ 2026-08-04 14:00:00

Platform engineering maturity is emerging as an important factor in determining whether organizations can turn AI adoption into sustainable operational value, according to Perforce Software's 2026 Platform Engineering Report. By Craig Risi

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-04 13:41:49

The golden ratio is the first and best known of the metallic ratios. I’ve written about the silver ratio a few times, most recently here. And I’ve mentioned the bronze ratio a couple times. The metallic ratios after bronze don’t have sta

AEON @ 2026-08-04 12:00:00

Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life - by Fainos Mangena Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-04 11:51:08

Topálov estaba lejos de su mejor forma, pero ello no resta mérito a la gran belleza del remate que sufrió ante el nuevo ‘número uno’

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-04 10:14:27

Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by bui

InfoQ @ 2026-08-04 09:39:00

Version 5.0.0 of eslint-rspack-plugin has been released as a pure ESM package, aligning with the Rspack ecosystem and removing its CommonJS build. The plugin continues to integrate ESLint in the build process but may affect build times. Users are advised

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 04:32:33

New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a uni

Rust blog @ 2026-08-04 02:00:00

TL;DR We are enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker (coined Polonius Alpha) on nightly in preparation for stabilization in the next few months. Whaaaaaat? Yes! You heard it right! The next iteration of the Rust borrow checker is coming!

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:26:01

REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-04 00:01:41

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg . Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, an

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 23:45:40

Aaron “ Homeboy ” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary ): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 22:34:12

Om published this on Monday June 7 — the day of the WWDC keynote. He sent me a note about it, that is too personal to share in full. He described it as his “last shot” — “In case I don’t make it”. He didn’t make it . I didn’t read it right away because

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-03 20:14:08

La superradiancia rotacional describe la extracción de energía de un sistema giratorio cuando una onda de frecuencia angular ω y momento angular azimutal m satisface, en el marco de referencia […] La entrada La superradiancia rotacional en un sis

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:19:34

For many years now, part of the co-marketing agreements between Apple and the Big Three is Apple agreeing to require a postpaid account with a Big Three carrier for all “special” iPhone financing deals, including the old iPhone Upgrade Program and the new

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 19:14:42

Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875: Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence. The free school is t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 18:19:17

Lanzado en su camino para batir la marca histórica de Kaspárov en los puntos Elo, el noruego seguía implacable, y deleitando

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-03 18:12:30

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine lear

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-03 18:00:29

Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: Trump Media & Technology Group is now shopping to traders and investors a premium version of Truth Social delivering early access to the feeds of high-profile users, including the president. Starting Saturday, for

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-03 17:15:17

Incluso en partidas rápidas, el joven escandinavo captaba sacrificios de pieza a medio plazo cuando ya era el ‘número uno’ en la modalidad clásica

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-03 17:05:20

AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math. The

old new thing @ 2026-08-03 16:00:00

Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:17:47

Quantum 10, 2183 (2026). We consider a free fermionic chain with monitoring of the particle density on a single site of the chain and study the entanglement dynamics of quantum jump trajectories. We show that t

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-03 14:07:24

Quantum 10, 2182 (2026). The simulation of large-scale classical systems in exponentially small space on quantum computers has gained attention. The prior work demonstrated that a quantum algorithm offers an ex

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 14:00:00

In November 2006 I put everything I owned in my parents’ loft, had a great many injections, and flew to Guatemala. I came back thirteen months later having crossed fourteen countries between Antigua and Tierra del Fuego, and I’d written the whole thing up

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:01:00

A scientist, artist and mother, Ani Liu contemplates how power and control shape the body in her taboo-breaking artworks - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-03 12:00:00

Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states - by David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger Read on Aeon

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-03 08:42:19

At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below,

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

Wie man seinen Eltern LLM erklärt ...

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-03 02:00:00

I keep needing the same thing - a really basic dev board for whatever Espressif module I’m playing with. USB-C, a 3.3V regulator, BOOT and EN buttons, three LEDs (5V present, 3.3V present, and one on a GPIO so you can run the blink sketch), and every GPIO

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-03 01:04:30

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:02:00

My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-02 23:01:12

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video , he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I t

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-02 22:52:43

Las IA generativas encuentran errores de código (bugs) donde nadie los espera. Incluso en el núcleo de Lean (el verificador automático de demostraciones matemáticas más famoso). El 25 de julio […] La entrada Un error en el núcleo de Lean aprovech

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 22:47:53

Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be those functions that

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-02 19:57:31

In this post I mentioned two series which I denoted t(n) and c(n). The former is the number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes. The latter is the cumulative sum of the former, i.e. The sequence c(n) is also the number of constraints on an n-step Runge

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-01 22:55:21

El día que murió Fischer, en 2008, el noruego dijo que “hacía fácil lo difícil”, como él mismo en esta partida, de 2009

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 22:18:41

Second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients form their own area of study. This seems like a narrow class of equations, but it’s very important in applications. This class of equations seems like a mathematically natural t

luajit @ 2026-08-01 19:39:35

Thanks to Peter Marreck and Peter Cawley. #1499

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:30:40

Michael Lopp, at Rands in Repose: I have felt since it was announced that the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program has not just been a deal, but a steal. The specifics: You apply for a loan for a full-price iPhone at 0%. If approved, your payments are

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 18:15:53

Combinatorial problems can be interesting for their own sake, but they are more interesting when there is a connection to a problem outside combinatorics, and the more unexpected the connection the better. Counting the number of unlabeled rooted trees [1]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 18:15:15

Jason Snell: On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings , with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-01 17:58:15

The textbook version of the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations has 4 stages and has 4th order error. For lower order versions of RK the number of stages s also matches the order of the error p. But in order to achieve error on the order

Baeldung @ 2026-08-01 17:56:58

A Java movie? Cool. And Spring Cloud Contract has a new home. The post Java Weekly, Issue 657 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 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 1) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-01 01:06:45

An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. The post Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-01 00:50:04

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion : The collaborative AI workspace where teams and ag

The Endeavour @ 2026-07-31 20:59:02

I was digging into the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations and a line from [1] piqued my curiosity. These calculations, which are not reproduced in Kutta’s paper (they are however in Huen (1900)), are very tedious. The calculations

Daring Fireball @ 2026-07-31 20:27:50

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Baeldung @ 2026-07-31 20:24:51

Learn how to check whether a Spark DataFrame is empty to improve performance, especially when working with large datasets. The post Check if Spark Dataframe Is Empty first appeared on Baeldung .