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OpenAI's Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model

slashdot @ 2025-10-27 12:34:00

OpenAI's rival Anthropic has a different approach — and "a clearer path to making a sustainable business out of AI," writes the Wall Street Journal. Outside of OpenAI's close partnership with Microsoft, which integrates OpenAI's models into Micros

Vercel Ship AI 2025 Key Announcements and Technical Updates

InfoQ @ 2025-10-27 11:03:00

Vercel Ship AI 2025 unveiled AI SDK 6 beta, new Marketplace agents and services, use workflow for TypeScript, Vercel Agent for code reviews, Python SDK for FastAPI/Flask, and open-source templates for lead enrichment and Slack-SQL queries. By Daniel Do

Backyard caterpillars

AEON @ 2025-10-27 11:01:00

From poison spikes to fake snake eyes, caterpillars employ many clever strategies to survive to their dazzling adulthoods - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

An emperor for all seasons

AEON @ 2025-10-27 11:00:00

The magnificent Altar of Peace celebrates the imperial order of Augustus’ Rome and his place in the fabric of the cosmos - by John Weeds Read on Aeon

How “Plant Math” Can Help Predict the Climate’s Future

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-27 10:50:00

Researchers are building equations for vegetation processes that might improve climate models The post How “Plant Math” Can Help Predict the Climate’s Future appeared first on Nautilus .

Acero y arena

brucknerite @ 2025-10-27 10:00:00

Arrancamos la nueva semana estrenando el horario de invierno en este rincón de Europa. Arrancamos, también, un nuevo episodio de la serie sobre cultura ferroviaria en El maquinista de La General. Hoy vamos de arranques difíciles.

Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

slashdot @ 2025-10-27 08:34:00

"Mozilla is introducing a new privacy framework for Firefox extensions that will require developers to disclose whether their add-ons collect or transmit user data..." reports the blog Linuxiac: The policy takes effect on November 3, 2025, and applies to

Recall for Linux

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-27 08:24:19

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 261 # Comments: 100

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas, a Browser With ChatGPT Built In

InfoQ @ 2025-10-27 07:00:00

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser that integrates ChatGPT into the browsing experience. Rather than functioning as a separate assistant that users have to switch to, Atlas incorporates the model throughout the browsing process. It un

Microsoft Disables Preview In File Explorer To Block Attacks

slashdot @ 2025-10-27 05:34:00

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report fro

California Colleges Test AI Partnerships. Critics Complain It's Risky and Wasteful

slashdot @ 2025-10-27 02:34:00

America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus "Cal State" system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it s

Philip Gibbs – Black Holes and White Holes

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-10-27 02:00:03

A white hole is a purely hypothetical time-reversed black hole. What does general relativity say about them? Would they repel you? Could you fall into a white hole—or only fall out? Could the universe be a white hole? Philip Gibbs answers all these q

Philip Gibbs – Black Holes and White Holes

Physics Phorums @ 2025-10-27 02:00:03

A white hole is a purely hypothetical time-reversed black hole. What does general relativity say about them? Would they repel you? Could you fall into a white hole—or only fall out? Could the universe be a white hole? Philip Gibbs answers all these q

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-27 01:43:32

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Bill's Bad Advice

Computational Complexity @ 2025-10-27 01:31:00

 I sometimes give the following advice for research which I label Bill's Bad Advice . We will later see who it might be good advice for. Spoiler alert: the number of people for whom it is good advice is shrinking but might include Lance especially n

How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-27 01:01:17

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 258 # Comments: 92

Try Out JEP 401 Value Classes and Objects

Inside Java @ 2025-10-27 01:00:00

The Valhalla team recently published an early-access JDK build that fully implements JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview). Now is a great time for anyone who is interested to try out this transformative new feature!

GM Plans to Drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From All Its Cars

slashdot @ 2025-10-27 00:47:00

GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles "in the near future," reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to "phone projections" for GM cars: The ti

Poison, Poison Everywhere

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 23:36:34

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Some US Electricity Prices are Rising -- But It's Not Just Data Centers

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 22:52:00

North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand "thanks in part to an explosion of data centers," reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. "A new study from researchers at Lawrence Be

We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 22:05:09

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 251 # Comments: 195

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 21:43:40

Hi HN, I’m Dvir, a young developer. Last year, I got rejected after a job interview because I lacked some CPU knowledge. After that, I decided to deepen my understanding in the low level world and learn how things work under the hood. I decided to try an

Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 21:34:00

"Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly." That's the warning from Sean O'Brien, who founded the Yale Privac

Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 20:34:00

Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching "traditional" TV? YouTube's CEO recently said its viewership on TV sets has "surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.," writes The Hollywood Reporter. And YouTube

Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 19:34:00

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Interesting Engineering: Bill Gates-backed TerraPower's innovative Natrium reactor project in Wyoming has cleared a critical federal regulatory hurdle. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

A definition of AGI

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 19:09:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 253 # Comments: 408

Análisis de ajedrez | Brillante Bellón, hace 50 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-26 19:03:51

El incansable gran maestro hispano-sueco, aún activo a los 75 años, firmó esta gema frente a un rival de postín el 25 de octubre de 1975

The Talk Show: ‘You and Frank Sinatra’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 19:00:23

For your weekend listening enjoyment, a new episode of America’s favorite 3-star podcast, with special guest Dan Moren. Topics include Atlas, ChatGPT’s new web browser (or anti-web browser) for the Mac; Apple’s loss in a “landmark” regulatory lawsuit in t

Is AI Responsible for Job Cuts - Or Just a Good Excuse?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 18:34:00

Has AI just become an easy excuse for firms looking to downsize, asks CNBC: Fabian Stephany, assistant professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute, said there might be more to job cuts than meets the eye. Previously there may have been so

The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware Back in 2018, at the Tail End of the Intel Era

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 18:15:20

Worth a re-link , following up on my post yesterday linking to Stephen Hackett’s “ Boring Is What We Wanted ”, here’s Rogue Amoeba co-founder Quentin Carnicelli, writing back in 2018: At the time of the writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMa

Dungeons & Dragons Brings Purpose and Fulfillment - and Maybe Structure and Connection for Retirees?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 17:34:00

"Around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing," writes Phys.org. It's what sociologists call serious leisure — "a hobby that demands skill, commitment and personal fulfillment," according to an

The Scenario Where ChatGPT’s WhatsApp Gateway Was Useful: Airplane Wi-Fi

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 17:11:43

Yours truly on Friday, regarding the news that Meta is going to ban rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp: Perhaps because I’m only a light user of WhatsApp, I had no idea that rival AI chatbots had accounts there. I just tried it with 1-800-ChatGPT and

Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 16:47:29

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 261 # Comments: 94

Is the Term 'AI Factories' Necessary and Illuminating - or Marketing Hogwash?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 16:34:00

Data centers were typically "hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring," writes the Washington Post. But "AI experts say that the hubs for computers that power AI are different from the data centers that deliver yo

How America's Transportation Department Blocked a Self-Driving Truck Company

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 15:34:00

Reason.com explores the fortunes of Aurora Innovation, the first company to put heavy-duty commercial self-driving trucks on public roads (and hopes to expand routes to El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix by the end of the year): An obscure federal rule is slowin

987654321 / 123456789

The Endeavour @ 2025-10-26 14:23:45

I recently saw someone post [1] that 987654321/123456789 is very nearly 8, specifically 8.0000000729. I wondered whether there’s anything distinct about base 10 in this. For example, would the ratio of 54321six and 12345six be close to an integer? T

Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 13:34:36

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 390 # Comments: 222

How to Query JPA LocalDateTime Field With a LocalDate Value

Baeldung @ 2025-10-26 13:33:43

Learn how to query LocalDateTime fields using a LocalDate value in JPA using simple range queries, JPQL functions, and dynamic Criteria API queries. The post How to Query JPA LocalDateTime Field With a LocalDate Value first appeared on Baeldung .

Set the Null Value for a Target Property in MapStruct

Baeldung @ 2025-10-26 13:30:55

Learn different ways to always set a specific object field to null using MapStruct. The post Set the Null Value for a Target Property in MapStruct first appeared on Baeldung .              

Calculate the Difference of Two Angle Measures in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-10-26 13:26:44

Learn how to calculate the difference between two angle measurements in Java. The post Calculate the Difference of Two Angle Measures in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Splitting String into an int Array in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-10-26 13:23:31

Learn how to split a String of numbers with different delimiters into an int integer array in Java. The post Splitting String into an int Array in Java first appeared on Baeldung .             

Guide to Jersey Logging on Server

Baeldung @ 2025-10-26 13:20:24

Learn how Jersey makes enabling and customizing server-side logging easy. The post Guide to Jersey Logging on Server first appeared on Baeldung .              

Feed the bots

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 13:09:02

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Japan Launches a New Cargo Spacecraft to ISS for the First Time

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 12:34:00

"Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday," reports Space.com: The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9

You already have a Git server

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 11:53:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 574 # Comments: 379

Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat

InfoQ @ 2025-10-26 11:00:00

Google Cloud's Key Management Service now supports post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), addressing future threats from quantum computing. This update empowers organizations to prepare against "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attacks while ensuri

Asbestosis

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 09:34:38

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What if tariffs?

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 09:23:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 224 # Comments: 230

Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 09:19:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 440 # Comments: 214

25 Years Ago Today: A PlayStation Shopping Frenzy - But Would Microsoft's Xbox Make It Obsolete?

slashdot @ 2025-10-26 08:34:00

25 years ago today on Slashdot... Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released PlayStation 2 consoles (and games). "500,000 lucky members of the American gaming public are sneaking

Pico-Banana-400k

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 03:01:17

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A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 02:15:43

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I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 02:29:51

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 334 # Comments: 219

JEP targeted to JDK 26: 517: HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API

Inside Java @ 2025-10-26 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 26: 517: HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API

‘Boring Is What We Wanted’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 01:46:39

Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels: Apple silicon has been nothing but upside for the Mac, and yet some seem bored already. In the days since Apple announced the M5, I’ve seen and heard this sentiment more than I expected: This is just another

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 01:04:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 453 # Comments: 86

WorkOS

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 00:45:23

My thanks to WorkOS for their continuing support of DF with another sponsorship week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The A

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-26 00:40:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 274 # Comments: 68

Sora Has a Pervert Problem

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-26 00:18:42

Katie Notopoulos, writing at Business Insider: There are really two separate issues at hand: Should users be allowed to make fetish content of any woman who is stupid enough (like me) to allow anyone to make cameos of her? And how do you stop people

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-10-25 22:38:58

In the past I've used declarative diagram generation tools like Mermaid.js a lot for quickly drawing up things but for presentations or deliverables I find that I have to then move the generated diagrams over to a tool like Lucidchart which allows full c

Bind Custom Validation Message in Spring

Baeldung @ 2025-10-25 21:05:26

Learn about Spring Boot's validation message system, how to configure it effectively, streamline error handling, and make message management more intuitive. The post Bind Custom Validation Message in Spring first appeared on Baeldung .   &#

Order of Configuration in Spring Boot

Baeldung @ 2025-10-25 21:02:03

Explore the order of configuration in Spring Boot as an essential tool for building predictable and maintainable applications. The post Order of Configuration in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .          

Some Math/Physics Items

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-10-25 19:28:04

A few quick math/physics items (OK, mostly math…): Contributions to next year’s ICM have already been written up by many speakers, and posted on the arXiv. Try this link to find them. There’s a wonderful new result from Kevin Costello 

Spacing the circles on the Smith chart

The Endeavour @ 2025-10-25 16:47:00

The previous post looked at the basics of how to create a Smith chart. The Smith chart is the image of a Cartesian grid in the right half-plane under the function f(z) = (z − 1)/(z + 1). At the end of the post I noted that evenly distributed grid lines in

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro, de 12 años, brilla y pierde otra vez

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-25 16:22:45

Tras dominar en una partida excelente al poderoso Volokitin (más de cien puntos superior), el argentino erró en el remate cuando ganaba

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 25)

Singularity Hub @ 2025-10-25 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 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .

A gold ceremony to remember

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-10-25 13:26:40

There are those moments in life you know already from the start are going to be the rare once in a lifetime events. This evening was one of those times. On a dark and wet autumn Friday afternoon my entire family and me dressed up to the most fancy level yo

Podcast CB SyR 529: Urobioma, constante dieléctrica del agua en un nanocanal y la inflación sin inflatón

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-10-25 13:08:29

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 529 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Urobioma; Agua y Electricidad; Inflación”, 23 oct 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada

Anthropic Introduces Skills for Custom Claude Tasks

InfoQ @ 2025-10-25 12:05:00

Anthropic has unveiled a new feature called Skills, designed to let developers extend Claude with modular, reusable task components. By Daniel Dominguez

AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization

InfoQ @ 2025-10-25 12:00:00

Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates data into a unified dashboard, enhancing efficiency while

Cloudflare Introduces Email Service to Compete with Amazon SES, Resend, and SendGrid

InfoQ @ 2025-10-25 09:04:00

During Cloudflare's recent Birthday Week, the company announced the private preview of its Cloudflare Email Service. This new globally managed service enables developers to send and receive emails directly from Workers using native bindings, without the

The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-25 02:00:00

This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities The post The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank appeared first on Nautilus .

Writing GPU-Ready AI Models in Pure Java with Babylon

Inside Java @ 2025-10-25 02:00:00

Project Babylon enables developers to build and run AI models - such as LLMs, image classifiers, or object detection algorithms - directly in Java. With Code Reflection, machine learning logic can be defined in plain Java code, eliminating the need for Pyt

This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-25 00:00:00

A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music The post This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box appeared first on Nautilus .

Get Host Name with Port from a HTTP or HTTPS Request in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-10-24 23:52:18

Explore different ways to get the hostname with a port from an HTTP request in Java. The post Get Host Name with Port from a HTTP or HTTPS Request in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

BCD to Decimal Conversion

Baeldung @ 2025-10-24 23:48:52

Learn about the BCD number format and couple of ways to convert it to the decimal number system using Java The post BCD to Decimal Conversion first appeared on Baeldung .              

How to Mock AmazonSQS in Unit Tests

Baeldung @ 2025-10-24 23:45:06

Learn how to write unit test code that interacts with Amazon SQS. The post How to Mock AmazonSQS in Unit Tests first appeared on Baeldung .              

Visual Studio Code File and Cache Handling

Baeldung @ 2025-10-24 23:42:16

Explore caching in VSCode, how it works with files, ways to clear some caches inside the editor, and how different operations affect them. The post Visual Studio Code File and Cache Handling first appeared on Baeldung .      

Meta Announces Ban on Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-24 23:16:38

Eric Hal Schwarz, reporting for TechRadar: Meta is closing the door on third-party AI assistants inside WhatsApp. Starting January 15, 2026, no general-purpose AI chatbot, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others, will be allowed to operate on the pl

Pink Boulders Reveal a Hidden Antarctic Giant

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-24 22:00:00

Inside the massive, granite slab slumbering beneath the frozen continent The post Pink Boulders Reveal a Hidden Antarctic Giant appeared first on Nautilus .

The Secrets of Deadly Snake Bites

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-24 20:00:00

Slow-motion video reveals how these strikes could kill you, in surprisingly different ways The post The Secrets of Deadly Snake Bites appeared first on Nautilus .

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro, de 12 años, cae por tiempo cuando ganaba, por decisión arbitral

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-24 18:02:17

El prodigio argentino tenía una posición aplastante, pero su rival reclamó la victoria tras un funcionamiento anómalo del reloj

PyTorch Monarch Simplifies Distributed AI Workflows with a Single-Controller Model

InfoQ @ 2025-10-24 17:40:00

Meta’s PyTorch team has launched Monarch, a framework that simplifies distributed AI workflows across multiple GPUs and machines. It uses a single-controller model to manage computations across a cluster, making large-scale training and reinforcement lea

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-10-24 16:10:15

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. The post First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Airbnb’s Mussel V2: Next-Gen Key Value Storage to Unify Streaming and Bulk Ingestion

InfoQ @ 2025-10-24 16:00:00

Airbnb’s engineering team re-architected its internal key-value storage system, Mussel, to unify streaming and bulk ingestion while simplifying operations, achieving over 100,000 writes per second and sub-25ms read latencies on 100-terabyte tables, while

The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable that is never used

old new thing @ 2025-10-24 16:00:00

It used to be there because PropertyValue started out as the fundamental variant type before shifting focus to being the fundamental boxed type. The post The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable

OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats—Here’s Why That Matters

Singularity Hub @ 2025-10-24 16:00:00

As AI shopping goes mainstream, will people keep any real control over what they buy and why? The post OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats—Here’s Why That Matters appeared first on SingularityHub .

Meta Releases Docusaurus 3.9 with New AI Search Feature

InfoQ @ 2025-10-24 14:00:00

Docusaurus 3.9 is here, enhancing documentation with AI-driven search via Algolia DocSearch v4 and modernizing runtime. It supports advanced i18n configurations, while dropping support for Node 18. With streamlined upgrades and improved multi-domain setu

Announcing the Swift SDK for Android

Swift blog @ 2025-10-24 12:00:00

Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code acr

AWS Launches EBS Volume Clones for Instant, Crash-Consistent Data Copies

InfoQ @ 2025-10-24 12:00:00

AWS has unveiled Volume Clones for Amazon EBS, enabling instant, point-in-time copies of storage volumes with a simple API call. This feature provides rapid access with single-digit millisecond latency, ideal for quick test setups and development. While

Monstrification

AEON @ 2025-10-24 12:00:00

For centuries we’ve used the declaration of ‘monster’ to eject individuals and groups from being respected as fully human - by Surekha Davies Read on Aeon

We Might Not Be So Strange

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-24 11:50:00

Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all The post We Might Not Be So Strange appeared first on Nautilus .

Traviesas traviesas

brucknerite @ 2025-10-24 10:00:00

Sigamos avanzando por unas ignotas vías rurales del Oregón de los locos años veinte que simulan ser las de la vieja Georgia confederada en El maquinista de La General. En la escena anterior habíamos intentado zafarnos de un vagón suelto sin éxito, aunque p

How to Build Real-Time Compliance & Audit Logging With Apache Kafka®

Confluent @ 2025-10-24 02:40:40

Build a real-time compliance and audit logging pipeline on Apache Kafka®: architecture, schemas, immutability, retention, and best practices with Confluent.

Issue 732

iOS Weekly @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

Why did Liquid Glass start therapy? To work through its transparency issues. 😅

The Dark Side of Putting Mirrors in Space

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

On-demand sunlight could be a shady undertaking The post The Dark Side of Putting Mirrors in Space appeared first on Nautilus .

Brain Surgery

Atomic14 @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

I got one of these silly Halloween toys - they are kind of fun - but it feels like we can make them even more fun/annoying. In the original toy, the head is pretty empty. There are a couple of LEDs sticking through the eye holes and these are power

Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSKrkn-AI: A feedback-driven approach to chaos engineeringOctober 21, 2025 Rahul Shetty, Naga Ravi Chaitanya ElluriChaos engineering is the practice of deliberately introducing

Sovereign AI in action

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

The recent Open Source Summit Hyderabad offered a platform to discuss a significant shift in the global AI landscape: the move toward a distributed, trusted, and self-reliant AI model. For too long, the narrative around AI has been dominated by a few centr

10 essential articles to guide your hybrid cloud modernization playbook

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

The technology roundup is being redefined by a confluence of critical priorities: Securing the software supply chain, finding a definitive playbook for virtualization, and making the strategic leap into enterprise AI governance. This roundup highlights the

Friday Five — October 24, 2025

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

SiliconANGLE - Red Hat aims new Developer Lightspeed AI features at application migrationThis week Red Hat launched Developer Lightspeed, a new generative AI tool, and MTA 8. The combined solution integrates AI-generated refactoring and automated replatfo

NUMA-Aware Relocation in ZGC

Inside Java @ 2025-10-24 02:00:00

NUMA-aware relocation is a feature recently added to ZGC, one of the garbage collectors in the OpenJDK, and is set to be released in JDK 26 through the introduction of JDK-8359683. Building on the recent memory allocation overhaul, this feature further enh

SerpApi’s Public Customer List

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-24 00:30:18

At the bottom of their “Use Cases” page, SerpApi lists the following companies and organizations as customers (“They trust us. You are in good company. Join them.”): Airbnb Nvidia Meta Shopify Perplexity KPMG Ahrefs Grubhub Samsung A

Reddit Files Lawsuit Accusing ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-24 00:19:32

Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times: Eight years ago, SerpApi, a start-up in Austin, Texas, dived headlong into the byzantine world of using robots to “scrape” Google’s search algorithms, so it could collect information to help customers appe

How Scavenging Made Us Human

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-24 00:00:00

Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think The post How Scavenging Made Us Human appeared first on Nautilus .

The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Is Jessica Chastain’s “The Savant” Ever Going to Be Released?’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 23:55:54

Tony Maglio, The Hollywood Reporter: The Savant , which originally had a Sept. 26 premiere date, was yanked in the weeks following the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative political pundit Charlie Kirk. Language on the landing page for the series

Why Have We Never Sampled an Interstellar Comet?

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-23 22:00:00

A cosmic coincidence could give us an unprecedented look at a visitor from another solar system. If all goes well. The post Why Have We Never Sampled an Interstellar Comet? appeared first on Nautilus .

These Three Species Have Eased Back From the Brink

Nautilus blog @ 2025-10-23 20:06:35

Recent conservation wins are proof that such efforts can make a difference The post These Three Species Have Eased Back From the Brink appeared first on Nautilus .

Análisis de ajedrez | Buen sacrificio, pero impreciso

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-23 19:22:19

Keymer, en ascensión meteórica a los 20 años, es frenado en seco por Erigaisi tras una entrega de calidad muy interesante, mal ejecutada

One Mind, Two Bodies: Man With Brain Implant Controls Another Person’s Hand—and Feels What She Feels

Singularity Hub @ 2025-10-23 18:15:29

It sounds like science fiction, but the system could help people with brain or spinal cord injuries regain lost abilities. The post One Mind, Two Bodies: Man With Brain Implant Controls Another Person’s Hand—and Feels What She Feels appeared fir

How to make a Smith chart

The Endeavour @ 2025-10-23 16:16:07

The Smith chart from electrical engineering is the image of a Cartesian grid under the function f(z) = (z − 1)/(z + 1). More specifically, it’s the image of a grid in the right half-plane. This post will derive the basic mathematical properties of t

Windows Runtime design principle: Properties can be set in any order

old new thing @ 2025-10-23 16:00:00

If all you're doing is setting properties, you can do it any way you like. The post Windows Runtime design principle: Properties can be set in any order appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AI and Intro Theory

Computational Complexity @ 2025-10-23 15:02:00

This fall, for the first time at Illinois Tech, I'm teaching Introduction to Theory of Computation. While I've taught a variation of this course a couple dozen times, I last taught this class Spring 2016 at Georgia Tech. Intro Theory is a course whose mai

Effectiveness of the syndrome extraction circuit with flag qubits on IBM quantum hardware

Quantum Journal @ 2025-10-23 14:00:17

Quantum 9, 1893 (2025). Large-scale quantum circuits are required to exploit the advantages of quantum computers. Despite significant advancements in quantum hardware, scalability remains a challenge, with erro

How to Enable Testing a Distributed System on a Single Environment Using Proxy Routing

InfoQ @ 2025-10-23 13:35:00

Without a dedicated QA environment, teams faced tech and coordination issues when testing a distributed system. A slow, unmaintainable CLI led an organization to shift left with automated testing. They built a tool for versioned deployments using CI and

Getting Started With Kotlin for Java Developers

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-10-23 12:51:33

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This post opens The Ultimate Gui

Getting Started With Kotlin for Java Developers

Kotlin news @ 2025-10-23 12:51:33

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This post opens The Ultimate Gui

Java Weekly, Issue 617

Baeldung @ 2025-10-23 12:33:00

JDK 25 brought some solid performance improvements, and JDK 26 is already looking quite good with its new HTTP/3 support. The post Java Weekly, Issue 617 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Is information a fundamental force of the Universe?

AEON @ 2025-10-23 12:01:00

Does physics miss something important about how the Universe works? A new law of information could account for complexity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Learning to not-know

AEON @ 2025-10-23 12:00:00

From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it - by Zoe Cunniffe Read on Aeon

Introducing AWS RTB Fabric for real-time advertising technology workloads

AWS Blog @ 2025-10-23 10:32:37

AWS RTB Fabric is a fully managed service designed for real-time bidding advertising workloads that enables AdTech companies to connect with their supply and demand partners through a dedicated, high-performance network environment, delivering single-digit

On 110 operating systems

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-10-23 08:08:37

In November 2022, after I had been keeping track and adding names to this slide for a few years already, we could boast about curl having run on 89 different operating systems and only one year later we celebrated having reached 100 operating systems. This

MCP Support in Visual Studio Reaches General Availability

InfoQ @ 2025-10-23 08:00:00

Microsoft announced in August 2025 that support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is generally available in Visual Studio. MCP enables AI agents within Visual Studio to connect to external tools and services via a consistent protocol. By Edin Kapić

Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-23 02:00:00

Application modernization is a continuous journey for enterprises, driven by the need for greater business agility, enhanced security, and cost optimization. While the benefits are clear, large-scale modernization projects can be complex, time-consuming, a

Three Upcoming G1 Improvements - Inside Java Newscast #99

Inside Java @ 2025-10-23 02:00:00

Java's (almost) default garbage collector G1 is undergoing even more improvements: From the already merged JEP 522, which introduces a second card table for improved throughput, and the candidate JEP 523, which aims to make G1 the default even where Serial

GM Plans to Soon Ditch CarPlay and Android Auto on All Its Vehicles, Not Just EVs

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 01:47:39

Nick Statt, The Verge: GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra. In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel , published Wedne

New M5 Vision Pro and Dual Knit Headband Are Assembled in Vietnam, Not China

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 01:31:03

MacRumors: Apple’s upcoming wave of new smart home devices, including a smart home display, indoor security camera, and tabletop robot, will also be made in Vietnam, according to Bloomberg.  ★ 

Signal Moves Ahead on Post-Quantum Computing, But Still Sucks Ass When You Switch Phones

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 01:07:16

Graeme Connell and Rolfe Schmidt, writing earlier this month on the Signal blog: We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet

Apple Pulls Dating Apps Tea and TeaOnHer From the App Store

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 01:02:21

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: Reached for comment, Apple confirmed the apps’ removal, saying it removed Tea Dating Advice and TeaOnHer from the App Store because they failed to meet Apple’s requirements around content moderation and user privacy. The compa

Adam Driver Says Bob Iger Nixed a Kylo Ren ‘Star Wars’ Film He Pitched With Steven Soderbergh

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-23 00:36:13

Jake Coyle, reporting for the AP: Driver says he took a concept to Soderbergh for a film that would take place after 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.” That movie culminated in Ren’s redemption and apparent death. Driver had undertaken the trilogy with a

Connect Migration Utility: Convert Self-Managed Connectors to Fully Managed in a Few Minutes

Confluent @ 2025-10-22 21:45:04

Use Confluent’s open source Connect migration utility to discover, assess, map, validate, and cut over self-managed Kafka connectors to fully managed in minutes.

Ke Yang, Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort, Was Poached by Meta

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-22 21:05:14

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg last week: The executive, Ke Yang, is leaving for Meta Platforms Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter. Just weeks ago, he was appointed head of a team called Answers, Knowledge and Information, or

ASF Plus One Newsletter: October 2025

ASF @ 2025-10-22 20:53:38

If you weren’t able to attend Community Over Code North America or you’re hoping to revisit some of the conference content, we have video recordings for some of the conference tracks now available on The ASF’s YouTube channel.  The Apache Trusted Rel

DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing

InfoQ @ 2025-10-22 20:35:00

DeepSeek AI has developed DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source system that uses optical 2D mapping to compress long text passages. This approach aims to improve how large language models (LLMs) handle text-heavy inputs. By Robert Krzaczyński

Customer Carbon Footprint Tool Expands: Additional emissions categories including Scope 3 are now available

AWS Blog @ 2025-10-22 19:48:18

AWS has expanded its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) to include Scope 3 emissions data alongside updated Scope 1 and 2 emissions, giving customers more insight into their carbon impact. The CCFT now tracks emissions from fuel- and energy-related acti

Google Research Open-Sources the Coral NPU Platform to Help Build AI into Wearables and Edge Devices

InfoQ @ 2025-10-22 18:00:00

Coral NPU is an open-source full-stack platform designed to help hardware engineers and AI developers overcome the limitations that prevent integrating AI in wearables and edge devices, including performance, fragmentation, and user trust. By Sergio De

Nikkei Asia: ‘Apple Slashes iPhone Air Production Plans, Boosts Other 17 Models’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-22 16:37:10

Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang, reporting for Nikkei Asia: Production orders for the iPhone Air have been cut nearly to “end of production” levels, despite it only becoming available in China last week, due to weak demand in other markets, multiple sour

Don Mattingly Finally Headed to the World Series

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-22 16:05:34

Reason enough to be rooting for the Blue Jays. Put this man in the Hall of Fame already. For chrissake his name is Donnie Baseball.  ★ 

What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock?

old new thing @ 2025-10-22 16:00:00

It's quite a bit faster, though maybe you don't care. The post What makes <CODE>cheap_<WBR>steady_<WBR>clock</CODE> faster than <CODE>std::<WBR>chrono::<WBR>high_<WBR>resolution_<WBR>clock</CODE&

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-10-22 15:47:18

Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive. The post The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Análisis de ajedrez | Asombrosa niña de 10 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-22 15:31:00

Sivanandan aprendió a jugar durante la pandemia, ya ha logrado una serie de éxitos muy precoces y exhibe alta calidad

Missing Puzzle Pieces in the Performance Landscape of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Quantum Journal @ 2025-10-22 14:30:40

Quantum 9, 1892 (2025). We consider the maximum cut and maximum independent set problems on random regular graphs in the infinite-size limit, and calculate the energy densities achieved by QAOA for high degrees

Generating random points in Colorado

The Endeavour @ 2025-10-22 14:08:22

The previous post looked at how to generate random points on a sphere, generating spherical coordinates directly. I wanted to include a demonstration that this generates points with the same distribution as the more customary way of generating points on a

Random spherical coordinates

The Endeavour @ 2025-10-22 14:06:16

The topic of generating random points on a unit sphere has come up several times here. The standard method using normal random samples generates points (x, y, z) in Cartesian coordinates. If you wanted points in spherical coordinates, you could first gene

Google Cloud Outlines Key Strategies for Securing Remote MCP Servers

InfoQ @ 2025-10-22 14:00:00

Google Cloud published a guide that lays out strategies for securing remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server deployments, particularly in contexts where AI systems depend on external tools, databases, and APIs. By Craig Risi

From Python to Kotlin: A Transition Worth Making

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-10-22 13:29:44

This article was written by an external contributor. When it comes to writing short scripts or CRUDs, Python is a great choice. With its rich ecosystem and broad adoption, it can be easily used to scrape some data or to perform data analysis. However, main

From Python to Kotlin: A Transition Worth Making

Kotlin news @ 2025-10-22 13:29:44

This article was written by an external contributor. When it comes to writing short scripts or CRUDs, Python is a great choice. With its rich ecosystem and broad adoption, it can be easily used to scrape some data or to perform data analysis. However, main

Indefinite causal order strategy does not improve the estimation of group action

Quantum Journal @ 2025-10-22 12:41:43

Quantum 9, 1891 (2025). We consider estimation of unknown unitary operation when the set of possible unitary operations is given by a projective unitary representation of a compact group. We show that neither i

Tarot decks through the ages

AEON @ 2025-10-22 12:01:00

The evolution of tarot cards through the centuries, from a game for the Italian elite to the fortune-tellers’ toolkit - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The Standard Model (Part 1)

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-10-22 12:00:17

It’s our best theory of elementary particles and forces. It’s absolutely amazing: it took centuries of genius to discover that the world is like this, and it’s absolutely shocking. But nobody believes it’s the last word, so we simpl

The Standard Model (Part 1)

Physics Phorums @ 2025-10-22 12:00:17

It’s our best theory of elementary particles and forces. It’s absolutely amazing: it took centuries of genius to discover that the world is like this, and it’s absolutely shocking. But nobody believes it’s the last word, so we simpl

AIxCC curl details

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-10-22 10:08:25

At the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33 earlier this year, teams competed against each other to find vulnerabilities in provided Open Source projects by using (their own) AI powered tools. An added challenge was that the teams were also tasked to have their

Talones y agujas

brucknerite @ 2025-10-22 10:00:00

¡La persecución continúa! En artículos anteriores nos hemos sentado en la biela de una locomotora en marcha, hemos desenganchado vagones, nos hemos subido al techo de una locomotora y hemos disparado un mortero que estaba detrás de nuestra locomotora y apu

This Week in Rust 622

This Week in Rust @ 2025-10-22 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

The Path to Digital Sovereignty: Why an Open Ecosystem is the Key for Europe

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-22 02:00:00

In an increasingly complex technology landscape, digital sovereignty has moved from a theoretical concept to an urgent strategic imperative for European organizations and governments. Recent global events—from supply chain disruptions to geopolitical confl

From tokens to caches: How llm-d improves LLM observability in Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.0

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-22 02:00:00

As enterprises scale large language models (LLMs) into production, site reliability engineers (SREs) and platform operators face a new set of challenges. Traditional application metrics—CPU usage, request throughput, memory consumption—are no longer enough

Modernize: Migrate from SUSE Rancher RKE1 to Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-22 02:00:00

SUSE Rancher RKE1 reached its end-of-life (EOL) on July 31, 2025. As with any EOL software, continuing to use it could leave your production workloads vulnerable to security risks, without vendor support, and facing compatibility challenges.If you’re consi

HTTP/3 Support in JDK 26

Inside Java @ 2025-10-22 02:00:00

One new JDK 26 feature is that `HttpClient`, which has been part of Java SE since JDK 11, now supports HTTP/3...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-22 00:59:17

Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, reporting for The New York Times: President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter

1.5 Miles of Aluminum Foil Is, in Fact, No Big Whoop

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-22 00:09:08

Here’s an update I just posted to yesterday’s piece on organized phone theft rings in London: I forgot to apply one of the core tenets of Brian Kernighan’s wonderful book Millions, Billions, Zillions ( $19 in hardcover from Amazon ; BookShop.or

Consumer Confusion Regarding USB Power Adapters

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 21:08:23

Yours truly, yesterday: The problem I see with the MacBook power adapter situation in Europe is that while power users — like the sort of people who read Daring Fireball and Pixel Envy — will have no problem buying exactly the sort of power adapter th

★ Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 20:25:14

Two new(ish) iPhone camera apps that take decidedly different approaches to distinguish themselves from Apple’s built-in Camera app.

Introducing CLI Agent Orchestrator: Transforming Developer CLI Tools into a Multi-Agent Powerhouse

AWS Open Source News @ 2025-10-21 19:09:26

Today we are introducing CLI Agent Orchestrator (CAO, pronounced “kay-oh”), an open source, multi-agent orchestration framework that transforms how developers work with AI-powered CLI tools such as Amazon Q CLI and Claude Code. While individual developer C

‘Apocryphal Inventions’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 19:02:57

Jonathan Hoefler: The objects in the Apocryphal Inventions series are technical chimeras, intentional misdirections coaxed from the generative AI platform Midjourney. Instead of iterating on the system’s early drafts to create ever more accurate ren

Análisis de ajedrez: Una perlita de Naroditsky

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-21 18:55:26

El gran maestro y comentarista estadounidense, fallecido este lunes a los 29 años, destacó por su gran capacidad didáctica

iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Adds New Toggle for Liquid Glass: Clear or Tinted

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 18:35:37

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Not a fan of that design? Well, iOS 26.1 beta 4 is now available , and it introduces a new option to choose a more opaque look for Liquid Glass. The same option is also available on Mac and iPad. You can find the new option

Fragments and Links

Martin Fowler @ 2025-10-21 17:02:00

Mathias Verraes writes about the relationship between Domains and Bounded Contexts in Domain-Driven Design. It’s a common myth that there should always be a 1:1 relationship between them, but although it’s sometimes the case, deeper modeling often exp

Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels

old new thing @ 2025-10-21 16:00:00

You're always a year away. The post Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels appeared first on The Old New Thing .

‘Unprecedented’ Artificial Neurons Are Part Biological, Part Electrical—Work More Like the Real Thing

Singularity Hub @ 2025-10-21 16:00:00

Bacterial nanowires and memristors combine in artificial neurons that can control living cells. The post ‘Unprecedented’ Artificial Neurons Are Part Biological, Part Electrical—Work More Like the Real Thing appeared first on SingularityHub .

A Mathematical Structure for Amplitude-Mixing Error-Transparent Gates for Binomial Codes

Quantum Journal @ 2025-10-21 15:09:29

Quantum 9, 1890 (2025). Bosonic encodings of quantum information offer hardware-efficient, noise-biased approaches to quantum error correction relative to qubit register encodings. Implementations have focused

Dreams of a Maoist India

AEON @ 2025-10-21 12:00:00

India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases - by Rahul Pandita Read on Aeon

Curvas y morteros

brucknerite @ 2025-10-21 10:00:00

Esta es buena. Johnnie ha enganchado a su locomotora un mortero que se encontró en un pequeño apartadero. En plena guerra supongo que estas cosas podían pasar. En un primer intento de disparo lo carga con un poco de pólvora, una bala y ¡pum! Cae a sus pies

A royal gold medal

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-10-21 08:30:03

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl. (English version of IVA article) This academy, established 1919 by the Swedish king Gustav V, has been awarding great achievers for over one hundred ye

Sept 16, 2025 was Pythagorean Day

Computational Complexity @ 2025-10-21 05:09:00

      Several people emailed me that September 16, 2025 ---written as  9-16-25  in the US---represents the integer side lengths of a right triangle. 9-16-25 is the only such triple that is also a valid date . This kind of ma

Fusaka Update – Transaction Gas Limit Cap arrives with EIP-7825

Ethereum blog @ 2025-10-21 02:00:00

Starting with the upcoming Fusaka hard fork, EIP-7825 introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap of 2²⁴ (≈ 16.78 million gas). This change is already live on Holesky and Sepolia, and will activate on mainnet with Fusaka. Developers and users who rely on

Overcoming the cost and complexity of AI inference at scale

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-21 02:00:00

Operationalizing AI models at scale is a critical challenge for IT leaders. While the initial cost of training a large language model (LLM) can be significant, the real and often underestimated expense is tied to inference.AI inference—the process of using

Learn Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization concepts from a VMware Admin background with this learning path

Red Hat blog @ 2025-10-21 02:00:00

If you’re a virtual machine (VM) administrator who’s spent years managing VMs in vSphere and are now considering how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization might fit into your operational world, we’ve built something just for you.The high-level guide to Red Hat

Assembling Project Leyden #JVMLS

Inside Java @ 2025-10-21 02:00:00

Two years ago John Rose stood here at JVMLS and unveiled the Project Leyden prototype efforts the team had been developing. Since then, Leyden has delivered JEPs in both JDK 24 and JDK 25. These early building blocks provide a foundation to continue assemb

[Sponsor] WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 00:55:19

With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead

Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on MacOS 26 Tahoe

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 00:49:47

Michael Tsai, back on September 30, compiled a roundup of links regarding Electron apps causing systemwide lag on MacOS 26 Tahoe. The reason, seemingly, is that the Electron framework was overriding a private AppKit API . Of course. Tomas Kafka wrote

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 00:20:45

SATCOM Security — a team of researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communicat

When Design Drives Behavior

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 00:13:18

Jason Fried: So what’s the net effect of this tiny little design detail that the owner may not even understand? Well, it looks like the watch is already half-way out of power after the first day, so it encourages the owner to wind the watch more freq

Apple Lowered the Price of the New MacBook Pro for Most of the European Countries Where It No Longer Ships With an Included Power Adapter

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-21 00:05:19

Nick Heer, at Pixel Envy: First of all, the dollar is not the currency in any of these countries. Second, the charger in European countries is €65, which is more like $76 right now. Third, Apple is allowed to bundle an A.C. adapter, it just needs to o

More on the Lack of an Included Charger With New M5 MacBooks in Europe, Including the U.K. and Norway

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 23:48:30

While poking fun at EU regulations leading Apple not to include a power adapter with the new M5 MacBook Pro across Europe, I wondered why the U.K. — which left the EU five years ago — was affected. DF reader C.A. wrote, via email: We did indeed leav

Scientists Say New Air Filter Transforms Any Building Into a Carbon-Capture Machine

Singularity Hub @ 2025-10-20 23:37:26

Like rooftop solar panels, the approach would use existing infrastructure to lower the cost and widen the reach of carbon-capture efforts. The post Scientists Say New Air Filter Transforms Any Building Into a Carbon-Capture Machine appeared first on

Kickstarter Campaign for Ben Zotto’s ‘Go Computer Now!’, a Book on Sphere, the Nearly Forgotten Personal Computer Company

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 19:20:48

Ben Zotto: Name every pioneering personal computer you can think of from the 1970s. The MITS Altair 8800. The Apple-1. The IMSAI 8080. You may even know about the SWTPC 6800 or Processor Technology Sol-20. There’s a computer missing from that list,

How London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 19:09:02

Lizzie Dearden and Amelia Nierenberg, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): For years, London’s police assumed most of the phone thefts were the work of small-time thieves looking to make some quick cash. But last December, they got an intrigu

Apple and NBCUniversal Introduce the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 19:01:49

Apple Newsroom: Apple and NBCUniversal today announced the launch of the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle, available beginning October 20. The first-of-its-kind bundle offers the services’ complementary array of award-winning originals, marquee live events

Counterpoint Research Claims iPhone 17 Sales Are Up Year-Over-Year in the U.S. and China

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 18:52:07

CNBC: Apple shares rose 4% on Monday as a new report showed iPhone 17 sales off to a strong start in the U.S. and China. The iPhone 17 series, which dropped in September, has outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in the U.S. and China within its first

David Hockney’s Xerox Prints

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 18:40:46

Erin-Atlanta Argun: While Hockney is perhaps best known for his larger-than-life swimming pool paintings, bold coloured acrylics are certainly not his only forte. Contrary to the old saying, Hockney is a jack of all trades and a master of all he has

Apache Trusted Releases platform begins second Alpha

ASF @ 2025-10-20 18:02:26

By: Dave Fisher, Apache Software Foundation, VP Tooling The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) established the VP, Tooling office last year tasked with developing software tooling to improve critical operations. We contracted a small team of developers

AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)

AWS Blog @ 2025-10-20 18:00:24

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of

Photos From Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 17:40:41

Picking up steam, these protests are.  ★ 

Análisis de ajedrez | Caruana noquea a Niemann

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-10-20 17:40:32

El subcampeón del mundo en 2018 somete con las piezas negras a su polémico e inestable rival con una apertura muy poco frecuente

Major AWS Outage

Daring Fireball @ 2025-10-20 17:31:43

Jess Weatherbed, The Verge: A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for around four hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT , Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services , and more. A

Lessons Learned With Confluent-Managed Connectors and Terraform

Confluent @ 2025-10-20 16:43:05

Learn how to provision Confluent Cloud managed connectors with Terraform for reliable, automated infrastructure as code practices.

How Soon Will the Seas Rise?

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-10-20 16:26:25

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. The post How Soon Will the Seas Rise? first appeared on Quanta Ma

What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?

old new thing @ 2025-10-20 16:00:00

Just for fun. The post What about the icons in pifmgr.dll? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum circuit synthesis with SQiSW

Quantum Journal @ 2025-10-20 15:43:49

Quantum 9, 1889 (2025). The primary objective of quantum circuit synthesis is to efficiently and accurately realize specific quantum algorithms or operations utilizing a predefined set of quantum gates, while a