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Slack Eliminates SSH in EMR Pipelines, Migrates 700+ Jobs to Rest-Based Architecture

InfoQ @ 2026-06-12 16:39:00

Slack modernized its data platform by replacing SSH based execution in Amazon EMR pipelines with a REST driven orchestration layer called Quarry. The migration covered 700 plus Airflow operators, improving security, reliability, and observability while e

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-12 16:04:20

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Is Richard Dawkins Right About Claude? No. But It’s Not Surprising AI Chatbots Feel Conscious to Us.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

Why do we see AI chatbots as more than what they are, and how do we stop? The post Is Richard Dawkins Right About Claude? No. But It’s Not Surprising AI Chatbots Feel Conscious to Us. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Angular's Official Agent Skills Helps AI Coding Tools Write Modern Angular

InfoQ @ 2026-06-12 15:30:00

Google's Angular team has released a repository called angular/skills, focusing on Agent Skills that enhance AI coding agents' ability to write modern Angular code. The repository includes skills for generating code and scaffolding applications, reinforc

Java Weekly, Issue 650

Baeldung @ 2026-06-12 14:45:26

All about performance in Java this week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 650 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Simulating magic state cultivation with few Clifford terms

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 14:04:16

Quantum 10, 2134 (2026). Building upon $\textit{Wan, Zhong (2025)}$ [ 5 ] we present a few methods on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits[ 4 ] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Cliff

Pinecone Brings AI Agents Directly to Enterprise Data with Microsoft OneLake Integration

InfoQ @ 2026-06-12 14:00:00

Pinecone has announced a new integration between its Nexus knowledge engine and Microsoft OneLake, aiming to fundamentally change how enterprise AI agents access and reason over corporate data. By Craig Risi

Exploring Variational Entanglement Hamiltonians

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 13:24:05

Quantum 10, 2133 (2026). Recent advances in analog and digital quantum-simulation platforms have enabled exploration of the spectrum of entanglement Hamiltonians via variational algorithms. In this work we anal

Run Untrusted AI Agent Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

InfoQ @ 2026-06-12 13:00:00

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Container Apps Sandboxes. This new ARM resource type is Microsoft.App/SandboxGroups, runs untrusted code generated by agents in hardware-isolated environments. Each sandbox starts from an OCI disk image

Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones

slashdot @ 2026-06-12 13:00:00

Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed. According to DroneXL, that technology is now being paired

Lie algebraic invariants in quantum linear optics

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-12 12:38:39

Quantum 10, 2132 (2026). Quantum linear optics without post-selection is not powerful enough to produce any quantum state from a given input state. This limits its utility since some applications require entang

A philosophy of home

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

The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think - by Sandrine Bergès Read on Aeon

An Algorithm Determines How Fast You Should Drive On California's I-15 Freeway

slashdot @ 2026-06-12 09:00:00

Riverside County has launched an 8-mile "smart freeway" pilot on northbound I-15 near Temecula, using roadway sensors and an algorithm to coordinate ramp meters and suggest speeds rather than widening the freeway. Officials say the $33 million project coul

Oracle's OpenJDK Bans Generative AI Contributions While Oracle's GraalVM Allows Them

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

Two related, Oracle-backed projects published opposing policies on open-source contributions created with generative AI: The OpenJDK Governing Board approved an interim policy prohibiting such contributions, while the Coding Assistants policy from GraalV

China Lures Foreign Patients With Cutting-Edge, Cheap Medical Care

slashdot @ 2026-06-12 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such as cosmetic surgery, IVF or physicals, China is trying to differentiate itself by providing some

Issue 754

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Before every WWDC, developers don't just make predictions, they play an unofficial game of WWDC Bingo. Read on to see if any of your squares got checked off.

Red Hat has updated the RISC-V Developer Preview

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the

Friday Five — June 12, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles t

Architecting true autonomy with a level 4/5 network

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-

Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: Visual Execution Environment Builder and Content Discovery Guide

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax c

Study Links Smartphones With Declining Fertility Rates

slashdot @ 2026-06-12 01:00:00

Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. "One of the studies published in May is called 'The Collap

Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years

slashdot @ 2026-06-12 00:00:00

Polish lawmakers have voted to criminalize "trash streaming," with up to five years in prison for online broadcasts of serious crimes such as rape or murder, animal cruelty, humiliating violence, gambling promotion, or even simulated depictions of those ac

Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 23:58:49

Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday: According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing v

Coinbase Launches Tool To Let AI Agents Manage Trading and Payments

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 23:00:00

Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a tool that lets AI agents like ChatGPT or Claude execute crypto trades and manage payments on a user's behalf. "For example, customers can prompt their agent to rebalance portfolios, identify trading opportunitie

Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 22:38:09

Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube: I approached Cubby Broccoli after Jaws was a big hit. I’d always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No , so I called Cubby after Jaws and volunteered. I said, “If you

Euro-Office 1.0 Arrives To Open-Source Infighting: 'Compatibility Is Not Sovereignty'

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If digital sovereignty is important to you, and it certainly is in the European Union (EU), then you'll be pleased to know that EuroOffice, a new open-source browser-based office suite alternative to Microsof

AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-11 21:04:52

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. The post AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn appeared first on SingularityHub .

ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 21:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Un

OpenAI Mulls Slashing Prices As It Competes With Anthropic For Users

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 20:00:00

OpenAI is reportedly considering sharp price cuts for paid access to its AI models as competition with Anthropic intensifies and both companies race for users ahead of potential IPOs. "The company is weighing significant cuts to what it charges for tokens,

Complexifying the Complex

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-11 19:07:28

I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I’ve

Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner

YC @ 2026-06-11 19:01:59

We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped tech to 100 million people. Diana has done both.

Opendoor Ends India Operations, Fueling a Bigger Conversation About AI and Outsourcing

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 19:00:00

Opendoor is shutting down its India operations less than two years after opening offices there. Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a post from Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian: "I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we beg

The Open Source Maturity Spectrum

tecosystems @ 2026-06-11 18:05:33

Amidst an industry landscape in which major players are still evolving in their understanding and appreciation of open source, it’s worth laying out in more detail what a spectrum of open source maturity might look like. What are the various milestones alo

The Open Source Maturity Spectrum

Sogrady @ 2026-06-11 18:05:33

Amidst an industry landscape in which major players are still evolving in their understanding and appreciation of open source, it’s worth laying out in more detail what a spectrum of open source maturity might look like. What are the various milestones alo

Xbox CEO Says Current Margins 'Cannot Continue'

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 18:00:00

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics "cannot continue," citing more than $20 billion in spending over five years, declining revenue outside Activision Blizzard King, console supply constraints t

Deprecation of the ImageCreator class

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-11 17:00:11

As we continue to refine our approach to image generation, the ImageCreator class is being discontinued and will no longer work in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27 or later. When we introduced the Image Playground framework, we included the Im

OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: China was likely behind an online influence operation to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence technology and reshape the debate in Washington around the infrastructure needed to support it, acc

Lyft Uses Mapping Intelligence to Reduce Friction in Gated Community Pickups

InfoQ @ 2026-06-11 16:18:00

Lyft details a new pickup experience to improve reliability in gated communities, where 25–30% of rides face routing and access challenges. The system uses mapping signals, boundary detection, and routing improvements to reduce cancellations and coordina

WWDC26 survey

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-11 16:00:32

Share your thoughts on this year’s conference. Take the survey

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

old new thing @ 2026-06-11 16:00:00

I mean, technically I didn't do it. The post Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it appeared first on The Old New Thing .

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-11 15:37:21

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking te

Solving a chess puzzle with Claude and Prolog

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-11 15:14:26

Prolog is the original logic programming language. The name comes from programming in logic. More specifically, the name comes from programmation en logique because the inventor of the language, Philippe Roussel, is French. Prolog has its advantages and d

Device-independent secure correlations in sequential quantum scenarios

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-11 14:17:43

Quantum 10, 2131 (2026). Device-independent quantum information is attracting significant attention, particularly for its applications in information security. This interest arises because the security of devic

Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

InfoQ @ 2026-06-11 13:17:00

When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways. The company shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams

Fully Autonomous Drones Have Killed Human Soldiers For the First Time

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 13:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist, captioned: "For years we've had unconfirmed reports, rumors, hints... now we know." From the report: Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlef

Don’t touch the art

AEON @ 2026-06-11 12:01:00

Yoko Ono’s painting invites us to step on it, challenging both galleries and audiences. Why is touch transgressive? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The no-human future

AEON @ 2026-06-11 12:00:00

Terrorists and tech bros alike view accelerationism as a revolutionary weapon. Nick Land glimpsed something much darker - by Vincent Lê Read on Aeon

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock

InfoQ @ 2026-06-11 11:24:00

OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive Azure arrangement. Pricing matches OpenAI's direct rates with usage counting toward AWS commitments. Codex shifts to pay-per-

Humans Prefer To Walk Anticlockwise, Scientists Find

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 09:00:00

fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction. "If you simply ask someone to start walking, whether they are wandering around

Solar Beats Coal In the US For the First Month Ever

slashdot @ 2026-06-11 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the

Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 02:48:52

Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday: Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk, Federighi shared more details abou

★ Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-11 02:09:01

This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.

Why platform engineering fails to scale: Product and adoption design in practice

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-11 02:00:00

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to ac

AI threats move fast. Your defenses should too.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-11 02:00:00

Recently, Red Hat's Vincent Danen highlighted how AI models found 271 real security defects in Firefox in a single pass during Mozilla's collaboration with Anthropic. If AI can do that for defenders, it can do the same for attackers. As Danen put it, "if y

Simplifying Weak Reference Processing in ZGC

Inside Java @ 2026-06-11 02:00:00

What are GC barriers and how do they relate to ahead-of-time compilation? This blog post explores the intersection of HotSpot's GCs and compilers through the lense of implementing GC-agnostic load barriers at the assembly level, and gives key insights on

Formally proving a calculation with Claude and Lean

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-11 01:11:01

I ran an experiment today to see whether Claude [1] could generate Lean code to prove a calculation at the bottom of this post, six lines of calculus. I started with this prompt This page contains a mathematical proof that a Fourier coefficient, a_n, is g

Microsoft Open-Sources PostgreSQL Extension for In-Database Durable Execution

InfoQ @ 2026-06-10 22:00:00

Recently open-sourced by Microsoft, pg_durable is a PostgreSQL extension that enables durable workflows to run natively inside the database, eliminating the need for external orchestration systems. By Sergio De Simone

Respect the P v NP Problem

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-10 20:50:08

There are two ways to look at the P v NP problem, as a formal mathematically defined conjecture as a Clay Millennium Prize Problem, and as the more intuitive notion that everything efficiently verifiable is efficiently computable and the implications that

After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-10 20:19:27

New drugs are taking on the slippery molecular switches that fuel deadly cancers—and AI is speeding up the hunt. The post After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way appeared first on SingularityHub .

Análisis de ajedrez | Pasmosa ucrania de 15 años (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-10 19:16:16

Hnatyshyn, única ganadora de Sabrina Vega (subcampeona), ganó el oro en el Europeo Femenino absoluto con un juego espléndido

Curaçao is the smallest nation ever at a World Cup

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-10 19:00:00

The 48 nations at the 2026 World Cup span a 2,181x gap in population, from the United States (340M) to Curaçao (156,000), the smallest ever to qualify.

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Deepmind @ 2026-06-10 18:24:11

Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-10 17:04:30

AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.

An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-10 16:57:19

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. The post An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis first appeared on Quant

What’s the opposite of Clip­Cursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?

old new thing @ 2026-06-10 16:00:00

There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually. The post What’s the opposite of <CODE>Clip­Cursor</CODE> that lets me <I>exclude</I> the cursor from a region? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Unbundling and Bundling of the PaaS Market

tecosystems @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

The Unbundling and Bundling of the PaaS Market

Sogrady @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

Pulling on a thread

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-10 15:34:31

Often there’s a thread running through a sequence of my posts. Sometimes I make this explicit and sometimes I don’t. The latest thread started with this post commenting on a tweet that observed that exp(−x²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(x) + x))/2. Some peo

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Deepmind @ 2026-06-10 12:21:19

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

Bay of smokes

AEON @ 2026-06-10 12:01:00

When smog descended upon Los Angeles in 1943, it was mistaken for a Japanese attack. The real culprit was closer to home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-06-10 11:38:00

Azure API Management shipped a Unified Model API that lets clients speak one format while APIM transforms requests to Anthropic, Vertex AI, and other backends. Content safety policies now cover MCP tool calls and Agent-to-Agent payloads alongside LLM tra

A human in control

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-10 09:08:26

There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of

This Week in Rust 655

This Week in Rust @ 2026-06-10 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

What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your

Expiration of Secure Boot signing certificates in 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new

Exploiting GPU Tensor Cores from Java using Babylon

Inside Java @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

this article shows an approach to extend the HAT programming model with an API for explicit tensor-core programming. Furthermore, it shows how to make this approach generic to be able to process computations expressed with the proposed HAT tensor core API

Apple OS 27: The Small Things

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 23:29:57

Rishi Ó: My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a c

The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 20:53:47

If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available . You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision

Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:42:32

A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.  ★ 

Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-09 19:40:31

AWS announces the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 delivers Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use.

Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:38:21

Julie Bort, TechCrunch: But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand, pressing buttons or using voice commands in r

Apple Introduces Siri AI

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:23:29

Apple Newsroom yesterday: This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and more. For example, users c

The rise in LGBTQ+ identification is mostly young women

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-09 19:00:00

Nearly 1 in 3 Gen Z women in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ+, versus 12% of Gen Z men. Gallup data shows the generational surge is mostly about women.

Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 18:50:33

Apple Newsroom: These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on devi

Análisis de ajedrez | La profundidad de Pragg

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-09 18:45:54

El brillante vencedor del Norway Chess sometió a Firouzja en la 7ª ronda con maniobras finísimas y un sacrificio excelso

What the GSoC Mentor Summit Reminded Me About Open Source

ASF @ 2026-06-09 18:00:00

By: Priya Sharma As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Deepmind @ 2026-06-09 17:16:25

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Powering the future of robotics in Europe

Deepmind @ 2026-06-09 16:02:33

The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap

old new thing @ 2026-06-09 16:00:00

Even the boss got into the festivities. The post The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap appeared first on The Old New Thing .

IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0 Brings Automated LDAP Secrets Management to Enterprise Identity Security

InfoQ @ 2026-06-09 14:00:00

IBM and HashiCorp have announced new LDAP secrets management capabilities in IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0, introducing a redesigned architecture to manage LDAP credentials, support password rotation, and automate the identity lifecycle. By Craig Risi

The joy of autism

AEON @ 2026-06-09 12:00:00

Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon

Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-09 10:00:00

Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tool

[Sponsor] WorkOS Launches auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 06:23:05

Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? Enter auth.md. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protect

From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 03:37:27

Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as p

Every Espressif Module in One Place

Atomic14 @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Every time I start a new project the first question is the same: which module should I use? Picking an Espressif chip means pulling up datasheets, hunting for pinout diagrams, checking which pins are safe, and ending up with a dozen browser tabs open.

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operations

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Over the past year, the conversation around artificial intelligence has undergone a massive evolution, shifting from isolated pilots or experiments with standalone tools. For leaders, the true challenge—and the ultimate prize—lies in building a fully AI-en

Lessons from an autonomous computer vision system on the air-gapped edge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Red Hat Summit demonstration booth featuring a model train track, edge computing hardware, monitoring displays, and supporting infrastructure used to demonstrate AI-driven automation at the edge.Many AI demos stop at detection. A dashboard highlights an o

Performance Improvements in JDK 26

Inside Java @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

To give you a clearer view of the performance work happening across the Java platform, this article highlights a selection of notable performance related improvements in JDK 26, grouped into four major areas: JDK Libraries, Garbage Collectors, Compiler,

Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-08 23:56:59

A planetary defense system would blunt solar storms with hundreds of tons of gas. Emerging heavy-lift rockets could deploy it in under two months. The post Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms appeared first on SingularityH

AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-08 23:27:12

This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet pro

Find out what's new for Apple developers

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:20:01

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms and create even more unique, intelligent experiences in your apps and games with major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services. The latest SDKs bring incredible new features

Introducing Time Allowances

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:19:33

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on ex

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines now available

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:18:33

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated term

Análisis de ajedrez | ¡Ojo con Madamínov!

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-08 19:38:02

Todo indica que la selección uzbeka en la Olimpiada de Ajedrez en Samarcanda (2ª quincena de septiembre) será fortísima, con otro gran valor en alza

AWS Releases Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

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

Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true

Introduction to Cross-Platform Java Development With Codename One

Baeldung @ 2026-06-08 18:34:00

Learn how Codename One handles layouts, navigation, styling, and general functionality to enable cross-platform development via Java and Maven. The post Introduction to Cross-Platform Java Development With Codename One first appeared on Baeldung .

How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-08 17:17:08

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in mathematical research. The post How Terry Tao Be

Pinterest Uses Content Fingerprints for URL Deduplication across Millions of Domains

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 16:37:00

Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with off

Characterizing resources for multiparameter estimation of SU(2) and SU(1,1) unitaries

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 16:33:52

Quantum 10, 2130 (2026). We analyze the task of estimating a multi-parameter unitary belonging to the $SU(2)$ or $SU(1,1)$ groups, in a two-bosonic-mode scenario and investigate the scaling of the precision in

Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes

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

Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks. The post Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 15:45:00

This week's Java roundup for June 1st, 2026, features news highlighting: JDK 27 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 28 Expert Group; the GlassFish Arquillian Connectors Suite for Jakarta EE TCKs; point releases for Infinispan and Kotlin; main

Long-time Freeness in the Kicked Top

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 15:37:08

Quantum 10, 2129 (2026). Recent work highlighted the importance of higher-order correlations in quantum dynamics for a deeper understanding of quantum chaos and thermalization. The full Eigenstate Thermalizatio

Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

Deepmind @ 2026-06-08 15:04:59

Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.

Detecting Entanglement by State Preparation and Local Measurements

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 13:49:12

Quantum 10, 2128 (2026). Entanglement witnesses (EWs) are a collection of observables that can characterize separable states and, experimentally, estimating EWs can verify entangled states. In this work, we sho

Classical shadows for sample-efficient measurements of gauge-invariant observables

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 13:34:46

Quantum 10, 2127 (2026). Classical shadows provide a versatile framework for estimating many properties of quantum states from repeated, randomly chosen measurements without requiring full quantum state tomogra

What can we do in a symmetry-constrained perspective? The importance of the total charge’s status in quantum reference frame frameworks

Quantum Journal @ 2026-06-08 12:47:15

Quantum 10, 2126 (2026). The study of quantum reference frames has received renewed interest over the last years, leading to the parallel development of non-equivalent frameworks by different communities. We cl

The steam engine

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

The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

What shape is the Earth?

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

The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress - by Miguel Ohnesorge Read on Aeon

Mux — Video for Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:47:03

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Mux is what developers reach for when they need to do more with video. Video files are packed with data and context waiting to be unlocked. Mux Robots are AI workflows that unlock that data inside your vi

★ SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:30:00

Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is

Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:00:00

Alberto Romero: AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually religious.” If God exists, the only coheren

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 26.0.0 Is Now Available

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

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

The First AI QFT Textbook

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-07 22:19:52

The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread …

Aitken acceleration before Aitken

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 22:14:45

Kepler solved his eponymous equation M = E − e sin(E) by finding a fixed point of E = M + e sin(E). So guess a value of E and stick it into the right hand side. Then plug that value into the right hand side again. Kepler said a couple iterations should be

Humans Solve Erdos Problem!!

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-07 21:29:06

(In 2008 I wrote a survey of some of the known sum-product theorems, see  here . Avi Wigderson has a great slide-set on sum-product theorems and their applications---the slides are on Avi's webpage of talks he has given (all the talks are excellent)

The Laplace limit

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 21:06:36

An earlier post discussed how to solve Kepler’s equation M = E − e sin(E) using a sine series. You could also solve Kepler’s equation using a power series, which Lagrange did in 1771. Both approaches express E as a function of e and M, but fro

Honey bees are dying at record rates, but the colony count holds steady

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-07 19:00:00

U.S. beekeepers lost a record 55.6% of their colonies in 2024-25, yet the total number of managed honey bee colonies has barely moved in 15 years.

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-07 18:58:48

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 June 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

A crank formula for π

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 18:34:26

I ran across a cranky formula for π based on physical constants here and decided to play around with it. The source describes λ as “wavelength (chosen in the microwave region)” and I thought perhaps you could chose a value of λ to make the equ

Podcast CB SyR 561: CNIO, Feynman, aerobioma, superhidrófugo, Dante, colapso directo, magnetocepción, galaxias LRD, ER=EPR y axiones

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-07 14:23:11

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 561 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B,iVoox C], titulado “Feynman; CNIO; Bacterias; Dante; Metales; Agujeros Negros”, 04 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 561:

Análisis de ajedrez | Combate épico en Oslo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-07 10:26:46

Esta vibrante y maratoniana pelea de Keymer y Firouzja en la penúltima ronda fue la partida más emocionante del Norway Chess

Halide Mark III

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-07 02:49:15

Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog: After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how freeing it felt. It

JavaNext Language Features

Inside Java @ 2026-06-07 02:00:00

The Java programming language is evolving fast. In this talk, we’ll summarize many of the recent changes that have appeared as well as look ahead to directions and features that are in development and will appear in future editions.

60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 22:04:06

Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links): We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes. We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Dragga

Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 21:56:01

Josh Marshall: In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. T

From Kepler to Bessel

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-06 20:46:02

The previous post very briefly said that the integral representation for Bessel functions was motived by solving Kepler’s equation. This post will go into more detail. Kepler’s equation There are multiple ways to describe the position of a pla

Análisis de ajedrez | El gran golpe de Pragg

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-06 13:55:28

Crecido en su autoestima después de tres victorias consecutivas, el astro indio, de 20 años, logró la cuarta y el triunfo más importante de su carrera

The Only Game in Town

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 23:44:49

Warning: if you follow this blog, you’ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now. There’s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this ̷

Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:46:56

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April: I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes + comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers

Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:24:58

Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X: But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the T

Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-05 21:15:11

You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippe

The Floer Jungle

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 20:03:10

There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has also given talk

Análisis de ajedrez | Otra plata en el Europeo para Sabrina Vega

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-05 18:42:12

La mejor partida de la multimedallista y nonacampeona de España fue la victoria sobre la azerbaiyana Fatalíyeva, 3ª de la lista inicial

CO2 is piling up faster every decade, and 2026 just set a record

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-05 18:00:00

Atmospheric CO2 hit a record 432 ppm in May 2026, but the deeper story is the pace: CO2 is now piling up about 3 times faster than it did in the 1960s.

Java Weekly, Issue 649

Baeldung @ 2026-06-05 17:34:50

No doubt about it, AI is changing what it means to work in Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 649 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Checking in on Perplexity

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 17:26:29

Yours truly, last August: I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels more like something Perplexity

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-05 16:21:19

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. The post Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? first ap