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Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 18:34:00

Phoronix reports: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Co

How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 17:34:00

America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM: It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputer

Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 16:34:00

"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyri

How to Earn a Billion Dollars

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-14 13:50:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 209 # Comments: 551

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 13:34:00

The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there's more bad news, reports CNBC." "Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025." While previous bitcoin selloffs were often

Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 09:34:00

Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that "Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of

Don't trust large context windows

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-14 08:07:09

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 209 # Comments: 147

AWS Introduces Durable Storage Option for ElastiCache for Valkey

InfoQ @ 2026-06-14 07:13:00

AWS has recently introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 06:34:00

The Sunday Times reports: A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a "number of cases". Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected per

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-14 05:43:30

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How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 03:47:00

A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate... Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a smartphone. "It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence," Eggers

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-14 02:49:46

Previously: Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering - - May 2023 (43 comments) Comments URL: Points: 359 # Comments: 84

How Agentic Coding Can Help You Migrate Java Applications Faster

Inside Java @ 2026-06-14 02:00:00

Learn how agentic coding transforms Java migrations by acting as an intelligent development partner.

ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-14 01:22:05

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 266 # Comments: 65

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

slashdot @ 2026-06-14 00:34:00

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration's decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Sco

Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform'

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 23:34:00

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational

The "fable" of Anthropic and the USG

The Geomblog @ 2026-06-13 22:51:47

News moves fast. 12 hours ago I was enjoying the demolition that the US put on Paraguay when I heard that Anthropic had shut down access to Fable and Mythos (their latest and most powerful models).  Since then, more news has surfaced about what we

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 22:34:00

"Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid," argues The Washington Post's editoral board, arguing that GM's latest moves "offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation." Or As Fortune put it, "Am

RSA munitions T-shirt

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-13 22:10:20

Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export. In 1995, Adam Back protested this by creating a terse, obfuscated implementation of RSA in Perl code and used it as an

Terraform MCP Server Enables AI Assistants to Interact with Terraform Infrastructure

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 22:00:00

HashiCorp has announced the general availability of the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source MCP server that enables agents to integrate with Terraform Registry APIs. The company says that it can improve infrastructure teams productivity by relieving eng

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 21:54:55

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 358 # Comments: 182

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 21:34:00

This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports: The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backp

Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 20:34:00

More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" were infected with malware, reports Phoronix: The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the maliciou

GameBoy Workboy

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 19:43:02

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 210 # Comments: 74

Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:34:15

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post: President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed

OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America's State Attorneys General

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 19:34:00

"A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter." OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activit

Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:20:59

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Found

Análisis de ajedrez | Shógdzhiev, de 11 años, se perfila como gran maestro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-13 19:07:48

El deslumbrante ruso, quien ya fue el maestro internacional más joven de la historia a los 10, bate otra marca

U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 19:02:29

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national A

Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 18:57:49

Comments URL: Points: 757 # Comments: 561

AI coding at home without going broke

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 18:45:03

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 325 # Comments: 264

New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 18:34:00

It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's "Brexit" vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll "shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain's departure," reports Bloomberg: Fifty-two percent of Britons t

GLM 5.2 Is Out

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 18:18:31

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US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse

slashdot @ 2026-06-13 17:34:00

It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports: Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communic

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 13)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-13 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 June 13) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 15:54:56

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New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 15:34:00

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The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 14:40:16

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 269 # Comments: 71

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 14:10:47

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 272 # Comments: 168

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 13:55:30

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 307 # Comments: 192

Every Frame Perfect

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 13:40:20

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 802 # Comments: 263

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 11:55:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 275 # Comments: 95

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 11:38:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 315 # Comments: 166

Fix corner case of os.time().

luajit @ 2026-06-13 10:59:29

Thanks to Temir Galeev. #1470

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 09:45:39

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 692 # Comments: 418

Leaving Mozilla

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-13 07:57:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 491 # Comments: 298

AWS Introduces CDK Mixins for Composable Infrastructure Abstractions

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 07:38:00

AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work across different construct types, making infrastructure code more flexible

WebMCP Standard Proposal for Agentic Web Actuation Now Available in Chrome (Origin Trials)

InfoQ @ 2026-06-13 05:32:00

Google recently announced that WebMCP is entering origin trials in Chrome 149. The new WebMCP standard proposal lets sites expose tools (e.g., JavaScript functions and HTML forms) to in-browser AI agents, which can thus reliably simulate user actions ins

★ The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-13 01:36:15

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.

Architectural Decision Guide: When to Use Apache Kafka (And When You Shouldn't)

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 20:05:15

Discover when to use Apache Kafka and when to avoid it. Learn the core differences between event streaming and task queues to scale your systems reliably.

The WWDC 2026 Keynote and State of the Union on YouTube

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:28:19

Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, except the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can grab it from YouTube. Speaking of the State of the Union, t

What is Confluent? How It's Different from Apache Kafka

Confluent @ 2026-06-12 19:23:40

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.

Google Launches Colab CLI for Developers, Automation, and AI Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-12 19:13:00

Google has announced the Google Colab CLI, a command-line tool that allows developers and AI agents to interact with remote Colab runtimes directly from a local terminal. By Daniel Dominguez

The European Commission Response to Siri AI and the DMA

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-12 19:02:45

Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud): What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out “Siri AI” in the EU? This

U.S. abortions rose after Dobbs, driven by mailed pills

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 19:00:00

Dobbs was supposed to cut U.S. abortions. It did not. The national total rose after 2022, and the whole increase is telehealth: abortion pills by mail.

ICE detention hit a record, and most detainees have no conviction

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-12 18:00:00

U.S. immigration detention hit a record 70,000+ people in early 2026, and TRAC data shows about 7 in 10 detainees have no criminal conviction.

Análisis de ajedrez | Deliciosa precisión de Benko

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-12 16:58:24

La idea clave de esta maravilla, tan hermosa como difícil de otear, destapa una catarata de recursos tácticos

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

How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?

old new thing @ 2026-06-12 16:00:00

The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency. The post How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

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

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

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter

Swift blog @ 2026-06-12 12:00:00

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter

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

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

WWDC26 Recap: Siri Grows Up, Apple Intelligence Goes Everywhere, and Agents Move into Xcode

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

Every June, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference gives us a look at the road ahead — the place where the hardware we know meets the software we’re about to build. At MartianCraft, we’ve been shipping apps on Apple’s platforms since the

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

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

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

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 .

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.

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

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

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

Análisis de ajedrez | Pasmosa ucrania de 15 años (y II)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-11 15:28:40

La comprensión profunda de los principios estratégicos, impropia de su edad, es lo que más sorprende en Anastasia Hnatyshyn

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

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-

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 .

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

[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

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

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 .

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