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slashdot @ 2026-09-21 21:04:00

"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors): It peaks around 180 on average (and sometimes reache

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-21 20:22:48

La tremenda fuerza de la selección anfitriona no se limita a los astros Abdusattórov y Sindárov, sino que abarca a todo el equipo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:37:16

Sofia Schwarzwalder, reporting for The Seattle Times: Since turning 50, the Mariners legend has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, launched eight homers at the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby this summer and, most recently, tossed a 127-pitch shutout

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:31:58

Glenn Fleishman: Recent protectionist changes by the European Union further effectively exclude U.S. small businesses like mine from selling to EU customers. It’s a little complicated, but it has to do with how tax and customs fees are collected and e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 19:20:56

David Pogue: The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling. I used the beta-test version all sum

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 19:00:00

This week's Java roundup for September 14th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of JDK 27, LibericaJDK 27, Open J Proxy 1.0 and A2A Jakarta 1.0; point releases of Azul Payara, JHipster, JetBrains Ktor and BoxLang; and introducing Netflix ja

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 18:53:06

Matthew Butterick: So let’s not take the bait. Nor overcomplicate. We needn’t spin our collective wheels spitballing answers to big-picture, long-term Al-policy questions. We don’t know enough yet. The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big Al nee

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-21 18:11:24

Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself sc

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 16:57:12

Seth Godin back in 2014: You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure this. (Vis-à-vis my sidenote over the weekend about Apple refusing to publish mAh battery specs f

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 16:37:00

Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The approach bounds shard dependencies, preserves replica isolation, and uses a greedy algorithm to select sha

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 16:34:00

There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher's Weekly. Yet "While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges." Googl

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 16:14:00

Cloudflare has introduced the Agent Development Lifecycle to enhance AI-driven engineering. The approach replaces the traditional SDLC, addressing bottlenecks in testing, deployment, and maintenance. Key components include automated software factories, d

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-21 16:12:36

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. The post How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution first appeared on Quanta Ma

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 16:08:35

Quantum 10, 2214 (2026). We study quantitatively the interplay between entanglement and non-stabilizer resources in violating the CHSH inequalities. We show that, while non-stabilizer resources are necessary, t

old new thing @ 2026-09-21 16:00:00

Being wary of how people use it and how it interacts with other types. The post What’s the highest legal <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>? Is it safe to use? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-21 14:44:05

Todos los años me hago eco de los Premios Ig Nobel y no podía ser de otra forma este año 2026.La ceremonia de entrega de premios se celebró el 12 […] La entrada Premios Ig Nobel 2026 fue escrita en La Ciencia de la Mula Francis .

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 12:04:00

"Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports Reuters, "in what it said could be the first ban of its kind." But meanwhile "more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta'

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:01:00

As Indonesia builds a new capital city, the race is on to preserve the sounds of the rainforest before they vanish forever - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-21 12:00:00

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain - by Massimo Pigliucci Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 11:08:14

Quantum 10, 2213 (2026). The possibility of nonclassicality in networks unrelated to Bell’s original eponymous theorem has recently attracted significant interest. Here, we identify a sufficient condition for b

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 10:43:00

AWS has told customers it cannot restore resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 availability zone in the UAE, or exclusively in the Bahrain region, after damage during the conflict with Iran. The company says the Bahrain damage spanned mul

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-21 10:20:41

Quantum 10, 2212 (2026). Efficiently implementing Clifford circuits is crucial for quantum error correction and quantum algorithms. Linear reversible circuits, equivalent to circuits composed of CNOT\xspace gat

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 07:34:00

"I would like to verify your technical abilities, so please download the specified file and complete the assigned task..." Fake job listings aimed at software developers and IT professionals led to 30,000 infected devices in over 100 countries — an

Baeldung @ 2026-09-21 06:05:19

Learn the fundamentals of Solon, including its architecture, dependency injection, configuration, HTTP handling, persistence, and testing, and see them in practice by building a REST API with MyBatis-Flex and H2. The post Introduction to Solon first

slashdot @ 2026-09-21 03:04:00

Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to th

InfoQ @ 2026-09-21 03:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.37, named "Garhwal", emphasizing its focus on stability, security, and AI/ML workload optimization. By Mostafa Radwan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:49:55

Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline: The release of The Savant is back on. A year after Apple TV put the thriller starring Jessica Chastain on hold three days before it was slated to premiere on Sept. 26, 2025, the streamer has rescheduled it fo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-21 02:37:18

I genuinely enjoyed that Sara Eisen laughed a little when introducing me as having written a 5,000-word review of the iPhone 18 Pro.  ★ 

Rust blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/ , allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is po

Inside Java @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation within the JVM is essential to Java's performance and plays a central role in ongoing OpenJDK projects such as Valhalla, Leyden, and Panama. JIT compilation is constantly evolving to support the evolution of the Java languag

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

In a post-Mythos world, IT teams face a mounting crisis. Many are doing more with the same staff, and security work hasn’t gotten simpler. Alerts still land without context. Compliance still means chasing down answers across tools. A single incident can co

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-21 02:00:00

A year ago, I wrote about the road to quantum-safe cryptography in Red Hat OpenShift. At the time, much of that road was forward-looking: TLS 1.3 was not yet the default, Go did not support post-quantum algorithms, and the first NIST post-quantum cryptogra

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-21 00:29:43

These seven equations between binomial coefficients are ‘coincidences’: they aren’t among the four known infinite families. De Weger conjectured that there are no more such coincidences: • Benjamin M. M. de Weger, Equal binomial coe

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 22:34:00

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, "How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?" according to the Harvard's Arts and Sciences site, FAS Current: The new title finds Lepore, who use

InfoQ @ 2026-09-20 21:51:00

Bun creator Jarred Sumner recently announced that Bun, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, bundler and package manager has been rewritten from Zig to Rust. The rewrite seeks to eliminate recurrent memory safety vulnerabilities via Rust’s borrow checker. T

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-20 21:13:11

The following conversation is fictional. --------------------------- ALICE: (Looking over a student's record.) Hmm, let's see. She wants to work in quantum computing. She's had the year-long quantum sequence in the physics department and has taken a cou

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 19:53:31

El irregular y controvertido portento cae ante Svane y provoca la derrota de su selección ante Alemania en la 5ª ronda de la Olimpiada

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:35:31

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week — a big week — at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each pr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 19:30:00

Natalie Neff, Autoweek: General Motors is reversing course after having begun to remove Apple CarPlay from its vehicles, showing off instead a redesigned infotainment interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups that melds the sma

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 18:04:00

"New research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years," Stanford Medicine announced this week: The new research finding shows that the human brain c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-20 17:35:55

He takes the same “ this is pretty much exactly what Apple used to label an ‘S’ year ” angle I did, so, unsurprisingly, I think his review is spot-on. Brownlee emphasizes one point that I should have, but didn’t: according to Apple’s published specs, the

InfoQ @ 2026-09-20 13:57:00

Alibaba recently open-sourced OpenCodeReview, an AI-powered code review CLI that combines deterministic pipelines for file selection, bundling, and rule matching with an LLM agent for dynamic code analysis. It supports built-in checks for issues such as

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 13:34:00

The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15," reports Reuters. "Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself" — a free, open-source age verification s

InfoQ @ 2026-09-20 12:00:00

Google has released the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework for building AI agents across Kotlin, Android, and JVM/server applications. It brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java, while a

InfoQ @ 2026-09-20 10:15:00

Cloudflare has replaced its static X25519 guess for origin TLS handshakes with per-origin measurement. HelloRetryRequests on scanned origins fell from roughly 52% to 3.7%, removing over 150 ms from p90 latency. Post-quantum connections completing in one

Baeldung @ 2026-09-20 09:55:45

A better spec-driven development and the brain as example architecture. The post Java Weekly, Issue 664 first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 09:04:00

Saturday morning President Trump announced he's creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico. "I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico e

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-20 08:47:56

El ucranio, genio y figura a los 57 años, cayó ante Caruana tras un sacrificio a largo plazo, correcto pero innecesario

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 04:34:00

Mashable writes: Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported... Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees. WIRED writes that people famil

The observation deck @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to pa

Inside Java @ 2026-09-20 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 28: 401: Value Objects (Preview)

slashdot @ 2026-09-20 00:05:00

"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC," writes the blog It's FOSS. It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all my work on PS5 Linux"

slashdot @ 2026-09-19 19:34:00

U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN. "The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, acco

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 18:29:00

Splendid video. Love that Stalman shot photos side-by-side with a film SLR using Kodak Portra 400, for comparison to Apple’s new film-look Photographic Styles.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-19 17:37:39

Austin Mann: I’m here at the beautiful Dunton River Camp in southwest Colorado, where I’ve spent the last week testing the new camera and features on the iPhone 18 Pro. Beyond the variable aperture and Pro Controls, Apple also built in a bunch of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 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 September 19) appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-09-19 15:04:00

The F-16 "experienced an incident," the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that "The pilot successfully ejected the aircraft and is receiving care at a nearby hospital." ABC News reports: A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Mic

InfoQ @ 2026-09-19 11:11:00

AWS Lambda now allows functions running on Lambda Managed Instances to run for up to 90 minutes, six times longer than the previous 15-minute limit, further blurring the line between a Lambda invocation and a traditional server. The limit remains unchang

slashdot @ 2026-09-19 10:34:00

"Software security researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI's ChatGPT tool," reports CBS News. Using Claude, "On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts," write

InfoQ @ 2026-09-19 09:23:00

SolidStart, a full-stack meta-framework based on SolidJS, has transitioned to version 2.0, improving compatibility with Vite's Environment API. This release modernizes the framework, enhancing CSS handling and integrating better with tools like Tailwind

slashdot @ 2026-09-19 06:04:00

The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image, writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they're looking at a new astronomical object: a black hole star. It shines with the light of billions

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-19 03:17:36

Nothing grows exponentially forever. What appears to be an exponential curve often turns out to be some sort of S curve, such as a logistic curve. Suppose you’re collecting data on the left side of the curve. If there’s even a small amount of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-19 00:11:54

The system, designed by Stanford researchers, identified which drugs are more likely to succeed in trials and even proposed a cancer treatment a major drugmaker later landed on too. The post Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 23:01:43

Miriam Pawel, in an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that the University of California should not bring back the SAT requirement for admission: What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacr

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 22:42:31

Will Oremus, writing for The Atlantic last week, “Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone” (gift link): Apple’s next big invention, the company revealed at a launch event in Cupertino, is a $2,000 iPhone that sports — get ready — a “remarkable hinge.” Is it

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:58:22

In addition to the Duo-specific 27.1 SDK, which allows third-party developers to get started adapting apps to the Duo’s new screen sizes and layouts, Apple’s developer site also has Figma and Sketch design kits.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:29:12

Warren Buffett, in a letter to Berkshire shareholders: Recently, I celebrated my 96th birthday with family and friends, including one of my great-grandchildren, who had just turned one. He’s moving a bit faster than I am these days. [...] So the tim

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 21:23:45

Let’s check in on the president of the United States, having a normal one on his blog: I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and cred

InfoQ @ 2026-09-18 21:00:00

MariaDB Community Server 13.0 has reached General Availability (GA) and is now officially stable. This release introduces a range of new features, deprecations, and performance improvements, including expanded support for procedural SQL, new DML capabili

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 19:18:19

Page Six Hollywood: Ternus attended an intimate Apple party the night before the Emmys, filled with stars and powerbrokers, where some talent brazenly hit him up for the phone. “The new phone is big news,” said one top Hollywood exec, who added that

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-18 19:00:57

Get Xcode 27.1 beta. View downloads and release notes Get Figma and Sketch design kits for iPhone Duo from the Apple Design Resources. Download design kits from the Apple Design Resources Sign up for workshops around the world to learn how

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:58:25

Max Roberts, after looking at the list of MKBHD’s all-time most popular videos, and noting that his Duo first-look is #3, and a Duo follow-up is already at #36: Apple enters the category and in a week it blows past every other folding video. Now, th

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:42:00

Cleaning up my notes this morning, I realized I forgot to write about the new under-display Face ID sensor in the iPhones 18 Pro, and the corresponding change to the Dynamic Island. I just added it to my review. For those of you who’ve already read the re

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 18:13:39

YouTube Help: Last year, we updated how we count public views for Shorts to better capture how viewers watch on YouTube. Now, we’re aligning all other video formats to this same standard for consistency across the platform. Beginning on 8/24/2026, a v

old new thing @ 2026-09-18 16:00:00

Do you try again or give up? The post Comparing exception behavior of magic statics, <CODE>std::<WBR>call_<WBR>once</CODE>, and <CODE>std::<WBR>async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-18 15:55:50

The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks. The post Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-09-18 15:50:00

DoorDash built a multi-agent LLM system to automate stale feature flag cleanup across more than 60,000 flags and 623 repositories. The workflow combines live experimentation data through MCP, engineer approval, isolated Git worktrees, parallel agents, an

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-18 15:02:06

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 571 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “LUCA; Mercurio; Diplodocus; Estética; Entrelazamiento”, 17 sep 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 571: Pará

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-18 14:45:19

El aspirante al título mundial inicia su actuación en la Olimpiada de Samarcanda con un remate antológico

InfoQ @ 2026-09-18 14:00:00

WSO2 has announced the general availability of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open-source platform designed to provide centralized governance, identity management, security controls, and operational oversight for AI agents running across different models, framew

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 12:13:44

Quantum 10, 2211 (2026). We study multiparty entanglement near measurement induced phase transitions (MIPTs), which arise in ensembles of local quantum circuits built with unitaries and measurements. In contras

AEON @ 2026-09-18 12:00:00

A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why? - by Richard Dyer Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 11:56:51

Quantum 10, 2210 (2026). According to Aumann's celebrated theorem, rational agents cannot agree to disagree. In other words, agents who once shared a common prior probability distribution and who have comm

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-18 11:35:22

Quantum 10, 2209 (2026). Gibbs state preparation, or Gibbs sampling, is a key computational technique extensively used in physics, statistics, and other scientific fields. Recent efforts for designing fast mixi

InfoQ @ 2026-09-18 11:32:00

htmx 4 has been released, featuring a transition from XMLHttpRequest to the fetch() API, enhancing streaming capabilities. Key updates include built-in morphing swaps for DOM state preservation and an hx-partial tag for cleaner updates. Attribute inherit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-18 04:05:11

It’s the best version of the most successful product ever made. And yet by nature of *how* the iPhone 18 Pro improved in the last year, it’s not exciting at all.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-18 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization PlatformsRed Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinf

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-18 02:00:00

In the enterprise world, document extraction has been stuck in a 20-year rut. For decades, companies have relied on a fragile assembly line: OCR to convert pixels to text, templates to find fields, and a team of human reviewers to fix the inevitable 30% er

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-18 00:01:12

We're fixated on the intelligence of single agents. The more profound challenge is what happens when millions of them interact at scale. The post The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence—It’s Artificial Societies appeared first on Singularity

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-17 23:11:48

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better pri

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-17 21:20:21

Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that ru

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-17 20:51:37

El desconocido Lachawirapap tumba a una de las estrellas indias en la primera ronda de la Olimpiada de Samarcanda

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-17 18:48:14

There’s a common saying in discussion of fractals that the length of a coastline depends on how small a device you use to measure it. I thought this was a hypothetical, say as applied to the steps in the construction of the Koch snowflake. But the s

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-17 17:09:33

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. The post Where Does the Quantum Worl

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-17 16:54:56

ITMS 2026 Two years ago I attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show  in Chicago's McCormick Place and found a rather limited focus on artificial intelligence among the exhibitors. ITMS is back in town so I went again

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-17 16:41:53

Joe Rossignol at MacRumors over the weekend: Apple now says the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max uses the chip in every country except for the U.S. [...] Apple has yet to provide an explanation for this modem diffe

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-17 16:03:51

I recently bought a copy of Los Alamos Rolodex, a book displaying business cards from Los Alamos Nation Labs from 1967 to 1978. You can find some examples of the cards here. One of the cards in the book is for Eugene Frank, President of B & F Instrume

old new thing @ 2026-09-17 16:00:00

Simple vs complex machinery. The post <CODE>std::call_once</CODE> vs. <CODE>std::async</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-17 15:50:00

I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI migh

AEON @ 2026-09-17 12:01:00

Probing the biology, beauty and mystery of animal eyes, this short poetic documentary explores an alien world - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-17 12:00:00

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world - by Liam Spradlin Read on Aeon

Rust blog @ 2026-09-17 02:00:00

We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. What we've seen A video call is set up for somethin

Inside Java @ 2026-09-17 02:00:00

From time scales to checkpointing, from managing to inspecting cache files, there are a number of details to consider when creating AOT caches for faster Java application launches.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-17 02:00:00

For CIOs across the Gulf, the cloud conversation has moved past basic adoption. Governments and enterprises are investing heavily in cloud platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), and national digital infrastructure. However, the harder questions now sit w

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-17 02:00:00

A few weeks ago I was watching a coding agent run through a multistep task, and what stood out was not whether it got the answer right. I found, 9 times out of 10, it did. What stood out to me was the waiting. Every step meant another call to the model, an

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-17 02:00:00

Building an AI agent in a Jupyter Notebook is a solved problem. With a handful of lines of Python and a large language model (LLM) API key, you can wire up a prototype that reads emails, invokes custom tools, and responds to users. It feels like magic.But

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-17 00:40:41

A note flagged “Important” atop the Xcode 27.2 release notes: The iOS SDK and simulator support for iPhone Duo will be available later this month in an upcoming release of Xcode 27.1. Adapting apps for the Duo is not just a simple “recompile with

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-17 00:21:30

Note the reaction from the Deadline reporter.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-16 23:38:27

Steve Wozniak: I’ve decided it’s time to have a little more fun on X this year! 😄⚡ I get to speak at some amazing events, meet fascinating people, hear great stories, and occasionally find myself in places I never expected to be. So I figured… why

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-16 22:05:00

Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-16 20:36:08

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple just seeded the first beta of iOS 27.2 to developers for testing. Yes, you read that correctly: iOS 27.2, not iOS 27.1. Why no iOS 27.1 beta? The answer likely relates to the iPhone Duo. This unusual version numbe

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-16 20:27:13

Jugador, directivo, escritor y periodista, muy apreciado por la comunidad del ajedrez, el sevillano ha fallecido a los 70 años

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-16 19:50:14

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-16 19:03:39

The beta versions of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, and watchOS 27.2 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And make sure to build and test with Xcode 27.2 to take advant

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-16 19:02:58

Discover how you can expand the reach of your subscriptions with new features in iOS 27. You can start preparing today by making sure your apps use StoreKit 2 to handle your Apple In-App Purchases. Request access to Bundles and Suites Offer multiple

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-16 19:00:11

As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the option to use an alternati

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-16 18:05:11

I’ve written three posts on cosine similarity lately. The first looked at interpreting cosine similarity. The second looked at an approximation related to the first. The third looked at how ranking according to cosine similarity works better than co

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-16 17:56:27

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. first appeared on Quanta M

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-16 17:06:58

Yesterday I wrote about the canonical example of how vector embeddings of words add: “king” − “man” + “woman” ≈ “queen” This should be interpreted as saying that the word vector for king, minus the word vector for man, plus the word vector for woman, is i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-16 16:35:49

In my long take yesterday on Apple’s event last week, I wrote that when you pay $20 extra to get the $150 AirPods 5 With Wireless Charging Case, that the case is compatible for inductive charging with “MagSafe, Qi, or Apple Watch pucks”. But the compati

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

They sort of do the same thing, but differently. The post Magic statics vs. <CODE>std::call_once</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

tecosystems @ 2026-09-16 15:15:00

Well over a decade ago, hundreds of conversations over a period of years crystalized into a book called The New Kingmakers. The core thesis of the book was simple: a constituency long thought to be powerless had become instead the real power behind the thr

Sogrady @ 2026-09-16 15:15:00

Well over a decade ago, hundreds of conversations over a period of years crystalized into a book called The New Kingmakers. The core thesis of the book was simple: a constituency long thought to be powerless had become instead the real power behind the thr

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-16 14:04:09

The product of four consecutive Fibonacci numbers equals the product of two consecutive integers. For example, 3 × 5 × 8 × 13 = 39 × 40. I ran across this theorem in a note [1] that says “The product of any four consecutive Fibonacci numbers is twic

AEON @ 2026-09-16 12:01:00

From ancient Roman frescoes to modern kitchen benchtops, our desire to recreate marble is about more than cutting costs - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-09-16 10:00:00

La innovación, algo a cuya práctica me he dedicado personalmente muchos años, tiene «sus cosas». Podría contarlo en página tras página de seria prosa apta para LinkedIn, pero, ¿por qué no hacerlo sobre el escenario de un teatro?

Baeldung @ 2026-09-16 09:49:56

Learn how prompt caching works, the limitations for different Claude models, and how to use it in Spring AI. The post Prompt Caching Support in Spring AI with Anthropic Claude first appeared on Baeldung .         

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-16 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

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-16 04:38:24

Apple Security Research has released a concise, cogent paper describing how Apple Reference Image works, and why they made it. A terrific read. Here’s just one fascinating bit regarding privacy: Other industry solutions require a photographer or insti

Inside Java @ 2026-09-16 02:00:00

On September 15 we celebrated the release of Java 27! We covered what’s coming in JDK 27—from key enhancements and platform changes to the latest developments at the intersection of Java and AI.

Inside Java @ 2026-09-16 02:00:00

JDK 27 was released on September 15, 2026! As with my previous blogs, I have compiled a list of what I think are the most interesting and useful security enhancements in this release. I have also grouped them into appropriate categories (crypto, TLS, etc)

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-16 02:00:00

How Lightwell breaks the forced-upgrade cycle to keep your systems protected and your developers focused on innovation.The Monday morning CISO nightmarePicture this: It’s Monday morning. A critical, high-severity Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-16 02:00:00

Enterprise AI adoption is hitting a regulatory wall. Organizations in highly regulated sectors—from global banking to defense and life sciences—possess petabytes of valuable data. But privacy regulations, national data sovereignty mandates, and intellectua

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-16 02:00:00

Enterprise technology leaders face a defining operational challenge: rapid digital transformation isn’t enough on its own. Teams are under relentless pressure to maintain a continuous, highly secure infrastructure while simultaneously driving AI-infused mo

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-16 00:00:44

The previous post looked at how to interpret cosine similarity, or equivalently angles between word vectors. In a high-dimensional space, randomly chosen vectors are likely nearly perpendicular, and so relatively large angles, such as 50°, indicate very c

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-15 21:45:41

A potentially safer, simpler way to create CAR T cells in the body could bring this powerful therapy to the masses. The post Single CAR T Injection Eases Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms in Small Trial appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-15 21:01:30

Joe Miller, reporting for the Financial Times ( via Political Wire ): Veteran socialist Bernie Sanders and rightwing activist Steve Bannon are joining forces to call for greater guardrails on AI, even as Donald Trump insists concerns about the technol

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-15 19:54:09

The keynote, the products, and a new era.

Deepmind @ 2026-09-15 19:05:57

Confluent @ 2026-09-15 18:40:06

Confluent's Trust Center simplifies vendor risk reviews with CyberGRX, CyberVadis, SIG, CAIQ, and TruSight/KY3P assessments.

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-15 18:06:02

Machine learning represents words as vectors and measures the similarity of words by the angles between the vectors. For vectors x and y, where θ is the angle between the vectors, and so This is the cosine similarity between the words represented by x and

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-15 17:32:24

SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buy

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-15 17:11:00

Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises distilling the big idea, visualizing the audience, and building a structured storyline. more…

old new thing @ 2026-09-15 16:00:00

It used to start at 1, but that was the old system. The post Why do Microsoft job levels start in the high 50’s instead of starting at a sane number like 1? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AEON @ 2026-09-15 12:00:00

Homecomings, fantasies, food and ghosts – how the myth of eternal return keeps the Italian diaspora in a state of longing - by Ben Faccini Read on Aeon

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-09-15 10:15:53

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 570 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Viruela Ancestral; Protones; IA y el Problema del Milenio”, 10 sep 2026. «La […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 570: Viruela, transporte de

Swift blog @ 2026-09-15 09:30:00

Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include: Sw

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-15 08:45:55

El colegio limeño, famoso por la gran cantidad de jóvenes talentos de ajedrez que produce, ganó el Americano Escolar en Costa Rica

Baeldung @ 2026-09-15 07:32:46

Learn how to resolve an InaccessibleObjectException when working with Gson and modern Java versions. The post Gson Deserialization and the InaccessibleObjectException first appeared on Baeldung .           

Inside Java @ 2026-09-15 02:00:00

JDK 27 is now available! Oracle is proud to announce the general availability of JDK 27 for developers, enterprises, and end-users.