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slashdot @ 2026-08-28 18:00:00

Roblox is restricting games that reward younger players for endlessly consuming autoplaying media feeds. The new restrictions are specifically targeting Roblox experiences like "Steal an Egg," which encouraged players to watch TikTok-style clips for in-gam

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 17:00:39

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly considering new tariffs on semiconductors used in the U.S., as tech giants race to beat China in the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-28 16:38:24

Otra lección magistral de cómo sacrificar peones para abrir líneas decisivas, esta vez ante Grischuk

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-28 16:35:36

I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 16:30:00

Uber’s GitFarm provides Git operations as a centralized service, eliminating local repository clones across large scale monorepo workloads. The platform uses prewarmed checkouts, ephemeral sandboxes, repository synchronization, and gRPC streaming to redu

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 16:02:53

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countrie

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-28 15:30:34

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 14:00:00

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams balance the efficiency benefits of automated node consolidation with applicatio

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 13:00:00

Google is adding an "Expert Intelligence" feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work directly from more than 100,000 books they own through Google Play Books. Those books can be used as sources for things like q

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:43:00

Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. By Matt Foster

InfoQ @ 2026-08-28 09:07:00

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers h

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 09:00:00

Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source), including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The hires are backed by more than $364 million in government funding and are

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report fro SFGATE: From "rizz" to "meat proxy," words and phrases have fallen in and out of favor for centuries. Culture, politics and technological development have long influenced these trends, and now, new research shows tha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 04:59:46

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, ​the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal c

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-28 04:03:38

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iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

UISceneDelegate mandate, M6 Mac mini, Apple layoffs, Headless Xcode MCP, Embedded Swift 6.4, SwiftTUI

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

In our previous article, Enterprise AI model selection: Balancing performance, privacy, and operational fit, we described the 4 layers that make up an effective enterprise AI architecture. In this article, we'll talk about who operates each layer, where w

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Managing complex data systems and learning new software platforms can feel like navigating a maze in the dark. Whether you’re stepping into a command-line environment for the 1st time or mapping intricate relationships across enterprise platforms, practica

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

Streamlining container security: Red Hat Hardened Images now supported in AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanningAWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images. This integration helps software security and development

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-28 02:00:00

The future of technology depends on a workforce equipped with practical, industry-relevant skills. As organizations accelerate their adoption of open source, cloud, automation, and enterprise technologies, educational institutions play a critical role in p

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 01:00:00

Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps as the AI data center boom contributes to a broader memory chip shortage that could leave lower-cost phones with less RAM. Developers will have until February 2027 to meet new thresholds for memory a

slashdot @ 2026-08-28 00:00:00

Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new "Persistent mode" for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly "put to sleep," proactively creating follow-up tasks for itself across sessions and using prior interactions and knowledge of the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:49:50

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy ), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-27 23:13:16

Can AI replace lawyers—at least in some circumstances? The post An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 23:09:42

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words the

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 23:00:00

Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or "Throw Away the Key Encryption," that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours. The system is designed to preserve cloud features such as sm

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:46:08

Speaking of tariff refunds , here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — eac

Confluent @ 2026-08-27 22:23:15

Hemut uses Confluent, real-time data streaming, and AI to automate trucking operations, improve fleet efficiency, and build the Internet of Freight.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:10:13

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We t

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 22:02:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users. There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app: Before searching:

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents [including Claude, OpenAI's Codex

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-27 21:42:48

Alain Pannetrat, founder of Lectronz: Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-27 21:00:43

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 43 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or forei

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 21:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader dhartshorn writes: Foreign-produced "bulk power" equipment is now effectively banned, and the list of what constitutes such equipment is essentially everything used to make up the grid... much of which we are heavily dependent on f

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 20:03:42

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slashdot @ 2026-08-27 20:00:00

Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal and the company began receiving refunds from the government. Panic

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 19:53:40

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 19:06:32

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slashdot @ 2026-08-27 19:00:00

The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. "Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools, received acquisit

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 18:11:32

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. "We are

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 17:56:58

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 17:55:12

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 17:50:00

After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 2026, highlighting first milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring I

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 17:01:11

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 17:00:00

Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 17:00:00

Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an "AI native" restructuring plan that would shift much of employees' day-to-day work to AI agents and smaller teams of human "builders." But the effort quickly ran into e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 16:08:18

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old new thing @ 2026-08-27 16:00:00

Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-27 15:50:28

La relatividad de la ventaja material, y en concreto de los peones, es una de las lecciones que el noruego aprendió de AlphaZero

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 15:49:29

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The Endeavour @ 2026-08-27 15:14:35

This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations have a second

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 15:12:10

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-27 15:11:00

Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand

ASF @ 2026-08-27 15:00:00

Introducing Apache Iggy™, a persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, and Apache Sourcelume, open source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance Wilmington, DE –  August 27, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global

Deepmind @ 2026-08-27 14:59:16

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 14:31:00

Sätteri is a high-performance Markdown and MDX processor developed by the Astro team. Built in Rust, it enhances build speeds by up to 61% for Astro 7.0. Sätteri supports flexible JavaScript plugins and integrates various Markdown features natively. It m

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 13:53:00

By using a sustainable testing strategy, you can skip unnecessary tests, ensure failing fast and early, and only run tests affected by code changes. Tracking energy use per test and using static code analysis can help spot inefficiencies and guide optimi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-27 13:50:42

Quantum 10, 2197 (2026). Atomic scale qubits, as may be realized in nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, offer the opportunity to study magnetic field noise with nanometer scale spatial resolution. Using t

slashdot @ 2026-08-27 13:00:00

CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through programmable logic controllers connected directly to cellular modems. "That's the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusion

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 12:57:56

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-27 12:45:10

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 567 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Intercambio Americano; Diversidad Lingüística; Time Crystals; Tabby”, 20 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 5

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 11:56:54

It seems like the PayPal app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS. I don't know if it's only because I have enabled the PayPal card for contacless NFC payments, but when opening the app it crashes with the following exception: com.paypal.oslo.app.rasp.RootDe

InfoQ @ 2026-08-27 11:04:00

Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting complaints have already surfaced. Payments run on x402, now hosted by the Linux Foundation. The controls bound singl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 10:59:49

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brucknerite @ 2026-08-27 10:00:00

Una consulta de la Comisión Europea está recogiendo opiniones sobre el papel de la inteligencia artificial en la cultura. Es el momento de quejarse contra un futuro justo al revés del que nos prometieron, en el que nosotros haremos los trabajos tediosos y

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 04:21:18

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C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Warum Rennradfahrer in parkende Autos fahren. Gedanken zur Situation und Diskussion.

Inside Java @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

How OpenJDK's Project Valhalla is improving Java's support for custom numerical types.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Enterprises rarely lack AI options, they lack a coherent way to use them. Moving from "we should use AI" to production-ready capability is an architecture problem shaped by which models you adopt, what infrastructure runs them, and how you deploy and opera

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-27 02:00:00

Before joining Red Hat, senior product manager for edge computing Luke Thompson spent 7 years of his career working at a large industrial automation company, where he had considerable opportunity to talk with customers and learn about the operational chall

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-27 01:55:44

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Baeldung @ 2026-08-27 00:02:05

Learn to how to use Embabel AI to automatically parse objects as the data arrive in a stream from the large language model you use in your application. The post LLM Streaming in the Embabel Agentic AI Framework first appeared on Baeldung .  

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 22:18:04

Wikipedia: The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer , who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:18:40

Chance Miller: Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio , Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 21:16:34

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and t

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 20:51:13

AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should elim

Baeldung @ 2026-08-26 19:15:42

IntelliJ IDEA Conf is back, JDK 27 got its first RC and JDK 28 is already looking solid The post Java Weekly, Issue 661 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-26 19:14:44

Incluso cuando estaba en crisis (2016-2018), el campeón del mundo siguió produciendo obras maestras en partidas rápidas y relámpago

Deepmind @ 2026-08-26 19:01:00

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-26 17:00:55

Join us for a special Apple Event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. Watch on apple.com , Apple TV, or YouTube Live.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-26 16:30:35

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-08-26 16:18:00

AWS describes a specification-driven approach for composing flexible data workflows by separating intent from processing logic. Architecture uses declarative specifications, reusable processing capabilities, and validation before execution. AWS reports t

old new thing @ 2026-08-26 16:00:00

The smallest perturbation. The post In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-26 15:34:40

There's a scene in Apollo 13 where Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, asks Houston control to check his calculations, which they do using a slide rule.  My father told me that when he was in college (1950s) that engineers measured their te

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-26 15:28:41

Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 is out! This version brings new tooling for AI assistants, improvements to web resource management, and finer control over desktop window states. Here are the highlights of this release: For a complete overview of the changes,

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 14:16:17

When you’re interested in studying a family of functions, it can be useful to look at a differential equation that the functions solve. This is a theme I’ve written about several times, most recently here and here, but also three years ago her

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-26 12:51:32

When I hear the term ultraspherical I think of something extremely spherical. For example, a baseball is spherical, but a billiard ball is more spherical. Maybe a highly polished billiard ball is ultraspherical. Using this line of thought, the term ultras

InfoQ @ 2026-08-26 09:00:00

Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 applies Dapr-based recovery, signed workflow history and execution attestation across several agent frameworks. Architects should compare it with framework-native durability and established workflow engines, while evaluating benchmar

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-26 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

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-26 05:49:05

The Economist today reports that New theories and experiments should shine light on string theory. This is more of the promotional campaign for Cumrun Vafa’s “dark dimension”. We’re told that a torsion balance experiment in Austria

Rust blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li ( @rami3l ), Chris Denton ( @ChrisDenton ), Alejandra González ( @blyxyas ), León Liehr ( @fmease ), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

What happens when you stop thinking of AI agents as chatbots and start treating them as workers in a pipeline? This is the story of turning a sprawling Jira backlog into a self-orchestrating system, and the lessons learned along the way.TL;DRWe built an ag

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

Domain-specific artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a practical priority for the telecommunications industry. At AMD Advancing AI, ATT Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Legg joined AMD’s Dan McNamara, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compute

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

As organizations continue to modernize their workloads, one of the most important questions is how to support the full range of database workloads, including SQL, NoSQL, vector, and in-memory databases. Modernizing database infrastructure requires a though

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-26 02:00:00

Operating an unsupported or outdated Linux distribution can expose your organization to critical security risks, drive up maintenance costs, and keep you from using the newest and best tools. However, undergoing a successful Linux modernization effort requ

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:44:18

XCancel: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:39:12

Bill Friskics-Warren for The New York Times: Her death was announced in a video posted on social media by her nephew Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided. Concerns about Ms. Parton’s health were raised last year as she postponed and later canceled a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-26 00:17:40

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface looks like this: Both of the available M5 Max

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 22:35:27

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. The post Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-25 18:11:02

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our cust

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 17:46:27

If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but here’s the kicker: The GDPR went into effect 10 yea

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 17:20:00

This week's Java roundup for August 17th, 2026, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 27; JEP 541 and JEP 540 targeted for JDK 28; the GA release of Apache Tika 4.0; a maintenance release of Helidon; the first milestone releases

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 16:38:01

Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost.

old new thing @ 2026-08-25 16:00:00

It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it? The post Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 15:10:18

Apple Newsroom: Apple today debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities. M6, Apple’s first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, deliv

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 14:00:00

Security researchers are warning that thousands of enterprise servers could be exposed to compromise through vulnerabilities in their Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) - specialized processors embedded in server motherboards that provide administra

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 13:36:00

Nuxt has released version 4.5, featuring updates such as a switch to Vite 8, a new Rspack 2 builder, and experimental SSR streaming. This streaming enhances Time to First Byte by flushing the HTML shell instantly. The release also includes a stable error

Lua: news @ 2026-08-25 13:00:36

Lua 5.4.9 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.4.8.

InfoQ @ 2026-08-25 10:00:00

AI coding agent Cursor has launched Origin, a git based code hosting platform embedded inside its AI-powered editor, positioning it as an alternative to GitHub for teams that already work in Cursor. Origin is rolling out in early beta on Pro, Teams and E

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-25 09:47:46

Juego combinado en ambos flancos con gran sutileza y precisión para doblegar a un joven astro emergente

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-25 03:47:47

The previous post gave several examples of three-term recurrence relations for special functions. These relations can be computationally useful, but they have to be applied carefully. Several years ago I wrote a post on stable and unstable recurrences. In

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 02:37:24

Finalist 4 is the biggest update yet to the paper-inspired day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now Apple Watch. The headline is Notes, in the app or as a folder of Markdown files that round-trips with Obsidian. Tasks in those files land on the right da

Inside Java @ 2026-08-25 02:00:00

Oracle Jipher 10 packages a FIPS 140-3 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module, making cryptographic services available through the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 01:33:50

Apple Developer News: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forwa

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-25 00:52:36

The flashy company, which recently completed a blockbuster IPO, appears to be leading the pack of humanoid robot makers. The post Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-25 00:47:20

If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-24 22:34:20

For University of Waterloo student Sourojeet Adhikari, an early interest in understanding how computers work eventually grew into a summer spent helping bring AMD’s ROCm GPU computing platform to FreeBSD. Sourojeet is studying Mathematical Physics and ent

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-24 20:00:46

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com . Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 18:37:54

10 years ago I wrote about BitCam 1.0 : Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm . “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” say

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-24 18:35:35

Los 25 primeros lances del noruego en esta partida relámpago son de enorme calidad, pero no tan profundos como el 26, asombroso

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-24 18:20:15

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work,

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-24 17:29:00

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at n

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-24 17:22:16

I complained last week that starting with an update last month, the list of apps I’m testing in Apple’s TestFlight app has been sorted alphabetically, rather than by recency. Whatever is going on with this sort order, it isn’t affecting everyone. John S

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:55

There many examples of families of functions where each function can be computed as a linear combination of the two previous terms where a and b are functions of x but not on n. This is called a three-term recurrence formula. It’s amazing how often

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-24 16:14:25

Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined. When you’re looking at a probability density f(x) for the first time, it helps to ignore the normalizing constant.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-24 16:00:55

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet. The post A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World first appeared on Quanta

old new thing @ 2026-08-24 16:00:00

Filling in with your imagination. The post Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box appeared first on The Old New Thing .

brucknerite @ 2026-08-24 10:00:00

For All Mankind es una serie donde nos muestran lo malos que son los soviéticos, pero Star City, su spin-off, nos lleva al otro lado del Telón de Acero para que veamos… lo malos que son los soviéticos (gracias, Héctor, excelente resumen). Habrá spoilers,

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

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Inside Java @ 2026-08-24 02:00:00

Declaring a value class is first and foremost a semantic decision. It tells our fellow programmers that its instances are defined entirely by their state and do not need identity. That clearer model is valuable in itself! The JVM’s additional freedom to o

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 20:40:57

Special functions often have arcane names that not very helpful without some context. The previous post goes into some reasons for this. This post will expand on a point at the end of the post about “modified” functions. Things are given their

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 19:56:03

Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered independently multip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:52:40

El duelo de Nueva York por el trono con Kariakin en 2016 fue un momento durísimo de la carrera del noruego; pero lo resolvió a lo grande

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-23 19:45:01

Este trepidante ataque a reyes en flancos opuestos fue una de las mejores partidas del campeón del mundo en 2015

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-23 19:36:28

John Moltz, in his weekly members-only column for Six Colors (no gift links, but Moltz’s column is worth the subscription in and of itself): This week Anthropic announced that in order to identify AI from human-generated content it would be waterm

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-23 02:01:10

Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane. If you wanted to be more accurate, you’d need to take into account the fact that the o

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-23 02:00:00

Wie ich LLM in diesem Blog einsetze

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:26:23

Learn why sometimes Jackson can't construct an instance of LocalDate or LocalDateTime and how to fix the error it throws. The post How to Fix Jackson JSON Parse Error Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate first appeared on Baeldung .

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:20:24

Learn how to use Testcontainers integration to spin up Microcks inside a JUnit5 test. The post API Mocking and Testing With Microcks first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:16:19

Learn how to use the InetAddressFilter class in a Spring-based application to limit the address that an HTTP client can call. The post HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2026-08-23 01:11:36

Learn how to use the db-scheduler library to store, manage and execute persistent scheduled tasks in Java. The post DB-Scheduler: A Persistent, Cluster-Friendly Scheduler for Java first appeared on Baeldung .        

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Physics Phorums @ 2026-08-23 00:02:05

As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser crystallographic arrang

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 18:47:10

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked a

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-22 17:34:11

There’s a pizza shop near my home with a sign out front that says “Coming Soon.” When I drove by it this morning I thought about how you would model the time until an event happens that is “coming soon.” Suppose I look at the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:18:29

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring the Daring Fireball weekly newsletter this week to promote their Agent Registration. Agents are hitting your signup flow and they’re bouncing off a browser login that was designed for humans. Every one that gives up is

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 16:12:07

Toby Sterling, reporting for Reuters: The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision revie

Baeldung @ 2026-08-22 13:26:18

A clear Hibernate speedup and a new JSON API coming to Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 660 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 01:18:40

Microsoft’s iPhone app for OneDrive has long supported creating three new document types via a big “+” button right in its file viewer: Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It recently came to my attention that they’ve added a fourth document type, and they even ga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 21:34:55

Walmart: When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part. And one of the moments where that matters most is at checkout. We want customers and mem

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-21 20:53:26

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-21 20:25:19

In a new study, mice recovered their memories by regrowing brain connections lost during artificial hibernation. The post We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory appeared first on SingularityHub .