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Análisis de ajedrez | Un Ave Fénix que galopa

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-04 22:32:18

Un final artístico del israelí Michael Pasman que aúna belleza, utilidad práctica y gran valor didáctico

Apple Fixed ‎TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 22:04:47

I wrote two weeks ago about how the v4.3.0 update to TestFlight (released on July 21) broke the sort order for apps in the sidebar. Apple yesterday released v4.3.1, with these helpful release notes: This update includes stability improvements and bu

Vinted

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 21:55:45

Remarking on MapQuest taking the #1 spot in the App Store (in the wake of their decision to ignore President Trump’s fiat renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America”), I mentioned yesterday that I’d never heard of Vinted, the #3 app. (A day later and Map

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 20:42:56

Comments URL: Points: 271 # Comments: 158

★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 20:07:18

It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 18:46:59

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 228 # Comments: 129

What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-09-04 18:30:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 18:15:43

Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 mill

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 17:33:45

Comments URL: Points: 219 # Comments: 202

Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: A group representing American automakers sent a letter (PDF) Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a "permanent ban" on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Innov

Richard Stearns (1936-2026)

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-04 16:45:10

Richard Stearns (right) and Juris Hartmanis in May 1963. The main theorem from their seminal paper is on the blackboard. Stearns sent Lance this picture to help  celebrate the 50th anniversary of the paper . Richard Stearns died on Aug

Airbnb Cuts Authentication Code by 60% with Server Driven Architecture

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 16:30:00

Airbnb redesigned its authentication architecture around server driven flows and policy based challenge selection. The new Flexible Authentication system reduced authentication related code by 60%, cut the web client bundle by 100 KB, improved successful

Computing a lower bound on matrix rank

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

Suppose you want to know the rank of an n × n matrix A, the number of linearly independent rows of A, or equivalently the number of linearly independent columns. There are at least three difficulties. Difficulties in computing rank First of all, rank is n

Kubernetes Promotes KYAML as a Safer, More Consistent Way to Work with Manifests

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 14:00:00

Kubernetes is encouraging developers to take a closer look at KYAML, a stricter dialect of YAML designed to make Kubernetes configuration more explicit, predictable, and less prone to common YAML errors. By Craig Risi

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 13:59:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 350 # Comments: 70

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 13:54:53

Comments URL: Points: 1291 # Comments: 1045

Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 13:00:00

A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival yet for a pig kidney transplanted into a living person and the first time such an organ successfully served as a bridge to a later

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 12:17:01

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 354 # Comments: 81

Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos, Billed Per Review with Reporting Two Days Behind

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 12:01:00

Microsoft opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, after acknowledging that many are not ready to migrate to GitHub. Reviews bill per use through the linked Azure subscription and appear in Cost Management 48 hours

Upend the trickle-down

AEON @ 2026-09-04 12:00:00

Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon

Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin

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

Tesla has begun offering public rides in Austin in its purpose-built Cybercab, a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals. "You can go outside, take rides," said Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI. "Anyone can take rides. It's open to the entire p

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-04 08:47:51

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 518 # Comments: 227

Tether: Apple Continuity Like Experience Between iOS and Linux Desktop Machines

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 08:06:00

Zack Bartel has developed Tether, an open-source project designed to integrate Apple Continuity features with Linux workstations. Tether allows users to send iMessages, sync clipboards, and view iOS notifications directly on Linux. It uses secure local n

Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

InfoQ @ 2026-09-04 07:03:00

jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax. It enabled easier web development by providing an accessible API across browsers. While its use has declin

Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a permanent ban on the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence, citing a series of recent hackings involving "ro

OpenAI Soft-Releases GPT‑6 Astra

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-04 03:35:24

Simon Willison: GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it

Issue 766

iOS Weekly @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

John Ternus becomes Apple's new CEO, App Store leadership changes, boosting Simulator performance with SimSlim, and nested weak self capture warnings in Swift.

Modernizing virtualization in higher education: How automated node recovery protects data integrity

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

Organizations across higher education and enterprise sectors face rising virtualization costs, shifting licensing structures, and architectural decisions that can no longer be deferred. In this landscape, IT leaders need a low-disruption migration path tha

Friday Five — September 4, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

CRN - AI Has Changed Open Source Security, Says Red Hat CEO Matt HicksRed Hat CEO Matt Hicks discusses how AI has transformed open source security, emphasizing the need for better patching and transparency. Lightwell aims to help counter AI-powered mass v

Principles of Memory Management in Java

Inside Java @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

In this talk, we’ll explore why the JDK’s garbage collectors work the way they do and how Java memory management affects application performance. We’ll look at the sometimes non-obvious relationship between RAM and CPU, and why they must always be conside

Software to the People

Secret Weblog @ 2026-09-04 02:00:00

What if your phone was like a 1980s home computer?

Hugging Face Easter Egg

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-04 01:34:41

NVIDIA has offered to buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. 129303 is the Unicode code point for the Hugging Face emoj (U+1F917), which you can verify with the following Python code. >>> import unicodedata >>> 129303 == 0x1F917 Tru

Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime

slashdot @ 2026-09-04 01:00:00

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini all suffered significant service disruptions within roughly the same few-hour window Thursday morning. OpenAI and Anthropic reported elevated errors and later restored service, while Grok remained impaired and third-party

The End of Swift Talk

objc.io @ 2026-09-04 00:00:00

We started Swift Talk in June of 2016 – more than ten years ago! After taking a summer break this year, we’ve come to the decision to end this series. We’re very grateful for all your support during the last decade, enabling us to dive into all

Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules

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

A former UK competition official has filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Apple on behalf of app developers, alleging its App Tracking Transparency rules unfairly disadvantaged third-party apps while favoring Apple's own advertising ecosystem. Engadget rep

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 23:20:34

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 286 # Comments: 143

Introducing “Corner Piece,” a new TED podcast that starts small on life’s biggest questions

TED Blog @ 2026-09-03 23:00:32

The biggest questions in life rarely come with simple answers. Corner Piece, a brand-new TED podcast, starts smaller: with the ordinary questions that nag at you on the walk home, in the group chat or while staring at the ceiling at 2am. What does it mean

Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 23:00:00

Microsoft is imposing monthly limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November, with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers getting 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before they have to buy additional playtime. "Currently, Game Pass subscrib

Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00

Shopify's engineering introduced gisting, a novel technique for compressing long LLM prompts into a smaller set of learned "gist" tokens, improving throughput and reducing inference cost. By Sergio De Simone

'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 22:00:00

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model that president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and suggested may represent the arrival of AGI. "I think it might be about this model," Brockman said in a briefing with reporters. He ended the briefing

What I worry about with AI

Code Capsule @ 2026-09-03 21:56:54

My reflection on societal isolation amplified by technology and COVID-19, and what to do to foster genuine relationships, critical thinking, and self-awareness to combat loneliness. The post What I worry about with AI first appeared on Code Capsule .

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 21:45:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 231 # Comments: 142

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 21:17:24

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 205 # Comments: 259

Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center

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

Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. "While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR work

GPT-6 Astra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:41:05

System Card: Related ongoing threads: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index -

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:32:13

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 675 # Comments: 222

FFI: Adjust J->maxslot after ffi.offsetof.

luajit @ 2026-09-03 20:25:44

Reported by Elias Hogstvedt. #1514

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 20:18:22

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OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI's new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called "recurrent depth" that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information rep

New RSA number factored

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-03 19:21:45

Eric Lu announced on X today that he has factored RSA-260, a number N with 260 digits (862 bits) that is the product of two large primes [1]. RSA numbers are challenge problems posed to gauge the security of RSA encryption, which rests on the difficulty o

Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 19:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording

Phil Schiller Steps Down From Running App Store and Product Events

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:39:09

Mark Gurman: Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events. The 66-year-old executive, who was App

MapQuest Refuses to Relabel Lake Ontario, Rewarded With Surge in Popularity

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-03 18:30:09

Finya Swai, reporting for The Hill two days ago: MapQuest has surged in popularity on the app charts after the mapping service said it would not rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after President Trump signed an executive order changing its name.

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 18:21:33

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 367 # Comments: 121

Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 18:00:00

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, claiming it's their best reasoning and coding model yet (topping the DeepSWE leaderboard). Ars Technica reports: Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. There's the standard Flash, whi

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 17:36:43

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 331 # Comments: 124

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 17:07:01

ChatGPT outage – Resolved - (315 comments) Claude outage – Resolved - (146 c

Security scanning at Foundation scale

ASF @ 2026-09-03 17:00:00

By ASF Tooling and ASF Security During a three-day window in August 2026, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ran full security scans across 230 of the foundation’s repositories. The work was done by the ASF Security and ASF Tooling teams, within the Fou

Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by U.S. authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, is making a new bold bet. On Wednesday, his legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charg

.name Termination

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:54:39

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 2132 # Comments: 528

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:51:10

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 632 # Comments: 306

ChatGPT outage – Resolved

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:46:47

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 362 # Comments: 318

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-09-03 16:28:18

These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during last July holiday. It took an evening! Getting the feel right and shipping it took a few more weekends

The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened

old new thing @ 2026-09-03 16:00:00

Are you talking to the right guy? The post The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:41:48

In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? The post Live from

In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-03 15:35:59

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Análisis de ajedrez | Marta García, tricampeona de España femenina a los 26 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-03 15:27:47

Con el título de maestro internacional, además del de gran maestra, la valenciana logra el título por 2ª edición consecutiva

How to Think About Open Weight Models

tecosystems @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42

In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov

How to Think About Open Weight Models

Sogrady @ 2026-09-03 15:25:42

In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for ov

Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:57:00

Mandatory AI checks paired with manual spikes for complex changes keep developers sharp. Teams can boost velocity by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and using AI approvals, provided most developers are code owners and teams are small. By Ben Lind

pnpm 12 Rewrites Package Manager in Rust, Accelerating Installs While Preserving pnpm 11 Workflows

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 13:23:00

pnpm 12 has transitioned to a native Rust implementation, maintaining compatibility with pnpm 11 commands, flags, and formats. This update enhances startup and filesystem performance, particularly when using existing caches. Community feedback highlights

Faster Quantum Simulation Of Markovian Open Quantum Systems Via Randomisation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 13:20:10

Quantum 10, 2204 (2026). When simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with quantum computers, it is essential to accurately approximate the system's behaviour while preserving the physicality of it

Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon

slashdot @ 2026-09-03 13:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither PyTorch nor MLX in it

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more.  Read on for the details, and check the rel

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-03 12:40:05

Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 is out. This release brings some long-awaited features: multiplatform libraries publication, a preview of Wasm application support, Compose Hot Reload from the command line, and more.  Read on for the details, and check the rel

Neuroqueering on the lawn

AEON @ 2026-09-03 12:00:00

Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability - by Siobhan Unwin & Kathryne Ford Read on Aeon

Quantum Max d-Cut via qudit swap operators

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:46:06

Quantum 10, 2203 (2026). Quantum Max Cut (QMC) problem for systems of qubits is an example of a 2-local Hamiltonian problem, and a prominent paradigm in computational complexity theory. This paper investigates

Floquetifying stabiliser codes with distance-preserving rewrites

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-03 10:08:58

Quantum 10, 2202 (2026). Stabiliser codes with large weight measurements can be challenging to implement fault-tolerantly. To overcome this, we propose a Floquetification procedure which, given a stabiliser cod

Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models

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

"Enshittification of car controls [is] rapidly accelerating," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij, pointing to a new report from Car and Driver. From the report: Remember when iPhones used to come with free headphones and a phone charger (including the w

Cohere’s Parse 5 Promises Efficient Multi-Modal Information Extraction from Complex Documents

InfoQ @ 2026-09-03 08:06:00

Cohere has launched Parse 5, a multimodal foundation model designed to extract structured data from complex enterprise documents. The 2.3-billion-parameter system converts visually rich PDFs into Markdown while providing bounding box coordinates for visu

Announcing Rust 1.98.1

Rust blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.98.1 is as

The last mile problem in agentic AI: Why tool calling reliability is harder than it looks

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

Most of the attention in agentic AI goes to the agent's reasoning capabilities. The model can figure out the right plan, break a goal into steps, and decide what to do next. Far less attention is given to the last step of that process, actually executing t

The architecture of autonomy: How ING built a future-proof tech strategy

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

I recently sat down with Marco Eijsackers, ING’s Global Head of Tech Strategy, at their headquarters in Amsterdam. Serving over 40 million customers worldwide with an enterprise tech team of thousands of engineers, ING faces a core question shared by many

Acceleration of Curve25519 Field Operations with Java Software and Intrinsics

Inside Java @ 2026-09-03 02:00:00

Find out about the improved Curve25519 field performance in JDK 27 and JDK 28.

Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-03 00:03:00

The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good thing sitting in my garden, but

iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-02 22:58:28

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhone you want to be the main device that you use most often and which one you want to be the comp

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Deepmind @ 2026-09-02 18:18:31

ASF Plus One Newsletter: August 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-02 18:00:00

**To receive Plus One directly to your inbox, sign up via the subscribe box below.**  Community News The ASF has announced the keynote speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow, taking place October 11–14, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. The lineup feature

Hello Developer: September 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-02 17:00:02

In this edition: Get ready for a special Apple Event, take advantage of Analytics in App Store Connect, and sign up for new developer events in Cupertino. Read now

An Accidental Blackboard

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 16:45:00

Giles Edwards-Alexander reports that during an experiment to see how productive a team could be using fully agentic engineering practices, the team accidentally prompted the agents into creating a blackboard coordination system inside the git rep

What is a Computer?

Computational Complexity @ 2026-09-02 16:27:33

Ben Brubaker has a new Quanta essay Does Computer Science Need Computers ?  Despite the title (and authors generally don't choose their titles), Brubaker's essay really addresses the question as to whether computer science is about computers. He st

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-09-02 16:21:02

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event. The post Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble f

The perils of binding to value types in XAML

old new thing @ 2026-09-02 16:00:00

Loss of identity. The post The perils of binding to value types in XAML appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 15:55:00

Swiggy developed an in-house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-02 15:32:00

TL;DR Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel recently with Brian Houck from DX at Code Remix, hosted by Moderne. It was one of the mor

OpenAI Details GPT-Live’s Architecture for Continuous Stateful Voice Interaction

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 14:20:00

OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the

Reducing Spatial and Temporal Dimensionality in the Multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett Model

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 12:33:28

Quantum 10, 2201 (2026). Focusing on the real-time dynamics of the reduced density matrix of the multidimensional Caldeira-Leggett model, several techniques are adopted in this paper to reduce the spatial and t

Análisis de ajedrez | Pichot, campeón de España

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-02 11:28:56

El polaco-argentino, con bandera española desde 2023, revierte con este triunfo su crisis del último año

Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics in First Quantization

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-02 11:26:47

Quantum 10, 2200 (2026). The study of real time dynamics of nuclear systems is of great importance to provide theoretical predictions of cross sections relevant for both terrestrial experiments as well as appli

Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline

InfoQ @ 2026-09-02 11:07:00

Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exis

curl 8.22.0

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-09-02 07:52:46

Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 cha

This Week in Rust 667

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-02 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

When hardware lead times stall your roadmap: How Red Hat OpenShift cloud services keep projects moving

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

Do you have projects blocked by hardware lead times or refresh delays?If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The explosive boom in AI has triggered global hardware shortages, leaving IT leaders facing volatile pricing and procurement timelines measured i

What risk-aware model deployment looks like in regulated industries

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

Regulators don't ask banks whether their portfolios look healthy. They require documented proof of how they hold up under adversarial conditions—rate shocks, liquidity crunches, market crashes. The same logic applies to AI models headed for production. Bef

Red Hat Satellite 6.20 limited availability: Early access registration now open

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

In November 2026, Red Hat will release a limited availability (LA) version of Red Hat Satellite 6.20 – the next generation of Red Hat’s premiere platform for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) at scale. This release focuses on 2 foundational changes

Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-02 01:37:23

As AI eats traffic, the best sites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find. The post Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract appeared first on SingularityHub .

Fragments: September 1

Martin Fowler @ 2026-09-01 21:50:00

Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page p

OpenClaw 2.0 Releases with Simplified Setup and Collaborative Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 20:47:00

OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, plugins, security, and collaboration features. By Daniel Dominguez

Tim Cook’s Departure Memo on His Last Day as CEO

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 20:11:57

Tim Cook: There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the op

Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in OpenAI Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 19:36:08

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s fi

Upcoming changes to Rosetta support for Intel-based macOS apps

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 17:00:41

In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year , we’re now concluding this transition. What this means for developers who have macOS apps:

Microspeak: Funded / unfunded

old new thing @ 2026-09-01 16:00:00

People are our most valuable asset. The post Microspeak: Funded / unfunded appeared first on The Old New Thing .

“The impact was the biggest surprise“: Swiggy’s transition to native pays off

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-09-01 15:00:01

Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout . And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tool

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Open source leaders in software engineering education, sustainability, and the games industry to headline ASF’s flagship conference, October 11–14 in Glasgow, Scotland Wilmington, DE – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the gl

The Apache® Software Foundation Advances Open Source Infrastructure and Celebrates Community Growth in FY26

ASF @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source soft

InfoQ previews the September Cohorts of its Online Certification Programs

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 15:00:00

A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran. By Artenisa Chatziou

HCP Terraform Positions Itself as the Control Plane for AI-Driven Infrastructure

InfoQ @ 2026-09-01 14:00:00

HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to v

More nothing now

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

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity - by Justin Neuman Read on Aeon

Symmetry-enriched topological order in tensor networks: Defects, gauging and anyon condensation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 11:17:41

Quantum 10, 2199 (2026). We study symmetry-enriched topological order in two-dimensional tensor network states by using graded matrix product operator algebras to represent symmetry-induced domain walls. A clos

[Sponsor] WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-01 09:59:07

Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro gana a Carlsen una partida relámpago

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-01 09:29:43

El prodigio argentino, de 12 años, muestra un juego muy consistente en un duelo que perdió ante el ‘número uno’ por 5,5-2,5

A brief history of quantum vs classical computational advantage

Quantum Journal @ 2026-09-01 09:06:58

Quantum 10, 2198 (2026). In this review article we summarize all experiments claiming quantum computational advantage to date. Our review highlights challenges, loopholes, and refutations appearing in subsequen

Announcing rustup 1.29.1

Rust blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The

Why the virtualization decision keeps getting deferred

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

If double-paying during a platform transition is stalling your virtualization migration, removing that first-year cost overlap can get your project moving again.Most infrastructure teams I speak with have spent the best part of 2 years working out what to

5 ways to augment security risk management in the AI era

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts every day from threat intelligence sources, such as vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed, and more. The challenge is identifying, correlating, and addressing impactful

How Ask Red Hat earns trust in enterprise AI troubleshooting

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-01 02:00:00

A recent review of 562 empirical studies on human trust in AI found that capability, explainability, transparency, and individual user factors consistently predict whether people will rely on an AI-generated answer. In production, the question is narrower

Patented application of linear algebra

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-01 01:26:12

I just found out Brian Beckman and I got a patent on work we did for GSI Technology [1]. Nearly all the work I do is under an NDA, so I don’t often get a chance to talk about my projects. This work is public now that it’s in a patent; I suppos

This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-31 23:33:36

Delivered by injection, the drug transforms astrocytes into neurons. In an early study, mice modeling Alzheimer's showed marked improvement compared to untreated peers. The post This Drug Makes New Neurons in the Brain. Scientists Say It Reversed Alzhe

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 21:53:34

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.

A recent OS on the old Asus C201P

Emilian Bold @ 2026-08-31 20:02:20

There are people that easily sell and swap computers. I get somewhat attached to them, which explains why I have a growing collection of old gear. Even my first beige PC with a Cyrix CPU has been restored and boots! The Asus C201P is special because it c

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-31 16:45:25

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-31 16:24:27

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful

old new thing @ 2026-08-31 16:00:00

All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Singapore strategies

AEON @ 2026-08-31 12:00:00

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus self-sufficiency - by Peter A Coclanis Read on Aeon

Análisis de ajedrez | Bodhana Sivanandan hace historia a los 11 años

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 11:07:10

Por si hubiera alguna duda sobre su inmenso talento, la británica de familia india es la campeona nacional más joven de todos los tiempos

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (y XXXI)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:33:47

Kariakin acepta un peón que no parecía peligroso en una partida rápida, y poco después queda perdido

Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXX)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-31 10:32:27

Dos años antes de defender su título mundial ante Niepómniashi, el campeón doblegó al ruso en una deliciosa lucha rápida

Claude and Colorblind Questions

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-31 04:18:29

BILL: Lance, I have a question and a meta question: a) List all the presidents and vice presidents who were colorblind. b) Do you know this sort of thing since you are colorblind, and hence might have looked this up in the past? LANCE: (b) No. And if

Finalist 4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-30 20:35:22

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner inspired by paper day planners. I wrote quite a bit about

Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio SWIFT, efecto bouba-kiki en pollitos, organoides longevos, birrefringencia del vacío en magnetares y eclipse de Luna

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-29 23:24:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 568 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “SWIFT; Bouba-Kiki; Organoides; Magnetar; Luna”, 27 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 568: Telescopio S

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-29 19:53:34

It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-29 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 August 29) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Apple Announces Price Increase for Apple TV and Apple One Subscriptions

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:52:37

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the full details on the price increases: Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99) Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99) Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95) Prices for other Apple One plans are

‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:35:22

Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence e

‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-28 23:27:21

I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect.  ★