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slashdot @ 2026-05-19 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AW

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-19 19:00:00

From 2003 to 2025 the Atlantic named-storm total fell outside NOAA's May range 9 times, 8 of them underforecasts. NOAA's 2026 outlook lands May 21.

slashdot @ 2026-05-19 19:00:00

Microsoft is launching three new Intel-powered Surface devices for businesses: the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8, and a smaller 13-inch Surface Laptop model. These new machines come equipped with newer Intel chips, a few business-focused upgrades, and n

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-19 18:38:00

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and en

slashdot @ 2026-05-19 18:00:00

Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. "When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 17:53:38

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 17:42:38

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply p

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 17:07:45

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John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

slashdot @ 2026-05-19 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerf

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 16:29:00

Agoda Multimodal Content System Agoda unifies hotel images and guest reviews using a shared topic taxonomy, enabling multimodal retrieval across 700M+ images and multilingual reviews with offline enri

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 15:11:51

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The Endeavour @ 2026-05-19 14:09:54

Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to f(x) + f(y) = f(z)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 14:04:18

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 14:00:00

TanStack has released a detailed postmortem describing a sophisticated supply-chain attack that compromised 42 npm packages and published 84 malicious package versions in just six minutes, exposing developers and CI/CD systems to credential theft and mal

slashdot @ 2026-05-19 13:00:00

Amazon is adding AI-generated "podcasts" to Alexa+, letting users request custom audio explainers on any topic featuring two synthetic co-hosts. Variety reports: Seemingly to dispel the notion that these "podcasts" will be AI audio slop, Amazon emphasized

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 12:38:47

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AEON @ 2026-05-19 12:00:00

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 11:00:00

Enforce encryption & governance centrally with Confluent Private Cloud. Reduce brokers by 73% and secure legacy Kafka clients without code changes or sprawl.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 09:45:53

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slashdot @ 2026-05-19 09:00:00

Europe is testing laser-based satellite communications through a new mountaintop ground station in Greece, aiming to deliver faster, more secure links than traditional radio systems as bandwidth demand grows. The Register reports: Lithuanian space and defe

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 08:57:00

Vite 8.0 introduces a significant architectural change, migrating from a dual-bundler setup to a single Rust-based bundler called Rolldown. This update enhances build speeds, reporting reductions from 46 seconds to 6 seconds in some projects. The release

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:16

Connect your AI coding assistant to Confluent with MCP servers and Agent Skills. Direct platform access and domain expertise for streaming, now generally available.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q2 2026 release, including dbt adapter, Materialized Tables for Flink, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 07:04:49

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slashdot @ 2026-05-19 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Sony reportedly won't release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up PlayStation's studios business, informed employee

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 05:17:45

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 03:30:42

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 03:27:00

The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecy

Inside Java @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Since JavaOne 2025, Java has moved from JDK 25, the latest LTS release, toward JDK 26, with major updates across the language, APIs, runtime, tooling, security, startup performance, and garbage collection. This talk reviews the most important changes from

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Recently at Red Hat Summit 2026, Amazon Web Service (AWS) showcased the breadth and depth of its nearly 20-year collaboration with Red Hat, spanning agentic AI development, AI inference optimization, open source infrastructure innovation, and expanded Red

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 01:18:10

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-19 01:03:02

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slashdot @ 2026-05-19 01:00:00

The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which could let it query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a commercial database. 404 Media reports: "The FBI has a cruci

slashdot @ 2026-05-19 00:00:00

A researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day dubbed MiniPlasma, which BleepingComputer confirmed can grant SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 11 systems. The researcher claims the bug is e

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 23:18:25

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slashdot @ 2026-05-18 23:00:00

Nintendo is trying to secure a touchscreen-specific monster-catching patent that could be relevant to Palworld Mobile. Japan's patent office has initially rejected the application for lacking an inventive step over prior art, but the company could appeal o

slashdot @ 2026-05-18 22:00:00

Meta is expected to begin cutting about 8,000 jobs this week as it pours more money into AI infrastructure and looks to "offset" other investments, with additional layoffs reportedly possible later this year. According to CNBC, the morale has worsened insi

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 21:28:59

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AWS Blog @ 2026-05-18 21:13:20

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizat

slashdot @ 2026-05-18 21:00:00

After three weeks of testimony, which was covered extensively here on Slashdot, a U.S. jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding that he waited too long to bring his claims that the company betrayed its nonprofit mission

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 20:30:55

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Deepmind @ 2026-05-18 20:21:39

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 20:12:18

Hey HN! I'm Lukas from Andon Labs. We let AIs run companies without humans in the loop and report to the public on what can go wrong. Previously, we've done experiments in retail (vending machines, stores, and cafes), but we just launched one in the medi

slashdot @ 2026-05-18 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Going back to grad school has long been the Plan B of young professionals who aspire to climb higher in their careers or struggle to get promoted in a tough job market. New data show that ge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:53:33

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations. Mr. Musk fil

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 19:38:22

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:34:46

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik: When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it sits near $4 trillion. That is more than

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 19:25:54

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 19:20:43

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:17:02

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link): Even though it has large

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 19:01:21

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slashdot @ 2026-05-18 19:00:00

Microsoft is testing long-requested Windows 11 customization options, including a resizable taskbar, smaller taskbar buttons, and a more configurable Start menu that lets users reduce recommended content. BleepingComputer reports: Starting with Windows 11

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:52:03

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life . (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:47:08

A follow-up point on my “ AI Is Technology, Not a Product ” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”: By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that peo

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-18 18:24:11

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:21:35

Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking over the public meant t

slashdot @ 2026-05-18 18:00:00

The CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading and market manipulation in prediction markets, using AI tools, blockchain tracing, and other surveillance systems to flag suspicious bets. It's also monitoring activity by U.S. traders accessi

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:50:09

Every year, the Apple Design Awards recognize innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. But they’ve also become something more: A moment to step back and celebrate the work of Apple developers across the community. Meet

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 17:34:47

Wikipedia: The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-18 17:14:42

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. The post What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:00:22

Get ready for a week of technology, creativity, and community — all online and free. Here’s what WWDC26 has in store. Learn more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 16:59:59

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup: Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 16:38:00

Swiggy detailed real-time machine-learning ranking system for autocomplete built on OpenSearch. The architecture separates candidate generation and ranking, uses feature stores for real time signals, and applies learning to rank models for improved relev

old new thing @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

Reported incorrectly since the day it was written. The post Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

A new study challenges the idea that consciousness is necessary to make sense of language. The post The Fully Anesthetized Brain Can Still Track a Podcast appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 15:14:00

Anthropic hosted "Code with Claude 2026" in San Francisco, featuring livestream sessions focused on Claude Code, the Claude API platform, and other projects. Key topics included developer experience, autonomy features, model step-changes, and the impact

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 14:45:00

This week's Java roundup for May 11th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; introducting Azul Payara Community and the WildFly wado CLI tool; point releases of LangChain4j and Google ADK; and maintenance releases of M

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:01:00

Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:00:00

Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 11:41:00

Cloudflare and Stripe launched a protocol that lets AI agents autonomously create cloud accounts, register domains, start subscriptions, and deploy to production. Stripe handles identity and payment with a $100/month default cap. No other major cloud pro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-18 10:49:14

El joven astro alemán tiene poco que envidiar en profundidad posicional a los mejores estrategas de la historia

brucknerite @ 2026-05-18 10:00:00

En un viaje de Madrid a Barcelona en un Frecciarossa 1000 de Iryo noté un movimiento peculiar, como si el tren me meciera. ¿Qué estaba pasando? ¿Sería el mítico movimiento de lazo, la inestabilidad que puede surgir en trenes de alta velocidad circulando en

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-18 09:49:24

Quantum 10, 2107 (2026). Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investigate t

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 08:33:00

The Navigation API is a new interface for managing client-side navigation in single-page applications, now available in major browsers as of January 2026. It addresses limitations of the prior History API by providing a unified event model and improved h

Rust blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals , 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals . This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final statu

Inside Java @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

Caching is a first-class architectural concern in agentic systems. This talk breaks down how Java applications can layer internal, distributed, and semantic caches. We'll explore in-process caching with Caffeine for ultra-low-latency access, distributed ca

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

It seems there’s a new product or software springing up in the tech world all the time. What’s more, you’re often expected to become your company’s de facto expert and you only have one month to do it. One week. One day. By this afternoon. Whether it be fo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

Open source AI is more exciting than ever, offering a growing number of AI models to choose from. There are reasoning-heavy architecture options like DeepSeek and Kimi K2, more versatile options like the highly-adopted Qwen family, and the specialized, edg

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

More than 10 years ago, Red Hat began a collaboration with Microsoft rooted in a simple but powerful recognition: enterprise customers need trusted, interoperable platforms that offer true choice. What started as a shared commitment to openness has grown i

InfoQ @ 2026-05-17 22:00:00

OpenAI Symphony is an agent orchestrator that uses project-management tools, like issue trackers, as a control plan to coordinate multiple coding agents. Instead of developers managing interactive coding sessions, Symphony manages "tasks" by assigning ea

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:53:18

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:50:57

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:43:45

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-17 19:59:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:50:34

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:43:50

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-17 13:29:31

 1) Congratulations to Scott Aaronson for winning the first Trevisan Award. The Trevisan Award is in memory of Luca Trevisan and recognizes expository work in Theoretical Computer Science.  It is given out by the ACM. The ACM announcement of S

InfoQ @ 2026-05-17 13:02:00

Monzo recently redesigned its data warehouse to support more than 100 teams working on over 12000 dbt models. Introducing a so-called "meshy" approach, Monzo cut warehouse costs by about 40% and improved data delivery speed by 25%. By Renato Losio

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-17 12:16:50

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 558 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Barbacid; Operador; Volcanes; Planeta 9”, 14 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 558: Barbacid, matemáti

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 531: Lazy Constants (Third Preview)

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that JDK 27 EA Builds now include post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 23:40:15

El bello y didáctico remate de esta partida ilustra la gran clase del alemán, poco espectacular en general pero muy eficaz

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:22:38

Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:17:15

Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight: The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money, Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake companies by

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-16 22:58:26

One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. For example, yo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 22:32:51

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 22:00:00

Ubuntu has outlined its AI strategy, describing it as a deliberate departure from industry trends towards cloud-centric, AI-first operating systems. Instead, the company says, Ubuntu will focus future releases on local intelligence, modular design, and s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 21:27:34

Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X : “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistake

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 17:24:38

Un mes después de su apabullante triunfo en el Candidatos, el aspirante al título muestra fisuras en Bucarest

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-16 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 May 16) appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 10:39:00

At the recent Next ‘26 conference, Google introduced Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the successor to reCAPTCHA. The platform goes beyond basic bot detection to address broader online fraud across login, account creation, and payment flows, helping organizat

InfoQ @ 2026-05-16 10:34:00

Microsoft has released Aspire 13.3, introducing a new aspire destroy command for tearing down deployments across Azure, Kubernetes, and Compose. The release adds native Kubernetes deployment in preview, first-class JavaScript publishing for Next.js and V

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:16:06

Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:08:44

Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:00:15

Filippo Menolascina uses Co-Scientist to identify new liver disease treatments and explain why existing drugs only help certain patients.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:53:11

Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:40:27

Stanford geneticist uses Co-Scientist to help find new treatments for chronic liver disease and liver fibrosis.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 05:14:17

Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:38:00

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft , his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel : Track your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:37:57

Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead

Inside Java @ 2026-05-16 02:00:00

This session highlights the progress of JEP 528, which brings core dump and minidump support to jcmd. The jcmd tool is widely used for monitoring and troubleshooting live HotSpot JVMs. With JEP 528, jcmd will also be able to diagnose crashed JVMs, creating

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 00:50:12

Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 22:12:09

“Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.”  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 21:24:10

Yesterday, regarding the “Magic Cursor” feature Google teased for its upcoming Googlebook/Aluminium OS platform, I wrote : Shaking your cursor over something is an interesting gesture. The only feature I’m aware of that uses that gesture is MacOS’s f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 20:37:13

Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apologies for not noticing. No wonder I thought the descri

tecosystems @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

Sogrady @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 17:51:00

Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedules, through API calls, or in response to external events. By Daniel Dominguez

Confluent @ 2026-05-15 17:50:14

Digital sovereignty in streaming demands architectural guarantees, not policy promises. How BYOC, schema controls, and open protocols satisfy global regulations.

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

InfoQ @ 2026-05-15 16:04:00

Cloudflare introduces Workflows V2, a redesigned distributed workflow orchestration system with deterministic replayable execution, improved observability, and major scaling upgrades, including 50,000 concurrent instances and 2M queued workflows. It supp

old new thing @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Maybe because it already exists? The post The case of the <CODE>Create­File­Mapping</CODE> that always reported <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ALREADY_<WBR>EXISTS</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Self-assembling swarms of microrobots could someday deliver drugs and pull toxins from water. The post New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-15 15:50:50

Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive. The post Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-15 15:31:41

El compositor israelí Amatzia Avni camina sobre un alambre para lograr un triunfo en apariencia imposible con gran belleza

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 14:51:12

Thinking about code in the age of AI and a deep loop at ArchRules and ArchUnit at scale. A good week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 646 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-15 14:34:29

I’ve written a couple posts lately about reverse engineering the internal state of a random number generator, first Mersenne Twister then lehmer64. This post will look at xorshift128, implemented below. import random # Seed the generator state a: in

AEON @ 2026-05-15 12:00:00

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-15 08:40:00

Landung in der Pralinenschachtel

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-05-15 07:05:37

The usual string theory hype machine in action: to celebrate a PRL publication, a university press office puts out a press release full of hype with a highly misleading title (“string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the …

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 03:11:19

Learn about WevDriverManager in Java, how to set it up, along with different applications and modes of operation. The post Introduction to WebDriverManager first appeared on Baeldung .             

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:57:38

Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his wo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:53:54

After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels , a term I’ve been using since 2022 , it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sounds more clever, but I worry it’s less clear. I’m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:03:13

Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [ sic ] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-presi

Inside Java @ 2026-05-15 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the warnings that JDK 26 emits when final fields are mutated through reflection.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-15 02:00:00

Catch up on the news at Red Hat Summit 2026This definitive guide to all of Red Hat's news offers a centralized view of the latest product innovations, strategic collaborations, and visionary milestones. Learn more Watch the Red Hat Summit keynotesHear ho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 01:44:20

Calif, a security research team , on their blog: Many security experts consider Apple devices to be the most secure consumer platform. The latest flagship example is MIE (Memory Integrity Enforcement), Apple’s hardware-assisted memory safety system b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 00:53:10

Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired ( News+ link ): As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people wh

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-15 00:03:39

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 23:52:00

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard . that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 22:51:04

Geoffrey Fowler, on his blog, which, alas , he calls “ a Substack ”: I’m joining the Youth AI Safety Institute as its first new employee. It’s a research and testing organization launching today under the umbrella of children’s nonprofit Common Se

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-14 22:17:56

Photons traveling straight through a cloud of gas appear to exit, on average, before they enter. The post Physicists Have Measured ‘Negative Time’ in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Confluent @ 2026-05-14 21:40:28

Discover how Tableflow is helping you feed your data lake with real-time, analytics-ready tables for 30-50% lower cost

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:36:58

Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent: The list of tech and financial industry titans joining the commander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president Xi Jinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. [...]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:02:21

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks . Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during G

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 20:27:50

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg under the headline, “Apple-OpenAI Alliance Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight”: OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-14 20:11:58

En una lucha de cinco horas, Firouzja no fue preciso para convertir en victoria su ventaja decisiva ante Praggnanandhaa

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-14 20:00:00

Pew Research finds Republicans and Democrats traded places on inflation worry from 2024 to 2026, even though CPI rose less than a percentage point.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:50:05

Dominic Preston, at The Verge: Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien first confirmed the release plans to USA Today , telling the outlet that all preorders will be fulfilled within the next few weeks. The company later confirmed the news on its social media a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:39:25

Well, this is ridiculous. Klack is a $5 Mac utility by Henrik Ruscon that simulates mechanical keyboard clacking while you type. Absurd. My keyboard makes its own beautiful sounds as I type. So of course I went to buy a copy immediately, because I lov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 18:20:54

James Lockman: This small driver enables the Griffin PowerMate, a nifty little device from days gone by. What does the PowerMate do? It is a knob that you can twist or that you can press. That’s it. It also has a blue LED in the base that can change i

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 17:04:00

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on how it should be implemented, informa

old new thing @ 2026-05-14 16:00:00

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-14 15:15:29

For those very long-time readers this blog extensively covered prediction markets  from 2006 to 2008. In a prediction market, you have a future event, such as the winner of an election, and a market that pays off one dollar if that event h

AEON @ 2026-05-14 12:01:00

‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-14 12:00:00

Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed - by Attiya Waris Read on Aeon

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-14 11:40:48

I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning hitti

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-14 11:40:48

I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning hitti

Inside Java @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

With JDK 27 introducing hybrid key exchange schemes that combine ML-KEM with traditional ECDHE algorithms, Java applications can gain TLS-layer protection against the “harvest-now, decrypt-later” threat without rewriting business logic. In this episode of

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Discover how Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 and Red Hat Connectivity Link deliver Models-as-a-Service (MaaS) to centrally govern and scale enterprise AI model serving.Many enterprises have moved past the AI pilot phase. Models are running in production and teams

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

We’re already looking forward to the next milestone in open source collaboration. For 2027, Red Hat Summit is returning to its roots in the heart of the East Coast’s tech corridor—Boston, MA. We invite you to clear your schedule for Red Hat Summit 2027, t

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

As organizations move from AI experimentation toward scalable production, the complexity of manually building high-performing AI models and retrieval systems often creates a significant bottleneck. Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 helps address this with the intro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Modern large language models (LLMs) are defined by their scale. GPT-3 introduced 175 billion parameters in 2020, and today, production-grade models routinely operate in the hundreds of billions, with some architectures exceeding one trillion. Each paramete

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-14 02:00:00

Agentic AI doesn’t just move AI forward, it flips the infrastructure built for traditional inference on its head. Agentic AI, systems that reason, plan, use tools, and execute multistep tasks autonomously, is rapidly moving from research into production. T

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-13 19:00:00

The U.S. reported 2,288 measles cases in 2025 and 1,842 by May 7, 2026, 23x the typical post-elimination year. WHO reviews elimination status in November.

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 16:45:00

Zwei Extreme

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-13 16:04:30

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible. The post How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evoluti

old new thing @ 2026-05-13 16:00:00

Keeping things moving. The post The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-13 12:54:17

Una de las virtudes más asombrosas del prodigio turco es su consistencia, que en esta partida se traduce en una total ausencia de errores

AEON @ 2026-05-13 12:01:00

How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 11:12:54

Quantum 10, 2106 (2026). Quantum paradoxes show that the outcomes of different quantum measurements cannot be described by a single measurement-independent reality. Any theoretical description of a quantum meas

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-13 10:52:35

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-b

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 09:01:35

Quantum 10, 2105 (2026). This work considers a teleportation task for Alice and Bob in a scenario where Bob cannot perform corrections. In particular, we analyse the task of $\textit{multicopy state teleportati

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-13 08:50:41

Quantum 10, 2104 (2026). A class of quantum resource theories, based on non-convex star-shape sets, presented in this work captures the key quantum properties that cannot be studied by standard convex theories.

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-13 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

Baeldung @ 2026-05-13 05:47:58

Learn three distinct ways to query records between two dates in Hibernate: HQL, Criteria API, and Native SQL. The post Query Records Between Two Dates With Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .            

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-13 05:45:00

Zwei Fragen

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-13 04:22:16

Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.

Inside Java @ 2026-05-13 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of deprecated Java launcher options.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 23:06:21

Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com ( r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is ef

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:31:49

Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google , I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:22:20

Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-se

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 22:05:28

Jacob Parry and Laura Greenhalgh, reporting for Politico, one month ago: The EU’s landmark tech regulations are a “success story” that are beginning to level the playing field between Silicon Valley’s giants and their digital competitors in Europe, sa

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 21:34:00

Foo Yun Chee, reporting for Reuters back on March 23: Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung’s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU’s toughest tech rules because of their growing market power, the world’s largest broadcasters told EU a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-12 20:52:12

Juli Clover, MacRumors: To comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Apple is letting third-party wearables access some features that have historically been limited to the Apple Watch and AirPods. Proximity pairing  — Third-party earbuds are abl

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-12 20:28:00

The wireless rings read 100 common signs from two sign languages and "autocomplete" sentences. The post These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time appeared first on SingularityHub .