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slashdot @ 2026-08-21 09:00:00

China's Chang'e 7 mission is set to launch for the moon's south pole, where it will attempt the first-ever landing directly at the pole and search the region's dark craters for water ice. "It's an amazing mission," says Norbert Schorghofer, a Hawaii-based

slashdot @ 2026-08-21 05:30:00

RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized computers to run everything from infotainment to driver-assistance systems. Analysts cited by The Atlantic estimate the shortage could add a few

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 04:37:47

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Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00

Why proprietary software isn’t a retrospective trend but a trap for failureThink proprietary software is more secure because its code is hidden? In the AI era, that assumption is dangerously outdated. AI tools can now expose vulnerabilities in closed syst

slashdot @ 2026-08-21 01:00:00

Bilibili, often described as China's answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an English-language site as part of a broader push into the U.S., Europe, Japan, and other markets. The company is courting Western creators like MrB

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 23:00:00

Russian attacks on Ukrainian publishing infrastructure in July and August destroyed roughly 10 million books, which equates to about 30% of Ukraine's annual book output. The Ukrainian Book Institute is warning of a potential "collapse of the entire book ec

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 22:07:26

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slashdot @ 2026-08-20 22:00:00

A growing backlash against AI data centers is spilling into local politics, with residents in more than a dozen communities pushing recall elections against officials who approved projects. "People are standing up and saying, 'Sorry, we don't want these da

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 21:22:24

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 21:05:36

Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah. I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a "severe" math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence t

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 20:54:32

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 20:19:51

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

Bloomberg reports that YouTube is offering major creators millions of dollars to keep some content exclusive to its platform as Netflix increasingly signs YouTube-native talent to non-exclusive deals. YouTube has also warned that creators who simultaneousl

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 19:50:02

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slashdot @ 2026-08-20 19:05:00

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as "private and secure." A separate misconfigur

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acce

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 17:46:18

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 17:26:02

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slashdot @ 2026-08-20 17:00:00

Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies, including foreign firms operating in Japan, to disclose what models they use, what training data they rely on, and how that data was collected. The proposal w

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-20 16:56:20

AI is like a genie. The way in which algorithms grant our wishes may make us regret letting them out of the bottle. The post Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 16:10:12

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 16:04:46

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Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-20 16:04:40

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. The post Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?

old new thing @ 2026-08-20 16:00:00

Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-20 15:48:43

I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art

Swift blog @ 2026-08-20 15:45:00

Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than reg

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 15:23:12

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 14:04:38

I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:04:00

Vercel has released Next.js 16.3, featuring significant updates since version 16.0. Enhancements include reduced memory usage during development, accelerated build times, and improved type checking. Instant Navigations introduces faster, client-like resp

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:00:00

InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 13:25:00

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It’s too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code is also disposable; it becomes easier to rewrite than to debug. Humans can't review AI-generated code at sc

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-20 13:09:54

Quantum 10, 2196 (2026). The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 13:00:00

bryanandaimee shares a report from ScienceDaily: A Finnish study has found an unexpected association between screen use and cognitive performance. Children who accumulated more screen time as they grew up tended to show better cognitive processing during a

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 12:08:52

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AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:01:00

A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:00:00

The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous - by Eliran Arazi Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 10:20:44

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 10:07:00

Last week, Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage and adds several quality-of-life features. The Interaction Service gains file imports and progress dialogs; resources can host an interactive te

InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 10:00:00

Flux has introduced Flux Mirror, a CLI plugin that mirrors container images, Helm charts and OCI artifacts between registries from a declarative configuration. The plugin is part of the Flux v2.9 CLI plugin system and is presented as a way to keep Kubern

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 09:00:00

NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space's Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture S

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

The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a Vercel-based stack reporting significantly better performance on live, personalized-data workloads. Harpe

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 08:16:40

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 07:05:00

DeepSeek has released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source execution runtime for building autonomous AI agents. The software features a micro-kernel architecture with modular plugins for various functional units. The release incl

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today i

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 03:29:12

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 02:15:01

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Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Le

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate p

Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.98.0 with: $

Inside Java @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

Since Java moved to a six-month release cadence with JDK 10 in March of 2018, there has been a question if it was practical or possible for organization to keep up with such a release cadence.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

The telecommunications industry is considering one of its most consequential security debates in decades. Amid growing network complexity, 1 narrative argues that proprietary software is inherently more secure than its open source counterparts. Its central

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00

In Part I and Part II of this series, we explored why efficient inference is becoming an economic necessity and why sovereign AI requires infrastructure independence. But who should build the infrastructure that powers AI?AI infrastructure influences far m

slashdot @ 2026-08-20 01:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. Future production will depend on component pricing

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-19 23:19:50

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-19 21:06:16

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 21:00:00

Docker VMM (virtual machine monitor) is Docker's new, first-party virtualization layer for Docker Desktop, replacing third-party virtualization components with an engine that Docker can directly control and optimize specifically for container workloads.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:30:00

TL;DR Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months. It isn’t really a gap in technology. It’s a gap in what different people think software

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:15:00

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-19 19:12:23

The authors found most of the scenarios they investigated resulted in lower emissions, including cases where the gas car was barely a year old. The post Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds appeared first on Si

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t.  Yet, the code might be invalid. The

InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 16:17:00

WhatsApp is testing Scam Alert in limited beta, using on device machine learning to detect potential scam messages from non contacts. Meta's architecture keeps message content on the device while using confidential computing, Oblivious HTTP, differential

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-19 16:16:03

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. The post Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time f

old new thing @ 2026-08-19 16:00:00

Just use the callable directly. The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-19 15:52:21

In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't work on, or think d

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-19 15:20:48

El campeón flojeó en su defensa de la corona ante Anand, pero ganó el asalto decisivo desde una posición muy inferior

AEON @ 2026-08-19 12:01:00

The sorrows and redemptions of visitors who mailed their ‘souvenirs’ back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 11:26:00

Last week Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. C# adds labeled break and continue. ASP.NET Core brings Blazor circuit pausing, CacheView, and built-in validat

InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 10:00:00

Amazon Web Services has extended Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with runtime instances, a new compute option that gives AI agents persistent infrastructure purpose-built for complex long-running workflows and multi-agent coordination. By Matt Saunders

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:58:53

Quantum 10, 2195 (2026). There have been significant recent advances in constructing theoretical and practical quantum error correcting codes that function well as quantum memories; however, performing fault-to

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:26:52

Quantum 10, 2194 (2026). Entanglement plays a crucial role in quantum information science and many-body physics, yet quantifying it in mixed quantum many-body systems has remained a notoriously difficult proble

Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:07:24

Quantum 10, 2193 (2026). Quantum phase estimation is an important routine in many quantum algorithms, particularly for estimating the ground state energy in quantum chemistry simulations. This estimation involv

InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 08:21:00

React Router v8 was released on June 17, 2026, with minimal breaking changes and new baselines. Key updates include an ESM-only build and default middleware settings. React Router v6 and Remix v2 have reached End of Life. Developers should follow specifi

This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-19 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

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-19 02:22:36

A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area. For odd n, the solution is what you might expect: a regular n-gon. I would expect this to b

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Erste Erfahrungen mit dem Ubiquiti Unifi 5G Max

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Last time I built a detector that counts four-letter runs (n-grams) and tells you whether Claude Opus 5 wrote something. It works well - about 91% on text it has never read. It has one obvious hole: it only knows one robot (Claude Opus 5). Paste Chat

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

AI is entering the era of large-scale, distributed, agentic systems. Applications coordinate multiple models, tools, and services, process millions of requests, and demand enormous amounts of computer capacity. At the same time, infrastructure costs contin

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00

Many believe that building models is the most challenging thing in AI, but managing the data that powers those models is equally difficult. We’ve all been there: a model's performance shifts or a data analysis yields inconsistent results, and you’re left w

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:39:40

Joe Flint, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:23:45

Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple , the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and s

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 20:49:17

Paresh Dave and Aarian Marshall, reporting for Wired ( News+ link in case Wired hits you with their paywall): The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to P

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-18 19:24:25

El triunfo del noruego en el Mundial de Rápidas de 2014 no fue tan arrasador como en otros; pero esta partida es magnífica

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 18:03:32

Stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian, under the splendid headline “Dickovers, Baggravation and Botiquette: 18 New Words to Describe Our Tech Hellscape”: The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer,

ASF @ 2026-08-18 18:00:00

What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks throu

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

Cloudflare is introducing WriteGuard, now in private beta, to provide fine-grained security controls for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. It aims to make AI agents safer by controlling their access to tools that can modify data or perform actions, r

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 17:54:57

The imbalance conjecture is now a theorem. James Alexander Schreib and Yousof Yavari posted a proof last week. What does the conjecture theorem say? Start with a graph G with no edge between two nodes of the same degree. Then for every edge, calculate the

Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-18 17:04:00

Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard wo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:38

Apple is making changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. The changes reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business t

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:32

Attachment 14 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been added to specify updated terms for apps in the European Union, including alternative distribution, alternative payments, and business terms. These terms will go into effect on Octo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 16:54:28

Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:11

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:10

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot

old new thing @ 2026-08-18 16:00:00

A contingency plan. The post Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-18 15:58:41

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech professionals who want to walk through

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 15:42:06

Suppose you have a planet in an elliptical orbit around a star. The math is identical for any light object orbiting a heavy object, such as a moon or satellite orbiting a planet, but we’ll call the heavy object a star and the light object a planet.

luajit @ 2026-08-18 15:01:31

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InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 15:00:00

Netflix open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference (OCI) that reduces toil in causal analysis. Given observational data and the human user's analysis plan, the agent uses an actor-critic loop to estimate causality, write a report

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 14:32:38

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button. Nice. But these changes can’t improve fast enough for me — I am impa

InfoQ @ 2026-08-18 14:00:00

GitHub has announced that Stacked Pull Requests are now available in public preview, introducing native support for breaking large software changes into smaller, dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged independently. By Craig Risi

AEON @ 2026-08-18 12:00:00

Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 05:37:14

Oops.  ★ 

Confluent @ 2026-08-18 04:20:00

Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, UDFs, and PTFs while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 02:55:13

I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts su

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked . The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key nudges the ge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

Large language model (LLM) API costs have a way of sneaking up on a business. What begins as a promising chatbot prototype often transforms into an invoice nightmare as users consume tokens at an unpredictable rate.A significant portion of these costs stem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

The AI industry is shifting its attention from training models to running models more efficiently. Enterprise AI applications generate millions of inference requests as they coordinate multiple models, tools, and agents. Inference is the process where a tr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00

The release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 marks the beginning of a new era for Red Hat automation. AI capabilities—including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, automation intelligent assistant, and the automation dashboard—are just some of

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-18 00:42:15

For communities in the crosshairs, every extra hour counts. The post DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:55:29

The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago . Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:43:50

The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief executive Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkk

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-17 23:27:36

This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable t

AWS Blog @ 2026-08-17 18:02:36

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Founda

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-17 17:11:17

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appea

old new thing @ 2026-08-17 16:00:00

The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 13:11:44

El noruego no ha logrado el gran objetivo de superar los 2.900 puntos Elo, aunque estuvo muy cerca en 2014 tras victorias excelsas, como esta

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:01:00

In this bittersweet portrait of a farm town in Canada, taxidermied gophers preserve a place that no longer exists - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them - by Ella Browning Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-17 03:16:39

The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can

Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

tl;dr: Meet Platåberget: Glamsterdam's (Gloas + Amsterdam) early testing ground open to public participation. This upgrade comes with breaking changes for application developers. Notably, any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit (think wallet

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Telecom infrastructure teams often face the same bottleneck: Every new Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server is a custom job. Images multiply. Hardening is inconsistent. Patching and compliance become manual follow-up work after the machine is already liv

Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00

Managing a sprawling, diverse hybrid cloud can feel like trying to schedule a meeting that works for 4 different time zones, 3 different business units, and that 1 stakeholder who is “tentatively” available. It can be really, really tedious.That’s where Re

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 01:57:59

Esta partida es una obra maestra sobre cómo maniobrar para que un alfil en g2 sea el amo del tablero

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:30:00

Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:26:33

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generat

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-16 21:20:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 566 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Odisea; Eclipse”, 13 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclips

Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-16 21:14:02

Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT  here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.) Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us al

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-16 19:50:30

I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved …

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 19:30:00

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 18:34:12

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Ho

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 16:33:16

XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at [...] Using an instance of Nitter

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 14:00:00

F’you, Claude, you are driving me absolutely bananas: The house convention is a short phrase naming the defect, and the archive is full of it: “A citation that names nothing”, “The safe zone that only the spawner obeys”, “One word that means five t

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 02:00:00

I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap . It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no one can affor

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-15 23:40:15

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.  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 18:33:56

Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the original pixel cou

The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 17:40:43

Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error correcting code used

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-15 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 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:31:35

El noveno asalto del Mundial de Chennai fue dramático y de enorme calidad hasta que Anand demostró que es humano mientras su rival parecía un chip

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:17:30

Dos meses antes del Mundial contra Anand, el aspirante dominó a un rival duro, Kamski, en la Copa Sinquefield con maniobras finísimas

Baeldung @ 2026-08-15 12:23:09

Equality in Java is evolving. The post Java Weekly, Issue 659 first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments In reply to Vincent. Hey, Vincent. Thanks for the feedback. ... by Ulis

Atomic14 @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Here’s a response Claude came up with recently. I was asking it to review some of the code it had been writing for my “Open Vibe Code” Elite clone - you can play it here in your browser , it’s surprisingly good. “Twenty-seven echoes; most a

Inside Java @ 2026-08-15 02:00:00

Work on values progresses, JSON API incubation proposed to target 28, PQC in LTS, and more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 19:16:15

The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-14 18:33:55

This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a

old new thing @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-14 16:00:00

In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same. The post Biology Needs an AI Declaration appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-14 15:10:26

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.” The post Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown first appea

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

Kotlin news @ 2026-08-14 14:15:09

Something is happening in server-rendered web development. React shipped Server Components. HTMX made “hypermedia” cool again. Phoenix LiveView proved a server can push interactive UI updates without a client framework in sight. Every ecosystem

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-14 13:20:32

tldr: the live version is here: How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is it? These are questions that many pro

AEON @ 2026-08-14 12:00:00

The self-built homes of Santiago are precarious and ever changing. They are, always and at once, being and becoming - by Consuelo Araos Read on Aeon