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slashdot @ 2025-11-20 23:17:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's meme-friendly Nano Banana image-generation model is getting an upgrade. The new Nano Banana Pro is rolling out with improved reasoning and instruction following, giving users the ability to cr

AWS Open Source News @ 2025-11-20 22:34:48

Modern AI can write code, compose symphonies, and solve complex reasoning problems. So why is it still so hard to get them to reliably do what you want? Building reliable AI agents that consistently perform complex tasks remains challenging. While modern l

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 22:22:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Epishine, a company that makes solar cells optimized for indoor lighting, has announced its technology is being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The remote will rely on recha

InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 22:00:00

Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose's state management.

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 22:00:00

These plants showed “extraordinary durability” and may pave the way for extraterrestrial agriculture The post Moss Might Survive Nearly Two Decades in Space appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 21:51:00

Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License through a collaboration with Team Xbox and Activision that involved submitting pull requests to historical source repositories maintained by digital archivist Jason Scott.

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 21:10:00

Nvidia and Google announced today a new cloud gaming plan called GeForce Now Fast Pass that is exclusive to Chromebooks. Anyone who purchases a new Chromebook will receive a year of the service included with their device at no additional charge. Fast Pass

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 20:52:55

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The Endeavour @ 2025-11-20 20:42:10

I was reading about Shackleton’s incredible expedition to Antarctica, and the Weddell Sea features prominently. That name sounded familiar, and I was trying to remember where I’d heard of Weddell in math. I figured out that it wasn’t Wed

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 20:30:00

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might. WSJ: The contents of the webpage came up during Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate confirmation process. Sen

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 20:22:36

The Mars-size object that smashed into our planet and made the moon came from the inner solar system The post Earth’s Nastiest Neighbor Was Closer Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus .

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-20 20:10:10

The previous post includes code for solving the equation Hn = m i.e. finding the value of n for which the nth harmonic number is the closest to m. It works well for small values of m. It works for large m in the sense that the solution is very close to m,

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 19:52:00

Microsoft's push to transform Windows into an "agentic OS" that allows AI agents to control PCs is drawing user backlash similar to the Windows 8 controversy, as the company marks the operating system's 40th anniversary this week, writes Tom Warren, a repo

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 19:13:39

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slashdot @ 2025-11-20 19:05:00

Autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor -- which we covered in 2022 -- warned staff Thursday it may need to lay off more than 100 employees, or possibly even "shut down," according to a company-wide memo obtained by TechCrunch. The report adds:

InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 19:00:00

At QCon San Francisco 2025, Adam Wolff showcased Claude Code at Anthropic, where AI powers 90% of production code. With a focus on speed over planning, Claude Code's design evolved through experimentation, addressing challenges like Unicode issues and sh

ASF @ 2025-11-20 18:37:24

This month’s Plus One newsletter is packed with community highlights, project updates, Foundation news, and more. The #ASFNewLeaf social media giveaway is officially underway to help celebrate The ASF’s new oak leaf logo, and we hope you’ll all part

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 18:32:00

Android's Quick Share file transfer service can now work with Apple's AirDrop, allowing users to send files between iPhones and Android devices. Google has started rolling out the feature to its Pixel 10 family of smartphones. The cross-platform compatibil

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 18:04:34

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Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 18:00:00

The maternal instinct known as “postmortem attentive behavior” was documented in these fierce marine mammals for the first time The post A Leopard Seal Mother’s Love Transcends Death appeared first on Nautilus .

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-20 17:52:06

Quantum 9, 1919 (2025). Sequential methods for quantum hypothesis testing offer significant advantages over fixed-length approaches, which rely on a predefined number of state copies. Despite their potential, t

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 17:46:00

A federal judge in New York denied Disney's request to block Sling TV's short-term passes, which give viewers the ability to stream live content for as little as one day. From a report: In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-20 17:42:03

Tras ganar esta partida de manera impecable, el mexicano de origen peruano perdió el desempate rápido y el acceso a las semifinales

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-20 17:27:23

Quantum 9, 1918 (2025). The spectral variant of the quantum marginal problem asks: Given prescribed spectra for a set of overlapping quantum marginals, does there exist a compatible joint state? The main idea o

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 17:03:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penal

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 16:45:06

Learn about the Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) API introduced in JDK 21. The post Key Encapsulation Mechanism API in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 16:36:09

Learn how the SecureRandom algorithms use the randomness sources of the Linux operating system. The post SecureRandom Generator on Linux – Blocking or Not Blocking? first appeared on Baeldung .            

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-20 16:32:10

Quantum 9, 1917 (2025). We study a qDRIFT-type randomized method to simulate Lindblad dynamics by decomposing its generator into an ensemble of Lindbladians, $\mathcal{L} = \sum_{a \in \mathcal{A}} \mathcal{L}_

AWS Open Source News @ 2025-11-20 16:30:12

AWS is excited to announce the awslabs/ml-container-creator open source project to simplify the process of building and deploying custom machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker. Some customers face challenges when trying to leverage the bring-your-own-

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 16:20:00

An anonymous reader writes: U.S. wireless carrier Verizon said Thursday it will cut more than 13,000 jobs in its largest single layoff as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations. Verizon also said it plans to convert 179 corporate-owned retail

Computational Complexity @ 2025-11-20 16:18:00

Carmichael Numbers are the bane of probabilistic primality algorithms. You have to go through extra steps just to handle these relatively rare numbers. But did you know that the Miller-Rabin algorithm not only determines the compositeness of Carmichael nu

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-20 16:07:02

Quantum 9, 1916 (2025). To better understand quantum computation we can search for its limits or no-gos, especially if analogous limits do not appear in classical computation. Classical computation easily imple

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 16:04:23

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old new thing @ 2025-11-20 16:00:00

The access violation exceptions will continue until commit improves. The post In the commit-on-demand pattern, what happens if an access violation straddles multiple pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 15:40:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash. "Jeez there so many c

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 15:20:49

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InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 15:09:00

Google's Gemini 3, unveiled on November 18, 2025, sets a new standard for multimodal AI, integrating seamlessly across platforms like Search and Vertex AI. With capabilities for text, code, and rich media, it empowers both consumer and enterprise applica

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 15:01:00

OpenAI won't say who audits its books. The company, which projects to hit an ARR of $20 billion this year and is valued at $500 billion, has committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers over the next decade. It accounts for roughly two-thirds

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 14:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Friday that tells the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence, accordi

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-20 13:56:52

Anuncio Naukas Palma 2025 «360° de ciencia» con la portada de mi charla «720 grados», el próximo sábado 22 de noviembre a las 10:20 horas en el Palacio de Congresos […] La entrada No te pierdas Naukas Palma 2025 el sábado 22 de noviembre fue esc

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 13:37:12

Spring 7 is out. Lots and lots of releases and reading material in this one :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 621 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 13:21:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 13:01:26

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InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 13:00:00

AWS has elevated Rust support in Lambda from experimental to generally available, empowering developers to create high-performance, memory-safe serverless applications. This milestone enhances developer confidence, backed by AWS support and SLA. While it

InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 12:18:00

Sustainable APIs benefit most from minimalism, Jochen Joswig said at OOP Conference . Deployment should consider energy, usage, carbon intensity, hardware acquisition. Remote work, long device lifespans, and green office practices can lower emissions. Ef

AEON @ 2025-11-20 12:01:00

What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2025-11-20 12:00:00

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken - by Jack Lohmann Read on Aeon

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 11:50:00

Philip Marsden on his three greatest revelations while writing Under a Metal Sky The post Rocks Are Alive appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 11:00:00

At QCon San Francisco, Netflix engineers unveiled their advanced Service-Level-Prioritized Load-Shedding strategy, enhancing reliability during traffic spikes. By prioritizing high-value requests and automating management across microservices, they safeg

slashdot @ 2025-11-20 11:00:00

Canadian librarian Ian Linkletter has ended a five-year legal battle with ed-tech firm Proctorio after being sued for sharing public YouTube help videos that exposed how the company's remote-proctoring AI works. Ars Technica reports: ... Together, the vide

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-20 10:52:11

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InfoQ @ 2025-11-20 02:52:00

Researchers at Microsoft, working in collaboration with Arizona State University, have introduced Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment designed to study how LLM-based agents behave in multi-agent economic systems. The platform addr

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-20 02:03:10

I mentioned in the previous post that the harmonic numbers Hn are never integers for n > 1. In the spirit of that post, I’d like to find the value of n such that Hn is closest to a given integer m. We have two problems to solve. First, how do we

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 02:00:00

It was driven by the wind, and could tell us about the future of the climate The post The Rise of the Ancient Bogs appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 01:44:56

Learn how to convert between Blob and String in Java when dealing with persistence of binary large objects in relational databases. The post Converting Blob to String and String to Blob in Java first appeared on Baeldung .      

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 01:39:51

Explore multiple approaches to retry RestTemplate HTTP requests when the host is offline. The post Retrying RestTemplate HTTP Requests in Java When the Host Is Offline first appeared on Baeldung .            

Baeldung @ 2025-11-20 01:36:08

Explore a clear path to adopting Podman with Testcontainers in your Java projects while avoiding the common pitfalls many developers encounter. The post Configuring Testcontainers to Work with Podman first appeared on Baeldung .    

Rust blog @ 2025-11-20 01:00:00

TL;DR: rustc will use its own "v0" mangling scheme by default on nightly versions instead of the previous default, which re-used C++'s mangling scheme, starting in nightly-2025-11-21 Context When Rust is compiled into object files and binaries,

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-20 01:00:00

We are 2 years in on a strategic shift in virtualization. Although this shift created some initial panic, most customers have taken advantage of this shift as an opportunity to make a more strategic decision on where they want to go on their virtualization

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-20 01:00:00

Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Red Hat Insights) has long helped operations teams detect risks, open tickets, and share findings with the right tools, connecting proactive intelligence to everyday workflows.Much has changed, not only in Red Hat Lightspeed it

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-20 01:00:00

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Pa

Inside Java @ 2025-11-20 01:00:00

Java 26 will issue run-time warnings when a final field is mutated through reflection. This prepares for a future change that will make such final field mutations illegal by default to improve Java's integrity, specifically the keyword final. This will hav

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-20 00:48:52

József Kürschák proved in 1908 that the function is never an integer for 0 < m < n. In particular, the harmonic numbers are never integers for n > 1. The function f(m, n) can get arbitrarily close to any integer value by taking m and n large e

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-20 00:21:24

AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords.

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-20 00:03:17

In Earth’s cracks, slow-motion temblors rumble while the planet repairs itself The post Here’s How Rocks Heal Themselves in Deep Faults appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 23:13:17

AWS Step Functions' enhanced TestState API now enables local unit testing with mocking support, comprehensive state type validation, and individual state testing capabilities without requiring AWS deployment or IAM permissions.

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 23:00:28

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 22:45:23

Anthony Castrovince, reporting for MLB.com on the new broadcast rights agreement that will cover the next three seasons of baseball: Sunday Night Baseball will shift from ESPN, where it aired since 1990, to NBCUniversal, which also secured the rights

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 22:36:55

Decapitated remnants of Aspidorhynchus fish from the Late Jurassic hint at who they hunted—and who hunted them The post These Gory, Rare Fossils Unravel Ancient Marine Rivalries appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 22:30:02

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 21:29:24

Miguel Arroz, on Mastodon: Unpopular opinion, apparently: companies like Cloudflare and Amazon provide very high quality services people and enterprises actually need, with a level of uptime and security vastly superior to what most of their customers

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 21:26:43

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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-19 20:56:17

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 532 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Tormenta Solar; Microbios Espaciales; Dientes de León; Agujeros Negros”, 13 nov 2025. «La tertulia semanal […] L

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 20:48:21

Apple Newsroom: Finalists in the Mac App of the Year category provided users with powerful tools to confidently take on new projects: Acorn , for being the go-to tool for pro-level photo edits. Essayist , for taking the stress out of sourcing

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 20:44:46

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Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 20:38:40

How our eyes and brains sync to music The post Blinking to the Beat appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 20:12:27

AWS Lambda introduces tenant isolation mode, enabling separate execution environments for each tenant within a single function to meet strict security requirements without managing dedicated per-tenant infrastructure.

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 20:09:27

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AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 20:09:27

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now offers column-level metadata forms and enforced glossary requirements, enabling organizations to improve data classification, discoverability, and governance through standardized business metadata.

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 20:07:46

AWS Control Tower now offers Control Only Experience, enabling faster governance setup for established multi-account environments by providing access to AWS managed controls without requiring a full landing zone implementation.

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 20:06:48

AWS Billing Transfer enables customers to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple AWS organizations by allowing billing administrators to transfer payment responsibility while maintaining individual security and governance autonomy over their accoun

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-19 20:05:59

Amazon EKS introduces Container Network Observability, providing enhanced visibility into Kubernetes workload traffic and performance insights to help teams monitor and troubleshoot microservice environments.

Martin Fowler @ 2025-11-19 20:02:00

I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar . Again it’s dominated by the AI wave, with lots of blips capturing our explorations of how to use LLMs and si

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-11-19 19:01:59

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 18:26:22

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems’ permissions which caused the database to outp

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 18:08:11

The face of our sturdy evolutionary cousin comes into focus The post Human Evolution Insights Found Up a Neanderthal’s Nose appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 17:46:26

The New York Times: The world’s richest man. One of the world’s most famous soccer players. The president of soccer’s governing body. Dozens of executives from the finance, tech and energy sectors. These are some of the guests who attended President T

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-11-19 17:16:05

60 people, including a lot of category theorists, are meeting in Edinburgh for the £59 million UK project called Safeguarded AI. I talked about it before here. The plan is to build software that will let you precisely specify systems of many kinds, which a

Physics Phorums @ 2025-11-19 17:16:05

60 people, including a lot of category theorists, are meeting in Edinburgh for the £59 million UK project called Safeguarded AI. I talked about it before here. The plan is to build software that will let you precisely specify systems of many kinds, which a

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-19 16:35:42

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to be done. The post C

old new thing @ 2025-11-19 16:00:00

Shared memory is the copy-free solution. The post Is <CODE>Write­Process­Memory</CODE> faster than shared memory for transferring data between two processes? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-19 14:06:01

Tras desperdiciar una ventaja ganadora con blancas en el primer asalto del desempate rápido, el chino, 9º del mundo, deja al indio, 4º, fuera del Torneo de Candidatos

InfoQ @ 2025-11-19 13:00:00

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that disrupted global internet services, affecting millions of users and thousands of companies across more than 60 countries. The incident originated in the US-EAST-1 region and w

InfoQ @ 2025-11-19 12:20:00

Engineering teams make their most consequential decisions not in architecture reviews or sprint planning, but through invisible choices embedded in metrics, defaults, and everyday behaviors. In their QCon San Francisco 2025 keynote, Shawna Martell and Da

AEON @ 2025-11-19 12:01:00

An animated interpretation of the story of the Indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and brought to England in 1830 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-11-19 12:00:00

Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift enhances scalability, fault isolation, and operational simplicity, driven by advancements in networki

Nautilus blog @ 2025-11-19 11:50:00

Researchers are divided over AI’s cognitive harms—and whether we should use these tools at all The post AI Might Not Harm Us in the Way You Think appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-11-19 11:00:00

Innovative Cloudflare Workflows now supports both TypeScript and Python, enabling developers to orchestrate complex applications seamlessly. With durable execution and state persistence, it simplifies the development of robust data pipelines and AI/ML mo

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-11-19 10:00:55

Every year, the App Store Awards celebrate exceptional apps and games that improve people’s lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. This year, the App Store Editorial tea

InfoQ @ 2025-11-19 09:00:00

The release of .NET 10 brings with it F# version 10. It’s a refinement‑focused update that enhances the language’s ergonomics, improves performance, and optimises compiler behaviour for everyday functional development. By Edin Kapić

Rust blog @ 2025-11-19 01:00:00

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 41 project goals , with 13 of them designated as Flagship Goals . This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for an

Rust blog @ 2025-11-19 01:00:00

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 41 project goals , with 13 of them designated as Flagship Goals . This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for an

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-19 01:00:00

The migration toolkit for virtualization 2.10 (MTV) is now generally available and expands on capabilities introduced in the recent release to better support your virtual machine (VM) migration journey with minimal downtime and reduced risk. With updates t

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-19 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.20 is now generally available, helping organizations modernize their virtualization strategy with greater speed and confidence through expanded platform availability, enhanced virtual machine (VM) management, and new capa

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-19 01:00:00

Over the past several months, Red Hat has been diving into one of the most significant shifts in our industry: the practical, large-scale adoption of generative AI (gen AI) within a major engineering organization. We are not unique in this journey, but at

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-19 00:48:32

Gene editors usually take years to test and perfect. KJ Muldoon’s treatment took only six months. Now his doctors want to go even faster. The post Scientists Race to Deliver Custom Gene Therapies for Incurable Diseases in Weeks—Not Years appeared firs

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 00:34:58

Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs. Also, six years of Da

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-19 00:04:12

Jonathan V. Last, writing for The Bulwark: The president of the United States gave a speech yesterday before a group of McDonald’s corporate workers and franchise owners. I’m going to quote a few sections of his remarks at great length, because if you

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-18 23:29:46

Amazon Bedrock introduces three service tiers—Priority, Standard, and Flex—allowing you to optimize AI workload costs by matching performance requirements with pricing for different application needs.

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-18 23:16:16

Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6-B300 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which deliver 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory than previous generations, making them well suited for training and serving large-scale AI

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 20:37:56

President Donald Trump, today in the Oval Office alongside his “very good friend” Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, after ABC News reporter Mary Bruce had the temerity to pose a question regarding Mohammed having ordered the brutal murder of Washi

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 19:27:29

Mark Gurman, in his (paywalled, alas) Power On column for Bloomberg over the weekend: The next major update didn’t arrive until 2023, when Apple finally transitioned the desktop to in-house chips with the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. Two years later, that mode

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-18 19:19:48

El peruano-mexicano estará a un paso del Torneo de Candidatos si derrota a Sindárov en el desempate rápido de cuartos de final

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 18:30:19

Cloudflare suffered an hours-long global outage, starting around 12pm UTC / 7am ET, which brought down an enormous chunk of the Internet. This included, humorously , Down Detector . It also included (not so humorously to me) Daring Fireball, which has b

Martin Fowler @ 2025-11-18 18:19:00

I find most writing on software productivity to be twaddle, but Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda are notable exceptions. I had a chance to take a look at their new book, published today, and liked it so much I wrote a foreword. more…

ASF @ 2025-11-18 18:00:00

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache Geode is an in-memory data grid that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications at massive scale. It enables developers to build high-performance, low-latency systems with strong con

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 17:34:43

London Centric: Sam was walking past a Royal Mail depot in south London in January when his path was blocked by a group of eight men. “I tried to move to let them pass, but the last guy blocked the path,” the 32-year-old told London Centric. “They s

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 16:10:00

During QCon SF, Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li from DBOS presented a non-conventional architectural approach to workflow orchestration: treating PostgreSQL not just as a data store, but as the orchestration layer itself. Their talk addressed a persistent prob

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 16:00:00

AI-generated code is “highly functional but systematically lacking in architectural judgment”, a new report from Ox Security has found. In a report released in late October called Army of Juniors: The AI Code Security Crisis, AI application security (App

old new thing @ 2025-11-18 16:00:00

Harkening back to a very old mail program. The post Microspeak: Little-r appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-18 14:13:35

Five posts on Pythagorean triangles and Pythagorean triples Primitive Pythagorean triangles with the same area Sparse binary Pythagorean triples Matrix Pythagorean triples Approximation by Pythagorean triangles Fibonacci meets Pythagoras The post Pythag

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-11-18 13:11:19

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the fourth post in The U

Kotlin news @ 2025-11-18 13:11:19

Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the fourth post in The U

InfoQ @ 2025-11-18 13:00:00

CameraX 1.5 introduces support for capturing slow-motion and high frame-rate videos as well as unprocessed, uncompressed still images. These capabilities are enabled by the new SessionConfig API, which streamlines camera setup and configuration. By Ser

AEON @ 2025-11-18 12:00:00

Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift - by Amy K McLennan Read on Aeon

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-18 09:22:52

The last couple posts have been about group pairings, specifically Tate pairings as they’re used in cryptography. This post will show that RSA encryption can be seen as a special case of pairing-based cryptography. The idea comes from Ben Lynn’

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:43:31

Explore different approaches to running a Tomcat server on other ports. The post Running Tomcat Server on Two Different Ports first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:39:58

Understand the JUnit error: Test class should have exactly one public zero-argument constructor. The post Resolving JUnit Error: Test Class Should Have Exactly One Public Zero-Argument Constructor first appeared on Baeldung .    

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:34:48

Learn several methods for accessing random elements from a HashMap in Java and their advantages and disadvantages. The post Select a Random Key from a HashMap in Java first appeared on Baeldung .            

Baeldung @ 2025-11-18 08:30:31

Learn how to set a single bit or multiple bits of an interger in Java. The post How to Set a Specific Bit of a Number in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 02:27:17

Apple Newsroom, last week: Apple today announced the launch of Digital ID, a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using information from their U.S. passport, and present it with the security and privacy of iPhone or Apple Watch. At launch

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-18 01:04:13

It uses light to record and transmit brain signals and worked for a year with minimal scarring in mice. The post This Wireless Brain Implant Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt appeared first on SingularityHub .

Ethereum blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Account Abstraction team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ether

Rust blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

As we have announced previously this year, the Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the second time. Almost twenty contributors have been working very hard on their projects for several months. Same as last year, the projects

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSHow to run performance tests using benchmark-runnerNovember 18, 2025 Robert Krawitz, Jenifer Abrams, Guoqing Li, Eli BattatKubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters have beco

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

The industrial world runs on timing and consistency. In manufacturing and operations, a predictable outcome isn't a nice-to-have; it's the core promise of the industrial system itself. Whether you're managing complex motion control or critical process loop

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

Generative AI demands infrastructure that’s not only powerful but repeatable, auditable, and scalable. From chat bots and content generation to intelligent automation agents, organizations are deploying AI at scale. But with this innovation comes complexit

Red Hat blog @ 2025-11-18 01:00:00

The Red Hat 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Awards recognize public sector partners for their continued efforts in developing innovative solutions using Red Hat technologies to meet the U.S. government’s needs and improve mission critical

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-18 00:43:13

Ryan Christoffel, reporting for 9to5Mac a month ago: Meta has published a support doc that states its Messenger app for Mac is being discontinued. New users won’t be able to download the app at all, and existing users have about 60 more days of use

Indie Stack @ 2025-11-18 00:03:20

For the vast majority of developers of software for Apple products, the process (har, har) of debugging involves attaching to and inspecting only one process: the main application binary. This is particularly true on iOS-based systems, where spawning subpr

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 23:44:18

Clerk makes authentication for iOS apps effortless — just drop in prebuilt SwiftUI components for sign-in, MFA, and profile management. Fully customizable, always in sync with Apple’s design system, and packed with features devs love: social sign-in, user

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 22:40:16

Jay Yagnik, VP of AI innovation and research, on Google’s The Keyword blog: Private AI Compute is built on a multi-layered system that is designed from the ground up around core security and privacy principles: One integrated Google tech stack:

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 22:32:17

OpenAI: To start a group chat tap the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When you add someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of your conversation as a new group chat so your original conversation stays separa

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-17 18:59:08

The weeks before AWS re:Invent, my team is full steam ahead preparing content for the conference. I can’t wait to meet you at one of my three talks: CMP346 : Supercharge AI/ML on Apple Silicon with EC2 Mac, CMP344: Speed up Apple application builds with CI

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 18:10:47

Quantum 9, 1915 (2025). Loop-based boson samplers interfere photons in the time degree of freedom using a sequence of delay lines. Since they require few hardware components while also allowing for long-range e

ASF @ 2025-11-17 18:00:00

UN recertifies open source platform Apache Fineract as a foundational Digital Public Good for financial inclusion. Wilmington, DE – November 17, 2025 – The Apache Fineract community is pleased to announce that their platform, Apache Fineract, has once aga

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-17 17:51:24

Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman Given a point P on an elliptic curve E, and a random number a, aP means to add P to itself a times, using the addition on E. The point aP can be computed efficiently, even if a is a very large number [1]. However, if E has a

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 17:30:51

Quantum 9, 1914 (2025). An important class of fermionic observables, relevant in tasks such as fermionic partial tomography and estimating energy levels of chemical Hamiltonians, are the binary measurements obt

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 17:12:56

Quantum 9, 1913 (2025). In this work, we develop a graphical calculus for multi-qudit computations with generalized Clifford algebras, building off the algebraic framework developed in our prior work. We build

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-17 17:00:33

Nadie esperaba que el asiático, tercer jugador de su país, pudiera optar a una plaza en el próximo Torneo de Candidatos, pero está cerca

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-17 16:18:20

Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years? The post Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2025-11-17 16:00:00

Doing it on hard mode. The post How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 14:08:28

Quantum 9, 1912 (2025). Recent experimental progress in controlling open quantum systems enables the pursuit of mixed-state nonequilibrium quantum phases. We investigate whether open quantum systems hosting mix

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-17 14:00:45

Quantum 9, 1911 (2025). Quantum networks are important for quantum communication, enabling tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, quantum sensing, and quantum error correction, often uti

Swift blog @ 2025-11-17 13:00:00

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

AEON @ 2025-11-17 12:01:00

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2025-11-17 12:00:00

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame - by Elena Mary Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2025-11-17 10:00:00

“We have no idea what an alien person or being or intelligence or machine would be motivated by… We don’t know what motivates the Kremlin, for God’s sake.”

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-17 02:31:53

My thanks to WorkOS for their continuing support of DF with another sponsorship week. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides a complete user management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. The A

Rust blog @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

It’s time for the 2025 State of Rust Survey ! The Rust Project has been collecting valuable information about the Rust programming language community through our annual State of Rust Survey since 2016. Which means that this year marks the tenth editi

Inside Java @ 2025-11-17 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 26: 524: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Second Preview)

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-16 21:27:13

Como suele habitual en mis charlas (aunque siempre) os presento una transcripción libre de mi charla del sábado 15 de noviembre a las 16:50 en el evento BCNspiracy 2025 en […] La entrada Mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» para BCNspiracy

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-16 21:27:09

Pairings can mean a variety of related things in group theory, but for our purposes a pairing is a bilinear mapping from two groups to a third group. e: G1 × G2 → GT Typically the group operation on G1 and G2 is written addititvely and the group operation

The Endeavour @ 2025-11-16 20:13:04

Let p be a prime number. Then the integers mod p form a finite field. The number of elements in a finite field must be a power of a prime, i.e. the order q = pn for some n. When n > 1, we can take the elements of our field to be polynomials of […

luajit @ 2025-11-16 19:34:11

Reported by puffy.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-16 17:43:44

Uno de los jóvenes astros indios, 5º del mundo a los 22 años, elimina a Aronián y parece estar en gran forma, pero su próximo rival será Yi Wei

Computational Complexity @ 2025-11-16 14:40:00

Since there is now a CCC Test-of-Time Award, see  here ,  (CCC stands for Computational Complexity Conference), I decided to look at other Test-of-Time awards in computer science. Below is a list of various computer science Test-of-Tim

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-16 04:00:15

The Financial Times, under a four-person byline (“Tim Bradshaw, Stephen Morris, and Michael Acton in San Francisco, and Daniel Thomas in London”): Apple is stepping up its succession planning efforts, as it prepares for Tim Cook to step down as chief

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-16 01:57:02

The question is, did Meta scrap its native Windows app because they don’t care that much about Windows in particular? Or because they don’t care that much about native desktop apps, period — and a crude web app wrapper is coming to Mac next?

Inside Java @ 2025-11-16 01:00:00

Throughout the project, the Vector API balanced providing a cross-platform API with staying close to the metal, performance-wise. While the project succeeded in that goal, the Vector API had to give up some important functionality when it didn't fit the de

Baeldung @ 2025-11-16 00:43:34

Learn how to convert Java objects to XML, send XML POST requests, and deserialize XML responses for XML-based integration using Spring's RestTemplate. The post Sending XML POST Requests with Spring RestTemplate first appeared on Baeldung .  

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-15 19:10:00

El uzbeko, 3º del mundo sub-20, elimina al alemán Frederik Svane, verdugo del campeón Gukesh, y se acerca al Torneo de Candidatos

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-11-15 18:00:23

Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?. Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of … Cont

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-15 10:39:58

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 November 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-11-15 05:05:02

No the pierdas el sábado 15 de noviembre mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» a las 16:50 en el evento BCNspiracy 2025 en el Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa, […] La entrada No te pierdas mi charla «Eclipses y el tiempo geológico» en BCNspira

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-15 03:09:38

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information on Tuesday (paywalled, alas, but summarized by 9to5Mac here and here ): Apple has since sharply scaled back production of the first iPhone Air and delayed the release of an updated version that

Lua: news @ 2025-11-15 02:20:04

Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing.

Ethereum blog @ 2025-11-15 01:00:00

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-6 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading

Singularity Hub @ 2025-11-14 21:06:11

The transatlantic procedure, carried out on a human cadaver in Scotland, suggests future stroke surgeries could be completed remotely. The post In Wild Experiment, Surgeon Uses Robot to Remove Blood Clot in Brain 4,000 Miles Away appeared first on S

luajit @ 2025-11-14 20:15:44

Contributed by XmiliaH. #1407

AWS Blog @ 2025-11-14 18:45:04

AWS Lambda's new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control ov

Swift blog @ 2025-11-14 18:15:00

The Swift community participated in Google Summer of Code 2025, and we’ve recently been showcasing all of the projects and work accomplished here on the Swift blog. You can learn more by following these convenient links: Bringing Swiftly support to

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 17:53:18

We have no idea how many of them they made, but seemingly, the price was not a problem for this product.  ★ 

Confluent @ 2025-11-14 17:45:16

Discover how a data streaming platform helps you unlock the full potential of your AI—and translates it into measurable business value.

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-11-14 16:35:10

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem. The post Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down. first ap

Baeldung @ 2025-11-14 16:15:50

Learn how to implement exception handling mechanisms when using Kafka Streams in Java. The post Handling Exceptions in Kafka Streams first appeared on Baeldung .              

old new thing @ 2025-11-14 16:00:00

They can send it back with their own WM_ COPY­DATA message, or they can put it in an agreed-upon shared location. The post I can use <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY<WBR>DATA</CODE> to send a block of data to another window, but how do

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-11-14 15:51:50

El ruso con bandera FIDE, de 23 años, 40º del escalafón, elimina de la Copa del Mundo (y del Torneo de Candidatos) al alemán Keymer, de 20, 4º

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-14 14:55:08

Quantum 9, 1910 (2025). Consider an open quantum system with (discrete-time) Markovian dynamics. Our task is to store information in the system in such a way that it can be retrieved perfectly, even after the s

Quantum Journal @ 2025-11-14 13:51:16

Quantum 9, 1909 (2025). Zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) is a widely used quantum error mitigation technique that artificially amplifies circuit noise and then extrapolates the results to the noise-free circuit.

AEON @ 2025-11-14 12:00:00

People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price - by Gilly Kahn Read on Aeon

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 05:03:49

Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting for The Wall Street Journal ( gift link , News+ link ) under the headline “Apple’s iPhone Air Is a Marketing Win and a Sales Flop” (which headline, going from the web page <title> element, was originally the

Confluent @ 2025-11-14 04:46:12

Learn how to design and implement a real-time data monetization engine using streaming systems. Get architecture patterns, code examples, tradeoffs, and best practices for billing usage-based data products.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-11-14 01:07:38

Mark Gurman and Edward Ludlow, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas, but summarized by The Verge and Ars Technica ) Tesla Inc. is developing support for Apple Inc.’s CarPlay system in its vehicles, according to people with knowledge of the matt

iOS Weekly @ 2025-11-14 01:00:00

Can we briefly talk about keeping track of the Swift open-source project? 💼

Inside Java @ 2025-11-14 01:00:00

This JEP Café takes you through everything you can do with Gatherers, added to JDK 24 and available in JDK 25, the version you are going to use for your business applications. Along with many examples, it shows you the basics of mapping and filtering, how