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Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-08 03:46:35

Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this

slashdot @ 2026-09-08 01:34:00

Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It's FOSS. "That's about 7% of the federal workforce." The targe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:16:26

Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge glyph sets, explore variable vector designs with complex higher-order interpolation. Build and man

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-08 00:01:27

Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 22:34:00

Last year the writing program at the University of Baltimore used an app that tracks students while they're writing in Google Docs, offering teachers a video playing back revisions "with a scoreboard of all the edits, pastes and minutes spent on it," write

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:09:27

The Onion: The Onion: How did you get into the entertainment industry? Ellison: I remember going to the movies as a kid, and when the houselights went down and that hush fell over the crowd, I’d think to myself: I’d like to build a massive propaga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 22:00:00

Crackerjack new Mac app for creating and editing custom SF Symbols , from developer Amy Worrall: McKinley is an all-in-one studio for drawing and annotating SF Symbols. It bundles vector tools with knowledge of the SF Symbols structure, so you can ed

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 21:59:36

Matt Birchler: So, yeah, I do think that, especially this year, unit sales will far lag behind the 18 Pro models, the normal iPhone 18, and probably the Air 2 and 18e. I think they will lag next year as well for similar reasons. I don’t know if this w

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-07 20:35:45

The Online Etymological Dictionary gives the following etymology for grok: grok (v.) “understand empathically,” 1961, an arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book “Stranger in a Strange

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 19:34:00

The EV blog Electrek reports: A Clinton Township, Michigan man was charged $418 for a single EV charging session at Elder Hyundai's Macomb Township store after finding the charger listed as publicly available on the EVgo app, but didn't discover the charg

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-07 18:31:55

What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-09-07 16:48:42

As an antidote to the overwhelmingly depressing news of the world, I highly recommend reading the new article in the New York Times about this mathematical result. There have been some articles about this earlier in places like Scientific American …

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 16:34:00

"Billionaire Bill Ackman's life was upended this February when his 26-year-old daughter collapsed in her Brooklyn apartment, suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see," writes the Washingon Post. But then... The hedge

AWS Blog @ 2026-09-07 16:24:08

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 16:06:00

Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler for more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level approach addresses limitations of Netflix’s cluster level autoscaler for complex, stateful pipelines. Net

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 13:34:00

A new article about AI in The Economist argues that "Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive." Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Sta

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

Kotlin news @ 2026-09-07 13:30:57

The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest vers

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 12:09:00

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:01:00

An astronaut’s image of Earth from the 2026 lunar flyby reveals not our profound smallness but our growing significance - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-09-07 12:00:00

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed? - by Shawn Miller Read on Aeon

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-07 11:22:23

Partidas rápidas con sistemas de puntuación que estimulan la combatividad generan partidas tan trepidantes como esta

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 09:30:00

Reuters reports: Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack. "Purported white-hat hackers" withdrew around 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in

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

CERN engineers announced a shift from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian for its accelerator control systems. This decision stems from Red Hat's tightening compiler mandates, which threatened legacy hardware. The transition, focused on 2,200 specializ

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 08:31:00

vlt, created by the original npm team, has launched version 1.0 as a drop-in replacement for npm. It features phased installations to prevent automatic script execution, a queryable dependency graph with over 60 selectors, and hosted registries that bloc

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 06:30:00

A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. "Fairground AI Creator TV" is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as "AI Cinema": "AI-generated" can make it sound as though someone typed a sentenc

InfoQ @ 2026-09-07 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for August 31st, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 6.0; point releases of JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Kotlin Toolchain and Yupiik Fusion; and maintenance releases of Micronaut

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 03:34:00

Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in targeting troops. Military officials say that they have di

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, o

Ethereum blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Pr

Rust blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey , in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what pro

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

Generative AI promised to eliminate one of the biggest sources of friction in software engineering: Writing code. In many ways, it has delivered. Today, an AI coding agent can implement features in minutes that might have taken an engineer an hour. It can

Red Hat blog @ 2026-09-07 02:00:00

Red Hat recently released the initial version of the external secrets management console plug-in. It’s an extension of the Red Hat OpenShift web console, which lets you inspect any of the resources deployed by Red Hat’s portfolio of secrets management oper

slashdot @ 2026-09-07 01:34:00

A new study published Friday in AGU Advances "depicts the most advanced picture yet of how a rare but massive solar storm could affect some US industries and electric systems more than others," reports CNN. "During a 250-year solar storm, the East Coast

Baeldung @ 2026-09-07 01:19:21

Learn about MCP logging in Spring AI, both in an MCP server and a client. The post MCP Logging in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 22:44:27

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit an

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 22:34:00

TiVo is notifying customers about changes to "one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features," reports the blog Cord Cutter News: Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:06:27

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact. Relay kee

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 21:04:12

Matt Haughey: One case in point is the Honda Prologue EV. It’s a partnership between Honda and Chevrolet, where the Prologue is basically a Chevy Blazer EV with Honda badges, slight visual differences in the sheetmetal and interior, but all the underp

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:51:09

A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and, most notably , Tetris (the one where you “build a wall” to keep border-crossing migrants out) — the copyright to which i

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 19:34:00

Thursday 404 Media reported that Flock taught America's cops "how they could surveil the No Kings protests" against President Trump (as well as "small parades") in a webinar last year that described "using a mix of Flock's technology and law enforcement's

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 19:00:01

Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable. Unlike Maestri, he still had a real job: The veteran executive ran the App Store and Apple Events. The App Store portion alone is no joke. I

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:30:00

How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into an RSS feed via iframes in the entry bodies?  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-06 18:19:31

In the wake of Nitter/XCancel’s demise , here’s a delightful new Safari extension from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur fame): But sometimes people still post X content. Maybe you want to see Gruber roast Google Design . Maybe you want to see posts by

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-06 17:03:06

A diez semanas del duelo por el título mundial contra el desdibujado Gukesh, el uzbeko es el 4º del escalafón a los 20 años

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 16:34:00

The United Nations has an announcement. "The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is." By 164 votes to one, Member

InfoQ @ 2026-09-06 14:00:00

Google has open-sourced Mantis, an AI-agent framework designed to automate the software vulnerability lifecycle, from identifying and validating vulnerabilities to reproducing and fixing them. Google says it developed Mantis to address the high rate of f

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 13:34:00

"No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today," reports Space.com. DW.com reports that a Spectrum space rocket from German company Isar Aerospace launched today from the Arctic Norwegian spaceport at Andoya: "German

Physics Phorums @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-09-06 11:29:33

I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root polytope. This is 6-dimensional polytope with remarkable symmetry. Let’s climb up to it, starting w

Baeldung @ 2026-09-06 11:25:19

The three Loom pillars and, more importantly, the tooling. Plus IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 getting close. The post Java Weekly, Issue 662 first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 09:34:00

This year's Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend at Worldcon — the world's longest-running science fiction/fantasy convention. The Orange County Register reports there were fans "clad in capes, gowns and elaborate character costumes," with

InfoQ @ 2026-09-06 08:59:00

The engineering team at software company Figma recently documented how they built AI agents to help their security team investigate alerts, search past incidents, check company systems, and even prepare code fixes. The agents learn from previous investig

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

TrueNAS CORE has been the standard for open-source storage using FreeBSD and OpenZFS. The shift to TrueNAS SCALE, based on Debian, left some users needing alternatives. FreeCORE upgrades TrueNAS CORE to FreeBSD 15.0, restoring essential features like Fre

slashdot @ 2026-09-06 06:34:00

Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Shotgun: The proposed publicity event would include "an im

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 21:42:43

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simp

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-05 20:27:05

Computing Why Everyone in Quantum Computing Is Buzzing About Google’s Move Into ‘Neutral Atoms’Adam Bluestein | Fast Company “Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived.... The post This Week’s Awesome

The Endeavour @ 2026-09-05 19:04:13

The previous post discussed the motivation for and application of the rank-trace theorem. This post will give a proof. Suppose A is a real symmetric matrix. The rank-trace inequality says where tr is the trace operator, the sum of the elements along the d

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 18:08:24

Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 12:40:00

In a recent research paper, Google introduced Beyond Zero, a “security model for the AI era” that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents. The new approach moves access decisions from the application level to individual resources and actions, combinin

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-09-05 10:47:31

Esta trepidante pelea podría haber sido mucho mejor, pero los 57 años de Ivanchuk cobraron su factura ante los 15 de Erdogmus

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 08:27:00

Blume is an open-source documentation framework that converts Markdown into a complete documentation site. Built with Astro and Vite, it requires only Node.js and a single Markdown file for setup. The framework supports various configurations, offers aut

InfoQ @ 2026-09-05 07:05:00

JupyterGIS is a GIS-focused extension for Jupyter notebooks. The recent 0.16 release enhances collaborative features, real-time editing, and support for large-scale data processing, including remote sensing. It introduces better visualisation tools and e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 02:05:47

Annie Palmer, CNBC: Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year. Chakravarthy, who most recently served as president of Adobe’s customer exper

The observation deck @ 2026-09-05 02:00:00

Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not onl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-09-05 01:23:34

Mike Vorkunov, reporting for The Athletic (gift link): The NBA levied the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday after a year-long investigation determined that they circumvented the league’s sal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Singularity Hub @ 2026-09-04 21:08:33

A new system allows agents to orchestrate complex experimental processes and extends Anthropic's reach into the physical world. The post Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment appeared first on SingularityH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

old new thing @ 2026-09-04 16:00:00

You're changing the value for future windows. The post What happens if you change a window class’s <CODE>GCL_<WBR>CB­WND­EXTRA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reported by Elias Hogstvedt. #1514

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-09-03 17:02:08

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-09-02 18:24:24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Week in Rust @ 2026-09-02 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thiswee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deepmind @ 2026-09-01 19:08:51

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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