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The Endeavour @ 2026-04-16 14:02:13

Let f(x, y) be an nth degree polynomial in x and y. In general, a straight line will cross the zero set of f in n locations [1]. Newton defined a diameter to be any line that crosses the zero set of f exactly n times. If f(x, y) = x² + y² − 1 then the zer

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 13:52:00

Software platforms must be treated as products. Success requires balancing engineering, design, usability, security, and value for internal customers and the organisation, Abby Bangser mentioned in her talk Platform as a Product. A product mindset, clear

slashdot @ 2026-04-16 13:00:00

Some Japanese bullet trains will soon support premium private suites this October, featuring windows with embedded 5G antennas for steadier onboard Wi-Fi and NTT noise-cancelling cabin tech to reduce train noise. The 5G window antennas are designed to main

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 12:10:52

Quantum 10, 2073 (2026). We can design efficient quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes by tailoring them to our choice of quantum architecture. Useful tools for constructing such codes include Clifford deformati

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:01:00

The evolution of Paris across millennia – from Celtic fishing village to world capital – in three animated minutes - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-16 12:00:00

Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? - by Jenny Greene Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 11:37:00

Anysphere released Cursor 3, a redesigned interface built from scratch that shifts the primary model from file editing to managing parallel coding agents. The new workspace supports local-to-cloud agent handoff, multi-repo parallel execution, and a plugi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 10:07:08

Quantum 10, 2072 (2026). Many alternative approaches to construct quantum channels with large entangling capacity were proposed in the past decade, resulting in multiple isolated gates. In this work, we put for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:51:50

Quantum 10, 2071 (2026). As quantum computing moves toward fault-tolerant architectures, quantum error correction (QEC) decoder performance is increasingly critical for scalability. Understanding the impact of

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-16 09:37:53

Quantum 10, 2070 (2026). Friction in atomistic systems is usually described by the classical Prandtl-Tomlinson model suitable for capturing the dragging force of a nanoparticle in a periodic potential. Here we

slashdot @ 2026-04-16 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain's record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills. Under the new plans, p

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:30:58

Learn about the PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class which is a common yet avoidable issue in Java regular expressions The post Resolving PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class first appeared on Baeldung .     &

slashdot @ 2026-04-16 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultura

Baeldung @ 2026-04-16 05:22:02

Explore two ways to get a scheduled job's cron value from a database in Spring Boot. The post Getting a Cron Expression From Database for a Spring Boot Scheduled Job first appeared on Baeldung .            

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 03:00:35

David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sung ): Sofa 5 . A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-16 02:36:05

Shawn Hickman: A show you started last month. A book on your nightstand. A game you keep meaning to get back to. Finding something new is easy. Remembering where you left off is the hard part. Sofa 5 helps you keep track of this stuff. Progress ring

InfoQ @ 2026-04-16 01:45:00

The OpenTelemetry project has announced that key portions of its declarative configuration specification have reached stable status. The observability framework is a vendor-neutral and language-agnostic way to configure telemetry collection. By Matt Sa

slashdot @ 2026-04-16 01:00:00

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges. Spot can also now recognize when to call on other AI tools. IEEE Spectrum repo

slashdot @ 2026-04-16 00:00:00

In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized auto industry has enough excess capacity to supply the entire U.S. market, whil

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 23:00:00

Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to scan public codebases for vulnerabilities. "Open source security always relied on people to find

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 22:00:00

A Manhattan federal jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market. The findings follow an antitrust case brought by states after a separate DOJ settlement. CNN reports: The verdict was reached foll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 21:54:17

Lisa Melton, who ran the team that created Safari, regarding her interactions with Steve Jobs: When Steve asked you a question? You didn’t ramble and, whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. If you didn’t know, you just said that you didn’t kn

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-04-15 21:17:28

I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the FreeBSD Developer Summit and the final two days to the main c

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 20:00:00

Snap is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 16% of its workforce, while closing 300 open roles as it tries to cut costs and push toward profitability with more AI-driven efficiency. "While these changes are necessary to realize Snap's long-term potential,

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 19:00:00

Allbirds made a surprise announcement this morning: it's pivoting from sustainable shoes to AI compute infrastructure, rebranding as NewBird AI after selling its brand assets and closing its U.S. full-price stores. The move sent shares soaring more than 70

InfoQ @ 2026-04-15 18:53:00

Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a novel quantization algorithm that compresses large language models’ Key-Value caches by up to 6x. With 3.5-bit compression, near-zero accuracy loss, and no retraining needed, it allows developers to run massive cont

Deepmind @ 2026-04-15 18:03:19

Our newest audio model introduces granular audio tags that give you precise control to direct AI speech for expressive audio generation.

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 18:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Rivian is joining with Redwood Materials to reuse EV batteries for energy storage -- the largest repurposed-battery energy storage system for an automotive manufacturer in the U.S., executiv

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 17:40:02

The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad.

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 17:00:00

A 63-year-old man in Norway appears to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, who turned out to have a rare mutation that makes immune cells resistant to HIV. "Four years after the transplant, and two years after the man s

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-15 16:47:25

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. The post The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 16:34:44

Steven Troughton-Smith: If you want to pixel-peep on iOS or iPadOS, it also has the Zoom accessibility setting, and can be controlled via touch, keyboard, or trackpad. It works for display mirroring too, and has other options like a minimap and HUD (‘

old new thing @ 2026-04-15 16:00:00

Maybe it didn't really exit. The post Why is there a long delay between a thread exiting and the <CODE>Wait­For­Single­Object</CODE> returning? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-04-15 14:30:00

Zendesk argues that GenAI shifts the bottleneck in software delivery from writing code to “absorption capacity”, which is the organisation’s ability to define problems clearly, integrate changes into the wider system, and turn implementation into reliabl

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:38:41

Quantum 10, 2069 (2026). Magic-state resource theory is a fundamental framework with far-reaching applications in quantum error correction and the classical simulation of quantum systems. Recent advances have s

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 13:17:23

Quantum 10, 2068 (2026). The present era of quantum processors with hundreds to thousands of noisy qubits has sparked interest in understanding the computational power of these devices and how to leverage it to

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 13:00:00

Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman urged theater owners to cut down the roughly 30 minutes of trailers and ads before movies. "Get off the ad crack," Rothman told the audience at CinemaCon this week. "Get rid of the endless advertising and substantially short

AEON @ 2026-04-15 12:01:00

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-15 11:36:00

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find a remotely exploitable heap buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's NFS driver, undiscovered for 23 years. Five kernel vulnerabilities have been confirmed so far. Linux kernel maintainers repor

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 09:23:18

Quantum 10, 2067 (2026). Approximating the $k$-th spectral gap $\Delta_k=|\lambda_k-\lambda_{k+1}|$ and the corresponding midpoint $\mu_k=\frac{\lambda_k+\lambda_{k+1}}{2}$ of an $N\times N$ Hermitian

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 09:00:00

Amazon is buying satellite communications company Globalstar for $10.8 billion to expand its Leo satellite-internet network and compete more directly with SpaceX's Starlink. The deal also includes a partnership with Apple to support satellite connectivity

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-15 08:53:10

Quantum 10, 2066 (2026). We describe a novel scheme for the generation of stationary entanglement between two separated qubits that are driven by a purely thermal photon source. While in this scenario the qubit

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-15 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

slashdot @ 2026-04-15 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cord Cutters News: Sony has notified owners of its recent BRAVIA television models that significant changes to the built-in TV Guide for its OTA TV antenna users and related menu features will take effect starting i

TED Blog @ 2026-04-15 03:00:23

What does the future actually look like — and who gets to build it? Day 2 of TED2026 didn’t shy away from the big questions. From the promise and peril of AI to the potential of solar-powered, offline educational tools, these sessions brought togethe

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Does your private cloud feel like a free-for-all buffet? You know it's providing value, but when the bill comes due, it’s nearly impossible to tell who’s eating what.In today's dynamic cloud environments, it’s increasingly important to be able to properly

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Are you ready to accelerate your business and dive into the future of open innovation? We certainly are! Red Hat Summit 2026 is coming quickly and we can’t wait to see you all in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 11-14, especially as we have something extra speci

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-15 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.21 is now available, improving pipeline performance, security capabilities, and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) on Red Hat OpenShift. This release introduces AI-assisted troubl

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-15 01:54:47

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Int

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-15 00:06:18

Molly White, at Web3 Is Going Just Great: After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a genuine L

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:46:17

Tim Hardwick, last week at MacRumors: Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station . In a new post on Weibo, the oft-accurate leaker claimed that

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:19:29

The Houston Chronicle: Kristin Tips, the longtime presiding officer of the embattled Texas Funeral Service Commission, is no longer on the board. “Governor Abbott appreciates Kristin Tips’ service,” Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, said in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 23:07:35

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing . Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 22:25:18

Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “ malicious practices ” of spam policies, leading to pot

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

 Guest post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory director (though not affiliated with the NSF now) on the White House NSF budget for FY 2027. --------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues A week ago the White House released the NSF

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-14 21:45:00

How to implement a security.txt with Jekyll

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:34:29

Amazon: Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon Leo to add direct-to-device (D2D) services to its low Earth orbit satel

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 21:26:25

Speaking of John Calhoun , he chimed in on a Hacker News thread last month regarding his experience working with Steve Lemay at Apple: I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when I was an engineer, he was a young, new design

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-14 20:41:54

A woman battling the conditions went from "two handfuls of pills" and blood transfusions daily to medication-free. The post One Shot Just Crushed Three Deadly Autoimmune Diseases appeared first on SingularityHub .

tecosystems @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

Sogrady @ 2026-04-14 18:59:33

This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. This editi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-14 18:48:20

El neerlandés pretendió ganar sin arriesgar, y tuvo que firmar el empate que hacía campeón a Sindárov en menos de cuatro horas

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 18:20:23

Richard Moss, back in 2010: John Calhoun’s Glider games hold a special place in the history of Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which produced a ridiculous amount

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-14 16:08:36

If you know the distance d to a satellite, you can compute a circle of points that passes through your location. That’s because you’re at the intersection of two spheres—the earth’s surface and a sphere of radius d centered on the satell

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 16:03:44

John Calhoun, on Bluesky (and also a new blog ): I re-made Glider some years back for MacOS/iOS. It broke at some point (perhaps an Apple change for Retina displays?) so I pulled it from the App Store. (Claude looked at the code — found some minor

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 16:00:17

WorkLife is back — and entering a new chapter. The TED podcast is bringing in a brand-new host — community and company builder Molly Graham — to explore the lessons about work no one teaches you. Molly Graham has spent nearly two decades inside fast-growin

old new thing @ 2026-04-14 16:00:00

Not a direct line to Bill Gates's office. The post Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-14 15:16:00

I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there host Gergely Orosz interviewed Kent Beck and myself on stage . The video runs for about half-an-hour. I always enjoy nattering with Kent like this, and Gergely pushed into som

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 15:00:35

Today at TED2026 in Vancouver, the nonprofit organizations TED, Khan Academy and ETS announced a joint plan to launch the Khan TED Institute, a new higher education collaboration designed for an AI‑driven era. The Khan TED Institute aims to prepare learner

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-14 14:19:42

The Wikipedia article on modern triangle geometry has an image labeled “Artzt parabolas” with no explanation. A quick search didn’t turn up anything about Artzt parabolas [1], but apparently the parabolas go through pairs of vertices wit

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

Security researchers have demonstrated a new class of Rowhammer attacks targeting NVIDIA GPUs that can escalate from memory corruption to full system compromise, marking a significant shift in hardware-level security risks. By Craig Risi

InfoQ @ 2026-04-14 13:35:00

A recent paper from Anthropic examines how large language models internally represent concepts related to emotions and how these representations influence behavior. The work is part of the company’s interpretability research and focuses on analyzing inte

AEON @ 2026-04-14 12:00:00

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly - by Mark Higgins Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-14 10:00:00

Airbnb's observability engineering team has published details of a large-scale migration away from StatsD and a proprietary Veneur-based aggregation pipeline toward a modern, open-source metrics stack built on OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OpenTelem

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 03:00:07

It’s time for TED! TED2026 marks a pivotal milestone: our final conference in our beloved Vancouver venue before embarking on TED’s next chapter. To open the conference, TED’s Chris Anderson and Helen Walters welcome TED Vision Steward Sal Khan

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 02:30:46

The Playlist: The first pitch, he said, goes back to 2008, and it was already pretty radical by Bond standards. “I had pitched in 2008 the idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh said. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fi

TED Blog @ 2026-04-14 02:25:58

At TED, we say that ideas change everything. And it’s the people behind these ideas who make TED the powerful community it is. Each talk sparks something: a new question, a shift in perspective, a feeling that lingers longer than expected. Those who hear t

Inside Java @ 2026-04-14 02:00:00

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-14 02:00:00

Legacy infrastructure is the primary barrier to AI strategy. Current systems simply weren't built for these workloads. Platforms lack native AI support, leaving expensive GPUs underutilized at rates as low as 30%. While teams often customize models, the ac

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 01:55:46

Federico Viticci: Today, I’m very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete rethinking of the shortcut that is not

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-14 01:46:10

Welp, turns out I wrote an entire post about the Control-scroll zoom-in-and-out feature all the way back in 2006, when it was a new feature in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Somehow, between 2006 and last year, I completely forgot about it. I don’t think it helps

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-14 00:33:30

The technology harnesses the brain's own blood chemistry to assemble soft, light-controlled electrodes around neurons. The post Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 23:18:07

Every AI agent demo looks magical, but most hit a wall in enterprise deployment. It’s not model quality or latency. It’s authorization. Authentication proves an agent’s identity. Authorization defines its blast radius. The winners in enterprise AI won’t

InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 23:00:00

With the release of Gemma 4, Google aims to enable local, agentic AI for Android development through a family of models designed to support the entire software lifecycle, from coding to production. By Sergio De Simone

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 22:56:15

Tuomas Hämäläinen, on Mastodon: We’re at Mac OS 26.4 and seems like the accessibility toggles should be way more considered than they are. Here’s a comparison between “Reduce transparency” off and on. How does it make sense that turning this setting

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 21:49:32

Bryan Chaffin, two weeks ago: John Martellaro was good man. He was not only a better man than me, he was one of the best people I knew. It is with a heavy heart that I tell you Mr. Martellaro passed away today. He rose to the rank of Captain in the

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-13 21:12:00

El neerlandés, siempre en la élite, es de los mejor preparados y de comprensión estratégica más profunda, pero no arriesga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 21:09:13

I’d never before heard of this museum , but now that I’ve seen Wichary’s photos, I want to go. Unsurprisingly , a lot of his shots are details of vintage keyboards. I keep pausing on this one , a “ RE-START ” key with the word broken across two lines.

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:45:55

Quantum 10, 2065 (2026). Estimating spectral gaps of quantum many-body Hamiltonians is a highly challenging computational task, even under assumptions of locality and translation-invariance. Yet, the quest for

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:26:50

Quantum 10, 2064 (2026). The solutions to many problems in the mathematical, computational, and physical sciences often involve multidimensional integrals. A direct numerical evaluation of the integral incurs a

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:16:11

Quantum 10, 2063 (2026). Quantum simulation has emerged as a key application of quantum computing, with significant progress made in algorithms for simulating both closed and open quantum systems. The simulatio

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 20:04:01

Quantum 10, 2062 (2026). Efficient parametrizations of quantum states are essential for trainable hybrid classical-quantum algorithms. A key challenge in their design consists in adapting to the available qubit

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 19:47:57

Quantum 10, 2061 (2026). Encoding logical qubits with surface codes and performing multi-qubit logical operations with lattice surgery is one of the most promising approaches to demonstrate fault-tolerant quant

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 19:43:16

Marcin Wichary, at Unsung: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, and then turn on “Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.” Then, at any moment, you can hold Control and swipe with two fingers (or use a scroll wheel) up or down to zoom the e

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-13 19:37:24

Quantum 10, 2060 (2026). We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our propo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 18:56:46

Hannah Murphy, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, but Ars Technica has a no-paywall syndicated copy ): The company recently began prioritising a Zuckerberg AI character, three of the people said. The Meta chief is personally involved in

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-13 18:16:20

In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with

Deepmind @ 2026-04-13 17:52:13

Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhancing spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding for autonomous robotics.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-13 16:54:41

AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning. The post The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-13 16:33:16

Andrzej Odrzywolek recently posted an article on arXiv showing that you can obtain all the elementary functions from just the function and the constant 1. The following equations, taken from the paper’s supplement, show how to bootstrap addition, su

old new thing @ 2026-04-13 16:00:00

Taking advantage of special characteristics of the array. The post Finding a duplicated item in an array of <VAR>N</VAR> integers in the range 1 to <VAR>N</VAR> − 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 15:45:00

Lyft has implemented an AI-driven localization system to accelerate translations of its app and web content. Using a dual-path pipeline with large language models and human review, the system processes most content in minutes, improves international rele

AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:01:00

This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-13 12:00:00

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity - by Coreen McGuire & Alex Aylward Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 10:00:00

AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an

InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 08:35:00

Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced AI model, improving significantly in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. Unlike previous releases, it will not be publicly available. Access is limited to a consortium of tech companies

InfoQ @ 2026-04-13 04:30:00

This week's Java roundup for April 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the fifth preview of Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof and switch; the proposed release schedule for JDK 27; point releases of Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak and Google ADK

Inside Java @ 2026-04-13 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the removal of obsolete translation resources in JDK 27.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-13 02:00:00

The only thing harder than finding a critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is fixing it across your entire infrastructure. Red Hat Lightspeed simplifies this challenge by enabling you to address advisor recommendations, content advisories, vu

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-13 02:00:00

Red Hat is excited to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.12 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.1, marking a major leap forward in our confidential computing journey. These releases graduate confidential containers on bare metal fr

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-13 02:00:00

In the world of hybrid cloud infrastructure, data is our most valuable currency. But for data to be valid and valuable, it must be taken in context. Recently, VMware published a blog post claiming that, based on a study conducted by Principled Technologies

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-13 01:42:01

The date of Easter The church fixed Easter to be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox. They were choosing a date in the Roman (Julian) calendar to commemorate an event whose date was known according to the Jewish lunisolar c

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-13 00:00:00

My thanks to Typotheque for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Zed, their incredible new font superfamily. Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but wha

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 23:59:00

The New York Times: In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up.

TED Blog @ 2026-04-12 20:45:43

Can’t make it to Vancouver for TED2026 this week? No problem! You can stream the entire conference online with TED Live. TED Live brings the TED conference experience to your home – or anywhere you want to watch. Get exclusive access to every talk. S

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-12 20:39:56

El neerlandés no logra doblegar a Yi Wei tras seis horas de lucha a pesar de conseguir varias posiciones donde disponía de golpes ganadores

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-12 19:39:26

More vintage graphic-design weekend fun — this time, a collection of Milwaukee bus tickets from the late 1940s to early 1950s, collected on the Present & Correct blog. So much variety in the colors and typography, but yet they all feel branded toget

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-12 17:00:00

Less known Solaris Features integrated to the website

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-12 14:09:13

Today is Orthodox Easter. Western churches celebrated Easter last week. Why are the Eastern and Western dates of Easter different? Is Eastern Easter always later than Western Easter? How far apart can the two dates be? Why the dates differ Easter is on th

InfoQ @ 2026-04-12 11:00:00

GitHub has launched Copilot CLI into general availability, bringing generative AI directly to the terminal. Integrated with the GitHub CLI, it offers natural language command suggestions and code explanations. Recent updates introduce "agentic" workflows

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-12 07:41:14

El estadounidense presionó con pequeña ventaja durante más de cinco horas, pero el uzbeko se mantuvo firme

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-12 06:10:00

Less known Solaris Features eBook back online

The observation deck @ 2026-04-12 02:00:00

In his classic Programming Perl  — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to tal

Inside Java @ 2026-04-12 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it announces the General Availability of Java 26...

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-04-11 19:55:10

  Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite. This mineral creates an eerie blue shimmer in the sunlight: a phenomenon called ‘labradorescenceR

Physics Phorums @ 2026-04-11 19:55:10

  Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite. This mineral creates an eerie blue shimmer in the sunlight: a phenomenon called ‘labradorescenceR

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-11 18:55:24

Some graphic design fun for the weekend: achingly gorgeous art pieces recreating vintage Pan Am luggage tags, by Ella Freire. I love them all. The colors, the type, the shapes — sublime. ( Via Dan Cederholm’s Studio Notes .)  ★ 

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-11 16:00:00

Brain twins where regions are allowed to compete for resources behave more like the real thing. The post How to Build Better Digital Twins of the Human Brain appeared first on SingularityHub .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-11 15:01:00

Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code . It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if you’re in the Boston area this m

Baeldung @ 2026-04-11 07:45:20

Explore a faster, more computationally efficient solution for implementing Gaussian blur in Java. The post Fast Gaussian Blur Implementation in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Atomic14 @ 2026-04-11 02:00:00

I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 23:29:46

Regarding Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s epic profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-10 20:33:01

It's a step change in cybersecurity. Exploits that would take experts weeks to develop can now be generated in hours. The post Anthropic’s Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser appeared first on SingularityHub

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-10 20:17:39

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 553 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Artemisa II; Brecha de Masas; Respiración”, 09 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 553: Mi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 18:35:03

This new museum in Utrecht (about 30–40 minutes south of Amsterdam) seems just astonishing. The rainbow wall of iMacs alone is incredible. ( Via Juli Clover .)  ★ 

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-10 16:29:49

There’s a lot of mathematics just off the beaten path. You can spend a career in math and yet not know all there is to know about even the most basic areas of math. For example, this post will demonstrate something you may not have seen about decima

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-10 16:25:09

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. The post Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

old new thing @ 2026-04-10 16:00:00

Waiting for the waiting thread to acknowledge the change. The post How do you add or remove a handle from an active <CODE>Wait­For­Multiple­Objects</CODE>?, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-10 12:47:18

El duelo entre un portento en gran forma y otro desdibujado fue muy desigual desde la apertura, mal elegida por el indio

AEON @ 2026-04-10 12:00:00

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Does AI threaten them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-04-10 11:51:00

Doing things that don't scale has real value. Oh and S3 is now a filesystem :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 641 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-10 10:15:50

Quantum 10, 2059 (2026). Non-stabilizerness, also known as “magic,'' quantifies how far a quantum state departs from the stabilizer set. It is a central resource behind quantum advantage and a useful

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-10 08:45:44

Quantum 10, 2058 (2026). Topological invariants of a dataset, such as the number of holes that survive from one length scale to another (persistent Betti numbers) can be used to analyze and classify data in mac

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-10 03:35:00

I posted about using the Banach-Tarski Paradox(BT)  to explain the miracle of Loaves and Fishes (LF)  here . Darling says that whenever I fool my readers or my students then I have to tell them later, so I'll tell you now: The story about me me

iOS Weekly @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00

Is Swift growing bigger than Xcode? Yes, and it has been for a while! 🚀

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00

Ethereum's All Core Developer calls can be a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for periodic high-level updates, depending on what's happening in core development. See the previous update here. !image...

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00

Don't forget to register for Red Hat SummitRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta! Register by February 23 for the lowest rates, or save further with group discounts for three or more attendees from your organization. Secure your spot

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-10 02:00:00

In a previous article, we focused on the capability that turns large language models (LLMs) from general-purpose tools into instruments of research through domain-specific customization. Fine-tuned models are how research teams encode domain expertise, ins

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-10 00:14:13

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug : Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minut

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-09 22:35:30

“thenickdude”, on Reddit: They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website. When you visit , they load this image using JavaScript:

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 19:54:21

Saw a post on X saying that the latitude of the Pyramid of Giza is the same as the speed of light. I looked into this, expecting it to be approximately true. It’s exactly true in the sense that the speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s and the

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-09 19:25:08

I recently ran across a post on X describing a process for creating a random fractal. First, pick a random point c inside a hexagon. Then at each subsequent step, pick a random side of the hexagon and create the triangle formed by that side and c. Update 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-09 19:10:48

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking of the president of the United States in a totally normal way: I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks

ASF @ 2026-04-09 18:46:30

The ASF welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on March 5, 2026:  C. Scott Andreas, Clay Baenziger, Alessandro Benedetti, Arturo Bernal, Ronny Berndt, Jürg Billeter, Zhaofeng Chen, Raúl Cumplido, Amo

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

You can't, but you can cooperate with the other thread. The post How do you add or remove a handle from an active <CODE>Wait­For­Multiple­Objects</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-09 15:23:00

I mostly link to written material here, but I’ve recently listened to two excellent podcasts that I can recommend. Anyone who regularly reads these fragments knows that I’m a big fan of Simon Willison, his (also very fragmentary) posts have earned a reg

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-09 14:19:33

En una partida típica del neerlandés cuando está en su mejor forma, mantuvo una pequeña ventaja durante horas y la remató con brillo