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slashdot @ 2026-03-21 12:00:00

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly captured a rare, early-stage breakup of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just days after it first began disintegrating. Phys.org reports: "Sometimes the best science happens by accident," said co-investigator John Noonan,

InfoQ @ 2026-03-21 11:01:00

Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema validation, and direct writes to Iceberg and Delta Lake. W

slashdot @ 2026-03-21 08:00:00

schwit1 shares a report from the BBC: A French officer has reportedly revealed the location of an aircraft carrier deployed towards the Middle East after publicly registering a run on sports app Strava. French news outlet Le Monde first reported the office

slashdot @ 2026-03-21 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued (PDF) a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent techn

slashdot @ 2026-03-21 00:00:00

CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts. Longtime CBS News anchor Dan Rather said: "It's another piece of America that is gone." The Associated Press rep

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 23:11:37

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InfoQ @ 2026-03-20 23:00:00

Sonatype Guide is a real-time guardrail system that sits between AI coding tools and the open-source ecosystem, ensuring AI-generated code uses safe, valid, and maintainable dependencies. By Sergio De Simone

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 23:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft says it is finally listening to user complaints about Windows 11, promising a series of changes focused on performance, reliability, and reducing everyday annoyances. In a message to Windows Insiders, the company outlined pla

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-03-20 22:15:16

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 550 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Entrevista DeepMind; AlphaGo y AlphaFold; Egipto; Consciencia”, 19 mar 2026. «La tertulia semanal en […] La entr

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-20 22:05:24

guest post by William Waites The previous post introduced the plumbing calculus: typed channels, structural morphisms, two forms of composition, and agents as stateful morphisms with a protocol for managing their state. The examples were simple. This post

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-20 22:05:24

guest post by William Waites The previous post introduced the plumbing calculus: typed channels, structural morphisms, two forms of composition, and agents as stateful morphisms with a protocol for managing their state. The examples were simple. This post

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 22:03:52

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-20 22:00:09

Sean Hollister, The Verge (gift link): After doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed , it’s starting to mess with headlines in the traditional “10 blue links,” too. We’ve found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wro

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 22:00:00

As energy prices soar from the Iran conflict, the International Energy Agency is urging governments to cut energy use by taking up measures like remote work and reduced speed limits. The group warns the energy security crisis could persist for months, even

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 21:54:57

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-20 21:49:07

Regarding my earlier post expressing confusion/discomfort with Bluesky announcing a $100 million funding round almost an entire year after it closed, I had an interesting back-and-forth with Adam Vartanian on Bluesky (natch), where he wrote : If yo

ASF @ 2026-03-20 21:29:38

Trivy, Agua Security’s open-source vulnerability scanner, appears to have experienced a security incident March 19, 2026, based on the details available here: stepsecurity.io/blog/trivy-compromised-a-second-time—malicious-v0-69-4-release

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 21:00:00

joshuark shares a report from Neowin: OpenAI is planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a singular desktop "superapp." CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, said the company was doubling down on its successful products.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 20:16:13

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slashdot @ 2026-03-20 20:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a repot from the Portland Tribune: There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed (PDF) by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned two thumbs up

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 19:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from CNN: The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of U.S. laws barri

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 18:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger," passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-20 17:58:42

The hardest part of using regular expressions is not crafting regular expressions per se. In my opinion, the two hardest parts are minor syntax variations between implementations, and all the environmental stuff outside of regular expressions per se. Embe

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-20 17:46:01

Bluesky: In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures. In the months since, we’ve focused on sca

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-20 17:00:00

Ich mag YouTube. Nicht wegen des KI-Schunds, der einem an allen Ecken und Enden präsentiert wird. Nicht wegen Influencern, die praktisch nur durch den Produktionswert ihrer Videos von den Verkäufern im Teleshopping zu unterscheiden sind. Nö, weil man d

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 17:00:00

Amazon is reportedly developing a new AI-focused smartphone that doesn't rely as heavily on traditional apps. "The phone is seen as a potential mobile personalization device that can sync with home voice assistant Alexa and serve as a conduit to Amazon cus

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 16:39:19

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-20 16:38:27

Quiche Browser is a rather astonishing app from the one-man indie developer Greg de J. / Quiche Industries . (What a killer domain name that is.) Quiche Browser is a very robust, exquisitely designed, stunningly handsome web browser exclusively for iPhon

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 16:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started raising a "lobster," hoping that the AI agent he has been training can help organize his specialized industry knowledge better than

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 15:48:09

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InfoQ @ 2026-03-20 15:26:00

Stripe engineers describe Minions, autonomous coding agents generating over 1,300 pull requests per week. Tasks can originate from Slack, bug reports, or feature requests. Using LLMs, blueprints, and CI/CD pipelines, Minions produce production-ready chan

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-20 15:25:33

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be discovered. The post The Jellies That Evol

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 15:09:58

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old new thing @ 2026-03-20 15:00:00

Wrapping things up. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective: arm64, also known as AArch64 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-20 15:00:00

There's plenty of hand-waving around AGI. DeepMind hopes to change that with a new, more rigorous approach. The post Google DeepMind Plans to Track AGI Progress With These 10 Traits of General Intelligence appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 14:43:23

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InfoQ @ 2026-03-20 13:00:00

Harness has announced the general availability of Harness Artifact Registry, a platform capability designed to simplify how engineering teams store, secure, and govern software artifacts within modern DevSecOps pipelines. By Craig Risi

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-20 12:26:25

Quantum 10, 2035 (2026). We present an efficient spin-photon interface for free-space vertical emission coupling. Using a dipole model, we show that our design achieves a far-field collection efficiency of 96%

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 12:00:00

BrianFagioli writes: Opera GX has officially landed on Linux, bringing its gamer-focused browser experience to Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE-based systems. The browser includes GX Control for limiting RAM and network usage, a Hot Tabs Killer to shut

InfoQ @ 2026-03-20 11:03:00

Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, a

AEON @ 2026-03-20 11:00:00

The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next? - by Karen Stollznow Read on Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 10:41:51

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InfoQ @ 2026-03-20 10:00:00

The 2025 State of JavaScript survey reveals a maturing ecosystem with TypeScript's dominance solidified—40% of developers use it exclusively. Vite surges in build tools with a 98% satisfaction rate, while React remains the top framework amidst mixed feed

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-20 08:35:09

Quantum 10, 2034 (2026). In this work, a novel quantum neural network is introduced as a means to approximate any unitary evolution through the Standard Recursive Block Basis (SRBB) and is subsequently redesign

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-20 08:27:24

Quantum 10, 2033 (2026). We design Snowflake, a quantum error correction decoder that, for the surface code under circuit-level noise, is roughly 25% more accurate than the Union-Find decoder, with a better mea

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-03-20 08:20:54

The full KotlinConf’26 schedule is finally live, and it’s packed! With parallel tracks, deep-dive sessions, and back-to-back talks, planning your time can feel overwhelming. When almost every session looks interesting, deciding where to spend your time isn

Kotlin news @ 2026-03-20 08:20:54

The full KotlinConf’26 schedule is finally live, and it’s packed! With parallel tracks, deep-dive sessions, and back-to-back talks, planning your time can feel overwhelming. When almost every session looks interesting, deciding where to spend your time isn

slashdot @ 2026-03-20 08:00:00

AleRunner writes: "China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades," reports The Washington Post. Later in the article,

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 05:24:11

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slashdot @ 2026-03-20 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-20 02:09:45

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Rust blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

When we set out to understand Rust's challenges, we expected to hear about the borrow checker learning curve and maybe some ecosystem gaps. Of course, we did. A lot. But, of course, it's more nuanced. The conventional wisdom is that Rust has a steep lea

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

As your organization scales its Red Hat OpenShift platform to support mission-critical workloads, your networking requirements often extend beyond a single load balancing solution. Many environments adopt a hybrid approach: Use software-defined load balanc

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

We’ve long moved past the era where open source was just a collection of parts; today, it’s the factory itself. Whether you are building AI agents with MCP or migrating legacy virtual machines (VMs) to a unified platform, the value isn't just in the code—i

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure offers several benefits, including increased scalability, flexibility, cost-efficiency, and access to a wide range of managed services. By using Microsoft Azure's global infrastructure, you can scale you

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several benefits, including enhanced scalability, flexibility, cost-efficiency, and access to a wide range of managed services. By using Amazon Web Services global infrastructure,

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

Explore the latest Red Hat + NVIDIA announcements from NVIDIA GTCExplore the latest Red Hat + NVIDIA announcements shaping the future of scalable enterprise AI. Check out all of Red Hat's news from NVIDIA GTC in the newsroom. Learn more The new AI stack: C

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-20 01:00:00

For a long time, organizations treated their infrastructure’s virtualization layer as steady and predictable. You built on it and you trusted it. Lately, that stability has been disrupted by complex shifts, including rising licensing costs and the urgent r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 22:09:32

Jeff Johnson, linking to my “ Your Frustration Is the Product ” piece: My browser extension StopTheMadness Pro stops autoplaying videos and hides Sign in with Google on all sites. It also hides sticky videos and notification requests on many sites.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 22:01:52

Javier C. Hernández, reporting for The New York Times: He was responding to a question about why Japan and other allies had received no advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran. “We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,”

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-19 21:33:02

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Baeldung @ 2026-03-19 21:28:01

Our Spring Sale is live, Java 26 is almost out and OAuth is getting a core issue fixed. A good week The post Java Weekly, Issue 638 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-19 21:13:35

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 21:09:27

Anne Applebaum, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): Specifically, they remember that for 14 months, the American president has tariffed them, mocked their security concerns, and repeatedly insulted them. As long ago as January 2020, Trump told s

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-19 20:37:26

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 20:15:59

Mark Simonson: Just by coincidence, I discovered a copy of U&lc magazine in the graphics classroom. U&lc was published by ITC, the International Typeface Corporation, a typeface publisher, and the designer and editor was the legendary Herb Lub

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 20:03:22

Adamya Sharma, reporting for Android Authority: When Google execs previously said sideloading would become a high-friction process on Android, they really weren’t kidding. The company is finally sharing what Android’s new sideloading flow will look

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 18:31:15

One of the most controversial opinions I’ve long espoused , and believe today more than ever, is that it was a terrible mistake for web browsers to support JavaScript. Not that they should have picked a different language, but that they supported scripti

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-19 18:24:14

Esta inapelable victoria sobre el vigente campeón del mundo, Gukesh, confirma que el alemán es un rival temible, a pesar de su estilo conservador

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 17:46:37

When something in your workflow is bugging you, you should figure out a way to address it. Why I didn’t write (and share) this script years ago is a mystery for the ages.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-19 16:57:00

David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of code review – Wikipedia will tell you as much. And sure, reviewers do catch bugs. But I think t

Baeldung @ 2026-03-19 16:56:59

Learn to create reliable backups of H2 databses and export data for recovery, inspection, or reuse. The post Performing Export and Backup of H2 Databases first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-03-19 16:49:34

Explore the conversion between bytes and shorts and also possible issues with byte ordering in Java. The post Converting Byte Array to Short Array and Vice-Versa in Java first appeared on Baeldung .          

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 16:11:00

Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. F

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 16:10:00

Christine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed how Spritely works to

old new thing @ 2026-03-19 15:00:00

Reaching the modern day. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective: amd64, also known as x86-64 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-19 15:00:00

The prevailing narrative suggests AI is ready to replace humans, but the evidence is more nuanced. The post Tech Companies Are Blaming Massive Layoffs on AI. What’s Really Going On? appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-19 14:35:54

Celebrating twenty years of innovation in ML and AI technology at AWS. Countless developers—myself included—have embraced cloud computing and actively used its capabilities to accomplish what was previously impossible.

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 12:39:00

You can find your way through an organization by figuring out what artifacts people leave behind, David Grizzanti mentioned at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston. He compared culture to anthropology, suggested studying behaviors, power dynamics, and decisions firs

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 11:43:00

At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than ever, Smith argued that the models themselves are increasingl

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 11:15:00

Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, as nearly 20% of all critical Firefox vulnerabilities were fixed in 2025. The AI also wrote working exploits for two bugs, demonstrating emerging capabil

AEON @ 2026-03-19 11:01:00

We all want longevity without compromising on quality of life. This 87-year-old achieves both with a daily running habit - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 11:00:00

The Azure Kubernetes Service team shared a detailed guide on how to use Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) with NVIDIA vGPU technology on AKS. his update improves control and efficiency for shared GPU use in AI and media tasks. By Claudio Masolo

AEON @ 2026-03-19 11:00:00

As the 18th-century war between mechanism and romanticism returns, we face a new question: can we build artificial souls? - by Peter Wolfendale Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 10:37:00

Microsoft has released the second preview of .NET 11, featuring native OpenTelemetry tracing for ASP.NET Core, major Map control improvements and faster bindings in .NET MAUI, Blazor TempData support, a new Web Worker project template, and performance im

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 10:17:00

At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate

brucknerite @ 2026-03-19 10:00:00

El viernes pasado falleció mi exsuegro a los 95 años de edad. En su recuerdo, me gustaría traer a colación de nuevo un artículo de hace un tiempito. Se trata de un pedacito curioso de la historia automotriz de este rincón de Europa que, si tenéis un rato,

InfoQ @ 2026-03-19 08:32:00

An article on Martin Fowler’s blog by Kief Morris examines the role of humans in AI-assisted software engineering, arguing developers are unlikely to move fully “out of the loop.” Instead, teams may work “on the loop,” designing tests, specifications, an

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-19 02:21:53

The gamma function Γ(z) extends the factorial function from integers to complex numbers. (Technically, Γ(z + 1) extends factorial.) There are other ways to extend the factorial function, so what makes the gamma function the right choice? The most common a

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-19 01:00:00

Irgendwo, in längst vergessenen Schachteln liegen vielleicht immer noch MixCD, die ich zusammengestellt habe. Die ich an Menschen weitergegeben habe, die mir wichtig waren. Die Mixtapes dürften wahrscheinlich längst verschwunden sein. Irgendwann mit dem l

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-19 01:00:00

As Red Hat OpenShift clusters scale to support hundreds of microservices, the sheer volume of telemetry data can become overwhelming. Platform architects often face a difficult paradox: Maintain visibility required for security and compliance while also ma

Inside Java @ 2026-03-19 01:00:00

JDK 26 was released on March 17, 2026! As with my previous blogs, I have compiled a list of what I think are the most interesting and useful security enhancements in this release. I have also grouped them into appropriate categories (crypto, TLS, etc) whic

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 00:40:00

Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years . Sponsored by: Notion : The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace : Save 10% off your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-19 00:39:57

The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-03-19 00:17:22

Se llama familia del protón a los bariones con dos quarks tipo arriba (u, c) y uno tipo abajo (d, s, b); recuerda que el top (t) no hadroniza. LHCb […] La entrada LHCb observa un nuevo barión de la familia del protón fue escrita en La Ciencia d

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-18 22:36:47

There’s a new paper out on the Formalization of QFT, purporting to formalize a QFT using Lean/Mathlib. I’ve been trying to avoid spending time on the hot topics of AI and theorem proving, but in this case there’s a lot … Continue r

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-18 22:29:03

This support page is a fascinating footnote regarding the recent changes Apple has made to their U.S. key cap labels .  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-18 22:25:50

Who do you turn to when you’re Christie’s and you want to commission the finest rostrum the world has ever seen? Who else but Jony Ive and LoveFrom. I mean, I’d love to snark about this, but goddamnit, that’s a lovely piece of furniture.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-18 19:53:10

David Heaney, writing for UploadVR: Meta Horizon Worlds is dropping VR support in June, meaning it will only be available as a flatscreen experience for the web and smartphones. By March 31, Meta says the Horizon Worlds app will be delisted from Que

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-18 19:31:24

Esta victoria del alemán frente a su compatriota Keymer, quien rozó la clasificación, indica por qué estará en el Candidatos

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-18 19:30:16

Jake Conley, reporting for Yahoo Finance: If the deal closes, Zaslav will receive $517.2 million in equity that would trigger if and when the sale goes through, along with roughly $34.2 million in cash and $44.2 million in benefits tied to the value o

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-18 17:26:15

We’re thrilled to celebrate three exceptional developer community leaders as AWS Heroes. These individuals represent the heart of what makes the AWS community so vibrant. In addition to sharing technical knowledge, they build connections, forge genuine hum

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-18 15:23:34

Gilles Brassard and Charlie Bennett Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard will receive the 2025 ACM Turing Award  for their work on the foundations of quantum information science, the first Turing award for quantum. Read all about it in

old new thing @ 2026-03-18 15:00:00

Double the size, double the fun. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Baeldung @ 2026-03-18 14:30:12

Learn how Java TOON libraries JToon and json-io can cut your token costs and optimize your communication with LLMs by using the efficient TOON format. The post Introduction to TOON Format in Java first appeared on Baeldung .     

Baeldung @ 2026-03-18 14:16:40

Learn how to to use the MyBatis-Flex extension to the MyBatis ecosystem for data access to a datasource. The post Guide to MyBatis-Flex first appeared on Baeldung .              

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-03-18 14:11:20

The Kotlin Foundation is joining Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026! If you are a student or an eligible contributor looking to spend your summer working on a real-world open-source project, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact on the Kotlin ecos

Kotlin news @ 2026-03-18 14:11:20

The Kotlin Foundation is joining Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026! If you are a student or an eligible contributor looking to spend your summer working on a real-world open-source project, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact on the Kotlin ecos

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-18 13:07:06

Quantum 10, 2032 (2026). We propose applying the adiabatic algorithm to prepare high-energy eigenstates of integrable models on a quantum computer. We first review the standard adiabatic algorithm to prepare gr

AEON @ 2026-03-18 11:01:00

What does true wilderness look like? A photographer captures a rare slice of it in this refuge threatened by development - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-18 10:00:36

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science. The post Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award first appeared on Quanta Magazine

This Week in Rust @ 2026-03-18 05:00:00

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

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-18 03:50:12

The alternating series test is part of the standard calculus curriculum. It says that if you truncate an alternating series, the remainder is bounded by the first term that was left out. This fact goes by in a blur for most students, but it becomes useful

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-18 01:00:00

Normalerweise riecht Vogelfutter 1 wie die ganz ernste Ecke in einem Biosupermarkt. Dort, wo die Gaumenfreude sich zum Sterben verkriecht. Ich wollte meinen neuen gefiederten Mitbewohnern heute etwas Besonderes mitbringen. Nun stehe ich vor der offenen

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-18 01:00:00

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 reaches its end of Maintenance Support on June 30, 2026. Originally launched in June 2023, Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 was a major milestone in the automation landscape, introducing Event-Driven Ansible to the pl

Inside Java @ 2026-03-18 01:00:00

Let’s quickly review in definitely under 3 minutes the 10 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) that were included in the JDK 26 release! Couldn't make it to JavaOne? Catch the biggest moments by joining us on our livestreams for the opening Keynote and Communi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-18 00:47:47

CNBC’s headline is journalistic malpractice. The rest of their report is even worse.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-17 22:54:35

As they imagine typing, implants translate brain signals into keystrokes on a standard digital keyboard. The post Brain Implants Let Paralyzed People Type Nearly as Fast as Smartphone Users appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-17 20:26:12

Fox Sports, on Twitter/X: Tonight, watch the WBC Final in a full immersive experience on the Fox Sports XR app for the Galaxy XR headset powered by Android XR! The Fox Sports app in the App Store is native only on iOS (iPhone and iPad), Apple TV

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-03-17 18:05:14

FreeBSD runs on this… FreeBSD runs on this… and FreeBSD runs on this…! It’s easy to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to manage multiple hard drives with ZFS. So we were wondering if it’s possible to make a simple NAS out

Baeldung @ 2026-03-17 17:33:23

Learn how to convert both modern docx and legacy doc files from Microsoft Word to HTML via Apache POI. The post Convert Word Document to HTML Programmatically in Java first appeared on Baeldung .           &#

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-17 17:30:01

Check out Apple Developer on bilibili and LinkedIn to learn about the latest news, announcements, videos, and events — including the Worldwide Developers Conference and Meet with Apple activities — for the developer community. Follow on bilibili Fo

AWS Open Source News @ 2026-03-17 17:09:55

AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI today announced a joint $12.5 million investment with the Linux Foundation to help open source projects address a surge in AI-enhanced and AI-generated security vulnerability reports. Both the Alpha Omega initi

Deepmind @ 2026-03-17 17:03:47

We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.

old new thing @ 2026-03-17 15:00:00

Appeasing the invisible return address predictor. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386, second try appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-17 14:49:53

Jess Weatherbed, The Verge: Samsung is preparing to axe its first three-panel foldable phone less than three months after launching the device in the US. Sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold will first be wound down in Korea and then discontinued in

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-17 14:41:21

Stephen Hackett: I was just going about my day then James Thomson of PCalc and other fine applications dropped these images on me and said I could share them. Also, something fun for those of you with 3D printers.  ★ 

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-17 14:37:00

Conversations with AI are ephemeral, decisions made early lose attention as the conversation continues, and disappear entirely with a new session. Rahul Garg explains how Context Anchoring externalizes the decision context into a living document. m

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-17 14:26:13

If a number has a finite but nonzero fractional part, so do all its powers. I recently ran across a proof in [1] that is shorter than I expected. Theorem: Suppose r is a real number that is not an integer, and the decimal part of r terminates. Then rk is

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-17 14:22:39

The previous post introduced the idea of a twelve-tone row, a permutation of the twelve pitch classes of a chromatic scale. The earlier post also introduced a group of operations on a tone row with elements P, R, I, and RI. Here P, which stands for “

Baeldung @ 2026-03-17 14:01:45

Learn to do transaction-based routing with Spring: send write operations to a primary database and read-only operations to a replica. The post Read-Write and Read-Only Transaction Routing With Spring first appeared on Baeldung .    

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-17 11:38:15

La profundidad estratégica y sabiduría de aperturas del neerlandés siempre han brillado; la incógnita ante el Torneo de Candidatos es si está dispuesto al riesgo

AEON @ 2026-03-17 11:00:00

Since living requires choosing, we will always feel regret about the paths not taken. But what matters is the future we forge - by Tasha Kleeman Read on Aeon

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-17 05:00:00

TL;DR Solaris 11.4 SRU 90 now does resilvering and scrubbing, while freeing space is pending. Closing a time gap Oracle Solaris had reached ZFS pool version 53 so far. With SRU 90, version 54 was added. This becomes visible in the version overview:

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-17 04:00:00

Es gibt einen besseren Moment, als jenen, in dem man die Folie von einem Gerät abzieht, das man gerade gekauft hat. Um zu sagen: Du bist jetzt meins. Du darfst bleiben. Dieser Moment ist jener, wenn man ein Buch erhält, das in Folie eingepackt ist und

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-17 01:00:00

As organizations scale generative AI (gen AI) across business units, a familiar tension appears—bigger models can often deliver better results, but they also require significantly more compute, cost, and operational complexity. This creates a production pa

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-17 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3 is now generally available with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.28 and Kiali to 2.22,

Inside Java @ 2026-03-17 01:00:00

Oracle is proud to announce the general availability of JDK 26 for developers, enterprises, and end-users.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-17 00:47:24

Video isn’t just something to watch; it’s a boatload of context and data. Mux makes it easy to ship and scale video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows. Unlock what’s inside: transcripts, clips, and storyboards to build summarization,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-17 00:20:21

The simulation encompasses nearly all of a cell's molecules over roughly two hours. The post Digital Twin of a Cell Tracks Its Entire Life Cycle Down to the Nanoscale appeared first on SingularityHub .

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-16 19:43:06

Wolfgang Pauli invented his famous matrices to describe the angular momentum of a spin-1/2 particle back in 1927. You’ll see them in most courses on quantum mechanics. We tend to take them for granted. But where do they come from? Here I derive them

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-16 19:43:06

Wolfgang Pauli invented his famous matrices to describe the angular momentum of a spin-1/2 particle back in 1927. You’ll see them in most courses on quantum mechanics. We tend to take them for granted. But where do they come from? Here I derive them

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-16 18:58:00

Another crackerjack essay on design and attention from Terry Godier. (Note that the Casio in the essay not only shows the actual time, but has functional buttons.)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-16 18:57:39

Apple Newsroom today: Apple today announced AirPods Max 2 , bringing even better Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), elevated sound quality, and intelligent features to the iconic over-ear design. Powered by H2, features like Adaptive Audio, Conversatio

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-16 18:39:11

Aravindh es el 7º en India, pero sería el 1º en la inmensa mayoría del resto del mundo, como se aprecia en esta magnífica partida

TED Blog @ 2026-03-16 18:30:33

The future has never felt more volatile. Politically, technologically and culturally, the rules are being rewritten. At TED2026 we’re upping our level of ambition and conducting a global search to identify the most powerful speakers from every corner of pl

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-16 18:27:58

“What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen.”

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-16 17:02:17

Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has gr

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-16 15:13:00

Annie Vella did some research into how 158 professional software engineers used AI, her first question was: Are AI tools shifting where engineers actually spend their time and effort? Because if they are, they’re implicitly shifting what skills we p

old new thing @ 2026-03-16 15:00:00

Doing the math backwards. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-16 14:51:37

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. The post The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere first appeared on Quanta Magazine

TED Blog @ 2026-03-16 14:00:13

Founded in 2004 by renowned language learning educator Hu Min, New Channel International Education Group aims to open a “new channel” in education, offering innovative approaches to learning that complement traditional school systems. With a presence in ov

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-16 11:25:29

Quantum 10, 2031 (2026). We are interested in the simulation of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad master equation in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. To simulate the solution of this equation,

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-03-16 11:01:34

The Kotlin 2.3.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.3.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.3.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest

Kotlin news @ 2026-03-16 11:01:34

The Kotlin 2.3.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, refer to What’s new in Kotlin 2.3.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.3.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest

AEON @ 2026-03-16 11:01:00

How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-03-16 11:00:00

In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself - by Julia Ravanis Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-16 09:41:06

Quantum 10, 2030 (2026). Photon loss rates set an effective upper limit on the size of computations that can be run on current linear optical quantum devices. We present a family of techniques designed to mitig

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-16 09:24:12

Quantum 10, 2029 (2026). Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev–Ye–

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-16 09:06:30

Quantum 10, 2028 (2026). We introduce and investigate a data access model $\textit{(approximate sample and query)}$ that is satisfiable by the preparation and measurement of block encoded states, as well as in

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-16 01:00:00

Ich fand die Tage eine Mail der Elbphilharmonie in meinem Postkasten. Newsletter. Subject “Das Ende ist nah!”. Oh, ich hätte gar nicht damit gerechnet, dass ihr euch mit der virtuellen Glocke vor euer Konzerthaus stellt und Armageddon ankündigt. Wobei … i

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-16 00:39:20

Atonal music is difficult to compose because it defies human instincts. It takes discipline to write something so unpleasant to listen to. One technique that composers use to keep their music from falling into tonal patterns is the twelve-tone row. The co

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-16 00:00:54

David Pogue absolutely killed it hosting this live event last week. Glad I saved it to watch on my TV. Special guests include Chris Espinosa, John Sculley, and Avie Tevanian. A legit treat.  ★ 

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-15 23:13:00

(If you live in Montgomery County Maryland OR if you care about Education, you MUST read this guest blog by Daniel Gottesman on Scott Aaronson's blog  HERE .)  (This post is a sequel to a prior post on this topic that was  here . However,

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-15 20:49:13

Notice anything special about the following sequence? 8 6 10 3 1 11 1 3 6 8 12 9 7 10 4 2 5 11 2 4 7 9 5 12 Each of the numbers 1 through 12 appear twice. Between the two 1s there is one number. Between the two 2s there are two […] The post Langfo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 18:36:48

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner — a digital take on traditional paper planners — that (wi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 18:30:00

Sam Henri Gold: Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 18:00:00

Resume.org, summarizing their survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers: 59% admit they emphasize AI when explaining hiring freezes or layoffs because it plays better with stakeholders than citing financial constraints. Reminds me of the “Not Me” gho

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-15 17:22:39

Esta partida, que el español debió ganar tras un juego brillante, inició su vuelco negativo en las últimas rondas de Praga

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 16:51:56

Horace Dediu, under the headline “The Most Brilliant Move in Corporate History?”: Apple used to be the biggest capex spender , mainly because it paid for most of the property plant and equipment in the factories that made its phones and computers. [.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 16:41:58

Katie Paul, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting for Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial inte

Baeldung @ 2026-03-15 12:50:52

Learn how to build a message queue in your Java application with the HiveMQ MQTT Client. The post Introduction to HiveMQ MQTT Client first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-03-15 12:45:07

Learn how to inspect JAR and APK files and decompile class and DEX files. The post Decompiling class, DEX, JAR, and APK Files With jadx first appeared on Baeldung .              

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-03-15 11:42:45

In the spring of 2020 I decided to finally do something about the lack of visualizations for how the curl project is performing, development wise. How does the line of code growth look like? How many command line options have we had over time and how many

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-15 01:37:30

Matt Mullenweg: One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, and Mac all lit up with a message prompting me to reset my password. This came out of nowhere; I hadn’t done anything to elicit it. I even had Lockdown Mode running on all my devices. I

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-15 01:00:00

In meiner unendlichen Weisheit habe ich es geschafft, zwei Kanarienvögel-Pärchen in meinem Käfig zu haben. Verdammt. Das war nicht so geplant. Das hatte ich so nicht im Kopf. Die Lage ist nunmehr eskaliert. Deutlich. Es ist das passiert, was immer in d

Atomic14 @ 2026-03-15 01:00:00

Building a Heart Rate Monitor with an ESP32-C3 and MAX30102 You know how it is. You buy one cute little module from AliExpress and then think “it looks lonely, I’ll get another”. Before you know it, you’ve got a drawer full of cute little modules. So i

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-14 23:06:02

iFixit: Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts. But the Neo stands out, with increasingly good day-one manuals, less-pain

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-14 21:02:36

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge: Somehow, the PC makers still don’t see it coming. Here’s how [Asus CFO Nick] Wu described the MacBook Neo, specifically its 8GB of RAM limitation: “I think when Apple positioned the product, it’s probably focused

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-14 18:39:14

Tras una carrera fulgurante en su adolescencia, el prodigio indio falla mucho desde que logró el título mundial, en 2024

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-14 18:22:05

Maggie Harrison Dupré, writing for Futurism: Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes attributed to a real person. The article — a write-up of a viral incident in which an AI agent seemingly published a hi

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-14 17:21:34

Basic Apple Guy: Where I and the rest of the internet take this from here remains to be seen. All I know is that Apple should definitely keep this Lil Finder around. But no, I do not think this is the last we’ve seen of Lil Finder Guy… Apple’s

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-14 15:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 14) appeared first on SingularityHub .