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Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-19 16:00:00

Artificial Intelligence Google’s New AI Is Trying to Talk to Dolphins—SeriouslyIsaac Schultz | Gizmodo “The model is DolphinGemma, a cutting-edge LLM trained to recognize, predict, and eventually generate dolphin vocalizations,... The post T

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 15:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course. The robo

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-04-19 13:11:20

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 508 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Especial CB:X; Pirámides; Gravitondas; Nubes Interestelares”, 17 abr 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La

InfoQ @ 2025-04-19 12:00:00

AWS has launched the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers, revolutionizing AI-powered code assistants. These servers enhance development speed and security, ensuring adherence to AWS best practices. With features like automated Infrastructure

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 12:00:00

About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4 billion people living in high-risk areas worldwide. From a report: Approximately 14 to 17% of cropland globally -- roughly 242m hectar

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 10:30:00

Researchers at UC Berkeley claim to have induced a previously unseen color by using lasers to stimulate only the M cones in the retina, creating a visual experience beyond the natural limits of human perception. Called olo, the color is described as a high

InfoQ @ 2025-04-19 09:42:00

AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server. This new option simplifies dynamic routing in a VPC, allowing developers to advertise routing information via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynami

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 09:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from Interesting Engineering: A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has built the fastest semiconductor storage device ever reported, a nonvolatile flash memory dubbed "PoX" that program

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin p

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-19 04:00:00

(originally published on 13.03.2019, reviewed/rewritten on 18.04.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79) Before Solaris 11.4 Auditing in Solaris could be activated by process, by user or overall. However sometimes you want to know which users or pr

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 03:40:00

OpenAI's latest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate more frequently than the company's previous AI systems, according to both internal testing and third-party research. On OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time -- double the

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 02:45:00

With macOS now 24 years old and Apple officially designating all Intel-based Mac minis as "vintage" or "obsolete," The Register takes a look at new internet tools that help keep vintage Macs online and surprisingly relevant: Cameron Kaiser of Floodgap Syst

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-19 02:21:13

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slashdot @ 2025-04-19 02:02:00

Bluesky is testing a new verification system featuring blue checks issued by "Trusted Verifiers" like news organizations, rather than a centralized authority or pay-to-play model like X (formerly Twitter). "Looking at the comments on the pull request, it's

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 01:20:00

Netflix's Q1 revenue rose to $10.5 billion, a 13% increase from last year, while net income grew to $2.9 billion. The company says it expects more growth in the coming months when it sees "the full quarter benefit from recent price changes and continued gr

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-19 01:10:30

Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007 . They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-19 01:10:13

CNN: A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, with a strident warning about the rul

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 00:40:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: An October 2024 study by Software AG suggests that half of all employees are Shadow AI users, and most of them wouldn't stop even if it was banned. The problem is the ease of access to AI tools, and a

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-19 00:07:55

Kim Mackrael and Sam Schechner, reporting for The Wall Street Journal ( News+ link ): The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, had initially planned to announce cease-and-desist orders targeting the tech giants on Tuesday and had informed at

slashdot @ 2025-04-19 00:00:00

Some actors who sold their likenesses to AI video companies like Synthesia now regret the decision, after finding their digital avatars used in misleading, embarrassing, or politically charged content. Ars Technica reports: Among them is a 29-year-old New

slashdot @ 2025-04-18 23:20:00

IBM is mandating that U.S. sales and Cloud employees return to the office at least three days a week, with work required at designated client sites, flagship offices, or sales hubs. According to The Register, some IBM employees argue that these policies "r

slashdot @ 2025-04-18 22:40:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A judge in Nevada has ruled that "tower dumps" -- the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers -- is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 22:24:09

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slashdot @ 2025-04-18 22:00:00

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos pushed back on director James Cameron's recent assertion that AI could slash film production costs by half, arguing instead for quality improvements over cost reduction during Netflix's first-quarter earnings call Thursday. "I r

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 21:28:44

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slashdot @ 2025-04-18 21:20:00

A new Seagate report reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental sustainability metrics, particularly when accounting for manufacturing processes. According to the storage-maker's ""Decarbonizing Data">Decarboni

Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-18 21:09:27

Scientists combined fungus and bacteria into a "living material" that stays alive for up to a month. The post This Living Building Material Forms Bone-Like Structures and Could One Day Repair Itself appeared first on SingularityHub .

Nasa Webb @ 2025-04-18 20:47:58

This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light-years from Earth. Illustration: NASA, C

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-18 20:40:09

Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation? The post The Last of Their Kind appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 20:16:27

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AWS Open Source News @ 2025-04-18 19:54:34

Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating sys

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 18:40:25

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The Endeavour @ 2025-04-18 16:48:25

This post will venture further into abstract mathematics than most of my posts. If this isn’t what you’re looking for, you might try browsing here for more concrete articles. Incidentally, although I’m an applied mathematician, I also ap

old new thing @ 2025-04-18 16:00:43

Leaving everything the way you found it. The post The case of the feature flag that didn’t stay on long enough, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:42:50

Quantum 9, 1718 (2025). We work out the general theory of one-parameter families of partial entanglement properties and the resulting entanglement depth-like quantities. Special cases of these are the depth of

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:36:11

Quantum 9, 1717 (2025). In unitary property testing a quantum algorithm, also known as a tester, is given query access to a black-box unitary and has to decide whether it satisfies some property. We propose a n

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-04-18 15:30:55

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong. The post New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks first appeared on Quanta

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:29:29

Quantum 9, 1716 (2025). $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems have garnered significant attention due to their unconventional properties. Despite the growing interest, there remains an ongoing debate about whether t

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:25:08

Quantum 9, 1715 (2025). We study the geodesics on the manifold of mixed quantum states for the Bures metric. It is shown that these geodesics correspond to physical non-Markovian evolutions of the system couple

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:15:13

Quantum 9, 1714 (2025). We introduce an optimal strategy to sample quantum outcomes of local measurement strings for isometric tensor network states. Our method generates samples based on an exact cumulative bo

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 15:08:14

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Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:06:49

Quantum 9, 1713 (2025). We propose an interferometric scheme where each photon returns one bit of the binary expansion of an unknown phase. It sets up a method for estimating the phase value at arbitrary uncert

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 15:01:15

Quantum 9, 1712 (2025). Extended non-local games are a generalization of monogamy-of-entanglement games, played by two quantum parties and a quantum referee that performs a measurement on their local quantum sy

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-18 12:32:18

Quantum 9, 1711 (2025). The use of higher-dimensional photonic encodings (qudits) instead of two-dimensional encodings (qubits) can improve the loss tolerance and reduce the computational resources of photonic-

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 12:01:58

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AEON @ 2025-04-18 12:00:00

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think - by Ravi Kopparapu & Jacob Haqq Misra Read at Aeon

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 10:15:20

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 06:12:21

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 04:13:23

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C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-18 04:00:00

(originally published on 09.06.2017, reviewed/rewritten on 13.04.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79) There is an easy way to directly set an hashed password with the passwd tool. In Solaris 11.3 the -p option was introduced to the tool.

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-18 03:20:03

I was poking around Richard Stanley’s site today and found the following problem on his miscellaneous page. Find a positive integer n < 10,000,000 such that the first four digits (in the decimal expansion) of n1,000,000 are all different. The pr

iOS Weekly @ 2025-04-18 02:00:00

What has the App Store become? I’m grateful to all of you trying to make it a better place! 🏝️

Inside Java @ 2025-04-18 02:00:00

New Java Platform Extension for VS Code Release

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-18 02:00:00

My journey with artificial intelligence (AI) began with my deep-rooted passion for both computer science and philosophy. I found myself drawn to natural language processing (NLP), where the study of formal logic, languages and semantics seamlessly connect

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-18 02:00:00

Register today for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFestRed Hat Summit and AnsibleFest is back, bringing together IT professionals, enterprise leaders, partners and open source enthusiasts. Register today to join us in Boston May 19-22. Learn more Google, Bytedan

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-18 02:00:00

Growing revenue and reducing costs are two key challenges that telecommunication service providers need to solve in order to deliver tangible business value.These challenges are not new, but are becoming more and more dependent on emerging technologies tha

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 00:55:55

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-18 00:44:11

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 23:35:45

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Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-17 21:18:51

Two studies found stem-cell therapies were safe and reduced symptoms, but bigger trials are still needed. The post Parkinson’s Patients Say Their Symptoms Eased After Receiving Millions of New Brain Cells appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 21:03:39

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Deepmind @ 2025-04-17 21:02:00

Gemini 2.5 Flash is our first fully hybrid reasoning model, giving developers the ability to turn thinking on or off.

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-17 18:07:30

Quantum 9, 1710 (2025). In this paper, we introduce a numerical framework designed to solve problems within the emerging field of Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (WQED). The framework is based on collision qu

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 18:07:21

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Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-17 17:55:47

Quantum 9, 1709 (2025). While the notion of quantum chaos is tied to random matrix spectral correlations, also eigenstate properties in chaotic systems are often assumed to be described by random matrix theory.

Baeldung @ 2025-04-17 17:32:59

New features to integrate AI with Java development. The post Java Weekly, Issue 590 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 16:47:46

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old new thing @ 2025-04-17 16:00:00

Understanding scope and order of destruction. The post The case of the feature flag that didn’t stay on long enough, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 15:57:09

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Quanta Magazine @ 2025-04-17 15:47:04

Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In this episode, Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, using laser-cooled atoms to explore whether gravity could

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-04-17 15:39:28

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Martin Fowler @ 2025-04-17 15:39:00

AI editors like Cursor can generate code with remarkable speed using LLMs, handling boilerplate and providing functional snippets for various tasks. However, when building robust systems, functional correctness is only the starting point. Code must

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-17 15:31:40

Brian X. Chen, in a column at The New York Times headlined “Why a Tariff-Inflated $2,000 iPhone Is Nothing to Fear”: Don’t panic. Even if tariffs did cause the iPhone’s price to surge, we would have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s p

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-17 15:16:52

La campeona del mundo, que acaba de revalidar su corona, logra una mínima ventaja en la apertura y la convierte en didáctica victoria

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-04-17 14:32:26

JetBrains AI is now a lot more useful for Kotlin developers. With the public release of Junie and a major update to AI Assistant, two powerful AI tools are now deeply integrated with JetBrains IDEs – and ready to help you move faster with less overhead. Wh

Kotlin news @ 2025-04-17 14:32:26

JetBrains AI is now a lot more useful for Kotlin developers. With the public release of Junie and a major update to AI Assistant, two powerful AI tools are now deeply integrated with JetBrains IDEs – and ready to help you move faster with less overhead. Wh

InfoQ @ 2025-04-17 13:37:00

Software development is much different today than it was at the beginning of the Space Shuttle era because of the tools that we have. But the art and practice of software engineering has not progressed that much since the early days of software developme

AEON @ 2025-04-17 12:01:00

Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-04-17 12:00:00

In an engaging talk at QCon London 2025, Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and co-creator of Istio, addressed the complexities of hybrid cloud-native networking. He emphasized intentional assembly of network components, critical evaluation of tools, and treatin

AEON @ 2025-04-17 12:00:00

The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities - by Rupert Read Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-04-17 10:11:00

Last week, the .NET Team announced the third preview release of .NET 10, introducing several enhancements across various components, including .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more. By Almir Vuk

InfoQ @ 2025-04-17 08:00:00

The European Commission has presented the AI Continent Action Plan, a new strategy designed to strengthen the European Union’s capacity for AI development and deployment. The plan outlines coordinated investment in infrastructure, access to high-quality

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-17 03:00:00

Glenn Fleishman: The book Six Centuries of Type & Printing briskly tells the story of the evolution of type and printing, starting with early documented efforts and surviving artifacts from China and Korea, and introducing Gutenberg and his inno

Ethereum blog @ 2025-04-17 02:00:00

TL;DR: Review the program details for EPF6 🔎 Applications for EPF6 are open until April 30 📝 An introductory town hall will be held for an overview and questions on April 21 at 4PM UTC 🎙️ We are excited to announce that the applications...

Inside Java @ 2025-04-17 02:00:00

This post explores how ZGC, one of the garbage collectors in the OpenJDK, allocates memory for the Java heap, focusing on enhancements introduced in JDK-8350441 with the Mapped Cache. A garbage collector does much more than just collect garbage - and that’

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-17 02:00:00

IBM recently released their 2025 X-Force Cloud Threat Intelligence Index Report.Within the report and in collaboration with Red Hat Insights, “IBM X-Force found that more than half of Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers' environments had not deployed a patc

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-17 00:44:55

Josh Kovensky, reporting for TPM: In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals. Boasberg set

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-17 00:18:04

Dennis McLellan, writing for the Los Angeles Times ( News+ link ): Over the decades, according to his website, Martindale either hosted or produced 21 game shows, including “Words and Music,” “Trivial Pursuit,” “The Last Word” and “Debt.” “That’s a lo

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-16 23:36:56

A philosopher reflects on their unexpected roommates The post Living with Lab Mice appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-16 23:36:38

At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory The post The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-16 23:35:44

The peerless animal wisdom of Robert Sapolsky The post We Could Have Been Warthogs appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-16 23:35:33

Welcome to the Animal Issue The post We’re All Wild Things appeared first on Nautilus .

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-16 23:26:45

One day Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960) was looking at the power series for the double exponential function, exp(exp(x)) and noticed a similarity to the power series for exp(x). You can find his account in [1]. He would have calculated the series by hand, bu

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 23:00:00

Five years into their journey with React Native, Shopify's mobile team has shared a wealth of insights from their experience, highlighting what worked, what didn't, and what lies ahead. By Sergio De Simone

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-16 22:26:20

Wes Davis, The Verge: During Meta’s antitrust trial today , lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys

absorptions @ 2025-04-16 22:14:00

I always assumed that the recognisable 'whoosh' sound a plane or helicopter makes when passing overhead simply comes from the famous Doppler effect . But when you listen closely, this explanation doesn't make complete sense. #planepassingwave > div

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-04-16 21:37:24

There was a standing room only Arts and Sciences faculty meeting today here at Columbia, in which the acting president Claire Shipman spoke for a while and then took questions from faculty members. The questions on the whole were challenging … Conti

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-16 21:34:26

Dana Mattioli, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; also, here’s a News+ link ): Musk has had at least 14 children with four women, including the pop musician Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer com

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-04-16 21:29:26

System logs are an important source of information about events that happened during the runtime of the system. FreeBSD’s default logging system, called syslog, writes them to /var/log/ as different files based on the subject matter. The most common

tecosystems @ 2025-04-16 21:25:09

Thanks to some divided attention on our part from having Monki Gras, Kubecon and Google Next back to back to back – not to mention a child that suddenly and unexpectedly got sick at school this week – this post is coming out a few days later th

Sogrady @ 2025-04-16 21:25:09

Thanks to some divided attention on our part from having Monki Gras, Kubecon and Google Next back to back to back – not to mention a child that suddenly and unexpectedly got sick at school this week – this post is coming out a few days later th

Confluent @ 2025-04-16 21:00:02

Learn how watermarks affect Flink jobs and common pitfalls, including idle streams/partitions, watermark strategy issues, etc., which can cause a job to not produce any results.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-16 20:56:52

Jessica Lyons, reporting for The Register: US government funding for the world’s CVE program — the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws — ends Wednesday. The 25-year-old CVE program plays a huge role in

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-16 20:00:25

You will recall that in September 2022, Figma entered into an agreement for a $20 billion acquisition by Adobe , but abandoned the deal 15 months later .  ★ 

Computational Complexity @ 2025-04-16 19:00:00

I'm short on time time this week so I thought it would be good to look back, some 64 years ago, to Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address. It calls for balance between the industrial-military Complex and the scientific-technological elite. While written for

Baeldung @ 2025-04-16 18:13:46

Explore how Spring WebClient handles headers and learn several ways to set multiple headers. The post Set Multiple Headers at Once in Spring WebClient first appeared on Baeldung .              

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-16 18:11:53

Los sacrificios intuitivos a largo plazo, basados en la lógica, como el de esta partida, son especialmente atractivos en el ajedrez actual

Baeldung @ 2025-04-16 18:08:37

Discover Objenesis, a handy Java library that allows you to instantiate objects without calling class constructors. The post Introduction to Objenesis first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-16 17:39:24

In this post we want to count the number of ways to divide a regular polygon [1] into triangles by connecting vertices with straight lines that do not cross. Squares For a square, there are two possibilities: we either connect the NW and SE corners, or we

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-04-16 16:31:45

You can now watch the “Oscars of Science’ here. The US tech billionaires and various Hollywood starlets gathered for this ceremony on April 5, in the middle of a massive illegal defunding of US scientific research by our new Fascist … Co

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-04-16 16:30:31

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. The post Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Lan

old new thing @ 2025-04-16 16:00:00

Overriding a LIB with an OBJ for fun and profit. The post Using the classical model for linking to provide unit test overrides appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 15:13:00

Two years after releasing the GA version of InfluxData’s enterprise edition, their open-source version also reached that level of maturity. Conceptualised for real-time workloads and ease of running, the core version leaves aside features like long-term

Baeldung @ 2025-04-16 14:01:42

Explore when to enable or disable the embedded Tomcat server and how to configure Spring Boot profiles to achieve this dynamically. The post Enable or Disable Embedded Tomcat with Profile in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .    

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 14:00:00

The popular tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action used by thousands of repositories recently compromised those repositories, exposing a critical weakness in how open-source Actions are published and consumed. By Matt Foster

Baeldung @ 2025-04-16 13:55:33

The "Unable to obtain LocalDateTime from TemporalAccessor" error typically occurs due to missing or incorrectly formatted date-time information, or improper handling of time zones. The post Fix DateTimeParseException: “Unable to obtain LocalDateTime fr

AEON @ 2025-04-16 12:01:00

‘Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 12:00:00

At QCon London 2025, Vanderbijl unveiled how domain-driven design transformed a chaotic healthcare platform into a coherent business architecture. Through innovative strategies like "Take That" and "Robbie Williams," the team tackled architectural comple

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-04-16 11:21:51

We’re almost there – KotlinConf’25, the major Kotlin event of the year, is coming up soon! This time, it’s bigger, bolder, and packed with even more insights. Hear from Spring creator Rod Johnson, dive into a case study from Duolingo’s team, and discover h

Kotlin news @ 2025-04-16 11:21:51

We’re almost there – KotlinConf’25, the major Kotlin event of the year, is coming up soon! This time, it’s bigger, bolder, and packed with even more insights. Hear from Spring creator Rod Johnson, dive into a case study from Duolingo’s team, and discover h

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 11:00:00

In a talk at QCon London, Rachael Wonnacott explained the challenges in building a developer platform in an organisation with legacy processes and how a golden path leading to either a Kubernetes Hotel or a Public Cloud House might be necessary. By Mat

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-04-16 10:43:09

Starting with version 2025.1, Kotlin Notebook will be integrated into IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate out of the box, without the need to install the plugin! Kotlin Notebook is a new interactive environment for JVM developers. The code in the notebooks can even cal

Kotlin news @ 2025-04-16 10:43:09

Starting with version 2025.1, Kotlin Notebook will be integrated into IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate out of the box, without the need to install the plugin! Kotlin Notebook is a new interactive environment for JVM developers. The code in the notebooks can even cal

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 10:00:00

Google Cloud has announced the launch of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator (MCO), a new solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of Kubernetes workloads across multiple clusters spanning different regions. The tool aims to address challenges

This Week in Rust @ 2025-04-16 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

InfoQ @ 2025-04-16 06:00:00

A new open-source library, FastAPI-MCP, is making it easier for developers to connect traditional FastAPI applications with modern AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Designed for zero-configuration setup, FastAPI-MCP allows developers to

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-16 04:00:00

In the recent days, i published blog entries about the filesystem system attributes sensitive and nounlink . But there are some more. Alan Coopersmith pointed to the the man page sysattr that explains these system attributes in a fediverse post . Thi

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-16 04:00:00

(originally published on 27.10.2017, reviewed/rewritten on 13.04.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79) Let’s assume you have a set of files in a directory that you shouldn’t delete. It would be nice to have some protection, that a short but fatal

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-16 02:00:00

The demand for high-speed, reliable services is at an all-time high and service providers continue to face the challenge of modernizing their infrastructure while maintaining operational efficiency. In collaboration with Intel and Dell Technologies, Red Ha

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-15 23:28:12

The planet’s first photosynthesizers dined on green light The post When Earth Was a Pale Green Dot appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-15 20:15:51

Intercepting interstellar objects could transform fleeting encounters into profound scientific opportunities. The post Mystery Objects From Other Stars Are Visiting Our Solar System. These Missions Will Study Them Up Close appeared first on Singulari

Deepmind @ 2025-04-15 19:00:00

Transform text-based prompts into high-resolution eight-second videos in Gemini Advanced and use Whisk Animate to turn images into eight-second animated clips.

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-15 18:36:19

Quantum 9, 1708 (2025). We introduce the Piquasso quantum programming framework, a full-stack open-source software platform for the simulation and programming of photonic quantum computers. Piquasso can be prog

InfoQ @ 2025-04-15 17:35:00

Google’s new cybersecurity model Sec-Gemini focuses on cybersecurity AI to enable SecOps workflows for root cause analysis (RCA) and threat analysis, and vulnerability impact understanding. By Srini Penchikala

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-15 17:03:23

Quantum 9, 1707 (2025). Quantum coherence—an indispensable resource for quantum technologies—is known to be distillable from a noisy form using operations that cannot create it. However, distillation exacts a h

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-15 16:47:28

Quantum 9, 1706 (2025). Local simultaneous state discrimination (LSSD) is a recently introduced problem in quantum information processing. Its classical version is a non-local game played by non-communicating p

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-04-15 16:07:29

Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1, K2 mode, a new implementation of Kotlin support, will be enabled by default. This change is an important step in the ongoing effort to improve Kotlin support in the IDE.  While this transition brings many improvemen

Kotlin news @ 2025-04-15 16:07:29

Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1, K2 mode, a new implementation of Kotlin support, will be enabled by default. This change is an important step in the ongoing effort to improve Kotlin support in the IDE.  While this transition brings many improvemen

old new thing @ 2025-04-15 16:00:00

The archetypical example of needing a replacement computer. The post There was a lot of imagined dropping tablets in swimming pools appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2025-04-15 15:23:54

Quantum 9, 1705 (2025). Understanding the structure of quantum correlations in a many-body system is key to its computational treatment. For fermionic systems, correlations can be defined as deviations from Sla

InfoQ @ 2025-04-15 15:00:00

Google released the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol, an open-source specification for building AI agents that can connect with other agents that support the protocol. Google has enlisted over 50 technology partners to contribute to A2A's development. By Ant

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-04-15 14:41:47

El Telescopio del Polo Sur (SPT) observa el fondo cósmico de microondas (CMB) y su polarización a tres frecuencias (95, 150 y 220 GHz) en el 3.6 % del cielo […] La entrada El resultado cosmológico de SPT-3G usando el mapa EE de polarización del C

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-15 12:47:46

La vigente campeona está a medio paso de asegurar su corona tras esta impecable victoria en la octava partida de las doce previstas

AEON @ 2025-04-15 12:00:00

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance - by Zachary B Hancock Read at Aeon

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-04-15 11:16:58

La simulación clásica de teorías gauge en el retículo (LGT, por lattice gauge theories) es un problema NP duro (NP hard). Pero su simulación en un ordenador cuántico es un […] La entrada Simulación cuántica de campos gauge en el retículo con cúdi

Baeldung @ 2025-04-15 06:24:10

Java offers multiple ways to map a currency code to its respective symbol, including the built-in Currency class, a hardcoded Map, and Locale support. The post Currency Code to Currency Symbol Mapping in Java first appeared on Baeldung .  

Baeldung @ 2025-04-15 06:21:13

Explore the installation options for ZooKeeper and find out ways to check if a ZooKeeper node is running or not. The post How to Check if Zookeeper Is Running or up From Command Prompt? first appeared on Baeldung .        

Baeldung @ 2025-04-15 06:18:53

A quick tutorial on monitoring a Java Application with New Relic. The post Monitor a Java Application With New Relic first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-04-15 06:15:44

Learn how to run a Java application as a background process, explore how to keep it running after closing the terminal session, and monitor it using logs. The post How to Run a Java Program in the Background first appeared on Baeldung .   &

Baeldung @ 2025-04-15 06:11:42

Learn how to serialize and deserialize Date objects in Java using Apache Avro. The post How to Serialize and Deserialize Dates in Avro first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-15 02:59:19

Last week I wrote about a hypothetical radio station that plays the top 100 songs in some genre, with songs being chosen randomly according to Zipf’s law. The nth most popular song is played with probability proportional to 1/n. This post is a varia

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-15 02:00:00

This year, Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025 is back in Boston with a bigger and more interactive experience than ever! Whether you're a long-time attendee or considering joining for the first time, this year's event promises exciting new experiences des

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-15 02:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 42, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 42 below and don’t forget to ensure your

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-15 01:51:42

Samuel Axon, writing for Ars Technica: Some time ago, OpenAI added a feature called “Memory” that allowed a limited number of pieces of information to be retained and used for future responses. Users often had to specifically ask ChatGPT to remember

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-15 01:29:16

Coffee has always been about bringing people together. For us, it started with a simple question over a late-night cup of decaf: why do coffee lovers who skip the caffeine have to skip the craft too? At Dekáf, we believe those who drink coffee purely fo

Nautilus blog @ 2025-04-14 23:39:26

An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths The post Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-14 22:48:10

In a first, the 3D reconstruction of a mouse brain links structure to activity. The post Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Hidden Algorithms of the Mammalian Brain appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-04-14 22:16:19

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 507 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Especial CB:X; Rey Arturo; Desextinción; DESI; Retículo”, 12 abr 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-04-14 20:34:06

The first good news I’ve heard so far: Harvard has announced that it will not cave-in the way Columbia did. The letter from their lawyers is the one Columbia’s lawyers should have written, ending with: [your letter] presents demands that, ̷

AWS Blog @ 2025-04-14 20:32:20

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showca

Deepmind @ 2025-04-14 19:00:00

DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-14 18:12:16

El noruego gana el segundo torneo de los cinco del Grand Slam de la nueva modalidad tras ceder el primero al alemán Keymer

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-14 18:02:20

Seth Godin: You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk s

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-04-14 16:21:56

We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way. The post To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-14 16:05:16

As longtime readers of this blog have probably noticed, I like to poke around in Unicode occasionally. It’s an endless system of rabbit holes to explore. This morning I was looking at the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols block. These are mostly ob

old new thing @ 2025-04-14 16:00:00

Yes, that's sort of the point. The post Dubious security vulnerability: Once I have tricked the user into running a malicious shortcut, I can install malware appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-04-14 15:32:31

I’m Yan Zhulanow, and I lead the Kotlin Analysis API team. Last year, we made a series of announcements about Kotlin K2 mode in IntelliJ IDEA. Now, as K2 mode is about to become the default, I am thrilled to tell you more about everything we had to g

Kotlin news @ 2025-04-14 15:32:31

I’m Yan Zhulanow, and I lead the Kotlin Analysis API team. Last year, we made a series of announcements about Kotlin K2 mode in IntelliJ IDEA. Now, as K2 mode is about to become the default, I am thrilled to tell you more about everything we had to g

Computational Complexity @ 2025-04-14 14:40:00

 I recently read the following theorem Def : A semigroup is a pair \((G,*)\) where \(G\) is a set and  * is a binary operation on \(G\) such that * is associative. NOTE: we do not require an identity element, we do not require inverses, we d

AEON @ 2025-04-14 12:01:00

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and aspiration? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2025-04-14 12:00:00

Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism is founded upon a unique sense of national shame - by Kevin D Pham Read at Aeon

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-14 04:00:00

I´m using pfedit quite frequently. However i learned about one option only when i reviewed the old blog entry for re-publication in the last few days. In the last blog entry i showed to you that pfedit puts a diff of your changes to the audit log. But

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-14 04:00:00

(originally published on 17.08.2013, reviewed/rewritten on 13.04.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79) You have allowed junior to edit the httpd.conf via pfedit and and some nice evening, you are sitting at home. Then: You get alerts on your

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-14 02:00:00

As deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) workloads grow, Red Hat has been working to create a new set of recommendations to help RHEL AI administrators streamline operations. Connecting a RHEL AI system to Insights remains simple, as with an

Red Hat blog @ 2025-04-14 02:00:00

With modernizing applications being top of mind for many organizations, it is also important to consider how underlying platforms and technologies are addressing security along the way. Customers are looking for ways to minimize risk and be able to secure

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-13 21:39:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Modern authentication should be seamless and secure. WorkOS makes it easy to integrate features like MFA, SSO, and RBAC. Whether you’re replacing passwords, stopping fraud, or adding enterprise auth, Wor

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-13 21:29:23

Bill Maher personifies the difference between a liberal (which he is) and a leftist (which he isn’t). But he’s been a stridently vocal critic of Trump since long before Trump even ran for president . Maher was the first person on television to correctly

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-13 20:56:52

Crackerjack essay by Chuck Wendig: Maybe it’s like turbulence on an airplane, you think. Just a bumpy unpleasant awful experience you gotta get through. But when turbulence hits it’s not because the pilot is a guy who doesn’t “know planes,” when turbu

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-13 20:48:00

Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Chris Whipple’s new book on the final years of Joe Biden’s presidency, under the headline “Did Aides Cover Up His Mental State — or Was It Group Delusion?” ( News+ link ): The president’s wobbly state should have

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-13 20:37:44

Jamelle Bouie, writing at The New York Times (gift link): There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tari

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-13 19:08:50

Juego muy consistente y presionante del ‘número uno’ hasta que el estadounidense, en apuros de tiempo, comete un fallo letal

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-13 18:34:21

If any field of mathematics has been thoroughly combed over, it’s Euclidean geometry. But once in a while someone will come up with a new theorem that seems it should have been discovered centuries ago. Here’s a theorem conjectured by Paul Erd

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-04-13 04:00:00

(originally published on 16.08.2013, reviewed/rewritten on 13.04.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79) It’s a really nifty feature: Let’s assume, you have a config file in your system and you want to allow your junior fellow admin to edit it from

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-12 22:48:48

Warren Buffett’s annual shareholders letters are always a must-read. The honesty, clarity, and striking humility of his prose stands out in a world where corporate communications — from companies of any size — tend to be bland and obfuscating. This year’

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-04-12 20:13:27

Abdusattórov tumba al campeón del mundo en una de las últimas rondas de la fase rápida del Grand Slam Tour de París con gran brillantez

Daring Fireball @ 2025-04-12 19:53:50

Auzinea Bacon, CNN: Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday. Smartphones, computer monitors and various elec

Singularity Hub @ 2025-04-12 18:27:08

A vast galactic survey suggests dark energy may not be constant after all. The post Dark Energy Discovery Could Undermine Our Entire Model of Cosmological History appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-04-12 17:24:30

Here’s a strange integral I ran across recently [1]. It’s a little surprising that the integral even exists, and more surprising that its value has a simple expression. Here’s a plot of the integrand. The plot doesn’t do justice to

Randal S. Olson @ 2025-04-12 17:00:00

Why dismissing AI coding tools might reveal more about your management style than the technology's capabilities.