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dropping hyper

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-12-21 11:52:53

The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper. The idea was to introduce an altern

Recap of OpenAI Highlights Key Updates in 12-Day "Shipmas"

InfoQ @ 2024-12-21 11:35:00

OpenAI's "12 Days of Shipmas" event, featured daily announcements of new AI features and tools. Below is a summary of the key developments. By Daniel Dominguez

Startup Set To Brick $800 Kids Robot Is Trying To Open Source It First

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 11:00:00

Last week, startup Embodied announced it was closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, would soon be bricked. Now, in a blog post published on Friday, CEO Paolo Pirjanian shared that Embodied's technical team is working on a way t

Axiom's Private Space Station Could Arrive As Early As 2028

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 08:00:00

Axiom Space has revised its plan for assembling its commercial space station by launching the Payload, Power, and Thermal module first, enabling it to operate as a free-flying platform as early as 2028 -- two years ahead of the original timeline. Space.com

Redis Creator 'antirez' Returns: Can He Shift Momentum Away from Valkey?

InfoQ @ 2024-12-21 07:45:00

After over four years away, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo recently announced his return to Redis. In what has been a challenging year for the company behind the source-available in-memory NoSQL database, the announcement has sparked enthusiasm and s

10 Years Later: Malaysia To Resume Hunt For Flight MH370

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world's grea

Cory Doctorow's Prescient Novella About Health Insurance and Murder

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 03:10:00

Five years ago, journalist and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow published a short story that explored the radicalization of individuals denied healthcare coverage. As The Guardian notes in a recent article, the story "might seem eerily similar" to the recent sh

US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-21 02:38:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 16

'Yes, I am a Human': Bot Detection Is No Longer Working

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 02:30:00

The rise of AI has rendered traditional CAPTCHA tests increasingly ineffective, as bots can now "[solve] these puzzles in milliseconds using artificial intelligence (AI)," reports The Conversation. "How ironic. The tools designed to prove we're human are n

EU Wants Apple To Open AirDrop and AirPlay To Android

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 01:50:00

The EU is pushing Apple to make iOS more interoperable with other platforms, requiring features like AirDrop and AirPlay to work seamlessly with Android and third-party devices, while also enabling background app functionality and cross-platform notificati

10,000 Amazon Workers Go On Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 01:10:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCMag: Amazon employees are striking after the online retail giant missed a deadline to begin negotiations for a union contract. Roughly 10,000 employees have gone on strike as of Dec. 19. Workers are forming picket

Justice Department Unveils Charges Against Alleged LockBit Developer

slashdot @ 2024-12-21 00:30:00

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Russian-Israeli national, Rostislav Panev, for his alleged role as a developer in the LockBit ransomware group, accused of designing malware and maintaining infrastructure for attacks that extorted over $500 milli

★ Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-21 00:13:40

Bezos can still be a hero in this story. But his only move is to sell.

Qualcomm Processors Properly Licensed From Arm, US Jury Finds

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 23:50:00

Jurors delivered a mixed verdict on Friday, ruling that Qualcomm had properly licensed its central processor chips from Arm. This decision effectively concludes Arm's lawsuit against Qualcomm, which had the potential to disrupt the global smartphone and PC

Arizona's Getting an Online Charter School Taught Entirely By AI

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 23:11:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The newest online-only school greenlighted (PDF) by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools comes with a twist: The academic curriculum will be taught entirely by AI. Charter schools -- independently

Predictive Analytics: How Generative AI and Data Streaming Work Together to Forecast the Future

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 22:34:06

Discover how predictive analytics, powered by generative AI and data streaming, transforms business decisions with real-time insights, accurate forecasts, and innovation.

CFPB Sues America's Largest Banks For 'Allowing Fraud To Fester' on Zelle

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 22:22:00

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing America's three largest banks, accusing the institutions of failing to protect customers from fraud on Zelle, the payment platform they co-own. From a report: According to the suit, which also targets Early

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-20 22:07:37

Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions. The post The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe appeared first on Nautilus .

Apple Pulls Lightning-Equipped iPhones From Swiss Stores Ahead of EU USB-C Mandate

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 21:42:00

Apple has started pulling its iPhone SE and iPhone 14 models from sale in Switzerland, signaling broader discontinuation across the European Union ahead of new USB-C charging requirements taking effect December 28. The devices, which use Apple's propriet

Michael Dell Says Adoption of AI PCs is 'Definitely Delayed'

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 21:41:00

Dell CEO Michael Dell has acknowledged delays in corporate adoption of AI-enabled PCs but remains confident in their eventual widespread uptake, citing his four decades of industry experience with technology transitions. The PC maker's chief executive to

Supercharging Ad Campaign Performance with Generative AI + Confluent

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 21:30:01

Discover how generative AI transforms advertising with automation, real-time optimizations, and dynamic reporting. Learn trends, benefits, and risk management tips.

Putting a face on a faceless account

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-20 21:20:43

I’ve been playing around with Grok today, logging into some of my X accounts and trying out the prompt “Draw an image of me based on my posts.” [1] In most cases Grok returned a graphic, but sometimes it would respond with a text descrip

Finding Beauty in the Struggle Between Light and Darkness

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-20 21:08:55

A conversation with artist Deena So'Oteh. The post Finding Beauty in the Struggle Between Light and Darkness appeared first on Nautilus .

We're About To Fly a Spacecraft Into the Sun For the First Time

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 21:01:00

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun on Christmas Eve, flying within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface and entering its atmosphere for the first time. The spacecraft, which travels at speeds up to 430,000 miles per

Using Multi-Language Data Streams for Scalable Translation and Localization

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 21:00:02

Streamline translation with multi-language data streams. Discover best practices for scalable localization and real-time translation.

Resolving CVE-2022-1471 With SnakeYAML 2.0

Baeldung @ 2024-12-20 20:29:26

Learn about the CVE-2022-1471 critical vulnerability and how to solve it  with SnakeYAML 2.0. The post Resolving CVE-2022-1471 With SnakeYAML 2.0 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Introduction to AutoMQ: A Cost-Effective Kafka Alternative

Baeldung @ 2024-12-20 20:24:40

Learn about AutoMQ, the cloud-native alternative to Apache Kafka that focuses on reducing cost and increasing efficiency. The post Introduction to AutoMQ: A Cost-Effective Kafka Alternative first appeared on Baeldung .       &

Why Online Returns Are a Hassle Now

slashdot @ 2024-12-20 20:22:00

U.S. retailers are cracking down on free returns as costs spiral out of control, The Atlantic reports. Return rates have more than doubled since 2019, with shoppers expected to send back nearly $900 billion in merchandise this year. Major chains like REI

The Power of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare: Using Generative AI and Confluent

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 20:11:19

Learn how predictive analytics, powered by generative AI and Confluent, transforms healthcare by improving outcomes, reducing costs, and enabling real-time decisions.

The Power of Predictive Analytics in Insurance: Using Generative AI and Confluent

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 19:30:02

Explore how predictive analytics, generative AI, and Confluent's data streaming are transforming the insurance industry. Learn how to optimize claims processing and assess risks in real time.

OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 19:11:13

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Yuffa sufrió en la última

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-20 19:03:45

El nuevo campeón de España vio su título en el alero hasta poco antes de arrancar el ansiado empate a Antón en la ronda de clausura

The Power of Predictive Analytics in Business: Using Generative AI and Confluent

Confluent @ 2024-12-20 19:00:02

Discover how predictive analytics, generative AI, and Confluent’s data streaming capabilities revolutionize business intelligence.

Grayjay Desktop App

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 18:33:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 400 # Comments: 200

GitHub Launches Free Copilot Plan for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Users

InfoQ @ 2024-12-20 16:30:00

GitHub has introduced a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, offering 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month without requiring a subscription or payment. The update integrates Copilot as a core feature in the editor, wit

Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 16:28:50

Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts. I have been using the tool, which I called Artemi

Textbook Depictions of Neurons May Be Wrong, According to Controversial Study

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-20 16:00:54

In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center, a forest of tree-like branches on one end, and a long,

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 692 - Dec 20th 2024

iOS Weekly @ 2024-12-20 16:00:00

Comment Here we are at the end of another year of iOS Dev Weekly. As always, I remain tremendously grateful that you all continue to read it, and I’ll do my best to keep things that way in 2025! As is the trad

How do I register a file type for a scripting language so that users get a warning when they run an untrusted script?

old new thing @ 2024-12-20 16:00:00

Use the FTA_AlwaysUnsafe edit flag. The post How do I register a file type for a scripting language so that users get a warning when they run an untrusted script? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Building Effective "Agents"

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 13:29:17

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 367 # Comments: 60

Why history is always political

AEON @ 2024-12-20 12:00:00

In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life - by Rosario López Read at Aeon

NVIDIA Unveils Jetson Orin Nano Generative AI Supercomputer

InfoQ @ 2024-12-20 11:05:00

NVIDIA has released the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a compact generative AI supercomputer. The device, which measures small enough to fit in one's hand, provides increased performance for generative AI capabilities. By Daniel Dominguez

Tldraw Computer

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 08:42:36

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My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 05:35:49

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 509 # Comments: 99

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 05:10:42

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 326 # Comments: 30

Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 02:09:53

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 280 # Comments: 214

The era of open voice assistants

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 01:29:57

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 793 # Comments: 258

What’s new in OpenShift Virtualization 4.17

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-20 01:00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.17 is now generally available.OpenShift Virtualization lets you migrate your existing virtual machine (VM)-based workloads to Red Hat OpenShift, helping to streamline operations on a modern platform. You can take advantag

Top 10 edge blog posts of 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-20 01:00:00

Devices on the network’s edge help organizations process data and transactions quickly on site, and can cut down on redundant network traffic and the latency that comes with it. There are challenges with managing so many devices and all the data they proce

Friday Five — December 20, 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-20 01:00:00

Forbes - Red Hat Details Vision For AI, Casts Foundations In GraniteIn the open source universe driven by Red Hat, the firm has now engineered the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, Red Hat’s foundation model platform for developing, testing and runn

10 Linux blog posts to bookmark now

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-20 01:00:00

Good infrastructure provides reliability and flexibility to an IT system, and Linux is a stable and secure foundation for servers, clouds and applications. Modern IT requires consistency combined with versatility, continuous support combined with continuou

Woody Johnson’s New York Jets

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-20 00:51:11

Zack Rosenblatt, Dianna Russini, and Michael Silver have written a devastating profile of the most dysfunctional franchise in all of U.S. pro sports, the New York Jets, whose dysfunction has a clear and obvious root cause: meddling idiot owner Woody Johns

Kelly Can't Fail

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-20 00:07:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 370 # Comments: 108

Yuffa, campeón de España

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-20 00:06:13

El vencedor en Marbella, de origen ruso, termina invicto como líder único y se convierte en el 2º mejor español en la lista mundial

Java Weekly, Issue 573

Baeldung @ 2024-12-19 23:05:27

Spring upgrades and news about the latest AI developments. The post Java Weekly, Issue 573 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 21:44:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 260 # Comments: 200

Queues in Apache Kafka®: Enhancing Message Processing and Scalability

Confluent @ 2024-12-19 21:37:53

Queue support in Apache Kafka 4.0, enabled by share groups, lets you accommodate traditional queue-type workloads through cooperative consumption.

Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 21:26:33

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 86

Hugging Face and Entalpic Unveil LeMaterial: Transforming Materials Science through AI

InfoQ @ 2024-12-19 20:59:00

Entalpic, in collaboration with Hugging Face, has launched LeMaterial, an open-source initiative to tackle key challenges in materials science. By unifying data from major resources into LeMat-Bulk, a harmonized dataset with 6.7 million entries, LeMateri

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-19 20:22:10

Unleash your creativity: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock generates stunning high-resolution images with superior detail, style variety, and prompt adherence for accelerated visual content creation.

Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 19:25:55

Hey HN, I'd like to share a fun project I've been working on: mizu.js. It's a js library that add functional attributes support into your html, designed to be a simple and flexible alternative to fully-fledged web frameworks (such as Vue, React, and Angu

Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot?

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-19 19:14:58

OpenAI has just released its full o1 model—a new kind of model that is more capable of multi-step reasoning than previous models. Anthropic, Google and others are no doubt working on similar products. At the same time, it’s hotly debated in ma

ASF Plus One Newsletter: December 2024

ASF @ 2024-12-19 18:56:23

We’re issuing the last Plus One Newsletter of the 2024 calendar year a bit early in hopes that we are all able to slow down and take some time away from work to be with family and friends this holiday season. We look forward to sharing more updates while

Podcast CB SyR 491: La Palma Interferometer, células solares de perovskita, genética del color naranja de los gatos, fósiles mallorquines del Pérmico y superfulguraciones solares

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-12-19 18:06:55

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 491 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “ Interferómetro; Placas Solares; Gatos; Paleontología; Superfulguraciones”, 18 dic 2024. «La tertulia semanal en

Pseudonymity in academic publishing

0xDE @ 2024-12-19 17:55:00

The January issue of the Notices of the AMS is out, and it includes a new article coauthored by me, as well as what look like interesting articles on machine-assisted proof by Terry Tao and on rational approximation by Lloyd Trefethen fils (better known as

A Replacement for BERT

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 17:53:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 330 # Comments: 73

Clay – UI Layout Library

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 17:36:54

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 395 # Comments: 73

The Year in Computer Science

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-19 16:56:28

Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone. The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Ma

How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-19 16:48:58

The first planet beyond our solar system was identified just 30 years ago. Since then, thousands have been found and characterized. As we look for more, exoplanet experts are also probing for signs of alien biospheres hundreds of light-years away. In this

Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-19 16:00:22

Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided

Inside STL: The atomic shared_ptr

old new thing @ 2024-12-19 16:00:00

There's a lock hiding inside the pointer. The post Inside STL: The atomic shared_ptr appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Interval arithmetic and fixed points

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-19 15:40:22

A couple days ago I analyzed the observation that repeatedly pressing the cosine key on a calculator leads to a fixed point. After about 90 iterations the number no longer changes. This post will analyze the same phenomenon a different way. Interval arith

Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 15:29:18

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Ghost artists on Spotify

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 15:12:05

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 484 # Comments: 329

Normal probability approximation

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-19 13:16:10

The previous post presented an approximation for −1 ≤ x ≤ 1 and said that it was related to a probability function. This post will make the connect explicit. Let X be a normally distributed random variable with mean μ and variance σ². Then the CDF of X is

How to Use Property-Based Testing as Fuzzy Unit Testing

InfoQ @ 2024-12-19 12:08:00

According to Eivind Jahren, property-based testing is an invaluable tool for its ease of use and effectiveness. It is flexible in what requirements one can formulate and is simple and lightweight enough to put in the hands of software developers to perfo

Boat people

AEON @ 2024-12-19 12:01:00

The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story of fleeing Vietnam - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Laboratories of the impossible

AEON @ 2024-12-19 12:00:00

By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics - by Joshua Roebke Read at Aeon

Azure AI Agent Service in Public Preview: Automation of Routine Tasks

InfoQ @ 2024-12-19 11:00:00

Unveiling at Ignite, Microsoft's Azure AI Agent Service empowers developers to build and scale AI agents seamlessly. With secure integration, flexible use cases, and support for multiple frameworks, it automates workflows across platforms like Teams and

New MSSQL Extension for VS Code Promises Enhanced Developer Productivity

InfoQ @ 2024-12-19 09:45:00

Microsoft enhances Visual Studio Code's MSSQL extension with comprehensive updates, introducing improved database connection, object exploration, and query analysis tools. The new version offers advanced UI features, streamlined table design, enhanced pe

Alignment faking in large language models

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 06:43:29

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 296 # Comments: 350

Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-19 05:27:28

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 403 # Comments: 516

‘Silo’ Renewed for Two Additional Seasons

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-19 04:27:53

Joe Otterson, reporting for Variety: “Silo” has been renewed for both Seasons 3 and 4 at Apple TV+, with the fourth season set to be the show’s last. The renewal news comes as the post-apocalyptic drama is currently airing its second season. The six

10 essential cloud articles to read in 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-19 01:00:00

Red Hat has been providing solutions for the cloud for a long time, and continued to forge that path throughout 2024. With Red Hat technology, you’re not limited to what public cloud providers offer. You have options. You can build and manage as much or as

10 AI articles to read before the end of 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-19 01:00:00

2024 was an exciting year in technology, so Red Hat blog authors have delivered exciting news stories, musings and tutorials on all the latest trends and topics. Using a dump of traffic logs and the awk command, I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 articles

PydanticAI: a New Python Framework for Streamlined Generative AI Development

InfoQ @ 2024-12-18 22:15:00

The team behind Pydantic, widely used for data validation in Python, has announced the release of PydanticAI, a Python-based agent framework designed to ease the development of production-ready Generative AI applications. Positioned as a potential compet

We Are Light-Eaters

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-18 21:35:31

The language we share with plants—and all life under the sun. The post We Are Light-Eaters appeared first on Nautilus .

Integrating Microservices with Confluent Cloud Using Micronaut® Framework

Confluent @ 2024-12-18 20:23:52

Real-time data streaming and messaging are essential for building scalable, resilient, event-driven microservices. Explore integrating the Micronaut framework with Confluent Cloud.

Acorn 8’s Documentation

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-18 18:18:39

One last item on Acorn 8. Whether you are a longtime Acorn user ( like me ), or a would-be new user, you should set aside some time to actually read Acorn’s documentation. It’s a full user manual, and it not only describes, in detail, what every feature i

Simple error function approximation

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-18 18:17:35

I recently ran across the fact that is a remarkably good approximation for −1 ≤ x ≤ 1. Since the integral above defines the error function erf(x), modulo a constant, this says we have a good approximation for the error function again provided −1 ≤ x ≤ 1.

Information is Physical?

Computational Complexity @ 2024-12-18 18:04:00

I've heard a few times recently the phrase "Information only exists in a physical state". It come from the quantum computing world where they claim quantum changes the game when it comes to representing information. As one who has spent his career studyi

CISA Tabletop Exercise Tests Open Source Security Response Procedures

ASF @ 2024-12-18 17:39:13

By Brian Proffitt, VP of Marketing & Publicity, Apache Software Foundation  Planning for the future is an essential part of the human experience, but rarely do we think in terms of the worst-case scenario and what that really means for the people and

Dan Moren on Acorn 8

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-18 17:10:27

Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: The newly released Acorn 8 adds a bunch of great features to the mix. A few of them will be familiar to Apple platform users: subject selection uses machine learning to let you quickly isolate and grab the subject o

Yuffa, único líder en Marbella

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-18 17:10:02

Al menos seis jugadores tienen probabilidades razonables de ganar el Campeonato de España Absoluto a falta de dos rondas

MacOS 15.2 Breaks the Ability to Create Bootable Startup Drive Backups

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-18 17:00:00

Dave Nanian, writing on the Shirt Pocket blog: macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise. Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s about to copy either Pr

Port-Based State Preparation and Applications

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-18 16:45:00

Quantum 8, 1573 (2024). We introduce Port-Based State Preparation (PBSP), a teleportation task where Alice holds a complete classical description of the target state and Bob's correction operations are res

Key Takeaways from QCon & InfoQ Dev Summits with a Look ahead to 2025 Conferences

InfoQ @ 2024-12-18 16:30:00

As we reflect on 2024, one thing is clear: senior developers, architects, and team leaders face challenges that benefit from real-world insights shared by other senior practitioners. This year, the InfoQ Dev Summits in Boston and Munich, and the QCon con

The Year in Biology

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-18 16:15:41

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine

How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-18 16:00:19

When Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122, her longevity had researchers scratching their heads. Although physically active for most of her life, she was also a regular smoker and enjoyed wine—lifestyle choices that are generally thought to decrease healt

Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit?

old new thing @ 2024-12-18 16:00:00

Studying how git recovers history. The post Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Heralded Optical Entanglement Generation via the Graph Picture of Linear Quantum Networks

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-18 15:36:16

Quantum 8, 1572 (2024). Non-destructive heralded entanglement with photons is a valuable resource for quantum information processing. However, they generally entail ancillary particles and modes that amplify th

Efficient tensor networks for control-enhanced quantum metrology

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-18 14:42:27

Quantum 8, 1571 (2024). Optimized quantum control can enhance the performance and noise resilience of quantum metrology. However, the optimization quickly becomes intractable when multiple control operations ar

Boca Chica

AEON @ 2024-12-18 12:01:00

A portrait of the Texas coastline occupied by SpaceX reveals the footprints we leave on Earth in the quest to reach beyond it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

This Week in Rust 578

This Week in Rust @ 2024-12-18 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

This Week’s Hype, etc.

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-12-18 01:00:56

NYU today put out a press release claiming that Physicists ‘Bootstrap’ Validity of String Theory, telling us that NYU and Caltech scientists develop innovative mathematical approach to back existence of long-held framework explaining all physic

Tutorial: The Foreign Function and Memory API

Inside Java @ 2024-12-18 01:00:00

These tutorials help with understanding the Foreign Function and Memory (FFM) API capabilities to invoke code outside the JVM (foreign functions) and to safely access memory not managed by the JVM (foreign memory). The FFM API facilitates Java applications

Top 10 blog posts about the open source community in 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-18 01:00:00

Red Hat is a contributor to and sponsor of many open source projects, so many Red Hatters are also part of the wider open source community. We all get something different from the communities we’re involved with, and the Red Hat Blog regularly explores the

Red Hat Government Symposium 2024: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Advantage

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-18 01:00:00

Innovation in government doesn’t happen in isolation—it thrives through collaboration, open dialogue, and a shared vision for a future where technology works to improve lives and empower communities. This was the focus of the Red Hat Government Symposium 2

10 must-read application development blog posts from this year

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-18 01:00:00

Writing software is complex, and as the industry continues to grow in size and scope, there’s plenty of opportunity to streamline the processes of both development and delivery. Using a dump of traffic logs and the awk command, I’ve compiled a list of the

Acorn 8.0

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-18 00:33:21

Gus Mueller: This is a major update of Acorn, and is currently on a time-limited sale for $19.99 . It’s still a one time purchase to use as long as you’d like, and as usual, the full release notes are available . I want to highlight some of my favor

Back to the Galapagos

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-17 22:34:09

A visit with evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant. The post Back to the Galapagos appeared first on Nautilus .

Difference Between a HashMap and a Dictionary in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-12-17 22:20:04

Explore the differences between Java's HashMap and Dictionary, and find out when and why to use each. The post Difference Between a HashMap and a Dictionary in Java first appeared on Baeldung .            

Introduction to ClickHouse Database

Baeldung @ 2024-12-17 21:50:48

Learn how to use the Online Analytical Processing database ClickHouse in Java. The post Introduction to ClickHouse Database first appeared on Baeldung .              

Blackmagic Design Now Taking Pre-Orders for Vision-Pro–Optimized Immersive Camera

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-17 19:15:44

Blackmagic Design: Blackmagic Design announced it will start taking pre-orders for the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera — the world’s first commercial camera system designed to capture Apple Immersive Video for Apple Vision Pro — today with d

Pressing the cosine key over and over

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-17 18:57:48

No matter what number you start with, if you press the cos key on a calculator repeatedly, the numbers eventually quit changing. This fact has been rediscovered by countless children playing with calculators. If you start with 0, which is likely the defau

Alta calidad de Ginés

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-17 18:19:46

El excampeón del mundo sub-14 parte de una ventaja de espacio para transformarla en una posición ganadora y rematarla con brillantez

[Sponsor] Jiiiii

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-17 17:22:08

With over 75 shows that aired this past season alone, keeping up with and discovering new anime can be hard, especially across several streaming services. Jiiiii makes that simple by giving you a single schedule to stare at 1 as you await your favorite

Challenges of Creating iOS App Extensions at Lyft

InfoQ @ 2024-12-17 17:00:00

In a recent article, Lyft engineers Artur Stepaniuk and Max Husar described how Lyft handles the complexity of creating an app extension for their iOS app without breaking the tight RAM and binary size constraints set by Apple nor impair user experience.

The Year in Physics

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-17 16:40:02

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the cosmos is far weirder than anyone suspected. The post The Year in Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

FACTS Grounding: A new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of large language models

Deepmind @ 2024-12-17 16:29:00

Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses in provided source material and avoid hallucinations

Introducing klibs.io: A New Way to Discover Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-12-17 16:22:54

Kotlin Multiplatform is growing rapidly, with its ecosystem expanding and the number of libraries increasing by 35% in 2024 alone. However, with more libraries available than ever, finding the right one for your use case and target platforms can still be a

Introducing klibs.io: A New Way to Discover Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries

Kotlin news @ 2024-12-17 16:22:54

Kotlin Multiplatform is growing rapidly, with its ecosystem expanding and the number of libraries increasing by 35% in 2024 alone. However, with more libraries available than ever, finding the right one for your use case and target platforms can still be a

The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art?

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-17 16:00:43

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup that uses AI, promise to make publishing faster and more

Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI

old new thing @ 2024-12-17 16:00:00

Sometimes they don't stick. The post Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Kernel Machine Learning With Continuous Variables

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-17 15:57:58

Quantum 8, 1570 (2024). The popular qubit framework has dominated recent work on quantum kernel machine learning, with results characterising expressivity, learnability and generalisation. As yet, there is no c

No-Regret Learning and Equilibrium Computation in Quantum Games

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-17 15:13:43

Quantum 8, 1569 (2024). As quantum processors advance, the emergence of large-scale decentralized systems involving interacting quantum-enabled agents is on the horizon. Recent research efforts have explored qu

Fiat-Shamir for Proofs Lacks a Proof Even in the Presence of Shared Entanglement

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-17 14:41:34

Quantum 8, 1568 (2024). We explore the cryptographic power of arbitrary shared physical resources. The most general such resource is access to a fresh entangled quantum state at the outset of each protocol exec

Quantum simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians via commutator-free quasi-Magnus operators

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-17 14:36:03

Quantum 8, 1567 (2024). Hamiltonian simulation is arguably the most fundamental application of quantum computers. The Magnus operator is a popular method for time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation in computation

Negative Wigner function by decaying interaction from equilibrium

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-17 13:44:36

Quantum 8, 1566 (2024). Bosonic systems with negative Wigner function superposition states are fundamentally witnessing nonlinear quantum dynamics beyond linearized systems and, recently, have become essential

Roaming rocks

AEON @ 2024-12-17 12:00:00

Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth - by Marcia Bjornerud Read at Aeon

‘The Developers Who Came in From the Cold’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-17 03:37:18

Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog: Even as our products steadily grew in popularity, our relationship with Apple was almost non-existent. Plenty of individuals inside the company were fans, but we received very little attention from Apple as a co

Amazon Aurora DSQL: Distributed SQL Database with Active-Active High Availability

InfoQ @ 2024-12-17 01:07:00

At the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced the public preview of Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database featuring active-active high availability. This new PostgreSQL-compatible database option has generated signif

This Ocean Wave Has Rights  

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-17 01:06:44

The true meaning of legal protection for nature. The post This Ocean Wave Has Rights   appeared first on Nautilus .

Streamline lifecycle management of 5G Core CNFs on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-17 01:00:00

Upgrades are necessary in any industry that relies upon IT infrastructure to do business. From adopting new features and addressing common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) to enhancing security and complying with support requirements, there are many bus

New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-16 21:30:18

Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.

Google Fi Still Doesn’t Fully Support RCS Either

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-16 21:14:57

A few weeks ago, in a post primarily complaining about Google’s disingenuous claims about their Messages app’s support for encryption (they suggest, heavily, that it encrypts every message or most messages, but in fact only supports encryption for RCS m

Social Media Algorithms Are Cultural Blandifiers

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-16 20:40:47

Excellent five-minute short video from the ever-insightful Kirby Ferguson for The New York Times, exploring why everything looks the same, sounds the same, and seemingly is the same in today’s pop culture. The short answer: that sameness is only pervasive

Get ready with the latest beta releases

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-12-16 20:31:12

The beta versions of iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS 15.3, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3, and watchOS 11.3 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And to take advantage of the advancements in the latest SDKs, m

Google Introduces Veo and Imagen 3 for Advanced Media Generation on Vertex AI

InfoQ @ 2024-12-16 20:15:00

Google Cloud has introduced Veo and Imagen 3, two new generative AI models available on its Vertex AI platform. Veo generates high-definition videos from text or image prompts, while Imagen 3 creates detailed, lifelike images. Both models include customi

Introducing Confluent’s JavaScript Client for Apache Kafka®

Confluent @ 2024-12-16 19:05:10

Announcing Confluent’s JavaScript Client for Apache Kafka® (CJSK), an officially maintained and easy-to-use client based on librdkafka, and kept up to date with Apache Kafka features.

The Year in Math

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-16 18:51:28

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Mag

And that’s a wrap!

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-16 18:16:46

After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over th

Perpetual Calendars

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-16 18:03:07

The previous post explained why the Gregorian calendar is the way it is, and that it consists of a whole number of weeks. It follows that the Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years. For example, the calendar for 2025 will be exactly the same as

State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3

Deepmind @ 2024-12-16 18:01:16

We’re rolling out a new, state-of-the-art video model, Veo 2, and updates to Imagen 3. Plus, check out our new experiment, Whisk.

Last Call for This Batch of DF T-Shirts and Hoodies

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-16 18:00:00

Update: The store is now closed. My sincere thanks to everyone who’s bought one (or in many cases, more than one). Original post: Unsurprisingly given that I went a few years without selling DF-branded shirts, while I procrastinated on launc

A healthier semi-classical dynamics

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-16 17:20:26

Quantum 8, 1565 (2024). We study the back-reaction of quantum systems onto classical ones. Taking the starting point that semi-classical physics should be described at all times by a point in classical phase sp

Iturrizaga, fulminante

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-16 17:06:37

El excampeón de España y Venezuela firma una miniatura de alto interés teórico frente a la joven promesa balear Pau Marín

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-16 16:00:19

With a single shot, scientists protected pregnant mice from a deadly complication called pre-eclampsia. The shot, inspired by mRNA vaccines, contains mRNA instructions to make a protein that reverses damage to the placenta—which occurs in the condition—pro

Why do we have header files <pshpackN.h> and <poppack.h> instead of just issuing the pragma directly?

old new thing @ 2024-12-16 16:00:00

Because the pragma may not work everywhere. The post Why do we have header files <CODE><pshpackN.h></CODE> and <CODE><poppack.h></CODE> instead of just issuing the pragma directly? appeared first on The Old New Thi

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-16 15:47:40

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS r

Gregorian Calendar and Number Theory

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-16 15:04:01

The time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun is not an integer multiple of the time it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis, nor is it a rational number with a small denominator. Why should it be? Much of the complexity of our calendar can be exp

Force fallback source name for stripped bytecode.

luajit @ 2024-12-16 14:30:10

Reported by Lyrth. #1319

Golden hospital gowns

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-16 13:57:44

Here’s something I posted on X a couple days ago: There’s no direct connection between AI and cryptocurrency, but they have a similar vibe. They both leave you wondering whether the emperor is sumptuously clothed, naked, or a mix of both. Mayb

OpenAI Releases Sora and Full Version of O1 Reasoning Model with Fine-Tuning

InfoQ @ 2024-12-16 13:32:00

OpenAI has unveiled its advanced o1 reasoning model and the video generation model Sora, enhancing complex reasoning and video creation capabilities. Sora produces high-quality videos using innovative diffusion techniques, while o1 excels in nuanced reas

Household objects up close

AEON @ 2024-12-16 12:01:00

When you aim a powerful macroscopic camera at everyday items, the micro-world around us becomes only faintly familiar - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

What’s in the rule of law?

AEON @ 2024-12-16 12:00:00

The British Empire used a great democratic ideal to manufacture racial difference and rationalise colonial domination - by Kanika Sharma Read at Aeon

Publication charges to update in 2025

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-16 11:00:46

Dear Quantum community, We want to update authors on an important change in Quantum Journal’s publication fees (also known as article processing charges or APCs). From January 2025, the default ...

Usabilidad ferroviaria

brucknerite @ 2024-12-16 10:00:00

Probablemente hayáis sido pasajeros en algún tren de larga distancia. Quizá más de una vez. Dudo que muchos de vosotros seáis ajenos a la experiencia de contemplar como alguien en vuestro mismo vagón —quizá incluso vosotros mismos— se topa con otra persona

Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java

InfoQ @ 2024-12-16 05:00:00

A pair of new JEPs arriving in Java 24 provide an initial Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capability in Java. By Ben Evans

November project goals update

Rust blog @ 2024-12-16 01:00:00

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 26 project goals , with 3 of them designed as Flagship Goals . This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any p

Valhalla - Java’s Epic Refactor

Inside Java @ 2024-12-16 01:00:00

Project Valhalla wants to heal the rift in Java's type system between classes and primitives by introducing value classes, which 'code like a class, work like an int' and offer a flat and dense memory layout. During Devoxx 2024, Java Language Architect Bri

LLMs and regular expressions

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-15 19:43:18

Yesterday I needed to write a regular expression as part of a client report. Later I was curious whether an LLM could have generated an equivalent expression. When I started writing the prompt, I realized it wasn’t trivial to tell the LLM what I wan

Linkage

0xDE @ 2024-12-15 18:13:00

Modern CPUs have \(\mathbb{F}_2\) polynomial multiplication as a single operation (\(\mathbb{M}\)). This should be useful for other kinds of bit-hacking, not just algebraic computation.

Random Thoughts on AI (Human Generated)

Computational Complexity @ 2024-12-15 14:50:00

 (I wrote this post without any AI help. OH- maybe not- I used spellcheck. Does that count? Lance claims he proofread it and found some typos to correct without any AI help.) Random Thought on AI I saw a great talk on AI recently by Bill Regli,

Refriega con el gran Shírov

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-15 06:43:35

En una espectacular discusión teórica y táctica con Perea, el ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ del ajedrez se mueve muy bien en su salsa

CoverSutra Is Back

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-15 03:00:00

Another week with another outstanding indie developer whom I’m delighted to thank for sponsoring DF. This week, it’s Sophiestication Software promoting the return of CoverSutra —  a previous hit from the “delicious” era of Mac apps that is now back and

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball, End-of-Year and Q1 2025 Edition

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-15 02:59:39

After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is wide open at the moment — including the final week of the year. I know sponsors are sometimes hesitant to book weeks around major holidays, but, well, Daring Fireball is never “

What Is chain.doFilter() Doing in Spring Filter?

Baeldung @ 2024-12-14 23:02:28

Explore filters, the filter chain, and the correct use of the chain.doFilter() method in Spring. The post What Is chain.doFilter() Doing in Spring Filter? first appeared on Baeldung .              

Dynamic Spring Data JPA Repository Query With Arbitrary AND Clauses

Baeldung @ 2024-12-14 22:52:55

Explore three approaches to creating dynamic queries in the Spring Data JPA repository: query by Example, query by Specification, and query by Querydsl. The post Dynamic Spring Data JPA Repository Query With Arbitrary AND Clauses first appeared on Ba

Quarkus WebSockets Next

Baeldung @ 2024-12-14 22:46:05

Introduction to Quarkus WebSockets Next. The post Quarkus WebSockets Next first appeared on Baeldung .              

Introduction to Apache Accumulo

Baeldung @ 2024-12-14 22:42:52

Introduction to Apache Accumulo, a powerful distributed key-value store with unparalleled cell-level security, high performance, and scalability. The post Introduction to Apache Accumulo first appeared on Baeldung .       

★ On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-14 21:08:32

This is why it’s more than vanity to put your name on your work, whatever your work is — it shows you take responsibility for its validity.

Tabuenca lo borda ante Pichot

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-14 18:52:11

El cántabro, de 15 años, firma una victoria de muy alta calidad frente a una de las estrellas del Campeonato de España Absoluto

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 14)

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-14 16:00:45

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review “Last week I was taken through an unmarked door on an upper floor of a building in London’s King’s Cross district