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InfoQ @ 2025-01-22 07:30:00

Agoda recently detailed how they integrated their macOS infrastructure with Kubernetes. This was accomplished by developing the macOS Virtualization Kubelet (macOS-vz-Kubelet), a tool designed to manage macOS workloads within a Kubernetes environment.

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 07:00:00

Microsoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI and its principal cloud partner, is losing its designation as exclusive provider of computing capacity for the artificial intelligence startup. CNBC: In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft said that it's still in a f

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 06:00:00

Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and uncondition

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes an op-ed from 404 Media's Jason Koebler: If it wasn't already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build and mainstream alternative, decentralized social media platforms that are resistant to

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 02:40:00

Apple's upcoming updates -- macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, and iPadOS 18.3 -- will enable Apple Intelligence by default on compatible devices, requiring users to manually disable it if undesired. From Apple's developer release notes: "For users new or upgra

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 02:00:00

IMDb founder Col Needham is stepping down as CEO after 35 years, transitioning to executive chair. He will be succeeded by Nikki Santoro, who has served as the chief operating officer since 2021. TechCrunch reports: Santoro's appointment is significant, as

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 01:20:00

BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: The Wine team has officially released Wine 10.0, marking a full year of extensive development with over 6,000 changes. This stable release introduces major updates designed to enhance performance, compatibility,

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-22 01:10:52

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slashdot @ 2025-01-22 00:40:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: This year, artificial intelligence will be dominated by the maturation of AI code as corporate "workers" that can take over corporate processes and be managed just like employees, according to a year-outlook

slashdot @ 2025-01-22 00:00:00

According to CBS News, President Trump plans to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build AI infrastructure in the United States. From the report: OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, according

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 23:29:22

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slashdot @ 2025-01-21 23:20:00

EA's Origin PC client will be shut down on April 17, 2025, as Microsoft ends support for 32-bit software. "Anyone still using Origin will need to swap over to the EA app before that date," adds Engadget. From the report: For those PC players who have not m

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-21 23:16:34

An evolutionary biologist clears up common myths The post 10 Misconceptions About Evolution appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-01-21 22:40:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest version containing 671 billion parameters. The company claims the model performs at level

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-21 21:26:49

Our digital legacies don’t just preserve memories; they can continue to influence the world, long after we’re gone. The post Logging off Life but Living on: How AI Is Redefining Death, Memory, and Immortality appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 20:39:39

I mean anything in the 0.5B-3B range that's available on Ollama (for example). Have you built any cool tooling that uses these models as part of your work flow? Comments URL: Points: 277 # Comments:

slashdot @ 2025-01-21 20:26:00

More than half of video game developers reported their companies are using generative AI in game development, according to an annual survey released Tuesday. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) report found that 52% of developers worked at companies using

slashdot @ 2025-01-21 19:45:00

Britain will launch a digital wallet app later this year allowing citizens to store government documents on their smartphones, UK Science Secretary Peter Kyle announced on Tuesday. The GOV.UK Wallet, available on Android and iOS, will first support veteran

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-21 19:28:58

Quantum 9, 1605 (2025). Entanglement-based quantum networks exhibit a unique flexibility in the choice of entangled resource states that are then locally manipulated by the nodes to fulfill any request in the n

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-21 19:17:08

The order doesn’t change the law; it says to ignore the law. It’s going to be a very telling test of Republicans in both houses of Congress.

slashdot @ 2025-01-21 19:10:00

The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, who cited WHO's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and demands for "unfairly onerous payments" from Washington. The or

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-21 19:08:28

El 3º de los jóvenes portentos indios doblega a Erigaisi, 4º del mundo, con sutiles maniobras y ocupa el primer puesto en solitario

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-21 18:44:48

Quantum 9, 1604 (2025). A quantum position-verification scheme attempts to verify the spatial location of a prover. The prover is issued a challenge with quantum and classical inputs and must respond with appro

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 18:37:01

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slashdot @ 2025-01-21 18:26:00

Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is taking out a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Tuesday with a succinct message for the new US commander-in-chief: "Dear President Trump, America must win the AI war." From a report: The ad also pointed readers to a five-p

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-01-21 17:57:30

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T07E07, «Una profesora de la UMA publica «El año de la inteligencia artificial», 07 ene 2025 [MP3 a partir de 01:20:30], del programa de radio […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T07E07: El año de la inteligencia

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-21 17:56:31

Apple Support document, which is linked from the App Store if you search for any of the apps from ByteDance: Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates. Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Cont

slashdot @ 2025-01-21 17:50:00

EFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, may have inflated its revenue and profit over several years, according to an internal investigation triggered by a whistleblower's claim about the company's accounting. Bloomberg News: A preliminary, on

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-21 16:58:57

Quantum 9, 1603 (2025). Quantum state purification is the task of recovering a nearly pure copy of an unknown pure quantum state using multiple noisy copies of the state. This basic task has applications to qua

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-01-21 16:30:34

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives. The post Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 16:12:15

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old new thing @ 2025-01-21 16:00:01

Get the order of operations right. The post Why is there a bulge on my bicycle tire when I inflate it? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2025-01-21 16:00:00

Because the driver that crashed may not be the one at fault. The post Why doesn’t the Windows blue screen of death prominently identify the company that created the driver that crashed? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 15:59:44

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InfoQ @ 2025-01-21 15:00:00

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-V3, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLM containing 671B parameters. It was pre-trained on 14.8T tokens using 2.788M GPU hours and outperforms other open-source models on a range of LLM benchmarks, including MMLU, MMLU-Pro, and G

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 14:47:18

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 14:19:02

I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform. Is there a off-the-shelf solution or any collaborators I can join to move something along? EDIT: I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 12:54:50

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AEON @ 2025-01-21 12:00:00

After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm - by Niklas Serning Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-01-21 11:19:00

Google has introduced Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, an AI reasoning model available in its AI Studio platform. By Daniel Dominguez

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 11:00:07

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 10:08:16

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-21 05:00:00

Good takes on some unpleasant current events, and one of the best brief eulogies for Jimmy Carter I’ve heard.  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-21 01:57:57

Wesley Hilliard, writing for AppleInsider regarding Edits , Meta’s pre-announced mobile-first video editing app: Despite that, many apps and features on iPhone toe the line between fun tool and social platform. One of those tools was Clips, which ar

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-21 01:34:09

Wes Davis, writing at The Verge, under the headline “Instagram Announces a Blatant CapCut Clone”: Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits. Mosseri said the app is meant to rival CapCut, a video editing app that

Ethereum blog @ 2025-01-21 01:00:00

The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research. With a dedicated fund of $2 million

Inside Java @ 2025-01-21 01:00:00

In this episode, Ana hosts Jonathan Gibbons, core contributor and maintainer of JDK tools, to discuss JavaDoc/javadoc developments, focusing on markdown in JavaDoc documentation comments. Jonathan dives into significant changes in Java’s documentation comp

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-21 01:00:00

Containers are an important part of modern computing, for hosting, for application development, and even as an alternative to virtualization. The infrastructure supporting containers has been refined and developed since the early days, so if you've been ho

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-21 01:00:00

The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) is not new, but recent advancements in related technologies have turned it from something more hypothetical-than-real to a tool that many of us use every day. The growing importance and proliferation of AI is at onc

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-21 00:19:13

Linking brains to machines has gone from science fiction to reality in the past two decades. The post A Paralyzed Man Just Piloted a Virtual Drone With His Mind Alone appeared first on SingularityHub .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-21 00:07:10

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-20 23:21:00

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-20 22:02:10

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-20 18:54:27

Abdusattórov estuvo cerca de tumbar a Praggnanandhaa en la primera ronda, pero el indio encontró recursos muy profundos para empatar

YC @ 2025-01-20 18:01:38

Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch. Applications are now open.

AWS Blog @ 2025-01-20 17:52:30

As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-20 17:45:00

Interesting selection of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes they’ve chosen for the homepage ( PDF archive for posterity ): “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” “You must decide to speak for yourself;

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-20 17:44:00

Tim Cook on X: Dr. King once said, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” True greatness lies in lifting others, making a difference, and serving with purpose. Let’s honor his legacy by finding ways to serve and create a better world t

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-20 17:20:29

I'll be here for the next 3 hours and then again at around 4 pm EST for another 3 hours. As usual, there are many possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with but as much as possible - because we've received so many questions abou

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-20 17:14:34

Quantum 9, 1602 (2025). In the last two decades, there has been much effort in finding secure protocols for two-party cryptographic tasks. It has since been discovered that even with quantum mechanics, many suc

InfoQ @ 2025-01-20 17:00:00

Vertex AI RAG Engine is a managed orchestration service aimed to make it easier to connect large language models (LLMs) to external data sources to be more up-to-date, generate more relevant responses, and hallucinate less. By Sergio De Simone

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-20 16:53:31

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Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-20 16:02:23

Quantum 9, 1601 (2025). Split Cayley hexagons of order two are distinguished finite geometries living in the three-qubit symplectic polar space in two different forms, called classical and skew. Although neithe

old new thing @ 2025-01-20 16:00:00

If you need to run after a failed construction, you have to put it in a base class or member variable. The post Reminder: When a C++ object fails to construct, the destructor does not run appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-20 15:51:16

Quantum 9, 1600 (2025). In this work, we introduce a fast implementation of the minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) decoder, the most widely used decoder for several important families of quantum error corre

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-20 15:38:38

Quantum 9, 1599 (2025). Hardy's argument constitutes an elegantly logical test for identifying nonlocal features of multipartite correlations. In this paper, we investigate Hardy's nonlocal behavior w

InfoQ @ 2025-01-20 14:00:00

AWS recently announced the launch of Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). This goes on the lines of a similar feature previously introduced for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This new capabi

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-20 14:00:00

A conversation with Nautilus cover artist Myriam Wares. The post The Magical Realism of Myriam Wares appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-01-20 13:37:58

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AEON @ 2025-01-20 12:01:00

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2025-01-20 12:00:00

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself - by Hannah H Kim Read at Aeon

Use Your Loaf @ 2025-01-20 11:43:52

Reduce or disable animations when the user requests you to reduce motion in the device accessibility settings. What’s the problem? Apple’s Human Interface Guide has some guidelines when applying motion to your user interface: Don’t a

brucknerite @ 2025-01-20 10:00:00

Las redes sociales nos hacen perder el tiempo. Las redes sociales nos enfadan. Las redes sociales nos radicalizan. Las redes sociales nos roban los datos para venderlos al mejor postor. Las redes sociales no nos cuidan. Las redes sociales no buscan nuestro

InfoQ @ 2025-01-20 10:00:00

Version 1.9.0 of OpenTofu - the infrastructure-as-code tool forked a year ago from Hashicorp's Terraform - has been released. This release brings several significant features, including provider iteration capabilities through `for_each`, to enable simpli

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-20 05:00:00

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts? WorkOS Radar can block all this and more. Their simple API gives you

InfoQ @ 2025-01-20 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for January 13th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase Two; Spring Framework 6.2.2; JobRunr 7.4.0; Micrometer Metrics 1.15.0-M1 and Micrometer Tracing 1.5.0-M1; and Infinispan joins the Commonhaus Foundation

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-20 03:15:34

Last week Heron’s formula came up in the post An Unexpected Triangle. Given the lengths of the sides of a triangle, there is a simple expression for the area of the triangle. where the sides are a, b, and c and s is the semiperimeter, half the perim

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-20 01:00:00

Red Hat en het Strategisch Leveranciersmanagement Rijk (SLM Rijk) hebben een Master Agreement ondertekend. Deze overeenkomst maakt het Nederlandse Rijksoverheidinstanties makkelijker om gebruik te maken van de software en diensten van Red Hat. Met behulp v

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-20 01:00:00

Confidential Containers (CoCo) are containers deployed within an isolated hardware enclave protecting data and code (data in use) from privileged users such as cloud administrators. Red Hat OpenShift confidential containers are available from OpenShift san

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-20 01:00:00

It may seem that with automation and agility, an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is outdated, but I don't think we've seen the end of this methodology yet. ITIL has served numerous IT organizations as a guideline and blueprint for proc

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-19 22:54:30

Apple and Google, seemingly, are following the law, not Trump’s good-as-gold word and pinkie-swear promise that they won’t be held liable for violating it. But Oracle and Akamai seemingly are going with Trump’s word.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-19 19:05:15

El jugador de élite más impresionante de 2024 cae en la jornada inaugural del ‘Roland Garros’ del ajedrez ante su compatriota Harikrishna

Computational Complexity @ 2025-01-19 14:34:00

I made up a quiz about the American Presidents  here .   It has 40 questions. In the modern electronic age you can probably look up most or even all of the answers. So what to do about that? 1) The quiz is not for money or credits or anyt

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 21:56:29

Tom Warren, The Verge: Earlier this month you could search for “Google” on Bing and get a page that looked a lot like Google, complete with a special search bar, an image resembling a Google Doodle, and even some small text under the search bar just l

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 21:26:52

Tim Hardwick, last week for MacRumors, “Apple Smart Home Hub Launch Possibly Delayed Until Later in Year”: Apple’s long-rumoured smart home hub or “command center” may not arrive in the spring as previously expected, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurm

Baeldung @ 2025-01-18 20:47:20

A quick tutorial on converting a null array to an empty list in Java. The post Null Array to Empty List in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 20:36:17

Joanna Stern, in her weekly Tech Things newsletter for the WSJ: Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries report, my husband isn’t messy, he isn’t sad and he definitely didn’t take out the garbage — because, again, I don’t have one. W

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 20:22:46

To the credit of the team that put this presentation together, they mostly got it.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-18 19:27:19

El campeón del mundo se lanza contra Giri y desemboca en varias posiciones muy inferiores, pero el neerlandés no controla el reloj

InfoQ @ 2025-01-18 18:00:00

In its recent update to Android Studio Ladybug (2024.2.2), Google has added new Gemini Code Transforms to modify, refactor, or create code, debugging and testing tools, and developer experience improvements. Additionally, the IDE adopts the latest Intell

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 16:52:02

Kyle Wiggers, writing at TechCrunch: Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson c

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-18 16:49:55

The purpose of this post is to expand on the following sentence [1]: Russian letters are created by entering [Ctrl-k followed by] a corresponding Latin letter followed by an equals sign -, or, in a few places, a percent sign %. The Russian alphabet has 33

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-18 16:00:00

These were our favorite articles in science and tech this week. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 18) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-18 15:09:40

It’s not simple to transliterate Russian names to English. Sometimes there is a unique mapping, or at least a standard mapping, of a particular name, but often there is not. An example that comes up frequently in mathematics is Pafnuty Lvovich Cheby

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-18 14:09:28

Let J(x) be the function plotted below. This is the Bessel function J1, but we drop the subscript because it’s the only Bessel function we’re interested in for this post. You can think of J as a sort of damped sine. We can create versions of J

InfoQ @ 2025-01-18 07:14:00

The Apache Software Foundation has recently announced the general availability of Apache Hudi 1.0, the transactional data lake platform with support for near real-time analytics. Initially introduced in 2017, Apache Hudi provides an open table format opt

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-18 00:06:43

Parker Ortolani works near Grand Central and wrote a great post about the in-character Severance experience on Wednesday, replete with photos, both early in the day when the diorama was largely empty, and later in the day, when it was swarmed with fans

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 23:21:59

Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: Here are the changes included in iOS 18.3 for Apple Intelligence notification summaries: When you enable notification summaries, iOS 18.3 will make it clearer that the feature — like all Apple Intelligence fe

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 22:00:22

Maddy Myers, writing for Polygon: But the weirdest part of the reveal video, in my opinion, is the implication that the Joy-Cons can be used as a mouse. This was already rumored , and if I hadn’t seen those rumors, then I might not have understood

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-17 21:45:59

What rove beetles can tell us about the predictability of life The post The Evolution of a Mimic appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2025-01-17 20:06:24

Learn how to use Logback's ListAppender to collect log messages and use the LoggingEvent to check for a simple message. The post How to Check For a Logged Message in a Spock Test first appeared on Baeldung .        

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-17 20:03:10

Refute your friends and family, never be satisfied. Philosopher Agnes Callard on life lessons from Socrates. The post Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2025-01-17 19:52:24

Learn how to build AI-powered applications using LangChain4j and Micronaut. The post Using LangChain4j With Micronaut first appeared on Baeldung .              

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 17:59:18

Kyle Maclachlan, remembering his friend and longtime collaborator David Lynch, on Instagram: What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-17 17:24:02

Este final artístico, de uno de los mejores compositores de la historia, es muy didáctico y termina con un golpe bellísimo

InfoQ @ 2025-01-17 16:00:00

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old new thing @ 2025-01-17 16:00:00

Another kind of fiasco. The post The case of the crash when trying to erase an element from a <CODE>std::set</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-17 16:00:00

The bot does acrobatic double flips faster than a fruit fly and stays aloft 100 times longer than other robots. The post MIT’s Latest Bug Robot Is a Super Flyer. It Could One Day Help Bees Pollinate Crops. appeared first on SingularityHub .

Baeldung @ 2025-01-17 12:34:56

Tips on using AI to improve documentation, and a lot of new library upgrades. The post Java Weekly, Issue 577 first appeared on Baeldung .              

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

Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome - by Eric Schwitzgebel Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-01-17 10:00:00

Researchers at AI safety firm Apollo Research found that AI agents may covertly pursue misaligned goals and hide their true objectives. Known as in-context scheming, this behavior does not seem to be accidental as LLMs explicitly reason about deceptive s

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-01-17 08:17:50

Wow! Biologists seem to have discovered an entirely new kind of life form. They’re called ‘obelisks’, and you probably have some in you. They were discovered in 2024—not by somebody actually seeing one, but by analyzing huge amounts

Physics Phorums @ 2025-01-17 08:17:50

Wow! Biologists seem to have discovered an entirely new kind of life form. They’re called ‘obelisks’, and you probably have some in you. They were discovered in 2024—not by somebody actually seeing one, but by analyzing huge amounts

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 02:23:15

Another fun promo for Severance season 2. And a promo on Apple’s homepage featuring a computer made by another company . And a free in-universe book, The Lexington Letters , at Apple Books. ( Update: Ah, the book came out in March 2022, as part

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 02:21:42

Brian Tallerico, writing for RogerEbert.com: David Lynch saw my dreams. As a teenager growing up in suburban America in the ’80s, “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” hit like a bolt of lightning. Not only did they capture something about the sinister, surr

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-17 02:21:27

Ray Ratto, writing for Defector, gets it right. Bob Uecker was just the best: He was the face and voice of baseball cinema, the man whose line-reading made “Ju-u-u-u-st a bit outside” so good that “iconic” doesn’t remotely cover its impact. Even if yo

iOS Weekly @ 2025-01-17 01:00:00

We’re still at the very beginning of what we can do with visionOS. Will TabletopKit give us shared experiences? 🃏

Ethereum blog @ 2025-01-17 01:00:00

The Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Academic Grants Round! This round, we are proud to support 41 projects from researchers and institutions worldwide. These projects address fundamental challenges and o

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-17 01:00:00

Cloud-native infrastructure is still evolving, and one thing that's clear is the need for scalability and efficiency in managing your Red Hat OpenShift clusters. Hosted control planes (HCP) is a paradigm-shifting approach in OpenShift designed to optimize

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-17 01:00:00

Unless you have been gifted with a photographic memory, this is likely going to sound very familiar. Picture it: You’re away from your desk and you need to access one of your apps from your phone. You attempt to sign in and get the dreaded message: “the us

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-17 01:00:00

ZDNet - Red Hat bets big on AI with its Neural Magic acquisitionRed Hat has completed its acquisition of Neural Magic, a pioneer in software and algorithms that accelerate gen AI inference workloads, helping further the company’s vision of high-performing

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-17 00:22:58

It’s a bigger challenge than we thought The post Bringing Mars Rocks to Earth appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-16 23:24:29

It's accurate and nearly as fast as expert human interpreters. The post Meta’s New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-16 21:50:16

Many are voicing concern that the world is running out of data and that this will be a blocker to progress toward smarter AI models. One paper in fact projects timelines for when we will run out. AI researchers are looking for ways to adapt.  Nvidia has t

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-01-16 21:02:29

On Tuesday January 21st 2025, at 16:00 CET (15:00 UTC) I will do a presentation titled as per above. I have not done this one before. The talk will be a detailed explainer and step-by-step going through exactly what happens when a curl command line is type

InfoQ @ 2025-01-16 19:55:00

Microsoft Research unveiled AIOpsLab, an open-source framework designed to advance the development and evaluation of AI agents for cloud operations. The tool provides a standardized and scalable platform to address challenges in fault diagnosis, incident

0xDE @ 2025-01-16 18:32:00

I have another new arXiv preprint: “Computational geometry with probabilistically noisy primitive operations”, arXiv:2501.07707, with Mike Goodrich and his student Vinesh Sridhar. Many computational geometry algorithms are designed around the use of primit

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-16 17:14:33

Fun trailer and a smart if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it design. Switch 2 just looks like a slightly bigger Switch. Pure joy. That it’s just a bigger faster Switch is proof of the genius of the Switch form factor, which has now been widely copied ac

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-16 17:02:36

El impresionante golpe con que el kazajo Urazáyev remata esta victoria sirve para celebrar más de medio siglo del abierto hispalense

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-01-16 17:00:29

Starting February 17, 2025 : Due to the European Union’s Digital Services Act , apps without trader status will be removed from the App Store in the European Union until trader status is provided and verified, if necessary. As a reminder, Account Holde

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-01-16 16:10:22

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof. The post Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-16 16:04:19

Sometimes it’s useful to apply dimensional analysis where it doesn’t belong, to imagine things having physical dimension when they don’t. This post will look at artificially injecting dimensions into equations involving factorials and re

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-01-16 16:00:48

As part of ongoing efforts to improve security and privacy on Apple platforms, the App Store receipt signing intermediate certificate is being updated to use the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm. This certificate is used to sign App Store receipts, which a

old new thing @ 2025-01-16 16:00:00

You can't talk about things that might exist, so instead talk about things that do. The post In a C++ class template specialization, how can I call the unspecialized version of a method? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2025-01-16 12:30:00

Growing your personal brand can improve your credibility, give you greater impact, and lead to better opportunities, Pablo Fredrikson said at QCon San Francisco. As a staff plus engineer, helping others solve problems creates value for the company. His a

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

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world - by Max McGuinness Read at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2025-01-16 10:27:39

En un artículo anterior os conté cómo una locomotora, la Taurus de Siemens, podía sonar bastante bien afinada y dar una pequeña sorpresa musical a los viajeros que presenciaran su partida desde un andén cercano. No creáis que soy el primero que se da cuent

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-01-16 06:54:28

I visited an old estate today Whose gardens, much acclaimed throughout the world, Spread out beyond the gated entranceway In scenic splendors gradually unfurled. Bright potted blooms sprung beaming by the drive, While further off, large topiary yews Rose s

Physics Phorums @ 2025-01-16 06:54:28

I visited an old estate today Whose gardens, much acclaimed throughout the world, Spread out beyond the gated entranceway In scenic splendors gradually unfurled. Bright potted blooms sprung beaming by the drive, While further off, large topiary yews Rose s

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-16 02:31:43

Yesterday I wrote about how the right notation could make Newton’s interpolation theorem much easier to remember, revealing it as an analog of Taylor series. This post will do something similar for the binomial theorem. Let’s start with the fo

Inside Java @ 2025-01-16 01:00:00

In 2025, Java keeps evolving. Here's how the big OpenJDK projects Babylon, Loom, Leyden, Lilliput, Panama, and Valhalla (sans Amber) plan to push Java forward.

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-16 01:00:00

Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest is taking over the Boston Convention Exhibition Center in Boston, MA, May 19-22, 2025 and we want you to be there. Registration is now open for the premier enterprise open source event for IT professionals.Every year we brin

Red Hat blog @ 2025-01-16 01:00:00

There were several new releases focusing on automation in 2024, which is just one sign that automation is now officially mission critical. With IT systems and networks more complex than ever, it’s unreasonable and unreliable to try to manage important sett

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-15 23:09:49

Bryan Bedell, on the Field Notes Dispatches blog: The anniversary date of “Field Notes” varies a bit, depending on who you ask. Aaron Draplin first used the name (typeset, of course, in all-caps Futura Bold) on a customized one-off red hardcover note

0xDE @ 2025-01-15 22:05:00

My drunken theorem (\(\mathbb{M}\)). Bill Gasarch’s open problems column in memory of Luca Trevisan brings Lance Fortnow vague memories of drinking and deriving.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-15 21:46:35

Marko Parker, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook is planning to attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump next week, the latest in a wave of Silicon Valley leaders traveling to Washington for the ceremony. Amazon.com Inc.

Nautilus blog @ 2025-01-15 21:41:57

How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma The post The Incredible Conundrum of Life’s Origin appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-15 20:54:51

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Ahead of the season two premiere of hit TV show Severance, Apple is marketing the show with a fun Severance pop-up at the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Apple has assembled a glass cube with workstations that are id

Daring Fireball @ 2025-01-15 20:45:48

Noah Smith, writing at Noahpinion: As many observers have noted, this tells us two important things. First, it tells us that Chinese officials are the ones calling the shots with regards to TikTok. This should be no surprise, given that ByteDance is

old new thing @ 2025-01-15 20:05:59

Clarifying the behavior. The post How does <CODE>Get­User­Default­Geo­Name</CODE> choose between ISO 3166-1 and UN M.49 codes? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-01-15 18:45:41

Medog Hydropower Station, as it will be called, will blow other hydropower dams out of the water. The post China Is About to Build the World’s Biggest Hydropower Dam—With Triple the Output of Three Gorges appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-01-15 18:42:15

Suppose one company would like to buy another company’s client list, but only if the lists don’t overlap too much. Neither company wants to hand over their list to the other before a sale takes place. What can they do? A low-tech solution woul

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-15 18:40:36

Quantum 9, 1598 (2025). In a Generalised Probabilistic Theory (GPT) equipped additionally with some extra geometric structure we define the morphophoric measurements as those for which the measurement map sendi

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-01-15 17:51:03

El británico Wadsworth doblega al armenio Grigorián, multiganador de torneos españoles, con una maniobra de gran valor instructivo

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-15 17:39:57

Quantum 9, 1597 (2025). In this work, we consider a fundamental task in quantum many-body physics – finding and learning ground states of quantum Hamiltonians and their properties. Recent works have studied the

tecosystems @ 2025-01-15 16:51:34

Nineteen years ago come April, Yahoo allowed two developers to release a project called Hadoop as open source software. Based on the Google File System and MapReduce papers from Google, it was designed to enable querying operations on large scale datasets

Sogrady @ 2025-01-15 16:51:34

Nineteen years ago come April, Yahoo allowed two developers to release a project called Hadoop as open source software. Based on the Google File System and MapReduce papers from Google, it was designed to enable querying operations on large scale datasets

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-01-15 16:37:55

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches. The post Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’ first appeared on

Baeldung @ 2025-01-15 16:15:45

Learn the best practice way to set connection and read timeouts in a Jersey web service, whether you need it for a given request, for a given test, or across the application. The post Setting Connection Timeout and Read Timeout for Jersey first appear

Martin Fowler @ 2025-01-15 15:43:00

So far the codemods that Juntao Qiu has described are fascinating, but rather straightforward. Real codebases offer more challenges. In this installment , he goes into how to tackle more complicated cases by composing codemods. more…

Computational Complexity @ 2025-01-15 15:42:00

Slide in Lev Reyzin 's JMM talk "Problems in AI and ML for Mathematicians" Reyzin is paraphrasing Telgarsky. Posted with permission. Last week I attended the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle with a theme of We Decide Our

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-15 14:52:01

Quantum 9, 1596 (2025). Distributed quantum sensing enables the estimation of multiple parameters encoded in spatially separated probes. While traditional quantum sensing is often focused on estimating a single

AEON @ 2025-01-15 12:01:00

‘We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-15 09:58:59

Quantum 9, 1595 (2025). We improve the test to show the impossibility of a quantum theory based on real numbers by a larger ratio of complex-to-real bound on a Bell-type parameter. In contrast to previous theor

Quantum Journal @ 2025-01-15 09:50:47

Quantum 9, 1594 (2025). Quantum optimization methods use a continuous degree-of-freedom of quantum states to heuristically solve combinatorial problems, such as the MAX-CUT problem, which can be attributed to v