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Is AI-Driven 0-Day Detection Here?

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 22:52:00

"AI-driven 0-day detection is here," argues a new blog post from ZeroPath, makers of a GitHub app that "detects, verifies, and issues pull requests for security vulnerabilities in your code." They write that AI-assisted security research "has been quietl

A Fourth FTX Executive Sentenced: Forfeits $11 Billion, But No Prison Time

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 21:44:00

Former FTX executive Nishad Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion, reports CNBC — and is subject to three years of supervised release, making him "the fourth ex-employee of the collapsed crypto exchange to be punished." But while he'd faced a ma

US Government Considers Legal Action Over Meta's Use of Financial Data for Ads

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 20:42:00

The Washington Post reports that America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) "is considering legal action against Meta over allegations that it improperly used financial data obtained from third parties in its highly-lucrative advertising busi

As Data Centers for AI Strain the Power Grid, Bills Rise for Everyday Customers

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 19:34:00

While Amazon, Google, and other companies build new data centers — sometimes for their AI projects — parts of America "are facing higher electric bills," reports the Washington Post: The facilities' extraordinary demand for electricity to powe

NVIDIA Replaces Rival Chipmaker Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 18:34:00

In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or DJIA) was created as a kind of proxy indicator for the wider stock market. "A stock is typically added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth and is of interest to a large

PimEyes 'Made a Public Rolodex of Our Faces'. Should You Opt Out?

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 17:34:00

The free face-image search engine PimEyes "scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer's website," -us/news/technology/they-made-a-public-rolodex

How America's Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China's Huawei

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 16:34:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn't look right... The microscopic proof was there that a ch

Threads Soars to 275 Million Monthly Users, Says Zuckerberg

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 15:34:00

An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from CNBC: Threads now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. "We continue to be on track towards this becoming our next major social app," Zuckerberg said on a call with

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 2)

Singularity Hub @ 2024-11-02 15:00:34

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google CEO Says Over 25% of New Google Code Is Generated by AI Benj Edwards | Ars Technica “We’ve always used tools to build new tools, and developers are using AI to continue that tradition. On Tuesday, Google̵

US Lawmakers On EPA To Ban Pesticide Linked To Parkinson's Disease

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 14:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries in banning a widely used weedkiller linked to Parkinson's disease and other health d

Starlink Enters National Radio Quiet Zone

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 11:00:00

Starlink has launched home Internet service to 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) after a multi-year collaboration with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to minimize interference with radio telescopes. "The vast majority of p

Weird Lexical Syntax

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-02 08:45:26

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Prosecutors Probe Hedge Fund Titan's Thriller For Clues in Argentina Hack Case

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 08:00:00

Jay Newman, who made billions for Elliott Management pursuing Argentina's defaulted debt, wrote a 2022 thriller about corrupt spies and hedge funds. Now federal prosecutors are examining parallels between his novel "Undermoney" and real-world events. The

Inventory Counts Air Pollution Cost of Space Launches and Re-Entries

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 04:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new global inventory has catalogued air pollution from space activities from 2020 to 2022. The inventory includes time, position and pollution from 446 launchers as they ascended and the tracks of re

Okta Fixes Login Bypass Flaw Tied To Lengthy Usernames

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 02:31:00

Identity management firm Okta said Friday it has patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that affected customers using usernames longer than 52 characters in its AD/LDAP delegated authentication service. The flaw, introduced on July 23 and

What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?

Singularity Hub @ 2024-11-02 01:50:32

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems—“su

California Inks Sustainable Aviation Fuel Deal With Major Airlines

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 01:50:00

California signed an agreement with major airlines to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuels, aiming to reach 200 million gallons by 2035 or about 40% of the state's air travel demand. The Hill reports: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and

My Time Working at Stripe

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-02 01:44:42

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Waymo Explores Using Google's Gemini To Train Its Robotaxis

slashdot @ 2024-11-02 01:10:00

Waymo is advancing autonomous driving with a new training model for its robotaxis built on Google's multimodal large language model (MLLM) Gemini. The Verge reports: Waymo released a new research paper today that introduces an "End-to-End Multimodal Model

JEP targeted to JDK 24: 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview)

Inside Java @ 2024-11-02 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 24: 478: Key Derivation Function API (Preview)

Fantastical for Windows — A Glass of Ice Water for Calendar Users in Hell

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-02 00:02:11

Flexibits: We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a Windows PC near you. [...] The best news is th

Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 23:43:15

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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 23:23:23

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Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2024-11-01 22:29:00

Unlock Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model's full potential with Amazon Bedrock's fine-tuning for enhanced accuracy and customization.

Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 21:30:13

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The Mystery of the Siberian Craters

Nautilus blog @ 2024-11-01 20:41:13

Why permafrost in the tundra has begun to explode. The post The Mystery of the Siberian Craters appeared first on Nautilus .

Floating point: Everything old is new again

The Endeavour @ 2024-11-01 20:41:03

In the early days of computing hardware (and actually before) mathematicians put a lot of effort into understanding and mitigating the limitations of floating point arithmetic. They would analyze mundane tasks such as adding a list of numbers and think ca

Notepad++ is 21 years old

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 18:47:37

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Pixelmator Acquired by Apple; Future of Their Apps Uncertain

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-01 17:16:28

The Pixelmator blog: Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. [...] Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixe

Apple acquires Pixelmator

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 16:36:27

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Tucker Carlson Claims He Was Mauled by a Demon While He Slept

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-01 16:26:27

Isaac Schorr, reporting for Mediaite (with video, in case you don’t believe the following was claimed in all seriousness, which it was): Asked by his interlocutor, John Heers, if he thought “the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 16:01:57

New: Please only post a job if you actually intend to fill a position and are committed to responding to everyone who applies. ---- Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONS

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 685 - Nov 1st 2024

iOS Weekly @ 2024-11-01 15:53:03

Comment Thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s question on what you hope for from WWDC 2025. There were plenty of interesting responses, but before we get to the specifics I asked how optimistic you

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 15:47:34

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Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-11-01 15:23:01

It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong. The post Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked first appeared on Quanta Magazine

On locale-aware substring matching, either case-sensitive or case-insensitive

old new thing @ 2024-11-01 15:00:00

It's surprisingly complicated, but fortunately, somebody has done it for you. The post On locale-aware substring matching, either case-sensitive or case-insensitive appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 14:53:32

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Make It Yourself

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 14:09:50

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Software Architecture Tracks at QCon San Francisco 2024 – Navigating Current Challenges and Trends

InfoQ @ 2024-11-01 14:00:00

At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons f

Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 13:54:14

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Cloudflare Introduces Workflows for Building Scalable Resilient Multi-Step Applications

InfoQ @ 2024-11-01 11:00:00

Cloudflare's "Workflows" is a revolutionary execution engine in open beta, enabling developers to build scalable, multi-step applications that autonomously manage errors and state across failures. With seamless retries and modular components, it streamli

The city of wisdom

AEON @ 2024-11-01 11:00:00

Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the field will open up to you - by Jamie Zvirzdin Read at Aeon

Doce horas y diez minutos

brucknerite @ 2024-11-01 10:00:00

Hay una distancia epistemológica entre la ciencia y la política. Decir esto es una obviedad para cualquiera que haya vivido la pandemia del coronavirus. O para cualquiera que esté vivo ahora, en pleno despegue del desastre climático. Por distancia epistemo

El gran crimen del obispo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-11-01 08:03:25

Iluminado por una de las joyas inmortales de Alexéi Troitski, el finlandés Julius Gunst teje una deliciosa obra de arte en miniatura

Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 08:02:48

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 238 # Comments: 81

Podcast CB SyR 484: Microbaterías nucleares de americio, forma óptima de una copa de cerveza, IA diseña el control de genes y solitones en potenciales de Frankenstein

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-11-01 07:42:31

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 484 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “DANA; Micronuclear; Cerveza: Genes; Solitones”, 31 oct 2024. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […]

How to Handle “MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column”

Baeldung @ 2024-11-01 06:06:16

Learn how to fix the "com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column" exception problem.              

PostgreSQL 17 Released with Improved Vacuum Process and Performance Gains

InfoQ @ 2024-11-01 05:46:00

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group recently announced the general availability of PostgreSQL 17, the latest version of the popular open-source database. This release focuses on performance improvements, including a new memory management implementati

Embeddings are underrated

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-11-01 04:24:17

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The Talk Show: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-01 03:06:31

Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squaresp

Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Now Has a Mac App, But It’s an Electron Turd

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-01 02:33:55

Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge: Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app. You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from Anthropic’s website for free. Sebastiaan de With, on X : Big miss from Anthro

Friday Five — November 1, 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-11-01 01:00:00

Open the future: An executive’s guide to navigating the era of constant innovationThis guide, drawing on Red Hat's decades of open source leadership and expertise, contains strategies and tools to navigate this era of constant innovation. It'll help you u

JEP targeted to JDK 24: 490: ZGC: Remove the Non-Generational Mode

Inside Java @ 2024-11-01 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 24: 490: ZGC: Remove the Non-Generational Mode

The Exception That Proves the Rule: the Walmart M1 MacBook Air Still Has Just 8 GB RAM

Daring Fireball @ 2024-11-01 00:51:11

While it’s true that after this week’s Mac announcements, every new Mac Apple sells now comes with at least 16 GB of RAM, Nick Heer reminds us that there remains a new Mac available with just 8 GB: the rather remarkable Walmart-exclusive $650 M1 MacBoo

Bradwardine’s Rule

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-11-01 00:34:35

I love reading about the medieval physics: you can see people struggling against mental traps, often failing, but still putting up a fight. We shouldn’t laugh at them: theoretical physicists may be stuck in their own traps today! Good new ideas often

Bradwardine’s Rule

Physics Phorums @ 2024-11-01 00:34:35

I love reading about the medieval physics: you can see people struggling against mental traps, often failing, but still putting up a fight. We shouldn’t laugh at them: theoretical physicists may be stuck in their own traps today! Good new ideas often

Apple Q3 FY2024 Results

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-31 23:08:20

Apple: The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when excluding the one-time charge recogni

Unlock the potential of your supply chain data and gain actionable insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-31 22:56:27

Uncover hidden insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics, powered by Amazon QuickSight, enabling custom reporting and data visualization for smarter supply chain management.

Our First Generalist Policy

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 22:34:34

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 298 # Comments: 232

The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-10-31 21:44:26

Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent podcast with … Continue reading →

An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 21:36:53

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Wait Until 8th

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 21:32:03

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Your Cat Is Listening to You

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-31 20:51:03

Felines may be able to learn human words. The post Your Cat Is Listening to You appeared first on Nautilus .

The US Says Electric Air Taxis Can Finally Take Flight Under New FAA Rules

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-31 20:20:13

Electric air taxis have seen rapid technological advances in recent years, but the industry has had a regulatory question mark hanging over its head. Now, the US Federal Aviation Authority has published rules governing the operation of this new class of ai

Halloween linkage

0xDE @ 2024-10-31 19:17:00

John Pai’s art combines woven metal latticework texture with geometric forms (\(\mathbb{M}\)).

Java Weekly, Issue 566

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 18:21:41

The always improving Spring observability story, the new Streams Gatherers JEP and the modernlization of a legacy app. A good week :)              

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-31 18:08:32

Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless enables massive horizontal scaling for write throughput and storage by distributing workloads across multiple Aurora instances while using standard PostgreSQL queries and syntax.

ChatGPT Search

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 17:41:22

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Claude for Desktop

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 16:04:27

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 314 # Comments: 209

Upcoming changes to the App Store Receipt Signing Intermediate Certificate

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-10-31 15:00:39

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

What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?

old new thing @ 2024-10-31 15:00:00

It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither. The post What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Keymer sube con calma (y II)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-31 14:43:15

Lección magistral del alemán frente a un rival muy fuerte sobre el manejo del centro de peones con alfiles de distinto color

curl source code age

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-10-31 14:04:38

In every software project that has been around for a while there is of course newer code and older code. A question that often pops up at least in my mind is then: How much of the old code has actually survived over the years and is still being in use toda

Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-31 13:37:52

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How hard is constraint programming?

The Endeavour @ 2024-10-31 12:52:13

I’ve been writing code for the Z3 SMT solver for several months now. Here are my findings. Python is used here as the base language. Python/Z3 feels like a two-layer programming model—declarative code for Z3, imperative code for Python. In thi

Staying Innovative on a Journey from Start-Up to Scale-Up

InfoQ @ 2024-10-31 12:25:00

As ClearBank grew, it faced the challenge of maintaining its innovative culture while integrating more structured processes to manage its expanding operations and ensure regulatory compliance. Within boundaries of accountability and responsibility, teams

Now I’m in the kitchen

AEON @ 2024-10-31 11:01:00

The sensations of cooking stir up complicated questions about the relationship between a daughter and her mother - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Colonies of former colonies

AEON @ 2024-10-31 11:00:00

India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism - by Hafsa Kanjwal Read at Aeon

How to Convert OpenAPI 2.0 to OpenAPI 3.0 in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 10:09:50

Learn several methods of upgrading from OpenAPI 2.0 to OpenAPI 3.0 in Java.              

Slack Evolves Chef Architecture for Safety and Stability

InfoQ @ 2024-10-31 10:00:00

In a recent blog post, Slack Engineering has detailed significant improvements to its Chef infrastructure. This manages tens of thousands of EC2 instances running its services, databases, and applications, and it recently moved from a single Chef stack t

Meta Spirit LM Integrates Speech and Text in New Multimodal GenAI Model

InfoQ @ 2024-10-31 10:00:00

Presented in a recent paper, Spirit LM enables the creation of pipelines that mixes spoken and written text to integrate speech and text in the same multimodal model. According to Meta, their novel approach, based on interleaving text and speech tokens,

.NET Aspire 9.0 RC1: Simplified Setup, Azure Functions Support Added, and Other Improvements

InfoQ @ 2024-10-31 08:30:00

.NET Aspire has released version 9.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), a major update to the platform. This version supports both .NET 8 Long Term Support (LTS) and .NET 9 Standard Term Support (STS), incorporating many features and fixes requested by developer

Adjoint School 2025

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-10-31 06:03:55

Are you interested in using category-theoretic methods to tackle problems in topics like quantum computation, machine learning, numerical analysis or graph theory? Then you might like the Adjoint School! A lot of applied category theorists I know have gott

Adjoint School 2025

Physics Phorums @ 2024-10-31 06:03:55

Are you interested in using category-theoretic methods to tackle problems in topics like quantum computation, machine learning, numerical analysis or graph theory? Then you might like the Adjoint School! A lot of applied category theorists I know have gott

‘Dodgers Capture World Series by Storming Back in Game 5 to Upend Yankees’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-31 05:22:30

Both teams had stretches of greatness on both sides of the game. Home runs. Clutch hitting in late innings. Freddie Fucking Freeman. Innings of unhittable pitching. There’s no question in my mind these are the two most talented teams in baseball. But one

How to Tear Down or Empty HSQLDB Database After Test

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 03:18:41

Learn how to test with HSQLDB in isolation by tearing down or emptying the database each time a test is run.              

Introduction to S3proxy

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 03:13:49

Learn how to use the S3Proxy library to transparently adapt your existing Amazon S3 API usage to other cloud storage vendors.              

Introduction to Jakarta Persistence 3.2

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 03:10:12

A quick tutorial on the new features introduced in Jakarta Persistence 3.2.              

AspectJ Pointcut For All Methods Inside Package

Baeldung @ 2024-10-31 02:50:29

Tutorial on how to create a pointcut in AspectJ that matches all methods in a package.              

The Devcon schedule is live!

Ethereum blog @ 2024-10-31 01:00:00

Hi Ethereum frens, With just 13 days to go until Devcon, we’re amazed by how huge this year’s event will be! Our expected number of attendees has doubled since last time (12,000 vs. 6,000 in Bogotá), we have more than twice the number of Community Hubs an

October project goals update

Rust blog @ 2024-10-31 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

Unstoppable Linux: 3 things Red Hat Enterprise Linux has kept for 30 years

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-31 01:00:00

Thirty years ago on Halloween night, Red Hat revealed its very first release. Codenamed “Halloween” and officially named Red Hat Software (RHS) Linux, this early version was what would eventually become Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It included 223 pack

Red Hat Insights collaborated with Vulcan Cyber to provide a seamless integration for effective exposure management

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-31 01:00:00

Vulcan collaborated with Red Hat to optimize Vulcan Cyber with Red Hat Insights and provide businesses with a holistic view of exposure risk across all attack surfaces and asset types.According to Vulcan, “By harnessing Red Hat Insights’ deep visibility in

From free software enthusiast to container connoisseur

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-31 01:00:00

We recently caught up with distinguished software engineer, Giuseppe Scrivano, to chat about his lifelong passion for open source software. Giuseppe is a technical leader in the container runtime space across the industry and holds several patents. He is

Release Your (Java) Projects Like OpenJDK - Inside Java Newscast #79

Inside Java @ 2024-10-31 01:00:00

Tip & tail is a release model for software libraries that gives application developers a better experience while helping library developers innovate faster. The tip release of a library contains new features and bug fixes, while tail releases contain only

How the Occult Gave Birth to Science

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-30 23:27:38

For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table. The post How the Occult Gave Birth to Science appeared first on Nautilus .

Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-30 22:14:28

Apple Newsroom: Now available in space black and silver finishes, the 14-inch MacBook Pro includes the blazing-fast performance of M4 and three Thunderbolt 4 ports, starting with 16GB of memory, all at just $1,599. The 14- and 16-inch models with M4 P

Russian Court Hits Google With a Fine Larger Than the World’s GDP

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-30 22:00:00

Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Business Insider: A legal dispute between Google and Russia over suspended YouTube accounts has led to a fine so large that it exceeds all the money on Earth. Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told the state-run TASS newswire

Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-30 21:37:23

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from 8GB previously. This change applies to the 13-inch model with the M2 chip, the 13-inc

Giant Clams Are Marvels of Solar Energy

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-30 21:00:06

What we can learn from the critically endangered species. The post Giant Clams Are Marvels of Solar Energy appeared first on Nautilus .

Simplify and enhance Amazon S3 static website hosting with AWS Amplify Hosting

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-30 18:03:30

Deploy static sites with streamlined configuration, custom domains, SSL, CDN, and one-click updates using Amazon S3 with AWS Amplify Hosting.

Network-Device-Independent Certification of Causal Nonseparability

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-30 16:45:18

Quantum 8, 1514 (2024). Causal nonseparability is the property underlying quantum processes incompatible with a definite causal order. So far it has remained a central open question as to whether any process wi

Pushing the frontiers of audio generation

Deepmind @ 2024-10-30 16:00:00

Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-10-30 15:58:12

A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove. The post It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All first appeared on Q

Keymer sube con calma (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-30 15:56:29

El juvenil alemán suele destacar más por su técnica y profundidad que por la belleza, pero esta partida también es brillante

Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps

Martin Fowler @ 2024-10-30 15:29:00

Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida dive into the details of incrementally modernizing a legacy mobile application. They look a t how to implant the strangler fig into the existing app, setting up bi-directional communication between th

I have enabled “take ownership” permission, but I still cannot obtain write access

old new thing @ 2024-10-30 15:00:00

Taking ownership is only one part of gaining write access. The post I have enabled “take ownership” permission, but I still cannot obtain write access appeared first on The Old New Thing .

FOCS 2024

Computational Complexity @ 2024-10-30 14:42:00

Junior/Senior lunch in 80°F Chicago Last summer I attended the Complexity Conference in Ann Arbor for the first time in eight years largely because it was within driving distance. So with FOCS in Chicago this year I didn't have much

Deveaux Bank

AEON @ 2024-10-30 11:01:00

What GPS tracking says about why the common whimbrel stops at a small spit of sand in South Carolina on its migratory route - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AWS Lambda Introduces a Visual Studio Code-Based Editor with Advanced Features and AI Integration

InfoQ @ 2024-10-30 11:00:00

AWS Lambda's new console features a VS Code OSS-integrated editor, enhancing code editing with customizable settings and support for larger function packages. It includes a split-screen layout for simultaneous viewing of code and outputs, real-time log t

La maldición de la Novena

brucknerite @ 2024-10-30 10:00:00

Una de las escasas ventajas que tiene acudir como un salvaje a un trabajo presencial que, además, tiene mala combinación desde mi vivienda en transporte público es que, en ocasiones, el coche se transforma en un mal menor. Intento salir todo lo temprano qu

Eighteen years of ABI stability

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-10-30 07:51:38

It has been eighteen years of libcurl ABI stability.

Central Package Management Now Available in .NET Upgrade Assistant

InfoQ @ 2024-10-30 06:27:00

The .NET Upgrade Assistant team has recently introduced a significant upgrade: the Central Package Management (CPM) feature. This new capability enables .NET developers to manage dependencies more effectively, streamlining the upgrade process and maintai

This Week in Rust 571

This Week in Rust @ 2024-10-30 05:00:00

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

Triangulations of the Sphere (Part 2)

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-10-30 01:01:22

Thurston’s paper Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere is really remarkable. I’m writing about it in my next column for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here’s a draft — which is also a much more deta

Triangulations of the Sphere (Part 2)

Physics Phorums @ 2024-10-30 01:01:22

Thurston’s paper Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere is really remarkable. I’m writing about it in my next column for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here’s a draft — which is also a much more deta

Understanding the new normal: Disruption, displacement, and the dichotomy of balancing both

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-30 01:00:00

This blog post covering technology disruption is an excerpt from Open the future: An executive’s guide to navigating the era of constant innovation. It draws on Red Hat’s decades of open source leadership and expertise to equip you with the strategies and

Understanding the AI landscape: A primer for executives

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-30 01:00:00

This blog post covering how to get started with AI is an excerpt from Open the future: An executive’s guide to navigating the era of constant innovation. It draws on Red Hat’s decades of open source leadership and expertise to equip you with the strategies

The open source advantage: Your catalyst for agility

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-30 01:00:00

This blog post covering the advantages of open source software is an excerpt from Open the future: An executive’s guide to navigating the era of constant innovation. It draws on Red Hat’s decades of open source leadership and expertise to equip you with th

Java Language Futures - Fall 2024 Edition

Inside Java @ 2024-10-30 01:00:00

The Java Programming Language is evolving fast. In this talk we’ll summarise many of the recent changes that have appeared as well as looking ahead to directions and features that are in development and will appear in future editions.

Cancelling Your Amazon Prime Membership to Protest Bezos’s Bootlicking at the Washington Post Is Like Pissing in the Ocean

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-30 00:25:26

Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic: NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than 1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four hours after the news broke.” It was a reasonable impulse. But i

Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-29 21:46:46

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, our most powerful “microscope,” the Large Hadron Collider, has found no devi

Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-29 21:34:54

Apple Newsroom: With M4 Pro, it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales them up to tackle even more demanding workloads. For more convenient connectivity, it features front and back ports, and for the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for fas

Ciencia para todos T07E05: Estudiantes de la UMA logran la medalla de plata en el iGEM 2024

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-29 20:24:02

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T07E05, «Estudiantes de la UMA, medalla de Plata en el concurso iGEM de Biología Sintética», 29 oct 2024 [a partir del minuto 01:14:20], del programa […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T07E05: Estudiantes de la U

MacRumors: ‘M1 vs. M3 vs. M4 iMac Buyer’s Guide’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-29 19:01:55

Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: The 2021 and 2023 iMacs have now been discontinued by Apple and prices at third-party resellers are falling. As such, some customers may be weighing up whether to pick up a 2021 or 2023 iMac instead of the latest model, wh

Otro bronce para Antón

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-29 18:55:54

El mejor español del momento contribuyó al oro de su club, el Novy Bor checo, y subió al podio individual gracias a esta victoria

ASF Project Spotlight: Apache Tika  

ASF @ 2024-10-29 17:57:16

Can you tell us a bit about the project?  Apache Tika is an open source content detection and analysis framework written in Java. It detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types. In addition to providing a Jav

Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps

Martin Fowler @ 2024-10-29 15:34:00

My colleagues are often involved in modernizing legacy systems, and our approach is to do this in an incremental fashion. Doing this with a mobile application raises some specific challenges. Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida share th

Reverse-engineering what a “short” section is

old new thing @ 2024-10-29 15:00:00

The long and short of it all. The post Reverse-engineering what a “short” section is appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Universal quantum processors in spin systems via robust local pulse sequences

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-29 14:20:22

Quantum 8, 1513 (2024). We propose a protocol to realize quantum simulation and computation in spin systems with long-range interactions. Our approach relies on the local addressing of single spins with externa

Vector Databases Are the Wrong Abstraction

Timescale blog @ 2024-10-29 14:10:00

Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.

How to Automatically Create & Update Embeddings in PostgreSQL—With One SQL Query

Timescale blog @ 2024-10-29 14:06:58

Build RAG systems with ease and efficiency. Learn how to automate embedding creation and management with a single SQL query using pgai Vectorizer.

Which OpenAI Embedding Model Is Best for Your RAG App With Pgvector?

Timescale blog @ 2024-10-29 14:06:51

What if testing your data with a new OpenAI embedding model was as easy as running a SQL query?

Which RAG Chunking and Formatting Strategy Is Best for Your App With Pgvector

Timescale blog @ 2024-10-29 14:06:41

Pgai Vectorizer makes testing and experimenting with different RAG chunking and formatting approaches easy, helping you improve your AI system faster.

Comment on “Multivariable quantum signal processing (M-QSP): prophecies of the two-headed oracle”

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-29 14:02:44

Quantum 8, 1512 (2024). Multivariable Quantum Signal Processing (M-QSP) [ 1 ] is expected to provide an efficient means to handle polynomial transformations of multiple variables simultaneously. However, we ide

PyTorch 2.5 Release Includes Support for Intel GPUs

InfoQ @ 2024-10-29 14:00:00

The PyTorch Foundation recently released PyTorch version 2.5, which contains support for Intel GPUs. The release also includes several performance enhancements, such as the FlexAttention API, TorchInductor CPU backend optimizations, and a regional compil

RAG-Powered Copilot Saves Uber 13,000 Engineering Hours

InfoQ @ 2024-10-29 13:30:00

Uber recently detailed how it built Genie, an AI-powered on-call copilot designed to improve the efficiency of on-call support engineers. Genie leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide accurate real-time responses and significantly enhan

The forces of chance

AEON @ 2024-10-29 11:00:00

Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory - by Brian Klaas Read at Aeon

Cloudflare Overhauls Logging Pipeline with OpenTelemetry

InfoQ @ 2024-10-29 10:00:00

Internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has documented how it significantly upgraded its logging pipeline by moving from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector. By Matt Saunders

Guide to Prometheus Java Client

Baeldung @ 2024-10-29 09:46:55

Learn how to effectively use the Prometheus Java client to monitor applications by instrumenting custom and JVM metrics.              

How to Mock Multiple Responses for the Same Request

Baeldung @ 2024-10-29 09:43:54

Learn how to use MockServer to mock multiple responses for the same request.              

Introduction to Apache Iceberg

Baeldung @ 2024-10-29 09:40:25

Learn about Apache Iceberg, a popular open table format in today's big data landscape.              

[Sponsor] Nomorobo

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-29 03:29:07

Whether you are red, blue, or in between, there’s one thing we can all agree on: no one likes political robocalls or texts. Every year they just seem to get worse. But there is good news! While every candidate, campaign, and political party uses robocal

★ In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-29 03:14:01

The Magic Mouse charging port placement is an opinionated design, not an absurd design.

Jeff Bezos: ‘The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-29 01:37:55

Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in his Washington Post: Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from

Open to options: How to build your modern virtualization strategy

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-29 01:00:00

Virtualization has long been the backbone of IT infrastructure that, at its core, is an exercise in modernisation, efficiency and value. When paired with a hybrid cloud strategy, which sees workloads live on-premise, in the cloud, and in edge environments,

IBM's Granite foundation model: A detailed look at its training data

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-29 01:00:00

While many AI model developers publicly release research papers and their data training approaches, we’ll focus on one model in particular– IBM’s Granite model, where IBM has gone one step further and released their specific training data. So, if you would

Announcing Fedora 41

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-29 01:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 41, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. For desktop systems, this Fedora release features a new Fedora Miracle spin, RPM 4.20 and updates

JEP targeted to JDK 24: 485: Stream Gatherers

Inside Java @ 2024-10-29 01:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 24: 485: Stream Gatherers

The Legally Blind See Again With an Implant the Size of a Grain of Salt

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-29 00:12:34

Seeing is believing. Our perception of the world heavily relies on vision. What we see depends on cells in the retina, which sit behind the eyes. These delicate cells transform light into electrical pulses that go to the brain for further processing. But b

Climate vs. Invasive Species

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-28 23:55:55

Which foe is looming largest for native plants along the Yangtze River? The post Climate vs. Invasive Species appeared first on Nautilus .

The Washington Post Has Lost Over 200,000 Subscribers (and Counting) After Trump Bootlicker Jeff Bezos Blocked Endorsement of Kamala Harris

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-28 23:21:13

David Folkenflik, reporting for NPR: The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to b

Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-28 21:32:48

Apple Newsroom, in the first of what I expect to be a few days’ worth of M4 Mac updates: The new iMac is available in an array of beautiful new colors, and the 24-inch 4.5K Retina display offers a new nano-texture glass option. iMac features a new 12M

2-adic numbering for binary tilings

0xDE @ 2024-10-28 20:41:00

I’ve posted quite a bit about the binary tiling of the hyperbolic plane recently, including what you get when you shrink its vertical edges, a related “nowhere-neat” tessellation, the connection to Smith charts and Escher, a method to 3-color its tiles, a

Kotlin Multiplatform Development Roadmap for 2025

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-10-28 19:52:27

As Kotlin Multiplatform is now firmly established, development teams across the globe – including major companies like Shopify, Forbes, Haier, and Zürcher Kantonalbank – can harness its power in production environments. During Google I/O 2024 in May, Googl

Kotlin Multiplatform Development Roadmap for 2025

Kotlin news @ 2024-10-28 19:52:27

As Kotlin Multiplatform is now firmly established, development teams across the globe – including major companies like Shopify, Forbes, Haier, and Zürcher Kantonalbank – can harness its power in production environments. During Google I/O 2024 in May, Googl

Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-28 18:28:55

A decade of AWS innovation: Amazon ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with "blazingly-fast" pe

AWS Weekly Roundup: New code editor in AWS Lambda console, Amazon Q Business analytics, Claude 3.5 upgrades, and more (October 28, 2024)

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-28 18:24:08

Two weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to host subject matter experts from across Asia Pacific in the global 24 Hours of Amazon Q live stream event. This continuous 24-hour stream offered insights from AWS experts on Amazon Q Developer and Ama

Apple Intelligence Is Available Today, With the Release of iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-28 17:51:15

Nice rundown of the first wave of Apple Intelligence features from Apple Newsroom. As I wrote last week , my favorite thus far is the notification summaries. The key is not to think of them as a replacement for actually reading the messages — they just s

Hardness results for decoding the surface code with Pauli noise

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-28 17:17:46

Quantum 8, 1511 (2024). Real quantum computers will be subject to complicated, qubit-dependent noise, instead of simple noise such as depolarizing noise with the same strength for all qubits. We can do quantum

Java News Roundup: Apache Pulsar 4.0, Jakarta EE 11, Open Liberty, Helidon, JHipster, Apache Camel

InfoQ @ 2024-10-28 17:10:00

This week's Java roundup for October 21st, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of Apache Pulsar 4.0; Open Liberty 24.0.0.11-beta as the first compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile; and point releases of Helidon 4.1.3, JHips

Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-10-28 16:26:29

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start. The post Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell

How useful is the hint passed to the std::unordered_… collections?

old new thing @ 2024-10-28 15:00:00

Only a little, or sometimes not at all. The post How useful is the hint passed to the <CODE>std::<WBR>unordered_…</CODE> collections? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Band-limited expansion

The Endeavour @ 2024-10-28 14:39:11

The band-limited expansion of the function f(x) is given by where sinc(x) = sin(πx)/πx. This is also called the sinc expansion, or the Whittaker cardinal after its discoverer E. T. Whittaker [1]. This is called the band-limited expansion of f because each

Gukesh pierde, por fin

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-28 14:23:31

A menos de un mes de la final del Mundial contra el alicaído Ding, el prodigio indio, de 18 años, baja un poco su impresionante racha

USA v Scott

AEON @ 2024-10-28 11:01:00

Arrested for supplying water to migrants from Mexico, an aid worker’s trial challenges the boundary between law and morality - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution to Enhance Cloud Cost Visibility

InfoQ @ 2024-10-28 11:00:00

Google Cloud's new Cost Attribution Solution revolutionizes cloud cost management with enhanced metadata and labeling tools. Tailored for both newcomers and veterans, it enables organizations to track expenses by team, project, and service, fostering inf

Settling accounts

AEON @ 2024-10-28 11:00:00

Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings - by Rebecca Wilkin Read at Aeon

Spring News Roundup: Release Candidates for Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Modulith

InfoQ @ 2024-10-28 10:20:00

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of October 21st, 2024, highlighting first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring Batch, Spring A

WorkOS

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-28 02:17:54

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim

Are Virtual Threads Going to Make Reactive Programming Irrelevant?

Inside Java @ 2024-10-28 01:00:00

Virtual threads are cheap to create, to a point where you can have as many as you need. It allows for a new API, Structured Concurrency, that brings a new asychronous programming model, simpler than the reactive programming model. The last element you need

Random Thoughts on the Election

Computational Complexity @ 2024-10-27 21:34:00

 Here are my random thoughts on the election: 1) Here is a list of things I DONT care about  a) Candidates Gender or Race. The people who say its about time we had a female president might not want to vote for a President Marjorie Taylor Green

Carissa Yip, arrolladora

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-27 17:12:38

La campeona de EEUU, de 21 años, ganó sus ocho primeras partidas con un juego vibrante, como en esta espléndida lucha con Irina Krush

decomplexifying curl

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-10-27 11:30:08

(I wrote about this topic in my weekly email this week. This is the blog version, somewhat extended.) Easy to read Two contributing factors that make code hard to read are function length and function complexity. To keep source code easy to read, understan

★ Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-27 03:20:09

Liberal newspapers breaking tradition to not endorse anyone is *worse* than if their owners had forced them to endorse Trump instead.

Joz Teases Mac Announcements Next Week

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-27 02:19:15

Greg Joswiak, on X: Mac (😉) your calendars! We have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning. Stay tuned… Presumably these will include M4 refreshes of the MacBook Pro lineup (as foretold by those bizarre leaks to Russ

JEP 489: Vector API (9th Incubator)

Inside Java @ 2024-10-27 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 24: 489: Vector API (9th Incubator)