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Brazil Tests Letting Citizens Earn Money From Data in Their Digital Footprint

slashdot @ 2025-06-01 05:34:00

With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians "to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint," according to RestOfWorld.org — "the first such n

Microsoft Open Sources the Github Copilot Chat Extension

InfoQ @ 2025-06-01 05:00:00

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced plans to open source over the next few months the code behind the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor core AI capabilities directly into the main VS Code codebase. The move, i

GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot

slashdot @ 2025-06-01 03:34:00

Earlier this month the "Create New Issue" page on GitHub got a new option. "Save time by creating issues with Copilot" (next to a link labeled "Get started.") Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. "With Copilot,

Análisis de ajedrez | Caruana perdona a Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-06-01 00:06:33

Con ventaja y mucha presión desde la apertura, el estadounidense omite una sibilina maniobra que hubiera tumbado al ‘número uno’

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk

slashdot @ 2025-06-01 00:02:00

Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current "advanced" LLMs. The LLMs we

Russian Nuclear Site Blueprints Exposed In Public Procurement Database

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 23:02:00

Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. "Data, including building plan

Judge Rejects Claim AI Chatbots Protected By First Amendment in Teen Suicide Lawsuit

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 22:02:00

A U.S. federal judge has decided that free-speech protections in the First Amendment "don't shield an AI company from a lawsuit," reports Legal Newsline. The suit is against Character.AI (a company reportedly valued at $1 billion with 20 million users)

Help Wanted To Build an Open Source 'Advanced Data Protection' For Everyone

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 21:02:00

Apple's end-to-end iCloud encryption product ("Advanced Data Protection") was famously removed in the U.K. after a government order demanded backdoors for accessing user data. So now a Google software engineer wants to build an open source version of Adv

The Situation at Columbia XXII

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-31 20:45:04

Nothing much new happening today, a short summary of what is going on follows. I will be traveling the next ten days or so, likely much less posting. On the visa front, a court stopped Trump from his plan to … Continue reading →

What's in the US Government's New Strategic Reserve of Seized Crytocurrencies?

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 19:34:00

In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing "strategic reserves"of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include

The ellipse hidden inside Pascal’s triangle

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-31 19:09:18

The nth row of Pascal’s triangle contains the binomial coefficients C(n, r) for r ranging from 0 to n. For large n, if you print out the numbers in the nth row vertically in binary you can see a circular an arc. Here’s an example with n = 50.

China Just Held the First-Ever Humanoid Robot Fight Night

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 18:34:00

"We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings," writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism. (The robots were named

CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine'

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 17:34:00

Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as "all part

Precision Clock Mk IV

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-31 17:06:03

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Google Releases LMEval, an Open-Source Cross-Provider LLM Evaluation Tool

InfoQ @ 2025-05-31 17:00:00

LMEval aims to help AI researchers and developers compare the performance of different large language models. Designed to be accurate, multimodal, and easy to use, LMEval has already been used to evaluate major models in terms of safety and security. B

Why 200 US Climate Scientists are Hosting a 100-Hour YouTube Livestream

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 16:34:00

"More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube," according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they're sharing their scientific work and answering que

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 31)

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-31 16:00:00

Future It’s Not Your Imagination: AI Is Speeding Up the Pace of ChangeJulie Bort | TechCrunch “Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page slideshow report—which used the word ‘unprecedented’... The post This Week’s Aw

Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 15:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 mil

Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI

InfoQ @ 2025-05-31 12:00:00

Microsoft’s Azure AI Search unveils agentic retrieval, a cutting-edge query engine that enhances conversational AI answer relevance by up to 40%. This dynamic system leverages conversation history and parallel subquery execution, paving the way for sophi

Five-Year Study Suggests Chimpanzees Strike Stones Against Trees As Form of Communication

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 12:00:00

A five-year study by Wageningen University and the German Primate Research Center found that wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau repeatedly strike stones against trees, presumably as a form of communication. Phys.Org reports: Over the course of a five-year f

Beware of Fast-Math

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-31 09:05:57

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 264 # Comments: 178

AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 09:00:00

Artificial intelligence could soon outpace Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Institute for Environmental Studies. His research estimates that by the end of 2025, AI could

OpenSearch 3.0 Now Generally Available, with a Focus on Vector Database Performance and Scalability

InfoQ @ 2025-05-31 08:43:00

The OpenSearch Software Foundation has announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0, the first major release in three years and the first since the project joined the Linux Foundation. This version introduces native support for the Model Context

Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At 'Industrial Scale'

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the "industrial scale theft" of premium video services, especially live sport, a new report says. The research by Enders Analysis accuses Amazon, Google, Meta

Billions of Cookies Up For Grabs As Experts Warn Over Session Security

slashdot @ 2025-05-31 02:52:00

Billions of stolen cookies are being sold on the dark web and Telegram, with over 1.2 billion containing session data that can grant cybercriminals access to accounts and systems without login credentials, bypassing MFA. The Register reports: More than 93.

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-31 00:24:22

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Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-31 00:24:09

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Photos taken inside musical instruments

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 22:32:19

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Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 22:03:12

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Análisis de ajedrez | Así tumbó Yi Wei a Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-30 18:45:16

El noruego no logró doblegar en la partida lenta al chino, quien se defendió con virtuosismo y luego, en la ‘muerte súbita’, se impuso con las piezas negras

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 18:19:50

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 320 # Comments: 92

How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-30 16:18:02

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. The post How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Using an oracle to see where your code is producing the wrong output

old new thing @ 2025-05-30 16:00:00

If there is a reference implementation, then use it as a check. The post Using an oracle to see where your code is producing the wrong output appeared first on The Old New Thing .

New Gene Therapy Reverses Three Diseases With Shots to the Bloodstream

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-30 16:00:00

The treatments rescued damaged blood and immune cells in newborn mice with just one shot. The post New Gene Therapy Reverses Three Diseases With Shots to the Bloodstream appeared first on SingularityHub .

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 15:38:21

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Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 15:20:04

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Stacking positive and negative cannonballs

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-30 15:18:12

Imagine you are a soldier in charge of stacking cannonballs. Your fort has a new commander, a man with OCD who wants the cannonballs stacked in a very particular way. The new commander wants the balls stacked in tetrahedra. The balls on the bottom of the

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 14:43:13

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 352 # Comments: 127

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 14:08:40

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 221 # Comments: 191

Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 13:02:19

I have a 5060ti with 16GB VRAM. I’m looking for a model that can hold basic conversations, no physics or advanced math required. Ideally something that can run reasonably fast, near real time. Comments URL:

Google Releases MedGemma: Open AI Models for Medical Text and Image Analysis

InfoQ @ 2025-05-30 12:50:00

Google has released MedGemma, a pair of open-source generative AI models designed to support medical text and image understanding in healthcare applications. Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, the models are available in two configurations: MedGemma 4B,

AI is not our future

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 12:45:03

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 223 # Comments: 166

Microsoft Announces AI Agent and Platform Updates at Build 2025

InfoQ @ 2025-05-30 12:33:00

At its annual developer conference, Build 2025, Microsoft introduced a set of updates focused on expanding the role of AI agents across Windows, GitHub, Azure, and Microsoft 365. By Daniel Dominguez

Our diverse togetherness

AEON @ 2025-05-30 12:00:00

While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish - by Chelsea Wallis Read at Aeon

These Tiny Beautiful Fossils Tell the Future

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-30 11:50:00

What bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal about the ocean’s past and future in times of climate chaos The post These Tiny Beautiful Fossils Tell the Future appeared first on Nautilus .

How Fishing Could Change the Evolution of Fish

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-30 11:50:00

Our appetite for fish can alter their bodies, minds, and behaviors The post How Fishing Could Change the Evolution of Fish appeared first on Nautilus .

A Clear View of the Sun’s Fireworks

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-30 11:50:00

Optical advances yield an unprecedented look at the corona dancing around our nearest star The post A Clear View of the Sun’s Fireworks appeared first on Nautilus .

Replace Specific Word From File With Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-30 10:22:52

Explore different ways to replace a specific word in a file with Java IO & NIO packages and Apache Commons. The post Replace Specific Word From File With Java first appeared on Baeldung .             &

El pionero de los coches voladores

brucknerite @ 2025-05-30 10:10:04

En 1988 Paul Moller, doctor ingeniero aeronáutico por la universidad de McGill, estaba harto. Había fundado una empresa llamada Supertrapp Industries. Sí, es probable que lo suyo fuera el rock progresivo. Supertrapp Industries era una startup…

Buttplug MCP

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 09:06:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 231 # Comments: 134

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-30 06:27:47

No. If you want to hear Cumrun Vafa’s latest “predictions of string theory”, there’s a podcast at Quanta magazine you could listen to. Over the years, Vafa has promoted various proposals for “predictions” of string theor

Spring Team on AOT Cache Handling, Null Safety with JSpecify, and Support Durations

InfoQ @ 2025-05-30 06:00:00

Broadcom recently launched Spring Boot 3.5 and various projects, and is working on Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 for November 2025. Broadcom’s Sébastien Deleuze, Spring Framework Core Committer, and Michael Minella, Director of the Open-Source

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 05:55:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 412 # Comments: 81

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-30 04:50:00

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 10 June 2024, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): See below Price: $50 Ever since I started doing these live shows from WWDC, I’ve kept the guest(s) secret, until showti

The Talk Show: ‘Sewing Machine Repair Shop’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-30 04:49:47

Patrick McGee joins the show to discuss his must-read new book, Apple in China  — one of the best books about Apple anyone has ever written. Sponsored by: Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box.

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 03:34:23

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Replicating success, not reinventing the wheel: AI in the public sector

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-30 02:00:00

At the start of this year, the UK government published its AI Opportunities Action Plan, aiming to “ramp up AI adoption across the UK to boost economic growth, provide jobs for the future and improve people’s everyday lives”.The action plan has three goals

Red Hat partners with SiFive for a RISC-V developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-30 02:00:00

Note from the editor: This blog post was originally published on May 20, 2025 and has been updated with new information.Red Hat has collaborated with SiFive to reveal the developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 on the popular SiFive HiFive

Pivoting OpenShift PTP operator development to a broader community

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-30 02:00:00

Across numerous industries, accurate timing is a frequent requirement. Most commonly, this is enabled through Network Time Protocol (NTP), which will generally provide millisecond-level accuracy. When NTP isn't good enough, users can use Precision Time Pro

Friday Five — May 30, 2025

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-30 02:00:00

Unlocking what’s next: Everything we announced at Red Hat Summit 2025From the operating system’s core to advanced AI inference, Red Hat's announcements and demos at Red Hat Summit underscored our dedication to open innovation and a future where hybrid clou

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-30 01:57:11

The other day I saw a post here on HN that featured a NYT article called "Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?" ( ) and it definitely hit home. As a guy in my early 30s, it made me realize how I've l

Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-29 22:55:51

Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class provides cost-effective, virtually unlimited elastic file storage for ML and HPC workloads that automatically optimizes costs by tiering data based on access frequency.

Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-29 21:11:49

AWS introduces specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon ECS, EKS, Finch and AWS Serverless, providing real-time contextual responses and service-specific guidance to guide AI assisted application development.

How to Query Apache Kafka® Topics With Natural Language

Confluent @ 2025-05-29 21:00:02

Learn how to easily extract the data you need from Apache Kafka® by generating Apache Flink® SQL commands with natural language prompts or questions in this step-by-step demo.

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen también agota a Erigaisi en la cuarta hora

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-29 20:50:52

Para no caer ante el ‘número uno’ no basta con tener ideas profundas y valientes, sino que se requiere ser tan resistente como él durante mucho tiempo

Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-29 20:39:22

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 301 # Comments: 465

Decomplexification

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-29 19:57:06

(Clearly a much better word than simplification.) I believe we generally accept the truth that we should write simple and easy to read code in order to make it harder to create bugs and cause security problems. The more complicated code we write, the easie

FLUX.1 Kontext

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-29 19:40:35

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 512 # Comments: 117

Java Weekly, Issue 596

Baeldung @ 2025-05-29 18:53:20

New Spring releases and tips for using Spring AI more efficiently. The post Java Weekly, Issue 596 first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments In reply to Jens Greven. Thanks for the

Human coders are still better than LLMs

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-29 18:41:04

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Trump’s Entire Tariff Endeavor Ruled Illegal by U.S. Court of International Trade

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-29 18:08:11

Tony Romm and Ana Swanson, reporting for The New York Times (paywall-busting gift link): A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that f

Gemma 3n Available for On-Device Inference Alongside RAG and Function Calling Libraries

InfoQ @ 2025-05-29 18:00:00

Google has announced that Gemma 3n is now available in preview on the new LiteRT Hugging Face community, alongside many previously released models. Gemma 3n is a multimodal small language model that supports text, image, video, and audio inputs. It also

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-29 16:38:34

Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find good, testable models hidden among the ‘swampland’ of imp

The case of creating new instances when you wanted to use the same one

old new thing @ 2025-05-29 16:00:00

C++ language backward compatibility makes legal what you had hoped wasn't. The post The case of creating new instances when you wanted to use the same one appeared first on The Old New Thing .

How a Sociotechnical Approach Can Help to Deal with Complexity

InfoQ @ 2025-05-29 13:33:00

Today’s software professionals navigate a maze of technical, business, and social complexity. According to Xin Yao, thriving in this environment requires more than just technical and business expertise. We need fluency in decoupling systems for maintaina

Walls cannot keep us from flying

AEON @ 2025-05-29 12:01:00

‘Even under occupation, we can skate, live, and learn’: a moving prewar portrait of young Palestinians in the West Bank - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info

InfoQ @ 2025-05-29 12:00:00

AWS has launched its Product Lifecycle page, a centralized hub for tracking service availability changes, deprecations, and end-of-support timelines. This initiative streamlines communication, enhances customer confidence, and aligns with other hyperscal

The light beyond sight

AEON @ 2025-05-29 12:00:00

Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible - by Corey S Powell Read at Aeon

How These Fish Lost Their Memory

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-29 11:50:00

The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish The post How These Fish Lost Their Memory appeared first on Nautilus .

Mapping the Earth’s Magnetism

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-29 11:50:00

Early explorers felt the powerful pull of the poles The post Mapping the Earth’s Magnetism appeared first on Nautilus .

TanStack Releases TanStack Form V1

InfoQ @ 2025-05-29 11:30:00

TanStack has released the first stable version of TanStack Form, a cross-framework form library with support for React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. This new addition to the TanStack ecosystem joins the existing lineup of popular form libraries, such as

Another Lightweight Kubernetes Distro Choice as k0s Joins CNCF Sandbox

InfoQ @ 2025-05-29 10:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted k0s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, into its Sandbox programme. Mirantis's zero-dependency Kubernetes platform has been gaining adoption in edge computing and resource-constrained environm

@Provides vs Provider Classes in Guice

Baeldung @ 2025-05-29 08:55:48

Discover the differences between the @Provides annotation and Provider classes in Guice. The post @Provides vs Provider Classes in Guice first appeared on Baeldung .              

Converting a String to a SOAPMessage

Baeldung @ 2025-05-29 08:53:22

Learn how to convert a SOAP XML string into a Java SOAPMessage object. The post Converting a String to a SOAPMessage first appeared on Baeldung .              

Unlock sensitive data for AI with Cloudera on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-29 02:00:00

Many organizations face challenges in creating value from data while maintaining strict regulatory standards set for handling sensitive data. For these organizations, handling large, complex data sets while maintaining efficiency, security and scalability

Apple’s Annual App Store Scam and Fraud Report

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-29 01:05:53

Apple Newsroom, yesterday: Apple’s strong antifraud infrastructure helps ensure that malicious developer and customer accounts are swiftly flagged and eliminated. In 2024, Apple terminated more than 146,000 developer accounts over fraud concerns and r

Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-29 00:32:02

Hell of a scoop from Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg: The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version number, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give way to “iOS 26,”

Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-28 23:10:46

I don’t know how cuts for DOE and NSF funding will affect theoretical physics, but there’s news today of a very large gift that will may help make up for such cuts. The Leinweber Foundation announced \$90 million in gifts … Continue read

Análisis de ajedrez | Gukesh sale del agujero

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-28 21:16:47

Con una sola victoria en sus catorce partidas lentas anteriores, el campeón del mundo se alivia doblegando a Nakamura, 2º del mundo

The Situation at Columbia XXI

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-28 20:54:57

Bogus accusations of “antisemitism” continue to be a central feature of the march of Fascism locally and globally. Starting from the local: There’s an open letter from some of my colleagues which, while I don’t agree with all of it,

Reinforcement Learning Based Quantum Circuit Optimization via ZX-Calculus

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-28 18:39:17

Quantum 9, 1758 (2025). We propose a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) method for optimizing quantum circuits using graph-theoretic simplification rules of ZX-diagrams. The agent, trained using the Proximal Pol

The Hilltop Story

Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-28 18:32:00

  On Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, about a twenty minute drive from Cambridge, stood the Hilltop Steak House . When I went to graduate school in the late 80's, Hilltop led all restaurants in the United States by sales (about $30 million in an

The Resistance Is Working Better Than You Think

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-28 18:25:42

Taegan Goddard: For all the bluster and bravado, Donald Trump is losing. A lot. Keep the faith.  ★ 

Full Characterization of the Depth Overhead for Quantum Circuit Compilation with Arbitrary Qubit Connectivity Constraint

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-28 17:53:43

Quantum 9, 1757 (2025). In some physical implementations of quantum computers, 2-qubit operations can be applied only on certain pairs of qubits. Compilation of a quantum circuit into one compliant to such qubi

Renormalisation of Quantum Cellular Automata

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-28 17:42:44

Quantum 9, 1756 (2025). We study a coarse-graining procedure for quantum cellular automata on hypercubic lattices that consists in grouping neighboring cells into tiles and selecting a subspace within each tile

The State Preparation of Multivariate Normal Distributions using Tree Tensor Network

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-28 17:34:17

Quantum 9, 1755 (2025). The quantum state preparation of probability distributions is an important subroutine for many quantum algorithms. When embedding $D$-dimensional multivariate probability distributions b

How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-28 17:00:54

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” The post How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science

How do I convert a WIC bitmap back to a GDI HBITMAP?

old new thing @ 2025-05-28 16:00:00

You can copy the bits into a DIB section. The post How do I convert a WIC bitmap back to a GDI <CODE>HBITMAP</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Bliki: Say Your Writing

Martin Fowler @ 2025-05-28 15:50:00

Here's one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. Once you've got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing this you'll find bits that don't sound right, and need to fix. Interestingly, you don't actually have to

How Mathematica Draws a Dragonfly

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-28 15:47:48

Mathematica includes code to draw various whimsical images. For example, if you enter the following command in Mathematica Entity["PopularCurve", "DragonflyCurve"][ EntityProperty["PopularCurve", "Image"]] you get an image of a dragonfly. It draws such im

How often do the hands of a clock line up?

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-28 15:46:06

How often do the hour and and minute hand of an analog clock point in the same direction? The hands start pointing the same direction at midnight, then the hour hand moves clockwise (!) by 360° in 12 hours. The minute hand moves clockwise at the rate of 3

René Descartes: Second Meditation

AEON @ 2025-05-28 12:01:00

Plunge into doubt with Descartes, as he rids himself of all he cannot know, and finds the one thing he can know for sure - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Debunking Dangerous Views of Autism

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-28 11:50:00

This psychologist has worked with autistic people for 50 years. Here’s what she wants you to know. The post Debunking Dangerous Views of Autism appeared first on Nautilus .

A Mars Moon Rises at Dawn

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-28 11:50:00

The image hints at a longstanding mystery The post A Mars Moon Rises at Dawn appeared first on Nautilus .

Famous Sea Monster Gets a Name

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-28 11:50:00

Traskasaura sandrae had “very odd” features that made it a crafty hunter The post Famous Sea Monster Gets a Name appeared first on Nautilus .

The bad version of a good test

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-28 11:37:33

Ever since 1952, the largest known primes have all had the form 2n − 1, with one exception in 1989. The reason the largest known primes have this form is that it is easier to test whether these numbers are prime than other numbers. A number of the form 2n

curl 8.14.0

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-28 07:48:12

Welcome to another curl release. Release presentation Numbers the 267th release6 changes56 days (total: 9,931)229 bugfixes (total: 12,015)406 commits (total: 35,190)0 new public libcurl function (total: 96)1 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)1 new

This Week in Rust 601

This Week in Rust @ 2025-05-28 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

[Sponsor] Ooni Halo Pro Spiral Mixer

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-28 03:43:53

Established industries don’t get disrupted all that often. We at Ooni are lucky enough to have changed the game in pizza ovens over the past decade by rethinking them from ground up and in the process enabling the home pizza revolution. From our dee

The Inside Java Newsletter: Java’s 30th Birthday &amp; JavaOne!

Inside Java @ 2025-05-28 02:00:00

The Inside Java Newsletter for May 2025 celebrates Java's 30th birthday and starts publishing content from JavaOne 2025. Also in this issue you'll hear multiple podcast interviews, news from around the community, and the latest technical videos to help dev

Unlocking what’s next: Everything we announced at Red Hat Summit 2025

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-28 02:00:00

Last week at Red Hat Summit 2025, we unveiled a bold vision that builds on Red Hat’s longstanding commitment to running any workload anywhere for the AI era: Red Hat wants to enable organizations to deploy any model, on any accelerator, across any cloud —

‘The Future Is Colourful and Dimensional’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-28 01:46:44

Michael Flarup: Whatever we call it (Diamorph or otherwise), I’m just glad to see interfaces getting weird and wonderful again. We’re not going back. We’re going forward — with depth, with texture, and maybe even with a little joy. Depth is good —

Microsoft Announces Native TypeScript Compiler Port for 10X Performance Boost

InfoQ @ 2025-05-28 01:10:00

Microsoft’s TypeScript team has announced an experimental native port of the TypeScript compiler (tsc), dubbed tsc-go, aimed at providing 10x improvement on build time, drastically reducing cold editor startup times, and substantially improving memory us

On the Engineering Talent at IO

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-28 00:34:14

Jason Snell, pouring some admittedly welcome skepticism on the whole LoveFrom-OpenAI IO endeavor: I’m skeptical of the composition of the io leadership team , which features an awful lot of product designers and not a lot of hardware engineers. I’m s

Apple’s Satellite Networking Ambitions

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 23:52:43

Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley ( recently of the WSJ ) and Wayne Ma, at the paywalled-up-the-wazoo The Information: Starting in 2015, Apple and Boeing held early discussions about a satellite internet project that would involve delivering full-blown wireless

Análisis de ajedrez | Nakamura enreda a Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-27 23:51:18

El estadounidense arranca un empate en la partida lenta y luego sale del ataúd para ganar un desempate electrizante

Scott Forstall Has Been Advising The Browser Company

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 23:24:20

Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, on their decision to abandon their new browser Arc in favor of going all-in on their newer browser Dia: Early on, Scott Forstall told us Arc felt like a saxophone — powerful but hard to learn. Then he challenge

Tim Cook Declined Middle East Trip With Trump’s Sycophant Entourage

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 23:18:42

I’ve been giving Tripp Mickle quite a bit of grief over his dumb “Is Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone a Fantasy?” story, but this is an interesting nugget I haven’t seen anyone else highlight: In the run-up to President Trump’s recent trip to the Mi

ChatGPT for Biology: A New AI Whips Up Designer Proteins With Only a Text Prompt

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-27 22:48:15

AI that translates English text into proteins is shaking up the field. The post ChatGPT for Biology: A New AI Whips Up Designer Proteins With Only a Text Prompt appeared first on SingularityHub .

‘Puzzmo Is Not a Good iOS App’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 21:47:56

Max Roberts: I hate to say it, but the Puzzmo app is not a good experience. It is a real shame that Zach and team launched it in this state. What makes the shame heavier is that Zach is a superb designer. I know he works with excellent designers too.

Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-27 20:23:43

Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. You can remove the operational burden of patching, upgrade

Meta Open-Sources Pyrefly, a High-Performance Python Type Checker in Rust

InfoQ @ 2025-05-27 19:00:00

Currently in alpha, Pyrefly is a new open-source Python type checker developed by Meta in Rust for maximum performance. Inspired by tools like Pyre, Pyright, and MyPy, Pyrefly is intended to replace the OCaml-based Pyre type checker previously used for I

Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-27 16:21:23

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix. The post Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill first appeared o

What was origin of the code name Redpill for Windows 8 feature lockout?

old new thing @ 2025-05-27 16:00:00

Pretty obvious, actually. The post What was origin of the code name Redpill for Windows 8 feature lockout? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java at 30: A Retrospective on a Language That Has Made a Big Impact

InfoQ @ 2025-05-27 15:10:00

On May 23rd, 1995, at the Sun World conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems formally introduced the Java programming language. Oracle marked this milestone with a six-hour 30th birthday event on May 23rd, 2025, featuring many Java lumin

TED Partners with Academic Travel Abroad to launch TED-branded travel program

TED Blog @ 2025-05-27 15:00:21

TED is proud to announce a new licensing partnership with Academic Travel Abroad, the premier provider of educational travel experiences. This collaboration will introduce the TED Travel program, a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to transform travel

A cure for individualism

AEON @ 2025-05-27 12:00:00

It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius - by Tim Connolly Read at Aeon

What Fueled the Ocean’s Largest Terror

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-27 11:50:00

Megalodon teeth reveal a secret to their ancient super-predator status The post What Fueled the Ocean’s Largest Terror appeared first on Nautilus .

Slow-Speed, High-Stakes Chase

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-27 11:50:00

Off the coast of Hawaii, two well-armored invertebrates face off The post Slow-Speed, High-Stakes Chase appeared first on Nautilus .

The Power of Differentiated Value Crafting a Winning Sales Pitch

Business of Software Blog @ 2025-05-27 11:33:10

Think about it this way: when you’re trying to sell something, especially software, it’s easy to just show off all the cool things your product can do. This is like giving a product walkthrough. Many people, especially founders from technical b

A Guide to OpenAI Text-to-Speech (TTS) in Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2025-05-27 10:15:35

Learn how to use OpenAI Text-to-Speech with Spring AI. The post A Guide to OpenAI Text-to-Speech (TTS) in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Generate a Unique Integer From a Unique String

Baeldung @ 2025-05-27 10:12:59

Explore multiple solutions for generating a unique Integer from a unique String. The post Generate a Unique Integer From a Unique String first appeared on Baeldung .              

Fixing Hibernate’s DuplicateMappingException When a Column Is Duplicated for an Entity

Baeldung @ 2025-05-27 10:10:10

How to fix the Hibernate exception "DuplicateMappingException: Column is duplicated in mapping for entity". What's the main cause? Let's reproduce and solve it. The post Fixing Hibernate’s DuplicateMappingException When a Column Is Duplicated for an En

Collision Detection Between Two Images in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-27 10:03:51

A quick tutorial on Java Swing and AWT image collision detection. The post Collision Detection Between Two Images in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

El coste de hacer ciencia

brucknerite @ 2025-05-27 10:00:00

La pila de Volta fue el origen de una revolución en la ciencia de la electricidad. De repente, existía una fuente fiable de energía eléctrica para todo tipo de experimentos que podía equipar laboratorios en toda Europa con un coste mínimo. Al mismo tiempo,

Add a Line Break/Blank Line After Log Statements in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-27 09:58:48

Explore various ways to add a line break in different logger libraries. The post Add a Line Break/Blank Line After Log Statements in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

ZFS automatic snapshots with Sanoid on FreeBSD

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-05-27 09:37:47

OpenZFS is a first class citizen on FreeBSD for a number of years now. Right from the installer, users can install a complete root-on-ZFS system. FreeBSD will create the necessary datasets for the base operating system, including one for /usr, /var, and /

AI Can Write Code, It Can’t Understand People

The Syndicate @ 2025-05-27 02:00:00

Imagine a startup founder who skips hiring a development team and instead asks an AI to build their mobile app. For cost-conscious entrepreneurs and busy product owners, the allure of AI coding is obvious: Describe the idea to ChatGPT or

The Talk Show: ‘A Monkey on a Rock’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 01:35:00

Stephen Hackett, proprietor of 512 Pixels and co-founder of Relay (purveyor of many fine podcasts), joins the show. Topics include: IO (or if you will, io), the new joint venture of OpenAI and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom; the sheer fantasy of “Made in America”

How to Make Money on Trump’s Memecoin (Short It)

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 01:34:24

Tina Nguyen at The Verge: I interviewed an enthusiastic crypto trader who figured out how to win the contest without losing any money: buy enough $TRUMP to get onto the leaderboard — and then in a separate wallet on a separate exchange, buy $TRUMP per

‘Sony: Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 00:29:27

Here’s a spoof commercial from the 1990 movie Crazy People , starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, which TMDB synopsizes : A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually

The New York Times Digs in on the ‘Young Chinese Women Have Small Fingers’ Claim

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-27 00:20:56

Julia Carrie Wong, a reporter for the Guardian, has a whole thread over on Bluesky digging into the bizarre “young Chinese women have small fingers” line in Tripp Mickle’s New York Times story that tries to pretend that maybe sorta kinda Apple could ass

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen exprime a Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-26 22:35:16

El indio hace muy bien lo más difícil, anticipándose al ataque del noruego, pero falla cuando todo apuntaba hacia la ‘muerte súbita’

Evidence Shows AI Systems Are Already Too Much Like Humans. Will That Be a Problem?

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-26 22:09:59

What happens when you can't tell the difference between a human and an AI chatbot? We're about to find out. The post Evidence Shows AI Systems Are Already Too Much Like Humans. Will That Be a Problem? appeared first on SingularityHub .

«¿Por qué me dicen que llego tarde si no existe el tiempo?» en Caixa Forum Zaragoza (27 mayo 2025, 18:00h)

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-05-26 20:00:55

El próximo jueves 27 de mayo de 2025, a las 18:00 horas en el CaixaForum Zaragoza, no te pierdas mi conferencia dialogada «¿Por qué me dicen que llego tarde si […] La entrada «¿Por qué me dicen que llego tarde si no existe el tiempo?» en Caixa Fo

37signals’s Hey Is Finally for Sale (in the US) From Its iPhone App

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-26 18:31:59

David Heinemeier Hansson (last week): Thanks to their fight for Fortnite, app developers everywhere are now allowed to link out of apps to their own web-based payment system in the US store (but, sadly, nowhere else yet). This is all we ever wanted

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025)

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-26 18:10:49

As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge

Why does Enum­Process­Modules report no modules on a process that was created suspended?

old new thing @ 2025-05-26 16:00:00

There are no modules yet because you didn't give them a chance to load. The post Why does <CODE>Enum­Process­Modules</CODE> report no modules on a process that was created suspended? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The ethical science of Kathleen Lonsdale

AEON @ 2025-05-26 12:01:00

Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Levelling the world

AEON @ 2025-05-26 12:00:00

Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire - by Rowan Wilson Read at Aeon

Some are Mathematicians, some are Carpenters' Wives, Some are Popes.

Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-26 02:35:00

 (Trivia: What song has the lyric Some are Mathematicians, some are Carpenters's wives ? It's not a parody song, though sometimes it's hard to tell a  parody song from a so-called real song.) In my post about Pope Leo XIV I made the following

Representing octonions as matrices, sorta

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-26 02:25:40

It’s possible to represent complex numbers as a pair of real numbers or 2 × 2 matrices with real entries. And it’s possible to represent quaternions as pairs of complex numbers or 2 × 2 matrices with complex entries were z* is the complex conj

Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2

Rust blog @ 2025-05-26 02:00:00

In Rust 1.88.0, the Tier 1 target i686-pc-windows-gnu will be demoted to Tier 2. As a Tier 2 Target, builds will continue to be distributed for both the standard library and the compiler. Background Rust has supported Windows for a long time, wit

April Project Goals Update

Rust blog @ 2025-05-26 02:00:00

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 40 project goals , with 3 of them designated 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

JEP targeted to JDK 25: 510: Key Derivation Function API

Inside Java @ 2025-05-26 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 25: 510: Key Derivation Function API

Drata

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-26 00:05:33

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring this last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.  ★ 

Octonions sometimes associate

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-25 20:51:09

You can multiply pairs of real numbers using the rules of complex numbers. Complex numbers have all the algebraic structure of the real numbers, i.e. they form a field. There is a general process, the Cayley-Dickson construction, that let’s you boot

Looking for keys under the lamppost

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-25 20:37:29

There’s an old joke about a drunk man looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops and offers to help. He asks, “So, did you lose your keys here?” The drunk replies “No, I lost them over there, but here’s where the li

Análisis de ajedrez | Carlsen, como un rayo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-25 18:50:33

Tras su magnífico juego en la modalidad ‘freestyle’, el noruego gana cómodamente un torneo relámpago en vísperas del Norway Chess (ajedrez clásico)

Sanitize HTML Code to Prevent XSS Attacks

Baeldung @ 2025-05-25 18:15:39

Explore how to sanitize HTML input in Java applications to prevent XSS attacks. The post Sanitize HTML Code to Prevent XSS Attacks first appeared on Baeldung .