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Spring AI 1.0 Released, Streamlines AI Application Development with Broad Model Support

InfoQ @ 2025-05-20 14:00:00

Introducing Spring AI 1.0: a groundbreaking framework that streamlines the creation of AI-driven applications in Java. Seamlessly integrate with top AI models for chat, image generation, and more. With portable abstractions and support for Retrieval Augm

Tech Job Market Is Shrinking as AI Reshapes Industry Requirements

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 14:00:00

The US tech sector shed 214,000 jobs in April amid continuing economic uncertainty, according to CompTIA analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Companies are extending hiring timelines to two or three times longer than last year while significantly r

The measurement postulates of quantum mechanics are not redundant

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-20 13:38:58

Quantum 9, 1749 (2025). Masanes, Galley and Müller [ 39 ] argue that the measurement postulates of non-relativistic quantum mechanics follow from the structural postulates together with an assumption they call

Classical Benchmarks for Variational Quantum Eigensolver Simulations of the Hubbard Model

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-20 13:20:50

Quantum 9, 1748 (2025). Simulating the Hubbard model is of great interest to a wide range of applications within condensed matter physics, however its solution on classical computers remains challenging in dime

AWS Transform GA: Agentic AI Automates Mainframe and VMware Modernization on AWS

InfoQ @ 2025-05-20 12:00:00

AWS Transform, now generally available, is an innovative AI service designed to streamline enterprise mainframe and VMware modernization. Leveraging generative AI, it automates legacy systems' transformation into cloud architectures. With specialized mul

Klarna's Losses Widen After More Consumers Fail To Repay Loans

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 12:00:00

Klarna's net loss more than doubled in the first quarter [non-paywalled link] as more consumers failed to repay loans from the Swedish "buy now, pay later" lender as concerns rose about the financial health of US consumers. Financial Times: The fintech, wh

Moral refuge

AEON @ 2025-05-20 12:00:00

You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees? - by Bradley Hillier-Smith Read at Aeon

Los tres cerditos gasolineros

brucknerite @ 2025-05-20 10:08:18

Que la gente importante importa lo demuestra, otra vez, la sección de economía de El Diario Vasco. En un momento dado del pasado viernes podían verse tres artículos distintos, tres, escritos por tres periodistas como tres soles, glosando diferentes aspecto

Introducing the Next Generation of Control Center for Confluent Platform: Enhanced UX, Faster Performance, and Unparalleled Scale

Confluent @ 2025-05-20 09:50:04

The Next Generation of Control Center for Confluent Platform delivers more metrics, scalability, and 5x faster start-up time to Confluent Platform.

New in Confluent Cloud: Bringing Together the Best of Batch and Stream Processing

Confluent @ 2025-05-20 09:50:04

CC Q2 2025 adds Tableflow support for Delta Lake tables, Flink Snapshot Queries, maximum eCKU configuration for elastically scaling clusters, and more!

Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-20 09:40:28

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 247 # Comments: 204

SAG-AFTRA Calls Out Fortnite Over Darth Vader AI Voice

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 09:00:00

SAG-AFTRA has filed a labor complaint against Fortnite developer Epic Games, alleging the game improperly used AI to replicate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice without bargaining with the union, despite the estate's approval. Gizmodo reports: The union

Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-20 07:54:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 245 # Comments: 91

CERN Gears Up To Ship Antimatter Across Europe

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that's changed a bit in r

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-20 02:52:27

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 485 # Comments: 129

Apple's Next-Gen Version of Siri Is 'On Par' With ChatGPT

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 02:50:00

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (paywalled), Apple has big plans to turn Siri into a true ChatGPT competitor. "A next-generation, chatbot version of Siri has reportedly made significant progress during testing over the past six months; some executives

Stream Gatherers in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-20 02:22:14

Learn about the Gatherer interface, understand the challenges it solves and the features it provides. The post Stream Gatherers in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-20 02:19:44

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 257 # Comments: 135

How to Check if a Number Is the Sum of Two or More Consecutive Integers

Baeldung @ 2025-05-20 02:18:35

Learn how to determine whether a given number can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. The post How to Check if a Number Is the Sum of Two or More Consecutive Integers first appeared on Baeldung .      

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 1: Inter-Agent Communication on MCP

AWS Open Source News @ 2025-05-20 02:10:05

At AWS, open standards run deep in our DNA, driving all that we do. That’s why we decided to build Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) as a protocol-agnostic cloud computing service and Amazon SageMaker as a framework-agnostic deep learning service. Our com

Sony Mass-Bans Russian PlayStation Accounts

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 02:10:00

Sony has begun mass suspensions of PlayStation accounts linked to Russian users, including those registered in other countries like Turkiye and Kazakhstan, in an effort to crack down on circumvention of regional restrictions like PS Plus access. This move

Towards a JSON API for the JDK

Inside Java @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

This email shares thoughts and plans towards a JSON API for the JDK.

What's next? Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and beyond

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Our latest major release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, is here, and it's built to help organizations confront the major forces that shape modern enterprise tech. Every organization faces some combination of challenges: maximizing scarce resources, m

What's new in image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides two options to help you build customized RHEL images for all of your deployment needs: RHEL image builder and Red Hat Insights image builder. For an overview of both options, and a list of the latest blog posts abou

Unleashing innovation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux with extensions repository

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

More. We’ll never stop wanting it. The number of applications and their dependencies that require management is continuously growing. Starting now, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) extensions repository addresses the evolving needs of RHEL users by prov

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

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat has collaborated with SiFive to reveal the developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 on the popular SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform. The developer preview downloads are available as of June 1, 2025.SiFive is one of the pioneers of

Red Hat Enterprise Linux optimized for Microsoft Azure

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure (RHEL for Azure). You can run a fully optimized version of RHEL 10 or RHEL 9.6 that's deeply integrated with Azure, and pre-configured for performance w

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Google Cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat and Google Cloud have a well-established track record of introducing joint solutions to meet the needs of users. Our partnership has allowed us to jointly deliver a hybrid cloud environment that provides a stable, secure, and flexible foundation f

Red Hat enhances security responsiveness for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat has long been at the forefront of the open source community, proactively identifying, collaborating on and resolving Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that impact not only our customers, but the entire ecosystem at large. While these effo

Red Hat Customer Portal introduces AI-powered assistant, Ask Red Hat, built on open innovation

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

Across our customer portal, we’ve noticed users entering AI-style prompts into the search bar, so Red Hat moved swiftly to develop a more intuitive way for customers to set up, use and troubleshoot our solutions. Our aim was to create an intelligent, purpo

Post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

In their article on post-quantum cryptography, Emily Fox and Simo Sorce explained how Red Hat is integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into our products. PQC protects confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of communication and data against quant

Management for modern IT: Red Hat Satellite 6.17 is now available

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-20 02:00:00

The new release of Red Hat Satellite is version 6.17, and it continues to offer a comprehensive and reliable way to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments, helping organizations streamline management and automation processes. Satellite 6.17 no

[Sponsor] Drata

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-20 01:53:17

Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.  ★ 

The First Rule of Legal Fight Club Is ‘Don’t Piss Off the Judge’; the Second Rule of Legal Fight Club Is ‘Don’t Piss Off the Judge’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-20 01:48:03

Juli Clover, MacRumors: With Apple blocking Fortnite from returning to the U.S. App Store, Epic Games told the court that Apple was violating the injunction and asked that Apple be forced to approve the app. The judge overseeing the case responded t

John Siracusa: ‘Apple Turnover’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-20 01:37:53

John Siracusa, in a piece that, in a bit of rhetorical deftness, only mentions Tim Cook by name once: What should be motivating Apple to make improvements — the desire to make great products — seems absent. What should not be motivating Apple — th

Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0, Vert.x 5.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0, Payara Platform, Hibernate

InfoQ @ 2025-05-20 01:30:00

This week's Java roundup for May 12th, 2025 features news highlighting: the GA releases of LangChain4j 1.0, Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 and Spring Data 2025.0.0; the May 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; second release candidates for Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibe

Qualcomm To Launch Data Center Processors That Link To Nvidia Chips

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 01:30:00

Qualcomm announced plans to re-enter the data center market with custom CPUs designed to integrate with Nvidia GPUs and software. As CNBC reports, the move supports Qualcomm's broader strategy to diversify beyond smartphones and into high-growth areas like

This Molecular ‘Hard Drive’ Stores Information in Plastic

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-20 01:14:22

Like DNA hard drives, the approach could lock the world's data down for the long haul—if researchers can make it practical. The post This Molecular ‘Hard Drive’ Stores Information in Plastic appeared first on SingularityHub .

Chad the Bird on ‘Star Wars’ Typography

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-20 01:01:14

The reader who sent me this video said, “I’ve never seen a more Star Wars + Gruber combo on Instagram” and — right down to the profanity — I have to agree.  ★ 

Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options In AI Search

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 00:50:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While using website data to build a Google Search topped with artificial intelligence-generated answers, an Alphabet executive acknowledged in an internal document that there was an alternative way to do

Microsoft CTO Details Successes, Challenges, and Commitment to Rust at Rust Nation UK

InfoQ @ 2025-05-20 00:34:00

Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, delved in a recent talk at Rust Nation UK into the factors driving Rust adoption, providing concrete examples of Rust usage in Microsoft products, and detailing ongoing efforts to accelerate

Google Launches NotebookLM App For Android and iOS

slashdot @ 2025-05-20 00:10:00

Google has launched the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS, offering a native mobile experience with offline support, audio overviews, and integration into the system share sheet for adding sources like PDFs and YouTube videos. 9to5Google reports: This nat

Have I Been Pwned 2.0

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 23:37:23

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 634 # Comments: 201

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals To Buy 23andMe and Its Data For $256 Million

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 23:30:00

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is acquiring most of 23andMe's assets for $256 million. The sale includes 23andMe's Personal Genome Service, Total Health and Research Services business lines. What's not included is 23andMe's telehealth unit, Lemonaid Health, whi

Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 23:12:47

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 371 # Comments: 151

xAI's Grok 3 Comes To Microsoft Azure

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 22:50:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft's Azure AI Found

WSJ: ‘Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-19 22:38:34

Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link, but also here’s a News+ link ): Apple is weighing price increases for its fall iPhone lineup, a step it is seeking to couple with new features and

Trump Tells Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-19 22:17:29

The president of the United States, on his blog: Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they shou

AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 22:10:00

Chatbots are more persuasive in online debates than people -- especially when they are able to personalize their arguments using information about their opponent. From a report: The finding, published in Nature Human Behaviour on 19 May, highlights how lar

European 'Green' Investments Hold Billions in Fossil Fuel Majors

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 21:30:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: European "green" funds holding more than $33 billion of investments in major oil and gas companies have been revealed by an investigation, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of these i

★ More Insight and Not-Negativity

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-19 21:14:41

I never linked to the viral blog post where Jobs was quoted recommending my article, I never mentioned it in a post, but I *did* acknowledge it, in what is clearly the most Daring-Fireball-ish way possible: I made it the slogan under the logo banner.

Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a New Command-Line Text Editor

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 20:53:00

Microsoft unveiled "Edit on Windows," a new command-line text editor, at its Build conference today. The open-source tool allows developers to edit files directly in the command line without switching to another app, similar to vim but designed to be more

The forbidden railway: Vienna-Pyongyang (2008)

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 20:45:41

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 205 # Comments: 71

Probability of rolling a Yahtzee

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-19 20:40:47

IJK (@iconjack) has calculated the probability of rolling a Yahtzee in no more than n rolls. The first few numerical values are: p(1) = 0.0007716 p(2) = 0.0126316 p(3) = 0.0460286 The probability is 0.95 after 23 rolls, and 0.99 after 32 rolls. Here’

LinkedIn Executive Warns AI Threatens Entry-Level Jobs as Graduate Unemployment Rises

slashdot @ 2025-05-19 20:10:00

AI is eroding entry-level positions across multiple industries, threatening the traditional career ladder for young professionals, LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer warned Monday. College graduate unemployment has risen 30% since September 2022

Claude Code SDK

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 20:04:06

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 368 # Comments: 164

Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-19 20:02:28

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day, a free virtual event on May 22, 2025, will showcase AWS's latest innovations in cloud infrastructure, including advances in compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, and serverless technologies, featuring technical sessions and exp

Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 19:59:16

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 266 # Comments: 159

Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-19 19:50:22

Amazon ECR image-to-container mapping that shows which images are actively running in containers and how widely they're deployed, and extended vulnerability scanning support for minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard containers.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-19 19:44:46

Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge adva

Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 19:00:43

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 381 # Comments: 441

OpenAI Launches Codex Software Engineering Agent Preview

InfoQ @ 2025-05-19 18:45:00

OpenAI has launched Codex, a research preview of a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to automate common development tasks such as writing code, debugging, testing, and generating pull requests. Integrated into ChatGPT, Codex runs each assig

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 18:28:18

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 314 # Comments: 52

Edit is now open source

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 18:27:42

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 238 # Comments: 150

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 18:17:56

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 468 # Comments: 291

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 18:14:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1384 # Comments: 928

European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 18:05:52

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 290 # Comments: 336

Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling: Now in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-05-19 17:38:18

We recently outlined our plans for the future of Kotlin Multiplatform tooling. Today, we’re putting those plans into action with the Beta release of the new KMP plugin for your favorite IDEs – IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. This plugin simplifies every

Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling: Now in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio

Kotlin news @ 2025-05-19 17:38:18

We recently outlined our plans for the future of Kotlin Multiplatform tooling. Today, we’re putting those plans into action with the Beta release of the new KMP plugin for your favorite IDEs – IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. This plugin simplifies every

23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 17:27:22

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 206 # Comments: 115

Zod 4

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 17:24:58

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 725 # Comments: 225

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 16:48:03

Hi HN! We’re Bereket and KinfeMichael of Better Auth ( ), a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own data

The Situation at Columbia XVIII

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-19 16:37:13

There’s an excellent New York magazine article out this morning that gets the story of what the Columbia trustees have been doing to the university right, with the brutal title How Trump Defeated Columbia: The inside story of an unconditional …

‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-19 16:05:39

Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats. The post ‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Jour

5 Steps to Building With AI: What It Can Do Reliably (and How to Start)

Confluent @ 2025-05-19 16:00:02

Use the R.I.C.E. framework to evaluate and launch your first AI project. Learn how to balance reach, impact, confidence, and effort for better outcomes.

Secret passages on Microsoft main campus, episode 3

old new thing @ 2025-05-19 16:00:00

Another covered passage between buildings. The post Secret passages on Microsoft main campus, episode 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Windsurf Launches SWE-1 Family of Models for Software Engineering

InfoQ @ 2025-05-19 14:21:00

Windsurf has introduced its first set of SWE-1 models, aimed at supporting the full range of software engineering tasks, not limited to code generation. The lineup consists of three models SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini, each designed for specific sce

Flexible Pub/Sub Messaging With Spring Boot and Dapr

Baeldung @ 2025-05-19 12:48:55

Learn how to integrate Dapr with Spring Boot to create a publish/subscribe system without coupling to specific brokers. The post Flexible Pub/Sub Messaging With Spring Boot and Dapr first appeared on Baeldung .        

Don't guess my language

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 12:12:53

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 635 # Comments: 347

How Allegro Does Automated Code Migrations for over 2000 Microservices

InfoQ @ 2025-05-19 12:10:00

Allegro shared the details of the process it uses to manage code migrations at scale. The company combined GitHub’s Dependabot and OpenRewrite projects into a custom solution that helps developers perform mundane code migration tasks automatically across

Going equipped

AEON @ 2025-05-19 12:01:00

A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

The entangled brain

AEON @ 2025-05-19 12:00:00

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony - by Luiz Pessoa Read at Aeon

We’ve Got the Beat—in Our Genes

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-19 11:50:00

How much we enjoy music, and in what ways, is heritable The post We’ve Got the Beat—in Our Genes appeared first on Nautilus .

The History Hidden in Names

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-19 11:50:00

Etchings in ancient Hebrew artifacts reveal nuanced social dynamics The post The History Hidden in Names appeared first on Nautilus .

Side projects I've built since 2009

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-19 11:17:20

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 252 # Comments: 135

Análisis de ajedrez | Resurge Vachier-Lagrave

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-19 10:25:34

Empatado a puntos en el primer puesto con Praggnanandhaa y Firouzja, el francés vuelve a la élite, donde tanto estuvo, por partidas brillantes como esta

OpenJDK News Roundup: Key Derivation, Scoped Values, Compact Headers, JFR Method Timing & Tracing

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

There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 12th, 2025, highlighting: two JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and four JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25; and one JEP elevated fr

Bolt

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-19 02:53:21

My thanks to Bolt for sponsoring last week at DF. You can prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps with Bolt, the AI-powered web development agent that brings coding to your browser. Bolt lets you build, edit, and test web applicatio

JEP targeted to JDK 25: 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies

Inside Java @ 2025-05-19 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 25: 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies

Is Satire Dangerous in the AI-Age?

Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-19 00:28:00

There have been times when satire has been mistaken for reality. A list of Onion stories that were mistaken for reality (or was it a mistake?) is here . When I say mistaken for reality I mean that a large set of people were fooled. My own Ramsey-Histo

The curl user survey 2025 is up

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-19 00:25:23

Yes! curl user survey 2025 The time has come for you to once again do your curl community duty. Run over and fill in the curl user survey and tell us about how you use curl etc. This is the only proper way we get user feedback on a wide scale so please use

Slate Truck: A $20–30K American-Made Electric Small Pickup With No Paint, No Stereo, No Touchscreen

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-18 23:14:34

Month-old news but I’m cleaning up tabs today. I love everything about this pickup except the fact that it doesn’t have a speaker system built-in. No one wants to put a Bluetooth boombox in their cabin and, worse, isn’t that sort of an obvious safety haza

OpenAI’s Stargate Project Aims to Build AI Infrastructure in Partner Countries Worldwide

InfoQ @ 2025-05-18 23:10:00

OpenAI has announced a new initiative called "OpenAI for Countries" as part of its Stargate project, aiming to help nations develop AI infrastructure based on democratic principles. This expansion follows the company's initial $500 billion investment pla

Joe Biden Has an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-18 23:09:23

Tyler Pager, The New York Times: Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday. The diagnosis came after Mr. Biden reported

Análisis de ajedrez | Praggnanandhaa triunfa y sube al 6º del escalafón

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-18 19:22:49

Tras ganar en enero el ‘Roland Garros’ del ajedrez (Wijk aan Zee), el juvenil indio se impone también, invicto, en el Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest

Jack Rix at Top Gear Reviews CarPlay Ultra in the Aston Martin DBX

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-18 19:01:47

There’s an accompanying blog post too, but the video (around 18 minutes) is (unsurprisingly, from Top Gear) better. It’s just a great tour of everything from how you set it up to what it offers, and what the various “themes” look like — and how you swit

Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Now Available on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart

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

AWS recently announced the availability of Meta's latest foundation models, Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, in Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker JumpStart. Both models provide multimodal capabilities and follow the mixture-of-experts architecture. B

Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support

InfoQ @ 2025-05-18 12:00:00

Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deplo

Análisis de ajedrez | Por fin ganó Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-17 18:31:42

Tras siete rondas sin ganar ninguna, el campeón del mundo superó con claridad y juego vistoso a Aronián en la octava

Podcast CB SyR 512: Futuro del cohete SLS, extensión de la vida de un satélite, transmutación de plomo a oro en ALICE y estadística del draft de la NBA

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-05-17 18:02:57

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 512 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “NASA; Satélites; Alquimia; NBA”, 15 may 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podca

Key AI Technologies That Shaped 2024 and Are Driving Business Value in 2025

Randal S. Olson @ 2025-05-17 17:30:00

A practical guide for businesses on the key AI technologies from 2024 and emerging in 2025, detailing what they are, their importance, business utility, and limitations, all to help you make informed strategic decisions.

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-05-17 16:44:17

Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair production and black hole evaporation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

Physics Phorums @ 2025-05-17 16:44:17

Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair production and black hole evaporation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1

Business Process Automation with Kogito

Baeldung @ 2025-05-17 16:28:23

Explore creating cloud-native business applications using Kogito as an automation tool The post Business Process Automation with Kogito first appeared on Baeldung .              

Read a Gradle Defined Variable in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-17 16:22:44

Learn how to read a variable defined in the Gradle file at build time. The post Read a Gradle Defined Variable in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

How to Configure GraphQL/REST APIs Using Apache Camel

Baeldung @ 2025-05-17 16:18:33

Learn how to integrate both REST and GraphQL endpoints into an Apache Camel application The post How to Configure GraphQL/REST APIs Using Apache Camel first appeared on Baeldung .              

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 17)

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-17 16:00:00

Every week, we scour the web for the most important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 17) appeared first on Singularit

SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029

InfoQ @ 2025-05-17 14:00:00

In a move to enhance internet security, the CA/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum) has approved a proposal to reduce the maximum validity period of SSL/TLS certificates from the current 398 days to just 47 days by March 15, 2029. By Craig Risi

AWS Lambda Introduces Tiered Pricing for CloudWatch Logs and Expands Logging Destinations

InfoQ @ 2025-05-17 12:00:00

AWS enhances Lambda logging with tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch Logs, effective May 1, 2025, reducing costs for high-volume deployments. New destinations like Amazon S3 and Firehose simplify integration and enable advanced analytics. These changes

Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio Released with Major Performance and Tooling Enhancements

InfoQ @ 2025-05-17 09:35:00

The Uno Platform team has announced the general availability of Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio, introducing a broad set of enhancements aimed at improving developer productivity and cross-platform performance. By Almir Vuk

Amazon to Raise AWS Lambda Costs by Charging for Cold Starts

InfoQ @ 2025-05-17 07:34:00

Starting next August, Amazon will begin charging for the AWS Lambda initialization phase for managed runtimes. While the company frames this change as a billing standardization to align with existing behavior, and many in the community view it as a step

Puzzmo Is Getting a Native iOS App Monday

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-17 02:12:46

Scheduled to drop Monday, but you can click-through to pre-download it now . If you’re not familiar, Puzzmo is sort of a collection of “ newspaper puzzle games for the online age ”. (Which is also a good description for recent DF sponsor Lex.Games .)

Java 24, Faster Than Ever

Inside Java @ 2025-05-17 02:00:00

Java is constantly evolving in terms of performance, allowing unchanged application code to run faster and faster with each new Java release. In this talk we will take a closer look at five recent performance improvements made in the JDK involving both the

Modern Java Development with Tip & Tail

Inside Java @ 2025-05-17 02:00:00

Tip & tail is a software development model for Java libraries. It gives application developers a better experience while helping library developers innovate faster. The JDK uses tip & tail to deliver new features at a faster pace, as well as to provide rel

Scientists Say Earth Has Made Enough Hydrogen to Power Humanity. Here’s How to Find It.

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-16 22:09:53

Discovering existing deposits of the gas that can be economically tapped is key. So, researchers whipped up a guide for hydrogen prospectors. The post Scientists Say Earth Has Made Enough Hydrogen to Power Humanity. Here’s How to Find It. appear

Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK

AWS Open Source News @ 2025-05-16 21:24:42

Today I am happy to announce we are releasing Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code. Strands scales from simple to complex agent use cases, and

Apple Is Not Reinstating Fortnite to the App Store, and Because of the Stunt-Like Way That Epic Submitted the Latest Build, Fortnite Is Currently No Longer Available on iOS Anywhere in the World

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-16 19:24:35

There’s an old adage in poker: If you look around the table and you can’t tell who the fish is, that means you’re the fish. If you’re surprised at how this publicity stunt from Epic has turned out, especially if you’re a reporter and ran a piece a

Tax and Price updates for Apps, In-App Purchases, and Subscriptions

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-05-16 16:00:46

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or forei

What’s with the weird wReserved value at the start of the DECIMAL structure?

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

It's where the discriminant goes when the DECIMAL is put "inside" a VARIANT . The post What’s with the weird <CODE>wReserved</CODE> value at the start of the <CODE>DECIMAL</CODE> structure? appeared first on The Old N

New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-16 15:33:31

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales. The post New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Análisis de ajedrez | Los dos caballos de Troitzky

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-16 14:25:18

El legendario compositor ruso analizó muy profundamente el jaque mate más complejo, y además lo convirtió en finales artísticos

Permission to be ill

AEON @ 2025-05-16 12:00:00

It took months for my functional neurological disorder to finally be diagnosed. It’s a condition that must be recognised - by Kevin Aho Read at Aeon

Whales Run Aground by the Sun

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-16 11:50:00

Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars? The post Whales Run Aground by the Sun appeared first on Nautilus .

Moon Marbles Hint at Lunar Depths

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-16 11:50:00

A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface The post Moon Marbles Hint at Lunar Depths appeared first on Nautilus .

Meteor Burst Communications

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-05-16 11:14:10

Back before satellites, to transmit radio waves over really long distances folks bounced them off the ionosphere—a layer of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. Unfortunately this layer only reflects radio waves with frequencies up to 30 megahe

Meteor Burst Communications

Physics Phorums @ 2025-05-16 11:14:10

Back before satellites, to transmit radio waves over really long distances folks bounced them off the ionosphere—a layer of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. Unfortunately this layer only reflects radio waves with frequencies up to 30 megahe

Trinomial Coefficients and Kings

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-16 11:11:28

The term trinomial coefficient is used a couple different ways. The most natural use of the term is a generalization of bionomial coefficients to three variables, i.e. numbers of the form where i + j + k = n. These numbers are the coefficients of yj zk in

Leeks and leaks

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-16 11:05:50

On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want. dot-onion leaks The onion TLD is a Tor specific domain that does not mean much to the world out

La humildad

brucknerite @ 2025-05-16 10:00:09

A finales de 2023 me vi involucrado en un accidente de circulación. Un choque múltiple del que, afortunadamente, tanto mi pareja como yo salimos por nuestro propio pie. Por la parte de la carne, que es la que importa, no tuvimos que sufrir más que las cons

Riff on an integration bee integral

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-16 09:27:05

I saw an integral posted online that came from this year’s MIT Integration Bee. My thoughts on seeing this were, in order: It looks like a beta function. The answer is a small number. You can evaluate the integral using the substitution u = 1 − x202

Detecting malicious Unicode

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-16 09:09:15

In a recent educational trick, curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he suggested a larger cleanup of a set of scripts. In a later presentation, he could show us how not a single human reviewer in the team nor any C

★ 15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-16 02:26:20

So, what would *you* do if Steve Jobs was quoted in a viral blog post saying, “We think «*Your Name Here*»’s post is very insightful and not negative”? I decided to just sit there with a smug look on my face for a few days.

Issue 712

iOS Weekly @ 2025-05-16 02:00:00

Something different this week, an issue curated by the winners of the Swift Student Challenge! 🧑‍🎓

Episode 36 “Ahead of Time Computation” with Dan Heidinga

Inside Java @ 2025-05-16 02:00:00

Nicolai Parlog talks with Dan Heidinga, JVM Runtime Architect at Oracle and, among other things, member of projects Leyden and Valhalla, about ahead-of-time computation in Java 24 and beyond.

New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-16 00:47:07

The P6-B200 EC2 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs offer up to twice the performance of previous P5en instances for machine learning and high-performance computing workloads.

Yours Truly With Nilay Patel on ‘Decoder’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 23:45:27

Nilay Patel: There’s a lot of tactical stuff you might talk about in the aftermath of this ruling — about what Apple might do next, how it might impact revenue, and how developers might respond. But I really wanted Gruber to talk about Apple’s big pic

RevenueCat Report Suggests In-App Purchases Perform Noticeably Better Than Link-Outs to the Web

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 23:40:33

Speaking of Jacob Eiting, his company RevenueCat today posted some interesting findings from a test comparing conversions rates for IAP vs. web checkout for the same app: Two weeks ago, there was a court order in the Apple vs Epic case that forced A

Andy Allen on the App Store’s Feature Stagnation

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 23:24:27

Andy Allen, of Not Boring Software , last week on Threads: While the focus on the App Store injunction has been mostly on the commission rate, what’s been overlooked is just how far the tools of the App Store have fallen behind. There’s a long and

★ That EU App Store Warning About External Purchases Is Not New, and Apple Proposed Improving It Nine Months Ago

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 23:09:49

Apple proposed a much less objectionable “external payments” disclosure in August, but claims that the EC told them not to implement it.

Java Weekly, Issue 594

Baeldung @ 2025-05-15 22:35:26

More developments in AI tools in Java, and handling security concerns. The post Java Weekly, Issue 594 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Apple, Appealing €500M DMA Fine, Contends It Made a Series of Proposals to the European Commission Throughout 2024 but Did Not Receive Feedback

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 22:23:42

Jacob Parry, reporting last week for Politico: “We have spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made dozens of changes to comply with this law, none of which our users have asked for,” said Apple spokesperson Emma Wilson. “Despite countle

More Old Mac Font Memories

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 22:10:09

Dr. Drang, writing at And Now It’s All This: Back before the LaserWriter and PostScript (it’s an all InterCaps day here at ANIAT) made resolution independence commonplace, most printers were of the dot-matrix variety, usually at a fairly low resolutio

Enlisting Paparazzi to Save a Gigantic Fish

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-15 21:39:16

Crowd-sourced data on the giant sea bass suggest it's making a rebound The post Enlisting Paparazzi to Save a Gigantic Fish appeared first on Nautilus .

Groups of AI Agents Spontaneously Create Their Own Lingo, Like People

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-15 21:34:26

A new study says AI agents can create shared language conventions. Learning how this happens could help us better manage agents in the real world. The post Groups of AI Agents Spontaneously Create Their Own Lingo, Like People appeared first on Singul

Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-15 21:12:33

AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demonstrated by a 98% reduction in build time from 24 minutes

Trump Says He Has ‘A Little Problem With Tim Cook’ Regarding Apple’s Plans to Increase iPhone Production in India

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 20:55:43

Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC: “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said. “I said to him, ‘my friend, I treated you very good. You’re coming here with $500 billion, but now I hear you’re building all over India.’ I don’t want yo

Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-15 18:42:04

AWS Transform leverages the power agentic AI to accelerate modernization of legacy workloads. It deploys specialized AI agents to automate complex tasks like code analysis, refactoring, decomposition, dependency mapping, validation, and transformation plan

AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-15 18:41:13

Accelerate .NET modernization with agentic AI. AWS Transform for .NET speeds up large-scale modernization from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. With the .NET modernization agent, modernization teams can collaboratively execute larger and

Block encoding bosons by signal processing

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-15 17:48:42

Quantum 9, 1747 (2025). Block Encoding (BE) is a crucial subroutine in many modern quantum algorithms, including those with near-optimal scaling for simulating quantum many-body systems, which often rely on Qua

CarPlay Ultra, the Next Generation of CarPlay, Is Now Available in New Aston Martins

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 17:44:59

Apple Newsroom: Starting today, CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, is available with new Aston Martin vehicle orders in the U.S. and Canada, and will be available for existing models that feature the brand’s next-generation infotainment

Spontaneous symmetry emergence in a Hermitian system of coupled oscillators without symmetry

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-15 17:42:00

Quantum 9, 1746 (2025). Spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with symmetry is a cornerstone phenomenon accompanying second-order phase transitions. Here, we predict the opposite phenomenon, namely, spontane

How to Use Maps in Protobuf

Baeldung @ 2025-05-15 17:10:00

Explore how to define, serialize, and deserialize Protobuf maps in Java, ensuring data remains compact and easily transferable. The post How to Use Maps in Protobuf first appeared on Baeldung .            

Trainability and Expressivity of Hamming-Weight Preserving Quantum Circuits for Machine Learning

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-15 17:09:50

Quantum 9, 1745 (2025). Quantum machine learning (QML) has become a promising area for real world applications of quantum computers, but near-term methods and their scalability are still important research topi

Introduction to RESTHeart

Baeldung @ 2025-05-15 17:01:58

An introduction to using RESTHeart. The post Introduction to RESTHeart first appeared on Baeldung .              

On noise in swap ASAP repeater chains: exact analytics, distributions and tight approximations

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-15 16:51:26

Quantum 9, 1744 (2025). Losses are one of the main bottlenecks for the distribution of entanglement in quantum networks, which can be overcome by the implementation of quantum repeaters. The most basic form of

Quantum detailed balance via elementary transitions

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-15 16:41:54

Quantum 9, 1743 (2025). Quantum detailed balance is formulated in terms of elementary transitions, in close analogy to detailed balance in a classical Markov chain on a finite set of points. An elementary trans

Análisis de ajedrez | Adiós al gran Hort (1944-2025)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-15 16:38:50

Multicampeón de Checoslovaquia y Alemania, fue además un excelente divulgador en los medios de comunicación, muy apreciado por su calidad humana

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-15 16:11:27

Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, but it has also had a surprising impact on modern physics. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Yang-Hui He explores geometry’s evolution and its future potential through A

How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order?

old new thing @ 2025-05-15 16:00:00

Run them in the desired order yourself. The post How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

An ocean in motion

AEON @ 2025-05-15 12:01:00

Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Cars beneath the ground

AEON @ 2025-05-15 12:00:00

The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring problem remains: where to put them when they’re parked - by Alfie Robinson Read at Aeon

Maybe I Am the Asshole?

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-15 11:50:00

What a popular subreddit can tell us about everyday morality The post Maybe I Am the Asshole? appeared first on Nautilus .

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-15 11:50:00

But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind? The post AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals appeared first on Nautilus .

5 Devious Ways People Made Bugs Into Bombs

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-15 11:50:00

Insects are among the oldest of weaponry The post 5 Devious Ways People Made Bugs Into Bombs appeared first on Nautilus .

Another little chess puzzle

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-15 02:06:48

Here’s another little chess puzzle by Martin Gardner, taken from the same paper as earlier. The task is to place two rooks, two bishops, and two knights on a 4 by 4 chessboard so that no piece attacks any other. As before, there are two basic soluti

Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust!

Rust blog @ 2025-05-15 02:00:00

Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0! Today's release day happens to fall exactly on the 10 year anniversary of Rust 1.0 ! Thank you to the myriad c

Mastering JVM Memory Troubleshooting - From OutOfMemoryErrors to Leaks

Inside Java @ 2025-05-15 02:00:00

Memory issues in Java applications can be challenging to diagnose, often manifesting as subtle symptoms. This talk explores common and obscure memory problems, from Java heap exhaustion and metaspace overflows to native memory leaks.

‘Max’, the Dumbest Name Ever, Changes Back to ‘HBO Max’

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 01:28:38

Variety: The surprise announcement, made less than two months after Max tweaked its logo to look more like the classic black-and-white HBO color scheme, was revealed at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation to ad execs in New York on Wednesd

The App Store Shows a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-15 01:10:07

The app in question, Instacar, is not available in the US App Store, but multiple people in the EU have confirmed this warning on its App Store page is real: This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system. It uses external

Multiplying by quaternions on the left and right

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-14 22:57:26

The map that takes a quaternion x to the quaternion qx is linear, so it can be represented as multiplication by a matrix. The same is true of the map that takes x to xq, but the two matrices are not the same because quaternion multiplication does not comm

A Bittersweet Anniversary

Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-14 20:59:00

The National Science Foundation was founded on May 10, 1950, 75 years ago last Saturday. No doubt the NSF has seen better days, but first let's take a look back. At the end of World War II, Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Development,

Modify Property Files in Java

Baeldung @ 2025-05-14 20:04:53

Learn how to modify Property files without losing any existing data using core Java APIs and Apache Commons. The post Modify Property Files in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

Spring AOP for a Method Call Within the Same Class

Baeldung @ 2025-05-14 20:00:30

Learn how to handle method calls from within the same class in Spring AOP. The post Spring AOP for a Method Call Within the Same Class first appeared on Baeldung .              

Conditional Logging With Logback

Baeldung @ 2025-05-14 19:57:11

Learn about the conditional logging features provided by the Logback framework. The post Conditional Logging With Logback first appeared on Baeldung .              

Embeddings, Projections, and Inverses

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-14 18:38:42

I just revised a post from a week ago about rotations. The revision makes explicit the process of embedding a 3D vector into the quaternions, then pulling it back out. The 3D vector is embedded in the quaternions by making it the vector part of a quaterni

★ Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-14 18:21:59

A single-story “a” in Chicago feels more blasphemous than that AI image Trump tweeted of himself as the new pope.

Análisis de ajedrez | Gukesh, en caída libre

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-14 17:45:10

El campeón del mundo vigente baja al 5º puesto del escalafón y pierde 14,2 puntos Elo en seis partidas (tres derrotas y tres tablas)

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

Deepmind @ 2025-05-14 16:59:12

New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

Building Custom Tooling with LLMs

Martin Fowler @ 2025-05-14 16:10:00

Tools that treat diagrams as code, such as PlantUML, are invaluable for communicating complex system behavior. But Unmesh Joshi often wished for an extension to walk through these diagrams step-by-step. Yet, extending established tools like Plant

If I mark my thread pool callback as long-running, does it still count toward the thread pool thread limit?

old new thing @ 2025-05-14 16:00:00

Yes, because it's still in the thread pool. The post If I mark my thread pool callback as long-running, does it still count toward the thread pool thread limit? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-14 15:57:23

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. The post How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Pete Rose and ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Among Players Reinstated by MLB in Historic Decision

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-14 15:19:16

Kyle Feldscher, CNN: Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson — two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game — from the league’s permanently ineligible

A crypto rush aftermath

AEON @ 2025-05-14 12:01:00

First the rush, then the reality – how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme spread faster than a virus in a sleepy Georgia town - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Poetry Gives Us Power

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-14 11:50:00

How Marianne Moore’s poem The Fish helps us see the world more clearly The post Poetry Gives Us Power appeared first on Nautilus .

Plant Sex and the City

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-14 11:50:00

Plants around the world are adapting their reproductive strategies to survive on an increasingly urban planet The post Plant Sex and the City appeared first on Nautilus .

Supported curl versions and end of life

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-14 08:56:45

The other week we shipped the 266th curl release. This counter is perhaps a little inflated since it also includes the versions we did before we renamed it to curl, but still, there are hundreds of them. We keep cranking them out at least once every eight

This Week in Rust 599

This Week in Rust @ 2025-05-14 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

Announcing the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative

Ethereum blog @ 2025-05-14 02:00:00

Ethereum is the most secure blockchain ecosystem. This is the result of 10 years of progress and iteration across every level of Ethereum’s technology stack, from wallet UX to developer tooling to consensus protocol security. But being the most secure pla

Garbage Collection in Java: The Performance Benefits of Upgrading

Inside Java @ 2025-05-14 02:00:00

Garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management and a key feature of the Java Platform. It allows developers to focus on their application logic rather that low-level memory management problems. This talk explores the basics of GC, the ava

Visions for the Future of Physics

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-05-14 00:14:56

On Wednesday May 14, 2025 I’ll be giving a talk at 2 pm Pacific Time, or 10 pm UK time. The talk is for physics students at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, organized by Artur Renato Baptista Boyago. Visions for the Future of Physics Abstract

Visions for the Future of Physics

Physics Phorums @ 2025-05-14 00:14:56

On Wednesday May 14, 2025 I’ll be giving a talk at 2 pm Pacific Time, or 10 pm UK time. The talk is for physics students at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, organized by Artur Renato Baptista Boyago. Visions for the Future of Physics Abstract

Mars May Be Hiding an Ocean of Liquid Water Under Its Surface

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-13 22:19:57

Seismic data collected by NASA suggests the amount of water hidden in the red planet's crust would cover its surface in a global ocean. The post Mars May Be Hiding an Ocean of Liquid Water Under Its Surface appeared first on SingularityHub .

Alternative exp and log notation

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-13 21:34:01

The other day I stumbled on an article [1] that advocated writing ab as a↑b and loga(b) as a↓b. This is a special case of Knuth’s up arrow and down arrow notation. Knuth introduces his arrows with the intention of repeating them to represent hyperex

How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD Foundation @ 2025-05-13 21:11:47

There’s no denying that FreeBSD has historically maintained a reputation as a rock-solid and trustworthy server operating system. But there’s also the obviousness that most of the common open source desktop software can also run on FreeBSD. Many folks are

Análisis de ajedrez | Éxito rápido de Jaime Santos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-13 19:09:09

El gran maestro leonés rompe su mala racha con el primer puesto, invicto, en el Gran Premio de Rumanía (15 minutos + 5 segundos)

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-13 17:57:14

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself and much more, The Quanta Podcast will be a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. The post Introducing The

What is the developer set-up for developing Windows for multiple processor architectures?

old new thing @ 2025-05-13 16:00:00

You usually just pick one and count on your friends for the others. The post What is the developer set-up for developing Windows for multiple processor architectures? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Decimal Separator and Internationalization

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-13 15:50:18

This morning I ran across the following tip from Joost Helberg on Mastodon: TIL don’t report numbers with three digits after the decimal point. People may interpret the decimal point as a thousands separator. Using 2 or 4 digits, although wrong, avo

Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain

Martin Fowler @ 2025-05-13 15:11:00

We have long recognized that developer environments represent a weak point in the software supply chain. Jim Gumbley and Lilly Ryan explore how agentic coding assistants expand the attack surface of software supply chains and what measures we n