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Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: Visual Execution Environment Builder and Content Discovery Guide

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-12 02:00:00

When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax c

After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-10 20:19:27

New drugs are taking on the slippery molecular switches that fuel deadly cancers—and AI is speeding up the hunt. The post After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way appeared first on SingularityHub .

macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 20:00:00

The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple's changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: "I

Análisis de ajedrez | Pasmosa ucrania de 15 años (I)

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-10 19:16:16

Hnatyshyn, única ganadora de Sabrina Vega (subcampeona), ganó el oro en el Europeo Femenino absoluto con un juego espléndido

Curaçao is the smallest nation ever at a World Cup

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-10 19:00:00

The 48 nations at the 2026 World Cup span a 2,181x gap in population, from the United States (340M) to Curaçao (156,000), the smallest ever to qualify.

German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 19:00:00

A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to scams and shady business practices, with the court rejecting Google's argumen

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Deepmind @ 2026-06-10 18:24:11

Seattle Enacts Year-Long Ban On New AI Datacenters

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 18:00:00

Seattle has enacted a one-year moratorium on new datacenters, making it the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the ban. The Guardian reports: Lawmake

US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 17:10:40

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Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-10 17:04:30

AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.

Microsoft Smashes Record For Biggest Ever Patch Tuesday Update

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ComputerWeekly: Microsoft has issued patches for about 200 flaws in its latest monthly Patch Tuesday drop, blasting past a previous record high of almost 170 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) set in Octobe

An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-10 16:57:19

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. The post An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis first appeared on Quant

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 16:47:52

Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_. It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments, in a

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 16:02:59

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The Unbundling and Bundling of the PaaS Market

tecosystems @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

The Unbundling and Bundling of the PaaS Market

Sogrady @ 2026-06-10 15:51:08

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” – Jim Barksdale Two decades ago this August, AWS – itself four years old at that point – launched the Elastic Compute Service, or EC2. Between t

Pulling on a thread

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-10 15:34:31

Often there’s a thread running through a sequence of my posts. Sometimes I make this explicit and sometimes I don’t. The latest thread started with this post commenting on a tweet that observed that exp(−x²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(x) + x))/2. Some peo

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 14:45:47

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Commonwealth Fusion Makes the Physics Case For Its 400 MW Reactor

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 13:00:00

Commonwealth Fusion has published five peer-reviewed papers laying out the physics case for ARC, its planned 400 MW fusion power plant, which would follow the company's smaller SPARC tokamak now under construction. The papers suggest ARC could produce more

Bay of smokes

AEON @ 2026-06-10 12:01:00

When smog descended upon Los Angeles in 1943, it was mistaken for a Japanese attack. The real culprit was closer to home - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-06-10 11:38:00

Azure API Management shipped a Unified Model API that lets clients speak one format while APIM transforms requests to Anthropic, Vertex AI, and other backends. Content safety policies now cover MCP tool calls and Agent-to-Agent payloads alongside LLM tra

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 10:21:38

> For Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models on Bedrock with similar or higher capability levels, Anthropic will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models. Retaining data for a limited period allows Anthropic to detect patterns of mis

Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 09:44:49

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A human in control

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-06-10 09:08:26

There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of

NASA Announces Astronauts For Its Artemis III Mission

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 09:00:00

NASA has named Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas as the crew for Artemis III, which has been reworked from a moon-landing mission into a roughly two-week Earth-orbit test of lunar landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. N

Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 07:50:07

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FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchas

Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 05:27:47

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German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 03:44:13

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macOS Container Machines

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 02:29:01

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Exploiting GPU Tensor Cores from Java using Babylon

Inside Java @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

this article shows an approach to extend the HAT programming model with an API for explicit tensor-core programming. Furthermore, it shows how to make this approach generic to be able to process computations expressed with the proposed HAT tensor core API

What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your

Expiration of Secure Boot signing certificates in 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-10 02:00:00

The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new

US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 01:00:00

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, Unitree, and other Chinese companies to its list of firms it says support China's military, barring them from U.S. defense contracts. The companies and China's embassy deny the allegations. The Associated Press r

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 00:35:57

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Surprise, pay $1000

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-10 00:01:15

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EU Orders Meta To Open WhatsApp To Rival AI Chatbots

slashdot @ 2026-06-10 00:00:00

The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position. Meta says it will appeal, calling the m

Apple OS 27: The Small Things

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 23:29:57

Rishi Ó: My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a c

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 23:19:11

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Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 23:01:00

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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable, a 'Safe' Version of Mythos

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 23:00:00

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. "For u

High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 22:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that's able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. Th

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 21:21:45

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EU Says Decision Not to Launch Siri AI in Europe Is Apple's Alone

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 21:00:00

The European Commission says Apple's decision not to launch Siri AI in the EU is Apple's alone, arguing that the company sought an exemption from Digital Markets Act interoperability rules instead of building a compliant privacy- and security-preserving so

The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 20:53:47

If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available . You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision

CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 20:45:59

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GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 20:21:43

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Meta Will Use Your Activity On Other Websites To Personalize Your Feeds

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 20:00:00

Meta says it will expand how it uses off-platform activity shared by other businesses to personalize Facebook and Instagram feeds as well as AI responses, not just ads. The change starts in July and can be disabled through the "Activity from other business

Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:42:32

A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.  ★ 

Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-09 19:40:31

AWS announces the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use.

Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:38:21

Julie Bort, TechCrunch: But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand, pressing buttons or using voice commands in r

Apple Introduces Siri AI

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 19:23:29

Apple Newsroom yesterday: This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and more. For example, users c

What it feels like to work with Mythos

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 19:17:21

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The rise in LGBTQ+ identification is mostly young women

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-09 19:00:00

Nearly 1 in 3 Gen Z women in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ+, versus 12% of Gen Z men. Gallup data shows the generational surge is mostly about women.

Microsoft Hacked To Deliver Malware To Claude and Gemini Users

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 19:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Microsoft has shut down a wave of its own repositories on GitHub, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, as it investigates a data breach, according to research from cybersecurity research

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 18:58:13

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 211 # Comments: 1

Claude Fable 5

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-06-09 18:58:01

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Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 18:50:33

Apple Newsroom: These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on devi

Análisis de ajedrez | La profundidad de Pragg

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-09 18:45:54

El brillante vencedor del Norway Chess sometió a Firouzja en la 7ª ronda con maniobras finísimas y un sacrificio excelso

What the GSoC Mentor Summit Reminded Me About Open Source

ASF @ 2026-06-09 18:00:00

As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity to connect with

NHS Prescribes Half a Million Copilot Licenses For Its Paperwork Headache

slashdot @ 2026-06-09 18:00:00

NHS England plans to roll out Microsoft Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff after a 30,000-person pilot claimed the AI assistant saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on administrative work. The Register reports: The rollout won't happen o

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Deepmind @ 2026-06-09 17:16:25

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Powering the future of robotics in Europe

Deepmind @ 2026-06-09 16:02:33

The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap

old new thing @ 2026-06-09 16:00:00

Even the boss got into the festivities. The post The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap appeared first on The Old New Thing .

IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0 Brings Automated LDAP Secrets Management to Enterprise Identity Security

InfoQ @ 2026-06-09 14:00:00

IBM and HashiCorp have announced new LDAP secrets management capabilities in IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0, introducing a redesigned architecture to manage LDAP credentials, support password rotation, and automate the identity lifecycle. By Craig Risi

The joy of autism

AEON @ 2026-06-09 12:00:00

Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon

Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-09 10:00:00

Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tool

[Sponsor] WorkOS Launches auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 06:23:05

Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? Enter auth.md. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protect

From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-09 03:37:27

Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as p

Every Espressif Module in One Place

Atomic14 @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Every time I start a new project the first question is the same: which module should I use? Picking an Espressif chip means pulling up datasheets, hunting for pinout diagrams, checking which pins are safe, and ending up with a dozen browser tabs open.

Performance Improvements in JDK 26

Inside Java @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

To give you a clearer view of the performance work happening across the Java platform, this article highlights a selection of notable performance related improvements in JDK 26, grouped into four major areas: JDK Libraries, Garbage Collectors, Compiler,

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operations

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Over the past year, the conversation around artificial intelligence has undergone a massive evolution, shifting from isolated pilots or experiments with standalone tools. For leaders, the true challenge—and the ultimate prize—lies in building a fully AI-en

Lessons from an autonomous computer vision system on the air-gapped edge

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

Red Hat Summit demonstration booth featuring a model train track, edge computing hardware, monitoring displays, and supporting infrastructure used to demonstrate AI-driven automation at the edge.Many AI demos stop at detection. A dashboard highlights an o

Conflict management in intent-based networks

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-09 02:00:00

The theme for TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen is "The Future. Faster." As we move further into the decade, connectivity has evolved from a utility into the central nervous system of modern society. Telecommunications (

Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-08 23:56:59

A planetary defense system would blunt solar storms with hundreds of tons of gas. Emerging heavy-lift rockets could deploy it in under two months. The post Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms appeared first on SingularityH

AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-08 23:27:12

This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet pro

Find out what's new for Apple developers

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:20:01

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms and create even more unique, intelligent experiences in your apps and games with major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services. The latest SDKs bring incredible new features

Introducing Time Allowances

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:19:33

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on ex

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines now available

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-06-08 20:18:33

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated term

Análisis de ajedrez | ¡Ojo con Madamínov!

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-08 19:38:02

Todo indica que la selección uzbeka en la Olimpiada de Ajedrez en Samarcanda (2ª quincena de septiembre) será fortísima, con otro gran valor en alza

AWS Releases Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 19:00:00

Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true

Introduction to Cross-Platform Java Development With Codename One

Baeldung @ 2026-06-08 18:34:00

Learn how Codename One handles layouts, navigation, styling, and general functionality to enable cross-platform development via Java and Maven. The post Introduction to Cross-Platform Java Development With Codename One first appeared on Baeldung .

How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-08 17:17:08

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in mathematical research. The post How Terry Tao Be

Pinterest Uses Content Fingerprints for URL Deduplication across Millions of Domains

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 16:37:00

Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with off

Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes

old new thing @ 2026-06-08 16:00:00

Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks. The post Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 15:45:00

This week's Java roundup for June 1st, 2026, features news highlighting: JDK 27 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 28 Expert Group; the GlassFish Arquillian Connectors Suite for Jakarta EE TCKs; point releases for Infinispan and Kotlin; main

Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

Deepmind @ 2026-06-08 15:04:59

Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.

Gemma 4 12B Enables On-Device, Multimodal Agentic Workflows with an Encoder-free Architecture

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 14:00:00

Google says Gemma 4 12B is "designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop", further noting that the new model can be combined with Google AI Edge to "build and experiment locally, on everyday machines". This integration allow

Celebrating 20 Years of InfoQ

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 13:35:00

InfoQ celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have published a walk-through of the trends InfoQ called early, where they sit on the adoption curve today, and how that curve may evolve over the next decade. By InfoQ

The steam engine

AEON @ 2026-06-08 12:01:00

The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

What shape is the Earth?

AEON @ 2026-06-08 12:00:00

The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress - by Miguel Ohnesorge Read on Aeon

Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 11:08:00

Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, its Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D. The platform powered the development of Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with 1,000x reliabilit

Microsoft Launches Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 10:00:00

Microsoft announced Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026, a new SKU at auto.azure.com packaging workflows, AI agents, knowledge services, and model access into a managed SaaS experience. Agents integrate via agent-loop orchestration, Foundry agents, and m

Terraform 1.15 Closes Gap to OpenTofu on Dynamic Sources and Deprecation

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 10:00:00

HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.15, introducing dynamic module sources, a formal deprecation mechanism for variables and outputs, a new inline type conversion function, type constraints for output blocks, and native Windows ARM64 support. The release

Zero Reaches 1.0, Marking the First Stable Release of Rocicorp's Web Sync Engine

InfoQ @ 2026-06-08 09:49:00

Rocicorp has released Zero 1.0, a stable version of its sync engine after two years of development. This update introduces a schema change hook for Supabase and includes bug fixes. Zero operates by pairing a client library with a read-only Postgres cache

Mux — Video for Developers

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:47:03

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Mux is what developers reach for when they need to do more with video. Video files are packed with data and context waiting to be unlocked. Mux Robots are AI workflows that unlock that data inside your vi

★ SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:30:00

Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is

Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-08 03:00:00

Alberto Romero: AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually religious.” If God exists, the only coheren

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 26.0.0 Is Now Available

Inside Java @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

New release of Java Platform Extension for VS Code

Why agentic AI needs an open inference stack

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no lon

The AI tipping point: Why sovereignty is no longer optional

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

There is a growing realization across the industry that we've reached an AI tipping point.For the last couple of years, the conversation has been dominated by the question of what is possible with AI. Today, that question has shifted to, "now that we have

Scaling physical AI: What a robotic guide dog teaches us about distributed edge workloads

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-08 02:00:00

For the millions of visually impaired individuals worldwide, the lack of access to trained guide dogs represents a severe accessibility gap. While robotic alternatives exist, they have historically been limited by high costs and short battery life due to t

The First AI QFT Textbook

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-07 22:19:52

The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread …

Aitken acceleration before Aitken

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 22:14:45

Kepler solved his eponymous equation M = E − e sin(E) by finding a fixed point of E = M + e sin(E). So guess a value of E and stick it into the right hand side. Then plug that value into the right hand side again. Kepler said a couple iterations should be

Humans Solve Erdos Problem!!

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-07 21:29:06

(In 2008 I wrote a survey of some of the known sum-product theorems, see  here . Avi Wigderson has a great slide-set on sum-product theorems and their applications---the slides are on Avi's webpage of talks he has given (all the talks are excellent)

The Laplace limit

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 21:06:36

An earlier post discussed how to solve Kepler’s equation M = E − e sin(E) using a sine series. You could also solve Kepler’s equation using a power series, which Lagrange did in 1771. Both approaches express E as a function of e and M, but fro

Honey bees are dying at record rates, but the colony count holds steady

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-07 19:00:00

U.S. beekeepers lost a record 55.6% of their colonies in 2024-25, yet the total number of managed honey bee colonies has barely moved in 15 years.

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-07 18:58:48

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

A crank formula for π

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-07 18:34:26

I ran across a cranky formula for π based on physical constants here and decided to play around with it. The source describes λ as “wavelength (chosen in the microwave region)” and I thought perhaps you could chose a value of λ to make the equ

Podcast CB SyR 561: CNIO, Feynman, aerobioma, superhidrófugo, Dante, colapso directo, magnetocepción, galaxias LRD, ER=EPR y axiones

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-06-07 14:23:11

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 561 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A,iVoox B,iVoox C], titulado “Feynman; CNIO; Bacterias; Dante; Metales; Agujeros Negros”, 04 jun 2026. «La tertulia semanal […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 561:

Análisis de ajedrez | Combate épico en Oslo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-07 10:26:46

Esta vibrante y maratoniana pelea de Keymer y Firouzja en la penúltima ronda fue la partida más emocionante del Norway Chess

ExtendDB: Open Source Amazon DynamoDB Compatible Adapter with Pluggable Storage Backends

InfoQ @ 2026-06-07 08:25:00

AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving teams greater fl

Halide Mark III

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-07 02:49:15

Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog: After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how freeing it felt. It

JavaNext Language Features

Inside Java @ 2026-06-07 02:00:00

The Java programming language is evolving fast. In this talk, we’ll summarize many of the recent changes that have appeared as well as look ahead to directions and features that are in development and will appear in future editions.

60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 22:04:06

Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links): We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes. We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Dragga

Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-06 21:56:01

Josh Marshall: In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. T

From Kepler to Bessel

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-06 20:46:02

The previous post very briefly said that the integral representation for Bessel functions was motived by solving Kepler’s equation. This post will go into more detail. Kepler’s equation There are multiple ways to describe the position of a pla

Análisis de ajedrez | El gran golpe de Pragg

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-06 13:55:28

Crecido en su autoestima después de tres victorias consecutivas, el astro indio, de 20 años, logró la cuarta y el triunfo más importante de su carrera

Cloudflare Identifies Query Planning Bottleneck in ClickHouse

InfoQ @ 2026-06-06 06:55:00

Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared lock, drop the

The Only Game in Town

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 23:44:49

Warning: if you follow this blog, you’ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now. There’s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this ̷

Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:46:56

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April: I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes + comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers

Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 22:24:58

Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X: But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the T

Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-05 21:15:11

You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippe

The Floer Jungle

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-06-05 20:03:10

There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has also given talk

Análisis de ajedrez | Otra plata en el Europeo para Sabrina Vega

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-05 18:42:12

La mejor partida de la multimedallista y nonacampeona de España fue la victoria sobre la azerbaiyana Fatalíyeva, 3ª de la lista inicial

CO2 is piling up faster every decade, and 2026 just set a record

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-05 18:00:00

Atmospheric CO2 hit a record 432 ppm in May 2026, but the deeper story is the pace: CO2 is now piling up about 3 times faster than it did in the 1960s.

Java Weekly, Issue 649

Baeldung @ 2026-06-05 17:34:50

No doubt about it, AI is changing what it means to work in Java. The post Java Weekly, Issue 649 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Checking in on Perplexity

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 17:26:29

Yours truly, last August: I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels more like something Perplexity

How OpenAI Built a Secure Windows Sandbox for Codex Agents

InfoQ @ 2026-06-05 16:37:00

OpenAI details Codex Windows sandbox architecture, showing how SIDs, ACLs, restricted tokens, and dedicated sandbox accounts enable safe execution of autonomous coding tasks. The design balances isolation with real developer workflows and shows how OS se

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-05 16:21:19

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. The post Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? first ap

The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover

old new thing @ 2026-06-05 16:00:01

Not doing the reading. The post The back cover of <I>C++: The Programming Language</I> also raises questions not answered by the front cover appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition

old new thing @ 2026-06-05 16:00:00

Math is hard. Let's go counting! The post Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-05 16:00:00

The findings could lead to new treatments for multiple neurodegenerative diseases. The post Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too appeared first on SingularityHub .

Mr. Bessel’s eponymous functions

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-05 14:04:28

Yesterday I wrote a post showing that the trapezoid rule evaluates the integral very efficiently. But how do we know what the exact integral is for comparison? If you ask Mathematica, it will tell you the integral equals −2π J1(1) where J1 is a Bessel fun

Some People Rooted for The Empire in ‘Star Wars’, Too

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 02:43:33

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules . Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own vir

What we are looking forward to from WWDC 26

The Syndicate @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

WWDC is once again upon us. For Apple developers, it marks one of the busiest and most exciting weeks of the year as new SDKs, frameworks, tools, and platform updates arrive all at once. Beyond the keynote there will be a steady stream of

Issue 753

iOS Weekly @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

WWDC 2026 week: Apple's AI credibility test, developer wishlists, SwiftUI animation timing, Core Data + Observation, and Swift concurrency deep dives.

JEP targeted to JDK 27: 538: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (3rd Preview)

Inside Java @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 538: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Third Preview)

Build security into ITOps from the start with automation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-06-05 02:00:00

It's no secret that IT operations is a complex area. Teams face demanding workloads, where many tasks have to be completed quickly. Objectives typically focus on smooth and resilient operations, and enabling fast innovation to support organizational needs.

AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.

Singularity Hub @ 2026-06-05 00:17:05

The gap between what AI can do in biology and what governance systems are prepared to handle is growing. The post AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity. appeared first

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2026: Tuesday in San Jose

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-05 00:05:05

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45 The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you sho

‘The Insider’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:42:35

All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider , Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 M

‘Microsoft and OpenAI Broke Up — Now They’re Ready to Fight’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 22:25:27

Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link): This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO Sa

The Latin of Linux

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 22:12:11

One reason people study Latin is that it is the ancestor of many modern languages. English derives from West Germanic languages, not from Latin, but much of English vocabulary, perhaps as much as 60%, derives from Latin, either directly or indirectly thro

Análisis de ajedrez | Este Gukesh no es el campeón del mundo

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-06-04 21:10:16

El actual poseedor del trono sigue en una baja forma alarmante a cinco meses de su defensa contra Sindárov

Lingon and Lingon Pro 10

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:43:47

Peter Borg: Lingon makes scheduling apps, scripts, shortcuts, and commands feel simple. Create a task in minutes, run it on a schedule, and stay in control. Lingon helps you run whatever you want whenever you want without living in Terminal. Schedul

Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 20:10:19

Loren Brichter , back in 2020: Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process) [1] , and made my whole computer slow

Google’s Gemini Mac App Is Native, in a Distinctly Google Way, But Annoyingly Presumptuous

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 19:29:26

Two months ago Google launched a new native Mac app for Gemini. I’ve been trying it, on and off, since. It’s ... not bad. Certainly better than Claude’s Electron shitbox. But the Gemini app isn’t all that good, either. I’m sticking with ChatGPT, which rem

Integrating smooth periodic functions

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 19:18:40

Several posts lately have looked at the function f(x) = cos(sin(x) + x). This post will look at the function from a different angle. It’s a smooth function with period 2π. For reasons I wrote about here, this means that the trapezoid rule should fin

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-06-04 18:00:00

A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.

More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-06-04 16:12:35

The podcast returns with 12 all-new episodes that explore the biggest questions in basic science and mathematics. The post More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on Quanta Maga

Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx

old new thing @ 2026-06-04 16:00:00

Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition. The post Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Partitions over permutations

The Endeavour @ 2026-06-04 15:48:56

I was thinking more about the cosine approximation to the Gaussian exp(−z²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(z) + z))/2 that I wrote about last week. The two expressions above are close along the real axis but not along the imaginary axis. If z = iy, the right side grows m

The AI-Driven Resurgence of Native Mac App Development

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 15:43:26

Jason Snell at Six Colors, looking ahead to WWDC next week: These days, I’m getting emails pitching me for an endless stream of new Mac apps. It’s quite remarkable because there was a period five or ten years ago when it seemed like all app developmen

What Bun Can Tell Us About AI, Open Source and Anthropic

tecosystems @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

What Bun Can Tell Us About AI, Open Source and Anthropic

Sogrady @ 2026-06-04 15:18:05

In early December last year, Anthropic acquired Oven, the makers of Bun, a small, fast, open source JavaScript runtime. It’s also a package manager, bundler and test runner but it’s had the most success as a fast runtime built on Safari’s JavaScriptCore ra

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project

ASF @ 2026-06-04 15:00:00

Apache® Livy, a REST service for Apache Spark™, becomes a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE –  June 4, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apachy Livy has becom

Announcing the Networking Workgroup

Swift blog @ 2026-06-04 12:00:00

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup ! Workgroups are community-led efforts, formally recognized by the project, to advance key areas of Swift. The primary goal is to guide the evolution of

Another Gem From the Annals of Nick Bilton Jackassery

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:26:50

I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science.  ★ 

If There’s One Thing Nick Bilton Knows, It’s Television

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 04:23:25

Back in 2011, when he was a tech columnist at The New York Times, Nick Bilton figured out that Apple was soon going to launch an Apple branded-television set, with no remote control. You’d just talk to it. This made no sense of course, as I pointed out .

Scott Pelley on Leaving ‘60 Minutes’: ‘Incompetence and Unprofessionalism in the New Management Have Wreaked Havoc’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-04 01:19:28

Scott Pelley, in a statement posted on Instagram (which I’ll quote in full, as the original is locked behind a dickwall if you’re not signed in to an Instagram account): There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday traditio

Improve your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication

AWS Blog @ 2026-06-04 00:37:29

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plu

What's new in Swift: May 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-06-03 23:45:00

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content: Around the world, local meetup groups

The ‘60 Minutes’ Purge

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 23:32:52

Paramount’s “Press Express” page promoting 60 Minutes still lists all eight correspondents from the 2025–2026 season, the program’s 58th. (Perhaps they fired the person responsible for keeping the cast page up to date.) In the order they appear on Paramou

The Industrialization of Academic Research

Computational Complexity @ 2026-06-03 21:58:03

Yesterday, National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt delivered her last annual State of the Sciences Address . Overall the talk basically calls us to adapt to the new reality that industrial and foundation support for research has taken a

CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:49:56

Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum: In a formal letter to Mr. Pelley, which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Bilton wrote that the correspondent had been “terminated for cause effective immediately.” The letter is a must-read. No sum

The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses

Daring Fireball @ 2026-06-03 21:39:13

Joanna Stern, on YouTube: People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing b