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

A comprehensive analysis in Science Advances reveals that humans have explored less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor -- an area equivalent to merely one-tenth the size of Belgium. Oceanographer Katherine Bell and colleagues at the Ocean Discovery League co

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 19:20:00

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year, has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to "AI efficiency." From a report: In a note to staff earlier this week, released

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-09 19:16:15

William Gallagher, writing last week for AppleInsider: Judge Rogers maintains that Apple had successfully made as few developers as possible benefit from the court’s original anti-steering ruling. “As of the May 2024 hearing,” she wrote, “only 34 deve

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-09 19:01:42

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors: Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding in its long-r

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 18:40:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Panasonic will undertake a major restructuring across a range of its business, including consumer electronics, cutting 10,000 jobs globally, as the Japanese company plans to streamline, spinning out struggling divisions

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 18:01:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Major tech companies lobbying to salvage a tax deduction for research and development are warning they may pull back from high-profile pledges of new US investments if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the break. Big t

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 17:20:00

The specialized role of prompt engineering, not long ago heralded as a promising new career path in AI, has virtually disappeared just two years after its emergence. Many companies are now considering strong AI prompting a standard skill rather than a dedi

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

The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the common complexities and boilerplate developers face when us

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 16:40:00

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has served up another blunt take on the job market as AI permeates society. From a report: "You will not lose your job to AI, but will lose it to someone who uses it," Huang said at the Milken Institute Conference. Added

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-05-09 16:38:45

Sit back, relax, and let the Kotlin vibes roll in. This roundup is overflowing with news: major moves in Kotlin Multiplatform (Compose Multiplatform for iOS is Stable 🎉), server-side upgrades, Kotlin for web, and smarter Kotlin development with JetBrains

Kotlin news @ 2025-05-09 16:38:45

Sit back, relax, and let the Kotlin vibes roll in. This roundup is overflowing with news: major moves in Kotlin Multiplatform (Compose Multiplatform for iOS is Stable 🎉), server-side upgrades, Kotlin for web, and smarter Kotlin development with JetBrains

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 16:31:20

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slashdot @ 2025-05-09 16:00:00

Researchers are sounding alarms about the proliferation of AI-generated content -- dubbed "slop" -- that may be overwhelming the internet's human-created material. Fil Menczer, distinguished professor of informatics at Indiana University, who has studied s

old new thing @ 2025-05-09 16:00:00

Listen for the change event. The post How can I wait for Clipboard History to recognize a clipboard change before I change it again? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-09 15:54:38

The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight. The post Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-09 15:24:20

After I wrote the code to make the bar graph of papal names for the previous post, I decided to reuse the code to make a similar graph for monarchs of England. Just as there is some complication in counting papal names, there are even more complications i

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 15:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. Pearson is a UK-based education company and on

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 14:13:36

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InfoQ @ 2025-05-09 14:00:00

Software development is shifting fast. Senior engineers need real-world insights on AI, platforms, and developer autonomy. InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10) offers 2 days with over 27 sessions of curated, technical talks delivered by engineers actively

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-09 13:35:37

The new pope chose the name Leo XIV. That made me curious about the distribution of names of popes and so I made the graph below. (I’m Protestant, so wasn’t familiar to me.) Looks like Leo is tied with Clement for fourth place, the top three n

Baeldung @ 2025-05-09 13:27:21

TODO The post Java Weekly, Issue 593 first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 13:00:00

Facing deep staffing cuts, the IRS plans to lean heavily on AI to maintain tax collection efforts, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stating that smarter IT and the "AI boom" will offset reductions in revenue enforcement staff. The Register reports: Wh

InfoQ @ 2025-05-09 12:00:00

Temporal's open-source microservices orchestration platform leverages AWS to enhance durable execution, simplifying the development of resilient, fault-tolerant applications. By ensuring seamless recovery from system failures, Temporal helps businesses n

AEON @ 2025-05-09 12:00:00

Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages - by Nikhil Mahant Read at Aeon

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-09 11:50:00

How everyday scents can influence friendships The post Smells Like Friend Spirit appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-09 11:50:00

The bioengineers of the deep are inching their way into an expanding role in ecosystem change The post Sea Sponges on the Move appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 11:30:00

Instagram's AI chatbots are masquerading as licensed therapists, complete with fabricated credentials and license numbers, according to an investigation by 404 Media. When questioned, these user-created bots from Meta's AI Studio platform provide detailed

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-09 11:24:16

El gran maestro rumano Deac domina de principio a fin a Aronián actuando con virtuosismo frente a una estructura c5-d5

Baeldung @ 2025-05-09 10:47:58

Learn how to query a table using just the Partition Key and how to enhance those queries by including the Range Key to filter results within a partition. The post Query in DynamoDB on the Basis of Partition Key and Sort Key first appeared on Baeldung

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 10:01:06

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 09:22:08

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

schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after India's government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also apparently completed negotiations w

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 07:30:00

Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius Network, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, a dramatic fall for the leader of a company once hailed as the "bank" of the crypto industry. From a repor

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 06:55:20

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slashdot @ 2025-05-09 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known "billion-dollar weather and climate disasters" database "will be retired," a move that will make it next to impossible for t

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-09 05:03:51

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slashdot @ 2025-05-09 04:00:00

Alibaba Group researchers have developed "ZeroSearch," a technique that enables large language models to acquire search capabilities without using external search engines during training. The approach transforms LLMs into retrieval modules through supervis

slashdot @ 2025-05-09 03:00:00

President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist" and "totally unconstitutional" and threatening to end it "immediately." The New York TimesL: Mr. Trump's sta

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-09 02:00:47

Co-hosts Stephen Robles and Jason Aten were kind enough to have me on their podcast earlier today, and the show’s already up: Special guest John Gruber joins us to break down Eddy Cue’s statements on AI replacing the iPhone in 10 years, using AI searc

iOS Weekly @ 2025-05-09 02:00:00

Are you ready to drink from the firehose? 🚀

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-09 02:00:00

Can your operations team confidently answer these critical questions about your telecommunication network right now? What's the current health of services across your edge locations? How quickly can you perform a root cause analysis (RCA) of performance is

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-09 02:00:00

Register today for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFestRegister now for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest this May 19-22, bringing IT professionals, leaders, partners, and open source enthusiasts together to discover what's new, engage in discussions, and gain han

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-09 02:00:00

The telecommunication (telco) industry provides the infrastructure for billions of connections around the world. It’s a vital component of modern society, and it must be reliable and resilient. Of course technology never stands still, and so the networks t

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-09 01:51:21

I’m about halfway through and already feel the need to link to this. Good questions and thoughtful answers. Just delightful.  ★ 

Baeldung @ 2025-05-09 00:10:27

Learn how to validate a Map using Spring's Validator interface. The post Validate Map Using Spring Validator first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 23:12:32

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The Endeavour @ 2025-05-08 22:25:53

The recent post Converting between quaternions and rotation matrices describes an algorithm as “a mathematically correct but numerically suboptimal method/” Let’s just look at a small piece of that post. The post explains how to find a r

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 20:40:12

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Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-08 20:02:00

Some plants lure pollinators with the stench of decay using a gene related to one that fights odor in human breath The post The Genetics of Putrid-Smelling Flowers appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 19:29:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 19:02:10

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The Endeavour @ 2025-05-08 18:50:13

Large language models display emergence behaviors: when the parameter count is scaled to a certain value, suddenly the LLM is capable of performing a new task not possible at a smaller size. Some say the abruptness of this change is merely a spurious arti

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 18:49:11

Hi HN, I'm Tyler Flint, one of the creators of qtap. For a while now, my team and I at Qpoint.io have been grappling with the challenge of understanding what's actually happening inside the encrypted traffic leaving our production systems. Modern apps re

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 18:35:34

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 18:30:45

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 18:27:24

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-08 18:14:56

Iain Thomson, for The Register: According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior veep in the counter adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have infiltrated the Fortune 500.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-08 18:06:13

Micah Lee, in a spectacularly detailed post: On Thursday, 404 Media reported that in the Reuters photo showing former National Security Advisor and war criminal Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages under the table, he was actually using an

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-05-08 18:03:32

TL;DR: We remain committed to empowering Kotlin developers with robust and seamless support in Kotlin Multiplatform for web development. To achieve this, we are working on several key areas: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) aims to help developers share code acr

Kotlin news @ 2025-05-08 18:03:32

TL;DR: We remain committed to empowering Kotlin developers with robust and seamless support in Kotlin Multiplatform for web development. To achieve this, we are working on several key areas: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) aims to help developers share code acr

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 17:49:37

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Baeldung @ 2025-05-08 16:40:58

Explore how to use different Java testing libraries. The post Testing in Java Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

old new thing @ 2025-05-08 16:00:00

Clipboard history operates asynchronously, so you are changing it before it can respond to the changes. The post Why doesn’t Clipboard History capture rapid changes to clipboard contents? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 15:59:49

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-08 15:41:47

El actual ocupante del trono, de 18 años, 3º de la lista mundial, empata con otro portento indio, Praggnanandhaa, una partida que debió ganar

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 15:36:09

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Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-08 15:36:00

I reviewed a paper recently and I had to agree not to use AI in any aspect of the reviewing process. So I didn't but it felt strange, like I wouldn't be able to use a calculator to check calculations in a paper. Large language models aren't perfect but th

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 15:23:53

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 15:05:10

Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task. Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points, and exception being this blog post by Matth

InfoQ @ 2025-05-08 13:03:00

According to Lizzie Matusov, technical drivers like velocity offer an incomplete view of team performance. Social drivers—trust, autonomy, purpose, and psychological safety—provide a fuller picture and reveal important areas of opportunity for improvemen

AEON @ 2025-05-08 12:01:00

To understand the architectural genius of the Colosseum and its symbolic meaning for ancient Rome, it helps to take it apart - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2025-05-08 12:00:00

Microsoft's five digital commitments aim to bolster Europe's tech landscape and sovereignty through a 40% cloud and AI infrastructure expansion, enhanced cybersecurity, and a robust data privacy framework. By establishing a "European cloud for Europe," M

InfoQ @ 2025-05-08 12:00:00

​Uber has detailed a recent transition to running Ray-based machine learning workloads on Kubernetes. This marks an evolution in its infrastructure, with the aim of enhancing scalability, efficiency, and developer experience. The company recently publish

AEON @ 2025-05-08 12:00:00

As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead - by Robert D Zaretsky Read at Aeon

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-08 11:50:00

The art of unseen creatures and the dawn of science The post Thar Be Monsters appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-08 11:50:00

How a newly named species has survived in tiny numbers for 40,000 years The post The Case of the Curious Butterfly appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-05-08 10:52:56

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InfoQ @ 2025-05-08 10:15:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for LLM tool integration, is gaining adoption in Java (Quarkus, Spring AI, etc.). Developers can now run MCP servers more easily using tools like JBang and the MCP Java catalog. By Shaaf Syed

InfoQ @ 2025-05-08 09:30:00

The Dev Proxy team at Microsoft has announced the release of version 0.27, focusing on enhancing the developer experience with several new features and improvements aimed at streamlining API specification generation, improving editing suggestions, and la

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-08 02:57:53

Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google. Eddy Cue, App

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-08 02:29:43

Note: I’ve moved content from the previous post to this separate post, about the events today at Butler library. For early comments, see the last post, for newer ones on this topic please comment here. Around 3:15pm, some students started … Co

Ethereum blog @ 2025-05-08 02:00:00

A new year means new momentum, and new grants! Take a look at the projects that received support in Q1 2025, listed below:...

Rust blog @ 2025-05-08 02:00:00

The Rust Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. GSoC is a global program organized by Google that is designed to bring new contributors to the world of open-source. In March, we published a list of GSoC project id

Inside Java @ 2025-05-08 02:00:00

JDK Enhancement Proposal 505 revamps the structured concurrency API in JDK 25 by introducing a configuration and joiners.

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-08 02:00:00

When you’re responsible for making the right tech decisions for your organization, the only good surprises are those you planned for. An automation strategy is what helps keep surprises relegated to birthdays and out of IT.Whether migrating, adopting or

Baeldung @ 2025-05-07 20:47:06

Explore transcribing audio files with OpenAI in Spring AI. The post Transcribing Audio Files With OpenAI in Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-05-07 20:42:01

Explore two ways to call a Java class in JSP, from basic scriptlets to more structured approaches using jsp:useBean. The post Call Java Class in JSP first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-05-07 20:36:33

Explore the monitoring capabilities provided by Spring Kafka using Micrometer and Spring Boot Actuator. Take a look at the native metrics exposed by Apache Kafka for both producers and consumers, which offer valuable insights into performance, throughput

Baeldung @ 2025-05-07 20:25:17

Node Version Manager (NVM) is a tool for managing multiple Node.js versions on a machine. Of course, we can also Dockerize this process to isolate NVM's installation. The post How to Install NVM in a Docker Container first appeared on Baeldung . &

InfoQ @ 2025-05-07 20:00:00

AutoPatchBench is a standardized benchmark designed to help researchers and developers evaluate and compare how effectively LLM agents can automatically patch security vulnerabilities in C/C++ native code. By Sergio De Simone

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-07 19:20:23

Aftermath: Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them. You might remember most of us from Kotaku, where we broke news, covered events, and brought you hard

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-07 18:38:03

Kyle Orland, reporting for Ars Technica last week: Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to Internet brand aggregator Valnet , the publisher of content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android Police, and Comic Book

Business of Software Blog @ 2025-05-07 17:29:36

At Business of Software, we often hear from founders: “We’ve built something that people genuinely use and value. But we have no idea how to price it.” It’s a common and challenging problem. Pricing decisions are rarely straightforward; they come loa

old new thing @ 2025-05-07 16:00:00

Tallying them up. The post What were the MS-DOS programs that the <TT>moricons.dll</TT> icons were intended for? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-07 15:52:27

In the previous post I wrote about representing rotations with quaternions. This representation has several advantages, such as making it clear how rotations compose. Rotations are often represented as matrices, and so it’s useful to be able to go b

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-07 15:50:46

Every rotation in 3D fixes an axis [1]. This is Euler’s rotation theorem from 1775. Another way to state the theorem is that no matter how you rotate a sphere about its center, two points stay fixed. The composition of two rotations is a rotation. S

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-07 15:50:11

How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days, weeks or months? An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. The post The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-07 15:34:48

AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mexico, and bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer

InfoQ @ 2025-05-07 14:00:00

Microsoft released version 8.2 of the Windows Community Toolkit in April 2025. The new release has updated dependencies, .NET 9 support for UWP applications and Native AOT compilation. By Edin Kapić

AEON @ 2025-05-07 12:01:00

Through stunning animation, an Iranian expat pays tribute to the grief and defiance of women and the queer community back home - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-07 11:50:00

Author Thomas Levenson on writing his new book So Very Small about humanity's struggle to accept germs' threats The post Why Germs Love Our Collective Amnesia appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-07 11:50:00

A new glimpse into their ancient history The post A Cicada Fossil Surprise appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-07 11:50:00

Len Howard opened her cottage—and our eyes—to the birds The post The Woman Who Saw Birds as Individuals appeared first on Nautilus .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-07 11:03:36

Modipalli Deekshitha barre del tablero al gran maestro Manuel Petrosián con un profundo e instructivo plan, rematado con brillantez

InfoQ @ 2025-05-07 09:00:00

Pulumi, the open-source infrastructure as code platform, has announced significant improvements to its Components feature, designed to simplify how developers build, share, and consume infrastructure code. The enhancements focus on reducing boilerplate,

This Week in Rust @ 2025-05-07 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

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-07 03:23:56

Andrew Liszewski, The Verge: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings. [...] Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find in the Kindle mobile app following ap

Ethereum blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

Thanks to Marius Van Der Wijden for creating the test case and statetest, and for helping the Besu team confirm the issue. Also, kudos to the Besu team, the EF security team, and Kevaundray Wedderburn. Additionally, thanks to Justin Traglia, Marius Van Der

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

Security leaders must address both internal and external risks, ranging from sophisticated cyberattacks to insider threats. At the same time, they must also adhere to an ever-growing list of regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GD

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

Applications are getting more complex. You’re facing increased demand to develop faster, which puts continued stress on your organization’s infrastructure, IT teams and processes. So, you turn to containers. But the question is: How will you implement a

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative forces in today's economy, but its adoption story is still being written. A recent article in The Economist questions the assumptions behind AI’s growth, particularly the belief that increased

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

Building and evaluating new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is critical for long-term technological success, but it’s not the whole picture. At Red Hat, we also spend time creating reusable patterns and refining the way AI models can be consumed.

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-07 02:00:00

The Node.js community is once again gearing up for a major release with Node.js 24. This release line is an even-numbered one, which means that it will be promoted to long-term support (LTS) in October 2025 and receive support until April 2028.Before Node.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-07 01:58:42

Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge: Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users install third-party app stores and set them as their default. The bill, called the

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-06 23:52:26

Amazon EBS introduces a new Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization to accelerate data transfer from EBS snapshots to new EBS volumes by specifying a consistent volume initialization rate, improving workflow efficiency and predictability.

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-06 20:35:33

How consciousness arises in the brain is no clearer after two big theories go head-to-head, but the competition's design could push the field forward. The post How Does Consciousness Work? Dueling Scientists Tested Two Big Theories but Found No Winner

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-06 19:10:14

About 16 minutes into the podcast (the whole thing is a great succinct interview): Kafka: You said Fortnite is going to come back to iOS. You guys were kicked off the platform in 2020 for violating Apple’s rules. There’s nothing in the judge’s rul

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-06 19:00:20

Modern authentication should be seamless and secure. WorkOS makes it easy to integrate features like MFA, SSO, and RBAC. Whether you’re replacing passwords, stopping fraud, or adding enterprise auth, WorkOS can help you build frictionless auth that scal

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-06 18:43:09

El juvenil cántabro hizo tablas en Menorca con el temible gran maestro indio Adhiban tras una vibrante lucha de 55 movimientos

Kotlin Blog @ 2025-05-06 18:41:20

Today marks a major milestone in the Kotlin Multiplatform journey: the release of Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0, which brings Compose for iOS to Stable. With this update, Kotlin Multiplatform becomes a complete solution for mobile development, enabling flexi

Kotlin news @ 2025-05-06 18:41:20

Today marks a major milestone in the Kotlin Multiplatform journey: the release of Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0, which brings Compose for iOS to Stable. With this update, Kotlin Multiplatform becomes a complete solution for mobile development, enabling flexi

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-06 18:36:56

Quantum 9, 1737 (2025). Recent developments in domains such as non-local games, quantum interactive proofs, and quantum generative adversarial networks have renewed interest in quantum game theory and, specific

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-05-06 18:00:59

In this edition: Join us to learn how to make your apps more accessible to everyone. Plus, check out our new and refreshed Pathways, and uncover the time-traveling secrets of the Apple Design Award-winning game The Wreck . Read the full article

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-06 17:46:26

Quantum 9, 1736 (2025). Quantum networks are of high interest nowadays and a quantum internet has been long envisioned. Network-entanglement adapts the notion of entanglement to the network scenario and network

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-06 17:38:43

Quantum 9, 1735 (2025). We study what can or cannot be certified in communication scenarios where the assumption of independence and identical distribution (iid) between experimental rounds fails. In this respe

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-06 17:32:12

Quantum 9, 1734 (2025). We propose in this work a practical approach to address the longstanding and challenging problem of quantum separability, leveraging the correlation matrices of generic observables. Gene

tecosystems @ 2025-05-06 17:20:21

In October of 2018, MongoDB relicensed its previously open source database to a new source available license of its own creation. Up until that point, the license governing the project had been the AGPL, an OSI approved open source license that took the co

Sogrady @ 2025-05-06 17:20:21

In October of 2018, MongoDB relicensed its previously open source database to a new source available license of its own creation. Up until that point, the license governing the project had been the AGPL, an OSI approved open source license that took the co

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-06 17:15:03

Quantum 9, 1733 (2025). Recently, Apers and Piddock [TQC '23] strengthened the connection between quantum walks and electrical networks via Kirchhoff's Law and Ohm's Law. In this work, we develop

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-06 17:07:59

This is the 5,000th post on this blog. I started blogging in 2008, and Wayne Joubert started contributing posts last year. We’ve written an average of between five and six posts a week for the last 17 years. I thought about listing some of the most

Deepmind @ 2025-05-06 17:06:55

We’ve seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple of weeks early to get into developers hands sooner.

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-05-06 17:00:31

The Wreck is filed under games, but it’s also been called a visual novel, an interactive experience, and a playable movie. Florent Maurin is OK with all of it. “I like to think we’re humbly participating in expanding the idea of what a video game can

Deepmind @ 2025-05-06 17:00:00

Our updated version of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview has improved capabilities for coding.

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-06 16:02:04

This morning we received a long message from the acting president, entitled Preserving Columbia’s Critical Research Capabilities. Here’s a summary: It’s a complete mystery to me, but the trustees still refuse to go to court to challenge t

old new thing @ 2025-05-06 16:00:00

Mostly generic-looking icons. The post What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the <TT>progman.exe</TT> stock icons for? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-06 15:49:44

I recently ran across a simple way to generate random points uniformly distributed on a sphere: Generate random points in a cube until you get one inside the sphere, then push it to the surface of the sphere by normalizing it [1]. In more detail, to gener

Martin Fowler @ 2025-05-06 15:02:00

While LLMs excel at generating cogent text based on their training data, they may also need to interact with external systems. Kiran Prakash describes how we get them to construct external function calls to do this. The LLM does not execute the

AEON @ 2025-05-06 12:00:00

The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done? - by Victor Kumar Read at Aeon

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-06 11:50:00

You have never read a science book like this The post The Body Has a Head appeared first on Nautilus .

brucknerite @ 2025-05-06 11:33:34

Es inevitable. Ante situaciones como la del cuestionable robo de cable de ayer en la infraestructura de la línea de alta velocidad Madrid-Sevilla, uno se siente legitimado para hacer la pregunta. ¿Cómo es posible que no podamos detectar intrusiones en una

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-05-06 08:41:21

James Fuller was our man on the ground in Prague. He found the venue, organized most of the event and made it another curl up success. Thank you! The curl up series started in 2017 and is our annual curl developers meetup, but since it was converted to onl

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-06 03:10:53

I recently ran into Recamán’s sequence. N. J. A. Sloane, the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences calls Recamán’s sequence one of his favorites. It’s sequence A005132 in the OEIS. This sequence starts at 0 and the nth

Inside Java @ 2025-05-06 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 25: 512: Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods

Red Hat blog @ 2025-05-06 02:00:00

Red Hat Summit 2025 is right around the corner, and this year is packed with valuable sessions showcasing how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is transforming the way companies run their virtual machines (VMs) and modernize their IT environments.More organ

Sara Soueidan – Blog @ 2025-05-06 02:00:00

✨ This post is sponsored by each and every one of you who has bought my Practical Accessibility course . ✨ “CSS Carousels” were formally introduced a few weeks ago in an article on the Chrome for developers blog , and quite a few people have share

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-05 23:14:57

A treatment developed from a snake enthusiast's blood protected mice against 19 of the world's deadliest venoms. But don't try this at home. The post This Man Survived Hundreds of Deadly Snakebites. His Blood Holds the Key to a Potent New Antivenom. a

Nautilus blog @ 2025-05-05 20:52:19

This week, chunks of the famous comet will fall to Earth in the Eta Aquarids meteor shower The post From the Debris of Halley’s Comet appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-05 18:25:03

Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challen

Baeldung @ 2025-05-05 18:24:32

Learn how to use the Java Compiler API. The post Java Code Compilation Using Java Compiler API first appeared on Baeldung .               Comments In reply to Ulisses Lima. Thank you so much

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-05 18:16:01

El argentino, de 11 años, gana 30,5 puntos Elo en dos torneos seguidos tras quedar en ambos a cinco décimas de la norma de gran maestro

InfoQ @ 2025-05-05 18:15:00

This week's Java roundup for April 28th, 2025, features news highlighting: four JEPs proposed to target and targeted for JDK 25; new JEPs; three new JEPs; the eighth milestone release of Spring AI 1.0.0; Quarkus 3.22.0; the first release candidate of Lan

AWS Blog @ 2025-05-05 18:05:58

Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, all directly within GitHub issues.

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-05 17:43:18

The last four post have looked at the bifurcation diagram for the logistic map. There was one post on the leftmost region, where there is no branching. Then two posts on the region in the middle where there is period doubling. Then a post about the chaoti

InfoQ @ 2025-05-05 16:27:00

JEP 512 enhances Java with Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods in JDK 25, easing the learning curve for beginners. Key features include simplified syntax, automatic imports, and a new IO helper class, empowering developers to create programs w

Quanta Magazine @ 2025-05-05 16:08:42

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. The post Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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

Icons for old MS-DOS apps. The post What were the intended uses of those icons in <TT>moricons.dll</TT>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Not Even Wrong @ 2025-05-05 15:45:57

More is coming out about the awful implications of the ongoing refusal by the trustees to in any way challenge the Trump administration’s funding cancellations. See this open letter in the Columbia Spectator, which begins: On March 10, the federal &#

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

My thanks to Listen Later for sponsoring last week at DF. Listen Later is a super simple, super useful service that turns articles into podcast episodes. When you sign up, you get a custom email address to send articles to; every article you forward to yo

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 14:00:43

Quantum 9, 1732 (2025). We present an error mitigation strategy composed of Echo Verification (EV) and Clifford Data Regression (CDR), the combination of which allows one to learn the effect of the quantum nois

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

Slack's Developer Experience (DevXP) team recently implemented significant optimizations to their end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline, resulting in a 60% reduction in frontend build frequency and a 50% decrease in overall build time. These enhancements, th

Swift blog @ 2025-05-05 13:55:00

The Swift community had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2025, the world’s largest independently run open source conference, held every year in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM highlighted a range of Swift-related talks related to memory safety, a broad ecosystem aro

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 13:49:42

Quantum 9, 1731 (2025). Building on the insight that engineered noise, specifically, engineered dephasing can enhance the adiabaticity of controlled quantum dynamics, we investigate how a dephasing-generating c

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 13:31:21

Quantum 9, 1730 (2025). For random quantum circuits on $n$ qubits of depth $\Theta(\log n)$ with depolarizing noise, the task of sampling from the output state can be efficiently performed classically using a P

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 13:19:20

Quantum 9, 1729 (2025). Non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems preserves the rank of the state density operator. Using this insight, we develop a geometric framework to describe its time evolution. In partic

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 12:06:11

Quantum 9, 1728 (2025). Constant-rate low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are promising candidates for constructing efficient fault-tolerant quantum memories. However, if physical gates are subject to geometr

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

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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

Akka has unveiled new deployment options to enhance flexibility for developers building resilient, distributed AI systems. Now offering self-managed nodes and self-hosted regions, Akka empowers enterprises to deploy across various infrastructures. This i

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

The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far East - by Neil Price Read at Aeon

Use Your Loaf @ 2025-05-05 11:31:41

How do you write SwiftData predicates to query for parent relationships? SwiftData Relationships Suppose I have a SwiftData model with a parent Project class that contains a collection of Topic children: @ Model class Project {

brucknerite @ 2025-05-05 11:22:25

Robar metal en una vía ferroviaria en uso no es lo más recomendable para la seguridad del ladrón. Hay que saber lo que se está haciendo, y aún así el riesgo es elevado. Aunque el cobre de la catenaria es la parte más visible y en principio más lucrativa, h

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 11:17:33

Quantum 9, 1727 (2025). Error mitigation will play an important role in practical applications of near-term noisy quantum computers. Current error mitigation methods typically concentrate on correction quality

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 11:07:53

Quantum 9, 1726 (2025). We present an iterative generalisation of the quantum subspace expansion algorithm used with a Krylov basis. The iterative construction connects a sequence of subspaces via their lowest

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 10:48:19

Quantum 9, 1725 (2025). We study the estimation of relative entropy $D(\rho\|\sigma)$ when $\sigma$ is known. We show that the Cramér-Rao type bound equals the relative varentropy. Our estimator attains th

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 10:38:31

Quantum 9, 1724 (2025). Current noisy quantum computers have multiple types of errors, which can occur in the state preparation, measurement/readout, and gate operation, as well as intrinsic decoherence and rel

Quantum Journal @ 2025-05-05 10:26:50

Quantum 9, 1723 (2025). In this work, we introduce a method to construct fault-tolerant $\textit{measurement-based quantum computation}$ (MBQC) architectures and numerically estimate their performance over vari

Computational Complexity @ 2025-05-05 02:28:00

In a recent post by Scott (see  here  or just read my post which includes his post) he listed topis that he conjectured would NOT cause an outrage. I was going to write a long comment in his comments section,  which would only be read by p

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

Every year, the Ethereum ecosystem welcomes thousands of builders through community events, hackathons, courses, bootcamps, and campus clubs. However, many newcomers struggle to remain engaged, as they face challenges securing structured early-career oppor

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

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.28.2. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust , a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.28.2 The h

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

In this episode, Ana is joined by Viktor Klang, core JDK architect and author of the Stream Gatherers JDK Enhancement Proposal, to dive into one of the standout features of JDK 24: the Gatherers API.

Baeldung @ 2025-05-04 21:06:05

Learn how to organize your project's APIs based on their URLs using the Swagger documentation. The post Grouping Endpoints by Resources in Swagger first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-05-04 21:02:51

Learn how to extract all the keys from a JSON object for purposes like validation, transformation, or data mapping. The post Extracting Flat and Nested Keys from a JSONObject first appeared on Baeldung .          

Baeldung @ 2025-05-04 20:57:51

Explore different ways to print stack values, from the simplest to the most efficient approaches. The post Printing Stack Values in Java first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-04 20:34:21

The last several posts have been looking at the bifurcation diagram below in slices. The first post looked at the simple part, corresponding to the horizontal axis r running from 0 to 3. The next post looked at the first fork, for r between 3 and 3.4495.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-04 20:04:58

El gran maestro chino castigó de forma espléndida las imprecisiones del portento argentino Faustino Oro en una lucha vibrante

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-04 19:35:37

The last couple posts have been looking at the logistic bifurcation diagram a little at a time. The first post in the series looked at the details of that part of the diagram that looks like the graph of a function, where there parameter r in the logistic

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-04 18:20:00

Just shoot this straight into my veins. So good. ( Via Saul Sutherland .)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-04 18:18:44

Trump, showing off to ABC News’s Terry Moran the historical copy of the Declaration of Independence now hanging in the Oval Office: Trump: Of course, you have the Declaration of Independence. Moran: What does it mean to you? Trump: Well, it means ex

Daring Fireball @ 2025-05-04 17:36:08

NBC News: When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said, Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much. “I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-04 13:56:48

The previous post looked at iterations of the logistic map f(x) = r x(1 − x) for 0 ≤ r ≤ 3. This post will look at the range 3 ≤ r ≤ 1 + √6. If you’re not familiar with the logistic map I’d suggest reading the previous post first then coming b

The Endeavour @ 2025-05-03 23:08:51

Five years ago I wrote a blog post entitled Logistic bifurcation diagram in detail. Looking back at that post it doesn’t seem to be that much “in detail,” though it does go into more detail than most popular accounts. The logistic map is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-05-03 20:15:49

El juvenil ruso, vigente campeón del mundo de rápidas, ganó un abierto multitudinario y exigente, y produjo esta espléndida partida

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-03 16:00:00

Biotechnology The US Has Approved CRISPR Pigs for FoodAntonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review “There’s a chance the Genus pigs could turn out to be the most financially valuable genetically... The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From

Inside Java @ 2025-05-03 02:00:00

Many Java features, existing and future, can meet the demands of AI. Existing features include the Foreign Function and Memory API and the Vector API. Future features include those proposed by Project Valhalla and Project Babylon. This video discusses thes

Singularity Hub @ 2025-05-02 23:39:13

To compete with Starlink, Amazon's Project Kuiper plans to send over 3,000 internet satellites to orbit. The post Amazon Steps Into the Ring With SpaceX by Launching Its First Batch of Internet Satellites appeared first on SingularityHub .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-05-02 21:28:13

Te recomiendo escuchar el podcast «La Paradoja de Fermi, ¿dónde está todo el mundo? | Entrevista con Francis R. Villatoro, físico y divulgador,» El Siglo de las Sombras, 20 mar […] La entrada Francis El Siglo de las Sombras: La paradoja de F

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-05-02 21:07:57

Te recomiendo escuchar el podcast “Por qué no llega la fusión nuclear (con Francis Villatoro) – Economía Directa/Radioactividad», Colectivo Burbuja, 24 abr 2025 [iVoox ED, iVooxR]. Me invitaron a hablar […] La entrada Francis en Colectivo Burbuja

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-05-02 20:26:41

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 510 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Fotosíntesis; Toponio; Planeta 9; Einstein 100”, 01 may 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Pod