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What Happened After India Banned TikTok?
slashdot @ 2024-04-28 05:34:00
What happened after India banned TikTok? The move "mostly drew widespread support" notes the Associated Press, in a country "where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods since the deadly confrontation in the remote Karakoram mountain bo
Devnexus 2024 Celebrates 20 Years of Java Developer Conferences
InfoQ @ 2024-04-28 04:30:00
Celebrating its 20th year, Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on tracks such as: Agile; Architecture
Cisco Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge For Ethical AI Use and Development
slashdot @ 2024-04-28 03:34:00
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit th
Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-28 01:52:11
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 256 # Comments: 96
Joanna Stern Rigs a Drone to Drop-Test Phones From 300 Feet
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-28 00:39:52
Long story short, if your phone drops out of a plane, hope that it lands on grass. ★
Apple ID Lock-Out Affects Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iCloud Services
slashdot @ 2024-04-28 00:35:00
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Times of India: Several Apple customers were inexplicably locked out of their Apple ID accounts Friday evening in a major service disruption, forcing them to reset their passwords across all devices and ser
Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Nuclear Weapons In Space
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 23:34:00
This week Russia vetoed a UN resolution that proposed banning nuclear weapons in space, CNN reports. But it all happened "amid U.S. intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites." In Febr
Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-27 22:42:59
Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Fr
Microsoft Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-27 22:42:41
Scott Hanselman and Jeff Wilcox, on Microsoft’s Open Source Blog: Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important
A School Principal Was Framed With an AI-Generated Rant
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 22:34:00
"A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning," reports CBS News, "after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording..." One-time Pikesville High School employee Dazhon Darien is facin
Brian Heater on the Rabbit R1 Launch Event
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-27 22:33:35
Brian Heater, writing for TechCrunch: If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. After a decade of unquestioned smartphone dominance, there is, once again, excitement to be found
Keep Out – WebGL Game
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 21:49:10
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 263 # Comments: 81
Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 21:34:00
Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration "is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets." The employees' uni
$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 20:34:00
America's Federal Trade Commission "is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers," reports the Associated Press, "as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside acce
Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 20:30:19
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 200 # Comments: 226
The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 19:34:00
1,000 petabytes. A million terabytes. One quintillion bytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). That's the amount of storage reported by users of the Ceph storage solution (across more than 3,000 Ceph clusters). The Ceph Foundation is a "directed fund" of
Two Lifeforms Merge Into One Organism For First Time In a Billion Years
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 18:34:00
"For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism," reports the Independent: The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise t
SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 17:43:54
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 354 # Comments: 55
The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 17:38:21
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 220 # Comments: 326
Intel's Stock Drops 9%. Are They Struggling to Remain Relevant?
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 17:34:00
"Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry," writes CNBC. But now "it's struggling to stay relevant." Intel's long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares d
A Windows Vulnerability Reported by the NSA Was Exploited To Install Russian Malware
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 16:34:00
"Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years," Ars Technica reported this week, "in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented tool, the software maker disclosed Mond
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 27)
Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-27 16:00:23
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels Will Knight | Wired “OpenAI changed the world with ChatGPT, setting off a wave of AI investment and drawing more than 2 million developers to its cloud APIs.
Fizz buzz walk
The Endeavour @ 2024-04-27 14:57:30
I ran across a graphic yesterday made by taking a sequence of steps of the same length, turning left on the nth step if n is prime, and otherwise continuing in the same direction. Here’s my recreation of the first 1000 steps: You can see that in gen
Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 14:49:55
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 291 # Comments: 33
Science Section
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-27 14:44:12
Alice says “How long is forever?” “Sometimes just one second.” Replies the White Rabbit Tuesday is a special day for the New York Times—since it always contains the Science Section. This section is current exciting articles on
What can LLMs never do?
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 13:48:49
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 267 # Comments: 218
What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements
InfoQ @ 2024-04-27 12:00:00
RedHat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that allows developers and DevOps to build, and deploy applications. By Claudio Masolo
EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 12:00:00
Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users
The server chose violence
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 11:37:28
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 271 # Comments: 57
World Wide Web (1991)
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 09:01:15
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 250 # Comments: 117
China Reveals Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon Ever Created
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 09:00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a deca
Axion Processor: Google Announces Its First Arm-Based CPU
InfoQ @ 2024-04-27 08:27:00
During the recent Google Next '24 conference, Google unveiled Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for data centers. Utilizing the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU architecture, the new processor will be available to customers later this year. By Renato
Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 07:50:57
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 681 # Comments: 488
Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device wi
So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 04:56:00
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 205 # Comments: 128
Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement
slashdot @ 2024-04-27 04:02:00
The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contract
British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-27 00:32:16
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 230 # Comments: 415
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 23:18:37
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 250 # Comments: 233
Podcast CB SyR 461: La película Oppenheimer y el libro de historia natural de 1755 de Kant
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-26 21:45:02
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 461 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [Acast A, Acast B; iVoox A, iVoox B; iTunes A y iTunes B], titulado “Ep461: Oppenheimer; Filosofía Natural de Kant», 25 abr 2024. «La tertulia semanal en […] La entra
El mejor Caruana (I)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-26 21:11:02
La presión paulatina que el ítalo-estadounidense aplica para lograr esta victoria contra Vidit explica por qué es el 2º del mundo
Reminder: Privacy requirement for app submissions starts May 1
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-26 20:00:50
The App Store was created to be a safe place for users to discover and get millions of apps all around the world. Over the years, we‘ve built many critical privacy and security features that help protect users and give them transparency and control — from
Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 19:33:56
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1402 # Comments: 914
How Quantum Computers Could Illuminate the Full Range of Human Genetic Diversity
Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-26 19:26:22
Genomics is revolutionizing medicine and science, but current approaches still struggle to capture the breadth of human genetic diversity. Pangenomes that incorporate many people’s DNA could be the answer, and a new project thinks quantum computers will be
How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens
Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-26 19:16:21
Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact. The post How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens appeared first on Nautilus .
Java Weekly, Issue 539
Baeldung @ 2024-04-26 18:26:20
Jakarta Data, multimodal LLMs, deprecating Dates in Hibernate, vector API, and Agile as a silver bullet (or not).
Bun’s New Crash Reporter
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 18:20:30
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 358 # Comments: 78
Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches
InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 18:16:00
At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools
Google lays off its Python team
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 18:15:04
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 240 # Comments: 147
iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 658 - Apr 26th 2024
iOS Weekly @ 2024-04-26 17:52:21
Comment Visiting WWDC is always a special experience, but attending is harder than with many other conferences. You have to win the ticket lottery due to the demand, almost everyone will need a flight of some dur
JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools
InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 17:00:00
JetBrains IDE Services aims to help enterprises manage their JetBrains tool ecosystem more efficiently and boost developer productivity at the enterprise scale through the integration of AI, remote collaboration, and more. By Sergio De Simone
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 8
old new thing @ 2024-04-26 16:00:00
Comparing the two algorithms. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 8 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 14:45:47
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 203 # Comments: 171
I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 14:23:15
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 465 # Comments: 94
PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 13:55:14
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 231 # Comments: 106
Pharo 12
Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-26 12:41:05
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 228 # Comments: 108
.NET Aspire Preview 6: Enhanced Security and Testing, New Features, and More
InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 12:00:00
This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions,
What would Thucydides say?
AEON @ 2024-04-26 12:00:00
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian - by Mark Fisher Read at Aeon
Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS
InfoQ @ 2024-04-26 09:30:00
Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which pr
[Sponsor] WorkOS
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 03:34:07
WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, supporting SSO, SCIM, user management, and RBAC. Recently, WorkOS acquired Warrant, the Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) service for developers. Warrant’s product is based on Zanzibar, the open source
Java in 2024 - Constant Change, Delivered
Inside Java @ 2024-04-26 02:00:00
Six years ago we accelerated the pace of new releases in order to keep Java vibrant in an ever-changing world of competing platforms and new styles of application deployment. We’ll take a look back at features delivered recently, and a brief look ahead at
Horse : Carriage :: Content : Ads
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 01:40:58
While I’m on a follow-up kick today, my item yesterday regarding Ed Zitron’s compelling essay on the corruption of Google Search quality by putting it in the hands of Prabhakar Raghavan, formerly head of ads at Google, reminded me of this oft-cited qu
More on Keycap Shine
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-26 01:20:36
Another follow-up post, this one regarding my post yesterday regarding how “greasy”-looking keyboard keys are not, in fact, in need of cleaning, but instead are worn away because they’re made from soft ABS plastic , not hard PBT plastic . DF reader Br
★ Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 23:14:46
It’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs.
Making Light of Gravity
Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-25 23:08:51
Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity . The post Making Light of Gravity appeared first on Nautilus .
This AI Just Designed a More Precise CRISPR Gene Editor for Human Cells From Scratch
Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-25 22:25:29
CRISPR has revolutionized science. AI is now taking the gene editor to the next level. Thanks to its ability to accurately edit the genome, CRISPR tools are now widely used in biotechnology and across medicine to tackle inherited diseases. In late 2023, a
K2 Compiler Performance Benchmarks and How to Measure Them on Your Projects
Kotlin Blog @ 2024-04-25 17:52:45
With the Kotlin 2.0.0 release drawing ever closer, the K2 compiler is now available for you to try! In this blog post, we explore the performance of the K2 compiler in various projects and give you the tools to collect your own performance statistics. The
K2 Compiler Performance Benchmarks and How to Measure Them on Your Projects
Kotlin news @ 2024-04-25 17:52:45
With the Kotlin 2.0.0 release drawing ever closer, the K2 compiler is now available for you to try! In this blog post, we explore the performance of the K2 compiler in various projects and give you the tools to collect your own performance statistics. The
SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library
InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 17:30:00
When Microsoft Engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releas
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-25 16:10:35
The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas. The post Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 7
old new thing @ 2024-04-25 16:00:00
Going free-threaded. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 7 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
5 Common Connection Errors in PostgreSQL and How to Solve Them
Timescale blog @ 2024-04-25 15:00:22
Tired of running into the same connection errors in PostgreSQL? In this blog post, we tackle the most common and show you how to fix them.
What Does Milk Do for Babies?
Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-25 15:00:01
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with molecular nutritionist Elizabeth Johnson about her research into the impact of human milk on a healthy microbi
¿Qué le falta a Praggnanandhaa?
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-25 14:43:04
El otro juvenil indio también ha brillado en el Candidatos, pero no es tan contundente como Gukesh en el aprovechamiento de las ventajas
For Practitioners, by Practitioners: Solve Your Software Challenges at InfoQ & QCon Software Events
InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 13:30:00
Behind every InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon software development conference is a collective of distinguished senior software practitioners who carefully curate the topics based on the crucial trends and essential best practices you need to know about. These a
Closed-form solutions to nonlinear PDEs
The Endeavour @ 2024-04-25 13:21:38
The traditional approach to teaching differential equations is to present a collection of techniques for finding closed-form solutions to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These techniques seem completely unrelated [1] and have arcane names such as
How Technology Can Drive Culture Change in Software Organisations
InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 13:14:00
Technological improvements like containers, VMs, infrastructure-as-code, software-defined-networking, collaborative version control, and CI/CD can make it possible to fix cultural issues around organisational dynamics and bad product delivery. According
Here, hopefully
AEON @ 2024-04-25 12:01:00
For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 12:00:00
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential
Emergency action
AEON @ 2024-04-25 12:00:00
Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe? - by Rupert Read Read at Aeon
Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content
InfoQ @ 2024-04-25 10:53:00
The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future.
Calculating Moving Averages in Java
Baeldung @ 2024-04-25 06:56:14
Let's explore various methods and techniques for calculating moving averages, ranging from traditional approaches to libraries and Stream API's.
PersistenceUnit vs. PersistenceContext
Baeldung @ 2024-04-25 06:53:45
Learn the main differences between PersistenceUnit vs. PersistenceContext in the JPA context.
Dumbphones in 2024
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 01:56:56
Kyle Chayka, writing for The New Yorker: Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided to trade out their iPhones for more low-tech devices. They’d heard about so-called dumbp
Ed Zitron on ‘The Man Who Killed Google Search’
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 00:55:25
Absolutely scathing dissection of what’s gone wrong at Google Search, by Ed Zitron for his newsletter/blog: In an interview with FastCompany’s Harry McCracken from 2018 , Gomes framed Google’s challenge as “taking [the PageRank algorithm] from one ma
Why Your Most-Used Keyboard Keys Get Shiny
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-25 00:26:37
Jeff Gamet on Mastodon: Know why you can’t clean the greasy spots off your compute keyboard? Because that isn’t grease. Lots of computer keys are made from ABS plastic, which is soft and cheaper than PBT plastic. Those shiny spots are where you polish
Getting to know YC's newest Group Partner, David Lieb
YC @ 2024-04-24 21:30:45
Last week we shared some awesome news: David Lieb, the creator of Bump (part of the summer 2009 batch!) and Google Photos, has joined YC as a Group Partner. I sat down with David to hear more about his incredible story so far.
Is Persistence an Anachronism?
Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-24 21:15:00
Guest post by Martin Bullinger Very recently, Vijay Vazirani 's paper A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length got accepted to Mathematics of Operations Research. For the first time, it
A Step-by-Step Guide to Performing Data Analysis With Kotlin DataFrame
Kotlin Blog @ 2024-04-24 18:25:48
Introduction This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to easily manipulate and visualize your data using the Kotlin DataFrame and Kandy libraries. The tutorials are aimed at regular Kotlin developers, so no previous experience of data analysis or
A Step-by-Step Guide to Performing Data Analysis With Kotlin DataFrame
Kotlin news @ 2024-04-24 18:25:48
Introduction This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to easily manipulate and visualize your data using the Kotlin DataFrame and Kandy libraries. The tutorials are aimed at regular Kotlin developers, so no previous experience of data analysis or
Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data
Timescale blog @ 2024-04-24 18:18:41
PostgreSQL has emerged as the de facto database standard. Here is why this is happening and why it matters.
Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’
Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-24 16:27:09
More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning? The post Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Ke
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 6
old new thing @ 2024-04-24 16:00:00
Using a change counter with coalescing. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 6 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Cracking chirality: the mystery of mirror molecules
AEON @ 2024-04-24 12:01:00
There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
InfoQ @ 2024-04-24 12:00:00
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Six billion docker pulls
daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-04-24 08:43:38
We provide an official curl container. Why would you use curl in a container? We actually don’t ask, we just provide the image, but I can think of a few reasons… Six billion as of now The official curl docker repository now (as of 06:43 UTC Apr
El gran miedo de Niepómniashi
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-24 07:55:52
El doble subcampeón no quiso atacar, ni siquiera suavemente, en una partida trascendental en la penúltima ronda con Nakamura
This Week in Rust 544
This Week in Rust @ 2024-04-24 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
Senate Passes Bill to Force Sale of TikTok
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-24 04:36:52
Cristiano Lima-Strong, reporting for The Washington Post: Congress late Tuesday passed legislation to ban or force a sale of TikTok, delivering a historic rebuke of the video-sharing platform’s Chinese ownership after years of failed attempts to tackl
Apple Renews ‘For All Mankind’ and Announces New Spinoff Series ‘Star City’
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-24 03:32:06
Apple Newsroom: Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and “superior sci-fi,” Apple TV+’s hit, award-winning space drama series “For All Mankind” has landed a renewal f
Choosing a Computer Language for a Project
The Endeavour @ 2024-04-24 02:19:22
Julia. Scala. Lua. TypeScript. Haskell. Go. Dart. Various computer languages new and old are sometimes proposed as better alternatives to mainstream languages. But compared to mainstream choices like Python, C, C++ and Java (cf. Tiobe Index)—are the
Java Management Service
Inside Java @ 2024-04-24 02:00:00
As a JVM Sustaining Engineer, my focus has always been on discovering ways to make it easier to diagnose and troubleshoot JVM issues, enhancing JVM serviceability, and enabling users gain critical insights into their Java runtime environments. Recently, I
Bertrand Serlet: ‘Why LLMs Work’
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 23:12:18
Bertrand Serlet — who was Apple’s SVP of software engineering from 2003–2011 and a staple during WWDC keynotes during that era — is now a YouTuber. Great 30-minute lecture explaining how LLMs and AI in general actually work. ★
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 23:00:44
The FTC: Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation. “
NASA Engineers Successfully Debugged Voyager 1 From a Light-Day Away
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 22:02:54
Happy ending to this saga . Remarkable engineering. ★
Charles Edge Dies
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:58:15
Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog , and Tom Bridge’s site about how our friend and Take Control author Charles Edge died
Inside TSMC’s Expansion Struggles in Arizona
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:49:48
Viola Zhou, reporting for Rest of World on TSMC’s massive, but now much-delayed, chip fabrication campus outside Phoenix: The American engineers complained of rigid, counterproductive hierarchies at the company; Taiwanese TSMC veterans described their
The Age of Rebellion
Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-23 21:43:34
The surprising relationship between age and success in rebellions. The post The Age of Rebellion appeared first on Nautilus .
Sonar Is Now Taska
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 21:19:52
Made by Windmill recently launched a fantastic Mac App for GitHub and GitLab issues. When it launched two months ago (and sponsored DF ), it was named Sonar. They’ve changed the name to Taska, but it’s the same great app from the same great team. As I w
Apple Announces ‘Let Loose’ Event on May 7, Presumably to Announce New iPad Lineup
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 20:26:28
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube as usual. The event invitation has a
This Week’s Hype
Not Even Wrong @ 2024-04-23 20:03:10
Until about a year and a half ago, the way to get funding in physics was to somehow associate yourself to the hot trend of quantum computing and quantum information theory. Large parts of the string theory and quantum gravity … Continue reading
Q&A: Promoting your app or game with Apple Search Ads
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 18:00:52
Apple Search Ads helps you drive discovery of your app or game on the App Store. We caught up with the Apple Search Ads team to learn more about successfully using the service, including signing up for the free online Apple Search Ads Certification c
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities
Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-23 16:00:56
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe. The post AI Starts to Sift Through String Theor
Apple Search Ads now available in Brazil and more Latin American markets
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 16:00:37
Drive discovery and downloads on the App Store with Apple Search Ads in 70 countries and regions, now including Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Paraguay. Visit the Apple Search Ads si
The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space
Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-23 16:00:08
The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth, eventually leading t
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 5
old new thing @ 2024-04-23 16:00:00
Using a change counter. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Celeborn
ASF @ 2024-04-23 15:01:00
The intermediate data service for big data computing engines has graduated from incubation Wilmington, DE, April 23, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source pr
Let loose.
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-23 15:00:46
Join us for a special Apple Event on May 7 at 7 a.m. PT. Watch online at apple.com , on Apple TV, or on YouTube Live.
Stability AI Releases 3D Model Generation AI Stable Video 3D
InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 15:00:00
Stability AI recently released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), an AI model that can generate 3D mesh object models from a single 2D image. SV3D is based on the Stable Video Diffusion model and produces state-of-the-art results on 3D object generation benchmarks.
An Open Problem
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-23 14:12:44
Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century—see here. His work in theoretical physics radically reshaped our un
Meta Llama 3 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:55
The instruction-tuned large language models have been pre-trained on over 15 trillion tokens of data—a training dataset seven times larger than that used for Llama 2 models.
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock now available with new safety filters and privacy controls
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:51
With Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, you can implement safeguards in your generative artificial intelligence applications that are customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies.
Agents for Amazon Bedrock: Introducing a simplified creation and configuration experience
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:47
With Agents for Amazon Bedrock, applications can use generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to run tasks across multiple systems and data sources. Starting today, these new capabilities streamline the creation and management of agents: Quick ag
Amazon Bedrock model evaluation is now generally available
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:43
This new capability helps you to incorporate generative AI into your application by letting you select the foundation model that gives you the best results for your particular use case.
Import custom models in Amazon Bedrock (preview)
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:40
With Amazon Bedrock, you have access to a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies that make it easier to build and scale generative AI applications. Some of these models provide publicly availab
Amazon Titan Image Generator and watermark detection API are now available in Amazon Bedrock
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-23 13:25:37
All images generated by Titan Image Generator contain an invisible watermark to help reduce the spread of misinformation by providing a mechanism to identify AI-generated images.
How a Game of Patterns Can Help Software Organisations to Gain Insights and Improve
InfoQ @ 2024-04-23 13:15:00
Patterns can help us to understand how things work and how cultures develop. The game in an organisational system is about recognizing patterns and anti-patterns. According to Tiani Jones, leaders should work on the system rather than in the system and c
Return of the descendants
AEON @ 2024-04-23 12:00:00
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging - by Jessica Buchleitner Read at Aeon
Próximamente: trenes en #NaukasGuardo
brucknerite @ 2024-04-23 10:00:00
El próximo sábado 27 de abril a las 11:35, en el auditorio de Guardo (Palencia) estrenaré (?) mi charla «La maldición de la pata de mono». Es tradición de los eventos Naukas abrir el apetito publicando con antelación la primera diapositiva del material grá
‘The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped’
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-23 00:09:49
Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels: The backbone of the system would need to accept modules from Apple and other companies, letting users build what they needed in terms of functionality, as D’Agostino writes: (Fitch) designed a simple hardwa
La gran tragedia de Caruana
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-22 23:28:01
El estadounidense, que empató con Carlsen el duelo por el título en 2018, desaprovechó varias posiciones ganadoras en una partida clave
Unify DNS management using Amazon Route 53 Profiles with multiple VPCs and AWS accounts
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-22 23:08:42
If you are managing lots of accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources, sharing and then associating many DNS resources to each VPC can present a significant burden. You often hit limits around sharing and association, and you may hav
Convert String to OffsetDateTime
Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:05:17
Learn why converting strings to OffsetDateTime objects is crucial for handling date and time in Java applications.
Implement the Builder Pattern in Java 8
Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:03:36
Learn how to implement a Builder Pattern in Java 8. Related Stories Builder Pattern and Inheritance
Difference Between Casting to String and String.valueOf()
Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 23:00:19
Discover when casting to String or using String.valueOf() is most useful.
Implement Update-Or-Insert in Spring Data JPA
Baeldung @ 2024-04-22 22:29:22
Learn different approaches to performing update-or-insert operations using Spring Data JPA.
A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggests It’s Possible
Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-22 22:28:03
From Covid boosters to annual flu shots, most of us are left wondering: Why so many, so often? There’s a reason to update vaccines. Viruses rapidly mutate, which can help them escape the body’s immune system, putting previously vaccinated people at risk of
Meta to Start Licensing Quest’s Horizon OS to Third-Party OEMs
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 22:21:21
Alex Heath, The Verge: Meta has started licensing the operating system for its Quest headset to other hardware makers, starting with Lenovo and Asus. It’s also making a limited-run, gaming-focused Quest with Xbox . On the theme of opening up, Me
The Feminist Botanist
Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-22 22:18:30
A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote. The post The Feminist Botanist appeared first on Nautilus .
‘LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference With Limited Memory’ (PDF)
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 21:58:51
Re: my previous item on LLMs being RAM-hungry while iPhones are relatively low on RAM, this certainly isn’t news to Apple. Back in December, a team of eight researchers from Apple published this paper, which states in its abstract: This paper tackle
Print Edition 54
Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-22 21:14:25
Issue 54 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our January and February 2024 online issues. It includes contributions from bestselling author Tom Vanderbilt, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, journalist Mark MacNam
On-Device AI Craves RAM
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 21:04:40
Ron Amadeo, writing for Ars Technica on a purported leak of a trio of Pixel 9 phones: Rozetked says (through translation) that the phone is “similar in size to the iPhone 15 Pro.” It runs a Tensor G4 SoC, of course, and — here’s a noteworthy spec —
AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus in Amazon Bedrock, Meta Llama 3 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and more (April 22, 2024)
AWS Blog @ 2024-04-22 19:32:54
AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions
Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-22 17:22:13
Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes. The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 4
old new thing @ 2024-04-22 16:00:00
What if the UI thread isn't there to save you? The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing .
On greedy algorithms and rodeo clowns
The Endeavour @ 2024-04-22 15:16:23
This weekend I ran across a blog post The Rodeo Clown Theory of Personal Development. The title comes from a hypothetical example of a goal you don’t know how to achieve: becoming a rodeo clown. Let’s say you decide you want to be a rodeo clown. And
Anaiyyun: prayer for the whale
AEON @ 2024-04-22 12:01:00
For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Credit card nation
AEON @ 2024-04-22 12:00:00
Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards? - by Sean H Vanatta Read at Aeon
curl is just the hobby
daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-04-22 09:59:53
Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to on
Kolide
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 03:16:00
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. The September 2023 MGM hack is one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent years. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and
★ Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News
Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-22 03:15:00
“*The entire Mac product line is set for annual speed-bump Apple silicon updates*” is, as far I can tell, the actual story. Not “*Mac sales are in the tank and Apple is overhauling the whole product line to change its focus to AI.*”
La partida que encumbra a Gukesh
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-22 02:21:44
Tras eludir la preparación de Nakamura, el indio logra una pequeña ventaja y acepta un final de tablas con la esperanza de que le sirva para ganar el torneo
Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 4 Recap
Ethereum blog @ 2024-04-22 02:00:00
TL;DR: The EPF concluded the fourth cohort and is preparing for a fifth cohort. Applications will be open soon. In the meantime, explore the new EPF.wiki and sign up to get notified when they open. The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship recently completed its f
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Martin Fowler @ 2024-04-22 00:21:00
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Compress and Create a Byte Array Using GZip
Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:53:49
Learn how to get the compressed data in a byte array when using the GZIP file format.
“Not a Managed Type” Exception in Spring Data JPA
Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:49:13
Explore the reasons behind the “Not a Managed Type” Exception in Spring Data JPA.
Introduction to Simple Java Mail
Baeldung @ 2024-04-21 22:39:15
Explore the process of setting up Simple Java Mail and learn how to send emails, including attachments and HTML content, handle exceptions, and more.
Intelligent Comments on Bill's G.H. Hardy/Avi W post that we did not post.
Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-21 20:56:00
I posted (see here ) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions: 1) Hardy thought Math was a young man's game. I got some good comments on this. Some agreed and some disagreed. 2) Hardy thought applied math is dull