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slashdot @ 2024-10-07 06:31:00

800,000 tons of rock have been excavated from a South Dakota research facility — part of a multi-year process "to help answer some of physics' biggest questions," writes America's Energy Department. "The caverns they excavated will hold a massive p

slashdot @ 2024-10-07 04:11:00

Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah writes: Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its then-treasurer stealing money from the society.. Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated du

slashdot @ 2024-10-07 02:34:00

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia's public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken insid

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-07 02:07:23

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slashdot @ 2024-10-07 01:28:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police sel

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-07 00:02:34

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slashdot @ 2024-10-06 23:58:00

Amazon launched "cashierless checkout" stores In 2018, reports CNBC — but by 2020 it was licensing the "Just Walk Out" technology to other stores in airports, hospitals, and stadiums. In April, Amazon announced it was removing cashierless checkout

Computational Complexity @ 2024-10-06 22:33:00

 (Thanks to James De Santis for pointing the article that inspired this post on Post. The article is pointed to in this post.) What is Emil Post known for? I know of him for the following: a) Post's Problem: Show that there is an r.e. set A tha

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 21:46:00

"Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning," reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: The [10.1-inch e-ink display] PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-06 21:00:47

Me toca predecir los galardonados con un Premio Nobel de Ciencias. El Nobel de Medicina o Fisiología se anuncia mañana lunes 7 de octubre sobre las 11:30 CEST, como muy […] La entrada Predicciones de los Premios Nobel de 2024 fue escrita en La

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 20:38:26

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slashdot @ 2024-10-06 19:59:00

The British Post Office scandal "was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffered due to Horizon accounting software," remembers Computer Weekly, "which led to the most widespread mi

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 19:41:59

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0xDE @ 2024-10-06 18:51:00

In this tiling of the hyperbolic plane, all of the tiles are the same shape and size (despite their varied appearance), they are not square, and they are not polygons.

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 18:34:00

"Scientists can't agree on the exact rate of expansion of the universe, dictated by the Hubble constant," a new article at Space.com reminds us: The rate can be measured starting from the local (and therefore recent) universe, then going farther back in t

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 17:34:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Three new theft protection features that Google announced earlier this year have reportedly started rolling out on Android. The tools — Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device Lock and Remote Lock &

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 17:19:15

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 17:18:20

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slashdot @ 2024-10-06 16:34:00

He's the long-time Slashdot reader who installed Linux on a 1993 PC — and then installed a 1994 version of MS-DOS on a modern Thinkpad X13. (And somewhere along the way, he even built a ChatGPT client for DOS...) But in a new blog post, yeokm1 reve

Baeldung @ 2024-10-06 15:13:02

The multiply and parallelMultiply methods of the BigInteger class both perform multiplication, but the latter offers a potential performance boost for very large numbers. While their usage is identical, parallelMultiply leverages a parallel implementation

Baeldung @ 2024-10-06 15:07:46

Learn how to execute a scheduled task only once for a Spring Boot application.              

Baeldung @ 2024-10-06 15:02:14

Learn how to mock an enum using the Mockito library and understand the situations where this might be useful.              

Baeldung @ 2024-10-06 14:54:09

Learn how to configure and use Loggly, a cloud-based log management tool for Java.              

Baeldung @ 2024-10-06 14:31:08

Learn about the ramp-up property in JMeter and understand how to use it to tune two main aspects of performance testing - users per second and requests per second.              

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 12:46:00

An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume

InfoQ @ 2024-10-06 10:00:00

OpenAI has released the stable version of its official .NET library, following June's beta launch. Available as a NuGet package, it supports the latest models like GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, and the full OpenAI REST API. The release includes both sync and a

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 08:34:00

"China Telecom, one of the largest wireless carriers in mainland China, says that it has developed two large language models (LLMs) relying solely on domestically manufactured AI chips..." reports Tom's Hardware. "If the information is accurate, this is a

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 08:23:16

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slashdot @ 2024-10-06 04:32:00

"Pig Butchering Alert: Fraudulent Trading App targeted iOS and Android users." That's the title of a new report released this week by cybersecurity company Group-IB revealing the official Apple App Store and Google Play store offered apps that were actua

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 03:09:19

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slashdot @ 2024-10-06 02:32:00

Wired reports on "AI-powered cameras mounted on cars and trucks, initially designed to capture license plates, but which are now photographing political lawn signs outside private homes, individuals wearing T-shirts with text, and vehicles displaying pro-a

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-06 02:00:04

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Inside Java @ 2024-10-06 02:00:00

Virtual Threads, one of the most exciting additions to the Java Platform in recent years became a permanent feature in JDK 21. This session presents the progress in Project Loom to upgrade the HotSpot VM implementation of object monitors to support virtual

slashdot @ 2024-10-06 00:59:00

The Washington Post interviewed Lebanese officials, people close to Hezbollah, and Israeli, Arab and U.S. security officials and politicians about a years-long plan (originated at Mossad headquarters) that ultimately killed or maimed "as many as 3,000 Hezb

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-05 20:02:08

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-05 19:29:03

Another good overview of the Automattic/WP Engine saga, this one from Ari Levy at CNBC: Mullenweg may be openly enthusiastic and grateful for the employees he still has on board, but the WordPress community is a mess. Many WP Engine customers are suff

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 19:25:01

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-05 18:22:53

El fenómeno argentino mantiene una calidad de juego y unos resultados impropios de su edad, ahora en el Campeonato Iberoamericano

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 17:51:41

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 17:40:04

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Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-05 17:11:03

Emma Roth does the yeoman’s work of summarizing the complex and fast-moving legal feud between WordPress’s commercial arm and WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider: Over the past several weeks, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg has made one t

InfoQ @ 2024-10-05 16:30:00

Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing some upgrades, including full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. Alongside the HTTP/3 advancements, this release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-05 16:00:07

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MIT Spinoff Liquid Debuts Non-Transformer AI Models and They’re Already State-of-the-Art Carl Franzen | VentureBeat “Unlike most others of the current generative AI wave, these models are not based around the transformer

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 15:12:46

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 14:17:24

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 11:23:53

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 07:51:58

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 07:43:59

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InfoQ @ 2024-10-05 07:11:00

The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers

Inside Java @ 2024-10-05 02:00:00

New informational JEP: 14: The Tip & Tail Model of Library Development.

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-05 00:42:07

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-04 23:34:07

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Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-04 23:31:10

A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth. The post When Earth Had Rings appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-04 22:39:21

The artificial intelligence industry is obsessed with size. Bigger algorithms. More data. Sprawling data centers that could, in a few years, consume enough electricity to power whole cities. This insatiable appetite is why OpenAI—which is on track to make

InfoQ @ 2024-10-04 22:30:00

Microsoft launched the public preview of its new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines, designed for high-performance and compute-intensive workloads. Powered by the latest 5th Generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C processors, the FXv2-series includes two mo

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-10-04 21:57:38

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iOS Weekly @ 2024-10-04 20:44:06

Comment Last week’s downtime on Curated set me thinking about this newsletter and about the fact it has been the same format for a very long time now. That’s no accident, of course. A collection of links to

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-04 19:47:31

Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire: It’s worth recalling that a major reason Trump won in 2016 was that, just before the election, news broke about emails related to a closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails being found on Anthony We

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-04 17:57:45

I missed this announcement from MLB a month ago: Major League Baseball today announced a new multi-year international partnership with European workwear leader STRAUSS that makes the German company the Official Workwear Partner of MLB. The partnership

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-04 17:57:00

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 480 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “Ética Científica: El Caso Salamanca; Viento Solar; Caronte; Cosmología”, 03 oct 2024. «La tertulia semanal [R

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-04 17:29:14

Victoria Gomelsky, reporting with absurd credulity for The New York Times: Hodinkee, the watch enthusiast website based in Manhattan that has helped spread the gospel of mechanical watchmaking since its founding in 2008, has a new owner. On Friday,

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-04 16:09:49

El veinteañero gran maestro colombiano muestra un gran potencial, y lo confirmó en el muy reciente Iberoamericano ganando el bronce

old new thing @ 2024-10-04 16:00:00

If you don't tell it, it will try to figure it out. The post How does the linker decide whether to call <CODE>WinMain</CODE> or <CODE>wWinMain</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-10-04 15:33:16

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret. The post Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods first appeared on Quanta Magazine

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-04 13:11:37

He participado en el podcast Soles Lejanos 2.0 de David Minayo, hablando sobre viajes en el tiempo al hilo de la película Regreso al Futuro (1985). Lo puedes disfrutar en «Regresar […] La entrada Francis en Soles Lejanos 2.0: Regreso al Futuro (1

InfoQ @ 2024-10-04 12:00:00

Android engineers at Google added support for the Java and Kotlin programming languages to Compiler Explorer, an open source tool aimed at exploring how compilers work by compiling code in real-time. Using Compiler Explorer, Android engineers can optimiz

AEON @ 2024-10-04 12:00:00

Once lauded as a wonder of the age, cocaine soon became the object of profound anxieties. What happened? - by Douglas Small Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-10-04 11:46:00

Microsoft has announced the release of Dev Proxy v0.21, introducing several notable features. Among the key additions are the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2, the capability to quickly generate JWT tokens fo

brucknerite @ 2024-10-04 10:00:00

Se me pasó esta noticia: Tesla sorprende con su primer tren eléctrico con capacidad para 500 personas y billetes gratuitos (Computer Hoy). Y no. Pese a lo que sugieren los titulares […]

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-04 09:40:49

Quantum 8, 1493 (2024). The computational capabilities of near-term quantum computers are limited by the noisy execution of gate operations and a limited number of physical qubits. Hybrid variational algorithms

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-04 09:33:59

Quantum 8, 1492 (2024). We prove that the stabilizer fidelity is multiplicative for the tensor product of an arbitrary number of single-qubit states. We also show that the relative entropy of magic becomes addi

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-04 09:29:58

Quantum 8, 1491 (2024). ZX-calculus has proved to be a useful tool for quantum technology with a wide range of successful applications. Most of these applications are of an algebraic nature. However, other task

Martin Fowler @ 2024-10-04 09:16:00

I was interviewed on the Book Overflow podcast about the Refactoring book . We talked about the origins of the book, the relationship between refactoring, testing, and extreme programming, how refactoring is used in the wild, and the role of books an

YC @ 2024-10-04 04:49:44

YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue and many others. Earlier this week, a startup in the current batch, PearAI, was criticized online for a

Inside Java @ 2024-10-04 02:00:00

The Inside Java Newsletter for September 2024 highlights the release of Java 23, the JVM Language Summit, 1 million downloads for the Java Visual Studio Code Extension, interviews with the community, developer conferences and user groups, and the latest te

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-04 02:00:00

IT operations teams—from the leaders to the systems administrators—face more demands than ever. With all the must-dos on their to-do lists, upgrading their enterprise operating system (OS) is probably something they’d rather not deal with.Moving on from an

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-04 02:00:00

Red Hat works closely with customers to provide the AI tools they need to build, deploy, monitor and use AI models and applications, but how do we utilize the power of AI for ourselves? Our Experience Engineering (XE) team is on it. The XE team collaborate

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-04 02:00:00

Call for Proposals now open for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025The call for proposals (CFP) for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025 is now open. All Red Hat customers, partners, community members, and associates with expertise in Red Hat products and

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-04 00:42:32

Should an alien species resist, we will have discovered life. The post If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him appeared first on Nautilus .

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 22:59:15

A quick introduction to Apahe Hadoop.              

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-03 22:11:23

Without flowers, there would be no us. The post Flowers and the Birth of Ecology appeared first on Nautilus .

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-03 21:05:10

With a brain the size of a sesame seed, the lowly fruit fly is often considered a kitchen pest. But to neuroscientists, the flies are a treasure trove of information detailing how the brain’s intricate connections guide thoughts, decisions, and memories—no

YC @ 2024-10-03 20:30:00

Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-10-03 19:04:11

Trying to keep track of everything happening in the Langlands program area of mathematics is somewhat of a losing battle, as new ideas and results keep appearing faster than anyone could be expected to follow. Here are various items: Dennis … Contin

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 17:44:39

Spring AI, better factories in Java 23, cloud-native Java, async clients, and structured concurrency!              

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-03 17:37:16

Quantum 8, 1490 (2024). The Born rule describes the probability of obtaining an outcome when measuring an observable of a quantum system. As it can only be tested by measuring many copies of the system under co

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 17:21:28

An important follow-up to yesterday’s item about Russia demanding Apple remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store: you can use a VPN on iOS without an app. It just requires some futzing in Settings and a VPN provider that supports it. Presumably, this

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 17:06:36

Chili Palmer, reporting for HighSpeedInternet: Starlink announced on Oct. 2 it will offer one month of free internet in Hurricane Helene disaster areas. The free service will be available to new customers who order through the Starlink website and t

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 17:00:08

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9to5Mac: Hurricane Helene has caused massive damage and taken over 100 lives across several US states. Many thousands of people are without power and/or cell service. But in the wake of the storm, reports have surfaced ab

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-03 16:52:01

El hispano-argentino completa un periodo triunfante, que incluye el Campeonato de España de rápidas y el bronce olímpico

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 16:09:36

Learn about the fluent API of ChatClient the new feature of Spring AI              

old new thing @ 2024-10-03 16:00:00

You can ask for the elevation type. The post How can I detect whether the user is running as an elevated administrator (as opposed to a natural administrator)? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 15:56:31

Learn how to count lines of Java code using IntelliJ IDEA.              

InfoQ @ 2024-10-03 13:53:00

According to Terhi Aho, experimentation is a way of thinking that guides action. By experimenting we can develop ways of working without a major change process. It can help software teams to solve problems in small steps, relieve their workload, and fost

AEON @ 2024-10-03 12:01:00

To make sense of a dark and confusing world, the acclaimed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett shrinks it down to a ‘manageable size’ - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-10-03 12:00:00

Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise - by Rachel Fraser Read at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2024-10-03 10:00:00

Hace un tiempo, cuando la web de Naukas todavía publicaba artículos de divulgación, traté allí el concepto de OPTIMOTUSS, una propuesta de transporte para convertir ferrocarriles metropolitanos convencionales de dos vías en sistemas PRT (Personal Rapid Tra

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 08:40:31

Learn more about how to handle TimeOutException in Kafka Producer              

Baeldung @ 2024-10-03 08:33:25

Learn how to append a newline to a StringBuilder              

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 02:51:12

Cool Hunting: We love getting into the nerdy details of design innovations and the iPhone 16‘s new Camera Control button presented a perfect opportunity to dig in. For this first podcast of our new Design Tangents series aptly named Nerdy Details we s

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 02:33:11

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: iPhone users are being notified about an excessive heat weather event through Apple’s Weather app on iPhone. While the weather event is happening in the Santa Clara Valley region of California, the alert says that the occurrence i

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-03 02:03:00

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia: Haotian Sun, 34, and Pengfei Xue, 34, both Chinese nationals, were sentenced today for participating in a sophisticated scheme to defraud Apple Inc. out of millions of dollars’ worth of

Inside Java @ 2024-10-03 02:00:00

At JVMLS 2024, project lead Brian Goetz presented the current state of Project Valhalla. The latest Inside Java Newscast distills the draft proposal's changes to the programming model: value classes, nullness markers and an extended construction protocol.

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-03 02:00:00

IBM recently released their 2024 X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report.According to IBM, this report “provides a global cross-industry perspective on how threat actors are compromising cloud environments, the malicious activities they’re conducting once in

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-02 22:54:22

Some go gently into the night. Others die in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display. The post Your Cells Are Dying. All The Time. appeared first on Nautilus .

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-02 20:11:08

El gran maestro paraguayo, residente en España, deja una enorme producción de alta calidad como jugador, entrenador y articulista

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-02 18:23:51

Novaya Gazeta Europe: Apple removed nearly 60 additional virtual private network (VPN) apps from its Russia App Store between July and September, significantly more than the 25 acknowledged by the Russian authorities, according to a report published

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-02 17:59:24

Christian Selig: For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their tr

old new thing @ 2024-10-02 16:00:00

Just wrap it up. The post A function for creating an absolute security descriptor from a self-relative one appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-10-02 15:52:51

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown. The post When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-02 14:53:16

Quantum 8, 1489 (2024). Investigations of the boundary of the quantum correlation set have gained increased attention in recent years. This is done through the derivation of quantum Bell inequalities, which are

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-02 14:33:31

Quantum 8, 1488 (2024). We establish the concept of topological pumping in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings and apply it to the transport of a photon in quantum optical systems. In our theoreti

Computational Complexity @ 2024-10-02 14:16:00

September Edition Who thought the algorithm behind machine learning would have cool complexity implications? The Complexity of Gradient Descent: CLS = PPAD ∩ PLS John Fearnley, Paul Goldberg, Alexandros Hollender and Rahul Savani Let's unpack

Quantum Journal @ 2024-10-02 13:16:21

Quantum 8, 1487 (2024). Quantum phase estimation is one of the most powerful quantum primitives. This work proposes a new approach for the problem of multiple eigenvalue estimation: Quantum Multiple Eigenvalue

AEON @ 2024-10-02 12:01:00

A walk through the English countryside reveals tangible yet long-overlooked traces of a nomadic culture’s long presence - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Baeldung @ 2024-10-02 10:59:01

A quick tutorial on replacing usages of the deprecated setSigningKey() function in the Java JWT library.              

This Week in Rust @ 2024-10-02 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

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-10-02 04:01:54

In Part 4, I presented a nifty result supporting my claim that classical statistical mechanics reduces to thermodynamics when Boltzmann’s constant approaches zero. I used a lot of physics jargon to explain why I care about this result. I also used so

Physics Phorums @ 2024-10-02 04:01:54

In Part 4, I presented a nifty result supporting my claim that classical statistical mechanics reduces to thermodynamics when Boltzmann’s constant approaches zero. I used a lot of physics jargon to explain why I care about this result. I also used so

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-02 02:25:15

The AP: Technology reporter Taylor Lorenz said Tuesday that she is leaving The Washington Post, less than two months after the newspaper launched an internal review following her social media post about President Joe Biden. Lorenz, a well-regarded e

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-02 02:00:00

We are pleased to announce an updated version of Event-Driven Ansible as part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5!This release includes expanded enterprise capabilities that can help you gain more operational ease from Event-Driven Ansible. Whether

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-02 02:00:00

It’s that time again - Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025 call for proposals is now open! We’re headed back to Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Convention Exhibition Center, May 19-22, 2025 and we want to hear from you.We’re looking for intriguing con

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-10-02 00:22:46

I received this email today. tldr; I am not selling my soul. From: Microsoft Subject: Congratulations on your Microsoft MVP award You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP program Daniel Stenberg, We’re pleased to welcome you to the Microsoft Most Valuable

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-02 00:01:44

This video from “MTT” warmed my heart. And that takes a lot. I learned Pascal on this keyboard. I absolutely loved this keyboard when I first encountered it. But, today, man, what a weird keyboard it is. I mean the arrow-key layout is one thing (up, down,

Nautilus blog @ 2024-10-01 22:44:24

This award-winning shot offers a candid look at the cagey turkey vulture. The post The Bird Photo of the Year appeared first on Nautilus .

AWS Blog @ 2024-10-01 21:05:59

Discover how this high-performance remote protocol securely streams graphics-intensive apps from cloud to device, with QUIC, client enhancements, and extended OS support.

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-01 19:59:25

La gran limitación de los micromotores y microengranajes es la fuente de energía que los impulsa. El uso de metamateriales ópticos que responden a luz polarizada podría ser la solución. […] La entrada Micromotores impulsados por luz polarizada gr

Singularity Hub @ 2024-10-01 18:29:19

Humans are increasingly engaging with wearable technology as it becomes more adaptable and interactive. One of the most intimate ways gaining acceptance is through augmented reality glasses. Last week, Meta debuted a prototype of the most recent version of

old new thing @ 2024-10-01 18:10:22

It prevents access to the tools, but not to the registry itself. The post Misunderstanding the “Prevent access to registry editing tools” policy appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Confluent @ 2024-10-01 17:39:42

Discover the Flink Table API, which helps developers express complex data processing in Java or Python. Get practical examples and guidance for your workflows.

Nasa Webb @ 2024-10-01 17:00:39

Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, is an active area of research among astronomers arou

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-10-01 15:49:30

Tras el bronce individual en la muy reciente Olimpiada de Budapest, el bonaerense con bandera española desde 2023 es campeón de Iberoamérica

Timescale blog @ 2024-10-01 15:00:04

Learn how and why Pondhouse Data built a content recommendation system using pgai and pgvectorscale, and how to access these AI tools for your use case.

InfoQ @ 2024-10-01 15:00:00

A team at Google Research developed a zero-shot voice transfer (VT) model that can be used to customize a text-to-speech (TTS) with a specific person's voice. This allows speakers who have lost their voice, for example from Parkinson's disease or ALS, to

AEON @ 2024-10-01 12:00:00

After years of debate and contemplation, I’ve come to think a heretical form of Christianity might be true. Here’s why - by Philip Goff Read at Aeon

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-10-01 11:21:49

El detector italiano de materia oscura DAMA/LIBRA usa casi 250 kg de yoduro de sodio dopado con talio, NaI(Tl). Hoy es famoso por observar una modulación anual a 9.7 sigmas […] La entrada COSINE-100 descarta a más de 3 sigmas la modulación anual

C0T0D0S0 @ 2024-10-01 07:00:00

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit Recht und das auch nicht erst seit gestern. Aber ich meine jetzt was anderes: Wann immer ich irgen

InfoQ @ 2024-10-01 06:25:00

In a series of blog posts, AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer. This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the clou

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-01 05:45:00

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 mill

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-01 04:04:25

Allen Pike: As I understand it, my first experience in a self-driving car was typical: Minute 1: “How safe is this? Will it notice that cyclist? What about those construction cones?” Minute 10: “This is wild. It’s driving so calmly and safely. I

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-01 03:33:25

Om Malik, after Apple’s September 9 “It’s Glowtime” event at Steve Jobs Theater: I decided to become a fly on the wall and chronicle the spectacle unfolding in front of me. I focused on those who were there to create content about the devices, not the

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-01 02:38:23

With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead o

Daring Fireball @ 2024-10-01 02:09:48

The Cincinnati Enquirer: Pete Rose, the Cincinnati native who became baseball’s all-time hits leader as well as one of the most divisive figures in the sport’s history, died Monday, according to a TMZ report , which was confirmed by his agent, Ryan F

Ethereum blog @ 2024-10-01 02:00:00

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Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-01 02:00:00

Red Hat Insights makes it much easier to maintain and manage the security exposure of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure. Included is the Insights malware detection service, a monitoring and assessment tool that scans RHEL systems for the

Red Hat blog @ 2024-10-01 02:00:00

Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift is OpenStack—but it’s not just the same old OpenStack you're familiar with. Yes, it's the next version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform that maintains a trusted and stable cloud infrastructure with APIs based on the lat

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-30 23:55:43

In a tiny laboratory pond, a robotic stingray flaps its fins and swims around. Roughly the width of a dime, the bot dashes distances multiple times its body size. It easily navigates around corners and swims far longer than previous flapping microbots of a

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-30 23:38:21

AI could help us understand what whales are saying. But should we talk back? The post Speaking With Whales appeared first on Nautilus .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-09-30 21:52:01

Las desintegraciones muy improbables se usan para explorar la física más allá del modelo estándar, al menos mientras sus secciones eficaces tengan mucho error. Un buen ejemplo es la desintegración […] La entrada NA62 (CERN) observa la desintegrac

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-30 20:46:20

Scientists are making mycelia-machine hybrids that can crawl and roll. The post The March of the Mushroom Robots appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-30 20:37:34

Simon Willison: Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast against content you provide, where two AI hosts start up a “deep dive” discussion about

0xDE @ 2024-09-30 20:35:00

Shift networks (\(\mathbb{M}\)). Jeremy Kun asks how to permute vectors using few vector additions, elementwise multiplications, and rotation operations, for an application involving homomorphic encryption.

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-30 18:53:23

Every week, there’s a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) community event where you can network, learn something new, and immerse yourself in the community. When you’re in a community, everyone grows together, and no one is left behind. Last week was no exceptio

iOS Weekly @ 2024-09-30 18:26:54

Comment Stop! Don’t pack up your desk and welcome the weekend just yet. It’s Monday, not Friday. 😂 As you may have seen there was a hiccup with publishing last Friday’s issue where the software I use to pub

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-09-30 16:30:49

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon. The post The Hidden World of Electrostatic

InfoQ @ 2024-09-30 16:00:00

System Initiative aims to tackle some long-standing problems in conventional industry practices for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. Specifically, existing solutions requiring static configurations for cloud infrastructure cannot reliably ref

old new thing @ 2024-09-30 16:00:00

Why such a complicated way to pull the type from the pack? The post Pulling a single item from a C++ parameter pack by its index, remarks appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-30 14:23:56

Given a hash value, can you determine what algorithm produced it? Or what algorithm probably produced it? Obviously if a hash value is 128 bits long, then a 128-bit algorithm produced it. Such a hash value might have been produced by MD5, but not by SHA-1

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-09-30 12:53:00

Todos los años me hago eco de los Premios Ig Nobel, que este año 2024 cumplen su trigésima cuarta edición. La ceremonia de entrega de premios se celebró el 12 […] La entrada Premios Ig Nobel 2024 fue escrita en La Ciencia de la Mula Francis .

AEON @ 2024-09-30 12:01:00

Blurring science and art, these close-ups of butterfly and moth wings reveal their astonishing diversity and immense beauty - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-09-30 12:00:00

Amazon RDS for MySQL's zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning on transactional data. This powerful feature allows customized data replication from a single RDS database

AEON @ 2024-09-30 12:00:00

Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right? - by Evan Thompson Read at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2024-09-30 10:00:00

Esto es algo que no suelo decir en público porque, en estos tiempos que corren, está mal visto. Pero voy a aprovechar que podría invitaros a agua con gas a todos los que me leéis para confesaros algo: no soy cinéfilo.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-30 09:23:07

El gran maestro colombiano, 7º en la lista inicial, es el líder junto al español Daniel García Ramos a falta de dos rondas tras esta rotunda victoria