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800,000 Tons of Rock Excavated for Massive Underground Neutrino Detector

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

The Treasurer of Python NZ Pleads Guilty To Stealing From the Society

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

Insecure Robot Vacuums From Chinese Company Deebot Collect Photos and Audio to Train Their AI

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

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon

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

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US Police Seldom Disclose Use of AI-Powered Facial Recognition, Investigation Finds

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

Sq.io: jq for databases and more

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

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Can Amazon Spread Its Cashierless 'Just Walk Out' Technology to Other Stores?

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

Emil Post Anticipated (more than anticipated) Godel and Turing

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

Pine64's Linux-Powered E-Ink Tablet is Making a Return

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

Predicciones de los Premios Nobel de 2024

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

AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 35

UK Post Office Executive Suspended Over Allegations of Destroying Software Scandal Evidence

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

XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support

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

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A half-flipped binary tiling

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.

New JWST Data Explores 'Hubble Constant' Tension for Universe's Expansion Rate

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

Google Starts Adding Anti-Theft Locking Features to Android Phones

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 &

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online

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

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AI is an impediment to learning web development

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

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Hobbyist Builds a Modern System That Still Runs MS-DOS

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

multiply vs parallelMultiply Methods of BigInteger

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

How to Execute a Scheduled Task Only Once for a Spring Boot Application

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

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

Mocking an Enum Using Mockito

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.              

Monitor Java Application Logs With Loggly

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

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

Understanding Ramp-up in JMeter

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.              

Brazil's Top Court Says X Paid Pending Fines to Wrong Bank

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

OpenAI Releases Stable Version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support and API Enhancements

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

China Trained a 1-Trillion-Parameter LLM Using Only Domestic Chips

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

HPy – A better C API for Python

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 241 # Comments: 78

iOS and Android Security Scare: Two Apps Found Supporting 'Pig Butchering' Scheme

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

So thieves broke into your storage unit again

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 255 # Comments: 276

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars

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

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 265 # Comments: 175

Loom - Where Are We? #JVMLS

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

How Mossad Planned Its Exploding Pager Operation: Inside Israel's Penetration of Hezbollah

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

WorkOS

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

CNBC: ‘WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg Goes “Nuclear” on Silver Lake, WP Engine’

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

The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 285 # Comments: 34

Oro, de 10 años, progresa firme

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

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 418 # Comments: 57

I Stayed

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 159

The Verge Summarizes the Nasty WordPress/Automattic/WP Engine Feud

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

Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements

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

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 5)

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

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 287 # Comments: 111

It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 664 # Comments: 555

Whence '\n'?

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 241 # Comments: 89

Fuzzing 101

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 254 # Comments: 17

Linux from Scratch

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 430 # Comments: 147

Valkey 8.0 Now GA with Improved Memory Efficiency

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

JEP 14: The Tip & Tail Model of Library Development

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

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

Don't squander public trust on bullshit

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 268 # Comments: 149

LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday

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

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 269 # Comments: 133

When Earth Had Rings

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 .

These Mini AI Models Match OpenAI With 1,000 Times Less Data

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

Microsoft Launches Public Preview of Azure FXv2-Series VMs for High-Performance Workloads

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

How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

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

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iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 681 - Oct 4th 2024

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

Why Is Jack Smith’s Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump’s Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story?

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

MLB Sold Ads on Players’ Batting Helmets for the Postseason

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

Podcast CB SyR 480: Ética Científica: El Caso Salamanca; Viento Solar; Caronte; Cosmología

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

Hodinkee Sold to Watches of Switzerland

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,

Santiago Ávila estuvo muy cerca

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

How does the linker decide whether to call WinMain or wWinMain?

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 .

Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods

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

Francis en Soles Lejanos 2.0: Regreso al Futuro (1985) y los viajes en el tiempo

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

Compiler Explorer Provides Insights into Low-Level Android App Optimization

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

An undulating thrill

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

Microsoft Releases Dev Proxy v0.21: New Features Enhance API Testing and Development Efficiency

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

Tesla no ha construido un tren

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-classical tradeoffs and multi-controlled quantum gate decompositions in variational algorithms

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

Mixed-state additivity properties of magic monotones based on quantum relative entropies for single-qubit states and beyond

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

Differentiating and Integrating ZX Diagrams with Applications to Quantum Machine Learning

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

Interviewed by Book Overflow podcast on Refactoring

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

Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

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

The Inside Java Newsletter: Welcome Java 23!

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

RHEL 7 End of Maintenance (EOM): Upgrade without upheaval

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 on Red Hat: How we use our AI solutions to power improved customer experience

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

Friday Five — October 4, 2024

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

If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him

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 .

Introduction to Apache Hadoop

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

A quick introduction to Apahe Hadoop.              

Flowers and the Birth of Ecology

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 .

Groundbreaking Brain Map Reveals Fruit Fly Brain in Stunning Detail

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

Join us at Startup School Europe in London - November 23

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

Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!

All Langlands, all the time

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

Java Weekly, Issue 562

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

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

Repeated measurements on non-replicable systems and their consequences for Unruh-DeWitt detectors

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

Setting Up a VPN Without an App on iPhone

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

Starlink Offers Free Service to Victims of Hurricane Helene

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

Messages via Satellite Provides Lifeline to iOS 18 Users in Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

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

El magnífico mes de Pichot

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

ChatClient Fluent API in Spring AI

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

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

How can I detect whether the user is running as an elevated administrator (as opposed to a natural administrator)?

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 .

How to Count Lines of Java Code Using IntelliJ IDEA?

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

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

How to Improve Software Team Performance with Experimentation

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

The passion and puppetry of Ronnie Burkett

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

Against humility

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

Monocab, Monocab

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

Handling Kafka Producer TimeOutException with Java

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

Learn more about how to handle TimeOutException in Kafka Producer              

How to Append a Newline to a StringBuilder

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

Learn how to append a newline to a StringBuilder              

Nerdy Details: The Apple iPhone 16’s Camera Control Button

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

Apple Weather Is Delivering Spurious ‘Excessive Heat’ Warnings to Users Who Are Nowhere Near the Heat Wave

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

From the Annals of Going Back to the Well Way Too Many Times

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

Big News from Project Valhalla - Inside Java Newscast #77

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 Insights provides analytics for the IBM X-Force Cloud Threat Report

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

Your Cells Are Dying. All The Time.

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 .

Adiós a Zenón Franco (1956-2024)

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

At the Behest of Russia, Apple Has Purged Nearly 100 VPN Apps From the App Store

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

At the Behest of YouTube, Juno Has Been Removed From the App Store

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

A function for creating an absolute security descriptor from a self-relative one

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 .

When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again.

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

(Almost-)Quantum Bell Inequalities and Device-Independent Applications

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

Topological photon pumping in quantum optical systems

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

Favorite Theorems: Gradient Descent

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 Multiple Eigenvalue Gaussian filtered Search: an efficient and versatile quantum phase estimation method

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

Searching for Romani Gypsy heritage

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

How to Replace Deprecated JWT parser().setSigningKey()

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 567

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

The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 5)

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

The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 5)

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

We Won’t Have Taylor Lorenz to Kick Around Anymore

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

What’s new in Event-Driven Ansible, part of Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

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

Call for Proposals now open for Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2025

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

I’m a professional

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

Modernizing the Original ADB Keyboard From the Apple IIGS

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,

The Bird Photo of the Year

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 .

NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release

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.

Micromotores impulsados por luz polarizada gracias a metasuperficies

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

Meta Has Launched the World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Glasses. Will They Replace Smartphones?

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

Misunderstanding the “Prevent access to registry editing tools” policy

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 .

Your Guide to the Apache Flink® Table API: An In-Depth Exploration

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.

Webb Researchers Discover Lensed Supernova, Confirm Hubble Tension

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

Pichot: oro, 2ª presea en 9 días

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

How We Built a Content Recommendation System With Pgai and Pgvectorscale

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.

Google Develops Voice Transfer AI for Restoring Voices

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

My leap across the chasm

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

COSINE-100 descarta a más de 3 sigmas la modulación anual DAMA/LIBRA

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

Berlin

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

AWS Sunsets More Services, Including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway

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

The Talk Show: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’

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

‘Our Unevenly Distributed Future’

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

‘The iPhone Content Machine: A Visual Essay’

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

[Sponsor] WorkOS

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

Pete Rose Dies at 83

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

Six weeks until Devcon SEA in Bangkok

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

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A smarter way to manage malware with Red Hat Insights

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

A Modernized Deployment Mechanism for Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift

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

This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a Machine ‘Mind’

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

Speaking With Whales

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 .

NA62 (CERN) observa la desintegración K⁺ → π⁺νν a más de cinco sigmas

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

The March of the Mushroom Robots

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 .

Simon Willison on NotebookLM’s Automatically Generated Podcasts

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

Linkage for the start of another academic year

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 Weekly Roundup: Jamba 1.5 family, Llama 3.2, Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g instances and more (Sep 30, 2024)

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 Dev Weekly - Issue 680 - Sep 30th 2024

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

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

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

System Initiative Launches DevOps Platform to Address Cloud Stack Drift

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

Pulling a single item from a C++ parameter pack by its index, remarks

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 .

Identifying hash algorithms

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

Premios Ig Nobel 2024

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 .

Biopixels

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

Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL Integration with Amazon Redshift

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

Clock time contra lived time

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

Transporte público es dignidad

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.

Ávila tumba a Quesada

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