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AEON @ 2026-05-01 12:00:00

For Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, a person is not self-contained, but the outcome of a lifelong process of living with others: we before I - by João de Pina-Cabral Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-01 11:03:00

Vitest 4.1, developed by VoidZero, enhances JavaScript testing with features like test tags for filtering and configuring tests, an experimental mode to bypass Vite's module runner, and new lifecycle hooks. It supports Vite 8 from the start. Notably, it

Baeldung @ 2026-05-01 10:59:37

Interesting AI-focused pieces and starting to look forward towards JDK 27. The post Java Weekly, Issue 644 first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-05-01 10:00:00

Broadcom has announced the contribution of Velero, its Kubernetes-native backup, restore and migration project, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. Velero It operates at the Kubernetes API layer, capturing cluster state

slashdot @ 2026-05-01 09:00:00

Belgium plans to buy its seven aging nuclear reactors from French power giant Engie in a "full takeover" aimed at securing domestic energy supplies, extending reactor operations, and developing new nuclear capacity. "The move would also mean suspending pla

slashdot @ 2026-05-01 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Elon Musk wrapped up his testimony on Thursday as the trial in his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman continued into its fourth day. OpenAI's attorney, William Savitt, cross-examined Musk in the morning. He

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-01 04:58:44

MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-01 04:36:36

Uwa Ede-Osifo, reporting for The Guardian: On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many landmarks. But in recent months, the strip has been set abuzz for a new reason. T

slashdot @ 2026-05-01 03:00:00

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a rule banning senators from trading on prediction markets effective immediately. CNBC reports: The move came amid rising concern about insider trading on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, and abo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-01 02:41:20

Apple Newsroom: “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every geographic segment,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone achieved a March quarter revenue record, fueled b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-01 02:11:15

It’s certainly possible that this Vision thing isn’t going to work out and Apple *will* throw in the towel on it. But that hasn’t happened, and if it does, it’s not going to come out of nowhere as a story on MacRumors for the people in VPG working on it.

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-01 02:06:12

A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Bessel function J(x) with (1 + cos(x))/2. I learned via a he

Rust blog @ 2026-05-01 02:00:00

The nvptx64-nvidia-cuda target is a compilation target for NVIDIA GPUs. When using this target, the final output is PTX . Two version choices shape that output: a GPU architecture (for example, sm_70 , sm_80 , …), which determines which GPUs can

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-01 02:00:00

TechCrunch - Red Hat’s OpenClaw maintainer just made enterprise Claw deployments a lot saferRed Hat’s Sally O’Malley released Tank OS, an open-source tool simplifying safe OpenClaw agent deployment. As an OpenClaw maintainer collaborating with creator Pet

slashdot @ 2026-05-01 01:00:00

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw dubbed "Copy Fail" can let a local, unprivileged attacker gain root access on major Linux distributions, with researchers claiming the bug affects kernels shipped since 2017. "The POC exploit works out of the box today,

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-01 00:48:37

Imagination may have more to do with the brain activity it silences than the activity it creates. The post How Does Imagination Really Work in the Brain? New Theory Upends What We Knew appeared first on SingularityHub .

slashdot @ 2026-05-01 00:00:00

A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases using messy, real-world emergency department records. Researchers say the re

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 23:00:00

French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old suspected of using the alias "breach3d" in connection with a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the state agency that handles passports, ID cards, and other secure documents. The breach allegedly invol

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 22:44:00

NVIDIA has announced a new family of open models called NVIDIA Ising, designed to address quantum processor calibration and quantum error correction. These are two of the main engineering challenges limiting the scalability of current quantum systems, wh

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 22:27:22

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slashdot @ 2026-04-30 22:00:00

RightsCon, one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and "thematic issues," while Access No

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 21:42:33

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slashdot @ 2026-04-30 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the compa

Baeldung @ 2026-04-30 20:18:17

This series covers practical IntelliJ IDEA workflows from setup to advanced development. The post IntelliJ Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-04-30 20:07:58

This series covers core Jakarta EE APIs in practical application. The post Jakarta EE Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 20:07:00

Reuters reports that Charles Lieber, the former Harvard scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments and ties to China, is now leading China's state-funded i-BRAIN lab in Shenzhen, where he has access to advanced nanofabrication tools an

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 19:14:21

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 18:43:47

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 18:00:00

NestJS has announced a draft pull request for its upcoming v12.0.0 release, scheduled for early Q3 2026. Key changes include a transition from CommonJS to ESM, native Standard Schema support in route decorators, and shifts in testing and linting tools. V

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 18:00:00

A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country's population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), "the permanent resident population must not exc

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 17:31:40

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-30 17:16:12

600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones ( which post , translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have Mag

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The system prompt for OpenAI's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other anim

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-30 16:51:08

When a function is not differentiable in the classical sense there are multiple ways to compute a generalized derivative. This post will look at three generalizations of the classical derivative, each applied to the ReLU (rectified linear unit) function.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 16:36:58

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-30 16:25:27

Brilliant statue, hilarious intro video. The greatest artist of our age.  ★ 

old new thing @ 2026-04-30 16:00:00

Let the exclusive acquisition have a fair chance against shared acquisitions. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 3: Fairness appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 15:54:20

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Deepmind @ 2026-04-30 14:14:15

Researching the path to AI-augmented care and development of an AI co-clinician.

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 13:40:13

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 13:22:00

Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his talk Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering. Platform success depends on wr

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 13:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from ZeroHedge: The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Cloudera, accusing the enterprise data and artificial intelligence company of deliberately engineering a hiring process that excluded American workers f

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 12:31:17

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InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 12:10:00

Cloudflare announced Agent Memory in private beta, a managed service that extracts structured memories from AI agent conversations and retrieves them on demand using five-channel parallel retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Shared memory profiles let

AEON @ 2026-04-30 12:01:00

The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 12:00:00

Meta has already begun preparing for the threats posed by quantum computing and migrating its systems to post-quantum cryptography, a complex process that will take multiple years to complete. In a recent article, Meta researchers outline their strategy

AEON @ 2026-04-30 12:00:00

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons - by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 11:23:00

Dropbox recently explained how it improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, the company's internal immutable blob store for storing user files at scale, by redesigning compaction strategies to reclaim space from severely underfilled storage volumes. T

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 11:20:00

Vercel has launched Open Agents, an open-source app that enables the creation and execution of background coding agents. It provides a complete stack for developers to run independent coding workflows without relying on local machines. By Robert Krzacz

Baeldung @ 2026-04-30 10:12:05

Practical Map operations in Java, from fundamentals to advanced patterns. The post Java Maps Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 10:10:00

Netflix has introduced a "human infrastructure" layer to manage live broadcasts at scale. Using a low-latency "telemetry hot path" and a Live Operations Centre, the company now balances automated scaling with human oversight. This shift, which mirrors st

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-30 10:08:34

In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as dealing with the growing list of issues is hard. It may take a longer time to address the problems than to

InfoQ @ 2026-04-30 10:00:00

DBmaestro has launched an MCP server that connects AI agents and enterprise copilots to its database DevOps platform, allowing teams to issue natural language commands that trigger real, governed platform workflows. The MCP server, announced on 7 April 2

Baeldung @ 2026-04-30 09:50:21

Learn the most common implementations of the List interface and practical List operations. The post Java List Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 09:43:55

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slashdot @ 2026-04-30 09:00:00

Tesla has produced the first Semi from its new high-volume production line at Gigafactory Nevada, a milestone for the long-delayed electric Class 8 truck program after years of pilot builds and delays. Electrek reports: The Tesla Semi has had one of the lo

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-30 08:49:47

In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish engineer and the creator of curl (cURL), one of the most w

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: Elon Musk returned to the witness stand Wednesday in Oakland federal court for a second day of testimony in his case against OpenAI, detailing his shift from being an enthusiastic suppor

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-30 05:21:04

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Baeldung @ 2026-04-30 02:07:54

Discover the key methods from the HttpSession interface to store, retrieve and remove Java objects from a session. The post Store Java Objects in HttpSession first appeared on Baeldung .              

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-30 02:00:00

TL;DR: 📝 Applications for EPF7 are open until May 13 🔎 Review the program details for EPF7 🎙️ An introductory town hall will be held on May 6 at 1500 UTC We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the seventh cohort of the [Ethereum

Rust blog @ 2026-04-30 02:00:00

As previously announced , the Rust Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026. GSoC is a global program organized by Google that is designed to bring new contributors to the world of open source. A few months ago, we published a li

Inside Java @ 2026-04-30 02:00:00

Flexible constructor bodies were added to Java 25 with JEP 513. In this episode of the Inside Java Newscast Billy Korando will review the issues with how constructors used to work before Java 25, either forcing developers to write convoluted code, or in so

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-30 02:00:00

As AI workloads move from experimentation to production, enterprises are consolidating GPU infrastructure into shared platforms. However, organizations that take this road face several tradeoffs. For instance, instead of dedicating entire accelerator nodes

slashdot @ 2026-04-30 01:00:00

A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, calling his claims of DOJ witness intimidation "wildly conspiratorial" and unsupported by the record. Judge Lewis Kaplan said (PDF) the FTX founder's motion appeared tied to a pre-indictme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 23:24:06

Max Harrison-Caldwell, reporting for The San Francisco Standard: In 2024, the port — which manages the Oakland airport — changed the name from Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, hoping to entice travelers

tecosystems @ 2026-04-29 22:48:11

At a recent industry event, conversation turned – as it always seems to these days – to the economics of the AI buildout. It’s no secret that the AI race has involved massive and escalating capital investments in datacenters and other infrastru

Sogrady @ 2026-04-29 22:48:11

At a recent industry event, conversation turned – as it always seems to these days – to the economics of the AI buildout. It’s no secret that the AI race has involved massive and escalating capital investments in datacenters and other infrastru

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-04-29 21:49:30

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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-29 19:50:14

El abierto de la ciudad alicantina tuvo más de medio millar de jugadores de 60 países, con el inmortal Ivanchuk como gran estrella

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 19:40:01

A guide to fundamental algorithms implemented in Java. The post Algorithms in Java Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

ASF @ 2026-04-29 18:22:08

Dipankar Mazumdar is the Director of Developer Relations at Cloudera, leading global developer initiatives across lakehouse architecture and AI. He previously held advocacy and engineering roles at Dremio, Onehouse, and Qlik, contributing to open source p

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-29 18:00:00

U.S. drug overdose deaths peaked at 107,941 in 2022, then fell two years in a row to a provisional 70,000 in 2025: a 35% drop from the peak.

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 17:32:00

VoidZero has released an experimental Angular compiler in Rust, promising improved build performance compared to Angular CLI. Benchmarks indicate it is up to 6.4x faster than Angular CLI, especially for larger applications. Developed over two months with

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 17:15:29

Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting on Musk v. Altman from the courtroom in Oakland (gift link): Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman : Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in cour

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 17:03:21

Matteo Wong, covering Musk v. Altman for The Atlantic (gift link): Musk is asking that Altman be removed from OpenAI’s board, that the company convert back to a nonprofit, and for the return of allegedly “ill-gotten gains” — some $150 billion — whic

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-29 16:54:31

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. The post Why Math’s Final Axiom Proved So Controversial first appeared on Quanta Mag

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-29 16:50:04

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond. The post What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 16:43:00

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 3, the third preview of its upcoming Standard Term Support version due in November 2026. The update spans the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and .NET MAUI, with Runtime Async leaving the preview-fea

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 16:35:42

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times from the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland (gift link): On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were

old new thing @ 2026-04-29 16:00:00

Please, not everybody, everything all at once. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-29 15:50:04

My favorite quote about networking came from Jim Kurose. The Internet works so well because it doesn't have to. The IP and lower layers of the internet stack make no promises of delivery. Complete failure fulfills the protocol. This allows for simpler

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-29 15:38:22

Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer manage

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-29 15:23:00

Chris Parsons has updated his guide on using AI to code . This is his third update, what I like about it is that he gives a lot of concrete information about how he uses AI, with sufficient detail that we can learn from him. His advice also resonates wit

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-29 14:28:26

Quantum 10, 2089 (2026). We introduce regular language states, a family of quantum many-body states. They are built from a special class of formal languages, called regular, which has been thoroughly studied in

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 14:00:00

Sauce Labs has announced the general availability of Sauce AI for Test Authoring, an AI-driven agent designed to translate business intent directly into executable test suites, marking a shift toward what the company calls Intent-Driven Testing. By Cra

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-04-29 13:05:47

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. As a developer, logging is usually the first technique that you reach for when something goes wrong in your application. You add a few log statements at the start and end of a function and in the except

Kotlin news @ 2026-04-29 13:05:47

This tutorial was written by an external contributor. As a developer, logging is usually the first technique that you reach for when something goes wrong in your application. You add a few log statements at the start and end of a function and in the except

InfoQ @ 2026-04-29 12:20:00

Mistral AI has launched Workflows, an orchestration layer for enterprise AI that is now in public preview. This release addresses a significant challenge as AI models and agents become more advanced, while reliably deploying them in production remains di

AEON @ 2026-04-29 12:01:00

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 10:43:50

A series of tutorials on building AI applications with Spring AI. The post Spring AI Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2026-04-29 08:59:57

A curated series of guides to building AI-powered applications in Java. The post AI in Java Series first appeared on Baeldung .              

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-04-29 08:27:01

You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (total: 13,922)521 commits (total: 38,545)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt()

This Week in Rust @ 2026-04-29 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

Ethereum blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

Q1 2026 continued our focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations, with sustained investment in core domains like cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, security, and protocol research. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts we supported

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

In the telecommunications industry, the Radio Access Network (RAN) has moved from a set of fixed functions to a dynamic, software-defined environment that is characterized by cloud-native technologies and methodologies that will be fundamental within the A

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

Every organization faces the same pressures: do more with less, move faster, and reduce risk while preparing for an AI-powered future. In this environment, automation is no longer optional—it’s the foundation that makes everything else possible.That’s why

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-29 02:00:00

When Vodafone New Zealand separated from the Vodafone Group to become One New Zealand (One NZ), it faced an opportunity to go beyond a mere rebrand. Like many telecommunications providers, One NZ faced a 2-stack challenge as it managed legacy virtual machi

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-28 23:44:58

Someone said a technique is a trick that works twice. I wanted to see if I could get anything interesting by turning the trick in the previous post into a technique. The trick created a high-order approximation by subtracting a multiple one even function

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 20:41:28

Quantum 10, 2088 (2026). We prove new monogamy of entanglement bounds for two-local qudit Hamiltonians of rank-one projectors without one-local terms. In particular, we certify the maximum energy in terms of th

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-28 20:11:39

At the "What's Next with AWS" 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthca

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-28 19:00:00

The CDC reported in April 2026 that the U.S. general fertility rate fell to 53.1 in 2025, a record low in data going back to 1909.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-28 18:01:29

El vigente campeón del mundo, Gukesh, no termina de asumir el peso de la corona, pero sí exhibe destellos de su gran talento

old new thing @ 2026-04-28 16:00:00

A pot of tokens. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 1: A semaphore appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-28 16:00:00

AI long ago surpassed humans at games like chess and Go. Now it's powering robots that can challenge top athletes. The post Sony’s Table-Tennis Robot Beat Elite Human Players With Unorthodox Moves appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-28 15:09:42

Suppose you have an arc a, a portion of a circle of radius r, and you know two things: the length c of the chord of the arc, and the length b of the chord of half the arc, illustrated below. Here θ is the central angle of the arc. Then the length of the a

Martin Fowler @ 2026-04-28 15:02:00

LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been using them for their teams and have developed a method and workflow called Structured Prom

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-04-28 12:36:21

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 555 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Apagón; Empédocles; 3I/ATLAS; Hail Mary”, 23 abr 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 555:

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 12:04:13

Quantum 10, 2087 (2026). In unitary circuit games, two competing parties, an "entangler" and a "disentangler", can induce an entanglement phase transition in a quantum many-body system. The tran

AEON @ 2026-04-28 12:00:00

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many meanings - by Vivek V Venkataraman Read on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 10:19:54

Quantum 10, 2086 (2026). We introduce $\texttt{RandomMeas.jl}$, a modular and high-performance open-source software package written in Julia for implementing and analyzing randomized measurement protocols in qu

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 09:09:21

Quantum 10, 2085 (2026). The coupling of a quantum system to an environment leads generally to decoherence, and it is detrimental to quantum correlations within the system itself. Yet some forms of quantum corr

Quantum Journal @ 2026-04-28 08:57:05

Quantum 10, 2084 (2026). The question of “non-locality of a single photon'', which started with a paper by Tan, Walls and Collett (TWC, 1991) stirred a thirty years long debate. This hampered attempts

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-28 02:48:30

My thanks to Rec League for sponsoring last week at DF. Rec League is a new app/social network for sharing what you’re into. (Get it? The “rec” in “Rec League” is for recommendations. It’s a damn clever name, and sometimes a clever name is half the battle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

In today’s global volatility, corporate boards are being defined by their ability to manage seismic shifts in risk and navigate constant change. While geopolitical shifts and supply chain disruptions have long been staples of risk committee agendas, a new

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

In the financial services industry, standing still is equivalent to falling behind. As VyStar Credit Union approached the $14 billion asset mark, it faced a pivotal crossroads: The organization had to maintain its growth while meeting the rigorous complian

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

We are delighted to welcome Daniel Aw in his new role as the general manager for Red Hat’s Asia Pacific region. In this role, Daniel will lead the next phase of the company’s growth in the region, and advance customer success with AI and open hybrid cloud

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

This week, I developed a community operating system image for running AI agents: an agentic OS prototype. It is built using fedora-bootc, a community project that allows for defining a bootable Linux OS directly in a Containerfile. The creation of this age

Red Hat blog @ 2026-04-28 02:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 44, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 44 below and don’t forget to ensure your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-28 01:42:25

Weekly “sponsor the whole week at DF” spots are sold out until August 24 . That’s a great sign that sponsorships here work. But it’s not so great if you have a product or service that you’d like to promote now, or soon, to the DF audience — savvy listene

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-27 21:00:00

After Apollo 17 in 1972, every crewed mission stayed inside low Earth orbit. Artemis II broke that streak in April 2026 on a lunar flyby of 406,771 km.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-27 20:46:32

David Pierce: On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay are joined by Daring Fireball ’s John Gruber to talk about their reactions to the news, the ( mostly ) smooth transition Apple seems to have pulled off, and what we should really make

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-27 19:14:10

Algorithmic advances are steadily lowering the bar for quantum attacks—even before large-scale hardware exists. The post Quantum Computers Are Coming to Break Cryptography Faster Than Anyone Expected appeared first on SingularityHub .

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-27 17:21:00

Redirecting instead of rejecting!

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-27 17:08:23

Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find. The post Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet first appeared on Quanta Magazine

AWS Blog @ 2026-04-27 17:01:28

Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advanc

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-27 16:13:38

El vencedor del Cerrado, Nihal Sarin, castigó de manera didáctica y brillante un error de cálculo de Rapport

old new thing @ 2026-04-27 16:00:00

It's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse. The post Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-27 15:00:33

Today, we’re introducing a new way that people can pay for your auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment. This new payment option allows you to offer subscribers more affordable options. People can

AEON @ 2026-04-27 12:01:00

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-04-27 12:00:00

Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural - by Denva Gallant Read on Aeon

brucknerite @ 2026-04-27 10:00:00

Estamos familiarizados con el estampido sónico que produce un avión al rebasar la velocidad del sonido, pero los trenes de alta velocidad también pueden crear sus estampidos, aunque sus velocidades sean menores, al entrar en un túnel. ¿Cómo lo hacen?

Deepmind @ 2026-04-27 09:00:06

Google DeepMind and Korea partner to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI models

Inside Java @ 2026-04-27 02:00:00

JDK 26 / JEP 500 take first steps towards making final fields truly immutable by issuing warnings when they are mutated through the reflection API. This article discusses common scenarios in which final fields are mutated through reflection and what altern

Computational Complexity @ 2026-04-26 23:16:12

A few months ago in Oxford, Bernard Sufrin, an emeritus fellow, said he's looking to hire a student to implement LEAP (Logic Engine for Argument by Pointing), a way to teach logic by proving basic logic theorems via pointing and clicking. Rahul Santhanam

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 21:30:00

[ Update: The store is now closed. Thanks to everyone who ordered — you should start getting shipping notices very soon.] It’s really just a coincidence, but it was 20 years ago this week that I went full-time writing Daring Fireball (after writing the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 21:28:59

Software brain says *Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow.* Hardware brain says *Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.*

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-04-26 21:00:00

On April 26, 2026, Kenya's Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 at London to become the first man to break two hours in a record-eligible marathon.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-26 19:39:40

Ben Schoon, 9to5Google: In March, a report revealed some of the internal cuts Samsung has been making for its mobile division, with the company initially concerned it could post an operating loss for the first time ever. It’s a big deal, as Samsung’

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-04-26 14:30:00

Solaris 11.4 moves from three to two SRUs per quarter

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-26 11:11:36

Otra bella demostración de la enorme creatividad de Rapport, capaz de vencer con una miniatura al supersólido Leinier Domínguez

Inside Java @ 2026-04-26 02:00:00

In this session, we'll introduce Project Babylon and examine how it's used by HAT (Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit) to make GPU programming more approachable for Java developers. We'll focus on new HAT features that leverage code reflection to create lay

Baeldung @ 2026-04-25 23:46:41

Learn how the @NamedEntityGraph annotation works when using Hibernate and different ways to employ it. The post A Guide to @NamedEntityGraph in Hibernate first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 19:02:39

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 25) appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 18:16:12

The previous post looks at the nonlinear pendulum equation and what difference it makes to the solutions if you linearize the equation. If the initial displacement is small enough, you can simply replace sin θ with θ. If the initial displacement is larger

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-25 17:51:01

El húngaro Richard Rapport, de 30 años, ha brillado desde su adolescencia como uno de los jugadores más creativos del mundo

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 15:12:39

There’s a nice formula for the nth derivative of a product. It looks a lot like the binomial theorem. There is also a formula for the nth derivative of a quotient, but it’s more complicated and less known. We start by writing the quotient rule

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-25 02:56:12

Every single word of the November 2025 Financial Times report, which Mark Gurman derided as “simply false”, was, in fact, exactly correct.

The Endeavour @ 2026-04-25 01:53:29

The equation of motion for a pendulum is the differential equation where g is the acceleration due to gravity and ℓ is the length of the pendulum. When this is presented in an introductory physics class, the instructor will immediately say something like

Singularity Hub @ 2026-04-25 00:34:04

A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. The post A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon appeared first on Singular

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-04-24 19:37:38

El ganador del torneo abierto, Abhimanyu Mishra, es el gran maestro más joven de la historia, y produjo esta brillante miniatura

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 18:09:50

My spitball idea for a generational law to keep more young people from ever starting a tobacco habit — and thus, nicotine addiction — would be through scaled taxation.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 16:18:03

I think about this scene more and more lately.

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-04-24 16:17:44

“Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales. The post A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience first appeared

old new thing @ 2026-04-24 16:00:00

But maybe it's not worth it. The post Defending against exceptions in a <CODE>scope_exit</CODE> RAII type appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:28:41

Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title for a short-lived GitHub repo, allo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-04-24 15:12:55

Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands o

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-04-24 15:00:15

DEVELOPER STORIES THE POWER OF PUFFIES. The delightful game puffies. combines the satisfying snap of a jigsaw puzzle with the nostalgic delight of a sticker book. This 2025 Apple Design Award finalist for Inclusivity is brimming with virtual puffy