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The forging of countries

AEON @ 2024-09-20 12:00:00

Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe - by Luka Ivan Jukić Read at Aeon

Amazon Joins the Motion Picture Association, Hollywood's Top Lobbying Group

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 12:00:00

Amazon is joining the Motion Picture Association as its seventh member, alongside Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix. Engadget reports: Amazon was already involved with the MPA,

Difference Between Mockito Core and Mockito Inline

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 11:18:11

Learn more about the two main libraries for unit testing called Mockito Core and Inline              

Using CompletableFuture With Feign Client in Spring Boot

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 11:12:18

Learn how to use OpenFeign and CompletableFuture to parallelize multiple HTTP requests.              

Understanding findAny() and anyMatch() in Streams

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 11:10:13

Learn about the findAny() and anyMatch() methods and how to use them in Java Streams.              

Convert String XML Fragment to Document Node in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 11:07:16

Learn how to convert string XML fragment to document node in Java              

Indian Filmmaker Ditches Human Musicians for AI

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 09:30:00

Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is ditching human musicians for artificial intelligence, saying he'll use only AI-generated tunes in future projects, a move that underscores AI's growing reach in creative industries. From a report: The filmmaker and scree

Deep Dive Into JVM Tools: Dynamic Attach and Serviceability Agent

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 09:21:52

Delve into the functions of Dynamic Attach and the Serviceability Agent in monitoring and resolving issues in the JVM              

Combine Date and Time from Separate Variables in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-09-20 09:15:17

A quick tutorial on combining a LocalDate with a LocalTime to create a LocalDateTime in Java.              

Earth Will Get a Second 'Mini-Moon' For 2 Months This Year

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 09:00:00

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will temporarily become a mini-moon for Earth, orbiting in a horseshoe shape from September 29 to November 25, 2024. CBS News reports: Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, an asteroid monitoring syst

Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Walmart customers will soon have the option to pay directly from their bank accounts with instant transfers for online purchases. The enhanced feature is a flash point in the escalating tensions between m

Creator of Kamala Harris Parody Video Sues California Over Election 'Deepfake' Ban

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 03:30:00

Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from Politico: The creator of a video that used artificial intelligence to imitate Kamala Harris is suing the state of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws restricting the use of digitally alter

Disney To Stop Using Salesforce-Owned Slack After Hack Exposed Company Data

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 02:50:00

Disney plans to transition away from using Slack as its companywide collaboration tool after a hacking group leaked over a terabyte of data from the platform. Many teams at Disney have already begun moving to other enterprise-wide tools, with the full tran

Apple, Google Wallets Now Support California Driver's Licenses

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 02:10:00

Residents of California can now store their driver's license or state ID in Apple or Google Wallet, according to an announcement today. Apple also shared the news. TechCrunch reports: Californians with an ID in the Apple Wallet or Google Wallet app can use

Friday Five — September 20, 2024

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-20 02:00:00

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader and Positioned Furthest in Vision in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container ManagementFor the second year in a row, Gartner named Red Hat a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. This year, Red Hat was

Hope For Coral Reefs After IVF Colonies Survive Record Heat Event

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 01:30:00

Young corals bred using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and planted in reefs around the US, Mexico and the Caribbean have surprised scientists, after most survived last year's record marine heatwave, while older corals struggled. From a report: A study has fo

Gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-20 01:04:42

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 263 # Comments: 45

3K free SVG icons for popular brands

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-20 00:52:07

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 347 # Comments: 68

Palworld Developer Has No Idea Why Nintendo's Suing Over Its Pokemon-like Game

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 00:50:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Pocketpair has responded to the lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company. The studio that developed Palworld, the game at the heart of the suit, issued a statement early this morning saying it doesn'

Microsoft Launches a Windows App For iPhones, Macs, and Android Devices

slashdot @ 2024-09-20 00:10:00

Microsoft has launched a new Windows app that serves as a hub for streaming Windows environments from services like Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. However, it's limited to Microsoft work and school accounts with "no signs that Microsoft plans to su

Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-20 00:00:18

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 275 # Comments: 45

Puberty Hasn’t Changed Since the Ice Age

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-19 23:51:38

The blueprint was set at least 25,000 years ago. The post Puberty Hasn’t Changed Since the Ice Age appeared first on Nautilus .

ISPs Tell Supreme Court They Don't Want To Disconnect Users Accused of Piracy

slashdot @ 2024-09-19 23:30:00

Joe_Dragon shares a report: Four more large Internet service providers told the US Supreme Court this week that ISPs shouldn't be forced to aggressively police copyright infringement on broadband networks. While the ISPs worry about financial liability fro

Gukesh doblega a Yi Wei

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-19 23:28:18

El juvenil indio, aspirante al título mundial, tumba al fortísimo chino en una pelea maratoniana cuando todo apuntaba al empate

GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 23:16:39

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 317 # Comments: 112

Cruise Robotaxis Return To the Bay Area Nearly One Year After Pedestrian Crash

slashdot @ 2024-09-19 22:50:00

Cruise is returning to the streets of Sunnyvale and Mountain View for the first time since it paused operations in the Bay Area after a robotaxi struck a pedestrian in October 2023. From a report: The company said Thursday that it will put "several" vehicl

Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 Sequoia With Apple Intelligence

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-19 22:21:43

Still a little awkward for a tentpole marketing feature of the iPhones 16 arriving tomorrow, but a public beta is a notable milestone.  ★ 

Torvalds Weighs in On 'Nasty' Rust vs C For Linux Debate

slashdot @ 2024-09-19 22:10:00

The Rust vs C battle raging in Linux circles has left even Linus Torvalds scratching his head. "I'm not sure why Rust has been such a contentious area," the Linux creator mused at this week's Open Source Summit, likening the fervor to ancient text editor w

1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike Outage

slashdot @ 2024-09-19 21:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products. Four percent

AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-19 20:54:08

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant positions AWS as a Leader, reflecting our commitment to diverse virtual desktop solutions and operational excellence - driving innovation for remote and hybrid workforces.

Apple's New macOS Sequoia Update Breaking Major Security Tools

slashdot @ 2024-09-19 20:51:00

Apple's latest macOS 15 "Sequoia" update, released earlier this week, has disrupted security tools from major providers including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft, according to reports. The extent and cause of the disruption remain unclear.

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 20:31:00

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 268 # Comments: 86

FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 18:49:38

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 385

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-19 18:31:50

Norway’s sizable oil and gas deposits have made it one of the wealthiest countries in the world. That’s why it might come as a surprise that it’s the first country to have more electric vehicles than gasoline-powered ones. Transportation is the single bigg

Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 16:53:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 299 # Comments: 101

My window has the WS_EX_NOACTIVATE extended style, but it got activated anyway

old new thing @ 2024-09-19 16:00:00

Well, at least it wasn't activated by a click. The post My window has the <CODE>WS_<WBR>EX_<WBR>NOACTIVATE</CODE> extended style, but it got activated anyway appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Efficient validation of Boson Sampling from binned photon-number distributions

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-19 15:49:51

Quantum 8, 1479 (2024). In order to substantiate claims of quantum computational advantage, it is crucial to develop efficient methods for validating the experimental data. We propose a test of the correct func

Pivotal Tracker will shut down

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 15:25:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 283 # Comments: 224

Safeguarding Oscillators and Qudits with Distributed Two-Mode Squeezing

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-19 15:16:01

Quantum 8, 1478 (2024). Recent advancements in multi-mode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes have shown great promise in enhancing the protection of both discrete and analog quantum information. This broaden

Sampling Error Analysis in Quantum Krylov Subspace Diagonalization

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-19 15:05:42

Quantum 8, 1477 (2024). Quantum Krylov subspace diagonalization (QKSD) is an emerging method used in place of quantum phase estimation in the early fault-tolerant era, where limited quantum circuit depth is ava

Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 15:04:21

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 203 # Comments: 39

Scaling PostgreSQL to Petabyte Scale

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-19 15:00:02

Read how we’re scaling PostgreSQL at the petabyte scale to power our query monitoring feature, Insights.

Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 14:17:05

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 308 # Comments: 113

The Cauchy distribution’s counter-intuitive behavior

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-19 14:00:46

Someone with no exposure to probability or statistics likely has an intuitive sense that averaging random variables reduces variance, though they wouldn’t state it in those terms. They might, for example, agree that the average of several test grade

Efficient entanglement purification based on noise guessing decoding

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-19 13:45:22

Quantum 8, 1476 (2024). In this paper, we propose a novel bipartite entanglement purification protocol built upon hashing and upon the guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) approach recently devised f

QCon London: Learnings from Automating Deployments

InfoQ @ 2024-09-19 13:15:00

Copying and pasting code from one Windows folder to another as a deployment method can cause downtime. Jemma Hussein Allen presented how they automated their deployments and the benefits that they got from it at QCon London. By Ben Linders

TED Fellows program supporting the next generation of innovators with $3M investment from Ballmer Group

TED Blog @ 2024-09-19 13:00:38

At TED, we’re after big ideas and systemic change. To create the generational impact that we want to support in our communities, we cannot go at it alone. For the past 15 years, the TED Fellows program has been committed to finding and supporting the next

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 12:44:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 361 # Comments: 152

Dumpster archeology

AEON @ 2024-09-19 12:01:00

Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview

InfoQ @ 2024-09-19 12:00:00

Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters,

The value of our values

AEON @ 2024-09-19 12:00:00

When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’ - by Alexander Prescott-Couch Read at Aeon

New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs

InfoQ @ 2024-09-19 11:00:00

A new platform named sbomify has been announced to address the growing challenges businesses face in managing and sharing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). The platform aims to automate and simplify SBOM processes as regulatory requirements increase

Asserting REST JSON Responses With REST-assured

Baeldung @ 2024-09-19 08:58:49

Learn how to use REST-assured to compare and assert JSON bodies returned from testing REST endpoints.              

trurl 0.16

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-09-19 08:38:01

(Download trurl here) Release presentation At 08:00 UTC I will do a live-streamed release presentation of trurl 0.16 on Twitch. Bump I decided to bump the minor version number again because there is a new option: --qtrim. This is the old --trim option made

★ The iPhones 16

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-19 05:59:00

What more proof of the camera’s singular importance to the iPhone would one need than the ever-growing block of camera lenses on the back of each year’s new models, or the “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign? A dedicated hardware button?

Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 05:27:43

My son might be blind. He is only a few months old but things are concerning. I'm looking for resources, books, websites, etc to learn how to best support a blind baby, toddler, and beyond. Any help would be appreciated. Comments URL:

Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-19 02:37:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 291 # Comments: 246

Reviewing the JDK 23 Release Notes - Inside Java Newscast #76

Inside Java @ 2024-09-19 02:00:00

JDK 23 was released on September 17th! In this episode of the Inside Java Newscast we will review the full release notes for JDK 23 to see all the noteworthy changes included in the newest version of the JDK.

When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-18 23:03:13

It’s complicated. The post When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend? appeared first on Nautilus .

Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 22:46:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 201 # Comments: 224

Comic Mono

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 22:36:28

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 421 # Comments: 110

When Einstein and Kafka Met

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-18 21:55:08

Imagining a conversation between the two great minds. The post When Einstein and Kafka Met appeared first on Nautilus .

Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-18 21:46:35

New memory-optimized X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB DDR5 memory, 192 vCPUs, and 50 Gbps network bandwidth, designed for memory-intensive workloads like databases, analytics, and caching with unparalleled price/performance and efficiency.

LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 21:37:28

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 410 # Comments: 232

Data engineering professional certificate: New hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-18 20:50:29

Gain indispensable data engineering expertise through a hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS. This professional certificate covers ingestion, storage, querying, modeling, and more.

Is Tor still safe to use?

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 20:41:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 747 # Comments: 524

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 20:22:12

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 267 # Comments: 227

How We Made PostgreSQL Upserts 300x Faster on Compressed Data

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-18 20:00:21

Read how we made upsert performance 300x faster on compressed data by moving from PostgreSQL sequential scans to index scans.

Apple Intelligence Will Come to More Languages, Including German and Italian, Next Year (But Don’t Hold Your Breath for iPhones and iPads)

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-18 19:59:00

Allison Johnson, The Verge: Apple Intelligence’s list of forthcoming supported languages just got a little longer. After an October launch in US English, Apple says its AI feature set will be available in German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Vietnames

Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 19:40:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 212 # Comments: 103

Embracing the Future of Manufacturing

Computational Complexity @ 2024-09-18 19:38:00

Last week I walked around the  International Manufacturing Technology Show  with 89,000 other participants at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I went to see how AI was affecting manufacturing and it wasn't quite the way I was expecting.

El brillo de Sabrina Vega

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-18 19:15:32

La maestra internacional española acumula 5,5 puntos en seis rondas, y es quien más contribuye al buen rendimiento de la selección

Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-09-18 19:07:22

Hey it's Andrew - author of here! - crowdwave works best on your phone - unless you've got your headset and microphone plugged in to your desktop, in which case desktop works great too. Here's the story: So about six months ag

Apache Software Foundation Initiatives to Fuel the Next 25 Years of Open Source Innovation 

ASF @ 2024-09-18 18:00:00

Annual report for 2024 fiscal year highlights Foundation’s commitment to providing software for the public good since its formation in 1999 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 activ

Empowering YouTube creators with generative AI

Deepmind @ 2024-09-18 16:30:06

New video generation technology in YouTube Shorts will help millions of people realize their creative vision

How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-09-18 16:20:37

Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers. The post How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of first appeared on Quanta Magazine

More on the mysterious [default_interface] attribute in Windows Runtime classes

old new thing @ 2024-09-18 16:00:00

Forcing you to make a choice. The post More on the mysterious <CODE>[default_interface]</CODE> attribute in Windows Runtime classes appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Using GenAI to extract low-level details and high-level explanations from legacy systems

Martin Fowler @ 2024-09-18 15:08:00

Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth use their combination of an AST-fueled knowledge graph and LLMs to gain understanding of legacy systems. They have found it aids them both in extracting the low-level details of the code and can

Bridging the Gap Between Compressed and Uncompressed Data in Postgres: Introducing Compression Tuple Filtering

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-18 15:00:59

Compressed data in Postgres now performs more like uncompressed data. Discover how we achieved up to 500x faster updates & deletes on compressed data.

Stability AI Announces Integration of Top Text-to-Image Models with Amazon Bedrock

InfoQ @ 2024-09-18 12:06:00

Stability AI has introduced three new text-to-image models to Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models focus on improving performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography. They a

El Bastón

AEON @ 2024-09-18 12:01:00

To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs

InfoQ @ 2024-09-18 12:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks lik

Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support

InfoQ @ 2024-09-18 12:00:00

The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced. By Aditya Kulkarni

Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability

InfoQ @ 2024-09-18 09:00:00

To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors". By

curl 8.10.1

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-09-18 08:11:47

Welcome to this follow-up patch release, just a week after we shipped 8.10.0. A bunch of bugfixes. Numbers the 261th release0 changes7 days (total: 9,679)24 bugfixes (total: 10,828)50 commits (total: 33,259)0 new public libcurl function (total: 94)0 new cu

Finding the Closest Number to a Given Value From a List of Integers in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-09-18 07:58:19

Learn how to search a list to find the number closest to a given value in Java.              

Voyager 1 Just Fired Up Thrusters It Hasn’t Used in Decades

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-18 06:06:15

Ashley Strickland, reporting for CNN: Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from billions of miles aw

This Week in Rust 565

This Week in Rust @ 2024-09-18 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

Java 23 - Launch Stream

Inside Java @ 2024-09-18 02:00:00

Java 23 was released on 17 September 2024. The Java 23 Launch Stream covered new features, community updates, and what to expect from future releases.

Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-18 01:18:35

Sheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman, reporting for The New York Times: Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-17 23:15:56

Secure your mission-critical data with S3 Express One Zone's server-side encryption using KMS keys, combining top-notch performance and robust security for regulatory compliance.

7 Famous Fossil Hoaxes

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-17 22:10:22

How scientists over history excavated the fakes. The post 7 Famous Fossil Hoaxes appeared first on Nautilus .

Scientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-17 21:33:41

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the solar system. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, my colleagues and I present evidence that Earth m

Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe

InfoQ @ 2024-09-17 20:40:00

Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default a

La masa del bosón W medida por CMS del LHC descarta la anomalía a 7 sigmas de CDF II del Tevatron

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-09-17 19:14:33

En física de partículas, la gran noticia del año 2022 fue la masa del bosón W medida por el detector CDF II del Tevatrón, 80 433.5 ± 9.4 MeV/c², la […] La entrada La masa del bosón W medida por CMS del LHC descarta la anomalía a 7 sigmas de CDF I

Tensor-network-based variational Monte Carlo approach to the non-equilibrium steady state of open quantum systems

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-17 16:42:29

Quantum 8, 1475 (2024). We introduce a novel method of efficiently simulating the non-equilibrium steady state of large many-body open quantum systems with highly non-local interactions, based on a variational

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Posting completions to somebody else’s I/O completion port

old new thing @ 2024-09-17 16:00:00

If you have gained access to it, then that was the problem. The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Posting completions to somebody else’s I/O completion port appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Arithmetic, Geometry, Harmony, and Gold

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-17 15:27:02

I recently ran across a theorem connecting the arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, and the golden ratio. Each of these comes fairly often, and there are elegant connections between them, but I don’t recall seeing all four together in one

Legacy Modernization meets GenAI

Martin Fowler @ 2024-09-17 15:07:00

Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it's going to be much more useful to help us understand existing messy code, as part of a modernization effort. M

Boost Postgres Performance by 7x With Chunk-Skipping Indexes

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-17 15:02:27

See how we made PostgreSQL performance 7x faster while using 87 % less storage thanks to smarter partition pruning via chunk-skipping indexes.

Apple Open-Sources Multimodal AI Model 4M-21

InfoQ @ 2024-09-17 15:00:00

Researchers at Apple and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have open-sourced 4M-21, a single any-to-any AI model that can handle 21 input and output modalities. 4M-21 performs well "out of the box" on several vision benchmarks and

Gukesh, fuerte; Ding, débil

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-17 14:28:00

A dos meses del Mundial, el aspirante corrobora que está listo para ser campeón a los 18 años, mientras el campeón muestra problemas de salud

Build, Manage, and Monitor Data Streaming Applications, All Within Your Favorite IDE

Confluent @ 2024-09-17 14:00:04

Confluent for VS Code streamlines workflows, accelerates development cycles, and enhances real-time data processing, all within a unified environment.

New in Confluent Cloud: Making Serverless Flink a Developer's Best Friend, Protecting Sensitive Data, and More

Confluent @ 2024-09-17 14:00:04

CC 2024 Q3 adds flexible schema management, Table APIs, and AI model inference with Flink, client-side field level encryption, new broker metrics API, and more!

End-to-end complexity for simulating the Schwinger model on quantum computers

Quantum Journal @ 2024-09-17 13:44:30

Quantum 8, 1474 (2024). The Schwinger model is one of the simplest gauge theories. It is known that a topological term of the model leads to the infamous sign problem in the classical Monte Carlo method. In con

Announcing Swift 6

Swift blog @ 2024-09-17 12:00:00

We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains. Many people know of Swift as a language for app development, with a million apps on the App Store. But Swift i

Problem-solving matter

AEON @ 2024-09-17 12:00:00

Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process - by David C Krakauer & Chris Kempes Read at Aeon

ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-Alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More

InfoQ @ 2024-09-17 09:00:00

Last week, Microsoft released the first Release Candidate of .NET 9. This is the first Go-live version of the new framework, expected to be released later this year, and it consolidates significant updates to ASP.NET Core. Among the new features are: Kee

The Arrival of Java 23!

Inside Java @ 2024-09-17 02:00:00

JDK 23 is now available! Oracle is proud to announce the general availability of JDK 23 for developers, enterprises, and end-users.

Migrating virtual machines from vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with the migration toolkit for virtualization

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-17 02:00:00

When an organization decides to investigate a new hypervisor platform, such as Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, the first question is usually how to migrate virtual machines from your existing infrastructure into OpenShift Virtualization. This is where Re

Managing image mode for RHEL with Red Hat Insights

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-17 02:00:00

Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) uses the same tools, skills, and patterns as containerized applications to deliver an operating system (OS) that is easier to build, ship, and run. Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A quick start guide

Fedora 41 Beta now available

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-17 02:00:00

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the beta availability of Fedora Linux 41, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 later this fall, the

Empower your data center with leading compute, networking, and storage solutions

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-17 02:00:00

Managing a data center can be demanding and costly, and so there's a clear need for high-performance, cost-efficient general compute, networking, and storage solutions. Red Hat, Senao Networks, and Intel have joined forces to bring you the Senao SX904 Next

[Sponsor] WorkOS

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-17 01:02:21

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

Ten Years of Six Colors

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-17 00:02:24

Jason Snell: Ten years sure seems like a long time. Ten years ago the iPhone got physically big for the first time. (In the ensuing decade, iPhone revenue has doubled.) Ten years ago Apple announced the Apple Watch. Ten years ago I found myself wi

Apple Watch’s Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Now Available in More Than 150 Countries

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-16 23:14:32

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: Apple released watchOS 11 today following months of beta testing. A key new health-related feature included in the software update is sleep apnea detection, which is available starting today on the Apple Watch S

Elderly Monkeys Aged More Slowly When Given a Cheap Diabetes Drug Used by Millions

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-16 23:01:37

A drug that slows aging may already be on the market. Scientists have long been interested in metformin, a widely prescribed drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, for its potential to delay aging. In worms, fruit flies, and rodents, the drug—on average less

How History Did the Dodo Wrong

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-16 21:24:03

Who are you calling inept and unfit? The post How History Did the Dodo Wrong appeared first on Nautilus .

★ The Things They Carried

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-16 21:19:38

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

Hyperstore: A Hybrid Row-Columnar Storage Engine for T̶̶̶i̶̶̶m̶̶̶e̶̶̶ ̶̶̶S̶̶̶e̶̶̶r̶̶̶i̶̶̶e̶̶̶s̶̶̶ Real-Time Analytics

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-16 20:00:09

See how we improved our hybrid row-columnar storage engine—now renamed hyperstore—to solve our customers’ real-time analytics needs.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more

AWS Blog @ 2024-09-16 19:32:13

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week.

An Artist on Why AI Isn’t the End of Art

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-16 19:11:12

A conversation with Issue 56 cover artist Chris Buzelli. The post An Artist on Why AI Isn’t the End of Art appeared first on Nautilus .

Change Field Value Before Update and Insert in Hibernate

Baeldung @ 2024-09-16 18:36:45

Tutorial on how to change a field value before update and insert in Hibernate.              

This Week’s Hype

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-09-16 18:27:29

Today’s Washington Post has an opinion piece from Brian Greene, running under the demonstrably false title Decades later, string theory continues its march toward Einstein’s dream. In the piece, the argument of string theory critics is given as

Thierry Breton Resigns, Forced Out by the European Commission President

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-16 18:15:04

Thierry Breton, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: On 24 July, you wrote to Member States asking them to nominate candidates for the 2024-2029 College of Commissioner, specifying that Member States that intend t

How to Sort a List of Pair<String, Integer>

Baeldung @ 2024-09-16 16:14:24

Learn how to sort a list of pairs in Java.              

Using MockMvc With SpringBootTest vs. Using WebMvcTest

Baeldung @ 2024-09-16 16:12:00

Tutorial on the difference between the @SpringBootTest and @WebMvcTest annotations.              

Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-09-16 16:10:47

Cells across the tree of life can swap short-lived messages encoded by RNA — missives that resemble a quick text rather than a formal memo on letterhead. The post Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA first appeared

Some notes on Win32 carets

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

Assorted notes and musings. The post Some notes on Win32 carets appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Intro to MongoDB Atlas

Baeldung @ 2024-09-16 15:58:40

An intro to MongoDB Atlas - a cloud-based service that manages the deployment, monitoring, security, and scaling of MongoDB databases.              

Making Postgres Faster: New Features for 7x Faster Queries and 500x Faster Updates

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-16 15:00:12

Learn more about hyperstore and how we’re enabling Postgres to manage real-time analytics workloads with greater performance and cost optimizations.

Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy

InfoQ @ 2024-09-16 14:35:00

This week's Java roundup for September 9th, 2024, features news highlighting: the September 2024 Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud and Micrometer releases, Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1, Spring Data 2024.1.0-M1, JBang 0.118.0 and Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10. By Mi

William Blake’s dark vision of London

AEON @ 2024-09-16 12:01:00

‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

InfoQ @ 2024-09-16 12:00:00

AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates

Tender, yet creepy

AEON @ 2024-09-16 12:00:00

Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss - by Tishani Doshi Read at Aeon

iPhone 16 Screen Sizes

Use Your Loaf @ 2024-09-16 11:44:39

Two new sizes as the Pro phones grow in size, and weight, and get even smaller bezels. Here’s what you need to know about the iPhone 16. The New Models in a Nutshell As in earlier years, Apple has discontinued the iPhone 15 Pro models and added

Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone

InfoQ @ 2024-09-16 11:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features. Karpenter, initially

AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation

AWS Open Source News @ 2024-09-16 10:05:35

The OpenSearch project is moving to The Linux Foundation to become the OpenSearch Software Foundation.

Bien vertical

brucknerite @ 2024-09-16 10:00:03

En este blog escuchamos unos ratos a Bruckner y otros, a Los Gandules. Y, al contrario que Bruckner, a veces, Los Gandules establecen verdades básicas de la astronáutica […]

Hungría brilla con Rapport

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-16 09:01:23

El primer tablero magiar acumula 3,5 puntos en cuatro partidas con un juego espléndido, como el de esta victoria sobre Ivanchuk

The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 4)

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-09-16 06:58:15

In Part 1, I explained my hopes that classical statistical mechanics reduces to thermodynamics in the limit where Boltzmann’s constant approaches zero. In Part 2, I explained exactly what I mean by ‘thermodynamics’. I also showed how, in

The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 4)

Physics Phorums @ 2024-09-16 06:58:15

In Part 1, I explained my hopes that classical statistical mechanics reduces to thermodynamics in the limit where Boltzmann’s constant approaches zero. In Part 2, I explained exactly what I mean by ‘thermodynamics’. I also showed how, in

How will chatGPT affect Homework?

Computational Complexity @ 2024-09-16 02:52:00

LANCE: I gave my final exam for my ugrad theory course (regular, Context Free, P, NP, Decidable, Undecidable) to the new ChatGPT o1 that claims to reason about math to see how it would do. BILL: How did it do? LANCE: Impressive--beat most of my studen

How Red Hat is integrating post-quantum cryptography into our products

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-16 02:00:00

In a previous post-quantum (PQ) article, we introduced the threat that quantum computing presents for any systems, networks and applications that utilize cryptography. In this article, you’ll learn what you can do to assist your organization in achieving c

Tiptop

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-15 23:41:01

My thanks to Tiptop for sponsoring DF last week. Tiptop is a completely new way to pay that makes everything you buy more affordable with trade-in at checkout. It’s incredibly easy. At checkout, you simply select any item you own that you want to trade in

Linkage

0xDE @ 2024-09-15 19:00:00

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving (\(\mathbb{M}\)), a 1994 rug by Marilou Schultz in the the National Gallery of Art designed from an image of the Intel Pentium integrated circuit.

No te pierdas Naukas Bilbao 2024 ni Bizkaia Zientzia Plaza

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-09-15 15:14:21

Como todos los años, anuncio Naukas Bilbao con la portada de mi charla: «La globalización cósmica», el próximo viernes 20 a las 12:10 horas. Hablaré de la tensión de Hubble, […] La entrada No te pierdas Naukas Bilbao 2024 ni Bizkaia Zientzia Plaz

El ‘abuelo’ Ivanchuk amarga a So

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-15 13:42:47

A los 55 años, el genial ucranio ha perdido energía y precisión, pero no talento ni comprensión, como demuestra en esta victoria

Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag

C0T0D0S0 @ 2024-09-15 07:00:00

Ich glaube jeder Mensch hat einen oder mehrere Sehnsuchtsorte. Orte, an denen sie oder er gerne sein mag. Orte zu denen man eine besondere Verbundenheit spürt, die nie einem nie wirklich über werden. Wenn es in die Ferne gehen soll ist das für mich sicher

Deployment considerations for Red Hat OpenShift Confidential Containers solution

Red Hat blog @ 2024-09-15 02:00:00

Confidential containers are containers deployed within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), which allows you to protect your application code and secrets when deployed in untrusted environments. In our previous articles, we introduced the Red Hat OpenShi

Ceva, cevians, and Routh’s theorem

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-14 20:30:59

I keep running into Edward John Routh (1831–1907). He is best known for the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion but he pops up occasionally elsewhere. The previous post discussed Routh’s mnemonic for moments of inertia and his “stretch” th

Dithering, and This Week’s Apple Event

Daring Fireball @ 2024-09-14 20:23:52

I’m still collecting my thoughts on this week’s “It’s Glowtime” Apple event, and where Apple stands in general. But this episode of Dithering that dropped Friday morning captures my high-level thoughts well. We haven’t done this in a while, but we’

El gran apuro de Carlsen

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-14 18:10:44

El ‘número uno’ llegó corriendo en bicicleta y sin acreditación ni documentos a la tercera ronda tres minutos antes del límite

Moments of inertia mnemonic

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-14 18:08:16

Edward John Routh (1831–1907) came up with a mnemonic for summarizing many formulas for moment of inertia of a solid rotating about an axis through its center of mass. Routh’s mnemonic is I = MS / k where M is the mass of an object, S is the sum of

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 14)

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-14 16:00:23

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step Will Knight | Wired “The company today announced a new advance that signals a shift in approach—a model that can ‘r

El talento dormido de Rapport

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-09-14 12:47:10

Hay motivos sólidos para pensar que el húngaro no ha subido tanto en el escalafón como podría; por ejemplo, esta victoria ‘fácil’

Amazon Introduces Storage Browser for S3

InfoQ @ 2024-09-14 08:17:00

Amazon has recently announced the alpha release of Storage Browser for Amazon S3, providing end users with a simple interface for accessing data stored in S3. The project is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries. By Renato

A New Gene Therapy Reprograms Cancer Cells to Fight Themselves

Singularity Hub @ 2024-09-13 23:51:58

Cancer cells are tricky foes. Our body’s immune system is normally on the lookout for signs of tumor cells. If any are detected, it launches killer T cells—a type of immune cell—to seek and destroy the threat. But it’s a cat-and-mouse game: As tumors grow,

Feeling Gravity’s Pull

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-13 23:26:24

Two theoretical physicists have a lively conversation about how abstract concepts can feel down-to-Earth. The post Feeling Gravity’s Pull appeared first on Nautilus .

The Stealthy Assassin Robberfly

Nautilus blog @ 2024-09-13 20:13:35

Don’t underestimate this slender predator from the British grasslands. The post The Stealthy Assassin Robberfly appeared first on Nautilus .

RAG Is More Than Just Vector Search

Timescale blog @ 2024-09-13 19:12:46

Go beyond vector search. Learn how to improve your RAG system with Timescale and implement text-to-SQL, filtered search, structured extraction, and evaluation-driven development.

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 678 - Sep 13th 2024

iOS Weekly @ 2024-09-13 18:28:29

Comment It’s go time for iOS 18, macOS 15, and all their friends! Your app updates that you slaved over throughout the summer are probably already pending release and it all kicks off on Monday! I've been ru

Binomial bound

The Endeavour @ 2024-09-13 16:29:02

I recently came across an upper bound I hadn’t seen before [1]. Given a binomial coefficient C(r, k), let n = min(k, r − k) and m = r −  n. Then for any ε > 0, C(n + m, n) ≤ (1 + ε)n + m / εn. The proof follows quickly from applying […] T

The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system

old new thing @ 2024-09-13 16:00:00

Understanding why it decided to fail fast. The post The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Podcast CB SyR 477: Materia oscura en galaxias enanas, sesgos dialectales en grandes modelos de lenguaje y transparentar la piel con un colorante

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-09-13 13:47:15

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 477 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “Ep477: Materia Oscura; IA y Racismo; Piel Transparente», 12 sep 2024. «La tertulia semanal en […] La ent