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Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-21 14:09:19

Con motivos de peso para ser considerado uno de los mejores deportistas de la historia, el hexacampeón del mundo no puede salir de Rusia

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-21 13:49:00

Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people without any knowledge

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 13:35:00

Platform engineering should have a product focus, as developers are customers; they must provide composable, self-service capabilities, golden bricks rather than rigid golden paths, so teams can move quickly while maintaining consistency. Success is meas

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 13:06:56

Quantum 10, 2112 (2026). We investigate the Floquet spectrum of a detuned, driven two-level system and show that it exhibits exact quasienergy crossings when the detuning is an integer multiple of the energy qu

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 13:00:00

SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX's revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-21 12:54:48

Quantum 10, 2111 (2026). Graph states are a key resource for a number of applications in quantum information theory. Due to the inherent noise in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era devices, it is impor

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:41

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how softw

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:19

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as so

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer works there ever

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-21 12:19:16

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer works there ever

AEON @ 2026-05-21 12:01:00

It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

The OpenTofu community released version 1.12.0 on May 14, 2026. This update isn’t a complete rewrite, but it does resolve some issues that infrastructure teams have faced for a while. By Claudio Masolo

InfoQ @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

Google introduced new Android development tools that enable building apps up to 3x faster by using AI agents, including a redesigned Android command-line interface (CLI), structured skills", and an integrated knowledge base. These tools are designed to s

AEON @ 2026-05-21 12:00:00

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs - by Alan Manning Read on Aeon

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 09:00:00

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says he expects China to fly taikonauts around the moon in 2027, "ratcheting up perceptions of a space race between China and the United States," reports SpaceNews. He is using that prospect to argue for a revamped Artemis

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 05:30:00

Colossal Biosciences says it has grown chickens inside 3D-printed artificial eggshells. "The company says the egg technology could help conserve at-risk bird species," reports MIT Technology. "It could also play a role in a project to re-create the extinct

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:47:24

Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link): Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates ab

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-21 03:05:14

Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link): Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI. The company has started rolli

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 02:36:01

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Inside Java @ 2026-05-21 02:00:00

Primitive defaults are chosen so that they are (probably) represented by memory set to one or more bytes with all bits set to zero; we call these all-zero-bits values. We want “primitive-like” classes to have similar optimization opportunities, even if som

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 01:58:51

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 01:54:06

Ever since Apple introduced their video wallpapers I wanted to be able to put custom videos there. I decided to reverse engineer and see what I can do. I built Phosphene to sell it, but the existing competitors were polished enough that the time it would

slashdot @ 2026-05-21 01:00:00

Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-21 00:53:27

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slashdot @ 2026-05-21 00:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 23:33:18

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 23:20:23

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link): For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.” But ov

slashdot @ 2026-05-20 23:00:00

Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 22:58:09

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Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-20 22:53:22

22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye , on TikTok: “Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral during quarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe it, in GarageBand on my school iPad. My high school gave us all

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 22:49:59

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Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-20 22:44:25

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Devel

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 22:28:18

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slashdot @ 2026-05-20 22:00:00

Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: GitHub has announced on X that their internal repositories have been breached through a compromised VS Code Extension on an employee's workstation. Bleeping Computer reported that the attack is linked to TeamPCP who

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 21:05:30

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slashdot @ 2026-05-20 21:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuin

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 20:50:59

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Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 20:33:56

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slashdot @ 2026-05-20 20:00:00

Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would "take too long" to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. "If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that wo

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-20 19:49:48

Let \(f\) be a function mapping binary strings of length \(m\) to strings of length \(n\) with \(n>m\). Since there are more strings of length \(n\) than \(m\), \(f\) is not onto. Can you find a string not in the range? This is known as the range avoid

slashdot @ 2026-05-20 19:00:00

A long-running lawsuit over Vizio's Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads an

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 18:27:25

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slashdot @ 2026-05-20 18:00:00

The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner's story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the re

slashdot @ 2026-05-20 17:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio,

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:52:19

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do. The post Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics Fro

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-20 16:50:37

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions? The post How Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematic

InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 16:38:00

Grab’s Central Data Team built a multi-agent AI system to automate repetitive engineering support tasks across its data warehouse platform. The system separates investigation and enhancement workflows using specialized agents coordinated via an orchestra

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 16:30:47

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Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-20 16:27:00

Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good at enforcing rules, but the rules were limited. B

old new thing @ 2026-05-20 16:00:00

You need to arrange to get one from the other. The post The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 15:43:37

Previous thread in sequence: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories - - May 2026 (321 comments) Comments URL: Poin

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InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 14:30:00

OpenAI recently outlined how it adapted WebRTC for low-latency voice AI at global scale. The new architecture replaced a conventional media termination model with a relay-transceiver design better suited to Kubernetes and cloud load balancers. It keeps W

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-05-20 14:01:56

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slashdot @ 2026-05-20 13:00:00

Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to u

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 12:32:50

Quantum 10, 2110 (2026). Quantum computing involving physical systems with continuous degrees of freedom, such as the quantum states of light, has recently attracted significant interest. However, a well-define

InfoQ @ 2026-05-20 12:04:00

Pip 26.1 ships dependency cooldowns that enforce a waiting period before newly published packages can be installed, and experimental pylock.toml lockfile support from PEP 751. Research shows a 7-day cooldown would have prevented 8 out of 10 analyzed supp

AEON @ 2026-05-20 12:01:00

After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 11:31:15

Quantum 10, 2109 (2026). We time-evolve a translationally invariant quantum state on the Quantinuum H1-1 trapped-ion quantum processor, studying the dynamical quantum phase transition of the transverse field Is

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-20 10:59:55

Quantum 10, 2108 (2026). There is great interest in generating and controlling entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates and similar ensembles for use in quantum computation, simulation, and sensing. One class

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-20 10:33:55

Todo indica que la pregunta de hasta dónde hubiera llegado el neerlandés con mayor valentía quedará para la eternidad

slashdot @ 2026-05-20 09:00:00

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glim

This Week in Rust @ 2026-05-20 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

slashdot @ 2026-05-20 05:30:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 02:49:50

How should we define √(z² − 1)? Well, you could square z, subtract 1, and take the square root. What else would you do?! The question turns out to be more subtle than it looks. When x is a non-negative real number, √x is defined to be the non-negative rea

Inside Java @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers thatJSON thread dumps now emit thread identifiers, thread counts, and the process identifier as numeric types.

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Consider a medical device running Linux in a hospital. It processes patient data, adjusts dosing, and reports to clinical systems. Or an ATM on a street corner, processing transactions around the clock. Or a gateway device at the edge of a manufacturing ne

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications, security, and innovation. These updates enhance the core strengths of RHEL to help IT leaders, developers

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

AI agents are no longer passive assistants. They write code, call APIs, install packages, and interact with production systems. This shift from passive to active changes not only the usefulness of agents, but also the security question around their activit

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

True innovation is never a solo act; it is the result of diverse experts coming together to solve the impossible. While the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award winners represent the pinnacle of open source success, the sheer volume of transformative wo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

In the last few years, large language models (LLMs) have moved from research labs to production systems powering critical business functions. This rapid adoption poses a fundamental challenge for enterprises: How do you deploy AI with confidence when model

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-20 02:00:00

The promise of enterprise AI agents is straightforward: Let the model think, Let the code run, and keep everything under your control.Until now, this promise was hard to deliver. If you wanted Claude to write and execute code for your team, you had 2 optio

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-20 01:37:31

The previous post derived the identity and said in a footnote that the identity holds at least for x > 1 and y > 1. That’s true, but let’s see why the footnote is necessary. Let’s have Mathematica plot The plot will be 0 where th

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-19 22:20:06

Enough hydrogen is leaking from a single mine to power hundreds of homes. Researchers say it's far from unique. The post 70% of the Rock Under Our Feet Can Produce Hydrogen. Tapping It Could Power Your Town. appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 21:20:00

Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused capabilities: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. The release aims to address a recurring challenge in enterprise AI deployments, where organizations want to use aut

tecosystems @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

Sogrady @ 2026-05-19 20:54:03

In the wake of O’Reilly’s decision to exit their events business, including OSCON, a void was created. Among its other functions, OSCON served as the de facto annual gathering of forces within open source. While it’s distinct in some critical ways and can’

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-19 19:00:00

From 2003 to 2025 the Atlantic named-storm total fell outside NOAA's May range 9 times, 8 of them underforecasts. NOAA's 2026 outlook lands May 21.

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-19 18:38:00

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and en

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 17:42:38

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X ( XCancel link ): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply p

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

Physics Phorums @ 2026-05-19 17:00:14

In 2025, researchers studied a quasicrystal forged in a hypervelocity asteroid collision 600 million years ago—and found that it contains ‘phasons’! It’s not a perfect icosahedral quasicrystal: it’s slightly distorted. 6 gentl

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 16:29:00

Agoda Multimodal Content System Agoda unifies hotel images and guest reviews using a shared topic taxonomy, enabling multimodal retrieval across 700M+ images and multilingual reviews with offline enri

old new thing @ 2026-05-19 16:00:00

The storage control blocks were destroyed. The post What is the history of the <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ARENA_<WBR>TRASHED</CODE> error code? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-19 14:09:54

Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to f(x) + f(y) = f(z)

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 14:00:00

TanStack has released a detailed postmortem describing a sophisticated supply-chain attack that compromised 42 npm packages and published 84 malicious package versions in just six minutes, exposing developers and CI/CD systems to credential theft and mal

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-19 12:38:40

El flamante vencedor del Torneo de Candidatos ha estado flojo en la primera mitad del Grand Chess Tour de Bucarest

AEON @ 2026-05-19 12:00:00

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls - by Ron Po Read on Aeon

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 11:00:00

Enforce encryption & governance centrally with Confluent Private Cloud. Reduce brokers by 73% and secure legacy Kafka clients without code changes or sprawl.

InfoQ @ 2026-05-19 08:57:00

Vite 8.0 introduces a significant architectural change, migrating from a dual-bundler setup to a single Rust-based bundler called Rolldown. This update enhances build speeds, reporting reductions from 46 seconds to 6 seconds in some projects. The release

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:16

Connect your AI coding assistant to Confluent with MCP servers and Agent Skills. Direct platform access and domain expertise for streaming, now generally available.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q2 2026 release, including dbt adapter, Materialized Tables for Flink, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more.

Confluent @ 2026-05-19 08:50:15

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-19 03:27:00

The context that actually matters isn’t in your database. It’s in the tools your users live in every day. Multi-stage agents stall the moment they hit a step they can’t see. And every missing integration is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecy

Inside Java @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Since JavaOne 2025, Java has moved from JDK 25, the latest LTS release, toward JDK 26, with major updates across the language, APIs, runtime, tooling, security, startup performance, and garbage collection. This talk reviews the most important changes from

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-19 02:00:00

Recently at Red Hat Summit 2026, Amazon Web Service (AWS) showcased the breadth and depth of its nearly 20-year collaboration with Red Hat, spanning agentic AI development, AI inference optimization, open source infrastructure innovation, and expanded Red

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-18 21:13:20

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizat

Deepmind @ 2026-05-18 20:21:39

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:53:33

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations. Mr. Musk fil

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:34:46

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik: When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, it sits near $4 trillion. That is more than

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 19:17:02

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link): Even though it has large

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:52:03

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life . (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:47:08

A follow-up point on my “ AI Is Technology, Not a Product ” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”: By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that peo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 18:21:35

Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking over the public meant t

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:50:09

Every year, the Apple Design Awards recognize innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. But they’ve also become something more: A moment to step back and celebrate the work of Apple developers across the community. Meet

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 17:34:47

Wikipedia: The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-18 17:14:42

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. The post What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-05-18 17:00:22

Get ready for a week of technology, creativity, and community — all online and free. Here’s what WWDC26 has in store. Learn more

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-18 16:59:59

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup: Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 16:38:00

Swiggy detailed real-time machine-learning ranking system for autocomplete built on OpenSearch. The architecture separates candidate generation and ranking, uses feature stores for real time signals, and applies learning to rank models for improved relev

old new thing @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

Reported incorrectly since the day it was written. The post Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-18 16:00:00

A new study challenges the idea that consciousness is necessary to make sense of language. The post The Fully Anesthetized Brain Can Still Track a Podcast appeared first on SingularityHub .

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 15:14:00

Anthropic hosted "Code with Claude 2026" in San Francisco, featuring livestream sessions focused on Claude Code, the Claude API platform, and other projects. Key topics included developer experience, autonomy features, model step-changes, and the impact

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 14:45:00

This week's Java roundup for May 11th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; introducting Azul Payara Community and the WildFly wado CLI tool; point releases of LangChain4j and Google ADK; and maintenance releases of M

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:01:00

Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

AEON @ 2026-05-18 12:00:00

Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read on Aeon

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 11:41:00

Cloudflare and Stripe launched a protocol that lets AI agents autonomously create cloud accounts, register domains, start subscriptions, and deploy to production. Stripe handles identity and payment with a $100/month default cap. No other major cloud pro

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-18 10:49:14

El joven astro alemán tiene poco que envidiar en profundidad posicional a los mejores estrategas de la historia

brucknerite @ 2026-05-18 10:00:00

En un viaje de Madrid a Barcelona en un Frecciarossa 1000 de Iryo noté un movimiento peculiar, como si el tren me meciera. ¿Qué estaba pasando? ¿Sería el mítico movimiento de lazo, la inestabilidad que puede surgir en trenes de alta velocidad circulando en

Quantum Journal @ 2026-05-18 09:49:24

Quantum 10, 2107 (2026). Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investigate t

InfoQ @ 2026-05-18 08:33:00

The Navigation API is a new interface for managing client-side navigation in single-page applications, now available in major browsers as of January 2026. It addresses limitations of the prior History API by providing a unified event model and improved h

Rust blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals , 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals . This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final statu

Inside Java @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

Caching is a first-class architectural concern in agentic systems. This talk breaks down how Java applications can layer internal, distributed, and semantic caches. We'll explore in-process caching with Caffeine for ultra-low-latency access, distributed ca

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

It seems there’s a new product or software springing up in the tech world all the time. What’s more, you’re often expected to become your company’s de facto expert and you only have one month to do it. One week. One day. By this afternoon. Whether it be fo

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

Open source AI is more exciting than ever, offering a growing number of AI models to choose from. There are reasoning-heavy architecture options like DeepSeek and Kimi K2, more versatile options like the highly-adopted Qwen family, and the specialized, edg

Red Hat blog @ 2026-05-18 02:00:00

More than 10 years ago, Red Hat began a collaboration with Microsoft rooted in a simple but powerful recognition: enterprise customers need trusted, interoperable platforms that offer true choice. What started as a shared commitment to openness has grown i

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:53:18

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:50:57

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 21:43:45

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-17 19:59:15

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.  ★ 

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:50:34

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-17 15:43:50

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-17 13:29:31

 1) Congratulations to Scott Aaronson for winning the first Trevisan Award. The Trevisan Award is in memory of Luca Trevisan and recognizes expository work in Theoretical Computer Science.  It is given out by the ACM. The ACM announcement of S

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-05-17 12:16:50

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 558 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Barbacid; Operador; Volcanes; Planeta 9”, 14 may 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 558: Barbacid, matemáti

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 27: 531: Lazy Constants (Third Preview)

Inside Java @ 2026-05-17 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that JDK 27 EA Builds now include post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3.

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 23:40:15

El bello y didáctico remate de esta partida ilustra la gran clase del alemán, poco espectacular en general pero muy eficaz

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:22:38

Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 23:17:15

Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight: The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money, Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake companies by

daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-05-16 22:58:26

One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. For example, yo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 22:32:51

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 21:27:34

Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X : “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistake

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-16 17:24:38

Un mes después de su apabullante triunfo en el Candidatos, el aspirante al título muestra fisuras en Bucarest

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-16 16:00:00

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 May 16) appeared first on SingularityHub .

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 11:13:34

Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:16:06

Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:08:44

Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 10:00:15

Filippo Menolascina uses Co-Scientist to identify new liver disease treatments and explain why existing drugs only help certain patients.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:53:11

Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 09:40:27

Stanford geneticist uses Co-Scientist to help find new treatments for chronic liver disease and liver fibrosis.

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 05:14:17

Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:38:00

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft , his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel : Track your

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-16 03:37:57

Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead

Inside Java @ 2026-05-16 02:00:00

This session highlights the progress of JEP 528, which brings core dump and minidump support to jcmd. The jcmd tool is widely used for monitoring and troubleshooting live HotSpot JVMs. With JEP 528, jcmd will also be able to diagnose crashed JVMs, creating

Deepmind @ 2026-05-16 00:50:12

Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 22:12:09

“Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.”  ★ 

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 21:24:10

Yesterday, regarding the “Magic Cursor” feature Google teased for its upcoming Googlebook/Aluminium OS platform, I wrote : Shaking your cursor over something is an interesting gesture. The only feature I’m aware of that uses that gesture is MacOS’s f

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 20:37:13

Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apologies for not noticing. No wonder I thought the descri

tecosystems @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

Sogrady @ 2026-05-15 19:06:36

In the beginning, software was open. Not because that was thought to be the correct strategic approach, but rather because software was an afterthought. Hardware was what mattered. Less than two decades later, the hardware was cheaper and consequently matt

Confluent @ 2026-05-15 17:50:14

Digital sovereignty in streaming demands architectural guarantees, not policy promises. How BYOC, schema controls, and open protocols satisfy global regulations.

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 16:20:57

We are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities, better align with conventions used by other build systems and frameworks, and reflect the changes in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0. You’ll

old new thing @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Maybe because it already exists? The post The case of the <CODE>Create­File­Mapping</CODE> that always reported <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ALREADY_<WBR>EXISTS</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-15 16:00:00

Self-assembling swarms of microrobots could someday deliver drugs and pull toxins from water. The post New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch appeared first on SingularityHub .

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-05-15 15:50:50

Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive. The post Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-15 15:31:41

El compositor israelí Amatzia Avni camina sobre un alambre para lograr un triunfo en apariencia imposible con gran belleza

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 15:07:36

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How w

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 14:51:12

Thinking about code in the age of AI and a deep loop at ArchRules and ArchUnit at scale. A good week. The post Java Weekly, Issue 646 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Kotlin Blog @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

Kotlin news @ 2026-05-15 14:50:18

A new release of Compose Multiplatform has landed, with improvements to the iOS and web experience and a refreshed approach to UI testing. Read on for the highlights, or for the complete list of changes, check out the What’s New. Get Started with Compose M

The Endeavour @ 2026-05-15 14:34:29

I’ve written a couple posts lately about reverse engineering the internal state of a random number generator, first Mersenne Twister then lehmer64. This post will look at xorshift128, implemented below. import random # Seed the generator state a: in

AEON @ 2026-05-15 12:00:00

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read on Aeon

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-05-15 08:40:00

Landung in der Pralinenschachtel

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-05-15 07:05:37

The usual string theory hype machine in action: to celebrate a PRL publication, a university press office puts out a press release full of hype with a highly misleading title (“string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the …

Baeldung @ 2026-05-15 03:11:19

Learn about WevDriverManager in Java, how to set it up, along with different applications and modes of operation. The post Introduction to WebDriverManager first appeared on Baeldung .             

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:57:38

Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his wo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:53:54

After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels , a term I’ve been using since 2022 , it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sounds more clever, but I worry it’s less clear. I’m

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 02:03:13

Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [ sic ] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-presi

Inside Java @ 2026-05-15 02:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers the warnings that JDK 26 emits when final fields are mutated through reflection.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 01:44:20

Calif, a security research team , on their blog: Many security experts consider Apple devices to be the most secure consumer platform. The latest flagship example is MIE (Memory Integrity Enforcement), Apple’s hardware-assisted memory safety system b

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-15 00:53:10

Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired ( News+ link ): As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people wh

AWS Blog @ 2026-05-15 00:03:39

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 23:52:00

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard . that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 22:51:04

Geoffrey Fowler, on his blog, which, alas , he calls “ a Substack ”: I’m joining the Youth AI Safety Institute as its first new employee. It’s a research and testing organization launching today under the umbrella of children’s nonprofit Common Se

Singularity Hub @ 2026-05-14 22:17:56

Photons traveling straight through a cloud of gas appear to exit, on average, before they enter. The post Physicists Have Measured ‘Negative Time’ in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub .

Confluent @ 2026-05-14 21:40:28

Discover how Tableflow is helping you feed your data lake with real-time, analytics-ready tables for 30-50% lower cost

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:36:58

Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent: The list of tech and financial industry titans joining the commander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president Xi Jinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. [...]

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 21:02:21

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks . Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during G

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 20:27:50

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg under the headline, “Apple-OpenAI Alliance Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight”: OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near f

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-05-14 20:11:58

En una lucha de cinco horas, Firouzja no fue preciso para convertir en victoria su ventaja decisiva ante Praggnanandhaa

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-05-14 20:00:00

Pew Research finds Republicans and Democrats traded places on inflation worry from 2024 to 2026, even though CPI rose less than a percentage point.

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:50:05

Dominic Preston, at The Verge: Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien first confirmed the release plans to USA Today , telling the outlet that all preorders will be fulfilled within the next few weeks. The company later confirmed the news on its social media a

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 19:39:25

Well, this is ridiculous. Klack is a $5 Mac utility by Henrik Ruscon that simulates mechanical keyboard clacking while you type. Absurd. My keyboard makes its own beautiful sounds as I type. So of course I went to buy a copy immediately, because I lov

Daring Fireball @ 2026-05-14 18:20:54

James Lockman: This small driver enables the Griffin PowerMate, a nifty little device from days gone by. What does the PowerMate do? It is a knob that you can twist or that you can press. That’s it. It also has a blue LED in the base that can change i

Martin Fowler @ 2026-05-14 17:04:00

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on how it should be implemented, informa

old new thing @ 2026-05-14 16:00:00

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Computational Complexity @ 2026-05-14 15:15:29

For those very long-time readers this blog extensively covered prediction markets  from 2006 to 2008. In a prediction market, you have a future event, such as the winner of an election, and a market that pays off one dollar if that event h