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spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

Several news outlets reported the discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape at the University of Utah in July 2025 and its successful restoration. This is a significant find, because up to now only the Fourth Edition’s manual wa

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

My colleagues and friends know that I prefer to communicate with them via email rather than chat messaging. There are many benefits in such a choice. You may want to consider them and adopt the same stance.

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

Two widely-reported court rulings in San Francisco found that employing copyrighted works to train Large Language Models (LLMs) fell within the law’s “fair use” provisions. The fact that writers brought these lawsuits shows that they felt wronged by the

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

Some open source software I wrote decades ago was distributed with the then-current BSD license, which included an advertising clause. This hinders the code’s reuse and distribution, so I’m hereby declaring that the clause’s requirements no longer apply

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

Generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, can help students as their personal tutor, by allowing them to study what interests them, by providing in depth explanations to topics they didn’t quite understand, by assessing their work and problems with

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

In an IEEE Software “Adventures in Code” column titled Modular Data Analytics I describe the benefits and use of simple-rolap , a tool suite for relational online analytical processing. I have built simple-rolap based on the Unix make tool and a

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

A key part in scientific writing is a description of related work. This section establishes what is known in the given area and the new publication’s contribution. It also provides a signal to reviewers and readers regarding the study’s innovativeness, c

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

I’ve been working with exceptions offered by languages, such as Java and Python, for more than 20 years, invariably as their consumer: catching them when raised by an API and then doing my thing. For the systems I worked on, exception handling mostly inv

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

TomTom recently announced it would stop operating their supporting infrastructure by the end of September following its earlier decision to exit the wearables market . This means that its products, such as sports watches, will become effectively usele

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

We have seen many calls warning about the existential danger the human race faces from artificial general intelligence (AGI). Recent examples include the letter asking for a six month pause in the development of models more powerful than GPT-4 and Ian

spinellis.gr @ 2025-12-30 07:15:00

Many of us are worried that Twitter’s increasingly erratic post visibility and user verification policies will curtail our ability to disseminate our work and ideas to a wide audience. Having spent years to attract followers on Twitter, setting up shop

Baeldung @ 2025-12-30 06:24:29

Explore various approaches to ignore a test in TestNG conditionally. The post Conditionally Ignore Tests in TestNG first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-12-30 06:20:12

Learn how Spring manages transactions internally, why manual commits don't work as expected, and how to define transaction boundaries correctly using both declarative and programmatic approaches. The post Commit on JdbcTemplate or DataSource in Java f

Baeldung @ 2025-12-30 06:16:40

Learn how VS Code simplifies code formatting for developers. The post How To Auto-Format Code in VS Code first appeared on Baeldung .              

Baeldung @ 2025-12-30 06:12:28

Learn and compare three ways of generating random and unique alphanumeric strings to use as identifiers. The post Generate Valid and Unique Identifiers first appeared on Baeldung .              

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 04:33:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be tra

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 03:02:00

Amid a global DDR5 shortage and soaring prices, Russian hardware enthusiasts are experimenting with do-it-yourself DDR5 RAM by sourcing empty PCBs and soldering memory chips by hand. Tom's Hardware reports: The idea comes from Russian YouTuber PRO Hi-Tech'

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 02:25:00

Phoronix's Michael Larabel is "reliving some of the best moments for Fedora Linux in 2025" by highlighting the year's most popular news around the distro. Throughout 2025, Fedora continued to lead upstream Linux innovation with bold changes like Wayland-on

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-30 02:00:00

Our own emotions may play a major role when gauging Fido’s feelings The post You Might Be Misreading Your Dog appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-30 01:56:13

Turn articles into podcasts and listen on the go. Email any article, and it comes back as natural narration delivered straight to your private podcast feed. Whether it’s a long read or a quick blog post, enjoy it hands-free in any podcast app. Sign up f

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-30 01:45:42

The image Tim Cook posted on Twitter/X (and which the Apple TV account retweeted) is ugly and awkward. It either *is* AI-generated slop or it looks like AI-generated slop for no artistic or thematic reason whatsoever.

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 01:45:00

Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: MacRumors reports that Apple plans to expand iPhone and Apple Watch driver's licenses to 7 U.S. states (CT, KY, MS, OK, UT, AR, VA). A recent convert is the State of Illinois, whose website videos demo how you can us

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 01:02:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to connect w

slashdot @ 2025-12-30 00:20:00

OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediat

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-30 00:00:00

Picturing positive encounters can make you like a person more The post Imagine Your Way to a Better Relationship appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 23:40:00

Nvidia has completed its previously announced $5 billion investment in Intel, buying over 214 million shares at a fixed price after the deal received clearance from Federal Trade Commission. "The leading AI chip designer said in September it would pay $23.

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 23:00:00

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: China drafted landmark rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally manipulating users, including what could become the strictest policy worldwide intended to prevent AI-supported suicides, self-harm, an

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-12-29 22:36:44

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 22:22:00

Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a catalyst for similar moves to protect bees elsewhere. From a report: It means that across a broad swa

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-29 22:00:00

Hitchhiking fishes regularly tag along with young mantas in Florida The post The Portable Ecosystems of Young Manta Rays appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 21:40:00

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished over the Indian Ocean en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the marine robotics company that located Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance is preparing to resume its hunt for the missing Boeing

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 21:29:26

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slashdot @ 2025-12-29 21:02:00

Windows 10's formal end-of-support arrived in October, and while the operating system is generally remembered as one of the "good" versions of Windows -- the most widely used since XP -- many of the annoyances people complain about in Windows 11 actually s

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 20:26:00

Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 -- the first time this has

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-29 20:00:00

A series of Iceland volcanic eruptions yields clues The post How Does Life Take Hold in Barren Environments? appeared first on Nautilus .

slashdot @ 2025-12-29 19:45:00

Michal Kicinski, who co-founded both CD Projekt and the DRM-free digital games store GOG back in 2008, has acquired 100% ownership of GOG from CD Projekt, bringing the platform full circle to one of its original creators. GOG was already operating as par

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-12-29 19:24:23

Dos derrotas por accidentes muy inusuales ponen al noruego en la difícil perspectiva de remontar diez puestos y un punto en seis rondas

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 19:21:30

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slashdot @ 2025-12-29 19:06:00

AI-generated video tools like OpenAI's Sora will make individual content creators "far, far, far less valuable" as social media platforms shift toward algorithmically generated content tailored to each viewer, according to Michael Mignano, a partner at ven

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 18:57:03

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slashdot @ 2025-12-29 18:22:00

A group of researchers is calling on universities to treat consulting work as a strategic priority, arguing that bureaucratic obstacles and inconsistent policies have left a massive revenue stream largely untapped even as higher education institutions face

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-29 18:04:43

Rats: they’re just like us The post The Very Human Stressor That Causes Rats to Seek Out Weed, Too appeared first on Nautilus .

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 17:43:14

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John Carlos Baez @ 2025-12-29 16:33:01

  In this series I’ve been explaining 12-tone scales in just intonation—or more precisely, ‘5-limit’ just intonation, where all the frequency ratios are integer powers of the primes 2, 3 and 5. There are various choices involve

Physics Phorums @ 2025-12-29 16:33:01

  In this series I’ve been explaining 12-tone scales in just intonation—or more precisely, ‘5-limit’ just intonation, where all the frequency ratios are integer powers of the primes 2, 3 and 5. There are various choices involve

old new thing @ 2025-12-29 16:00:01

You could blow me over. The post The Gävle Goat (Gävlebocken) succumbs in 2025 to a new menace appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 16:00:00

Earlier this year, AWS launched the Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services Lens, providing guidance for hybrid cloud workloads. The lens covers data classification, operational practices, automation, and compliance, helping organizati

old new thing @ 2025-12-29 16:00:00

You can register for a memory notification. The post How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? Or that my job is running low on memory? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-12-29 16:00:00

We can guess what the universe will look like a few billion years into the future, but eventually things could get weird. The post How Will the Universe End? The Dark Eternity That Awaits Us Trillions of Years From Now appeared first on SingularityHu

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 14:22:59

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InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 12:05:00

Google DeepMind researchers introduced SIMA 2 (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), a generalist agent built on the Gemini foundation model that can understand and act across multiple 3D virtual game environments. The SIMA 2 architecture uses a Gemin

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-29 12:00:48

If the earth were a perfect sphere, “down” would be the direction to the center of the earth, wherever you stand. But because our planet is a bit flattened at the poles, a line perpendicular to the surface and a line to the center of the earth

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-29 11:50:00

Chatbots and robots are a setback to animal welfare—but have the potential to be a step forward The post AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 09:00:00

Microsoft has announced the general availability of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) version 1.22, a release centered on modernising the build and tooling experience for SPFx developers. This shift marks a foundational update to how SPFx solutions are built,

InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 09:00:00

Michelin's China operations group have written about how they implemented an AIOps platform. It details the missteps and organisational resistance that were overcome on the way to eventual alignment with their global IT governance, and explains how enter

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 08:54:19

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InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 07:06:00

Agoda’s AI Developer Report 2025 shows that AI has become a mainstream tool for developers in Southeast Asia and India, delivering real productivity gains while raising new questions about reliability, skills, and organisational readiness. Currently, it'

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 06:47:40

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Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 06:41:24

How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RA

Baeldung @ 2025-12-29 05:05:37

Learn different ways to transpose a two-dimensional matrix of double values in Java. The post Transpose double[][] Matrix With a Java Function first appeared on Baeldung .              

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-29 03:47:44

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InfoQ @ 2025-12-29 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for December 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new interfaces, VaultClient and ReactiveVaultClient, in Spring Vault; point releases for LangChain4j and Seed4J; maintenance releases for Micronaut, Quarkus and Infinispan; and

Cocoa with Love @ 2025-12-29 03:29:41

In the previous article , I struggled through getting GitHub Copilot (at the time based on GPT 4o) to generate a small Swift/SwiftUI/AVFoundation application. The app was about 400 lines long but Copilot struggled to handle more than a hundred lines or s

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-29 02:23:19

One of the things I found off-putting about category theory when I was first exposed to it was its reliance on the notion of “collections” that are not sets. That seemed to place the entire theory on dubious foundations with paradoxes looming

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Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-28 20:55:51

My thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring last week at DF. Copilot is a personal finance app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and they’ve always deeply believed in the value of embracing the design idioms and technical features of truly native apps for Appl

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-28 20:39:53

Major update to Rogue Amoeba’s essential audio utility for the Mac. I’ve written about versions 5 and 4 previously, and everything I wrote then remains true. SoundSource remains the system-wide audio menu item that ought to be built into MacOS, giving

InfoQ @ 2025-12-28 20:00:00

Docker has made its catalogue of more than 1,000 hardened container images freely available under an open source licence. Docker Hardened Images were previously a commercial offering launched in May 2025, but are now accessible to all developers under an

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-12-28 19:11:45

En una lucha decisiva para el oro, el estadounidense yerra en la apertura, lo que el noruego aprovecha de manera implacable

InfoQ @ 2025-12-28 16:15:00

After a contentious license change and the removal of administrator functionalities from the console, the company behind the popular open-source object storage server Minio recently announced that the project will now enter maintenance mode. The change h

Hacker News 200 @ 2025-12-28 12:51:42

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InfoQ @ 2025-12-28 12:00:00

Identity and authentication services company Authress shared its strategy to stay operational during major cloud infrastructure outages like the massive October 2025 AWS outage that disrupted many major services. According to Authress CTO Warren Parad, t

InfoQ @ 2025-12-28 08:07:00

QJS is a CGO-free, modern JavaScript runtime for Go that embeds the QuickJS-NG engine in a WebAssembly module and runs it with Wazero, providing Go applications with a sandboxed ES2023 environment with async/await and tight Go–JS interoperability. By O

Baeldung @ 2025-12-28 06:48:30

Learn how to mark a position in the stream and move back when reading a file. The post How to Reset InputStream and Read File Again first appeared on Baeldung .              

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-12-28 06:00:00

2025 … es ist noch nicht ganz vorbei. Aber ich habe in den nächsten Tagen noch ein wenig zu tun. Daher veröffentliche ich meinen Rückblick schon heute. Der Rückblick ist kurz. Seit dem sechzehnteiligen Konvolut über das dominierende Ereignis meines 202

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-27 23:32:01

The whole illustration is just weird looking , for one thing. As for sloppy details, the tree is in soft focus but somehow has a crisp edge, the carton is labeled both “Whole Milk” and “Lowfat Milk”, and the “Cow Fun Puzzle” maze is just goofily wrong. (

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-12-27 19:01:36

El ruso, de 27 años, lidera junto a Niemann a falta de cuatro rondas tras engañar al noruego en la apertura y rematarlo sin fallo

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-27 18:28:14

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E05, «Gneisenau: 125 años de memoria y solidaridad. La tragedia que hizo heroica a Málaga», 16 dic 2025 [a partir de 38:45], del programa de […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E05. El temporal de levante en

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-27 18:12:24

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E04, «La sequía en la Axarquía (Málaga)», 02 dic 2025 [a partir de 01:18:20], del programa de radio “Ciencia para Todos”, en el que participo […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E04. La sequía en la Axarquía

Baeldung @ 2025-12-27 16:08:22

New Kotlin support in Boot 4 and really useful Virtual Threads support in IntelliJ The post Java Weekly, Issue 626 first appeared on Baeldung .              

Singularity Hub @ 2025-12-27 16:00:00

Gene-editing breakthroughs, lightning fast AI chips, real-time translation—and a robot you ride like a horse. The post These Were SingularityHub’s Top 10 Stories in 2025 appeared first on SingularityHub .

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-27 12:14:04

One of my daughters gave me a Klein bottle for Christmas. Imagine starting with a cylinder and joining the two ends together. This makes a torus (doughnut). But if you twist the ends before joining them, much like you twist the ends of a rectangular strip

InfoQ @ 2025-12-27 11:16:00

AWS has unveiled the preview of its Network Firewall proxy, a managed service that optimizes proxy management and enhances outbound security for VPCs. Integrated with NAT Gateway, this tool inspects traffic through a three-phase model and supports both T

InfoQ @ 2025-12-27 09:08:00

Cloudflare has open-sourced tokio-quiche, an asynchronous QUIC and HTTP/3 Rust library that wraps its battle-tested quiche implementation with the Tokio runtime to simplify the development of high-performance QUIC applications. The library was used inter

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-27 00:00:00

Sophisticated scent seems to have evolved earlier than previously thought The post These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us Hone Our Sense of Smell appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-26 22:00:00

Everyday conversations across generations may boost older adults’ sense of purpose The post Call Your Grandparents This Holiday Season—for Their Health appeared first on Nautilus .

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-26 21:17:09

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T08E03, «Superratas resistentes a los venenos: el nuevo reto científico en la lucha contra las plagas urbanas», 21 oct 2025 [19:11], del programa de radio […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T08E03. Superratas tol

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-12-26 19:43:28

El gran maestro español, a medio punto de los líderes tras cinco rondas del Mundial de Rápidas, firmó un ataque muy brillante en la quinta

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-26 19:05:56

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 538 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Watson; Cartílago; Cáncer; Batman; SETI@HOME”, 25 dic 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos […] La entr

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-26 18:00:00

Behold the first sightings of a flat-headed cat in Thailand in 30 Years The post One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-12-26 17:00:00

To improve search and recommendation user experiences, Uber migrated from Apache Lucene to Amazon OpenSearch to support large-scale vector search and better capture search intent. This transition introduced several infrastructure challenges, which Uber e

InfoQ @ 2025-12-26 16:00:00

Uber’s Ceilometer framework automates infrastructure performance benchmarking beyond applications. It standardizes testing across servers, workloads, and cloud SKUs, helping teams validate changes, identify regressions, and optimize resources. Future pla

old new thing @ 2025-12-26 16:00:00

You have to find new ways of going faster. The post Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-12-26 16:00:00

From Blue Origin to Airbus, private space stations are on the way, with the first scheduled to launch next year. The post The Era of Private Space Stations Launches in 2026 appeared first on SingularityHub .

John Carlos Baez @ 2025-12-26 15:45:34

I’m giving a talk on the math of tuning systems at Claremont McKenna College on January 30th at 11 am. If you’re around, please come! You can read my slides here: • The mathematics of tuning systems. But my slides don’t contain most

Physics Phorums @ 2025-12-26 15:45:34

I’m giving a talk on the math of tuning systems at Claremont McKenna College on January 30th at 11 am. If you’re around, please come! You can read my slides here: • The mathematics of tuning systems. But my slides don’t contain most

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-26 15:00:00

Ya puedes escuchar el podcast en iVoox del Programa 662 de La Fábrica de la Ciencia, “Premio Nobel de Física 2025 al efecto túnel cuántico macroscópico. Francis Villatoro. 662”, 26 dic 2025, […] La entrada Francis en LFDLC 662: Premio Nobel de Fí

Nautilus blog @ 2025-12-26 11:50:00

Can we eat local on a warming planet? The post Tasting Tomorrow appeared first on Nautilus .

InfoQ @ 2025-12-26 09:08:00

Spotify has introduced the Experiments with Learning (EwL) metric on top of its Confidence experimentation platform to measure how many tests deliver decision-ready insights, not just how many “win.” EwL captures both the quantity and quality of learning

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2025-12-26 09:06:17

El rumano, de 15 años, firmó un ataque tan modélico como bello en el ya tradicional Festival Sunway, ganado por el iraní Gholami

Inside Java @ 2025-12-26 01:00:00

Nicolai Parlog discusses these topics with Georges Saab, Senior Vice President of the Java Platform Group and Chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board...

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-25 21:42:57

Terrific interaction design from The New York Times. Not so terrific interior design from the president.  ★ 

old new thing @ 2025-12-25 16:00:01

Checking those validity dates. The post Reading the fine print, episode 4: Holiday promotions appeared first on The Old New Thing .

old new thing @ 2025-12-25 16:00:00

The struggle for null termination. The post Why is the last letter of my string not making it to the clipboard? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-12-25 16:00:00

Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids could one day feel pain or become conscious—and how would we know? The post Five-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergartener’s Neural Wiring. It’s Time to Talk Ethics. appeared first

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-25 14:41:30

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 537 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Colera; Hielo; Cerebro; 3I/ATLAS”, 18 dic 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Pod

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-25 02:31:53

Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple’s executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO. Sponsored by: Notion : The AI workspace where tea

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-12-25 02:00:00

Ein wichtiger Hinweis: Ich bin medizinischer Laie. Ich habe nur lange mit meiner Krankheit gelebt. Ich kann alles medizinische hier falsch verstanden oder falsch wiedergegeben haben. Jede in diesem Text wiedergegebene Information ist potentiell aus dem

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-24 21:54:20

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 536 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Especial IAC+CB; Sol; OTELO; Cosmología; IA”, 12 dic 2025. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada Podcas

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-24 17:51:00

Another great video from Quinn Nelson. If your dumb cousin who knows you’re an Apple nerd approaches you on Christmas and says “ Hey what’s going on at Apple, Bloomberg says it’s rats leaving a sinking ship over there? ” and you don’t feel like explaining

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-24 17:45:39

Smart, fair video from Quinn Nelson on the gap that remains between iPadOS 26 and desktop OSes. I think it’s right that there is a gap there. Apple has the Macintosh, the best desktop/workstation platform in the industry. So whatever the ideal is for iPad

old new thing @ 2025-12-24 16:00:00

Understanding the difference between keys and characters for accelerators. The post Why does my <KBD>Ctrl</KBD>+<KBD>M</KBD> accelerator key activate when I press the <KBD>Enter</KBD> key? appeared first on The Old

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-24 15:06:41

It’s been said whatever you can validate, you can automate. An AI that produces correct work 90% of the time could be very valuable, provided you have a way to identify the 10% of the cases where it is wrong. Often verifying a solution takes far les

Quantum Journal @ 2025-12-24 11:54:21

Quantum 9, 1956 (2025). We investigate the emergence of quantum complexity and chaos in doped Clifford circuits acting on qudits of odd prime dimension $d$. Using doped Clifford Weingarten calculus and a replic

This Week in Rust @ 2025-12-24 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

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-24 03:16:45

From a 2023 report at The Verge: Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake. As part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, Sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes red

C0T0D0S0 @ 2025-12-24 02:00:00

Ein wichtiger Hinweis: Ich bin medizinischer Laie. Ich habe nur lange mit meiner Krankheit gelebt. Ich kann alles medizinische hier falsch verstanden oder falsch wiedergegeben haben. Jede in diesem Text wiedergegebene Information ist potentiell aus dem

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2025-12-24 01:00:04

A recent injunction issued by a district court suspended enforcement of Texas state law SB2420, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. In light of this ruling, Apple will pause previously announced implementation

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-24 00:19:57

Splendid essay by Bilge Ebiri for The Yale Review, a meditation both on the films of Terrence Malick and several filmmakers he’s deeply influenced.  ★ 

Confluent @ 2025-12-23 22:00:10

Manual schema management in Apache Kafka® leads to rising costs, compatibility risks, and engineering overhead. See how Confluent lowers TCO with Schema Registry and more.

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-23 20:48:11

CNN media analyst Brian Stelter, on Bluesky: As “60 Minutes” finalized its “Inside CECOT” report last Thursday, CBS sent the White House a request for comment. A WH spokesperson responded within a few hours. The quote was not included in the “60” repo

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-23 20:36:45

Christopher Goffard, reporting for the Los Angeles Times ( News+ link ): When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short — who became known as the Black Dahlia — he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old S

Confluent @ 2025-12-23 20:30:16

Apache Kafka® cluster rebalancing seems routine, but it drives hidden costs in time, resources, and cloud spend. Learn how Confluent helps reduce your Kafka TCO.

Confluent @ 2025-12-23 19:00:15

Audit logs in Confluent Cloud can seem boring—until you need precise insights in a crisis. Learn how to easily filter Apache Kafka® audit logs and improve your data security.

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-23 18:03:58

Newton’s birthday was on Christmas when he was born, but now his birthday is not. When Newton was born, England was still using the Julian calendar, and would continue to use the Julian calendar until 25 years after his death. On the day of Newton&#

Deepmind @ 2025-12-23 18:01:02

Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

Daring Fireball @ 2025-12-23 17:56:00

Everyone who works with official PDFs in any capacity should know that if you start with a PDF containing text you want to redact, and you just place black bars atop that text and resave the file, the original text is all still there in the new PDF file.

Quantum Journal @ 2025-12-23 17:18:46

Quantum 9, 1955 (2025). Topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing large-scale data. An abstract simplicial complex, in principle, can be built from data points, and by using tools f

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-23 16:57:34

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was reading Stephen Ambrose’s account of the Lewis & Clark expedition and wrote a post about their astronomical measurements. James Campbell left a comment recommending Edwin Danson’s book [1] on the hist

old new thing @ 2025-12-23 16:00:00

So transfer them to his office, or so it seems. The post When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Singularity Hub @ 2025-12-23 16:00:00

The treatment reprograms T cells to hunt down a patient's cancer. The approach could speed treatment and cut costs, but needs more study. The post Single Injection Transforms the Immune System Into a Cancer-Killing Machine appeared first on Singulari

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2025-12-23 14:52:03

Te animo cantar al ritmo del villancico austríaco «Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht» («Noche de paz, noche de amor»). ¡Dejadme en paz que estoy fatal! No sé ya si enseñar. Que […] La entrada e-Christmas 2025 fue escrita en La Ciencia de la Mula Fran

daniel.haxx.se @ 2025-12-23 13:00:18

Let’s take a look back and remember some of what this year brought. commits At more than 3,400 commits we did 40% more commits in curl this year than any single previous year! Since at some point during 2025, all the other authors in the project have

The Endeavour @ 2025-12-23 11:28:18

I recently learned of Bowie’s numerical method for solving ordinary differential equations of the form y″ = f(y) via Alex Scarazzini’s masters thesis [1]. The only reference I’ve been able to find for the method, other than [1], is the N

Quantum Journal @ 2025-12-23 09:33:04

Quantum 9, 1954 (2025). Quantum Signal Processing (QSP), a framework for implementing matrix-valued polynomials, is a fundamental primitive in various quantum algorithms. Despite its versatility, a potentially