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Near-optimal coherent state discrimination via continuously labelled non-Gaussian measurements

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-09 12:37:07

Quantum 10, 2016 (2026). Quantum state discrimination plays a central role in quantum information and communication. For the discrimination of optical quantum states, the two most widely adopted measurement tec

New SETI Study: Why We Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals

slashdot @ 2026-03-09 12:34:00

After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. "A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar 'space weather' could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence

Efficient Computation of Generalized Noncontextual Polytopes and Quantum violation of their Facet Inequalities

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-09 12:28:25

Quantum 10, 2015 (2026). Finding a set of empirical criteria fulfilled by any theory satisfying the generalized notion of noncontextuality is a challenging task of both operational and foundational importance.

Java News Roundup: Apache Solr 10, LangChain4j, Grails, JobRunr, Gradle, Devnexus, Commonhaus

InfoQ @ 2026-03-09 12:15:00

This week's Java roundup for March 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of Apache Solr 10; point releases of LangChain4j, JobRunr, Multik and Gradle; maintenance releases of Grails and Keycloak; Devnexus 2026; and Pi4J joining the Common

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-09 11:14:59

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 235 # Comments: 91

Ever behind the sunset

AEON @ 2026-03-09 11:01:00

This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The eye of the mathematician

AEON @ 2026-03-09 11:00:00

Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age? - by Rita Ahmadi Read on Aeon

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-09 10:41:04

Quantum 10, 2014 (2026). We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model i

Quantum Supermaps are Characterized by Locality

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-09 10:31:41

Quantum 10, 2013 (2026). We provide a new characterisation of quantum supermaps in terms of an axiom that refers only to sequential and parallel composition. Consequently, we generalize quantum supermaps to arb

Microsoft Launches MCP C# SDK v1.0, Bringing Full Support for Latest Protocol Specification

InfoQ @ 2026-03-09 09:35:00

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, bringing full support for the 2025-11-25 MCP Specification. The release introduces enhanced authorization flows, icon support for tools and resources, incremental scope consent, URL mode elic

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws

slashdot @ 2026-03-09 08:34:00

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities. Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-09 07:28:02

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Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions

slashdot @ 2026-03-09 05:34:00

Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com: Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-09 05:16:33

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Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

slashdot @ 2026-03-09 02:34:00

Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-09 01:00:00

There is a new Oracle Solaris 11.4 Common Build Environment. It roughly corresponds to SRU 90. So you can also try out the features I’ve written about in recent days . It is intended to allow developers to develop and test their software on Solaris 11.4.

Episode 50 “Towards Better Checked Exceptions” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-03-09 01:00:00

Java's checked exceptions are both an integral part of the language and one of its most contested features - let's talk about their specific issues and what could be done about them

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?

slashdot @ 2026-03-09 00:49:00

CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes "portable" micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs): Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be ab

A Security Researcher Went 'Undercover' on Moltbook - and Found Security Risks

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 23:39:00

A long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot: I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents di

Most of the US economy is in a recession

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 23:01:32

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Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 22:21:00

"A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation," reports the BBC, "on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away..." Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt "almost as if I wa

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 21:30:18

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 660 # Comments: 158

How does AI do on Baseball-Brothers-Pitchers

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-08 21:26:00

In my graduate Ramsey Theory class I taught Kruskal's tree theorem (KTT) which was proven by Joe Kruskal in his PhD thesis in 1960.  (Should that be in a graduate Ramsey Theory class? There are not enough people teaching such a course to get a debate

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 20:58:15

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 262 # Comments: 179

Steam on Linux Numbers Dropped to 2.23% in February

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 20:51:00

"In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%," reports Phoronix. And then in December Steam on Linux jumped even higher, to 3.58%. But January's numbers settled a little lower, at 3.38%. And last Monday the February numbers were released,

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 20:26:59

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI generated posts recently in HN and mostly coming from new accounts (green), it is more noticeable in the Show HN section. I wish the team can either restrict new accounts from posting or at l

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 20:07:33

Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie ha

OpenAI's Former Research Chief Raises $70M to Automate Manufacturing With AI

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 19:34:00

"OpenAI's former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup building an AI and software platform to automate manufacturing," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter. "Arda, the new startup co-founded

Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-08 19:33:26

Manet’s famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it. The perspective looks all wrong. You’re staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in

Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-08 19:33:26

Manet’s famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it. The perspective looks all wrong. You’re staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in

How much certainty is worthwhile?

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-08 19:09:48

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post on a composition table, analogous to a multiplication table, for trig functions and inverse trig functions. Making mistakes and doing better My initial version of the table above had some errors that have been corrected.

Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through a ‘Clean Room’ Implementation of Code?

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-08 18:59:09

Simon Willison: There are a lot of open questions about this, both ethically and legally. These appear to be coming to a head in the venerable chardet Python library. chardet was created by Mark Pilgrim back in 2006 and released under the LGPL

Donald Knuth on Claude Opus Solving a Computer Science Problem

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-08 18:49:08

Donald Knuth, who, adorably, effectively blogs by posting TeX-typeset PDFs: Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that

2/3 of Node.Js Users Run an Outdated Version. So OpenJS Announces Program Offering Upgrade Providers

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 18:34:00

How many Node.js users are running unsupported or outdated versions. Roughly two thirds, according to data from Node's nonprofit steward, OpenJS. So they've announced "the Node.js LTS Upgrade and Modernization program" to help enterprises move safely off

The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 18:16:38

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LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 18:01:50

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 359 # Comments: 70

My Homelab Setup

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 17:46:10

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 269 # Comments: 178

Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 17:34:00

When Block cut 4,000 jobs — nearly half its workforce — co-founder Jack Dorsey "pointed to AI as the culprit," writes Entrepreneur magazine. "Dorsey claimed that AI tools now allow fewer employees to accomplish the same work." "But analysts s

Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 16:34:00

Cornell University makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like 'synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals." Published in the journa

Steve Lemay Hits Apple’s Leadership Page

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-08 16:28:36

Help us Obi-Wan Lemay, you’re our only hope. (Also, as noted by Joe Rossignol, Eddy Cue got an updated headshot.)  ★ 

FrameBook

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 16:21:09

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Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 16:07:28

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LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 15:09:09

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 296 # Comments: 48

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 13:40:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 343 # Comments: 150

Rspress 2.0: AI-Native Documentation, Faster Startup and a Redesigned Theme

InfoQ @ 2026-03-08 13:00:00

Rspress 2.0 has launched with a revamped theme, boosted performance, and innovative AI features, transforming developer documentation. With enhanced build speeds and a new Static Site Generation to Markdown (SSG-MD) capability, Rspress empowers developer

Podcast CB SyR 548: Artemisa, fotoforesis, teorías de la consciencia, neuroplasticidad y ceguera, y púlsar BLPSR en centro galáctico

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-03-08 12:54:10

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 548 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePod A, ApplePod B], titulado “Artemisa; Fotoforesis; Consciencia; Cortex; Pulsar”, 05 mar 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que […] La entrada

Ask HN: How to be alone?

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 12:41:17

For the first time in my life, at 38, I'm alone. When I was 18 I basically moved out of my parents' straight in with my highschool sweetheart, and we were together ever since. That chapter of my life is over now, and I'm finding the adjustment very diffi

AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 12:34:00

Palantir's CEO was blunt. "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job... and you're going to screw the military — if you don't think that's going to lead to the nationalization of our technology, you're retarded.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 11:54:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 373 # Comments: 238

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

InfoQ @ 2026-03-08 11:11:00

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run SQL queries across data stored in different geographic regions without first moving or copying the data to aggregate the results.

Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 10:24:54

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Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 09:34:00

Would you move sunrise to 9 a.m. in Detroit? Or to 4:11 a.m. in Seattle... Though both options have problems, "There's no law we can pass to move the sun to our will," argues the president of the nonprofit "Save Standard Time". The Associated Press explai

Running Multiple Spring Boot Instances in IntelliJ

Baeldung @ 2026-03-08 06:15:08

Explore two simple ways to run multiple Spring Boot instances in IntelliJ IDEA. The post Running Multiple Spring Boot Instances in IntelliJ first appeared on Baeldung .              

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 06:04:14

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As US Tariffs Hit EVs, Hyundai Discontinues Its Cheapest IONIQ 6, While Kia Delays EV6 adn EV9 GT

slashdot @ 2026-03-08 05:44:00

First, Hyundai "is discontinuing its most affordable electric sedan after just three years on the market," reports USA Today. After being introduced in 2022, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 "quickly gained the admiration of automotive critics because of its affordable

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained

Hacker News 200 @ 2026-03-08 02:35:21

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 306 # Comments: 161

Thoughts: Fernweh

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-08 01:00:00

Man kann Kondensstreifen erstaunlich weit sehen. Von Lüneburg, wenn das Licht richtig steht, bis zum Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. Golden, im Licht der untergehenden Sonne. Natürlich nicht das Flugzeug. Aber eben den Kondensstreifen. Solange ich denken kann, haben d

Java Performance Update: From JDK 21 to JDK 25

Inside Java @ 2026-03-08 01:00:00

JDK 25 has arrived, bringing a major set of performance gains over JDK 21—often letting your existing, unchanged Java applications run faster right away. In this talk, we’ll dive into 13 concrete performance improvements delivered between JDK 21 and JDK 25

‘npx workos’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-07 22:53:37

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring this week at DF. npx workos is a CLI tool, replete with cool ASCII art, that launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integrati

Scaling Human Judgment: How Dropbox Uses LLMs to Improve Labeling for RAG Systems

InfoQ @ 2026-03-07 19:00:00

To improve the relevance of responses produced by Dropbox Dash, Dropbox engineers began using LLMs to augment human labelling, which plays a crucial role in identifying the documents that should be used to generate the responses. Their approach offers us

Análisis de ajedrez | Yuffa deleita en Praga

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-07 18:30:48

El español de origen ruso firma varias partidas de alta calidad en el Torneo Aspirantes, donde terminó el 2º

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 7)

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-07 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 March 7) appeared first on SingularityHub .

AWS Introduces Nested Virtualization on EC2 Instances

InfoQ @ 2026-03-07 13:34:00

AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables use cases such as app emulation and hardware simulation on supported C8i,

Standardizing Post-Quantum IPsec: Cloudflare Adopts Hybrid ML-KEM to Replace Ciphersuite Bloat

InfoQ @ 2026-03-07 11:45:00

Cloudflare has extended hybrid post-quantum encryption to IPsec and WAN traffic, standardizing its SASE stack ahead of the NIST 2030 deadline. By adopting a streamlined ML-KEM key exchange, the move addresses long-standing "ciphersuite bloat" in quantum-

Intro to Date-to-Instant and Instant-to-Date Converters

Baeldung @ 2026-03-07 05:11:12

Explore how to convert between Date and Instant, discuss precision differences, and provide fully working JUnit 5 tests to validate the behavior. The post Intro to Date-to-Instant and Instant-to-Date Converters first appeared on Baeldung .  

Explainable AI Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Spring AI

Baeldung @ 2026-03-07 05:08:03

Learn how to use a Tool Argument Augmenter to capture LLM reasoning during tool calls and how to use it in a Spring AI application. The post Explainable AI Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Spring AI first appeared on Baeldung .  

Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-06 23:03:16

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm? The post Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem appeared first on SingularityHub .

Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorship Openings

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 21:59:49

Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007 . They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna, a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 20:32:47

Google Threat Intelligence Group, earlier this week: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (releas

‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 20:21:12

Nick Heer, writing at Pixel Envy, uses Pages (from 2009 through today) to illustrate Apple’s march toward putting “greater focus on your content” by making window chrome, and toolbar icons, more and more invisible: Perhaps Apple has some user studies

Standard Model 4: Quantum Physics

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-06 20:03:57

This is a crash course on the basic principles of quantum physics! In a self-contained way, I explain quantum states and the basic rule for computing probabilities. It was a fun challenge stripping down everything to the bare minimum. Of course there is mu

Standard Model 4: Quantum Physics

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-06 20:03:57

This is a crash course on the basic principles of quantum physics! In a self-contained way, I explain quantum states and the basic rule for computing probabilities. It was a fun challenge stripping down everything to the bare minimum. Of course there is mu

New Research Reassesses the Value of AGENTS.md Files for AI Coding

InfoQ @ 2026-03-06 19:57:00

Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files entirely and limiting human-written instructions to non-i

The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 18:09:10

The Verge: Sean Hollister: What would you say the differences are between the Apple and Google cases? Tim Sweeney: I would say Apple was ice and Google was fire. The thing with Apple is all of their antitrust trickery is internal to the company.

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 17:36:16

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge: But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It’s right there in a binding term sheet for his settlement with Google . On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company over a

Top Tools to Evaluate and Benchmark AI Agent Performance in 2026

Randal S. Olson @ 2026-03-06 17:00:00

Compare seven platforms for evaluating and benchmarking AI agent performance in 2026, from step-level tracing to domain-expert outcome scoring.

New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-06 16:00:33

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem in decades. The post New Strides Made on De

Architecting for Global Scale: Inside DoorDash’s Unified, Composable Dasher Onboarding Platform

InfoQ @ 2026-03-06 16:00:00

DoorDash has rebuilt its Dasher onboarding into a unified, modular platform to support global expansion. The new architecture uses reusable step modules, a centralized status map, and workflow orchestration to ensure consistent, localized onboarding expe

When Read­Directory­ChangesW reports that a deletion occurred, how can I learn more about the deleted thing?

old new thing @ 2026-03-06 16:00:00

It's already gone. If you need more information, you should have been remembering it. The post When <CODE>Read­Directory­ChangesW</CODE> reports that a deletion occurred, how can I learn more about the deleted thing? appeared first

The MacBook Neo’s Price, Looking to the Past and Future

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 15:50:39

Ethan W. Anderson, on Twitter/X: I’ve plotted the most expensive McDonald’s burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081. Lo

‘Never the Same Game Twice’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 15:44:02

John McCoy: From around 1970 to 1980, the Salem, Massachusetts-based Parker Brothers (now a brand of Hasbro) published games whose innovative and fanciful designs drew inspiration from Pop Art, Op Art, and Madison Avenue advertising. They had boxes, b

Another Steve Jobs Quote on Lower-Priced Macs

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-06 15:22:21

Steve Jobs, on Apple’s quarterly results call back in October 2008 : There are some customers which we choose not to serve. We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. Harry McCrack

Análisis de ajedrez | Una delicia de Kasparián

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-06 13:49:31

La solución no sólo parece imposible sino que exige una gran profundidad creativa; pero descubrir su belleza produce un gran placer

CNCF Graduates Dragonfly, Marking Major Milestone for Cloud-Native Image Distribution

InfoQ @ 2026-03-06 13:00:00

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced recently that Dragonfly, its open source image and file distribution system, has reached graduated status, the highest maturity level within the CNCF project lifecycle. By Craig Risi

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service

Swift blog @ 2026-03-06 12:00:00

TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the data of over 16 million people every month, helping tho

Savage care

AEON @ 2026-03-06 12:00:00

Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life - by Ronald W Dworkin Read on Aeon

OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal

InfoQ @ 2026-03-06 11:11:00

OpenAI's $110B funding includes AWS as the exclusive third-party distributor for the Frontier agent platform, introducing an architectural split: Azure retains stateless API exclusivity; AWS gains stateful runtime environments via Bedrock. Deal expands t

A Guide to JmsClient in Spring Boot

Baeldung @ 2026-03-06 10:04:59

Learn how to configure and use JmsClient along with @JmsListener in Spring 7.0 and above. The post A Guide to JmsClient in Spring Boot first appeared on Baeldung .              

Add Values to ArrayList Used as Value in HashMap in Java

Baeldung @ 2026-03-06 09:52:09

Learn how to store multiple values in a Map for a single key, by combining Java data structures or using external libraries. The post Add Values to ArrayList Used as Value in HashMap in Java first appeared on Baeldung .      

Distributed Job Scheduling Using ElasticJob

Baeldung @ 2026-03-06 09:46:21

Learn how to use ElasticJob to distribute Java, script, or HTTP-based job scheduling. The post Distributed Job Scheduling Using ElasticJob first appeared on Baeldung .              

Brazilian waxing for yaks

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-06 01:00:00

There he stands, staring at me with loyal, shell-shocked eyes. A yak. A shaved yak , to be precise. And the yak has no real idea what just happened to him. Yak shaving? What the heck? Well, the Wiktionary defines it as “Any apparently useless activi

I Made My ESP32-S3 Faster by Optimizing for SIZE — Not Speed

Atomic14 @ 2026-03-06 01:00:00

Optimizing ESP32-S3 Performance: Why Smaller Code Can Ran Faster I’ve been tuning the performance of some code recently on an ESP32-S3 project, There was a slightly counter-intuitive result that might surprise some people: optimizing for code size p

Episode 49 “LazyConstants in JDK 26” [IJN]

Inside Java @ 2026-03-06 01:00:00

Lazily initializing fields in Java is error-prone and undermines constant-folding. JDK 26 comes with JEP 526, which previews LazyConstant, a type that lazily initializes a value through a given Supplier but still allows constant-folding.

Planning the design of your production-grade RAG system

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-06 01:00:00

In our previous article Context as architecture: A practical look at retrieval-augmented generation, we treated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as an architectural idea. We explored why retrieval exists, how it changes the system around a language mod

Friday Five — March 6, 2026

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-06 01:00:00

Red Hat MWC Barcelona NewsroomFollow Red Hat's news from the world’s largest mobile industry event including customers and partners like Bell Canada, Telenor AI Factory, Telefónica, NVIDIA and more. Learn more Telstra advanced autonomous networks ambitio

Java Weekly, Issue 636

Baeldung @ 2026-03-05 23:13:51

Java 26 is definitely getting close, and the focus this week is clear :) The post Java Weekly, Issue 636 first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Board Members for 2026-2027

ASF @ 2026-03-05 21:52:32

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Rich Bowen, Jim Jagielski, and Kanchana Welagedara for their service, and welcomes our n

Thousands of Everyday Drone Pilots Are Making a Google Street View From Above

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-05 20:13:38

Spexi's crowdsourced drone fleet has mapped over 5 million acres in 200 cities around Canada and the US. The post Thousands of Everyday Drone Pilots Are Making a Google Street View From Above appeared first on SingularityHub .

Steve Jobs in 2007, on Apple’s Pursuit of PC Market Share: ‘We Just Can’t Ship Junk’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-05 19:43:16

In August 2007, Apple held a Mac event in the Infinite Loop Town Hall auditorium. New iMacs , iLife ’08 (major updates to iPhoto and iMovie), and iWork ’08 (including the debut of Numbers 1.0). Back then, believe it or not, at the end of these Town H

Weyl Spinor Fields and Right-handed Spacetime

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-05 19:21:26

In this post I’ll discuss Weyl spinor fields and explain why Wick-rotating a single Weyl spinor field appears to be impossible. This motivates a proposal for a different way of thinking about the relation between spinors and vectors, described by 

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro cae cerca de la gloria

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-05 18:58:37

Obligado a ganar a un rival superior en teoría, el prodigio argentino, de 12 años, rozó la hazaña, pero erró bajo la enorme presión

Confluent Cloud’s Path to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Confluent @ 2026-03-05 16:00:10

Learn how Confluent Cloud is preparing for post-quantum cryptography with TLS 1.3, hybrid key exchange, and alignment with NIST FIPS 203–205 standards.

The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop

old new thing @ 2026-03-05 16:00:00

Perhaps it's because you dispatched it. The post The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Apache Software Foundation Graduates Two Open Source Projects from Incubator

ASF @ 2026-03-05 15:00:00

Apache Gluten and Apache Polaris Become Top-Level Projects Wilmington, DE –  March 5, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache®Gluten® and Apache Polaris™ have be

Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-05 14:54:00

Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints faced by startups, led him to resort to defensive patenting as as a shield in this asymmetric legal envi

Decentralizing Architectural Decisions with the Architecture Advice Process

InfoQ @ 2026-03-05 12:33:00

Our system architectures have changed as technology and development practices have evolved, but the way we practice architecture hasn’t kept up. According to Andrew Harmel-Law, architecture needs to be decentralized, similar to how we have decentralized

After rain

AEON @ 2026-03-05 12:01:00

A family swim, share meals and tell stories by a creek in Central Australia in a joyous celebration of much-needed rain - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

QCon AI Boston’s Early Program Focuses on the Engineering Work behind Production AI

InfoQ @ 2026-03-05 12:00:00

As teams move AI from pilots to production, the hard problems shift from demos to dependability. The first confirmed talks for QCon AI Boston (June 1–2) focus on context engineering, agent explainability, reasoning beyond basic RAG, evaluation, governanc

On her own terms

AEON @ 2026-03-05 12:00:00

Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook remains shocking, necessary and imperfect – a dazzling experiment in living as a woman - by Catherine Taylor Read on Aeon

Bridging Classical and Quantum Information Scrambling with the Operator Entanglement Spectrum

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-05 11:42:00

Quantum 10, 2012 (2026). Universal features of chaotic quantum dynamics underlie our understanding of thermalization in closed quantum systems and the complexity of quantum computations. Reversible automaton ci

GitHub Data Shows AI Tools Creating "Convenience Loops" That Reshape Developer Language Choices

InfoQ @ 2026-03-05 11:22:00

GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report reveals a "convenience loop" where AI coding assistants drive language choice. TypeScript’s 66% surge to the #1 spot highlights a shift toward static typing, as types provide essential guardrails for LLMs. While Python lead

Cloudflare Debuts Markdown for Agents and Content Signals to Guide AI Crawlers

InfoQ @ 2026-03-05 08:19:00

Cloudflare has introduced “Markdown for Agents,” a feature that lets AI crawlers request Markdown versions of web pages. The company pairs the feature with a proposed “Content Signals” mechanism that lets publishers declare whether their content may be u

Applied Category Theory and Green Mathematics

John Carlos Baez @ 2026-03-05 01:32:22

Here’s a great, simple article about applied category theory: • Natalie Wolchover, Can the most abstract math make the world a better place?, Quanta. Natalie interviewed me twice for this, and it also features Matteo Capucci, Brendan Fong, Bob

Applied Category Theory and Green Mathematics

Physics Phorums @ 2026-03-05 01:32:22

Here’s a great, simple article about applied category theory: • Natalie Wolchover, Can the most abstract math make the world a better place?, Quanta. Natalie interviewed me twice for this, and it also features Matteo Capucci, Brendan Fong, Bob

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

Rust blog @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.94.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.94.0 with: $

Java 26 is Shipping Soon - Inside Java Newscast #108

Inside Java @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

Java 26 is getting all packaged up to be shipped worldwide! As with every release of the JDK there are a number of new features, improvements, changes in behavior, and more that developers should be aware of before upgrading. In this episode of the Inside

Why the future of AI depends on a portable, open PyTorch ecosystem

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

This blog is an adaptation of our keynote presentation at PyTorch Day India. In the debate between open source and proprietary technology, open source wins — especially in the AI arena. However, as the generative AI era continues, enterprises face a new ve

Scaling the future of Open RAN: Red Hat joins the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most complex challenges in technology are best solved through open collaboration. This week, as announced by the Linux Foundation, Red Hat has officially joined the OCUDU (Open Centralized Unit / Distributed Unit)

MCP security: Implementing robust authentication and authorization

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly relevant in today’s agentic AI ecosystem because it standardizes how AI agents access tools, data sources, and external systems. As agents move from passive chatbots to autonomous actors capable of planning

How does real-world AI deliver value? The Ask Red Hat example

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-05 01:00:00

At Red Hat Summit 2025, we introduced Ask Red Hat, a conversational AI designed to be an intelligent front door for our customers. It began as a rapid 12-week build to prove that open source AI could transform the support experience.Today, Ask Red Hat has

Lorentz versus Euclidean Symmetry

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-04 23:17:24

Wick rotation changes the spacetime symmetries of a quantum field theory, changing between The Lorentz group, by which I’ll mean either $SO(3,1)$ or $SL(2,\mathbf C)$, the double cover of the time orientation-preserving subgroup of $SO(3,1)$. The fou

Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-04 21:04:16

AWS launches OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock for starting with your

★ Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-04 20:40:11

The MacBook Neo is the first major new Mac aimed at the consumer market in the Apple Silicon era. It’s meant to make a dent — perhaps a minuscule dent in the universe, but a big dent in the Mac’s share of the overall PC market.

Análisis de ajedrez | Oro, de 12 años, roza la gloria

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-04 19:44:06

El argentino, obligado a ganar en la última ronda, puede ser el gran maestro más joven de la historia en Moscú tras esta victoria en la octava

Studio Display vs. Studio Display XDR

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-04 18:04:43

Not sure if this page was there yesterday, but the main “Displays” page at Apple’s website is a spec-by-spec comparison between the regular and XDR models. Nice.  ★ 

Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-04 16:13:50

Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be “green” math. The post Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Compatibility Notes on the New Studio Displays

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-04 16:10:32

Juli Clover, at MacRumors, notes that neither the new Studio Display nor the Studio Display XDR are compatible with Intel-based Macs . (I’m curious why.) Also, in a separate report , she notes that Macs with any M1 chip, or the base M2 or M3, are only a

Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that Query­Performance­Counter never fails

old new thing @ 2026-03-04 16:00:00

Of course, anything can happen if you break the rules. The post Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that <CODE>Query­Performance­Counter</CODE> never fails appeared first on The Old New Thing .

From logistic regression to AI

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-04 15:15:02

It is sometimes said that neural networks are “just” logistic regression. (Remember neural networks? LLMs are neural networks, but nobody talks about neural networks anymore.) In some sense a neural network is logistic regression with more par

An AI Odyssey, Part 2: Prompting Peril

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-04 15:04:30

I was working with a colleague recently on a project involving the use of the OpenAI API. I brought up the idea that, perhaps it is possible to improve the accuracy of API response by modifying the API call to increase the amount of reasoning performed. M

‘In Other Words, Batman Has Become Superman and Robin Has Become Batman’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-04 13:42:46

Jason Snell, Six Colors: Here’s the backstory: With every new generation of Apple’s Mac-series processors, I’ve gotten the impression from Apple execs that they’ve been a little frustrated with the perception that their “lesser” efficiency cores were

Exploratorium

AEON @ 2026-03-04 12:01:00

Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Fix edge cases when recording string.byte/sub.

luajit @ 2026-03-04 11:18:28

Thanks to Sergey Kaplun. #1443

Universal and Efficient Quantum State Verification via Schmidt Decomposition and Mutually Unbiased Bases

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-04 11:00:28

Quantum 10, 2011 (2026). Efficient verification of multipartite quantum states is crucial to many applications in quantum information processing. By virtue of Schmidt decomposition and mutually unbiased bases,

Self-restricting Noise and Exponential Relative Entropy Decay Under Unital Quantum Markov Semigroups

Quantum Journal @ 2026-03-04 10:20:58

Quantum 10, 2010 (2026). States of open quantum systems often decay continuously under environmental interactions. Quantum Markov semigroups model such processes in dissipative environments. It is known that fi

A Guide to Spring AI Recursive Advisors

Baeldung @ 2026-03-04 09:23:43

Learn how Spring AI recursive advisors work to interact with a LLM when you need an iterative behavior. The post A Guide to Spring AI Recursive Advisors first appeared on Baeldung .              

The Purpose of Proofs

Computational Complexity @ 2026-03-04 08:33:00

In discussions of AI and Mathematics, the discussion often goes to mathematical proofs, such as the the  First Proof  challenge. So let's look at the role of proofs in mathematics. Without a proof, you don't even know whether a theorem is true

Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-04 06:42:00

There's been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the goal of turning ideas into outcomes. The right place for us humans is to build and manage th

This Week in Rust 641

This Week in Rust @ 2026-03-04 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

These Supercharged Immune Cells Completely Eliminated Solid Tumors in Mice

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-04 01:35:15

The technology, which uses genetically engineered T cells, could target nearly two dozen different solid cancers with one treatment. The post These Supercharged Immune Cells Completely Eliminated Solid Tumors in Mice appeared first on SingularityHub

What is Vibe Coding and Should You Do It?

The Syndicate @ 2026-03-04 01:00:00

You’ve probably heard the buzz phrase “vibe coding,” but do you know what it means — or whether you should be jumping on the bandwagon? In this article, I’ll introduce you to the pros and cons of this way of developing code and talk about

Lorem 2 - The Revenge of the Dolor

C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-03-04 01:00:00

Irgendwann muss man Code auch mal in Produktion testen.

HTTP Client Updates in Java 26

Inside Java @ 2026-03-04 01:00:00

The HttpClient will be receiving several updates in Java 26, let's review these changes and what Java users can expect.

Open data and the AI resilience premium

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-04 01:00:00

For many large companies, AI is on every agenda, yet many leaders are still trying to make sense of what to do next. A big reason for this uncertainty is that huge amounts of data are still locked away in separate departments or stuck in systems that don't

New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-04 01:00:00

The latest updates to Red Hat OpenShift bring significant enhancements to monitoring and troubleshooting directly within OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift observability has evolved into a highly integrated ecosystem that combines metrics, logs, traces, and netw

Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 21:25:07

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new family of displays engineered to pair beautifully with Mac and meet the needs of everyone, from everyday users to the world’s top pros. The new Studio Display features a 12MP Center Stage camera, now with

New MacBook Air With M5

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 21:08:42

Apple Newsroom: MacBook Air now comes standard with double the starting storage at 512GB with faster SSD technology, and is configurable up to 4TB, so customers can keep their most important work on hand. Apple’s N1 wireless chip delivers Wi-Fi 7 and

Apple Might Have Prematurely Leaked the Name ‘MacBook Neo’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 20:59:43

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further details or images available yet. While the PDF file does not contain the “MacBook Neo” name, it brie

Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent

Confluent @ 2026-03-03 20:31:00

Kafka now supports native queue semantics with share groups and per-message acknowledgment. Learn how elastic consumers scale beyond partitions in Confluent.

Análisis de ajedrez | Antón brilla en Praga

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-03 20:15:09

A pesar de que cayó en la primera ronda ante Yakúbboev, el español muestra un buen estado de forma en cada partida y pelea por los primeros puestos

Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 20:01:28

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance and AI capabilities to the world’s best pro laptop. With M5 Pro and M5 Max, MacBook Pro features a ne

Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max, and Renames Its M-Series CPU Cores

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 18:11:32

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro. The chips are built using a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture. This innovative design combines two dies into a

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Deepmind @ 2026-03-03 17:35:55

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

Meet the 2026 class of TED Fellows

TED Blog @ 2026-03-03 17:00:29

For TED Fellows, hope isn’t abstract — it’s built through action. Across research labs and rural farms, courtrooms and classrooms, more than 500 Fellows in 100+ countries are reimagining the systems that shape our lives — climate and health, justice and ed

Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media

old new thing @ 2026-03-03 16:00:00

Just some useless trivia. The post Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Hello Developer: March 2026

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-03-03 15:00:16

In this edition: Join Apple at GDC. Get tips on privacy and security in a new developer activity. Dive deep on coding intelligence in Xcode 26. Learn how the Speechify team is going all in on AI. Catch up on the latest news and updates.

The insurance catastrophe

AEON @ 2026-03-03 12:00:00

Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem? - by Gavin Evans Read on Aeon

Design-First Collaboration

Martin Fowler @ 2026-03-03 05:04:00

Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development . This pattern describes a structured conversation that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair: progressive levels of design alignment before any code, redu

An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-03 03:40:22

I recently talked with a contact who repeated what he’d heard regarding agentic AI systems—namely, that they can greatly increase productivity in professional financial management tasks. However, I pointed out that though this is true, these tools d

[Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-03 01:20:21

npx workos launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly into your existing codebase. It’s not a template generator. It reads your code, understands your stack,

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JavaFX 27: Metal Is Now the Default Rendering Pipeline on macOS

Inside Java @ 2026-03-03 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers a change in the macOS JavaFX rendering pipeline.

What’s new with Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 UI: Moving from pilot to production

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-03 01:00:00

With our previous release of Red Hat OpenShift AI, we established a solid foundation for your enterprise AI infrastructure. Today, with the release of OpenShift AI 3.3, we are tackling the polarizing forces that often prevent AI projects from reaching prod

The speed of trust: How global leaders are moving AI from lab to lifecycle

Red Hat blog @ 2026-03-03 01:00:00

In the enterprise world, the AI hype has officially met the reality check. Organizations are no longer asking if AI can help; they are asking how fast it can deliver value without breaking the bank or the infrastructure.At Red Hat, we see a recurring patte

New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development

Singularity Hub @ 2026-03-03 00:47:26

The flower-shaped device wraps around brain organoids and maps nearly all electrical activity. The post New Device Detects Brain Waves in Mini Brains Mimicking Early Human Development appeared first on SingularityHub .

★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 23:41:11

What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a significant difference in the day-to-day usability of MacOS.

Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 22:59:41

Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung (which is just an incredibly good and fun weblog): Half of my education in URLs as user interface came from Flickr in the late 2000s. Its URLs looked like this: flickr.com/photos/mwichary/favorites flickr.com/photo

How to Build Autonomous Data Systems for Real-Time Decisioning

Confluent @ 2026-03-02 22:30:13

Learn how real-time decisioning and autonomous data systems enable organizations to act on data instantly using streaming, automation, and AI.

What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL?

old new thing @ 2026-03-02 21:55:53

You get notifications that might not make sense. The post What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of <CODE>IDCANCEL</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

ChangeTheHeaders

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 21:10:50

During the most recent episode of The Talk Show , Jason Snell brought up a weird issue that I started running into last year. On my Mac, sometimes I’d drag an image out of a web page in Safari, and I’d get an image in WebP format. Sometimes I wouldn’t

Welcome (Back) to Macintosh

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 20:27:52

Jesper, writing at Take: My hope is that Macintosh is not just one of these empires that was at the height of its power and then disintegrated because of warring factions, satiated and uncurious rulers, and droughts for which no one was prepared, ruin

AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026)

AWS Blog @ 2026-03-02 20:05:12

This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through

SerpApi Filed Motion to Dismiss Google’s Lawsuit

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 20:03:02

Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: Google thinks it owns the internet. That’s the subtext of its lawsuit against SerpApi, the quiet part that it’s suddenly decided to shout out loud. The problem is, no one owns the internet. And the law makes that clear

Análisis de ajedrez | Navara firma una joyita

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-03-02 18:37:37

El prestigioso gran maestro checo, de 40 años, es el 2º en Praga después de cinco rondas tras producir esta obra maestra del ataque

‘Anthropic and Alignment’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 18:20:13

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery: In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentiviz

WSJ: ‘Trump Administration Shuns Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI in Clash Over Guardrails’

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 17:56:51

Amrith Ramkumar, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Trump’s announcement came shortly before the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic to agree to let the military use its models in all lawful-use cases, a concession the

Seasonal Color Updates to Apple’s iPhone Cases and Apple Watch Bands

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 17:52:59

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A seasonal color refresh arrived today for a variety of Apple accessories, including iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, and the Crossbody Strap. All of the accessories in the latest colors are available to order on Apple.com st

Apple Introduces New iPad Air With M4

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 17:40:30

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance at the same starting price. With a faster CPU and GPU, iPad Air boosts tasks like editing and gaming, and is a powerful devic

Hyperfunctions

Not Even Wrong @ 2026-03-02 17:12:57

I’ve been trying to understand (not entirely successfully yet…) Wick rotation using hyperfunctions, which are a sort of distributions not as well-known as they should be. Some notes about them are in a separate pdf. What is well-known is that &

Differential equation with a small delay

The Endeavour @ 2026-03-02 17:08:49

In grad school I specialized in differential equations, but never worked with delay-differential equations, equations specifying that a solution depends not only on its derivatives but also on the state of the function at a previous time. The first time I

What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System

Quanta Magazine @ 2026-03-02 16:12:31

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way. The post What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System first appeared on Quanta Magazine

What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition

Swift blog @ 2026-03-02 15:05:00

Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience. FOSDEM is the largest open source conference in the world, and this year Swift was

Apple Introduces the iPhone 17e

Daring Fireball @ 2026-03-02 15:03:16

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced iPhone 17e , a powerful and more affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup. At the heart of iPhone 17e is the latest-generation A19, which delivers exceptional performance for everything users do. iPhone 17e al