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China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux
slashdot @ 2026-08-22 05:30:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China's Ministry of State Security, the country has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition for Chinese-made Linux distribut
The Fourth Horseman of the File-Format-Hegemony Apocalypse
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-22 01:18:40
Microsoft’s iPhone app for OneDrive has long supported creating three new document types via a big “+” button right in its file viewer: Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It recently came to my attention that they’ve added a fourth document type, and they even ga
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
slashdot @ 2026-08-22 01:00:00
Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, has imposed a six-month moratorium on "major electric utility infrastructure" in its latest attempt to delay a proposed $1.2 billion University of Michigan-Los Alamos data center that would support nuclear-weapons research. To
Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams
slashdot @ 2026-08-22 00:00:00
Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs as it shifts resources toward a rebuilt, AI-powered Siri and other future products. Roughly 100 positions are being eliminated from the Vision Pro organization, including much of its gaming team and some immersive-video
American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 23:00:00
Federal prosecutors have charged activist Samuel Tunick with obstruction after he gave Customs and Border Protection officers a duress passcode that wiped his GrapheneOS-powered Pixel during a border search. "His prosecution is one of the earliest known in
AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 22:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Economist: Students and school children are increasingly using artificial intelligence. A survey last year by Chegg, an ed-tech firm, found that 80% of rich-world undergraduates used it in their studies. More re
Walmart Finally Caves, Will Soon Support Apple Pay
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 21:34:55
Walmart: When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part. And one of the moments where that matters most is at checkout. We want customers and mem
Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 21:00:00
A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and find
AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
AWS Blog @ 2026-08-21 20:53:26
AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.
We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-21 20:25:19
In a new study, mice recovered their memories by regrowing brain connections lost during artificial hibernation. The post We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory appeared first on SingularityHub .
Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 20:25:00
Micron says it will spend $10 billion over the next decade on a new research lab in Boise focused on advanced memory technologies, computing systems, and future chip manufacturing. Here are some details, as reported by Reuters: - Micron Research Labs will
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 19:45:00
Linus Torvalds says AI "enormously helped" him track down a stubborn Intel Xe graphics driver bug that took 24 debugging patches and 18 kernel boots to isolate. "I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was
Kobo can run apps now
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 18:25:25
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 460 # Comments: 160
★ When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 18:09:11
Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 18:00:00
After years of refusing to adopt tap-to-pay technology in its stores, retail giant Walmart announced today that it is finally accepting payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay. The rollout begins August 24 at select Walmart and Sam's Club locations and
Felony Bench
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 17:17:04
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 578 # Comments: 239
Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 17:00:00
Google is giving publishers a new way to fight declining referral traffic from AI-powered search by letting them embed a "Preferred Sources" button that readers can use to favor their sites across Search, Discover, and Google News. "The idea is to make it
‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-21 16:53:32
For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups. The post ‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 16:31:52
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 221 # Comments: 156
Cloudflare Cuts Astro Github Issues by 85% with AI Agents
InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 16:09:00
Cloudflare, Astro, AI agents, GitHub Actions, issue triage, agentic AI, software architecture, open source, developer tools, AI automation, automated testing, human in the loop, agent workflows, GitHub, software engineering, AI software development, bug
Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam
old new thing @ 2026-08-21 16:00:00
Applying our principles. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 15:56:37
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1042 # Comments: 349
Bluesky’s Active User Base Is Shrinking, and Remains Tiny Compared to Threads and Twitter/X
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 15:36:58
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch last week: Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social netwo
FreeBSD Foundation Intern Jim Huang Chen on Raspberry Pi Support and Open Source
FreeBSD Foundation @ 2026-08-21 15:29:17
When Jim Huang Chen began his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation, he was only finishing his first year as a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. A few months later, he had spent the summer working inside the FreeBSD codebase, co
How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-21 15:14:28
A few weeks ago I wrote about the number system used in labeling spreadsheet columns. Labels run from A through Z, then AA through AZ, etc. This looks a lot like base 26, but it’s not quite the same. It has no analog of zero. If Z were like zero, Y
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 15:11:28
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 477 # Comments: 53
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 15:07:26
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 212 # Comments: 158
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 15:04:31
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 645 # Comments: 367
Bluesky Is Full of Anti-AI Zealots
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 14:52:47
Mike Masnick, in a thread on Bluesky: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because they use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel th
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 14:10:13
Comments URL: Points: 632 # Comments: 790
Cloudflare Turns Engineering Standards Into an AI-Enforced Control System
InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 14:00:00
Cloudflare has recently detailed how it is using AI to transform internal engineering standards from passive documentation into an actively enforced control system across the software development lifecycle. By Craig Risi
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Deepmind @ 2026-08-21 13:59:48
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
I'm becoming AI-blind
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 13:48:05
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 297 # Comments: 312
Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 13:00:00
Microsoft is expanding Windows Task Manager to show per-process NPU and GPU neural-engine usage, giving users more visibility into which apps are consuming hardware for AI workloads. The Register reports: The Processes tab can show NPU use alongside CPU an
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 12:33:56
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 472 # Comments: 148
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 12:05:46
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 703 # Comments: 2
The fog of hunger
AEON @ 2026-08-21 12:00:00
From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it - by Sarah Berg Read on Aeon
Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server Reaches GA, Without Support for Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor
InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 11:55:00
Microsoft has made the Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server generally available, offering a hosted endpoint into work items, repos, and pipelines with nothing to install. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Cursor cannot connect yet because Entra lacks s
Small, native web tricks worth remembering
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 11:45:14
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 212 # Comments: 54
S3 Compatibility Doesn't Guarantee S3-Level Security
InfoQ @ 2026-08-21 10:41:00
Security researchers at Wiz recently examined S3-compatible object storage services across six popular neoclouds, revealing significant security gaps compared to Amazon S3. While S3 has become the de facto standard for object storage, most services lack
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 09:23:27
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 251 # Comments: 137
China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 09:00:00
China's Chang'e 7 mission is set to launch for the moon's south pole, where it will attempt the first-ever landing directly at the pole and search the region's dark craters for water ice. "It's an amazing mission," says Norbert Schorghofer, a Hawaii-based
Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 07:31:34
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 352 # Comments: 204
Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 05:30:00
RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized computers to run everything from infotainment to driver-assistance systems. Analysts cited by The Atlantic estimate the shortage could add a few
How Bluesky and Threads Sneak Their Logos Into iOS Screenshots
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-21 05:03:08
Bluesky and Threads both pull the same trick: When you take a screenshot on iOS of an individual tweet, they replace the “Follow” button in their user interface with their logo. Tim Marinin noticed this in the Bluesky app, got curious, and because they pu
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 04:37:47
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 542 # Comments: 849
Issue 764
iOS Weekly @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
AI judgement, observability, SwiftPM traits and package registries
Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
Rust blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single chan
Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 28: Named Group Information Captured in the TLSHandshake JFR Event
Inside Java @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved; it covers that the named group information is included in the jdk.TLSHandshake JFR event.
Unify IT workflows at scale with the new automation orchestrator for Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
As automation practices mature, the workflows they need to support naturally grow more complex—there are more teams, trigger types, decision points, and AI recommendations to account for. Automation orchestrator is a composable workflow canvas for Red Hat
How a global financial messaging network secured millions of containers and defeated alert fatigue
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
For a network that helps the financial community securely exchange payment instructions representing the equivalent of the world's GDP every 3 days, security isn't just a concern, it's the number one priority. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Praveen Siddu, Senior
From fragmented to flawless: Unifying the AI development lifecycle
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
AI teams struggle because data, experiments, models, and deployments often live in separate systems. The DagsHub AI quickstart for Red Hat OpenShift AI gives teams a way to manage dataset versioning, annotation, experiment tracking, model registry, and dep
Friday Five — August 21, 2026
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-21 02:00:00
Why proprietary software isn’t a retrospective trend but a trap for failureThink proprietary software is more secure because its code is hidden? In the AI era, that assumption is dangerously outdated. AI tools can now expose vulnerabilities in closed syst
Ox Alpha
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-21 01:56:35
, Comments URL: Points: 230 # Comments: 186
China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 01:00:00
Bilibili, often described as China's answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an English-language site as part of a broader push into the U.S., Europe, Japan, and other markets. The company is courting Western creators like MrB
Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network
slashdot @ 2026-08-21 00:00:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 22:07:26
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1623 # Comments: 377
Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 21:46:06
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 200 # Comments: 134
The August 17 outage
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 21:22:24
Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 628 # Comments: 734
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
Hacker News 200 @ 2026-08-20 21:05:36
Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah. I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XXI)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-20 18:58:03
Caruana había desarrollado una gran confianza en sí mismo tras varias partidas contra el noruego, quien le demostró que era excesiva
★ Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 17:12:16
Thanks to the DMA’s sprawling scope, complexity, and overreach, Apple came out of this conceding only 4 percent of the App Store’s 30 percent commission, and no reduction at all to the 15 percent for subscriptions after the first year.
Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy.
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-20 16:56:20
AI is like a genie. The way in which algorithms grant our wishes may make us regret letting them out of the bottle. The post Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. appeared first on SingularityHub .
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-20 16:04:40
Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. The post Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function
old new thing @ 2026-08-20 16:00:00
Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing .
AI-generated ASCII diagrams
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-20 15:48:43
I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art
Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4
Swift blog @ 2026-08-20 15:45:00
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers. Using a special compilation mode, Embedded Swift produces significantly smaller binaries than reg
Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations, Up to 90% Less Dev Memory and Faster Builds
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:04:00
Vercel has released Next.js 16.3, featuring significant updates since version 16.0. Enhancements include reduced memory usage during development, accelerated build times, and improved type checking. Instant Navigations introduces faster, client-like resp
InfoQ Opens Enrollment for New AI-Assisted Engineering Online Certification Program
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 14:00:00
InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have
How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 13:25:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It’s too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code is also disposable; it becomes easier to rewrite than to debug. Humans can't review AI-generated code at sc
On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames
Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-20 13:09:54
Quantum 10, 2196 (2026). The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity
A vocabulary for the future: touch
AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:01:00
A mesmerising blend of words and images make touch a doorway into the deepest questions in physics and philosophy - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Dolphins and other lovers
AEON @ 2026-08-20 12:00:00
The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous - by Eliran Arazi Read on Aeon
Microsoft Releases Aspire 13.5 With a Refreshed Dashboard and Workflow Improvements
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 10:07:00
Last week, Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage and adds several quality-of-life features. The Interaction Service gains file imports and progress dialogs; resources can host an interactive te
Flux Mirror Uses Gitless GitOps to Keep Software Supply Chain Under Control
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 10:00:00
Flux has introduced Flux Mirror, a CLI plugin that mirrors container images, Helm charts and OCI artifacts between registries from a declarative configuration. The plugin is part of the Flux v2.9 CLI plugin system and is presented as a way to keep Kubern
Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 08:20:00
The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a Vercel-based stack reporting significantly better performance on live, personalized-data workloads. Harpe
The Open-Sourcing of DeepSeek Harness Opens the Door to Modular, Unbundled AI Agent Infrastructure
InfoQ @ 2026-08-20 07:05:00
DeepSeek has released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source execution runtime for building autonomous AI agents. The software features a micro-kernel architecture with modular plugins for various functional units. The release incl
Gurman Says No Camera-Equipped AirPods Until 2027
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-20 04:28:03
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Earlier this week, a developer version of a Mac computer software update accidentally included references to several upcoming Apple products, including a video of the AirPods with cameras in action. [...] But the product chal
Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration
Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Le
Supply chain attack on arrayref
Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
What happened On 2026-08-20 at 7:15 UTC we got a report that the proc-macro1 crate was malicious. The Rust Security Response Team verified this to be the case: the crate had a build script that was downloading a malicious payload. This crate p
Announcing Rust 1.98.0
Rust blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. 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 1.98.0 with: $
Episode 67 “Keeping Up With the Java Release Train” [I/O]
Inside Java @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
Since Java moved to a six-month release cadence with JDK 10 in March of 2018, there has been a question if it was practical or possible for organization to keep up with such a release cadence.
Why proprietary software isn’t a retrospective trend but a trap for failure
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
The telecommunications industry is considering one of its most consequential security debates in decades. Amid growing network complexity, 1 narrative argues that proprietary software is inherently more secure than its open source counterparts. Its central
Why AI infrastructure must be built in the open
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-20 02:00:00
In Part I and Part II of this series, we explored why efficient inference is becoming an economic necessity and why sovereign AI requires infrastructure independence. But who should build the infrastructure that powers AI?AI infrastructure influences far m
★ Apple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years Ago
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 23:39:47
It’s 2026 and an important, much-used app from Apple doesn’t offer basic list sorting controls that would have been a glaring omission 40 years ago. This was a completely solved problem decades ago, when computer RAM was measured in *kilo*bytes.
Docker Launches Fully Rebuilt Virtualization Layer to Boost Performance and Improve Dev Experience
InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 21:00:00
Docker VMM (virtual machine monitor) is Docker's new, first-party virtualization layer for Docker Desktop, replacing third-party virtualization components with an engine that Docker can directly control and optimize specifically for container workloads.
Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern
Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:30:00
TL;DR Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months. It isn’t really a gap in technology. It’s a gap in what different people think software
Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet
Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-19 20:15:00
Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name,
Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-19 19:12:23
The authors found most of the scenarios they investigated resulted in lower emissions, including cases where the gas car was barely a year old. The post Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds appeared first on Si
Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05
Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t. Yet, the code might be invalid. The
Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin
Kotlin news @ 2026-08-19 17:52:05
Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t. Yet, the code might be invalid. The
NBC News Strikes Ad Sales Deal With Taboola for Programmatic Display Ads
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 16:52:59
Sara Fischer, Axios: Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with NBC News to exclusively power all of its programmatic, or automated, display advertising sales, CEO Adam Singolda tells Axios. Worked out great for Apple with Apple News. They stru
Whatsapp Tests on Device ML for Scam Detection with Privacy Preserving Analytics
InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 16:17:00
WhatsApp is testing Scam Alert in limited beta, using on device machine learning to detect potential scam messages from non contacts. Meta's architecture keeps message content on the device while using confidential computing, Oblivious HTTP, differential
Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-19 16:16:03
No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery. The post Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time f
On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters
old new thing @ 2026-08-19 16:00:00
Just use the callable directly. The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Centaur Math
Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-19 15:52:21
In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't work on, or think d
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XX)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-19 15:20:48
El campeón flojeó en su defensa de la corona ante Anand, pero ganó el asalto decisivo desde una posición muy inferior
The conscience files
AEON @ 2026-08-19 12:01:00
The sorrows and redemptions of visitors who mailed their ‘souvenirs’ back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
.NET 11 Preview 7 Brings Updates Across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and Windows Forms
InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 11:26:00
Last week Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. C# adds labeled break and continue. ASP.NET Core brings Blazor circuit pausing, CacheView, and built-in validat
Multi Agent Collaboration Gets Persistent Compute in Bedrock AgentCore
InfoQ @ 2026-08-19 10:00:00
Amazon Web Services has extended Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with runtime instances, a new compute option that gives AI agents persistent infrastructure purpose-built for complex long-running workflows and multi-agent coordination. By Matt Saunders
Simple logical quantum computation with concatenated symplectic double codes
Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:58:53
Quantum 10, 2195 (2026). There have been significant recent advances in constructing theoretical and practical quantum error correcting codes that function well as quantum memories; however, performing fault-to
Quantifying mixed-state entanglement via partial transpose and realignment moments
Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:26:52
Quantum 10, 2194 (2026). Entanglement plays a crucial role in quantum information science and many-body physics, yet quantifying it in mixed quantum many-body systems has remained a notoriously difficult proble
Quantum phase estimation with optimal confidence interval using three control qubits
Quantum Journal @ 2026-08-19 09:07:24
Quantum 10, 2193 (2026). Quantum phase estimation is an important routine in many quantum algorithms, particularly for estimating the ground state energy in quantum chemistry simulations. This estimation involv
[Sponsor] WorkOS: Agents Can Now Sign Up for Your App
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 06:30:16
Agents are hitting your signup flow and bouncing off a browser login built for humans. Every one that gives up is a signup you never see. WorkOS Agent Registration turns that traffic into signups. Enroll via the dashboard and AuthKit publishes an auth
This Week in Rust 665
This Week in Rust @ 2026-08-19 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
Big little hexagon
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-19 02:22:36
A new paper just came out, The Maximum-Area Small Polygon Problem. The paper solves the problem of finding, for each n, the n-gon with diameter 1 and maximum area. For odd n, the solution is what you might expect: a regular n-gon. I would expect this to b
Redundantes Internet
C0T0D0S0 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00
Erste Erfahrungen mit dem Ubiquiti Unifi 5G Max
Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting.
Atomic14 @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00
Last time I built a detector that counts four-letter runs (n-grams) and tells you whether Claude Opus 5 wrote something. It works well - about 91% on text it has never read. It has one obvious hole: it only knows one robot (Claude Opus 5). Paste Chat
Scaling agentic AI: How llm-d enables infrastructure sovereignty
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00
AI is entering the era of large-scale, distributed, agentic systems. Applications coordinate multiple models, tools, and services, process millions of requests, and demand enormous amounts of computer capacity. At the same time, infrastructure costs contin
From experiment to production: A reliable architecture for version-controlled MLOps
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-19 02:00:00
Many believe that building models is the most challenging thing in AI, but managing the data that powers those models is equally difficult. We’ve all been there: a model's performance shifts or a data analysis yields inconsistent results, and you’re left w
Disney’s ABC Sues Trump’s FCC Over Challenge to Its Broadcast License
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:39:40
Joe Flint, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an e
Apple Gives Legal Middle Finger to DOJ Challenge on Apple’s July Discovery Win
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-19 00:23:45
Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple , the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and s
Organized Thieves Are Targeting AI Server Chips With Violent Highway Hijackings
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 20:49:17
Paresh Dave and Aarian Marshall, reporting for Wired ( News+ link in case Wired hits you with their paywall): The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to P
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XIX)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-18 19:24:25
El triunfo del noruego en el Mundial de Rápidas de 2014 no fue tan arrasador como en otros; pero esta partida es magnífica
‘Dickover’ Makes It Into The Guardian
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 18:03:32
Stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian, under the splendid headline “Dickovers, Baggravation and Botiquette: 18 New Words to Describe Our Tech Hellscape”: The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer,
Apache Geode 2.0, Part III: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
ASF @ 2026-08-18 18:00:00
What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks throu
The imbalance theorem
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 17:54:57
The imbalance conjecture is now a theorem. James Alexander Schreib and Yousof Yavari posted a proof last week. What does the conjecture theorem say? Start with a graph G with no edge between two nodes of the same degree. Then for every edge, calculate the
Fragments: August 18
Martin Fowler @ 2026-08-18 17:04:00
Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard wo
Changes for apps in the European Union
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:38
Apple is making changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. The changes reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business t
Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available
Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2026-08-18 17:00:32
Attachment 14 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been added to specify updated terms for apps in the European Union, including alternative distribution, alternative payments, and business terms. These terms will go into effect on Octo
OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 16:54:28
Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around
New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control
Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:11
Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.
New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot
Confluent @ 2026-08-18 16:00:10
Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot
Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris?
old new thing @ 2026-08-18 16:00:00
A contingency plan. The post Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo
AWS Blog @ 2026-08-18 15:58:41
Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech professionals who want to walk through
Mean distance to the sun
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-18 15:42:06
Suppose you have a planet in an elliptical orbit around a star. The math is identical for any light object orbiting a heavy object, such as a moon or satellite orbiting a planet, but we’ll call the heavy object a star and the light object a planet.
FFI: Mark cts->L in atomic phase.
luajit @ 2026-08-18 15:01:31
Reported by zyxwvu Shi. #1506
Nature Is Healing: MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 6 Adds Redesigned Traffic Light Window Controls
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 14:32:38
Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button. Nice. But these changes can’t improve fast enough for me — I am impa
In praise of zealotry
AEON @ 2026-08-18 12:00:00
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why? - by Geertje Bol Read on Aeon
MacOS 26.7 Tahoe Release Candidate Contains a Video Demonstrating Camera-Equipped AirPods in Action
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 05:37:14
Oops. ★
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI
Confluent @ 2026-08-18 04:20:00
Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, UDFs, and PTFs while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.
★ Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-18 02:55:13
I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.
Allocation Update - Q2 2026
Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00
Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts su
Detecting Claude by counting letters
Atomic14 @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00
On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked . The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key nudges the ge
Stop paying for the same prompt: Optimize AI costs with Redis on Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00
Large language model (LLM) API costs have a way of sneaking up on a business. What begins as a promising chatbot prototype often transforms into an invoice nightmare as users consume tokens at an unpredictable rate.A significant portion of these costs stem
llm-d: Breaking the cost and capacity barriers
Red Hat blog @ 2026-08-18 02:00:00
The AI industry is shifting its attention from training models to running models more efficiently. Enterprise AI applications generate millions of inference requests as they coordinate multiple models, tools, and agents. Inference is the process where a tr
DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-18 00:42:15
For communities in the crosshairs, every extra hour counts. The post DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting appeared first on SingularityHub .
Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for ‘The Savant’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:55:29
The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago . Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (
No Update Since Early July Regarding Siri AI Coming to the EU, Ever
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-17 23:43:50
The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief executive Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkk
There’s a libcurl.dll in my system32
daniel.haxx.se @ 2026-08-17 23:27:36
This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable t
AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)
AWS Blog @ 2026-08-17 18:02:36
Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Founda
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
Quanta Magazine @ 2026-08-17 17:11:17
From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appea
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
old new thing @ 2026-08-17 16:00:00
The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing .
Klibs.io Grows to 4,200+ KMP Projects With Smarter Discovery and New AI Integrations
Kotlin Blog @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57
Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t
Klibs.io Grows to 4,200+ KMP Projects With Smarter Discovery and New AI Integrations
Kotlin news @ 2026-08-17 15:12:57
Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server. When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier t
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XVIII)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 13:11:44
El noruego no ha logrado el gran objetivo de superar los 2.900 puntos Elo, aunque estuvo muy cerca en 2014 tras victorias excelsas, como esta
The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum
AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:01:00
In this bittersweet portrait of a farm town in Canada, taxidermied gophers preserve a place that no longer exists - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Worm munch matters
AEON @ 2026-08-17 12:00:00
The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them - by Ella Browning Read on Aeon
Proportion of 1s in a Hadamard matrix
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-17 03:16:39
The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can
Announcing the Platåberget Testnet
Ethereum blog @ 2026-08-17 02:00:00
tl;dr: Meet Platåberget: Glamsterdam's (Gloas + Amsterdam) early testing ground open to public participation. This upgrade comes with breaking changes for application developers. Notably, any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit (think wallet
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XVII)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-17 01:57:59
Esta partida es una obra maestra sobre cómo maniobrar para que un alfil en g2 sea el amo del tablero
The Information Profiles Cami Clark — Dario Amodei’s Wife, Ivanka Trump’s Friend, One-Time Would-Be Pornographer, and Anthropic’s ‘First Lady’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:30:00
Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun
★ Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 21:26:33
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generat
Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclipse total en España
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2026-08-16 21:20:55
Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 566 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B], titulado “Odisea; Eclipse”, 13 ago 2026. «La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las […] La entrada Podcast CB SyR 566: Odisea de Nolan y eclips
IIT is the canary in the coalmine (Do our younger readers know what that means? Do we have younger readers?)
Computational Complexity @ 2026-08-16 21:14:02
Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is where Lance was employed.) Hence I looked into what is happening at IIT to see if there is a lesson for us al
HEP-TH and AI
Not Even Wrong @ 2026-08-16 19:50:30
I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved …
‘Anthropic’s Weak Watermarks Appease a Weak Law’
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 19:30:00
James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts.
Trump Administration ‘Not in Favor’ of Apple Using Chinese RAM
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 18:34:12
The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Ho
XCancel — An Unofficial Twitter/X Mirror
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-16 16:33:16
XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at [...] Using an instance of Nitter
Don't blame Claude - It's me, I'm the problem, it's me...
Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 14:00:00
F’you, Claude, you are driving me absolutely bananas: The house convention is a short phrase naming the defect, and the archive is full of it: “A citation that names nothing”, “The safe zone that only the spawner obeys”, “One word that means five t
Forget the Robot Tax. Tax the Tokens.
Atomic14 @ 2026-08-16 02:00:00
I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap . It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no one can affor
Drata
Daring Fireball @ 2026-08-15 23:40:15
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. ★
Probability of correcting errors
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 18:33:56
Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the original pixel cou
Compressing a Hadamard matrix
The Endeavour @ 2026-08-15 17:40:43
Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error correcting code used
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 15)
Singularity Hub @ 2026-08-15 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 August 15) appeared first on SingularityHub .
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XVI)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:31:35
El noveno asalto del Mundial de Chennai fue dramático y de enorme calidad hasta que Anand demostró que es humano mientras su rival parecía un chip
Análisis de ajedrez | La plenitud de Carlsen (XV)
Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2026-08-15 15:17:30
Dos meses antes del Mundial contra Anand, el aspirante dominó a un rival duro, Kamski, en la Copa Sinquefield con maniobras finísimas
Java Weekly, Issue 659
Baeldung @ 2026-08-15 12:23:09
Equality in Java is evolving. The post Java Weekly, Issue 659 first appeared on Baeldung . Comments In reply to Vincent. Hey, Vincent. Thanks for the feedback. ... by Ulis