- America Officially Loses Its Measles-elimination Status After Continued Spread of the Disease
Samstag 23:37 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
Reuters reports: The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States‘ measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run after determining the country failed to halt continuous transmission of the highly contagious virus for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday… The reported decision by the Americas branch of the World Health Organization comes as the US battles the highest number of measles cases it has seen in more than three decades. Some 7,500 people in the US have been infected with measles and 13 have died since 2025. That period coincides with fall … - Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance
Samstag 22:37 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
Arch-based Manjaro Linux „has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany,“ reports Linuxiac, „and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG… after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the project, who had access to the infrastructure and who didn’t, and the relationship between the dev team and the commercial company…“ The restructuring goes back to March, when the Manjaro developers released the Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto, which was a very public critique of the way Manjaro was being run. … - EFF Criticizes US Government's Use of AI For Evaluating Senior Health Insurance Requests
Samstag 21:00 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
„When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company’s algorithm,“ writes the EFF newsletter EFFector. But in January America’s federal government launched a program called WISeR that uses AI to evaluate authorization requests for certain procedures from America’s federal health insurance program for seniors, Medicare. EFF sued for records and discovered „additional issues“ with the program that they say „could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries‘ access to care.“ The records we received revealed that WISeR has resulted in widespread d … - Hundreds of Fake Accounts Defended Jensen Huang On Social Media
Samstag 20:00 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
The Washington Post reports on something peculiar about support for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang online after he’d told the world he’d been unfaithful to his wife (before reports of his second extramarital affair): Joining the chorus online were voices of seemingly everyday people: a chef, a stock trader, a Hebrew teacher and several environmental activists. But at least 400 of them were fake, according to research from the nonprofit Midas Project, with links to a public relations firm involved in previous so-called „sockpuppet“ campaigns… Many of the fake accounts, according to Midas Project exe … - Amazon Expands Drone Deliveries, and Gets Noise Complaints. 'Like a Swarm of Bees'
Samstag 19:00 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
„In August, Amazon announced it was expanding its airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities,“ reports the Chicago Sun-Times, „including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise, Idaho, metro areas.“ And on Tuesday Amazon cut the ribbon on its new drone delivery center Tuesday 24 miles south of Chicago. But Amazon’s drones are already servicing parts of Texas, notes the Houston Chronicle. And north of Houston, Theresa Gibbons complains „It was kind of cool and fascinating at first, but now it is driving me crazy.“ Her home in the Bridgestone neighborhood is nestled right in … - 5 Businesses I Wouldn’t Start in 2027 — and 5 Models I’d Look at Instead
Samstag 18:30 – Katie Melissa at Entrepreneur – Latest
These are the businesses I would think twice about starting, plus alternatives that offer better leverage, scalability and income potential. - America Cancels 4,000 More Flights. FAA Denies Impact of New AI System.
Samstag 18:00 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
UPDATE: FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Saturday that U,S. airlines will likely cancel 4,000 to 5,000 of the roughly 41,000 flights scheduled for Saturday, reports Yahoo News. And as to the cause of the incident… [U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean] Duffy said a router involved in the switch from copper wire to fiber „started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system.“ The system saw „over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds,“ he said. That disrupted communications with airplanes and radar. America’s nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened „ami … - Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux's AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked
Samstag 17:00 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
The Register writes that „The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds.“ In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly because it contained code he’d left out of rc1 because he’d been busy and it was already the largest such release in kernel history. But Torvalds said the other reason rc2 was big was „various AI fixes.“ Such fixes are necessary because ever since Anthropic launched its Mythos bug-finding model in April, developers have been able to find more software flaws than was previously possible. Microsoft, for ex … - Australian STEM Videogame Challenge Canceled Due To AI
Samstag 15:34 – EditorDavid at Slashdot
PC Gamer reports: The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a „free national videogame development competition for students,“ has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year’s event will be the last… Speculation as to the cause of the program’s cancellation focused primarily on the presence of AI in entries: Another self-proclaimed judge said the problem wasn’t merely the use of AI in itself but that „some students just completely generate their games with AI….“ [T]he Australian Council for Educational Research has confirmed that the cancellation was in fact due to AI…. „maki … - Why Tech and Crypto Sold Off After the Blue Wave
Samstag 15:00 – Joselito Lizarondo at Entrepreneur – Latest
The reversal of the post-election rally offers founders a practical lesson in financing growth, managing risk and separating political expectations from business fundamentals. - Ex-Nvidia CEO Misled Company Leaders On Affair With Chinese Businesswoman
Samstag 11:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters. […] During the autumn of 2025 and in October 2026, in response to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders‘ attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice Huang, Huang at both time … - Amazon's Plan to Index the World's Online Shopping Data
Samstag 7:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
Amazon is considering a „World Product Graph“ that would index information about products sold across the internet in an effort to keep shoppers and AI agents from turning to Google, Reddit or other sources for product research. The proposed database could also improve Amazon’s AI shopping assistant by addressing inaccurate or incomplete answers and allowing it to use cheaper models. „Amazon cannot be the go-destination for every shopping mission if customers must leave to research product relationships on Google, brand websites, and review sites,“ according to an internal Amazon document. „Th … - Windows 0-Day Dropped By Disgruntled Researcher Hands Hackers System Rights
Samstag 3:30 – BeauHD at Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a vulnerability that gives local users full System rights on some versions of Windows. The vulnerability resides in the Common Log File System, which Microsoft describes as a „general-purpose logging service used by software clients running in user-mode or kernel-mode.“ By forcing a privileged process such as Windows Defender to open a crafted CLFS con … - You’re Not Behind on AI Agents Yet. Learn How They Work in 10 Minutes, Before Your Competitors Get Ahead
Samstag 3:00 – Ben Angel at Entrepreneur – Latest
Your competitors are building AI teams. Here’s where to start. - FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft [UPDATE]
Samstag 1:30 – BeauHD at Slashdot
Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with no timeline for restoring normal operations. Rumors are swirling that this could be related to the FAA’s newly deployed SMART AI system or Microsoft’s recent global outage, but both the agency and Microsoft said they had no indication that their technology was responsible. Business Insider reports: … - SpaceX Falls Short of Historic Double Starship Catch
Samstag 1:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
SpaceX’s 15th Starship test flight successfully reached orbit Friday, but its historic attempt to catch both stages at the launch tower was derailed when the Super Heavy booster malfunctioned, forcing controllers to abort its return before it exploded after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The upper-stage Starship did, however, successfully deploy 26 Starlink satellites and is scheduled to complete 15 orbits before attempting an unprecedented tower catch on Saturday. If successful, it would mark the first time a spacecraft has returned from orbit to land vertically at a launch tower. The … - Lego's BrickLink Marketplace Back Online After Week-Long Outage Caused By 'Cyber Incident'
Freitag 23:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
LEGO’s BrickLink marketplace is back online after a week-long outage caused by what the company described as a „cyber incident,“ during which an unauthorized third party accessed some user data. Details about exactly what data was accessed remain unclear. The site went offline on November 5 and remained unavailable until November 12, preventing users from buying or selling LEGO sets and parts during the busy holiday shopping season. According to Brick Fanatics, LEGO initially described the outage as „necessary work“ before confirming that the platform had suffered a security incident. In an em … - US Seizes $1.2 Billion In Crypto Stolen From Binance
Freitag 22:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
U.S. authorities have seized or restrained more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during Binance’s $6 billion October hack, which the FBI attributes to North Korean military-linked hackers known as „TraderTraitor.“ The DOJ also said it disrupted infrastructure behind the „FaceStealer“ deepfake scam, blamed for stealing more than $400 million in cryptocurrency. CNBC reports: Collective efforts between the U.S. government and private sector have resulted in more than $2.7 billion of that amount being frozen. […] The DOJ said it was taking coordinated action against what it called the … - AI-Assisted Product Discovery
Freitag 20:00 – Stefan Wolpers at DZone.com Feed
TL; DR: Deciding What to Build Is the New Job, Now that Code Is No Longer a Constraint Agentic coding has removed the cost gate that used to stop product teams from chasing every idea at once, and the constraint has moved to product judgment: the ability to tell what is worth building. AI-Assisted product discovery can prepare that judgment by reading far more customer evidence than any product person could. Such a discovery agent analyzes three families of sources, checks eight patterns, and argues both against and for your current direction. The A3 Framework has a name for this work: Assist, … - Your Success Might Be Creating Problems You Can’t See. Here’s What to Ask Yourself.
Freitag 19:30 – Saahil Mehta at Entrepreneur – Latest
Your business may be growing, but what is that growth really costing you? - This Popular Wearable Now Has Its Own Social Network. Every Account Has a ‘Verified Heartbeat.’
Freitag 19:25 – Sherin Shibu at Entrepreneur – Latest
Bots are barred from this social network. - Choosing a BBD Framework
Freitag 19:00 – Himanshu Mandhyan at DZone.com Feed
A few years back, I sat through a sprint review where a product manager and a senior developer spent twenty minutes arguing about one line in a ticket: „Users can reset their password.“ The developer had built exactly that. The PM expected a lockout after three failed attempts, an email confirmation, and a link that expired in an hour. Nobody was wrong, exactly. They just had two different pictures in their heads, and the ticket never forced anyone to draw theirs on paper. That gap between what people say and what they mean is why behavior-driven development exists. And it is also why picking … - Agentic AI Governance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. Most of It Comes Down to These 4 Questions.
Freitag 19:00 – Charisma Glassman at Entrepreneur – Latest
Agentic AI governance frameworks look complicated, but every one asks your business the same four questions. - Key ML Classification Metrics You Need to Understand
Freitag 18:00 – Rakshath Naik at DZone.com Feed
Accuracy is what many beginners look for when building an ML model. Imagine you have a model that detects skin diseases. Your test dataset has 10,000 patients, out of which only 100 have the disease, while the remaining are healthy. The model ends up predicting everyone as healthy. That would give a 99% accuracy, which sounds impressive, but it failed to identify a single sick patient. Now, think about deploying it in the real world while blindly trusting its accuracy. That would be disastrous, as it failed to identify even a single sick person during testing. This is why models can fail in th … - What I Learned Spending Thousands on Meta Ads to Launch a New Product
Freitag 18:00 – Boaz Sobrado at Entrepreneur – Latest
I used to measure ad spend of tens of millions a month with a large team. Now I do most of that work on my own with AI, and here is what it can’t do. - Tech Executives Tell Me What They Tell No One Else, and I Think ‘The Audacity’ Got Silicon Valley Mostly Right.
Freitag 18:00 – Dr. Kyle Elliott at Entrepreneur – Latest
An executive coach who hears what tech leaders say behind closed doors weighs in on how „The Audacity“ gets Silicon Valley right. - Controller and Data Access: Understanding Two-Layer Architecture Through Abstraction and Encapsulation
Freitag 17:00 – Dhana PAMULA at DZone.com Feed
Not every real-world application needs full Clean Architecture with its multiple layers, dependency inversion, and strict domain boundaries. Many production systems — particularly internal enterprise applications like HRMS and Payroll platforms — run successfully on a simpler, pragmatic two-layer architecture: a Controller layer and a Data Access layer.
Understanding why this simpler structure works, and how it relates to the same OOP principles behind Clean Architecture, makes it easier to work confidently in either kind of codebase. - This NFL Quarterback Used to Work With NASA. It Inspired Him to Change How Athletes Travel.
Freitag 17:00 – Leo Zevin at Entrepreneur – Latest
Lions quarterback and former NASA intern Josh Dobbs wants to redesign how pro athletes fly. - The Top 10 Skills People Are Cashing In On With Side Hustles in 2026 and 2027, According to Fiverr
Freitag 16:37 – Amanda Breen at Entrepreneur – Latest
Have a talent for logo design or custom websites? Sell your skills on Fiverr. - Designing for Hot Keys: When Distributed Systems Stop Distributing
Freitag 16:00 – Jaswanth Mopathi at DZone.com Feed
Distributed systems usually spread data by hashing keys across nodes so no one node carries all the load. A hot key breaks that assumption. It is a key whose access volume greatly exceeds the volume of other keys during a given period. A global view counter or a popular item identifier can receive millions of reads or writes each second. Every request targets the same partition, even when the rest of the cluster has spare capacity. The result is uneven load. One node reaches its CPU, network, thread, or connection limits while other nodes remain underused. Adding nodes does not solve the probl … - From Database Changes to Real-Time Actions at Scale: Oracle GoldenGate and Java
Freitag 15:00 – Sushant Sakolkar at DZone.com Feed
DB changes can be streamed in real time via Oracle GoldenGate. Java applications can then consume them to validate/act on/route events without polling the DB.
Goal
Listen to real-time transactions in the DB, act on all operations within transactions, and maintain transaction boundaries with near real-time SLAs. - AI Didn't Replace Software Engineering; It Changed the Bottleneck
Freitag 14:00 – Jackson Stakeman at DZone.com Feed
AI has dramatically reduced the cost of generating code. But software engineering isn’t just code generation. As implementation gets faster, the real bottlenecks move to planning, architecture, review, testing, deployment, and long-term maintenance. Teams that continue optimizing for coding speed alone will find themselves spending more time fixing problems they could have prevented. Speed Changes Where Engineering Time Goes Historically, the costs related to change and software rebuilds were massive. However, AI allows organizations to move incredibly fast. By orders of magnitude, engineering … - 7 Swift Features That Will Let You Delete Code Tomorrow
Freitag 13:00 – Pavel Andreev at DZone.com Feed
Every year Apple’s “What’s new in Swift” session drops thirty minutes of language features, and every year the recaps list them in the order they appeared on stage. That order is optimized for a keynote, not for your sprint.
This one is sorted differently. The question for every feature is the same: how far is it from a diff I can open tomorrow? Some of these are one-line changes that delete a hack you’ve been apologizing for since 2021. Others are powerful, well-designed, and will not touch your app code for a year. Both deserve to be understood. Only one deserves a ticket. - Detecting Duplicates With Machine Learning in 2026: From String Metrics to Embeddings and LLMs
Donnerstag 20:00 – Ilya Dudkin at DZone.com Feed
The more data companies gather on their customers, products, and code, the more duplicated information accumulates, confusing the teams who depend on it. You don’t go through millions of records manually. So deduplication is now a machine learning problem. This article looks at the current state of duplicate detection in ML systems where the old techniques still work, and what embeddings and large language models have brought to the table. How Do ML Systems Detect Duplicates? It is possible for a person to look at two pictures or two strings and know if they are the same. Teaching a machine to … - Ingesting Public Data That Fails Silently: Patterns From a TypeScript and Cloudflare Workers Pipeline
Donnerstag 19:00 – horus he at DZone.com Feed
Abstract Public statistical datasets rarely fail with an error. When something goes wrong, they hand back a plausible number, an HTML page with a success status, or a series that has quietly stopped updating. This article describes the ingestion pipeline behind a residential concrete cost estimator that combines four public datasets: an annual occupational wage survey, a monthly producer price index, a 2022 industry benchmark of material prices, and a ZIP code to metro area crosswalk. For each dataset, I document the failure mode we actually observed, the evidence for it, and the TypeScript c … - Building a Grounded Search Agent With Foundry, Azure AI Search, and Cosmos DB, Containerized With Docker and Observed With Grafana
Donnerstag 18:00 – Jubin Soni, FBCS at DZone.com Feed
Why „Search“ Isn’t Enough Anymore A plain RAG pipeline — embed a query, hit a vector index, stuff the top-k chunks into a prompt — works fine for a single-turn FAQ bot. It falls apart the moment you need: Multi-turn memory („what about last quarter?“ needs to know what „last quarter“ refers to) A decision about whether to search at all (some questions are structured lookups, not document retrieval) Citations the caller can verify This post builds a small but complete grounded search agent: Azure OpenAI (via Microsoft Foundry) decides when to call a search tool versus a structured data tool, Az … - Persisting Cookies Across JAX-WS Service Calls Using a Custom SOAP Handler
Donnerstag 17:00 – Vishal Rameshchandra Shah at DZone.com Feed
The Cookie That Never Came Back The first call authenticated the user. The second failed. I was integrating with a customer-provided SOAP service exposed through a single WSDL, with JAX-WS client classes generated by IBM Rational Application Developer from the WSDL and its XSDs. The first call authenticated the user and came back with a Set-Cookie header. Every call after it needed that cookie. The generated client sent none of it. Each invocation behaved as an independent conversation, and the workflow broke on its second step. No exception, no warning. Just a server that had forgotten who yo … - Building Enterprise Authentication with Angular, Spring Boot, SSO, and MFA
Donnerstag 16:00 – Vaishnavi Khosla at DZone.com Feed
Authentication Isn’t a Feature, It’s Frontend Architecture Whereas the authentication process can typically be implemented as an afterthought for any development team through just creating a login interface that will be connected to some sort of identity management solution, it will not be as straightforward when there is a need to develop a fully functional enterprise solution with the use of Angular and Spring Boot. From implementing single sign-on and multi-factor authentication in such cases with the use of such a front-end/back-end combination, it became evident that authentication is mor … - Best of Three Worlds: AI Agents Writing In Rust and Java Beat the C Library
Donnerstag 14:00 – Yannick Majoros at DZone.com Feed
Every app that accepts photo uploads meets HEIC sooner or later. iPhones save in it by default. Neither Java nor Rust can read it out of the box, and the usual answer, libheif, is a C library: native packages in every container image, a C toolchain in the build, and a parser written in C reading files that strangers upload.
I had the problem twice, in a Java product and in a Rust one. So I went the other way: decoders written in the language itself, built and improved by AI coding agents, with me steering. Here is how it went. - Prompt Caching for LLMs, Part 3: Model-Side Caching and Production Rollout
Donnerstag 13:00 – Ram Ghadiyaram at DZone.com Feed
Recap: Where This Fits Part 1 of this series covered exact-match caching, and Part 2 covered semantic caching. Both sit in front of the model and can skip the call entirely on a hit. This article covers what happens to the requests that still reach the model: reusing computed model state, either inside your own inference engine or inside the API provider’s system, plus the production details that turn a caching plan into something a team can actually run and trust. Layers 3 and 4 are two versions of the same basic idea, reusing computed model state, split by who runs the model server. If you r …