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Rumor Suggests iPadOS 19 to Get Some Mac-Like Tweaks, Like a Menu Bar

Majin Bu:According to my source, Apple is gearing up for another major leapforward. With iPadOS 19 and iOS 19, expected in 2025, the gapbetween iPad, iPhone, and Mac continues to shrink. [...] One ofthe most exciting changes will benefit those using the iPad with aMagic Keyboard. When connected, the interface will adapt to show amenu bar at the top, just like on macOS, turning the iPad into amuch more laptop-like experience.Another key update is Stage Manager 2.0, an enhanced multitaskingmode th

Wayne Ma Reports That Political Tensions Are Making It Difficult for Apple to Shift More iPhone Production From China to India

Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas):Earlier this year, Chinese authorities refused to allow one ofApple’s Chinese equipment suppliers to export machinery to Indiathat Apple needed for the upcoming iPhone 17’s trial production,according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Sothe supplier got creative.It set up a front company in Southeast Asia to buy the machines.Once the equipment reached the Southeast Asian country, it went toa factory in India operated by Fo

Financial Times Reports That Apple Wants to Produce All U.S. Phones in India by the End of Next Year

The Financial Times:Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to Indiaas soon as next year, according to people familiar with thematter, as President Donald Trump’s trade war forces the techgiant to pivot away from China.The push builds on Apple’s strategy to diversify its supply chainbut goes further and faster than investors appreciate, with a goalto source from India the entirety of the more than 60mn iPhonessold annually in the US by the end of 2026.The target would mean doubl

Thermometer Continuation in Scala

A continuation represents the control state of computation at a given point during evaluation. Delimited Continuations is a programming mechanism that can be used to implement various control flow constructs. Thermometer continuations implement delimited continuation using exceptions and state, particularly focused on saving and resuming interactive or concurrent computations at specific points; they often require additional context or constructs to be fully realized.In a 2018 paper, “Capturing

Henry Blodget’s Illustrated 2013 Travelogue of Flying in Coach on a Long International Flight

Andrew Leonard, writing for Salon back in 2013:The first thing wrong with the stupidest article to be posted tothe Internet in the year 2013 — and possibly the entire century — is the title: “I Was Quite Surprised By Some Things On MyAmerican Airlines International ‘Economy Class’ Flight.” Evensetting aside the high probability that author Henry Blodget, thefounder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider, wrote hisaccount of the mild horrors of nine hours cramped in the cheapseats in order

Lost in translation? Amazon Q Developer now speaks more languages

Programming is an increasingly global profession, and developer tools are finally catching up. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new language supports in Q Developer, its coding ...

Docker’s new MCP Catalog, Toolkit to solve major developer challenges, experts say

While the Catalog is expected to serve as a marketplace for publishing and discovering new tools, the Toolkit is expected to help reduce the management of MCP servers ...

Software Development Stocks Q4 Results: Benchmarking Twilio (NYSE:TWLO)

The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current ...

Top Android App Development Tools for Building Powerful Mobile Apps

Xamarin is created by Microsoft. It ranks as one of the most popular Android app development tools. It is an open-source platform instrumental in the creation of top-notch Android, iOS, and Windows ...

SAP Zero-Day Possibly Exploited by Initial Access Broker

A zero-day vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver potentially affects more than 10,000 internet-facing applications. Over 10,000 SAP ...

Ask Paul: April 25

Happy Friday! I got off lightly last week, but we're making up for that now with one of the longer Ask Paul's in recent memory.

Wipro launches GitHub Center of Excellence in Bengaluru to boost AI-driven development

By enhancing productivity and accelerating time-to-market, the initiative is set to provide substantial value to clients through AI-enabled solutions.

Wipro announces GitHub Center of Excellence in Bengaluru to push AI advancement

Wipro has launched their GitHub Center of Excellence (COE) in Bengaluru. Under the IT major’s ai360 initiative, CoE will ...

SQL Server Index Optimization Strategies: Best Practices with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts

Index maintenance is a critical component of database administration as it helps ensure the ongoing efficiency and performance of a Structured Query Language (SQL) Server environment. Over time, as data is added, updated, and deleted, index fragmentation can occur, where the logical and physical ordering of index pages becomes misaligned. This fragmentation can lead to increased disk I/O, decreased query performance, and overall system inefficiency. Running index maintenance jobs, such as those

Clean Up Event Data in Ansible Event-Driven Automation

In the past few articles, we explored how to use different event sources in Ansible Event-Driven Automation (EDA). In this demo, we'll focus on how event filters can help clean up and simplify event data, making automation easier to manage. Specifically, we'll explore the ansible.eda.dashes_to_underscores event filter and how it works.When using Ansible EDA with tools like webhooks, Prometheus, or cloud services, events often come in as JSON data. These JSON payloads usually have keys with

How to Build the Right Infrastructure for AI in Your Private Cloud

AI is no longer optional. From fraud detection to predictive maintenance, businesses everywhere are investing in machine learning and deep learning models. But training and running these models isn't light work. They require high-performance hardware, massive storage, fast networking, and serious automation.Public clouds like AWS and Azure offer AI-ready infrastructure, but not every company wants to go that route. Whether it's for compliance, cost control, or pure performance, many teams are bu

Henry Blodget Creates Imaginary Staff of AI Personalities for His New Website and Hits on One of Them

Henry Blodget, who sold Business Insider to German publishing giant Axel Springer for $340 million a decade ago, has supposedly launched a new site, Regenerator, built on Substack. I was going to tack on an “alas” re: building on Substack, but maybe this is the sort of thing Substack deserves.The gist of his debut post is that he used ChatGPT to create a small “staff” of teammates to work with, along with photos of these personalities, and he developed a crush on his new CEO. Really.Do I think

Analyzing “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to create a thread” Error

Understanding the Error                                                            The OutOfMemoryError thrown appears not because of insufficient heap memory but due to the following reasons:Excessive Thread CreationIf the application creates too many threads, it may reach a limit where no more threads can be created. In such cases, it is crucial

Java's Quiet Revolution: Thriving in the Serverless Kubernetes Era

Along with the rise of Kubernetes, there is another shift that is happening under the hood - the rise of serverless architecture, which is quietly rewriting the way we deploy and scale applications, with Java taking a lead. Java, which is usually associated with legacy code and monolithic enterprise applications, has been slowly but steadily evolving into a microservices architecture and is now evolving into a leaner, serverless-ready world. With the availability of tools like Knative and f

Scalability 101: How to Build, Measure, and Improve It

In this post, I'd like to talk a little about scalability from a system design perspective. In the following paragraphs, I'll cover multiple concepts related to scalability—from defining what it is, to the tools and approaches that help make the system more scalable, and finally, to the signs that show whether a system is scaling well or not. What Is Scalability?First things first: I’m pretty sure you know what scalability is, but let’s have a brief look at the definition just to be safe.