October 2026

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fheroes2: Open Source Heroes II Engine

fheroes2 rebuilds the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine from scratch in C++, shipping source code only while you supply the original game’s data files.

October 25, 2026 8 min read
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Cerebras Inference Speed on Wafer-Scale Chip

Cerebras packs three overclocked WSE-3T wafer-scale engines into one CS-4 rack, pushing decode rates toward 3,000 tokens per second for AI inference.

October 25, 2026 9 min read
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Why Ambitious Software Projects Fail

Dan Luu argues the cost of ambitious software fell but our mental price tags did not, using pgrust’s Postgres rewrite to show what deep attempts surface.

October 25, 2026 10 min read
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Rust LSP Low Memory: Swap Language Servers

Rust Glancer offers a low-memory LSP alternative to rust-analyzer. Measure RSS and PSS, probe capabilities, and weigh the trade-offs before switching.

October 25, 2026 10 min read
Office worker at a desk with a laptop, agenda and folders, one of the non-tech functions where AI use is concentrated in writing and editing tasks

AI Productivity Gains Outside Tech

Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT FutureTech surveyed 637 scientists: AI saved an average of 6.9 hours a week, but 46% of time-savers spent more than a quarter of it checking outputs.

October 24, 2026 9 min read
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StubHub Stock Slips on Record Ticket Sales

StubHub stock fell to a four-month low even as Q2 ticket sales hit $3.1 billion. Here is why record volume has not translated into a higher share price.

October 24, 2026 14 min read
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Kimi K3.1 Pro Benchmarks and Pricing

Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 65.7% on Terminal Bench 4.0, just behind Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights due November 4 and pricing pressure from DeepSeek.

October 23, 2026 9 min read
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AI Data Center Emissions by Region

Same prompt, 88% less CO2: how request-level carbon accounting and carbon-aware scheduling cut AI data center emissions across regions.

October 23, 2026 9 min read
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KSMBD RCE Reports Land on Public LKML

Two CVSS 9.0 KSMBD RCE reports and three other kernel bugs were Cc’d to public lists before fixes, with reproducers. Here is what is exposed.

October 22, 2026 8 min read
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Node2Shell: Node.js Brotli Flaw Enables RCE

Node.js’s bundled Brotli decoder can write out of bounds on malformed input. Imperva demonstrated code execution; patch 22.23.4, 24.22.1, or 26.12.1.

October 22, 2026 8 min read
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Fast Integer Multiplication Algorithm

Harvey and van der Hoeven’s 2019 proof gives fast integer multiplication in O(n log n) time, yet shipped big-integer code still ignores it. Here is why.

October 22, 2026 11 min read