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demoscene-recomp: classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser
demoscene-recomp runs Future Crew's Unreal and Second Reality, Triton's Crystal Dream II and NoooN's Stars in the browser by recording every executed x86 block in an emulator, translating it one-for-one into cycle-timed C, compiling to WebAssembly with timer, VGA and Sound Blaster models, and checking it event for event.
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Unison Cloud is now open source
Paul Chiusano announces that Unison Cloud, which turns a pool of nodes into a distributed computer programmable in Unison, is now MIT licensed, newly open-sourcing the Nimbus worker node, the Haskell Cloud API server and the Unison Cloud UI alongside the existing client.
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Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents
Microsoft announces general availability of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a Windows containment layer that lets developers and IT define which files and network destinations an AI agent may use and enforces those policies at runtime, alongside upcoming agent identity via Microsoft Entra and manageability tooling.
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Open data for predictive AI models of biology: $1.8 billion committed
Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta expand the Virtual Biology Initiative to a combined $1.8 billion in funding, data, compute and measurement technology, aiming to generate open, standardized datasets for AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
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Timestamping a giant record of the Web
Project Timestamper announces that it has cryptographically timestamped all 339 billion web page snapshots in the Common Crawl archive, committing hashes of about 134 million index blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps so any later alteration of a capture made before 2026-09-26 is detectable, with a one-command verification tool.
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64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
Let's Encrypt will move all subscribers to 64-day certificates by default on February 10, 2027 (with 45- and 6-day profiles available), staging first, as part of the industry shift to shorter lifetimes that reduce key-compromise and mis-issuance risk.
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Zephon: Fast, Flexible, Elastically Deterministic Data Loading
DatologyAI open-sources Zephon, a data loader for text and multimodal foundation model training that tokenizes, packs and mixes data on the fly while keeping the exact same sequence of global batches when GPU count, operator parallelism or execution backend change. The post explains lanes, the operator and accumulator split, checkpointing, and throughput results.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. The press release explains how their work helps answer why life's chemistry uses only one mirror image of molecules such as amino acids.
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GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
OpenAI rolls out a new GPT-6 model to all ChatGPT users with Intelligent UI, which lets answers include visuals, charts, forms, buttons and small interactive tools built from a streamable component library. GPT-6 can also begin answering while it keeps thinking, improves search-backed answers, and ships as GPT-6 Sol for paid tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest, fastest and most capable small model, built for high-volume work like summaries, classification, subagents and browser use. It costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, adds an adjustable effort setting, and arrives alongside halved Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices and a new monthly API credit for Max and Team subscribers.
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Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
Google introduces Playground, an experimental browser-based gaming platform where anyone can create custom games by describing them in text prompts, then play, share and compete in community games with leaderboards and multiplayer. A Unity Spark integration is coming, and Playground launches for US users 18 and over at playground.google.
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Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
Daniel Stenberg announces that curl 8.23.0 will ship early, on October 14 2026, fixing twenty-two security vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-92392, only the third HIGH severity curl CVE since 2021. Details stay embargoed until release, with distros and support customers alerted ahead of time and a follow-up post promised.
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Migrate your site to the new git-pages backed Codeberg Pages now. We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2
Codeberg announces that Codeberg Pages v2, its unmaintained in-house static site hosting, will be shut off completely on 31 December 2026. Users who never set up a webhook are still on v2 and must migrate to the git-pages backed Codeberg Pages before then, using the Migration Guide and the Migration Check Tool.
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Introducing Personal Agent Protocol
Sierra and Meta, with partners including Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart, announce Personal Agent Protocol — an open standard for how personal AI agents authenticate, get customer consent and interact with businesses via websites, APIs or company agents, with a v0.1 spec planned later this month.
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EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter Apache 2.0 embedding model built on Gemma 4 that puts text, code, images, video and audio in one embedding space, with modular encoders, Matryoshka truncation, an 8K context window and on-device RAM use as low as about 191MB for text-only weights.
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Introducing the Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT)
Decagon open-sources PACT, co-developed with Instinct, so businesses can verify which personal AI agent is acting for a customer and what that customer authorized — built on Agent2Agent and OAuth 2.0 — and joins the Personal Agent Protocol working group around Meta’s Muse.
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Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks
Google's Chrome security and networking team explains how attackers hijacked the .gh, .sl and .as country-code TLD registries to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates, how Chrome blocked them via CRLSets and worked with CAs on revocation, and why domain owners should monitor Certificate Transparency and publish restrictive CAA records.
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The Chrome team announces JPEG XL decoding support starting in Chrome 155. The post explains why they brought the format to Chrome (better compression than JPEG, lossless JPEG transcoding, HDR), how they used jxl-rs, a pure Rust decoder, for memory safety, the SIMD and performance work that keeps it fast, and the Interop Project testing effort.
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Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Simon Long announces an updated Debian Trixie with Raspberry Pi Desktop image for PCs and Macs, including a Raspberry Pi Connect client, and recounts how the x86 version began as a 2016 side project after Eben Upton asked whether the desktop could run on his Mac.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics
OpenAI releases a broad set of new mathematical results from an internal frontier model in a GitHub repository, with Lean formalizations of many proofs, reasoning summaries and compute estimates (about three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking per result), following guidance from the IAS advisory group on mathematics and AI.
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