Anne Carson awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy honored the Canadian poet and essayist for an inventive body of work that moves between classical traditions and modern literary forms.
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Zerobrew pitches a faster client for Homebrew packages
The experimental package manager uses Homebrew's existing bottles but changes how they are installed, with its developer claiming large speed gains on macOS and Linux.
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Classic DOS demoscene works return through browser recompilation
A web project recompiles four early-1990s PC demos instruction by instruction, preserving their original loaders, music systems and effects while modelling the hardware in a browser.
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EU and partners withdraw branding from Vilnius disinformation conference
The EU diplomatic service, Lithuania and Canada pulled sponsorship or participation from #Disinfo2026 after US objections to a panel examining the United States as an information threat.
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Mozilla says Microsoft still limits browser choice outside Europe
Mozilla says Windows and Copilot continue to steer users toward Edge in markets where European Union rules do not apply.
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Experimental Rust port aims to replace the TypeScript 7 compiler
The early tsc-rs release claims broad compatibility and faster checks than Microsoft’s Go compiler, while its creator warns that it remains experimental.
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Criteo Engineer Warns AI Shortcuts Can Stall Junior Developers' Growth
A Criteo engineering essay argues that curiosity, close review and independent practice remain essential as coding agents take on more implementation work.
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Google Opens Playground for Prompt-Built Browser Games
Google's experimental platform lets adults in the United States create, test and share games through a conversational interface without writing code.
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Tilehurst Property With Hand-Dug Tunnel Network Heads to Auction
A Reading-area site featuring four underground levels, a miniature railway and more than 1,300 square feet below ground carries a £300,000–£325,000 guide price.
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Telegraph-Style Prompts Cut Some LLM Output Bills in Reproducible Test
An independent benchmark reports large token savings when completed records are rewritten in compressed 'cablese,' while warning that the method does not suit every model or task.
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C64 Keyboard font rebuilds Commodore keycap lettering from photographs
A new open-source typeface recreates the printed legends and PETSCII graphics of the Commodore 64 keyboard rather than its familiar screen font.
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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The chemists will share the prize for discoveries showing how asymmetric chemical synthesis can strongly favor one mirror-image form of a molecule.
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New PS5 jailbreak is reported to cover firmware through version 13.60
A newly reported exploit expands the range of PlayStation 5 system software open to hobbyist modification, though its reach and impact remain uncertain.
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Shaders project packages more than 200 WebGPU effects as framework components
The open-source Shaders toolkit brings GPU-rendered visual effects to React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, vanilla JavaScript and Framer projects.
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Chrome 155 will add JPEG XL decoding with a Rust-based implementation
Google says Chrome will begin decoding JPEG XL images in version 155, using the memory-safe jxl-rs decoder and extensive interoperability testing.
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Starbucks faces lawsuit over drinks marketed as sugar-free
Plaintiffs say several protein beverages carry sugar-free names despite nutrition listings showing naturally occurring sugar from milk.
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Veteran Server Fault moderator plans to step down after 15 years
One of Server Fault's longest-serving community moderators says falling participation and a quieter review workload signal that it is time to leave.
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DNS registry attacks enabled unauthorized certificates for Google domains
Attackers who gained control of three country-code domain registries altered DNS records to pass automated certificate checks, Google said.
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Illustrated Home Assistant dashboard turns a house plan into a family control panel
A Home Assistant user commissioned layered artwork of his home, then connected the images to live device states and controls.
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NanoMuse project releases self-hostable agent apps across phones and desktops
The GPL-licensed project combines mobile, desktop and web clients with an optional relay intended to connect agents across a user's devices.
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Britain's wartime bombs still drive thousands of disposal callouts
A simultaneous pair of finds in Plymouth and Exmouth illustrates why unexploded Second World War munitions remain a live public-safety problem.
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Chernobyl fuel particles show unexpected stability after four decades
X-ray analysis of six radioactive particles found their uranium-oxide structures had changed less than researchers expected, while leaving broad safety conclusions unresolved.
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ESP32-C3 project puts large DNS blocklists into flash memory
An open-source network ad blocker uses compact domain hashes and binary search to work within a low-cost microcontroller's limited RAM.
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Jev-led pipeline completes 76.2% of SREGym diagnostic trials
A Kubernetes incident-diagnosis experiment paired programmatic evidence collection with a compact decision model, exposing both speed advantages and important limits.
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