Microsoft reportedly rejects Netflix’s $500 million offer for broad Xbox adaptation rights
The proposed seven-year arrangement fell apart after Microsoft sought $800 million, according to a report citing entertainment newsletter Puck.
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GVS5H project claims multi-agent Qwen setup can rival a frontier model on coding benchmark
The open-source experiment coordinates five model instances through shared files, reporting large gains on 100 difficult LiveCodeBench problems.
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Finland halts work at Google data-center sites after extensive land clearing
Finnish regulators ordered work suspended at two proposed data-center locations after large-scale preparatory construction proceeded before environmental review was complete.
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Linux module claims faster matrix math on Nvidia RTX 3000 GPUs
The open-source gpu-unlock project changes firmware speed selectors before Nvidia's driver loads, with user reports showing gains in matrix-heavy workloads.
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Apple opens 2026 applications for security research iPhones
Apple is accepting applications through October 30 for renewable one-year loans of specially configured iPhones that give approved researchers deeper access to iOS.
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Roc compression benchmark approaches optimized C performance
A developer benchmark found a pure functional Roc implementation running within single-digit median margins of libdeflate on two machines, while retaining memory-safety and purity guarantees.
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Meta commercial terms put AI-output risk on business customers
Commercial terms scheduled for October 30 say customers assume risks from Meta AI features, while broader content and crawling language has drawn scrutiny from enterprise advisers.
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UX survey finds AI saves time but leaves practitioners uneasy
A Nielsen Norman Group survey of 521 UX professionals found broad workplace access to generative AI and faster task completion alongside persistent concerns about quality, privacy and ethics.
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Rqlite creator marks 12 years of distributed SQLite development
Philip O'Toole's retrospective traces how replicated SQLite evolved from a Raft-backed open-source server into a broader field spanning recovery tools, embedded databases and managed platforms.
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US investor-owned utilities charged households 23% more than public providers in 2025
An analysis of federal utility data puts the average residential rate at 17.8 cents per kilowatt-hour for investor-owned suppliers, compared with 14.5 cents at public utilities.
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ClickBench proposal seeks to remove pgrust results over query-specific execution and caching
A pull request argues that pgrust's published benchmark path violates ClickBench rules by recognizing the test's 43 queries and replaying cached outcomes on hot runs.
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ReactOS gains experimental installation support on NTFS drives
The open-source Windows-compatible operating system can now install directly to NTFS, though its new driver still lacks key reliability, performance and security features.
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R2D2 project rebuilds a webOS TV around local services
An open-source experiment replaces parts of one television’s vendor experience with a local home screen, remote browser and host-run voice assistant, while warning that the setup is hardware-specific and risky.
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Berget AI publishes per-request carbon method for AI inference
The Swedish provider says its open-source calculator shows identical model requests can have sharply different emissions depending on the electricity grid serving the data centre.
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Fly.io replaces Sprites storage stack with simpler block device design
The infrastructure provider says its new Sprites Block Device keeps ext4 while moving block data and metadata into one object-storage-backed system.
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Crystal 1.22 adds typed constants and broadens native platform support
The programming-language release contains 251 changes, promotes 64-bit Arm Linux targets and introduces the first official Windows build for Arm64.
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Earstrip library targets faster polygon triangulation for digital maps
Globus has released an ISC-licensed C++ and WebAssembly triangulator after benchmarking it against earcut on 3.7 million real-world map polygons.
Read report »Microsoft tests metered Xbox cloud play for games users own
Xbox Insiders can buy time-based streaming access for eligible purchased games, with reported introductory rates equivalent to 24 to 40 cents an hour.
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OpenAI releases official Go-based command-line interface for its API
The new OpenAI CLI organizes API tasks into resource groups, adds readable output and image workflows, and keeps automation-friendly formats available.
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WorldTUI uses a small language model to simulate an interactive terminal
An experimental browser demo predicts screen updates without running a shell or filesystem, testing whether a compact model can maintain a coherent software-like environment.
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Claude enters Google Docs, Sheets and Slides through new beta integrations
Anthropic's Workspace add-on places Claude beside open files, while separate connectors let users create and edit Google files from Claude conversations.
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PowerShell 7 gains fresh attention as a cross-platform automation tool
A developer's account highlights how typed objects, built-in parameter handling and consistent scripting can make modern PowerShell useful beyond Windows.
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IBM chief argues open-weight AI has reached a cost-performance turning point
Arvind Krishna told investors that enterprises can now run capable open models on modest on-premises infrastructure, though specialist deployment work remains a barrier.
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Curl maintainer says AI-assisted security reports are now a volume problem, not a fiction problem
Daniel Stenberg says recent submissions increasingly identify real issues and include useful reproducers, forcing maintainers to triage them despite concerns about AI use.
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