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Blender 5.2 LTS Lands: Node-Based Physics, Cycles Texture Cache, Online Assets
The open-source 3D suite Blender shipped its 5.2 LTS release on July 14th, with the headline work concentrated in Geometry Nodes. A new procedural physics syste
Castor: a CLI that rips web video streams and casts them to any DLNA TV
Castor is a command-line tool that solves a narrow annoyance: getting web video onto a TV without a Chromecast, AirPlay, or laggy, resolution-crushing screen mi
Claude Code quietly ships Bun's Rust rewrite to millions of devices
Bun creator Jarred Sumner revealed that Claude Code has been running the Rust port of Bun since version 2.1.181, shipped June 17th. The switch delivered a rough
Custom mesh-radio hardware powers Strandfall, a solarpunk outdoor larp in Edinburgh
Game designer Adrian Hon, known for the ARG Perplex City and the app Zombies, Run!, is co-creating Strandfall with Alex Macmillan under a new collective called
Elixir's official website gets a visual refresh
The homepage of the Elixir programming language, elixir-lang.org, has rolled out a redesigned look. The submission is a link to the site itself rather than a wr
EU now bans large firms from destroying unsold clothes and shoes
As of July 19, 2026, large companies operating in the EU can no longer destroy unsold clothing, accessories, or footwear. The rule is the first concrete measure
Fable 5 dominates GPT-5.6 Sol on NP-hard task; /goal wins runs but hurts averages
A researcher pitted Claude Fable 5 against GPT-5.6 Sol on KIRO, an unpublished fiber-network optimization problem with an astronomically large search space (Par
Kimi K3 matches Claude on coding for a fraction of the price, one dev argues
A developer reports running the open Kimi K3 model side by side with Claude on everyday coding work and finding no practical difference — comparable output qual
Minecraft: Java Edition swaps GLFW for SDL3 in latest snapshot
Mojang's newest Java Edition snapshot (26.3) replaces GLFW with SDL3 as the backend for window management, input, and platform integration — a notable dependenc
Moonshine Micro runs voice recognition and TTS on-device in 470KB of RAM
Moonshine AI has released Moonshine Micro, an open-source voice toolkit trimmed down to run entirely on microcontrollers and DSPs rather than in the cloud. Its
NYC to Require Landlords to Disclose AI-Altered Rental Listing Photos
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to force landlords and realtors to disclose when rental listings have been generated or edited with AI. The require
OpenAI quietly trims Codex context window from 372k to 272k tokens
A merged pull request to OpenAI's Codex repository lowers the advertised context window for its bundled model from 372k to 272k tokens — a roughly 27% cut in ho