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Konami's Silent Hill franchise has rebounded with the Silent Hill 2 remake, spinoff Silent Hill F, and the upcoming Silent Hill: Townfall, following years of dormancy after Silent Hills was cancelled in 2015. Meanwhile Capcom's Resident Evil series has built momentum since Resident Evil 7, alternating remakes like Resident Evil 4 with new entries such as Village and this year's Requiem.
A programmer wrote a functioning ray tracer entirely in Brainfuck, the minimalist esoteric language with just eight operations and a single tape of byte cells. The project, named rayfuck, was inspired by a CMake documentation aside noting that ray tracers have been implemented in CMake's own scripting language, prompting the author to attempt an even more extreme example in BF. The source code has been published on GitHub under mTvare6/rayfuck.
Researchers from UChicago PME, Harvard, Stony Brook and Quantinuum built and tested a complete set of quantum operations based on non-Abelian anyons, publishing results in Nature. The team says this is the first experimental proof that manipulating these exotic quasiparticles can perform any computation required for universal quantum computing.
Android Authority's three-week test of the Galaxy Watch 9 found a comfortable design, bright display, and expanded health and fitness tracking features. The reviewer notes pricing has risen about $30 over the Watch 8 at each tier, and there is no Watch 8 Classic successor this year, leaving the rotating bezel model available only in last year's Galaxy Watch 8 Classic. Battery life remains the standout weakness, requiring nightly charging to use the watch's features fully.
Google plans to launch an experimental satellite called MVP on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base next week, part of its Project Suncatcher initiative. The satellite carries four Tensor Processing Units powered by solar panels generating one kilowatt, roughly matching a single Earth-based server, and is designed to process simple AI requests for up to a year while orbiting for as long as six years before burning up on re-entry.
Landscape architect Billy Fleming has published a book documenting communities that have successfully pursued decarbonization and climate justice initiatives. The book arrives amid a year marked by severe climate disasters, including a glacier-collapse flood in Nepal, a European heat wave blamed for over 35,000 deaths, and crop-destroying temperature swings in the U.S. Midwest.
Tisha Johnson, head of design at EV startup Slate Auto, leads styling of a pickup that starts under $25,000 — the cheapest new truck on sale in the US. The vehicle, offered in a modular Fastback configuration, has drawn design awards and roughly 180,000 reservations, according to the company's figures cited in the coverage.
Author Paulina Borsook's 2000 book Cyberselfish, an early critique of Silicon Valley culture, has been revived after tech critics like Gil Durán circulated her work on social media, prompting five publishers to bid for reissue rights. Tin House won the rights and released a new edition in mid-September with a foreword by Durán, following renewed attention including a New York Times profile calling her 'The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley.'
The team behind Topcoat, a full-stack Rust web framework covering views, components, mailers and an ORM called Toasty, published an update detailing new features shipped since its debut two months ago. The framework's stated goal is to bring Ruby on Rails-style productivity to Rust-based web development.
Research lab Ink & Switch has redesigned its homepage into an interactive art piece called 'Tenfold' to mark the studio's tenth anniversary. The piece, built using technology from the lab's own research, invites visitors to click and drag across the page to explore it.
Microsoft and Qualcomm confirmed at the Snapdragon 2026 Summit that they will no longer market new Surface and Snapdragon-powered PCs as 'Copilot+' devices, even though the underlying AI features remain unchanged. Surface VP Brett Ostrum and Qualcomm's Kedar Kondap both told Windows Central the companies still emphasize AI capabilities, just without the Copilot+ label that debuted with Arm-based Windows PCs in 2024.
AI-focused insurance startup Corgi Insurance has laid off employees who were building out a chain of company-branded coffee shops in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The move follows the shutdown of one of its two existing cafe locations after city officials found it operating without a required permit, and comes as Corgi originally aimed to open 100 cafes within six months.