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Kamal is an open-source deployment tool that lets developers run web apps on bare metal, self-hosted servers, or any cloud provider using just a config file with IP addresses and SSH access. It aims to replicate the ease-of-use of managed platforms like Heroku, Fly.io, and Render without locking users into a single vendor's infrastructure.
Canonical's Ubuntu 26.10 completes its migration to Rust-written core utilities after resolving TOCTOU security flaws that had forced cp, mv and rm to remain on their GNU versions in 26.04 LTS. The release, codenamed 'Stonking Stingray', now ships a full uutils suite covering tools like ls, cat, chmod and du.
Microsoft released a preliminary set of rules governing how its AI models should behave, emphasizing that AI should support rather than replace human judgment and avoid fostering dependence or excessive agreeableness. The move follows public statements from Anthropic and OpenAI leadership favoring a more cautious pace of AI development, and comes after an Anthropic researcher publicly resigned over safety concerns.
A homebrew project called Wine-NX ports Wine 11 to the Switch's Horizon OS, letting it run x86 Windows games via Box64's ARM64 translation and Mesa's nouveau graphics driver. Demonstrations show Need for Speed Underground 2 playing at 20-45fps, OpenTTD hitting 60fps, Quake III Arena running around 37fps at 720p, and WarCraft III partially functional with menus and cutscenes working.
OpenRGB, an open-source project, has reached its 1.0 release, offering a single lightweight application to control RGB lighting from multiple manufacturers instead of juggling separate proprietary apps. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS, and has been tested across x86, x86_64, Arm32 and Arm64 hardware including Raspberry Pi devices. The software is released under the GNU General Public License v2 and includes a network-based SDK for third-party integrations.
The Toronto International Film Festival's 2026 edition is underway, with coverage tracking a wide slate of premieres including Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and a lengthy documentary on Elon Musk. The festival also features early looks at upcoming streaming series such as Crystal Lake and Carrie, with reviews being published daily throughout the event.
Ahead of the iOS 27 release, iPhone owners are being urged to free up roughly 18 to 25GB of storage, ensure at least 50 percent battery or a charger connection, and stay on Wi-Fi before installing. Users can also choose between manual updates or Apple's automatic overnight installation option found in Settings.
A traveler recounts learning to navigate China's digital ecosystem during a two-week trip, noting that Western apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Google services are blocked by the Great Firewall. Instead, visitors must rely on Chinese 'super apps' like WeChat and Alipay, which are used for nearly everything including payments, since cash and credit cards are rarely accepted. The writer recommends linking these apps to credit cards before arrival, as setup abroad can be difficult.
A review published in Consciousness and Cognition by Derek Arnold, Loren Bouyer, Blake Saurels and Samuel Schwarzkopf argues that mental imagery is not simply visual perception run backward through the primary visual cortex. Drawing on cases of aphantasia—a lifelong inability to form mental images—and patients who retain imagery despite losing visual cortex tissue, the authors contend that imagination arises from cooperation among frontal and other distributed brain regions rather than a single visual 'screen.'
A community-built site has extended Simon Willison's informal LLM benchmark—asking models to draw an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle—into a set of 30 drawing prompts tested across 2025 and 2026 model runs. The 2026 batch currently covers prompts 1 through 10, with images displayed unedited exactly as each model generated them.
Cutwater, a ready-to-drink spirits brand known for its higher-alcohol canned cocktails, is on track to hit $1 billion in yearly sales even as overall alcohol consumption falls to record lows. The brand's growth stands out sharply against a broader downturn affecting most of the drinks industry.
Workflow orchestration startup Temporal announced a $550M Series E funding round valuing the company at $12.55 billion. The round was co-led by Lightspeed, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global, with participation from T. Rowe Price, SV Angel, and returning backers including a16z, Sequoia, and Index. The company says the capital will help it support increasingly long-running AI agents and complex enterprise systems that require durable execution.