Formlabs has released the Form Studio 1, a resin 3D printer aimed at hobbyist and first-time users rather than professionals. The base package costs $699, while a Flex Package with a flexible build plate runs $749, and a limited-edition Founders Edition bundle adds extras like a plushie and resin credit. The printer includes a conduction resin heating system and Formlabs' Low Force Display curing technology, and is optimized for the company's own proprietary resins.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-15
Garmin has unveiled the third generation of its Marq smartwatch series, offered in multiple styles that all feature titanium cases and sapphire crystal displays. The new models retain Garmin's existing suite of health and fitness tracking tools alongside the upgraded premium materials.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-13
A Gentoo contributor is publicly asking Python package maintainers not to adopt uv-build as their build backend, citing damage to Gentoo package support when key dependencies switch to it. The post clarifies it's not a criticism of uv or Astral's other tools generally, but specifically objects to uv-build's size, its Rust implementation, and its frequent release cadence.
blogs.gentoo.org
· 2026-10-13
A technical essay contends that modern operating systems, particularly POSIX-based free and open-source ones, miss optimization opportunities because compilers, build systems and package managers don't share dependency and resource information with each other or the wider system. The author compares older C build tooling, where compiler and build system are separate, with modern languages like Rust, Go and Zig, where tight integration already yields benefits. They use a hypothetical tightly-integrated C build system to illustrate what additional advantages could be unlocked.
shrub.industries
· 2026-10-06
The mold high-speed linker project has released version 3.0.0, its first version built entirely in Rust after being ported from C++. Version 2.42.1 remains the final C++ release, and the new version is designed as a drop-in replacement, accepting the same command-line options and producing equivalent output while matching prior linking performance.
github.com
· 2026-10-05
The Zig Software Foundation released version 0.17.0 after five months of development involving 206 contributors and 925 commits. The update reworks the build system with a new Build Server Protocol and enhances the ELF linker so incremental compilation is expected to work for all users on x86_64-linux, alongside expanded CI testing for architectures like aarch64-openbsd, aarch64-freebsd, and aarch64-netbsd.
ziglang.org
· 2026-10-02
Amazon announced a new initiative to add $1 billion in community support as it seeks local buy-in for its ongoing data center build-out. The company is also promising greater transparency about its facilities, aiming to address concerns from residents and officials near proposed and existing sites.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-02
Android devices include a developer options menu, accessible after tapping the Build Number field seven times in Settings > About, that lets users adjust animation speeds. Within this menu, setting the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale to 0.5x makes system animations play twice as fast, a feature that has existed since Android 4.0.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-28
TiddlyInstall is a browser-based tool that generates installers for apps across Windows, macOS and Linux from a single project. It can produce offline installers packed entirely in the browser, and for compiled languages it downloads and installs toolchains like Go, Rust, Zig or Nim locally into the app's folder to build the project on the user's machine rather than requiring a pre-built binary.
robertsdotpm.github.io
· 2026-09-26
A new opinion piece contends that programming languages are treated as fixed, sacred artifacts, forcing developers to build workaround build systems and conventions instead of directly modifying their languages. It cites Raymond Chen's 2005 blog post opposing 'flow-control macros,' which warned that such customizations obscure code semantics and complicate debugging, as an example of the resistance to language malleability.
jimmyhmiller.com
· 2026-09-25
A team building an operating system focused on cryptographic integrity has published tine, a new build system built on Meta's Buck2. The system is designed to be self-contained, support pinning of every software component, integrate package import and update tooling, and enable full rebuilds and reproducible, hermetic builds across multiple upstream Linux distributions.
amutable.com
· 2026-09-24
Investment in AI data centers has surpassed the combined historical spending on canals, railroads and the electrical grid, according to reporting on the current buildout. The surge is generating jobs and lifting stock valuations tied to AI infrastructure, even as it strains construction resources and materials markets.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-24
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