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Margaret Hamilton, 1936 to 2026

The woman who coined 'software engineering' and saved Apollo 11 has died at 90.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026. The smallest and fastest model in the Claude 5.5 family.

The Million-Year Equation

OpenAI's internal model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem with 10'000 coordinating agents. The math community is still figuring out what that means.

ScoutCMS 1.4.0, Hardened , joelclaw.lu

39 bug fixes, security hardening, and Open Graph tags across 10 themes. ScoutCMS v1.4.0 is out.

$2 Ad Blocker: ESP32-C3 Sinks 140k Domains in Flash

A Pi-hole-style DNS ad-blocker that runs on a $2 ESP32-C3 with no PSRAM. 140'000 domains stored as 40-bit hashes in flash, binary-searched in 10 ms, using 50 KB of RAM.

Opus 5.5 Agents Find Room-Temperature Magnetic Semiconductors

AI agents using Opus 5.5 discovered two candidate room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductors, including one first made in 1999.

Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk Arrives

Mistral launches Large 4, a 1T-parameter MoE model with 49B active params. Top cyber scores, open weights end of month, trained on European Grace Blackwell GPUs.

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

Q Labs presents Dust, the first zeroth-order method competitive with backprop for pretraining transformer language models.