Qwen 3.8 27B Hits 1500 Tokens Per Second on Cerebras
Cerebras is now serving Qwen 3.8 27B at roughly 1500 tokens per second, according to the company’s inference documentation. The HN thread announcing it pulled 498 points, and the reason is simple: that is roughly an order of magnitude faster than most GPU-based providers deliver for a model of this size. For comparison points from […]
An LLM Read 72,000 Lines of 68000 Assembly and Ported a 1993 Amiga Game to Godot in an Evening
In 1993, a developer in Baghdad built a platform game on an Amiga 500 in pure MC68000 assembly. The machine had 512KB of RAM and no hard drive. Thirty-three years later, he fed the entire 72,758-line assembly codebase to Claude and had a working port of the game inside Godot in a single evening. The […]
GPT-6 Astra Breaks Through ARC-AGI-3, But the Harness Did Half the Work
ARC-AGI-3 is the benchmark that asks an AI to walk into an unfamiliar game with no instructions, figure out the rules by poking at things, and then win. Humans solve 100% of its environments. Until this week, no model came close. GPT-6 Astra changes that. According to the ARC Prize team’s independent writeup, Astra scored […]
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 targets efficiency in coding agent workflows
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, the fourth release in the Muse Spark family in under a year and the first since the company committed to opening its model weights. This one is a tuning update rather than an architecture change, aimed at the two places developers actually feel a coding model: agentic […]
WebLLM brings fast LLM inference to the browser with WebGPU
Running a language model entirely in the browser sounds like a party trick until you look at what WebLLM actually does. The project from the MLC community, which just crossed 18,800 GitHub stars, compiles LLM inference to run on the GPU through WebGPU, with nothing leaving the machine. No API calls, no server, no usage […]
Azure Front Door WAF policies now attach at profile and route level
Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall has always had a scoping problem. You could associate a WAF policy with a custom domain, and that was mostly it. One policy per domain, which sounds fine until you run a real Front Door profile with a dozen domains behind it and every team wants different rules. The […]
Movie Scene Map: 15,565 filming locations, straight from Wikidata
Movie Scene Map plots 15,565 real filming locations across 166 countries on one interactive map: the studios, castles, streets, and landscapes where films and TV series were actually shot. Click a point and you get a photograph plus the productions shot there. It covers 9,287 films and series, 2,153 video games, 407 anime, and 365 […]
Reviving a 1 GHz Tektronix TDS7104 from the flea market
Tom Verbeure found a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley flea market. The seller wanted $700, then dropped to $300. For a 1 GHz, four-channel oscilloscope with 10 GS/s sampling, that is a good price if you can get it running, and the scope booted fine at first, then died at the BIOS screen with […]
Atlas: one world model for video, 3D reconstruction, and robot simulation
World Labs, the company Fei-Fei Li started after leaving Stanford, announced Atlas on September 1. They call it an omni world model for spatial intelligence, which sounds like marketing until you look at what it actually does. One model takes text, images, video, and 3D data as input, grounds all of it in a shared […]
8,300 Gitea servers still exposed to actively exploited RCE flaw
More than 8,300 internet-exposed Gitea instances remain unpatched against a critical remote code execution flaw that attackers are actively exploiting, according to Shadowserver Foundation scans. The watchdog counted 8,393 vulnerable IP addresses on August 27, more than a month after a fix shipped. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-60004, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and […]
Azure App Service drops Node 22 support in April 2027: start planning now
Azure App Service will end extended support for Node.js 22 LTS on April 30, 2027. The announcement went out on the Azure Updates feed on August 24, and it follows the pattern anyone running Node workloads on the platform already knows: your apps keep running after the cutoff, but they stop receiving security updates, and […]
GitHub Copilot modernization goes GA for estate-wide app upgrades
Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot modernization, an agentic toolchain that assesses, upgrades, and migrates application portfolios to Azure. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates feed this week, and it closes out a preview cycle that started earlier this year for the parts teams actually touch: the IDE experience for language […]