Heroes of Might and Magic II Engine Rewritten
A developer spent years rewriting the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine from scratch, a welcome break from AI-replaces-programmers talk.
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SparkyOS: light Arch Linux on a USB stick
SparkyOS is a new lightweight, general-purpose Arch Linux distro from the SparkyLinux team, designed to run entirely from a USB pendrive.
AI-Generated Pull Requests Flood Open Source
AI cuts coding time but fills open-source inboxes with junk pull requests, as Nvidia launches OpenShell to sandbox AI agents and EU probes Booking.com scams.
Meta Muse Exposes User Conversations, Google Cloud Outage
Meta's Muse leaks personal and business chats via a single query, while a London Google Cloud power event takes down banks and services.
Meta Terms Still Allow Broad Scraping
Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions. Also: a stepper micro-manipulator, social media bans kids outsmart, and Teal typed L
Python 3.15 UTF-8 Default on Windows
Python 3.15 makes UTF-8 default on Windows, ending decades of codec fixes. Plus: EU cloud sovereignty, OpenAI engineer bugging, KPMG layoffs.
RuneScape MMO Announced as BBC Domesday Project Turns 40
RuneScape announces a new MMO as the BBC Domesday Project turns 40.
OpenAI Book Piracy Lawsuit
The Authors Guild lawsuit claims OpenAI's top executives knew mass book piracy was illegal — and worried more about Hacker News than the trial.