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Discord’s co‑founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy announced that the company is rewriting its Windows 11 desktop client in Rust, replacing the long‑standing Electron framework. The new build, dubbed “Discord Phoenix,” uses GPUI for its interface and reportedly consumes only 290 MB of RAM, a stark contrast to the current Electron version that can exceed 4 GB under heavy use. Discord has previously acknowledged the memory bloat, rolling out a test that restarts the client when usage tops 4 GB and reporting a modest [...]

The November 3 midterms gave Democrats full control of Congress, creating a split government with a Republican president and setting the stage for heightened scrutiny of AI data centers. Exit polls showed over half of voters view AI as more harmful than beneficial and nearly 80 % oppose nearby data‑center construction, with 60 % saying the issue influenced their vote. Candidates in Ohio, Texas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and South Carolina won on anti‑data‑center platforms, and Ohio recently banned a [...]

DC Studios has hired Francis Galluppi, the writer‑director of the upcoming Evil Dead Wrath, to draft a new John Constantine film. Deadline reports the project remains in early development, with no confirmation whether Galluppi will also direct or which actors might be cast. Constantine, the occult‑detective created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben, was last portrayed on screen by Keanu Reeves in the 2005 movie Constantine, and fans have long awaited a sequel. Reeves said in late 2025 that a fresh script for Constantine 2 [...]

OpenAI disclosed a five‑stage AI pipeline that, over a 30‑hour run in mid‑October 2026, used an upcoming cyber‑focused model to dynamically reproduce 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and generate 948 working local‑privilege‑escalation (LPE) exploits for a popular Linux distribution. The prototype examined 2,308 candidate findings, produced proof‑of‑concept code for 291 information‑leak bugs, and identified at least ten novel exploitation techniques. The operation cost $1,213,430 in API credits, averaging $1,279 per LPE exploit. OpenAI highlighted the dual‑use nature of [...]

Bethesda has released the first official details about The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, confirming the subtitle and offering a brief lore teaser. Alongside the announcement, the studio opened its Bethesda Gear store to sell a black T‑shirt bearing the Sentinel logo for $35, as well as a $65 hoodie and a Klarna financing option. The merchandise page urges fans to “show off your excitement” despite the game having no screenshots or gameplay footage. The title follows a [...]

Apple will livestream singer‑songwriter Labrinth creating a song from scratch on its new MacBook Pro with ProLED XDR Display. The event begins at 8 p.m. PT (11 p.m. ET) on Nov 4 at Apple’s Tower Theatre store in downtown Los Angeles and will be broadcast on Labrinth’s YouTube channel, where viewers can watch the production process in real time and submit questions. Using Logic Pro and the laptop’s touchscreen, Labrinth will compose, arrange and produce an original track that Apple [...]

The Bay Area Air District approved the nation’s toughest clean‑appliance standards, mandating that, starting in 2028, any gas water heater that fails will be replaced with a zero‑emission unit such as a heat pump. The rule includes exemptions for low‑income households and complex installations. Officials say gas water heaters emit more nitrogen‑oxide smog than all regional passenger cars combined, and the new standards could avert up to 85 premature deaths and 15,000 asthma attacks annually. Research from [...]

On 4 November 2015 the U.S. Air Force attempted the inaugural flight of the rail‑launched Super Strypi from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. The three‑stage solid‑motor vehicle lifted off at 9:45 p.m. local time but began tumbling within seconds, crashing less than a minute after launch. The failure destroyed the primary payload, the ORS‑4 (HiakaSat) Earth‑observation satellite, and twelve secondary payloads, including eight cubesats for NASA’s Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks and four university experiments. Investigators traced [...]