Firefox 156 Opens PDFs 45% Faster and Adds ARM64 Hardware Video Decoding
Mozilla shipped Firefox 156 on September 15 with a substantially faster PDF viewer, improved memory handling for large images, and WebRTC hardware H264 decoding on ARM64 Windows. »
RustFS 1.0 Is Here: Apache-Licensed S3-Compatible Object Storage Written in Rust Hits General Availability
After 2.5 years of development, RustFS 1.0 reached GA on September 16 — a Rust-built, Apache 2.0-licensed distributed object store with erasure coding, Apache Iceberg, and MCP support. »
StepFun's Step 5 Preview Is Here: China's 600-Billion-Parameter Agent That Opens Its Weights on October 15
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview on September 20 — a sparse 600B model with a 1M-token context and native vision input, priced at $1 per million tokens, with open weights releasing October 15. »
TGS 2026: Typhoon Dujuan Cuts the Show Short, But PHYSINT, Monster Hunter, and CoD Already Made Their Move
Japan's biggest gaming expo wrapped under dramatic circumstances this week, with a typhoon forcing cancellation of the final day — but not before Bill Skarsgård, Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 had their moments. »
Claude and ChatGPT Can Now Control Your Google Home Devices — Google's Home MCP Is Live
Google opened early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Hermes monitor and control Nest and Matter smart home devices. »