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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, a generational LLM leap that brings Google back to the frontier

Google has officially launched Gemini 4 Argon globally, and it is already live for Australian Google One subscribers on AI ...
shattered.io

Apex Legends Weapon Tier List: 30 Guns, 12 Steps [2026]

Build a Python tool that scores every Apex Legends weapon by TTK and ammo economy, then sorts them into an S-D tier list for ...

Two Short Films by Claude x Blender: I Mostly Left the Work to It, But I Didn't Come Empty-Handed

I had Claude make two short films in Blender. The first is "AFTERGLOW," a 3-minute and 41-second piece about walking through ...
letsdatascience

llm-gemini 0.35 Adds Gemini 4 Argon Support

Simon Willison released llm-gemini 0.35 on October 13, adding Gemini 4 Argon support to the LLM command-line plugin. The ...

Node.js 24 and 26 take about 100 seconds to recover memory after a load—Measuring V8's memory reducer with Docker memory limits

Issue #66564 in nodejs/node reports that in Node.js 24 and 26, memory does not return for about 100 seconds even in an idle ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...