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  • SkyCraft puts Minecraft inside Skyrim

    SkyCraft is a mod that does something that sounds like a joke until you read the commit log: it runs Minecraft inside Skyrim. An SKSE plugin written in C++ and a Fabric mod written in Java are linked over shared memory, and Minecraft’s physics, inventory, HUD, blocks and combat play out in Skyrim’s world, drawn…

  • Gemini 4 Argon: Google’s new frontier model goes long

    Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, and the rollout is deliberately slow. The model is currently reaching a set of trusted cyber defenders through Google’s Fairwind Program, with broader access for developers, enterprises and consumers to follow. Google says it is taking part in the US government’s voluntary process for pre-release model access…

  • Azure retires the Dv3 and Ev3 VM series

    Microsoft has put the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 VM series on a retirement clock. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates roadmap on September 30, and the deadline is November 15, 2029 for public cloud regions. That sounds far away. It is not, if you have ever lived through a VM-generation migration at scale.…

  • What Backblaze’s Q2 2026 drive stats say about buying big hard drives

    The quarter in numbers Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report on September 29, and the headline number moved the wrong way. The quarterly annualized failure rate hit 1.73%, up from 1.24% in Q1 and the highest the report has shown in a while. The lifetime figure barely budged, ticking up to 1.41% across…

  • NetScaler zero-days: check for compromise before you patch

    Two zero-days, already exploited, patch available Citrix NetScaler appliances are under active attack through two critical vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild before any patch existed. Citrix disclosed eight vulnerabilities on September 27 in bulletin CTX697096. The two headline flaws, CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, both score 9.5 on the CVSS v4 scale and both lead…

  • SQL Server on Azure Local now runs without a cloud connection

    SQL Server, no internet required SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available in disconnected environments, per Microsoft’s September 29 update. The capability extends SQL Server support to Azure Local disconnected operations, where instances run with no connection to the Azure public cloud. Until now, running SQL Server on Azure Local assumed you could…

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