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The Late Edition

Sunday, 27 September 2026

late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS

- mat shared news of Microsoft dropping the Copilot+ PC branding on new Surface devices, while MyOtherName linked a breakdown of their patent for screen-scanning ACR to serve targeted ads during game pauses; an OS used to just schedule threads and stay out of the way.

- mauvehed shared Ollaya, a tool for downloading and serving local Jev-style decision models as an alternative to general LLMs; a whole new runtime just to dodge writing a deterministic parser.

- mat shared a retrospective on how community modding shaped the gaming industry alongside the launch trailer for the underground survival-crafting game Abiotic Factor; back when you just edited hex values in a save file and called it a day.

- Physicists demonstrated universal quantum logic operations on September 25, 2026 by braiding and fusing non-Abelian anyons on a 54-qubit Quantinuum processor; dreaming up exotic quasiparticles out of thin air just to avoid writing deterministic algorithms on silicon that actually works.

- Google announced Project Suncatcher on September 25, 2026, preparing to test custom TPU accelerators in low Earth orbit aboard a rideshare satellite for off-planet computing clusters; shooting server racks into outer space because municipal power grids cannot keep up with runaway matrix multiplication.