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Close-up of stainless steel brewery tanks with warm reflections in an industrial setting.

NewsSep 13, 2026

Homebrew 7.0.0 Demotes Every Intel Mac and Explains Why the Rust Rewrite Never Shipped

Homebrew 7.0.0 landed on 13 September and moved Intel Macs to Tier 3. Buried in the Hacker News thread is the more interesting admission: the maintainers built the Rust rewrite everyone asks for, measured it, and found it slower.

Sep 13, 20267 min

Closeup of an external hard drive connected to a laptop with a USB cable on a desk.

NewsSep 3, 2026

The ChatGPT App Is 154MB Until It Decides to Download LibreOffice

Simon Willison found 1.7GB of Python, Node.js and headless LibreOffice in his cache folder, downloaded by OpenAI's desktop app. We measured our own copy: 154MB of application, 428 launches, and none of it.

Sep 3, 20266 min