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Brave Browser Rewrites Ad Blocker in Rust, Slashes Memory by 75%
Brave 1.85 rewrites its ad-blocking engine using Rust and FlatBuffers, reducing memory usage from 60MB to 15MB. Here’s how they did it.

Rust 1.93 Released: musl Upgrade, Assembly Conditional Compilation, Zero-Copy Suite
Rust 1.93 is out with all musl targets upgraded to 1.2.5, #[cfg] conditional compilation in assembly, global allocators can now use TLS, and zero-copy APIs stabilized.

Pop!_OS 24.04 is Here: The World's First Rust-Built Desktop Environment
System76 releases Pop!_OS 24.04 and COSMIC desktop environment - the first production-grade desktop environment written entirely in Rust, challenging 20 years of GTK/Qt dominance. In-depth review: performance, customization, and tiling window management
Mistral 3 Official Release: The Latest Work from Europe’s AI Giant
While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic battle it out across the Atlantic, Europe’s AI power is quietly rising. On December 2, Paris-based Mistral AI officially released its third-generation model family, Mistral 3.
Tokencake: Multi-Agent KV Cache Scheduling That Cuts vLLM Latency by Half
Beihang/Peking/Alibaba introduce Tokencake, a KV-cache-centric serving framework for multi-agent apps. With time+space scheduling plus CPU buffering and progressive GPU reservation, it trims end-to-end latency by 47%+ versus vLLM and lifts GPU cache utilization by ~17%.
Claude 4.5 Sonnet Launch: Claiming to Be the World's Strongest Coding Model
Anthropic releases Claude 4.5 Sonnet, claiming world’s strongest coding capabilities, 77.2% benchmark score, 30-hour continuous runtime, with Claude Code upgrade and new Agent SDK
Claude Code: The AI Programming Assistant That's Like Having a 24/7 Personal Butler for Your Code
Deep dive into Claude Code AI programming assistant - from local execution to natural language interaction, see how this Claude 4-based tool transforms developers’ daily workflow