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NASA releases over 800GB of Artemis II Moon data
NASA put more than 800GB of Artemis II lunar science data online on October 7: over 11,000 images and videos, 8.5 hours of crew audio and their notes.
Python news and analysis
Python releases, migrations from Python 2, packaging changes and the large codebases making the jump, with the numbers on what parses and what still blocks the move.
Dev Stack
Tools This Week: October 10, 2026 - Python 3.15, Mold 3.0
Seven developer tools this week, led by Python 3.15.0 and the Rust rewrite of the Mold linker, with what each one changes and what it costs.
Coding
Python 3.15.0 ships with lazy imports and frozendict
Python 3.15.0 arrived October 9 with 5,643 commits from 1,012 contributors: lazy imports, a built-in frozendict, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT.
Coding
Python 3.15.0 final slips to October 9 after surprise rc3
Python 3.15.0rc3 shipped on October 2 to fix late lazy-import bugs, pushing the final Python 3.15.0 release back one week to October 9, 2026.
Coding
Python 3.10 hits end of life as five releases fix 8 CVEs
Python 3.10.22 is the last 3.10 release: the branch reached end of life on October 1, 2026, as 3.11 to 3.14 shipped fixes for up to eight CVEs.
Coding
Python Language Summit 2026 debates Rust and a new GC
The Python Language Summit 2026 reports are out: 47 core developers weighed Rust in CPython, a new garbage collector, a std namespace and faster startup.
Coding
Python documentation is now available in German
The Python docs now have a German edition at docs.python.org/de/3/. The core pages are 100% translated; the full set stands at 9.17%.
Dev Stack
GDB 18.1 adds Windows non-stop debugging, drops stabs
GDB 18.1, out September 25, brings non-stop debugging to Windows 10+, new save and environment commands, and drops the old stabs debug format.
Dev Stack
SourceHut build log XSS let attackers take over accounts
A crafted build log could run script in a SourceHut user's browser. ansi2html 1.9.4 fixes the bug, CVE-2026-92973, which hit versions 1.7.0 to 1.9.3.
Coding
Mojo 1.1 starts taking outside compiler contributions
Mojo 1.1 takes outside compiler contributions a month after the Apache 2.0 release, and completes the removal of fn, alias and @parameter if.
Coding
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() for re.prefixmatch
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() in favor of the new re.prefixmatch(). Nothing breaks, nothing warns, and no removal is scheduled.
Coding
EVE Online begins moving 2.4 million lines of Python 2 to Python 3
CCP Games says 95.9% of EVE's 2.4 million lines already parse under both Python versions. The remaining 3,300 lines are the ones that block the move.
Coding
Mojo goes open source under Apache 2.0, contributions stay closed
Modular open-sourced the Mojo compiler and tooling under Apache 2.0 a week after shipping Mojo 1.0 - but it is not taking outside compiler contributions until late 2026.
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