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For September, Patch Tuesday means fixes for Windows, Office and SQL Server

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs.
InfoQ

.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools

Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version.
Boing Boing on MSN

Doom ported to SQL: welcome to hell

Getting seminal first-person shooter Doom running on minimal or bizarre hardware is a sport among hackers, but the fact that Doom runs in fast, portable C makes it possible. What if Doom were instead ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

DOOM multiplayer tribute gets coded in 'pure SQL' and runs at 30FPS — made from just 150 lines of code in less than a month

A computer scientist used only “pure SQL” to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, ...