The Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.3 🎉
This release wraps up 2026 with new features and improvements across the board. Highlights include:
🔸 Native support for 3D Gaussian splats.
🔸 A new DLSS denoiser in the Viewport on NVIDIA GPUs.
🔸 Asset libraries can now be shared as extensions, and the Extensions platform accepts asset libraries containing public domain (CC0) assets.
🔸 A new optional Projects system makes Blender aware of context beyond the open .blend file, with project-wide features to match.
🔸 Dispersion and roughness anisotropy for glass and transmissive materials in Cycles.
🔸 New Material Lighting nodes and panoramic camera support in EEVEE.
🔸 A stack of effects for the Compositor, similar to Geometry Nodes modifiers.
🔸 Grease Pencil adds selection tools to Draw Mode, a new Carver tool that cuts shapes with proper boolean subtraction, and multi-fill for the Fill tool.
🔸 Animation & Rigging adds operators to copy and paste world-space animation and to convert rotation modes, along with friendlier playback.
🔸 A full ripple editing framework and a rewritten Blade tool in the Video Sequence Editor.
And more!
Explore the release notes for the full picture: https://t.co/LwTsIlV5Gj
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Anthropic WON’T fix a security flaw in Claude that could let attackers run malicious code on Linux PCs.
Researchers discovered a vulnerability called “Office Party” in Claude’s official tools for processing Word, PowerPoint and Excel files.
Attackers can plant a malicious file in a shared temporary folder. When Claude processes a document, it may load that file and execute its code with the user’s permissions.
The flaw affects certain Linux environments, including Claude Code’s sandbox. macOS is not affected.
Anthropic acknowledged the issue but considers it outside its security boundary because the vulnerable code runs inside a sandbox.
The vulnerability was discovered in May 2026 and remains unresolved.
Evidence has emerged that White House staffers are using an app loaded with residential proxy services, which often sell IP addresses to anyone, including hackers. https://t.co/l9Z7GsNuFc
Rockman X3's Yahoo Keitai port was preserved by Cuebus and Spc! Some BGM instruments sound strange, which I think may be an emulation issue. The only Rockman X keitai port that we don't have is Rockman X4, which relied on SD card data and split its campaigns across two apps.
RTINGS has found signs of “edge rot” in 87.5% of the WOLED TVs it tested.
After 18,000 hours of accelerated testing, 14 out of 16 LG Display WOLED panels developed dead pixels or visible deterioration around the edges of the screen.
The issue was not found in the three Samsung Display QD-OLED TVs tested. Older WOLED panels were hit hardest, although newer models also showed signs of deterioration.
LG says the problem may occur under prolonged exposure to high temperatures, humidity or harsh conditions, but shouldn’t happen during normal use.
Due to Epic Online Services maintenance, online features on all platforms will be unavailable on 11/10 from 1:00 AM–2:30 AM ET. (Online Play / Time Trial uploads)
Times may vary. We apologize for the inconvenience.
See more details here: https://t.co/H8L8tFXR8Z
🇺🇸 Dirt, an orange-and-white cat born at Nevada’s Northern Railway Museum around 2008, grew up among locomotives and railroad workers.
Always covered in dust and grease, he became the beloved “boss cat” of the repair shop. His viral photos attracted fans from around the world, and he regularly greeted visitors on railway tours.
Dirt died in January 2023 at age 15.
On May 28, the railway unveiled a bronze statue at his gravesite, honoring the little cat who became an unforgettable part of its history.
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says the PS6 doesn’t need to be more powerful. He believes Sony should focus on making consoles cheaper instead of adding more performance.
He says the real innovation would be bringing back a $300 console rather than making a PS6 that could cost $1,200.
“We have enough power in the machine,” “The innovation needs to come not from making PS6 for $1,200 - it’s to make another PS5 for $300.”