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Month: September 2026

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DuckStation: Best PS1 Emulator Setup in 12 Steps [2026]

PlayStation 1 emulation used to mean fiddling with ePSXe plugins and hoping your BIOS dump was the right region. That era is over. DuckStation, the open-source PS1 emulator maintained on GitHub by developer Connor “stenzek” McLaughlin, now ships rolling releases almost weekly, with builds dated as recently as September 6, 2026 in the project’s own…

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OpenAI Scientist Warns of AI Risk 3 Days After Astra [2026]

Three days after OpenAI shipped its most powerful model yet, the company’s own chief scientist told the public he isn’t sure anyone is ready for what comes next. GPT-6 Astra launched on September 3, 2026, and by September 6, Jakub Pachocki had published warnings that go well beyond the usual safety-page boilerplate. He wrote that…

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k6 vs JMeter vs Gatling: 31K Stars, $25K Cloud Gap [2026]

Every team that ships a public API eventually asks the same question before a big launch: will this survive real traffic? Answering that means running load testing tools, and in September 2026 the decision usually comes down to three names: k6, Apache JMeter, and Gatling. Each takes a different bet on how engineers should describe…

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LDPlayer vs BlueStacks vs MEmu: 2x RAM, $140 Gap [2026]

DDR5 memory now costs $17.50 to $17.92 per gigabyte in the United States, according to RamPricesUSA’s September 2026 index, up from roughly $3 to $4 per gigabyte a year earlier. That price spike lands at an awkward moment for anyone choosing an Android emulator for PC gaming, because the three most actively updated options in…

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