Month: <span>October 2026</span>
Throw Away 10% of Your Quantum Shots, Get a 3700x Drop
A quantum error-correction experiment or simulation produces a great many independent shots, and most of them fail. A preprint posted to arXiv…
Student Hackathons and Competitions Open Right Now
Six student hackathons and competitions were confirmed open this week, and two of them close within days. Every entry below was checked…
Amazon’s Hackathon and Its MCP Track
Most hackathon tracks reward a well-designed wrapper around somebody else’s API. Amazon’s Build, Ship, Shape does not, in at least one place:…
When Does a Classical Computer Beat a Noisy Quantum Circuit?
A preprint posted to arXiv at the end of September, and announced in the October 2 listing, shows that a classical computer…
How to Read a Hackathon Prize Figure
Four of the six student events we verified this month advertise prize totals that are mostly not cash. One has no cash…
ICPC North America Regionals 2026: Deadlines and Eligibility
The ICPC North America regionals all contest on the same day, Saturday 7 November 2026 — and all three registration deadlines land…
Australia and New Zealand: Student Tech Events Open Now
Australia and New Zealand finished their 2026 competitive programming cycles before this article was written, and the next one has no published…
GitHub Is About to Expire Your Check History
GitHub has folded checks, workflow runs and commit statuses into the same retention setting that already governs artifacts and logs. Checks, workflow…
Europe: EU Code Week and Garaža Frontier
Europe’s student event calendar in this window is small in number but unusually accessible. Two things are worth your attention: EU Code…
India Student Tech Events You Can Still Enter in October 2026
India has the deepest student tech-event calendar of any region and the thinnest published deadline information, which is why third-party posts here…