In other dev news: Rust updates, a six-month hackathon for useful applications, and a new tool that supports custom AI model benchmarks.

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Microsoft's Aspire (formerly .NET Aspire) now supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java as first-class languages for building distributed applications. Rust 1.93.0 upgrades its musl C library for more reliable networking in containerized environments. A six-month Proof of Usefulness Hackathon offers monthly prizes for practical applications, with larger rewards for AI/ML projects. Kaggle launched Community Benchmarks, allowing developers to create custom AI model evaluation benchmarks with state-of-the-art model access and dynamic leaderboards.

Distributed apps platform Aspire supports JavaScript, Python