Chrome Just Killed uBlock Origin — Firefox Is the Last Major Browser Where It Still Works
Google removed all Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, 2026, ending full ad blocking on Chromium. Firefox 155 is now the only major browser that still runs uBlock Origin without restrictions. »
AWS Buys the Team Behind DuckDB — and Promises to Keep It Open Source
Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the 30-person Amsterdam studio behind the wildly popular embedded analytics engine, while ring-fencing the open source project under its independent foundation. »
Astro 7.0 Ships with a Rust-Powered Markdown Engine That Cuts Build Times by Up to 61%
The Astro team replaced their JavaScript Markdown pipeline with Sätteri, a Rust-built processor that makes large content sites dramatically faster to build. »
Mojo 1.0 Is Out and Fully Open Source — The AI Programming Language That Promised Python's Syntax at C++ Speed
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 and immediately open-sourced the compiler under Apache 2.0, delivering on a three-year promise and handing AI developers a production-ready language that targets CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs alike. »
Three.js r186 Is Getting Native Gaussian Splatting — And It Changes Web 3D
Three.js's r186 development branch has merged a native Gaussian Splat renderer for WebGPU, making photorealistic scene reconstruction a first-class feature of the library for the first time. »