Cloudflare Acquires Deno: The End of an Independent Runtime and a Bet on Self-Hosted Workers
Cloudflare is buying Deno and bringing Ryan Dahl's team in-house. The Deno runtime gets one year, Deno Deploy gets six months — but celld, the tool that lets you run Workers on your own servers, is what Cloudflare really wanted. »
Python 3.15 Lands Today with an Experimental JIT — Here's What Changed
Python 3.15.0 shipped on October 9 with an experimental JIT compiler delivering up to 13% speedup, plus lazy imports, a built-in frozendict, and UTF-8 as the new default encoding. »
Meta and Sierra's Personal Agent Protocol Wants to Be the Handshake Between AI Agents and Every Business
Announced October 6 with Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart as founding partners, the Personal Agent Protocol sets out an OAuth-based open standard for how AI agents authenticate with and act inside third-party businesses — and conspicuously lacks OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Google. »
Firefox 157 Lands Its Biggest Visual Overhaul in Five Years
Mozilla's Firefox 157 ships the long-awaited Nova redesign to all users: rounded corners, 12 new themes, a revived Compact Mode, and hardware AV1 decode — the most substantial interface refresh since Proton in 2021. »
Rust 1.99 Ships With Stable C-Variadic Functions and Expanded APIs
Rust 1.99 stabilizes C-compatible variadic functions for the first time on stable, along with raw pointer layout APIs and a slate of standard library additions. »