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. »
Upgrade Next.js Now: A Critical Vulnerability Patch Drops August 26
The Next.js team has pre-announced a critical severity patch landing August 26, 2026 — here's what you need to know before the advisory goes live. »