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Visit website →TypeScript 7.0 Beta Released
Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0 Beta, a native port to Go.
5 Integration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems from Google Cloud: A2A and MCP
Google Cloud presented 5 multi-agent integration patterns using A2A and MCP.
Ubuntu 26.04
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been released with security and performance improvements.
Codex Adds Browser Use to Support Website Implementation and Verification
A Browser Use plugin has been added to Codex, combining web app implementation and verification into a single flow.
Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
Google will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and provide 5GW of compute.
Norway Pushes to Ban Social Media for Under-16s
Norway is advancing legislation to ban social media access for those under 16.
GoScrapy: An Ultra-Fast Web Scraping Framework Built in Go
It's a web scraping framework that implements the Scrapy architecture in Go.
DESIGN.md — A Single-File Design System Format for AI Coding Tools (Korean Summary)
A summary of the DESIGN.md format spec, designed so that AI coding agents can understand and follow design systems.
Multiple GitHub Service Outages
GitHub experienced outages in Webhooks, Actions, and Copilot, which have since been resolved.
Tolaria - An Open-Source macOS App for Managing Markdown Knowledge Bases
Tolaria has been released as an open-source macOS app for managing Markdown knowledge bases.
Honker - An extension that adds Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics to SQLite
An extension has been released that provides Postgres-style NOTIFY/LISTEN and a durable queue for SQLite.
Arch Linux now provides bit-for-bit reproducible Docker images
Arch Linux has released reproducible Docker images under the `repro` tag.
OpenMythos: Is It a Publicly-Researched Reconstruction of the Claude Mythos Architecture Hypothesis, or Just Another AI Hype
Using OpenMythos as a case study, this piece analyzes the 'sheepwave' phenomenon where architectures overheat without technical verification, and examines the actual implementation level.
Two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns exposed by investigation
Citizen Lab identified 2 surveillance campaigns exploiting SS7, Diameter, and SIMjacker.
French Government Agency Confirms Breach Amid Hacker's Data Sale Offer
France's ANTS portal confirmed a breach and disclosed that 11.7 million accounts were affected.
DeepSeek v4
DeepSeek-V4 was released, featuring 1M-token context and strong coding benchmark results.
Meta Announces Plan to Cut 10% of Employees
Meta announced it will lay off about 8,000 people, or 10% of its total workforce, on May 20.
DeepSeek v4 Released
DeepSeek has unveiled two variant models, **V4-Pro** and **V4-Flash**.
Show GN: claude-ss - a tool that pastes screenshots straight into Claude Code with one cmd+shift+2 on macOS
A tool was released that automatically pastes screenshots captured on macOS into Claude Code.
Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
The npm package @bitwarden/cli 2026.4.0 has been poisoned by the Checkmarx supply chain attack.