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25 Aug 2026 edition
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.4.0-canary.8

Misc Changes Fix Turbopack resolution through chained symlinks: #97825 Add evals for whether agents actually use Next.js: #97816 evals: judge behavior instead of matching source text: #97826 Bump @vercel/agent-eval to…

Source: Next.js Releases next-js-bot[bot]
Open Source

How to evaluate LLMs before production

These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning. The post How to evaluate LLMs before production appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Source: GitHub Blog Mariko Wakabayashi
JavaScript GitHub Web

electron/electron: electron v42.10.1

Release Notes for v42.10.1 Fixes Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53158 (Also in 43, 44) Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not…

Source: Electron Releases sudowoodo-release-bot[bot]
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.4.0-canary.7

Misc Changes Fix ISR misses with backslashes in segments when deployed on Windows: #97876 [next/image]: disable avif image optimization: #97875 fix(wasm): don't enable SWC's plugin host for wasm targets: #97859…

Source: Next.js Releases next-js-bot[bot]
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v16.3.3

This release contains security fixes for the following advisories: Critical: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution on windows-hosted servers Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Image Optimization API when AVIF…

Source: Next.js Releases eps1lon
JavaScript GitHub React Web

vercel/next.js: v15.5.24

This release contains security fixes for the following advisories: Critical: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution on windows-hosted servers Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Image Optimization API when AVIF…

Source: Next.js Releases eps1lon
Open Source

mklinux-v7.0-mk2 released

For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel Linux concept, Cong Wang has announced the release of mklinux v7.0-mk2. mklinux lets one machine run several independent Linux kernels at the same time on…

Source: LWN.net corbet
Web

MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on…

Source: CSS-Tricks Geoff Graham
Open Source

[$] Old-school calendaring at the command line with Remind

Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language that allows users to create reminders that…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Vanilla OS 3 released

Vanilla OS 3, an immutable desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for Arm64, introduction of a Vanilla OS SDK, a rewrite of the Apx package manager using the new…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Open Source

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, mrtg, NetworkManager, nginx, nginx:1.24, nodejs24, perl-Date-Manip, python-pyasn1, python-urwid,…

Source: LWN.net jzb
Web

Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change…

Source: Smashing Magazine hello@smashingmagazine.com (Pierre Burgy)