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20 Oct 2026 edition

123 articles · 25 sources · 4 papers ·

Top topics: Python · JavaScript · AI

Python AI Django

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Mutation, soundness, safety in FFI code

Hi there, I've been using sdl3-sys and writing some simple SDL3 wrappers. My current (WIP) code looks like this: let sdl_system = SDLSystem::new(&sdl_metadata) .map_err(|err| format!("Failed to create SDL system: {}",…

Source: Rust Users Forum Jookia
Python

Wikis: Relaunched!

In February 2026, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) made the PSF, Python, and Jython wikis read-only due to excessive automated traffic and security concerns on outdated infrastructure. This sudden change was…

Source: Python Software Foundation Blog Jacob Coffee (noreply@blogger.com)
Rust

Named Arguments are Just Structs: Anonymous Struct Parameters

There's been a recent round of posts on named arguments in Rust: Botahamec's Named and Optional Arguments are Awesome, Steve Klabnik's Arguing about arguments, and Matthias Endler's We Have Named Arguments at Home. I've…

Source: Rust Internals Forum nixpulvis
Java

This Week in Spring - October 20th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's almost Halloween! What're you going dressed as, if you celebrate? I'm going dressed as PHP code. (Terrifying!) We've got a ton of stuff to…

Source: Spring Blog joshlong
Rust

Announcing rustup 1.29.2

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.2. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's…

Source: Rust Blog The Rustup Team
Python

I Built the Escape Hatch

I found out this week that a fleet of AI agents used httpbin to get past their sandbox.I posted about it on X the night I heard. The reaction told me I wasn't the only one who found it strange. I built httpbin years ago…

Source: Kenneth Reitz
Java

Reflect, Transform, Accelerate: Bringing GPU Computing to Java

Java’s code reflection API, developed in OpenJDK Project Babylon, opens a new path to targeting foreign programming models directly from Java—including GPUs. This talk introduces the Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit…

Source: Inside Java Juan Fumero
JavaScript

How to Build a Podcast Intro Generator

What is a Podcast Intro Generator? If you’ve ever launched a new show, you’ll know the first 30‑second hook is everything. A polished, brand‑consistent intro sets the tone, tells listeners what to expect, and can even…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed VoiceDeveloper
JavaScript AI

GPT vs DeepSeek vs Gemini Argon: one ball, three animations

I gave GPT-6, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Gemini 4 Argon the same little task: one amber ball bouncing inside a rotating cyan hexagon. 🧪 Same starting position. Same gravity. Same controls. I kept each model's HTML…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Shivam Dwivedi
JavaScript

JSON-RPC batch responses: match by id, not array position

By BlockVectra, with AI-assisted drafting. A JSON-RPC batch puts several calls in one request. The reply array is not a positional mirror of the request array. Treating payload[i] as the answer to requests[i] can bind…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed BlockVectra
JavaScript

I called the market bottom perfectly and still lost $55,000

Bug report Title: User waits for the perfect moment to invest. Gets it. Still loses. Severity: Expensive Reproducible: Every market cycle Status: Won't fix (it's a human bug) You probably know this person. Maybe it's…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed ghostdev

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