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How We Built r/Place
Brian Simpson, Matt Lee, & Daniel Ellis (u/bsimpson, u/madlee, & u/daniel) Each year for April Fools’, rather than a prank, we like to create a project tha
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Shopify acquires Tailwind
We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.
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Ad blocking is under attack
Well, this is huge, so I'd like to draw your attention to what's happening right now. This is a very alarming case, and it concerns every ad blocker user.
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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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WASM 3.0 Completed
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development. A
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Servo’s new home
Servo has left the Mozilla nest.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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LastPass autofill exploit
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
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Bard and new AI features in Search
Introducing Bard (now Gemini), Google's conversational AI service — plus, new AI features in Search.
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Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.
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Cloudflare acquires Astro
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
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Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
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Firefox 64 Released
The year's last release of Firefox bundles together goodies for all, including multi-tab management in the interface, new CSS features, devtools improvements, better privacy protections, add-ons updates, and much, much ...
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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Security on the web matters. Whenever you connect to a web page and enter a password, a credit card number, or other sensitive information, you want to be sure ...
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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team [Updated on 12/5/16 with instructions for developers] Developers : Read more about how to ...
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Kagi News
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson et al., in [1], and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs [2—4]. Our...
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Chrome ships WebGPU
The Chrome team ships WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private windows.
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TailwindCSS v2.0
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!
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The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
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