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Update: Looking Glass Add-On
We didn’t think hard enough about how our actions would affect the community, and we’re sorry for letting you down. How we got here Over the co
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ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale
Today, we’re releasing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experim…
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The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text The web is no longer just a collection of […]
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Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
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Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
A few new features to help you feel close to friends and family even when you’re apart.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
Learn web scraping using Python in this step-by-step tutorial. Use Requests, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, and scraping APIs with practical 2026 examples.
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This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure conn...
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
Is there a perfectly clear and reasonable answer? Or could we get this someday?
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Firefox 75.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
With over 70 additions to WebKit, Safari 15.4 is packed with new web technologies, updates, and fixes.
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The case for JPEG XL
The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.
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JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
Significance of Apple's support for JPEG XL and what this means for the widespread adoption of this next-generation image compression format.
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
Today, with the launch of Firefox 87, we are excited to introduce SmartBlock, a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Firefox Private Browsing and Strict Mode. SmartBlock ensures that strong ...
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Python Cloudflare Workers
Introducing Cloudflare Workers in Python, now in open beta! We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the runtime to deployment. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
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Why We Chose Typescript
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
How we, at GitLab, write VueJS, one year later.
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
Chrome 55 uses ~30% less memory for weather.com and reddit.com
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Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it…
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How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing
Spoiler: Our app template makes it possible.
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A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
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Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
Brave 1.0 was released on November 13th and received very positive press reviews, and also saw a surge in user adoption. Brave went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October to 10.4 million MAU at the end of November, a 19% increase across all platforms. This represents a doubling of Brave's MAU in one year…