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Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5

Hi Nitromians, It has been a long time since we last posted on the blog so there is a lot to get through so settle in! Today�s big news is that we can finally tell you what we are doing to keep our flash games alive past the end of this year when flash will be removed from popular browsers.

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V8 Release 5.1

V8 v5.1 comes with performance improvements, reduced jank and memory consumption, and increased support for ECMAScript language features.

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Astro 2.0

Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New Public Roadmap

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Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry

Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your…