Notion replaced last-write-wins inside a block with an RGA CRDT
Separate database records per block hid the problem for years. Offline mode would have turned it into data loss, so the text itself became a merge-safe structure.
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SolidStart 2 drops Vinxi for Vite's Environment API after 25 prereleases
The framework's own compatibility layer is gone because Vite absorbed the problem it existed to solve. Migration touches imports, environment types, server runtimes and middleware.
Firefox 156 starts its built-in PDF viewer up to 45% faster
Plus lower memory and CPU on large downscaled JPEGs, hardware H264 for WebRTC on ARM64 Windows, and fixes for DNS over HTTPS and the built-in VPN.
Lambda raises its timeout to 90 minutes, on managed instances only
Six times the old ceiling, for asynchronous and event-source invocations. Ordinary synchronous functions keep the 15 minutes they have had since 2018.
Alibaba opens the code reviewer it ran internally for two years
A Go CLI that reads a diff, lets an agent walk the rest of the repository, and returns line-level comments. Apache-2.0, and already on its twelfth minor release.
Every system has failures it cannot page you about
Alerting is built on operations that fail. The expensive ones succeed — slowly, twice, or with the wrong answer — and no threshold will ever fire.
ADK for Kotlin reaches 1.0 with parity to the Python agent toolkit
Compile-time tool schemas through KSP, no runtime reflection, and on-device agents on Android through LiteRT-LM and ML Kit.
Cloudflare cut origin handshake retries from 52% to 3.7% by probing
TLS 1.3 makes the client guess a key agreement algorithm in the first packet. Cloudflare replaced the guess with a per-origin measurement.
Researcher publishes the factors of RSA-896
Two 448-bit primes, published on a one-page post dated 19 September. The multiplication verifies in a second; the method is not described at all.
Quarkdown adds functions and variables to Markdown
A Markdown superset with a real language inside it, sandboxed system access, and a comparison table that names LaTeX as the thing it is competing with.