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Mozilla delivers on its kill switch promise: Firefox 148 adds a single toggle to block all current and future AI features, arriving February 24.

WebAssembly's server-side moment arrives as WASI 0.3 finalizes native async support and Akamai deploys Fermyon's Spin across 4,000 edge locations.

Three converging developments—Django 6's built-in safety features, an 86% type-hint adoption rate, and Anthropic's PSF security investment—reveal a Python ecosystem entering a new phase of maturity.

An audit of the world's largest open source package registries finds they spend 12 percent of their budgets fighting malware and just 2 percent on new features, with no path to sustainable security funding.

China's Zhipu AI releases a 744-billion-parameter open-source model trained on Huawei Ascend chips that matches Claude and GPT on key benchmarks, sending its stock up 34 percent.

Microsoft Research's BitNet b1.58 framework uses ternary weights to run large language models on ordinary CPUs with up to 92% less energy, challenging the assumption that AI demands expensive GPU hardware.

Linux 6.19 brings Rust into 'actual driver development' phase with I2C support and Nova GPU driver progress