Software Development

OpenShot 4.0 adds screen recording, offline AI subject masking, and a color-grading workspace, completing a Qt5-to-Qt6 rewrite.

GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.

TIOBE's August 2026 index kept Rust at No. 10 and pushed MATLAB to No. 25, its first finish outside the top 20 in more than 10 years.

A Google engineer's commit adds an experimental enable_flatpak build flag to Chromium's Linux installer code, explicitly not a commitment to official Flatpak support.

Rust's Language Team invited developers to test an experimental nightly feature that lets overloaded FFI functions be called without tuple workarounds.

Databricks has acquired Electric, pairing its WASM-based local Postgres, PGlite, with a real-time sync engine to give AI agents fast local data alongside its centralized Lakebase database.

Kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev says AI scrapers generate 98% of git.kernel.org's 6 million daily requests, burning more CPU than all legitimate traffic combined.

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections and serve gRPC for the first time since the platform's 2017 launch, in private beta.

A Rustdoc team member traced a Crater-flagged regression to an expensive impl-inlining pass and shipped four PRs averaging a 33% speedup.

AWS Glue 6.0 launches with 30% lower pricing, complete Apache Iceberg v3 support built on Iceberg 1.11.0, and a modernized Spark 4.1 runtime.

Cursor's principal systems engineer Vicent Martí describes Continuity, a write-ahead-log architecture on S3 that replaces three-phase-commit consensus and powers the Origin hosting platform.

A new paper on the mold linker reports it is 2.4-16.1x faster than lld and up to 112x faster than GNU ld, and has been accepted to ASPLOS 2027.