A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Releases & tooling
- React 19.3 adds a browser() API: The new release gives client-only rendering an explicit, first-class API, making it clearer where code is meant to run only in the browser. InfoQ
- Cloudflare Logpush gets Transformers: You can now filter, reshape and redact log data before it is exported, which helps with cost and with keeping sensitive fields out of downstream systems. Cloudflare Blog
- Parsing JSON at tens of GB/s from Python: Daniel Lemire shows how fast SIMD-based JSON parsing can be reached from Python. lemire.me
- Java news roundup: This week covers Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j and Spock. InfoQ
Security
- $90,000 RCE found in a Google developer site: A writeup details how an unsafely handled Flask session (pickle) led to remote code execution on a Google docs site, and earned a large bounty. Write-up
- Cyberattack shuts down French supermarket refrigeration: Chains say an attack forced them to turn off refrigerators, a reminder of how IT incidents spill into physical operations. AFP
- GitHub incident hits Actions, Pull Requests and Issues: GitHub's status page reported a service incident affecting those features; check it if your CI or reviews are stalled. GitHub Status
AI & open source
- QGIS bans AI-assisted contributions: A QGIS enhancement proposal sets a policy against AI-assisted contributions, another data point in open-source projects drawing lines around AI-generated code. GitHub
- Linus Torvalds is using Claude Code on a kernel improvement: Phoronix reports Torvalds working on a sizeable Linux kernel change with the help of Claude Code. Phoronix
- Spotify more than doubled monthly code changes with AI: Spotify describes how AI sped up development and the quality controls it added to keep up. InfoQ
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