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Dev News Digest: 14 Oct 2026, 12:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Releases & tooling

  • Vite+ reaches 1.0: Vite+, recently acquired by Cloudflare, is now stable, with GitLab CI support, hooks and a migration path from tsup. InfoQ
  • Antigravity SDK gains local model support: Google's Antigravity SDK can now run against local models, aimed at better token efficiency and keeping code on the developer's machine. InfoQ
  • Iosevka font: The open-source sans and slab-serif monospace font was widely discussed on Hacker News again, a popular pick for coding fonts. Iosevka

Security

  • Ledger confirms spy chip behind wallet thefts: Ledger says a hardware implant in its wallets was behind a series of crypto thefts, a reminder that supply-chain risk reaches into hardware. BleepingComputer
  • A use-after-free turned into RCE: Daniel Stenberg walks through how a memory-safety bug was escalated into remote code execution. daniel.haxx.se
  • Most big companies leave critical bugs unpatched: A New Stack piece cites a figure of 66% of billion-dollar companies with unpatched critical bugs, arguing that remediation, not discovery, is the bottleneck. The New Stack

Platforms & systems

  • AOSP source releases lag badly: Developers report Android source drops arrive so late that some are disassembling libraries just to file NDK bugs. GitHub issue
  • Compiler bootstrapping is fragile: Chris Siebenmann explains why bootstrapping a compiler depends on far more of the surrounding OS and toolchain than people expect. utcc.utoronto.ca

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