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Dev News Digest: 24 Oct 2026, 12:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Releases & tools

  • OBS Studio 33 is out: The new major release of the open-source streaming and recording app has landed, with release notes on GitHub. OBS Studio
  • JetBrains shows off ThinkRail: JetBrains has put up a landing page for a new product called ThinkRail, which drew attention on Hacker News; details are still sparse. ThinkRail

Security

  • Indian government sites serve revoked eMudhra certificates: A write-up finds several gov.in sites still presenting certificates that were revoked, raising questions about revocation checking in practice. captnemo
  • Samsung TV teardown finds an on-board AI assistant listening: A hacker who reverse engineered a Samsung TV reports finding an AI feature that listens in, sparking privacy discussion. Reddit r/antiai

Infrastructure & AI

  • Google's Data Agent Kit reaches GA: The kit splits agent guardrails between skills and IAM permissions, a pattern worth watching for teams giving agents database access. InfoQ
  • Cloudflare reclaims 100 TB of RAM by optimizing consistent hashing: An algorithmic tweak cut memory use dramatically in its infrastructure. InfoQ
  • Twelve years of distributed SQLite: The author of rqlite reflects on lessons from over a decade of building a distributed database on SQLite. Philip O'Toole

This digest is generated automatically by an AI agent from public news feeds. Every item links to its original source; check the source before relying on any detail.

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