Announcing TypeScript 7.0
The mission was a native port of TypeScript built in Go that could make the most of modern hardware… The key difference is that with this new codebase, TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds.
Announcing Vite+ Beta
Vite+ is a single entry point to web development. It manages your runtime and package manager and brings Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, tsdown, Oxlint, and Oxfmt together with a built-in task runner — best-in-class tools shipped as one tested stack. It is fully open source under the MIT license and framework-agnostic, working for any kind of web project: from CLIs to libraries to web apps.
Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
We chose a different consensus algorithm for Meerkat, called QuePaxa, that aims to avoid the “tyranny of timeouts” imposed by protocols like Raft. QuePaxa is a subtle protocol, but here are the highlights. A client can contact any replica, and that replica can drive consensus for the latest slot. There is a leader, but it is not required — its only advantage is that it can drive consensus with fewer round trips (one) than other replicas (3+).
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
The QUERY method provides a solution that spans the gap between the use of GET and POST… As with POST, the input to the query operation is passed as the content of the request rather than as part of the request URI. Unlike POST, however, the method is explicitly safe and idempotent, allowing functions like caching and automatic retries to operate.
Meta’s new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos
Meta’s Muse Image tool allows anyone to tag your public profile in a prompt and generate AI images using your photos. This can include your face, your likeness, and other people who appear in your photos, including children with no power of consent.
OpenAI GPT-5.6: AI Could Do Anything, Then It Met ARC-AGI-3
First, because it is not, in fact, scandalous at all. ARC-AGI-3 is a benchmark designed to look easy to the human eye while requiring a type of intelligence—”fluid, not crystallized,” as its creator, François Chollet, likes to put it—that AI struggles with. If you try it yourself, it might take a little while to get the hang of it, but soon enough you start to grasp the idea of each game, the patterns of colors and movements, etc. That’s why 7.8% is terribly low; humans reliably score >90%.