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Fedora Badges revamped in ground-up rebuild
Fedora's Badges platform has been rebuilt from scratch with a modern interface, OpenID Connect login, rarity tiers, and a leaner codebase after…
Tinder slashes Android cold starts 47% with Google R8
Tinder's Android app now opens nearly twice as fast after its team used Google's R8 Configuration Analyzer to strip wasteful keep rules…
Android will throttle apps that use too much RAM
Google is extending Android's per-app memory caps to 4GB–16GB+ phones. Apps over the cap are swapped to compressed RAM or killed, so…
Cloudflare confirms remote Spectre leak, ships a fix
Cloudflare rebuilt a remote Spectre attack leaking 12 bit/s from its live Workers edge, then hardened the runtime with the V8 Sandbox…
Firefox brings Exa’s cited AI search into the browser
Firefox now routes Smart Window and Quick Answers through Exa's web index, showing sources inline. Here's what the privacy-first deal changes for…
Firefox 154 adds private Startpage search in Europe
Mozilla's Firefox 154 ships Startpage as a built-in, tracker-free search option across five EU nations, with no extension or sign-up needed.
Google pushes Jetpack XR core libraries to beta
Three Android XR building blocks reached beta, but the spatial-UI toolkit still lags in alpha, leaving production interface work unfinished.
WSL 2.7.12 fixes a cross-drive file ownership bug
Microsoft's WSL 2.7.12 stops a bug that left Linux distributions unreadable after moving them between Windows drives, a fix co-authored by engineer…
Samsung Galaxy Buds cleared as OTC hearing aids
Samsung's Galaxy Buds gained FDA clearance on August 11, 2026, turning the Buds3 Pro and Buds4 Pro into OTC hearing aids for…
Cloudflare stops alerting on its own certificate renewals
Cloudflare now filters its own issued certificates in Certificate Transparency Monitoring, so alerts flag only certs you didn't expect and Cloudflare didn't…