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A Google engineer's commit adds an experimental enable_flatpak build flag to Chromium's Linux installer code, explicitly not a commitment to official Flatpak support.

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections and serve gRPC for the first time since the platform's 2017 launch, in private beta.

Cursor's principal systems engineer Vicent Martí describes Continuity, a write-ahead-log architecture on S3 that replaces three-phase-commit consensus and powers the Origin hosting platform.

Packer 1.16 adds a provenance post-processor and a verify-attestation command, letting teams cryptographically sign and check the origin of every machine image they build.

GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.

Slack's new Slack Code feature moves AI coding agents out of private terminals into shared, self-archiving team channels, launching with Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel.

Grafana 13.2 brings a generally available shared query library, Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise and webhook-based GitLab/BitBucket sync, and a public-preview view panel sidebar for viewers.

Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, days after SpaceXAI positioned it near GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Cloudflare open-sourced @cloudflare/ci, a CI/CD SDK that replaces YAML pipelines with TypeScript running on Cloudflare Workflows.

GitHub's stacked pull requests feature exits private preview, adding a gh-stack CLI extension that lets developers split large changes into independently reviewable layers.

Cursor's new GitHub-rival hosting platform went into beta the same day a six-hour GitHub outage knocked out the feature it depends on.