Servo 0.6.0 bundles 417 commits from August that significantly improve web compatibility, platform features, and stability. CSS Grid is enabled by default, fixing layout on many real sites; new CSS and web-platform features include touch-action, animation-composition, color-scheme, additional text-transform values, and several DOM APIs (requestAnimationFrame in workers, ancestorOrigins, image srcset/sizes, focusin/focusout, a new TextEvent, and Web Audio periodic wave APIs). Navigation, document loading, and session-history behaviors were hardened (notably more correct about:blank handling and traversal waits), and SpiderMonkey was upgraded to V153 for security and crash fixes. Real-world fixes include better touch panning axis locking and resolved crashes on sites like gumroad.com.au.
Accessibility and input work advanced: interactive text selection now respects page geometry and accessibility exposes element positions/sizes and many ARIA roles for better VoiceOver support; document.execCommand editing commands saw multiple fixes. Progress continues on LCP metrics, ServiceWorker, CookieStore/Cache, AudioWorklet prep, and a disk-backed HTTP cache. Embedding API saw breaking changes (sampling profiler removal, MouseButton renames) and new Cargo features (webcrypto, webgl, brotli streams, bundled, default_web_features). Performance wins came from reduced allocations and GC interaction, faster font loading, smaller binaries, improved memory reporting, crash fixes, and an experimental thread-boost that boosted Speedometer and canvas FPS on targets like OpenHarmony. Build/tooling updates include a Clang 19 minimum and OpenHarmony build tool requirements.
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Joint deals between Russia and the US are being discussed, including collaborations on data centers. These talks suggest a possible increase in bilateral cooperation in technology infrastructure. (reuters.com)
DeepSeek offers a Search API that finds web pages based on queries and returns structured results, supported by its in-house search engine. The Fetch API retrieves individual web pages as Markdown content, both APIs requiring bearer token authentication. (api-docs.deepseek.com)
Matthew Prince explains that Cloudflare offers a free version of its CDN because bandwidth costs are now very low and affordable. This pricing strategy helps Cloudflare maintain a competitive edge while providing free services to users. (webmasters.stackexchange.com)
A web page contains 500 clocks created entirely with code, totaling 6.3 MB in an HTML file. The clocks showcase various themes, styles, and interactions, generated by the Claude Opus 5.5 model through prompts. (tkgally.github.io)
New York has proposed a bill requiring video game publishers to sell games with full ownership rights to consumers instead of licenses. The law also mandates that publishers keep games functional even after official support ends. (tomshardware.com)
Zelensky announced that the Musk-owned satellite system, Starlink, remains restricted in Ukraine. The restriction impacts Ukraine's access to satellite internet services provided by SpaceX. (axios.com)
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