Ladybird Moves Rendering Off the Main Thread
Ladybird now renders pages on separate threads, so CSS animations and hover keep working while JavaScript blocks the main thread — a capability no other browser offers. The browser also passed Safari Technology Preview in platform compatibility testing this month. — ladybird.org
DOS Wing Commander Gains Browser Co-Op
A decade of memory-dumping and trampoline work now lets two players fly a classic DOS space-combat game cooperatively in a browser, connecting through room codes with optional voice chat. — fireflyk64.github.io
Conductor Joins Meta, Cloud Shutting Down
The AI coding agent Conductor is joining Meta, with its cloud service shutting down this month while local installs keep receiving models and bug fixes until early 2027. — conductor.build
Rust Benchmark Runner Emits Go's benchstat Format
benchfmt.rs gives Rust microbenchmarks Go's familiar benchstat tables, adding heap-allocation tracking and pprof profiling, so Go and Rust A/B comparisons land in one readable table. — bwplotka.dev
Xbox 360 Bad Update Exploit Now Runs Near-Instantly
Improvements — a Rock Band Blitz demo save as the entry point plus a ciphertext hash table, cache flushing, and thread scheduling — took the Xbox 360 hypervisor exploit from a slow gamble to a near-instant, near-certain hack launched from files copied to a USB stick. — icode4.coffee