27 Jan 2026
GParted 1.8 partition editor is out with multiple crash fixes, improved FAT handling, and safer file system copying.
27 Jan 2026 8:38am GMT
The long-awaited deal comes as both Delhi and Brussels contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.
27 Jan 2026 8:16am GMT
They have also announced a gig in Stockholm
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27 Jan 2026 8:09am GMT
It comes after Olivia Rodrigo called the agency's actions "unconscionable"
The post Billie Eilish calls on "fellow celebrities" to "speak up" against ICE appeared first on NME.
27 Jan 2026 7:33am GMT
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27 Jan 2026 7:26am GMT
Deal will reduce or phase out levies on cars, alcohol and machinery while protecting some agricultural products
27 Jan 2026 7:16am GMT
Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AIfeature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…
27 Jan 2026 7:06am GMT
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27 Jan 2026 7:06am GMT
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PCMag: A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a sham, and is demanding damages, but the app's parent company, Meta, calls the claims "false and absurd." The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco US district court on Friday and comes from a group of users based in countries such as Australia, Mexico, and South Africa, according to Bloomberg. As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption. "A worker need only send a 'task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job," the lawsuit claims. "The Meta engineering team will then grant access -- often without any scrutiny at all -- and the worker's workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user's messages based on the user's User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products." "Once the Meta worker has this access, they can read users' messages by opening the widget; no separate decryption step is required," the 51-page complaint adds. "The WhatsApp messages appear in widgets commingled with widgets containing messages from unencrypted sources. Messages appear almost as soon as they are communicated -- essentially, in real-time. Moreover, access is unlimited in temporal scope, with Meta workers able to access messages from the time users first activated their accounts, including those messages users believe they have deleted." The lawsuit does not provide any technical details to back up the rather sensational claims.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
27 Jan 2026 7:00am GMT
Also this newsletter: Should laggard financial reform capitals be punished?
27 Jan 2026 6:00am GMT
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27 Jan 2026 5:42am GMT
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...
27 Jan 2026 5:35am GMT
Also in today's newsletter: Ukraine security guarantees and EU-India trade
27 Jan 2026 5:31am GMT
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Telegraph: China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street for several years, The Telegraph can disclose. The spying operation is understood to have compromised senior members of the government, exposing their private communications to Beijing. State-sponsored hackers are known to have targeted the phones of some of the closest aides to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2021 and 2024. It is unclear whether the hack included the mobile phones of the prime ministers themselves, but one source with knowledge of the breach said it went "right into the heart of Downing Street." Intelligence sources in the US indicated that the Chinese espionage operation, known as Salt Typhoon, was ongoing, raising the possibility that Sir Keir Starmer and his senior staff may also have been exposed. MI5 issued an "espionage alert" to Parliament in November about the threat of spying from the Chinese state. [...] The attack raises the possibility that Chinese spies could have read text messages or listened to calls involving senior members of the Government. Even if they were unable to eavesdrop on calls, hackers may have gained access to metadata, revealing who officials were in contact with and how frequently, as well as geolocation data showing their approximate whereabouts.
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27 Jan 2026 3:30am GMT
Reddit has forced Jaime Rogozinski, the founder of infamous r/WallStreetBets, to strip the WallStreetBets name from an upcoming Miami conference after legal threats citing trademark rights. According to a press release, it's the "first known case of a social media company enforcing trademark control over a user-created community." From the report: After years of litigation, courts ultimately sided with Reddit in a decision now referred to as the "Rogozinski Ruling," a precedent that grants platforms broad authority to assert trademark ownership over user-created communities. That ruling now forms the basis for Reddit's demand that the words "WallStreetBets" be physically removed from the event. "They aren't afraid of the name being used," said Rogozinski. "If they were, they'd have to sue the internet. What they're afraid of is the creator hanging out with his creation. They're afraid of the community's independence. And they're afraid it's evolved into something bigger than a subreddit." The irony is difficult to ignore. The original subreddit counts around three million subscribers, while conservative estimates place more than seven million WallStreetBets participants spread across other platforms. For a movement that built its reputation confronting corporate overreach, Reddit's decision to extend its authority beyond the confines of its web-based platform, reaching into real-world gatherings to police culture it did not create, risks stirring a hornet's nest with a long memory and a track record of collective action. The event formerly known as WallStreetBets Live, will proceed as scheduled on January 28-30 in Miami. In compliance with Reddit's demands, all references to the name will be physically redacted on-site. "Reddit's lawyers did one thing right," Rogozinski continued. "They proved exactly why we need a decentralized future. This event has become a live case study in what's broken about modern social media. Platforms can deplatform creators, and now, with courts backing them, they can appropriate what users build."
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27 Jan 2026 1:50am GMT
If the bill passes the upper house it could take effect by the start of France's new school year in September.
27 Jan 2026 1:12am GMT
26 Jan 2026
Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
26 Jan 2026 11:05pm GMT
He joins the likes of Coldplay, Sam Fender and Pulp in embracing the initiative to protect the UK's essential small venues
The post Harry Styles to donate £1 from each ticket sold to 2026 UK stadium tour to LIVE's grassroots levy appeared first on NME.
26 Jan 2026 9:38pm GMT
Kirk Milhoan's comments come as federal vaccine policy slides to insignificance.
26 Jan 2026 9:31pm GMT
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
26 Jan 2026 9:02pm GMT
The discovery of a crack on the Madrid-Barcelona line follows two recent deadly crashes in the country.
26 Jan 2026 3:17pm GMT
23 Jan 2026
Sales rose by more than expected, but it remained a difficult festive period for many retailers.
23 Jan 2026 9:30am GMT
Donald Trump is due to name a new leader of the Federal Reserve at a tricky moment.
23 Jan 2026 8:52am GMT
22 Jan 2026
More money than expected was collected through tax and higher National Insurance Contributions, although public sector spending also increased.
22 Jan 2026 2:57pm GMT
20 Jan 2026
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jQuery 4.0 Released - 20 years on from its original release, the ever-popular (in terms of actual usage) library reaches 4.0 with a migration to ES modules (compatible with modern build tools) along with dropping support for IE 10 and older. With jQuery being a popular guest in our newsletters in the early years, it's fantastic to see it pop back for a quick visit.
Timmy Willison
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JavaScript Now a First-Class Citizen in Aspire - Aspire is a Microsoft framework for orchestrating the deployment of distributed apps. Originally just for .NET, Aspire 13 now makes JavaScript a first-class citizen, so you can run Vite and full-stack JS apps with service discovery, telemetry, and production-ready containers.
Microsoft
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Introducing the <geolocation> Element - Chrome 144 introduces a new <geolocation> element for requesting user location data, moving away from a JavaScript-triggered prompt.
Viana, Le, Steiner
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20 Jan 2026 12:00am GMT
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Web Dependencies are Broken; Can We Fix Them? - Lea, who has worked at the heart of Web Standards for years, delivers a compelling (and educational) call to action about a problem every JavaScript developer has encountered: why is managing dependencies and introducing them into code so unnecessarily messy and what could we do about it?
Lea Verou
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Build Marketing Sites Like Apple - Learn how modern, high-impact marketing sites are built from someone doing it at the highest level. Matias Gonzales, Design Engineer at Vercel, teaches GSAP animation, scroll-driven storytelling, 3D with Three.js, and performance-first techniques used on award-winning sites.
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Date is Out, Temporal is In - The Temporal API has been promised as a future API tackling the weaknesses of JavaScript's Date for many years now, but finally that future is arriving. Mat leans on numerous examples to show off Date's weaknesses and push Temporal's strengths here.
Mat "Wilto" Marquis
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How to 'Steal' Any React Component - A look at how to reproduce a component from a production React app without the original source, using React's internal data structures (via Fiber) and LLMs to reconstruct things.
David Fant
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🎉 Happy New Year. JavaScript Weekly is now landing in your inboxes on Tuesdays, so here we are! Let's see what 2026 brings.
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Your editor, Peter Cooper
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The 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars - At the start of each year, Michael rounds up the projects in the JavaScript ecosystem that gained the most popularity on GitHub in the prior year. After a two-year run of topping the chart, shadcn/ui has been pushed down to #3 by n8n and React Bits. This is a fantastic roundup, now in its tenth(!) year, and features commentary from a few industry experts too.
Michael Rambeau et al.
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Make Flaky Tests a Last-Year Problem - Meticulous creates and maintains a continuously evolving E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort. Built on Chromium with a deterministic engine, it's the only testing tool that eliminates flakes. Relied on by Dropbox, Notion, and Lattice.
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💡 The discussion about MicroQuickJS on Hacker News was particularly rich. Redis's creator, Salvatore Sanfilippo, even noted that Redis would have used JavaScript as its scripting language instead of Lua if this had existed in 2010.
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pnpm 10.27 - The alternative, efficient (and increasingly security-focused) package manager gets some tweaks, including a setting to ignore trust policy checks for packages published more than a specified time ago.
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Ink 6.6 - Use React to build CLI apps, as used by Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and many others.
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🎨 Color.js v0.6 - The popular standards-compliant color conversion and manipulation library approaches its eventual 1.0 release.
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Prisma 7.2, Deno 2.6.4
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How to Compile JavaScript to C with Static Hermes - The creator of Parcel is porting parts of the project to Rust, but this raises some challenges on interoperating with existing JavaScript plugins, especially without a runtime JS interpreter. What about compiling JavaScript to C libraries that can be called directly? It's possible!
Devon Govett
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Bruno 3.0: An Open-Source HTTP API Client App - There are a lot of 'API client' tools with varying levels of features, but this is open source and entirely built in JavaScript. v3.0 features a complete overhaul of the UI, adds workspaces for grouping things together, and more. GitHub repo.
Bruno Software Inc.
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🔑 Let users create their own API keys with Clerk. Built-in UI components, scopes, expiration & revocation. Now in public beta.
Trigger.dev handles queues, retries, and long-running tasks so you can build production-ready agents and TypeScript workflows reliably at scale.
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