Discord is about to gate “full access” behind age checks

Web Development | 11 February 2026

Discord is joining the growing list of platforms that want a clearer answer to one simple question: are you an adult or a teen? Starting March 2026, Discord says it will roll out its updated teen-safety approach internationally, and that means full a...

A Malaysian Just Sold AI.com to Crypto.com for US$70 Million, and It’s Not Just a “Domain Sale” Story

Web Development | 10 February 2026

Every now and then, a headline comes along that sounds almost unreal until you read the details. This is one of them: a Malaysian entrepreneur has sold the domain AI.com for US$70 million (around RM276 million), and the entire deal was paid in crypto...

A new “memory-safe C/C++ alternative” is trying to get noticed

Web Development | 09 February 2026

For years, the systems-programming world has been stuck in a familiar tug-of-war. C and C++ still power huge parts of the modern stack, but their long-running weakness is also well-known: memory safety bugs that keep showing up in real-world incident...

Epic rolls out its AI Charting tool to EHR customers nationwide

Web Development | 08 February 2026

Epic is taking the next step in its clinical AI roadmap by making its integrated AI Charting tool available to its entire electronic health record customer base. After running an early pilot in Wisconsin, the company has now widened access so organiz...

What’s happening with PADU next

Web Development | 06 February 2026

If you've been wondering whether PADU is "still a thing" after the whole targeted subsidy conversation, the short answer is: yes — and Putrajaya is about to widen what it's used for.

From “nice-to-have” to “how we work”: Microsoft normalises AI coding tools

Web Development | 31 January 2026

For the past year or two, a lot of big companies have been "trying out" AI coding assistants the same way they try out any new dev tool: a small pilot here, an optional experiment there, a few enthusiastic teams using it quietly while everyone else s...

Malaysia’s Under-16 Social Media Rule Is Now Being Tested, With July 2026 as the Likely Start Date

Web Development | 27 January 2026

Malaysia's plan to restrict social media access for users under 16 is no longer just a "we're thinking about it" idea. According to Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching, the proposal has already moved into a regulatory sandbox phase, which is...

Microsoft Introduces Winapp, a New CLI Tool That Simplifies Windows App Development

Web Development | 26 January 2026

Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel less like assembling IKEA furniture without the manual, and more like… well, actually building your app. A new tool called winapp has been introduced to simplify the annoying setup work that us...

ReactOS Just Fixed a 10-Year Networking Pain Point, and It’s a Big Deal

Web Development | 20 January 2026

If you've been casually following ReactOS over the years, you'll know the vibe: it's an ambitious "open-source Windows" project that's been building toward better Windows compatibility one hard-earned milestone at a time. And lately, ReactOS has been...

Ads are coming to ChatGPT (at least for some people)

Web Development | 19 January 2026

For a long time, ChatGPT has been one of the rare mainstream "big" apps that didn't interrupt you with advertising. That's about to change. OpenAI says it will begin testing ads in ChatGPT "in the coming weeks," starting in the United States, and the...

A Critical Node.js Bug That Can Quietly Take Down Servers

Web Development | 15 January 2026

If you run production workloads on Node.js, this is one of those updates you should not postpone. A newly disclosed vulnerability shows how a subtle flaw deep inside Node's async handling can crash entire servers with nothing more than carefully trig...

Gmail Is Getting Smarter With Gemini AI

Web Development | 10 January 2026

Google is taking another big step in its AI push by bringing Gemini directly into Gmail. This isn't just a small add-on or experimental feature. It's part of a wider effort to rethink how people actually use email today, especially now that inboxes a...

OpenAEV: An Open-Source Platform for Adversarial Exposure Validation

Web Development | 06 January 2026

OpenAEV is an open-source solution built to help security teams design, execute, and analyse adversary simulation exercises. It brings technical attack activity together with operational workflows and human decision-making, all coordinated from a sin...

Do We Really Need So Much JavaScript Anymore? Modern HTML and CSS Say “Maybe Not.”

Web Development | 30 December 2025

For years, JavaScript has been the hero of the web. Anytime HTML and CSS hit their limits, JavaScript stepped in and saved the day. Want interactive menus? Fancy accordions? Dynamic UI behavior? JavaScript has traditionally been the go-to solution, a...

When “Testing in Production” Goes Wrong: Lessons From Cloudflare’s Recent Outages

Web Development | 30 December 2025

In the world of IT and systems engineering, there's a golden rule that everyone learns early on: never experiment directly on your live environment. Changes should be tested, validated, broken, repaired, and verified long before they ever touch anyth...

Google May Finally Let You Change Your Gmail Address — Starting with Users in India

Web Development | 29 December 2025

For as long as many of us can remember, Google has had a firm rule: once you choose your Gmail address, you are stuck with it. Whether you created something embarrassing as a teenager or simply outgrew your old username, changing that primary Gmail a...

Microsoft’s Big Plan: Move Away from C and C++, and March Toward Rust

Web Development | 26 December 2025

Microsoft is quietly working on one of its most ambitious software engineering shifts yet: reducing, and eventually eliminating, its reliance on C and C++ across its massive codebase by 2030. That includes parts of Windows – even Windows 11 – which s...

Open Source in 2025: The Trends That Shaped the Year

Web Development | 19 December 2025

Open source has always been the lifeblood of modern technology, but 2025 really highlighted just how deeply the world relies on it — and how complicated that relationship has become. This year's biggest developments centered around four major themes:...

Google Translate Gets a Major AI Upgrade With Gemini

Web Development | 16 December 2025

Google Translate has been around for so long that many of us take it for granted. It's the app you open when travelling, reading foreign websites, or trying to figure out what that oddly worded message really means. Now, Google is giving this familia...

Google’s Latest Experiment Wants to Rethink How We Browse

Web Development | 15 December 2025

AI-powered browsers are quickly becoming a familiar idea. We've already seen experiments from players like Perplexity and OpenAI, and Google has been quietly moving in the same direction for a while by weaving Gemini into different parts of the web e...