Tech news, September 1, 2026

Back when I joined Salesforce, one of the first things that struck me was the sheer ambition of our engineering organization.

Cypress 16 goes after slow test suites from every angle: HTTP/2 support, zero-delay typing, faster visibility checks, retrying cookie commands, and automatic memory management.

We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program for contributing to Django, is open for applicants for our next cohort!

Mux Robots is now available on the Free plan.

This month, Svelte 5.57 shipped with new SvelteMap methods and a few quality-of-life additions while SvelteKit 3 got closer to the finish line with its Release Candidate.

Redpanda ranked #1 in Implementation, Usability, Results, and Relationship Indexes in G2’s Fall 2026 Event Stream Processing Reports.

Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money.

Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago.

Learn how Android Strongbox and the new Digital Credential Alliance secure mobile wallets and digital IDs globally.

Four months of running an on-call agent, and the six things I’d tell anyone building one including the part where...

Valkey 9.0 introduced Atomic Slot Migration (ASM), a new resharding mechanism that replaces the traditional key-by-key migration process with a replication-inspired approach.

Generate an OpenAPI document from a.NET API at build time, generate a TypeScript client from it, and let the Nx task graph keep the two in sync.

I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out.

Michael Kaess, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has been named an inaugural fellow in the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Chief of Naval Research F…