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Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works. The post Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Developer Tools github_blog 2026-08-26T17:04:45.611142+00:00Read article

Cloudflare Enhances Bot Management with Preference Sync

Cloudflare has launched Bot Preference Sync, a feature designed to synchronize a website’s robots.txt file with its AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training traffic. This tool eliminates the need to manually maintain static robots.txt files, ensuring that preferences set i

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships Rust-based coreutils

Canonical is strategically replacing critical Ubuntu components with Rust equivalents, starting with GNU coreutils and sudo in the 26.04 LTS release. The approach prioritizes backward compatibility while addressing long-term security through memory safety, avoiding a full rewrite

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MinIO Reaches End of Life in February 2026; Docker ELS Offers Five Years of Extended Support

MinIO, an open-source object storage solution, ceased support in February 2026, discontinuing releases, bug fixes, and security patches. Docker Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) provides hardened and updated images for MinIO and its dependencies for up to five years beyond its end

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Cloudflare Tests EmDash CMS on Its Own Blog Before Wider Rollout

Cloudflare migrated its blog to EmDash, a custom-built content management system designed for Astro and Cloudflare, on August 12. The migration served as a real-world test of EmDash’s scalability and usability, with the blog handling traffic ranging from 75 requests per second (R

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JetBrains Brings OpenTelemetry to More IDEs

JetBrains has expanded its OpenTelemetry plugin support beyond JetBrains Rider to include IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm in the 2026.2 release. This plugin integrates observability tools directly into the IDE, allowing developers to inspect logs, metrics, traces, an

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GitHub shares insights on LLM evaluation for production workflows

GitHub’s evaluation of language models (LLMs) for secret scanning demonstrates the challenges of transitioning from benchmark testing to real-world deployment. The company focused on reducing false positives—incorrect alerts suggesting leaked credentials—while ensuring sufficient

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Arduino VENTUNO Q: Edge AI Board with Physical Interaction

Arduino’s VENTUNO Q board integrates AI processing and real-time control for offline edge applications, featuring a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 processor and STM32H5 microcontroller. With 16 GB RAM, 64 GB storage, and Ubuntu Pro, the board supports Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, USB-C, and

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Kotlin Function Signatures: Making Errors Explicit

Sergey Chernov, Lead Software Engineer at Salmon, emphasizes the importance of explicit error handling in Kotlin function signatures. Functions like `signDocument` often return `Unit`, equivalent to Java’s `void`, but this hides potential failures such as database outages or expi

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Help AI Coding Agents Write Up-To-Date Code With Modern Golang Skills

TL;DR Why AI coding agents need modern Go skills AI coding agents can produce working Go code, but they typically rely on outdated patterns. Older syntax appears more often in their training data. Newer language features and standard library additions may also fall outside their

Developer Tools jetbrains_blog 2026-08-25T23:59:51.744675+00:00Read article

Rust 1.98.0 Enhances Floating-Point and Integer Operations

The Rust team has released version 1.98.0, featuring new algebraic methods for floating-point types f32 and f64, enabling optimizations based on algebraic properties of real numbers. These methods allow compilers to reorder operations for better performance, though results remain

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How We Optimized the Qwen 3.6 Model for Our Junie Agent

A while ago, we launched a long-term project to enable users to run Junie entirely locally, with local inference, across a wide variety of hardware setups. After much anticipation, we recently released an initial version of Junie Local that works on a MacBook M5 with Qwen3.6-27B.

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