
NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA for now — the best one currently available.
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Bas, Christopher Patton·July 9, 2026AI & ML 
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.

Design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI—from building a strong team to how to think about speed.

GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here’s how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed.
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Michael Recachinas·July 9, 2026Security 
Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering trust, and providing a sense of refuge. Kat Homan introduces an evaluation framework that helps designers assess whether trendy visual and interaction patterns support or undermine the unique goals of mental health experie

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.
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David Pine, Peli de Halleux·July 8, 2026AI & ML 
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.

The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.

Firefox 154 (Nightly) will ship text-box, text-box-trim, and text-box-edge, making them Baseline.

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.

We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite canvas, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency.

Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the open source TypeScript auth library. It stays free and MIT licensed as the team builds identity for the agent era.

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
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Dan Lapid, Connor Harwood·July 6, 2026Networking 
Safari TP 247 becomes the first to trial calc-mix(), which returns a progress point between two values.

This blog explores why pg_hardstorage has no incremental chain and the architecture design of pg_hardstorage.

For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this tutorial, I’ll share the most useful parts I’ve found from this modern CSS feature.

Chrome 150 becomes the first to ship animatable zoom, flex-wrap: balance, overscroll-behavior: chain (chaining with no overscroll), named-feature(), corner


A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, established mental models. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
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Vitaly Friedman·July 3, 2026AI & ML 
Chrome 150 implements comma-separated container queries as well as <image> support for light-dark(), following Firefox support.
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Daniel Schwarz·July 2, 2026Systems 
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.