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SRE & Ops — How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 1, 2026SRE & Ops
Design & UX — Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine

Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content — Smashing Magazine

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be need

JPJoas PambouJoas Pambou·May 1, 2026Design & UX
SRE & Ops — Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter credit card details.

SBSid, Brendan Irvine BroqueSid, Brendan Irvine Broque·April 30, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — Everything we announced at Sessions 2026

Everything we announced at Sessions 2026

We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.

WGWill GaybrickWill Gaybrick·April 29, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Giving agents the ability to pay

Giving agents the ability to pay

Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or SPT backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.

DHDan HillDan Hill·April 29, 2026Engineering
Databases — CYPEX Use Cases

CYPEX Use Cases

CYBERTEC's CYPEX makes internal app development with PostgreSQL a breeze. Check out use cases in livestock management and internet shopping!

CPCYBERTEC PostgreSQL·April 28, 2026Databases
AI & ML — Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)

Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)

LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been using them for their teams and have developed a method and workflow called Structured Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD). The article describes a simple example of this workflow with details in github. This workflow treats the prompts as a firs

WZWei Zhang and Jessie Jie Xia·April 28, 2026AI & ML
Frontend — Scroll-Driven Animations

Scroll-Driven Animations

The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript! It’s honestly a very lovely API, and in this blog post, we’ll explore some of the super cool things we can do with it.

JWJosh W. Comeau·April 28, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator recap

2026 Vercel AI Accelerator recap

Read the recap of the 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator, where 39 AI startups spent six weeks building with Vercel before pitching at Demo Day at our San Francisco headquarters.

VVercel·April 28, 2026AI & ML