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A developer demonstrated animated ASCII art rendered for web pages, using examples such as a scrolling AlmaLinux logo and a ring of five colored figures that intermittently scan. The art is built from text characters and designed to display in browsers, echoing the style of terminal boot-time distro logos.
Apple has released version 7.0 of its Apple Music beta for Android, introducing a new floating, translucent navigation bar and redesigned artist pages with large artwork. The update also moves artist bios behind a single tap on an 'i' icon next to the play button, rather than requiring users to scroll to the bottom of the page. The changes were first spotted by user Sumanta Das on X and confirmed by Android Authority through the beta program.
At its fourth DevDay, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace where teams collaborate with ChatGPT and each other alongside a new agentic feature called Dots. It also launched Pages, a document tool combining AI research and writing, plus a collaborative slides feature enabling real-time co-editing with ChatGPT and export to PowerPoint or Google formats. Space and Pages are live now for Pro, Business and Enterprise users, with slides and mobile access coming soon.
Apple has rolled out updates to Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Pixelmator Pro and Freeform. The iWork apps now support Siri queries and shared-file access requests, Pages gains a Screen View mode, and Numbers adds new trigonometry, statistics and logic functions. Pixelmator Pro brings Select and Mask tools to iPad and new templates, while Freeform adds Dark Mode support, collaborative folders and Apple Intelligence Writing Tools.
Apple's iOS 27 update brings five notable changes to Apple Music: a landscape layout that pairs artwork with lyrics, an improved AutoMix feature with smoother transitions now also coming to tvOS and HomePod, redesigned artist pages with fullscreen color backgrounds, and a new weekly 'Friends' playlist that surfaces what people in your network are streaming.
A developer's essay critiques how services report reliability using uptime percentages like 99.72% or 98.98%, arguing these numbers look deceptively similar to non-experts even though they represent vastly different amounts of actual downtime. The author references Jason Gorman's observation that reliability gains become exponentially harder near 100%, comparing uptime metrics to earthquake magnitude scales where small numeric differences hide huge real-world impact. The proposed fix: status pages should show actual downtime duration (e.g., '12 hours affected in the last 30 days') alongside or instead of raw percentages.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a memory-management change in Windows Server 2025 is causing crashes, memory corruption, and access violations in applications using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE), including SQL Server instances with Lock Pages in Memory enabled. Affected systems may show error code 0xC0000005, failed database maintenance tasks, crash dumps, and unexpected service restarts.
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Sites, a feature that lets users generate landing pages, guides, games, and simple apps by typing a prompt rather than coding or dragging design elements. The tool aims to make website creation as effortless as drafting a document, producing a finished page directly from natural-language instructions.
A blogger detailed how they replaced their static site's contact form backend with Cloudflare Pages Functions, combining reCAPTCHA v3 (or optionally Cloudflare Turnstile) with the Resend email service to block spam submissions. The setup collects a visitor's name, email and message, then routes it through a Worker to a custom email address for filtering. The approach was inspired by a prior migration guide from Netlify to Cloudflare by developer Sia Karamalegos.
A throwaway pull request to add readahead to Turso's io_uring backend became a case study in I/O performance. Without readahead, Turso issues one io_uring read at a time and waits for each to complete before requesting the next page; with a 32-page prefetch window enabled via PRAGMA, it submits many reads concurrently. On a TPC-H full-table scan, this dropped actual device requests from about 196,000 to roughly 16,300, while average request size grew more than tenfold and request-merging jumped from near zero to over 90%.
A new open-source project called TexLite provides a browser-based, self-hosted environment for teams to write and compile LaTeX documents together. It runs as a single Node.js process with SQLite and local file storage, reusing the host machine's existing TeX installation, and adds real-time editing plus source-level commenting.