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TechCrunch
AI design agents can be unpredictable, so Figma is giving them a rulebook. Its new Specs feature is a markdown editor where teams write down their design language, libraries and guidelines, and the document lives inside Figma where both people and agents can reference it. Figma also says its MCP integration now supports more than 20 new tools.
Ars Technica
Vibe coding means describing software in plain language and letting AI write and review the code. Epic used that approach to rebuild its games launcher from scratch with a small team, and the preview starts faster: Ars's testing found it reaches the store a few seconds sooner than Steam. Epic warns it is light on features and will have bugs.
go.dev
Every new HTTPS connection costs several round trips before content moves: a TCP handshake to reach the server, then a TLS handshake to set up encryption. Go 1.27's HTTP client reuses idle HTTP/1 connections more aggressively, skipping most of that setup when programs make many requests. In the Go team's benchmark, 100 requests dropped from about 710 milliseconds to about 150.
Ars Technica
Vibe coding means making small apps by describing them to an AI. Google says apps built in its AI Studio can go straight to the Play Store as private entries in a personal library, installable without a developer account and shareable with a small group, and private apps are not reviewed. Publishing to everyone still requires a developer profile and app review.
GitHub
Doory is a free, open-source alternative to Canva that you can host on your own server with a few commands. It ships with ten editable templates such as a gig poster, resume and pitch deck, and runs in the browser on a React front end with a Django backend. Users can add their own templates through an admin area.
MIXED Reality News
Windows Update uses certificates, digital IDs, to confirm a PC is fetching patches from Microsoft's real servers, and those IDs expire on a schedule. Microsoft says the current ones run out on May 17 and June 19, 2027, and machines that have not installed the required security update before then will lose access to Windows Update; PCs kept current by monthly updates get the replacements automatically.
The Verge
Microsoft wants Windows to become an operating system where AI agents do tasks for you, using what it calls hybrid intelligence: cheap local models handle some work while cloud models handle the rest, cutting token costs. Its new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia chips, can run models over 120 billion parameters locally, and regular users get a faster, redesigned Windows Search.
deno.com
Deno is a JavaScript runtime, the software that runs code outside a browser, and its whole team is joining Cloudflare to work on the Workers platform, which runs programs across Cloudflare's network. Cloudflare says the runtime will get monthly fixes and security patches for another year, then development stops, and the Deno Deploy hosting service closes after six months.
