Google announced Chrome 113 beta with four new CSS media features allowing testing of how a device handles content that overflows the initial containing block and the linear() easing function. WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web, is available by default in Chrome 113.
Meta open-souced Buck2, a large-scale build system written in Rust and designed to make the build experience faster and more efficient. According to Meta, Buck2 is used by thousands of its developers to perform millions of builds per day and produce more meaningful code.
By early next year, Android will require all apps that enable account creation to provide an option to delete user data and account from within the app and online. Recent research by Mozilla discovered discrepancies between apps' privacy policies and information reported on Google's Data Safety Form and graded the top 40 apps on Google Play Store.
GitHub announced the availability of Enterprise Accounts, which enables administrators to scale their users and organizations to all its Enterprise customers. GitHub rolled out Enterprise Accounts in December last year, empowering users to take advantage of features such as GitHub Actions, security overview, audit log streaming, etc.
System-oriented programming language Zig, a modern alternative to C, was ranked 46th in the April edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index. Tiobe Software's CEO, Paul Jansen, cautioned that entering the top 50 is no guarantee of becoming a success.
LangChain, a framework for developing applications, raised $10M in a seed round led by Benchmark. LangChain is available as Python and TypeScript packages and is built with the principles of being data-aware and agentic.
Code visibility platform CodeSee launched Enterprise 2.0,
which instantly maps and automates an app's services, directories, file
dependencies, and code changes. Enterprise 2.0 adds support for
additional programming languages, including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Blazor,
Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, and TypeScript.