<p><strong>TLDR:</strong> A denial-of-service vulnerability in React Server Functions (CVE-2026-23869) requires upgrading to React 19.2.5 or Next.js 16.2.3 — patch this now if you’re on Server Components. Chrome’s fingerprinting story got worse, not better, with a detailed audit counting at least 30 active tracking vectors and no mitigations in sight after Privacy Sandbox was quietly killed. Vercel had a busy day: Turbo build machines got 16% cheaper, anomaly alerts hit GA, and Cursor’s microfrontend migration story is worth reading. The design-engineering handoff debate is back, this time with a sharper argument for fewer handoffs rather than better tooling.</p>
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<h2>React DoS vulnerability: upgrade to 19.2.5 or Next.js 16.2.3</h2>
<p>CVE-2026-23869 affects React Server Functions and is serious enough to warrant an immediate patch. If you’re running Server Components in production, the fix is React 19.2.5 or Next.js 16.2.3 — there’s no workaround mentioned. This week’s React newsletter (issue 277) also covers MUI v9, Styled Components 6.4 with RSC support, and Base UI 1.4, but the CVE is the thing that actually needs your attention today.</p>
<h2>Chrome has no fingerprinting defenses, and Google stopped pretending to care</h2>
<p>Privacy consultant Alexander Hanff published a thorough breakdown: at least 30 fingerprinting techniques work in Chrome today, covering Canvas, WebGL, WebGPU, AudioContext, WebRTC IP leakage, and more. Brave farbles, Firefox has <code>privacy.resistFingerprinting</code>, Chrome has nothing. The Privacy Sandbox was supposed to address this — it was abandoned in April 2025 without shipping a single fingerprinting-specific mitigation. Google also reversed its own stated position in late 2024, shifting from calling fingerprinting “wrong” to acceptable if disclosed. If you’re building privacy-sensitive apps and assuming Chrome protects your users, it doesn’t.</p>
<h2>The design-engineering handoff argument, made properly</h2>
<p>Matthias Ott’s piece on design and engineering is worth reading in full. The argument isn’t “use better handoff tools” — it’s that the handoff model itself is the problem, inherited from Frederick Winslow Taylor’s assembly-line thinking. The actual proposal: prototype in the browser with real materials, and invest in people who can hold compositional and structural thinking simultaneously. As AI handles more execution work, the interdisciplinary mind becomes the scarce resource. I find this more convincing than most takes on the topic.</p>
<h2>LLMs are bad at accessibility auditing, and the numbers are ugly</h2>
<p>A 2025 study found that GPT-4o, Gemini, and Llama 3 detected only 30–38% of what traditional scanners find — and standard scanners already miss 50–70% of real barriers. That means an LLM-only accessibility workflow may surface roughly one in ten actual issues. LLMs also hallucinate violations, citing non-existent WCAG criteria and ARIA attributes. The post is a useful corrective to the idea that you can automate your way to WCAG compliance. Automated tools are a first layer, not a final one.</p>
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<h2>Also notable</h2>
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<li><strong>Vercel Turbo build machines</strong> drop 16% to $0.0035 per CPU per minute ($0.105/min for 30-CPU Turbo), effective April 15.</li>
<li><strong>Vercel anomaly alerts GA</strong> — now available for Observability Plus subscribers, with Vercel Agent auto-investigating spikes in 5XX responses or edge request anomalies at no extra cost.</li>
<li><strong>Cursor’s Vercel migration</strong> unified four web properties under <a href="http://cursor.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">cursor.com</a> using Microfrontends, ran 200+ AI agents in parallel to migrate content for ~$260 in tokens, and hit a 5% PLG signup increase via Flags SDK A/B tests.</li>
<li><strong>Azure MCP tools in VS Studio 2022</strong> — 230+ tools across 45 Azure services now ship with the Azure development workload in version 17.14.30, no extension required, disabled by default.</li>
<li><strong>VS Code MCP sandboxing</strong> — set <code>sandbox: enabled</code> to true in your MCP.json to gate file system and network access per-run; worth doing if you’re running local MCP servers.</li>
<li><strong>Figma MCP</strong> — the post explaining how Figma’s MCP server exposes components, tokens, and layout decisions (not just screenshots) to AI coding tools is a good practical read if you’re setting this up.</li>
<li><strong>Chrome and Edge built-in AI APIs</strong> — Gemini Nano (Chrome) and Phi-4-mini (Edge) now expose Summarizer, Translator, Writer, and Prompt APIs locally; first use triggers a multi-gigabyte model download with no programmatic management available yet.</li>
<li><strong>Flutter migrated dart.dev to Jaspr</strong> — the official Flutter and Dart docs sites now run on Jaspr, a Dart-native web framework supporting SSR, SSG, and CSR, replacing a split Eleventy/Wagtail stack.</li>
<li><strong>37,000 lines of slop</strong> — an audit of a high-profile AI-generated blog found 300KB of test files shipped to every visitor, 47 images missing alt tags, and page content rendered twice in the DOM; the post is a useful argument for reading every line AI produces.</li>
<li><strong>Red Hat’s <a href="http://AGENTS.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AGENTS.md</a> approach</strong> — formalizing architectural rules into a machine-readable file at the repo root, backed by custom ESLint rules, pushed commit throughput from ~12 to 53/month and improved first-try AI correctness across a 5,000-file migration.</li>
<li><strong>CSS wrap detection</strong> — container queries can detect flexbox wrapping by comparing container width to a viewport percentage threshold; nesting containers makes this work inside grid layouts too.</li>
<li><strong>Libretto open-sourced</strong> — Saffron Health released an AI browser automation toolkit that gives coding agents a live Chromium instance and token-efficient CLI, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Playwright.</li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare voice for agents</strong> — experimental <code>@cloudflare/voice</code> package adds STT/TTS over WebSockets to Durable Object agents in ~30 lines, with a Twilio adapter for phone handling.</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility and SEO overlap</strong> — Anne Bovelett cites Semrush data across 10,000 sites showing WCAG-compliant sites get 23% more organic traffic and 27% more keyword rankings; poor semantic HTML hurts crawlers and screen readers equally.</li>
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A React Server Functions denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2026-23869) requires immediate upgrade to React 19.2.5 or Next.js 16.2.3. Chrome's fingerprinting problem is worse than reported — an audit found 30+ active tracking vectors with zero mitigations after Privacy Sandbox was quietly killed in April 2025. Other highlights: Vercel cut Turbo build machine prices 16%, Cursor migrated to microfrontends using 200+ AI agents for ~$260, a study found LLMs detect only 30–38% of accessibility issues, and VS Code MCP sandboxing is now available. Also covered: Azure MCP tools in VS 2022, Figma MCP server capabilities, Chrome/Edge built-in AI APIs, and CSS flexbox wrap detection via container queries.

React gets a DoS CVE, Chrome fingerprinting defenses stay empty