It's Foss·25wGoogle Just Made Its Sleek New Font Open Source
Google released Sans Flex, an open source variable font under the SIL Open Font License. The font features five customizable axes (weight, width, optical size, slant, and rounded terminals) in a single file, designed for modern screens and high-resolution displays. It's available for download and can be installed on Linux distributions, though variable font features won't work system-wide in Linux desktop environments.
Theo - t3․gg·27wGoogle just dropped their Cursor killer (FREE Gemini 3 Pro???)
Google released Anti-gravity, a free AI-powered IDE built on VS Code that integrates Gemini 3 Pro. The editor features an innovative agent manager workflow that operates as a separate window, browser control capabilities through Chrome integration, and automatic asset generation. While the tool shows promise with successful one-shot project creation and unique UX patterns for managing multiple tasks, it suffers from numerous bugs including broken extensions, inconsistent performance, and UI glitches. The editor appears to be based on Windsurf code from Google's recent acquisition, offering generous free usage limits during its preview period.
Tsoding Daily·26wI tried Protobuf after 17 years of ignoring it
A developer attempts to use Protocol Buffers for the first time after 17 years of awareness, encountering significant complexity in compilation, linking, and dependency management. The session reveals extensive build challenges including missing runtime libraries, dependency on Abseil, version mismatches, and linking errors. Despite spending over an hour, the developer struggles to compile a simple "hello world" example without using Google's Bazel build system, exposing the library's steep learning curve and infrastructure requirements.
WeProDev·27wGo’s Sweet 16
Go programming language celebrates its 16th anniversary, reflecting on its evolution from a small team project at Google to a widely-adopted language powering cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and enterprise systems. The post highlights Go's growth in adoption, community contributions, and its continued focus on simplicity, performance, and developer productivity. Key milestones include the introduction of generics, improved tooling, and expanding use cases across various domains.
Fireship·26wDid Google just kill OpenAI?
Google released Gemini 3 Pro, which topped major AI benchmarks and prompted companies like Anthropic to switch from Claude. The release boosted Google's stock by 6% to an all-time high. Google also unveiled anti-gravity, an agentic coding platform built on technology from the acquired Windsurf team, competing with other AI-powered development tools like Cursor and their own idx/Firebase Studio.
Embrace The Red·26wAntigravity Grounded! Security Vulnerabilities in Google's Latest IDE · Embrace The Red
Security researcher discovers five critical vulnerabilities in Google's new Antigravity IDE, including remote code execution via indirect prompt injection, data exfiltration through multiple vectors, and hidden instruction execution using invisible Unicode characters. These issues were previously reported in Windsurf (which Antigravity is based on) but remain unpatched. The vulnerabilities exploit the IDE's auto-execute features, lack of human-in-the-loop controls for MCP tool invocations, and over-reliance on LLM output for security decisions. Practical mitigations include disabling auto-execute, carefully managing MCP server permissions, and considering alternative IDEs until fixes are deployed.
Google Open Source Blog·28wAnnouncing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust
Google released Magika 1.0, an AI-powered file type detection system completely rewritten in Rust. The stable release doubles file type support to over 200 formats, including specialized types for data science, modern programming languages, and DevOps configurations. The new Rust engine processes hundreds of files per second on a single core using ONNX Runtime and Tokio. Training challenges were addressed using SedPack for handling 3TB datasets and Gemini for generating synthetic samples of rare file types. Available as a native CLI tool and library for Python, TypeScript, and Rust.
Hacker News·27wGoogle Antigravity
Google Antigravity is a new AI-powered IDE featuring tab autocompletion, natural language code commands, and context-aware agents. The platform offers synchronized agentic control across editor, terminal, and browser, with a task-based approach to monitoring agent activity. It supports managing multiple agents simultaneously from a central mission control view and is available at no charge for developers.
The Register·26w70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy advocates for 72-hour work weeks, praising China's controversial 996 culture despite legal challenges and worker protests. In other Asia-Pacific tech news: Tokyo court orders Cloudflare to pay $3.3M for enabling manga piracy through CDN services; India and Europe plan to link payment systems (UPI and TIPS) for cross-border transactions; Russian researchers claim Chinese APT 31 targeted Russian IT contractors; Australia's weather bureau faces scrutiny over a $62M website upgrade that failed users during severe storms; Google expands AI infrastructure in Taiwan and Singapore; VMware partners with NEC on private cloud modernization in Japan.