2026-08-20 Briefing

X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 arrives as first feature release in five years. Datadog rebuilt Git serving with gitretriever: 100M weekly requests at ~40ms latency. AliExpress anti-abuse scripts abuse WebAudio for fingerprinting, forcing Bluetooth audio active. Rust-to-WebAssembly compiles are slow due to an LLVM quadratic debug-info bug. A Stanford study says small local models can match large cloud…