"Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the [server-side] JavaScript and TypeScript runtime created by Ryan Dahl, the inventor of Node.js," Forbes reported last week.


But Deno "has no future at Cloudflare, which will maintain the runtime for another year before ending its development," writes The Register. "That's OK with Dahl. 'I am now of the opinion that if you're choosing Node.js for building servers, you're doing it wrong,' Dahl told The Register."

It all started with his team's work on the platform Deno Deploy, "We wanted to make running applications as straightforward as possible," Dahl
wrote on the official Deno blog. "But building and operating Deploy also showed us how much complexity remained underneath that developer experience. I wanted to simplify that layer, too."

This led to celld. Building on the Cloudflare Workers programming model, celld lets developers build distributed applications from the start while making the system simple to operate. What excites me greatly is that the scaling is built into the programming model, rather than infrastructure each app has to assemble itself.... We want to make this programming model the default way to build servers, whether you run on Cloudflare's network or your own infrastructure.

Joining also means choosing where to focus our effort... Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development. Deno Deploy will continue operating for six months before shutting down. We will provide migration support for paying customers moving to Cloudflare Workers. [Deno's JSR package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript] will continue operating, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare.


Forbes argues that this acquisition of Deno "turns a long-standing objection to Cloudflare Workers, the claim that applications built on it cannot easily leave, into a selling point."

For CIOs evaluating serverless and edge platforms, portability now has a concrete answer... Released in August, [celld] is a single Rust binary that runs Workers and Durable Objects across many machines, with object storage as its only external dependency. Operators run multiple celld instances against one storage bucket, and the software handles placement, routing and persistence. Dahl and Belder will now lead an effort to merge celld into workerd and make self-hosting a supported way to run Workers applications. With this, customers can build an application on Cloudflare's network and move it to a private data center without rewriting it.


"With Deno, we improved the experience of writing JavaScript," Dahl argues on the Cloudflare blog, "but we didn't fundamentally change what developers had to assemble around the runtime. The bigger problems are around networked applications: distributing computation, coordinating state, data storage in general, and autoscaling to meet demand..."


Could the programming model make partitioning across machines part of the design from the start? The solution clicked into focus when I read about Cloudflare's Durable Objects. It provided a very powerful abstraction: the distributed singleton with a SQLite database. Each Durable Object is like a small, individually addressable server with its own relational database. Its JavaScript execution is single-threaded (which is easy to reason about), it handles WebSockets, and its local SQLite database can be accessed synchronously. By building a chat application using one Durable Object per channel, you have sharded your data and WebSocket connections, and thus made your application scalable... What excites me is the leverage this model gives developers: compute, relational databases, queues, and real-time communication primitives designed for applications distributed across machines.


Now Dahl and 12 of his Deno colleagues "will work to build out Cloudflare's Workers platform," explains The Register, "expanding it for potential open-source use. He feels this approach is the way to go."

"Right now, every other server is really operating at the Linux VM layer. That is not what Cloudflare Workers are," he said...

The ever-fickle Dahl first debuted Deno in 2018 as a rewrite of Node. The name 'Deno' is an anagram of Node, and it was Dahl's attempt to fix everything he felt he got wrong with Node — built-in fetch, a permission model, native TypeScript support et al. Sequoia backed Dahl's company for $21 million in 2022, and as of August, Deno amassed 400,000 monthly users. Nonetheless, Node's gravity proved too heavy for Deno to achieve escape velocity.

"What we found over years of working on Deno is that you can't really deviate from Node.js very much," Dahl told The Register. "As we continued to try to get adoption for Deno, we found we had to essentially backpedal on some of the original promises and become more Node compatible over time, and that left us as a kind of an alternative Node.js implementation." Going forward, Cloudflare will supply Deno with bug fixes and security patches for the next year, while Dahl looks for a new home for the MIT-licensed open source project.

Dahl's worked could bring "yet another revolutionary turn for server-side JavaScript," the article argues, "offering a runtime that would require only 300 KB of memory per instance, rather than the hundreds of megabytes now required for Node/Deno. Such savings could quickly add up for a cloud provider, especially one serving the voracious agentic market."

And as Dahl wrote on the Deno blog, "The need for better abstractions is especially acute with AI. Durable Objects bring together capabilities that are particularly useful for agent harnesses: inexpensive, serverless execution, persistent state, WebSockets, and a high-level JavaScript interface. This is what I'm most excited to explore and why celld focuses on Durable Objects."

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Millions of current and former students at California's public school have had their data stolen — including names, date of birth, and addresses — stolen in a breach, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The breach affects students "who took the state's mandated standardized tests that annually assess their academic proficiency, education officials announced Friday."




The compromised information affects many more than the state's current 5.7 million public-school students as the breach dates back to 2023 enrollments. Students who left California but did not confirm their transfer to another school also were affected, dating back to 2006.

The data breach involved [nonprofit] Educational Testing Service or ETS, which provides extensive services to California [including test participation and assessment data]... Affected former students, including those who are now adults, are eligible for 24 months of free identity-protection services and identity-restoration help if there is identity theft. Officials said that parents and guardians may want to consider requesting a free credit freeze for their children who are under 16 to help prevent unauthorized accounts from being opened in the names of their children.



The breach involved a compromised login credential, according to a web page about the incident from California's Department of Education. The compromised credential was then used to copy files with student information at "various" times between May 22 and September 18, 2026, which drew concern from a cybersecurity expert interviewed by the Los Angeles Times:


"A stolen login credential should not become a months-long passport to millions of students' personal records," said Anton Dahbura, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. "If that is what happened here, the critical question is why authentication safeguards, access restrictions, and monitoring systems failed to detect and stop the unauthorized activity."

He added: "Incidents like this expose a fundamental weakness in how we manage student data: School systems may outsource the storage and processing of sensitive information, but they cannot outsource the consequences of a breach. When millions of student records are concentrated with a single vendor, one security failure can become a statewide problem with consequences that follow children for years."



A spokesperson for ETS told the Times that they've now implemented additional safeguards, including strengthened access controls, enhanced monitoring, and more third-party review of their security practices.

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"Isn't it weird that I, like, did a TV show about kind of a business scam, and you got in trouble for like ... a business scam?" comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder gently asks Elizabeth Holmes.

One month before the notorious Theranos CEO surrendered to begin her 11-year criminal fraud sentence in 2023, Holmes and her husband contacted A24 as a last-ditch effort to exonerate her in the public eye, suggesting they send a film crew to document her final days of freedom. Alongside director Lance Oppenheim, Fielder — a cringe-comedy mastermind whose work often walks the line between fact and fiction — embraced the impossible project of figuring out who the infamous Stanford dropout really is.

"I never actually made that connection," says Holmes. "I think it's a pretty different situation...."


We already know that Elizabeth Holmes is not innocent. What we still can't figure out, though, is whether she really, truly believes she did nothing wrong. Even as she sat on trial — listening to testimonies from investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars, whistleblowers who were silenced when they flagged that Theranos' blood-testing devices didn't work, and patients who acted on incorrect blood test results — Holmes never wavered.

Business Insider says the scariest thing about the new documentary "is how much I wanted to believe her."

SFGate calls it "one of the finest works of journalism I've ever seen."

As Fielder ingratiates himself with Holmes and [her husband] Evans, he gets them comfortable enough to ask the hard questions: about Theranos, about prison, and even about themselves. The resulting footage is often shocking. You will see Elizabeth Holmes, who still maintains she did nothing wrong, answer "no" when Fielder asks her if she's ever lied in her life... [Y]ou will also see Holmes and Evans spend a great deal of time in this movie attempting to boot up Theranos 2.0. They even go so far as to drag out some of the original Theranos blood testing apparatus, which looks like a bunch of random parts from TigerDirect they hooked together, to show Fielder what their product can do. We do not see it doing anything on screen, but the couple assures that it we would if it was, like, hooked up properly.

These scenes are extremely funny, but funny isn't what Fielder is looking for. He's trying to figure out if this woman is a clueless naif, if she believes her own lies, or if she is playing the character of an innocent woman, and doing so with such effectiveness that, to paraphrase Fielder, she might be the most manipulative person in the world. The answer proves fabulously elusive, and so Fielder and Oppenheim go to extremes in their attempt to find it. They hold the camera on Holmes' rubbery elfin face for what feels like hours at a time, to see if she'll blink (figuratively or literally!). They interview Holmes' visiting parents, with the father, former Enron exec Christian Holmes, casually telling Fielder that everything changed for his daughter "when she was raped." To the furthest extreme, they bring in actress Amanda Seyfried — who played Holmes in the Hulu TV show "The Dropout" — to recreate any dialogues Fielder had with Holmes herself that couldn't be recorded on camera. Seyfried is so convincing in mimicking Holmes that you, the audience, might forget which scenes were Seyfried talking to the camera and not Holmes herself. I know I did.

Continuing that theme in the film, TechCrunch notes, is how her husband Billy Evans "has constructed a lifelike AI avatar of his wife, trapped inside of a large vertical screen that he wheels over to the dinner table to sit with him and his kids as though she's actually there."


Elizabeth Holmes "comes off in the doc as every bit as innately bizarre as anyone showing up for a cinematic freak show might hope," writes Variety:

My personal hunch is that Fielder came away thinking Holmes is on the level, to the extent that someone who sometimes seems like an AI program's idea of how a human should behave can be on the level. There are a few possibilities that might explain how Holmes comes off the way she does in the movie: (a) She is a simpleton. (b) She is a conniving sociopath who happens to be utterly brilliant at playing a simpleton. (c) Somewhere between those poles, she is the very emblem of a woman who throughout her life has put herself in the sway of controlling men, to the detriment of her intellect, willpower and emotional development... Is it possible that the more you learn about someone, the less you might know how to think about them?

Meanwhile, NBC News recently reported:

Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud for siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from several high-profile investors, is scheduled to be transferred from a minimum-security federal prison to a halfway house next year, according to one of her victims... [America's Department of Justice "is required by law to notify victims of crime of case developments through letters and emails," the article points out.] She was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and three months in prison. She and her business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, were ordered to pay 12 victims a total of $452 million in restitution.

Holmes has been serving that sentence at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas. The halfway house will provide her greater freedom... In March, a judge cut Holmes' sentence from 135 months to 123 months. According to a court document, the judge agreed with Holmes that she did not personally cause "substantial financial hardship" to her victims.
NBC News adds that a prison consultant they interviewed "said inmates who report to halfway houses can work, have phones, drive to religious services or shop for things they need and earn passes for weekends at home."

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Tussen 1947 en 1960 kwamen in Nederland 173 piloten om het leven bij een ongeluk met een militair toestel. Vooral de Thunderjet was levensgevaarlijk, maar vanwege de noodzaak om te blijven vliegen in de Koude Oorlog werd dat verzwegen. De Koninklijke Luchtmacht noemt dat nu „zeer pijnlijk”.

French mayor and archbishop also attacked during violent attempt to stop Palestinians harvesting olives

Israeli settler militants have attacked European diplomats, a French mayor and the archbishop of Cambrai in Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, injuring three people and damaging a car, in the latest violent attempt to prevent Palestinians from harvesting olives on their own land.

Bernard Baudoux, mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, was wearing his red, white and blue sash of office and attempting to enter a vehicle with diplomatic plates when he was assaulted and knocked to the ground on Saturday.

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There is a reason why Aston Villa were so desperate to hijack Johan Manzambi’s proposed move from Freiburg to Newcastle this summer which appeared nailed on.

The tall, quick, tricky, clever and perfectly balanced 21-year-old Switzerland attacking midfielder looked worth every penny of the record £50m plus fee Villa ended up paying for and duly delighted in showing Tynesiders what they missed.

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ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Turners Casimir Schmidt, Elijah Faverus, Amine Abaidi, Loran de Munck en Jermain Grünberg bezetten na vier van de zes startgroepen (subdivisies) de vijfde plek in het landenklassement bij de WK in Rotterdam. Olympisch teamkampioen Japan gaat aan de leiding (254,529 punten), gevolgd door Europees kampioen Groot-Brittannië (251,460).

Er volgen op zondag nog twee subdivisies, waarna bekend wordt of de score van Nederland toereikend is voor een plek in de teamfinale (top acht). Onder meer China, Zwitserland, Italië en Duitsland komen nog in actie.

In de meerkamp heeft Elijah Faverus zicht op een plek in de meerkampfinale (top-24). Met 79,466 punten staat hij dertiende, Jermain Grünberg negentiende (78,432). Olympisch kampioen Shinnosuke Oka uit Japan voert het klassement aan (85,098). De beste 24 turners (met een maximum van twee per land) plaatsen zich voor de meerkampfinale. De Nederlandse turners hebben geen zicht meer op toestelfinales (top-8).

PARIJS (ANP) - De Franse president Emmanuel Macron heeft zich uitgesproken tegen de onlusten deze zaterdag in zijn land. Op X schrijft het staatshoofd dat eenieder die zich schuldig heeft gemaakt aan vernieling en plundering zal worden vervolgd en gestraft. "We zullen een blok vormen tegen hen die chaos zaaien, zij die enkel en alleen onze instituties omver willen werpen en verhinderen dat zij die vreedzaam hun eisen uiten, dat kunnen doen", aldus Macron.

Eerder sprak premier Sébastien Lecornu zich in vergelijkbare bewoordingen uit tegen de grootschalige demonstraties van zaterdag. Honderdduizenden gingen de boer op om hun onvrede met de Franse overheid te uiten. Die demonstraties liepen met name in de grote steden in de middag uit de hand, met brandstichting, plundering en geweld tegen ordediensten tot gevolg. Op X noemt Lecornu "de instructies duidelijk: uitspattingen voorkomen, goederen en personen beschermen, en de daders oppakken en voor de rechtbank brengen". Lecornu is momenteel in crisisberaad bijeen op het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken rond de onlusten in Frankrijk.

Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Laurent Nuñez zei zaterdagavond tegen BFMTV dat op dat punt circa vierhonderd mensen gearresteerd zijn, van wie de meesten meerderjarig. Ook noemt hij dat een zestigtal ordehandhavers gewond is geraakt. Twee van hen zijn bewusteloos overgebracht naar het ziekenhuis. De officiële schatting van het aantal demonstranten in Frankrijk is 550.000, aldus Nuñez. Eerder schatten de betrokken actiegroepen dat aantal nog op 500.000 tot 800.000.

Plunderingen

Nuñez hekelde verder dat op verschillende plaatsen is geprobeerd het stadhuis binnen te dringen, zoals in Marseille, Lille, Calais en Angers. Hij spreekt van "opportunistische criminelen" die gebruikmaakten van de demonstraties om panden binnen te vallen en te plunderen.

Naast brandstichting bij enkele historische panden, zoals een toerismekantoor in Lyon en het stadhuis in Limoges, wordt zaterdag in tal van Franse steden geplunderd. In onder andere Bordeaux, Marseille en Parijs zijn meerdere winkels vernield en leeggeroofd. Tegen 20.00 uur kwam daar het bericht bij dat demonstranten proberen binnen te dringen bij het prestigieuze Parijse warenhuis Galeries Lafayette.

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Turner Loran de Munck (27) hoopt dat de teamscore van de Nederlandse ploeg voldoende is voor een plek in de teamfinale. Na drie van de zes startgroepen staat Nederland tweede. De beste acht landenteams gaan naar de finale.

"Het wordt lastig, maar het kan", zei De Munck. "Ik denk dat we wel in de buurt kunnen komen. Het wordt spannend."

Voltigespecialist De Munck, winnaar van EK-zilver in 2022 en 2024, kwam tijdens de WK alleen in actie op voltige. "Het is heel lastig om de stress en energie om te zetten en één toestel te doen", zei hij. "Je zit net niet in die wedstrijdvibe. Je bent een beetje geïsoleerd, omdat je aan het warming-uppen bent in de warm-up hal. Om ineens weer in de zaal te staan als iedereen al superveel oefeningen heeft gedraaid, voelt dat anders."

Tevreden

"Ik heb een redelijke oefening neergezet", zei De Munck, die individueel geen kans meer maakt op de finale. "Ik had mijn verwachtingen ook een beetje bijgesteld in functie van het teamresultaat."

De Munck's ploeggenoot Elijah Faverus keek eveneens tevreden terug op de wedstrijd. "Het was geweldig", zei Faverus. "Het kon hier en daar beter, maar dat het mag lukken in eigen land is echt geweldig. De teamsfeer zat er gewoon goed in, de trainingen waren goed."

"Je moet het doel met zijn allen voor ogen kunnen zien en wij weten met zijn allen heel goed wat we willen", zei Faverus. "We hadden top twaalf voor ogen, maar met deze score wordt het misschien wel billenknijpen voor de top acht. Het zou geweldig zijn als we dat halen."

PARIJS (ANP) - Relschoppers zijn binnengedrongen in het stadhuis van het 10e arrondissement in Parijs. Dat meldt Le Parisien. Volgens de krant was er op dat moment een bijeenkomst gaande rond de borstkankermaand. Aanwezigen zouden opgesloten zitten. Alexandra Cordebard, de burgemeester van het arrondissement, heeft de politie verzocht het pand te evacueren, aldus Le Parisien.

Op veel plekken in de Franse hoofdstad zijn zaterdag confrontaties uitgebroken met de politie. In het land zijn honderdduizenden op de been uit wat aanvankelijk begon als onvrede met het onderwijsstelsel. Die demonstraties zijn inmiddels aangezwollen tot een landelijk protest, waarbij ook de Franse gele hesjes zijn aangesloten. De protesten mondden uit in brandstichting en geweldpleging, en ook vernieling en plundering werden niet geschuwd. Halverwege de middag werden er in Parijs al circa tweehonderd arrestaties verricht.

Politici als premier Sébastien Lecornu wijzen naar het radicaallinkse La France Insoumise als aanstichter van de onlusten.

Feyenoord begon uitstekend aan de uitwedstrijd tegen Telstar, maar had het desondanks lastig met de laagvlieger. De Rotterdammers kwamen al na 25 seconden op voorsprong en verdubbelden die na twintig minuten. Toch knokte Telstar zich terug in de wedstrijd, waardoor de ploeg van Giovanni van Bronckhorst met een benauwde 2-3 voorsprong de rust inging.

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Crystal Lake has dropped to mixed reviews (spoilers; Fanfare), but many horror-themed shows began streaming in 2026, e.g. Widow's Bay (14 Emmys; Fanfare); Carrie (episode 1; Fanfare); The Boroughs; Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Fanfare); The Beauty (Fanfare); Below (Fanfare); The Shards; and Coven Academy. Animation in English includes The Doomies, Among Us (based on the game; Fanfare), and Stranger Things: Tales from '85. Also streaming in the US in languages other than English: Human Vapor (Japan; based on the classic film), My Sad Dead (Argentina; based on stories by Mariana Enriquez), I Would Rather Die (Mexico), City of Blood (Germany), shows in Korean like Spooky in Love, The East Palace, & If Wishes Could Kill (Fanfare), and a lot of supernatural anime. See also 2025, 2024, and 2023 including Junji Ito shows (previously).

Het is vrijdagavond, tijd voor Kim en Lieke om na een lange tijd eindelijk weer eens bij te kletsen in de bioscoopzaal. Ze wandelen de halfvolle zaal binnen en wachten netjes tot de lichten gedimd zijn en de film start totdat ze beginnen met de debrief van afgelopen week. “Weet je nog die ene guy van mijn werk, hij lijkt op hem!” roept Lieke als de film begint. “Die met die neus?” lacht Kim terwijl ze royaal in de popcorn graait. Lieke grijpt naar haar tas, “Ja, ja, die ja!” kakelt ze terwijl ze een paar blikjes uit haar tas haalt en er eentje open klikt. “Hoe is het afgelopen met hem?” Kim verslikt zich in haar popcorn “Ja, schat, slecht.” Ze grijpt naar haar telefoon en vindt naar een paar minuten scrollen een foto. “Moet je kíjken met wie die nu gaat….” Een vrouw op de rij voor ze draait zich langzaam om en brengt met een strenge blik haar wijsvinger naar haar lippen. Kim rolt met haar ogen “Jeetje, ik kom hier niet voor mijn rust.”

Woede, praatzang en gitaren, Sprints heeft het allemaal. De woede gaat hier samen met een meer filosofische benadering, zoals de titel al duidelijk maakt. Het gaat over de artistieke creatie als overlevingsstrategie in de huidige wereld. “Ik schrijf, dus ik besta”, zoiets. Een filosofische inslag leidt vanzelf tot introspectie, en dat gaat niet goed samen met het schrijven van politieke pamfletten. Ik zou “Descartes” dan ook geen protestsong noemen. Maar dat neemt niet weg dat er nog steeds heel wat terechte woede in doorklinkt.