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htmx 4.0.0 arrived after eight months of development and migrates its internal engine from XMLHttpRequest to fetch(). The most disruptive change is explicit attribute inheritance, which now requires the :inherited suffix instead of being inherited by default.

The Google Calendar app for Android has no button to subscribe to a calendar by URL: the only way to do it is by using desktop mode in the browser. The case, documented on August 28, 2026, exposes a common pattern in today’s corporate apps.

Amazon confirmed that Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005, will shut down on September 30, 2026. The company has not yet announced a direct replacement service within its AWS catalog.

Nvidia is negotiating to buy Hugging Face for over $13 billion dollars, Business Insider revealed on August 27, 2026. The deal, still unclosed, would give Nvidia control over the central repository of open AI models. Hugging Face had already turned down a smaller Nvidia offer in late 2025.