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First up, a claim that made waves online this week — that a Ukrainian drone strike had knocked out a significant chunk of Russian bot traffic. Researchers and analysts are pushing back hard on that narrative, saying the data simply does not support it. Attributing bot network disruptions to physical infrastructure attacks is notoriously difficult, and in this case the numbers appear to have been misread entirely.
Shifting to the web development world, Eric Meyer has published his personal rankings for the Interop two thousand twenty seven initiative, which guides browser vendors toward shared compatibility goals. Meyer is a long-standing voice in web standards, and his priorities reflect real-world pain points developers face daily. What he chooses to elevate tells us something about where the open web still has unfinished business.
And in Saskatchewan, the University of Saskatchewan has announced a new collaboration aimed at building semiconductors locally. It is a modest but meaningful step — microchip manufacturing has long been concentrated in a handful of global regions, and Canada has largely watched from the sidelines. Whether this grows into something significant depends on sustained investment and political will.
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