For three decades, the web has existed in a state of architectural denial. It is a platform originally conceived to share static physics papers, yet it is now tasked with rendering the most complex, interactive, and generative interfaces humanity has ever conceived. At the heart of this tension lies a single, invisible, and prohibitively expensive operation known as " layout reflow. " Whenever a d...
For three decades, the web has existed in a state of architectural denial. It is a platform originally conceived to share static physics papers, yet it is now tasked with rendering the most complex, interactive, and generative interfaces humanity has ever conceived. At the heart of this tension lies a single, invisible, and prohibitively expensive operation known as " layout reflow. " Whenever a developer needs to know the height of a paragraph or the position of a line to build a modern interface, they must ask the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM) , the standard by which developers can create and modify webpages. In response, the browser often has to recalculate the geometry of the entire page — a process akin to a city being forced to redraw its entire map every time a resident opens their front door. L ast Friday, March 27, 2026, Cheng Lou — a prominent software engineer whose work on React, ReScript, and Midjourney has defined much of the modern frontend landscape — announced on the social network X that he had "crawled through depths of hell" to release an open source (MIT License) solution: Pretext , which he coded using AI vibe coding tools and models like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude. It is a 15KB, zero-dependency TypeScript library that allows for multiline text measurement and layout entirely in "userland," bypassing the DOM and its performance bottlenecks. Without getting too technical, in short, Lou's pretext turns text blocks on the web into fully dynamic, interactive and responsive spaces, able to adapt and smoothly move around any other object on a webpage, preserving letter order and spaces between words and lines, even when a user clicks and drags other objects to intersect with the text, or resizes their browser window dramatically. Ironically, it's difficult with mere text alone to convey how significant Lou's latest release is for the entire web going forward. Fortunately, other developers whipped up quick demoes with Pretext showin...
Patrick K. Craine, CLAO and Corporate Secretary of Gulfport Energy Corporation (NYSE:GPOR) , disclosed the sale of 2,000 shares of common stock in open-market transactions on March 5, 2026, for a total value of approximately $418,000, according to a SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average purchase price ($209.09); post-transaction value based on March 5, 2026 mar...
Patrick K. Craine, CLAO and Corporate Secretary of Gulfport Energy Corporation (NYSE:GPOR) , disclosed the sale of 2,000 shares of common stock in open-market transactions on March 5, 2026, for a total value of approximately $418,000, according to a SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average purchase price ($209.09); post-transaction value based on March 5, 2026 market close ($209.09). * 1-year performance is calculated using March 27 th, 2026 as the reference date. Continue reading
Ayman Ghazali, naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, often consumed content linked to Lebanese group online The assailant who attacked a synagogue in Michigan earlier this month was inspired by Hezbollah, the FBI said on Monday. Jennifer Runyan, head of the FBI’s Detroit field office, announced during a press conference that Ayman Ghazali, 41, had frequently consumed Hezbollah-related content onlin...
Ayman Ghazali, naturalized US citizen from Lebanon, often consumed content linked to Lebanese group online The assailant who attacked a synagogue in Michigan earlier this month was inspired by Hezbollah, the FBI said on Monday. Jennifer Runyan, head of the FBI’s Detroit field office, announced during a press conference that Ayman Ghazali, 41, had frequently consumed Hezbollah-related content online before the attack. In a video recorded before he drove his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township – a north-western suburb of Detroit – on 12 March, Ghazali said he wanted to “kill as many of them as I possibly can”. Continue reading...
Good afternoon from Los Angeles and happy baseball season to those of you who celebrate. I am headed back east on Friday, including a pit stop in Toronto for a World Series rematch. Thank you to the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for saying our reporting on the Warner Bros. sale was the best entertainment and media business coverage of 2025. Five things you need to know Meta an...
Good afternoon from Los Angeles and happy baseball season to those of you who celebrate. I am headed back east on Friday, including a pit stop in Toronto for a World Series rematch. Thank you to the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for saying our reporting on the Warner Bros. sale was the best entertainment and media business coverage of 2025. Five things you need to know Meta and Google were found guilty of intentionally designing their social media services to addict users. Some legal experts think this could be a landmark case that leads to decades of lawsuits against tech companies. A popular new game asks players — many of them kids — to pretend to be assault victims trapped on Jeffrey Epstein’s island. The publisher of Fortnite is cutting more than 1,000 jobs because the hit game is getting less popular . OpenAI is shutting down its video app Sora after less than a year . It turns out video is a needlessly expensive side project for OpenAI. The Sora and Fortnite news is a double whammy for new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro since Disney is an investor in Epic Games and had forged a commercial deal with Open AI. Netflix’s pricing strategy The cost of Netflix has increased by 150% over the last 13 years. The standard, advertising-free plan, Netflix’s most popular in major markets, cost $7.99 a month as recently as 2013. It will soon cost $20 a month in the US. Netflix is raising prices for all three of its plans in its biggest market. The advertising-supported plan will now cost $9 a month while a standard ad-free plan will cost $20 a month and its premium plan will cost $27 a month. Netflix has been raising prices at a more accelerated clip than inflation, and certainly at a faster pace than Spotify , its peer in audio. Before you flip out about Netflix price-gouging us, it’s worth putting the subscription increases into perspective. Everyone is raising prices. Disney+, Apple TV+ and Peacock have more than doubled prices in half the time. Remember wh...
Australia’s online safety regulator is investigating Meta Platforms Inc. , Snap Inc. , TikTok and YouTube for potentially failing to comply with the country’s social media ban for under-16s, in the first formal assessment of Big Tech’s response to the world-first crackdown. In its first compliance report on Tuesday, eSafety said it has “significant concerns” about the platforms’ adherence to the l...
Australia’s online safety regulator is investigating Meta Platforms Inc. , Snap Inc. , TikTok and YouTube for potentially failing to comply with the country’s social media ban for under-16s, in the first formal assessment of Big Tech’s response to the world-first crackdown. In its first compliance report on Tuesday, eSafety said it has “significant concerns” about the platforms’ adherence to the law, and major gaps remain in their policing measures. There aren’t enough safeguards to stop under-16s creating new accounts, while some platforms are allowing underage kids to repeatedly attempt the same age-check methods until they’re successful, the regulator said. The law took effect Dec. 10, 2025. The assessment opens the door to fines of as much as A$49.5 million ($34 million), and eSafety said it has started gathering evidence for possible action. The report underlines concerns that children are finding ways to get around age checks, and that technology firms are reluctant to stop them. Read More: Australia’s Social Media Ban Meets a Wave of Teen Workarounds The report comes just days after Meta and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable for a 20-year-old US woman’s mental health struggles, which she said were caused by her addiction to social media, and ordered to pay damages. The verdict has raised concerns social media companies are facing a ‘ Big Tobacco ’ moment — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms. ESafety said it’s aiming to finalize at least some of its probes and decide on any enforcement action by the middle of the year. It’s investigating Facebook and Instagram — both owned by Meta — Snapchat, TikTok and Google-owned YouTube, it said. “These platforms have the capability to comply today and we certainly expect companies operating in Australia to comply with our safety laws,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement. “They can choose to do so or face escalating consequences, in...
Oil pushed higher after US President Donald Trump threatened an escalation of hostilities against Iran, raising fears the war is far from abating and global markets are poised for further chaos. West Texas Intermediate rose as much as 2.3% to $105.21 a barrel after closing at the highest level since 2022 on Monday. Trump said in a social media post that the US will blow up electricity plants, oil ...
Oil pushed higher after US President Donald Trump threatened an escalation of hostilities against Iran, raising fears the war is far from abating and global markets are poised for further chaos. West Texas Intermediate rose as much as 2.3% to $105.21 a barrel after closing at the highest level since 2022 on Monday. Trump said in a social media post that the US will blow up electricity plants, oil facilities and “possibly” desalination infrastructure if Iran doesn’t re-open the Strait of Hormuz. The war has effectively closed the crucial waterway to shipping, choking off supplies of crude, natural gas and products such as diesel from global markets and driving prices higher. Despite Trump regularly saying a deal with Iran is imminent, the US has sent more troops to the region as the conflict in the Middle East extends into its fifth week. “The tone remains one step forward, five steps back on any off-ramp,” said Rebecca Babin , a senior energy trader at CIBC Private Wealth Group. “With 10–12 million barrels per day still effectively missing from the market, buffers are fading and talking crude lower is becoming less effective.” Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen entered the war over the weekend by attacking Israel with missiles, and Tehran is pushing the militants to prepare for a renewed campaign against Red Sea shipping . That could threaten oil supplies from alternative routes outside Hormuz, such as Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu. To get Bloomberg’s Energy Daily newsletter in your inbox, click here . WTI for May delivery rose 1.9% to $104.88 a barrel at 6:13 a.m. in Singapore. Brent for May settlement closed 0.2% higher at $112.78 a barrel on Monday. The more-active June contact added 2% to $107.39