standards

C++26 failed its ISO DIS ballot—the first C++ draft ever to do so—with contracts, reflection, std::execution, and library hardening left unapproved, garnering 12 of 20 favorable votes and 9 negative votes.

A blog post and ensuing discussion argue that passkeys embed FIDO attestation mechanisms that could gradually let websites strip users' control over their credentials, while Apple's Ricky Mondello rebuts that attestation is explicitly not designed for mass-market consumer authentication.

A Lobste.rs discussion of composite objects and the proposed std::polymorphic type coming in the C++26 standard, exploring how it enables type-erased polymorphism without inheritance.

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) announced it will stop issuing leap seconds in May 2027, ending a decades-long debate after concerns that a negative leap second could disrupt technology systems worldwide.

国际计量局（BIPM）投票决定提前废除闰秒，原定2035年的计划将提前至明年5月20日生效，改用“闰小时”方案以避免潜在的基础设施故障。Meta、Google、微软和亚马逊等科技巨头此前均支持取消闰秒系统。

The 28th CGPM adopted Resolution 5 (2026) laying out technical actions to ensure UTC remains continuous, effectively ending leap second adjustments to keep atomic time in sync with Earth's rotation to avoid disruption of critical infrastructure.

BIPM's 28th CGPM adopts Resolution 5 (2026) outlining technical actions to keep Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous, raising the maximum |UT1−UTC| offset to avoid risky negative leap seconds, with a 30% probability of one by 2035.

IRCv3 是 IRC 客户端协议的扩展规范集合，由 IRCv3 工作组维护，涵盖 SASL 登录、消息标签、服务器时间、批处理等向后兼容的现代 IRC 特性。

Sierra's Personal Agent Protocol publishes its first draft (0.1), detailing direct sign-in flows and a /.well-known/poppy.json discovery spec for builders, alongside 35 new design partners including Meta, Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart.

Google的A2A协议从Linux基金会转入专注于Agentic AI的AAIF基金会，与MCP同属一个中立治理机构，成员已超250家，涵盖Google、Microsoft、Anthropic、OpenAI等，有望推动跨厂商智能体互操作标准落地。

Martin Uecker gave a Kernel Recipes 2026 talk on undefined behavior in C, exploring why it exists, how the abstract-machine model enables it, and whether C can eventually become memory-safe.

An overview and ranking of upcoming web platform features expected to gain traction by 2027, highlighting key capabilities for developers and browsers.

The author proposes a standardized machine-readable uninstallation manifest that macOS developers could maintain, declaring which files an app creates and whether they can be safely deleted, so tools like Mole and Homebrew Cask could uniformly handle software cleanup.

A blog post analyzing WG21's P4313R1 proposal for C++ bitmask enum operations and exploring the pitfalls of integral promotion and boolean conversion when performing bitwise operations (such as ~true) on small integral types and bool.

This article explains how QR codes, invented at Denso in 1992 by Masahiro Hara and inspired by Go, are poised to replace the 50-year-old barcode system as GS1 pushes a global retail standards shift from UPC barcodes to higher-capacity 2D QR codes.

Red5 discusses a new IETF draft on MPEG-2 Transport Stream packaging for Media over QUIC (MOQ), arguing that MPEG-TS remains a foundational transport format for broadcast and contribution workflows and that MOQ must integrate with existing infrastructure to succeed.

The OpenID Foundation released a 2025 white paper on Identity Management for Agentic AI, outlining the authentication, authorization, and credential models needed as autonomous AI agents increasingly act on behalf of users across systems.

The proposed Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA) is taking shape with possible leadership and a launch timeline, aiming to set industry standards for AI safety amid debates and potential public-private partnerships.

The article discusses the absence of outcome-based, user-facing safety labels for AI, similar to food labels, and suggests requirements for such certification, including use-case specificity, human rights as a non-negotiable floor, and independent auditing.

AVERI commends statements from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX on embedding independent experts in AI companies and commits to advancing standards for frontier AI auditing.