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Jquery, conferences, AI, and much more! This week in web dev (February 9th, 2024) #33

Hello friend 👋, I hope you had a great week 😃! I am once again back with another set of news from this week in the web-dev world, and this time, something actually happened the past week!

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February 9th, 2024

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Yes! You read correctly, Jquery has released version 4 into beta. This new update has dropped support for ancient browsers such as IE 10 and older, Edge Legacy, IOS 10 and older, and more.

Other changes include deprecated APIs, changes to focusin and focusout event orders, moved to ES modules, and much much more.

For the past period, Bun has been teasing a release for Windows, and it’s been ramping up for the last weeks. Plans are for Bun to be released for Windows on February 15, and as of February 8th, Bun for Windows is passing 83.17% of test cases.

Back in December, Google announced Gemini, an LLM. Just a few days ago Google released Gemini Advanced, their newest and best model yet, with multiple different models, the best of which being the first to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding).

Gemini is replacing what was previously known as “Bard”.

Svelte just announced its next Summit, a digital conference dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. The event will be on April 27th this year, at 3 PM CET. This will be their 8th summit.

They are currently looking for sponsors and speakers for this event!