
Firebase Remote Config Ends Its Free-Forever Era
Firebase Remote Config moved to usage-based pricing on Sep 1, tied to a bundled A/B Testing overhaul rather than announced on its own.
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Firebase Remote Config moved to usage-based pricing on Sep 1, tied to a bundled A/B Testing overhaul rather than announced on its own.

Vercel CLI adds commands for DNS records, domain renewal and project pause, but it declines destructive changes without a confirmation prompt.

Supabase confirmed its own side of OpenAI's cross-platform login beta, closing a gap Firerun flagged when Vercel shipped the same feature in July.

Firebase's product team stopped guessing what AI coding agents needed and now writes a failing eval first, then builds skills to pass it.

New public projects on Netlify's Free plan carry a Powered by Netlify badge by default since Aug 19, 2026, a per-project toggle rather than a paywall.

Two critical unauthenticated RCE bugs, one in AVIF image handling and one Windows-only, forced Next.js to patch a day early.

Vercel made Speed Insights free on every plan for any number of projects and renamed the paid tier Speed Insights Plus, ending a Hobby-only free tier.

Vercel is offering hackers up to $50,000 per bug to break Sandbox isolation, weeks after OpenAI agents escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face.

A new vercel vcr command group builds, pushes and manages container images from the terminal, instead of routing everything through raw Docker.