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  • Summary, Dev Chat, October 2, 2024
    [3 Oct 24, 1:51am] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post. Announcements WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 was released on October 1. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release and attended the release party! There is a helpful gui…
  • Performance Chat Summary: 1 October 2024
    [1 Oct 24, 3:56pm] Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Announcements Priority Items WordPress Performance Trac Tickets Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins) Active Priority Projects Investigate INP Improvemen…
  • Performance Chat Agenda: 1 October 2024
    [1 Oct 24, 11:45am] Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for . If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below. This meeting happens in the #core-performance channel. To join the meeting…
  • Agenda, Dev Chat, Oct 2, 2024
    [1 Oct 24, 11:00am] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. Additional items will be referred to in the var…
  • WCUS 2024 Core Committers Meeting Notes
    [27 Sep 24, 5:12pm] At WordCamp US last week, Core Committers in attendance (including emeritus) gathered for a brief informal meeting. There was no formal agenda, but a few goals for the meeting were mentioned at the beginning: Below are some brief notes from discussio…
  • Summary, Dev Chat, September 25, 2024
    [25 Sep 24, 10:04am] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post. Announcements There are no announcements this week. However, last week many from the community attended WordCamp US 2024 in Portland, OR. If you missed it, or just want to…

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  • Strong storm impacting portions of Alaska
    [4 Oct 24, 1:16pm] A Fall heatwave will continue into the weekend over portions of the Desert Southwest and central/southern California as a persistent trend of upper-ridging over the region remains in place. Numerous record-tying/breaking highs are forecast a…
  • U.S. drilling rigs fall by 2 to 583, says Baker Hughes survey
    [4 Oct 24, 1:15pm] Active rigs drilling for oil and gas in the U.S. fell by 2 to 583 in the latest weekly report from Baker Hughes. Drilling rigs targeting crude oil in the U.S. remained unchanged at 483, while gas rigs dropped 2 to 95 and 5 rigs were classifi…
  • Connecticut’s minimum wage will increase to $16.35 on January 1, 2025
    [4 Oct 24, 1:14pm] Governor Ned Lamont announced that beginning on January 1, 2025, Connecticut’s minimum wage will increase from the current rate of $15.69 per hour to $16.35 per hour. The change is required under a state law Governor Lamont signed in 2019…
  • Johnson & Johnson will create 420 jobs in Wilson County, North Carolina
    [4 Oct 24, 1:12pm] Governor Roy Cooper announced Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will create 420 jobs in Wilson County. The company says it will invest more than $2 billion in a new pharmaceutical manufacturing campus for innovative biologics in the City of W…
  • Saab will create 70 good-paying jobs in Grayling Township, Michigan
    [4 Oct 24, 1:09pm] Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined leaders from Saab and the state of Michigan to celebrate the launch of the new $75 million facility in Grayling Township, which will create 70 high-quality local jobs, increase domestic manufacturing, and strengthen…

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  • New therapeutic target for cardiac arrhythmias emerges
    [4 Oct 24, 9:11pm] Researchers identified a lipid that is involved in regulating cardiac ion channels, providing insights into possible mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias in heart failure and a potential pathway for future therapeutic development.
  • Real-time data shows what happens when people lose their balance
    [4 Oct 24, 7:37pm] The study concludes that among older adults, voice recorders are effective at capturing the circumstances and context in which they lost their balance and potentially fell, without relying on recall later.
  • Role of ophthalmic acid in motor function control
    [4 Oct 24, 7:36pm] A research team has revealed that a molecule in the brain -- ophthalmic acid -- unexpectedly acts like a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in regulating motor function, offering a new therapeutic target for Parkinson's and other movement dise…
  • Drug improves effectiveness of radiation for lung cancer that has spread to the brain
    [4 Oct 24, 4:19pm] The University of Cincinnati's Debanjan Bhattacharya is first author of new research published in Cancers that found the drug AM-101 improves the effectiveness and survival rate of radiation treatment in animal models of lung cancer that has spr…
  • How cells recognize and repair DNA damage
    [4 Oct 24, 4:18pm] Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response.

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  • EFF to Fifth Circuit: Age Verification Laws Will Hurt More Than They Help
    [4 Oct 24, 8:38pm] EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Mississippi, filed an amicus brief on Thursday asking a federal appellate court to continue to block Mississippi’s HB 1126—a bill that imposes age verification mandates on social media services across the…
  • Digital Inclusion Week, Highlighting an EFA Members Digital Equity Work:
    [4 Oct 24, 8:09pm] In honor of Digital Inclusion Week, October 7-11th 2024, it’s an honor to uplift one of our Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) members who is doing great work making sure technology benefits everyone by addressing the digital divide: CCTV Cambridge…
  • Join the Movement for Public Broadband in PDX
    [4 Oct 24, 7:01pm] Did you know the City of Portland, Oregon, already owns and operates a fiber-optic broadband network? It's called IRNE (Integrated Regional Network Enterprise), and despite having it in place Portlanders are forced to pay through the nose for in…
  • Vote for EFF’s 'How to Fix the Internet’ Podcast in the Signal Awards!
    [2 Oct 24, 9:11pm] We’re thrilled to announce that EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist in the Signal Awards 3rd Annual Listener's Choice competition. Now we need your vote to put us over the top!Vote now!We’re barraged by dystopian st…
  • Digital ID Isn't for Everybody, and That's Okay | EFFector 36.13
    [2 Oct 24, 5:23pm] Need help staying up-to-date on the latest in the digital rights movement? You're in luck! In our latest newsletter, we outline the privacy protections needed for digital IDs, explain our call for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an unconst…

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