Trump's Mineral Reserve Plans To Buy Rare Earths From China [1 May 26, 6:23am] The project aims to build an immediate buffer against critical mineral supply shocks while using future purchases to send a stronger demand signal to US and friendly-nation producers.
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com [28 Apr 26, 2:50pm] At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely…
Windows 11 KB5083631 out with Xbox mode, faster performance (direct download links .msu) [1 May 26, 12:23am] Windows 11 KB5083631 is rolling out with Xbox mode for regular PCs, a more reliable File Explorer, faster startup apps, and more. This is an optional update that can be downloaded via Windows Update. For advanced users, Microsoft has also posted dire…
Microsoft says 32GB of RAM is the “no-worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming [30 Apr 26, 7:32pm] Microsoft has quietly confirmed that 32GB of RAM is now the worry free upgrade for Windows 11 gaming. The shift isn't just about heavier games. It is driven by resource heavy background apps and web based OS features competing for memory while y…
FBI Warns of Surge in Hacker-Enabled Cargo Theft [1 May 26, 8:11am] A new alert from the FBI says criminal enterprises are hacking both brokers and carriers to steal cargo for resale.The post FBI Warns of Surge in Hacker-Enabled Cargo Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
1,800 Hit in Mini Shai-Hulud Attack on SAP, Lightning, Intercom [1 May 26, 7:33am] The compromised Lightning and Intercom packages have a combined monthly download count of nearly 10 million.The post 1,800 Hit in Mini Shai-Hulud Attack on SAP, Lightning, Intercom appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic Unveils Claude Security to Counter AI-Powered Exploit Surge [30 Apr 26, 6:57pm] With Mythos signaling a new era of near-instant exploitation, Anthropic positions Claude Security to help defenders keep pace.The post Anthropic Unveils Claude Security to Counter AI-Powered Exploit Surge appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Fuels ‘Industrial’ Cybercrime as Time-to-Exploit Shrinks to Hours [30 Apr 26, 6:54pm] Industrialized cybercrime delivers attacks with greater scale, speed and success. Defenders must match this with use of AI and automation.The post AI Fuels ‘Industrial’ Cybercrime as Time-to-Exploit Shrinks to Hours appeared first on SecurityWee…
SonicWall Urges Immediate Patching of Firewall Vulnerabilities [30 Apr 26, 2:52pm] The bugs could be exploited to bypass security controls, access restricted services, and crash firewalls.The post SonicWall Urges Immediate Patching of Firewall Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Why drinking more water didn’t prevent kidney stones [1 May 26, 7:36am] Kidney stones are notoriously painful—and frustratingly common, with many people facing repeat episodes. A massive new study tested whether a high-tech hydration program—complete with smart water bottles, reminders, coaching, and even financial i…
Your gut takes a “double hit” from stress and late-night eating [1 May 26, 5:07am] Chronic stress is already tough on your gut—but new research suggests late-night eating could make things even worse. Scientists analyzing thousands of people found that those under high stress who also ate a large portion of their calories after 9…
Don’t toss cannabis leaves: Scientists found rare compounds with medical potential [1 May 26, 4:36am] Scientists have uncovered a surprising new layer of complexity in Cannabis, identifying dozens of previously unknown compounds—including the first-ever evidence of rare molecules called flavoalkaloids in its leaves. These compounds, prized for thei…
Surprising obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat metabolism science [1 May 26, 1:40am] A key protein involved in fat metabolism has been found to do more than scientists once thought. Instead of just releasing fat, it helps maintain healthy fat tissue and balance in the body. When it’s missing or disrupted, the results can be surpris…
Scientists finally explain how the Twelve Apostles rose from the ocean [30 Apr 26, 1:04pm] Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by powerful tectonic forces over millions of years, new research reveals. Scientists discovered that these towering limestone st…
Why Do Most Truckers Choose Snow Chains Over Winter Tires? [1 May 26, 3:45am] Snow tires are great at finding traction in slippery conditions, but there's a very good reason why truckers prefer attaching chains. Here's what we know.
Can A Samsung Tablet Replace A Laptop? [30 Apr 26, 10:15pm] Samsung makes some very powerful tablets, but can one of them replace your laptop if you need it to? We tried it. Here's what happened and what you should know.
5 Walmart Tool Finds To Add To Your Garage This Spring [30 Apr 26, 9:15pm] If you're looking to bulk up your tool collection this spring, Walmart has some interesting new tools to check out. Here are some of our favorites.
The quiet layoffs sweeping China’s tech giants [29 Apr 26, 10:00am] Alibaba reduced its head count by a third in 2025, while Baidu’s workforce declined nearly 7%. “There’s constant churn,” a Chinese tech worker said.
What Biennials Reveal About the Art World [30 Apr 26, 9:10pm] Ben Davis and Jo Lawson-Tancred discuss where the global art conversation has been, where it is now, and where it might be headed.The post What Biennials Reveal About the Art World appeared first on Artnet News.
The Artists Who Ruled the Biennial Circuit Over the Last Four Years [30 Apr 26, 8:15pm] Our critic analyzed 130 events featuring more than 15,000 participants. Here’s what the numbers say.The post The Artists Who Ruled the Biennial Circuit Over the Last Four Years appeared first on Artnet News.
José Dávila Makes Space the Subject in His New York Show [30 Apr 26, 7:30pm] In his fifth solo show with Sean Kelly, the artist continues his interrogation of relational placement.The post José Dávila Makes Space the Subject in His New York Show appeared first on Artnet News.
Code is Clay [27 Apr 26, 7:15pm] A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn’t care. It’s just…
Auto `sizes` on Images [24 Apr 26, 3:11pm] Hand-writing/maintaining a sizes attribute is just not going to happen. This is the way.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button [22 Apr 26, 10:10pm] A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do you get better accessibility? No, it’s arguably w…
#214 – Robby McCullough on Beaver Builder, AI Hype, and Evolving WordPress Workflows [29 Apr 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Robby McCullough, co-founder of Beaver Builder, about the evolving landscape of WordPress page builders amidst the rise of AI. They reflect on Beaver Builder’s 12-year journey, discuss initial skepticism t…
#213 – Malcolm Peralty on Managed WordPress Hosting and AI Innovation at Pressable [22 Apr 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Malcolm Peralty from Pressable, about his tech and WordPress career, experiences with Drupal and Acquia, and his current role as a technical account manager. They discuss Pressable’s hosting services, thei…
#212 – Anne Bovelett on How Web Accessibility Boosts Traffic, SEO, and Revenue [15 Apr 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Anne Bovelett, about the economic and human impact of web accessibility in WordPress. They discuss how improving accessibility offers significant SEO, traffic, and revenue benefits, referencing research show…
#211 – Elliott Richmond on WordPress Content Creation, Education, and Pizza Plugins [1 Apr 26, 2:00pm] Elliot Richmond discusses his 20+ years with WordPress, from early b2 days to founding a successful pizza delivery business powered by WordPress and WooCommerce. He shares plans for a pizza plugin and licensing model, and explains his new partnership…
#210 – Zach Stepek on the Interconnected WordPress Ecosystem, Partnerships and Trust [25 Mar 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Zach Stepek about the evolving nature of partnerships in the WordPress ecosystem. Zach shares his journey through various tech roles, his discovery of WordPress, and his passion for WooCommerce. They discuss…
Time is a construct but it can still break your software [1 May 26, 7:40am] Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix…
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI [30 Apr 26, 4:00pm] Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Your LLM issues are really data issues [28 Apr 26, 7:40am] Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured production data.
Lights, camera, open source! [24 Apr 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the people behind the major technologies that uphold the internet.
Scientists Visualize the Complex, Dynamic World Inside a Human Cell [30 Apr 26, 2:45pm] Scientists Visualize the Complex, Dynamic World Inside a Human Cell View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cell Signaling Technology (@cell_signaling_technology) At roughly 0.05 millimeters (less than 0.002 inches) across, a human cell is…
Expansive Exhibition Highlights U.S. History Through ‘A Nation of Artists’ [30 Apr 26, 1:50pm] Expansive Exhibition Highlights U.S. History Through ‘A Nation of Artists’The United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2026, and the festivities are taking many forms. One way turns an eye toward history, seeing how far the country…
15 Top Artists Showcase the Power of Textile Art in Stunning Group Exhibition [29 Apr 26, 8:15pm] 15 Top Artists Showcase the Power of Textile Art in Stunning Group ExhibitionTextile art has a long history, existing for thousands of years in some form. But it’s only relatively recently that it has finally been getting the recognition it deserv…
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown [28 Apr 26, 6:00pm] Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
An update on GitHub availability [28 Apr 26, 10:01am] Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.The post An update on GitHub availability appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing [27 Apr 26, 3:58pm] Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.The post GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
AI Search Clicks Often Go To Local Domains: Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [30 Apr 26, 1:21pm] Aleyda Solis's Similarweb analysis of 10 markets shows that AI search clicks frequently redirect to local domains, with the distribution differing by industry.The post AI Search Clicks Often Go To Local Domains: Report appeared first on Search…
Warp’s New Chapter: Ushering in the Era of Open Agentic Development [30 Apr 26, 5:39pm] With a look towards how software will be created soon, the makers of Warp have announced they are open-sourcing the project, in a launch of what the company is calling Open Agentic Development. “Our vision is to cultivate an ecosystem where human…
amazee.ai Launches Managed OpenClaw Hosting [29 Apr 26, 8:04pm] CAMPBELL, Calif. — amazee.ai, a Mirantis company, today announced the launch of amazeeClaw, a managed OpenClaw hosting platform that enables developers and enterprises to deploy production-ready AI agents with data sovereignty and regional contro…
CRUD Is Dead (Sort Of): How SaaS Will Evolve Into Semi-Autonomous Systems [29 Apr 26, 5:52pm] Most of the software we use at work — Ramp, Jira, Notion, Linear, HubSpot — is still built on the same primitive pattern: CRUD, which stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete. We can dress it up with gorgeous UIs, dark mode, and slick onboarding f…
The AI-DLC: The Good, The Bad, and the Risky [29 Apr 26, 5:07pm] AI coding assistants went from experiment to enterprise standard faster than almost any technology in recent memory. In a recent StackHawk survey of 250+ AppSec stakeholders, 87% of organizations have adopted tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Cla…
W3C Establishes Representative Office in Shenzhen, China [30 Apr 26, 6:58pm] W3C today announced the establishment of a W3C Representative Office in Shenzhen, China. An opening ceremony was held in Shenzhen on 18 April 2026, a few days before the celebration of the 20th anniversary of W3C in China.The W3C…
First Public Working Draft: Long Animation Frames API [28 Apr 26, 5:47am] This document defines an API that web page authors can use to detect presence of "long animation frames" that monopolize the UI thread for extended periods of time and block other critical tasks from being executed - e.g. reacting to user i…
First Public Working Draft: CBOR-LD 1.0 [28 Apr 26, 5:44am] CBOR is a compact binary data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines CBOR-LD 1.0, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data.
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL [27 Apr 26, 12:22pm] A workshop to examine broad and specific aspects since ODRL became a W3C Recommendation in 2018 and gained robust recognition and adoption.
PyTorch Lightning and Intercom-client Hit in Supply Chain Attacks to Steal Credentials [30 Apr 26, 4:31pm] In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft.According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity…
New Python Backdoor Uses Tunneling Service to Steal Browser and Cloud Credentials [30 Apr 26, 12:36pm] Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a stealthy Python-based backdoor framework called DEEP#DOOR that comes with capabilities to establish persistent access and harvest a wide range of sensitive information from compromised hosts.&quo…
EtherRAT Distribution Spoofing Administrative Tools via GitHub Facades [30 Apr 26, 11:30am] IntroA sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically targets the high-privilege professional accounts of enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers,…
AI Can Spot Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds [1 May 26, 4:29am] Catching this deadly disease while it's treatable can save lives. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Human Genome Pioneer J. Craig Venter Dies at 79 [1 May 26, 2:17am] His work helped scientists decode life.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Online DRM Or A Bug: Sony’s Silence Adds To Recent PS Update Confusion [1 May 26, 3:06am] Over a decade ago, Microsoft was getting set to release its new Xbox One console. In the lead-up to launch day, a bunch of rumors began swirling about some of the online requirements the console would come with. Details weren’t to be found, so the…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Age Against The Machine [30 Apr 26, 10:45pm] Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice —…
The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use [30 Apr 26, 7:56pm] Lawmakers in Congress are moving quickly on the GUARD Act, an age-gating bill restricting minors’ access to a wide range of online tools, with a key vote expected this week. The proposal is framed as a response to alarming cases involving “AI…
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps [30 Apr 26, 5:59pm] There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one asks, peering at his cap, “are we the baddies?” The skulls had b…
dorte mandrup’s sinuous center ‘the whale’ takes shape along norway’s arctic coastline [1 May 26, 8:00am] new construction images of the whale by dorte mandrup in norway reveal a landscape-driven design shaped by sea and terrain.The post dorte mandrup’s sinuous center ‘the whale’ takes shape along norway’s arctic coastline appeared first on desi…
georg baselitz, pioneer of inverted painting and postwar german art, dies at 88 [30 Apr 26, 4:30pm] the art world mourns the passing of georg baselitz, a force in postwar painting whose work reshaped the trajectory of contemporary art.The post georg baselitz, pioneer of inverted painting and postwar german art, dies at 88 appeared first on designb…
vigilante celebrates analogue driving with this scrambler, an 80s-era jeep restomod [30 Apr 26, 3:30pm] drawing from the jeep CJ-8 of the mid-eighties, vigilante's scrambler restomod prioritizes modern engineering and off-road performance.The post vigilante celebrates analogue driving with this scrambler, an 80s-era jeep restomod appeared first o…
anonymous flag-bearer by banksy walks among london’s historic monuments [30 Apr 26, 2:24pm] the work depicts a suited man striding forward while holding a large flag that folds over and obscures his face entirely.The post anonymous flag-bearer by banksy walks among london’s historic monuments appeared first on designboom | architecture &…
