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…
How to force-enable Xbox Mode in Windows 11, and why Microsoft hides it [1 May 26, 9:34pm] Microsoft just introduced a console-style Xbox mode for Windows 11 in the April 2026 optional update. If you don't see it yet due to staggered rollouts, don't worry. You can easily force enable this hidden interface using ViVeTool to get be…
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…
Pixelated 098: An iconic glow-up [1 May 26, 8:30pm] Welcome to episode 98 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will all sorts of recent exclusive reporting. From Google’s upcoming app icon redesigns for Workspace — and, if Pixel is any indication, far beyond — t…
Two US Security Experts Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang [1 May 26, 11:37am] Ryan Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Martin of Texas were each sentenced to four years in prison. The post Two US Security Experts Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sophisticated Deep#Door Backdoor Enables Espionage, Disruption [1 May 26, 11:08am] The stealthy Python-based backdoor framework deploys a persistent Windows implant likely designed for espionage.The post Sophisticated Deep#Door Backdoor Enables Espionage, Disruption appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cisco Releases Open Source Tool for AI Model Provenance [1 May 26, 10:18am] The new kit aims to address risks related to poisoned models, regulatory issues, supply chain integrity, and incident response.The post Cisco Releases Open Source Tool for AI Model Provenance appeared first on SecurityWeek.
You don’t need intense workouts to build muscle, new study reveals [1 May 26, 2:07pm] Building muscle doesn’t have to mean exhausting workouts or soreness. Researchers found that slow, controlled “lowering” movements can boost strength more efficiently while requiring less effort. Even five minutes a day of simple exercises like…
This 275-million-year-old animal had a twisted jaw like nothing alive today [1 May 26, 1:07pm] Deep in a dried-up riverbed in Brazil, scientists uncovered a bizarre prehistoric mystery—twisted jawbones from a strange, long-lost animal unlike anything seen before. Dating back 275 million years, this creature, named Tanyka amnicola, belonged t…
This “Pink Floyd” spider hunts prey 6x its size and lives in walls [1 May 26, 12:27pm] Scientists have uncovered a tiny wall-dwelling spider named Pikelinia floydmuraria, inspired by Pink Floyd. Despite its size, it’s a fierce predator that hunts ants much larger than itself and helps reduce common urban pests like mosquitoes and fli…
Oxford physicists achieve first-ever “quadsqueezing” breakthrough in quantum physics [1 May 26, 11:54am] Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing—an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in a clever way, they made previously hidden quantum b…
This new aluminum could replace rare metals and cut costs dramatically [1 May 26, 11:48am] A team at King’s College London has created a powerful new aluminum compound capable of doing the work of expensive rare metals. Its unique triangular structure gives it remarkable stability and reactivity, allowing it to drive chemical reactions i…
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.
Overlooked Artist Louisa Chase Returns to the Spotlight [2 May 26, 8:30am] At Berry Campbell, "Louisa Chase: The Eighties" marks the artist's largest and most comprehensive solo in New York in more than two decades.The post Overlooked Artist Louisa Chase Returns to the Spotlight appeared first on Artnet News…
Introducing TanStack Form [1 May 26, 5:11pm] TanStack Form offers a powerful solution for handling form complexity in React. It emphasizes strong typing, performance, and detail management.
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.
#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…
Dispatches from O'Reilly: Fast Paths and Slow Paths [1 May 26, 2:00pm] Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale
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.
Day Zero Festival Brings Music and Art to the Mayan Jungle [1 May 26, 7:20pm] Day Zero Festival Brings Music and Art to the Mayan JungleOn December 21, 2012, many people around the world were on edge. A misinterpretation surrounding the Mayan calendar seemed to predict the end of the world on this day. (In the end, it was sim…
Gravity-Defying Dancers Appear to Climb the Sky in Mesmerizing Aerial Show [1 May 26, 6:25pm] Gravity-Defying Dancers Appear to Climb the Sky in Mesmerizing Aerial Show Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Ministerio Cultura y Juventud (@mcj_cr) Gravity-defying acts have long been mesmerizing spectacles—j…
Banksy Unveils New Sculpture in Central London That’s Already Sparking Debate [1 May 26, 4:35pm] Banksy Unveils New Sculpture in Central London That’s Already Sparking DebateEmbed from Getty Images Banksy has once again surprised the public with an unexpected artwork, this time stepping beyond his signature stencil murals and into sculpture.…
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell [1 May 26, 11:06pm] At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in ta…
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.
Biwin M350 2TB SSD Review: A Better Budget Alternative? [1 May 26, 4:02pm] The Biwin M350 is a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD done right. It has good performance where it matters and good power efficiency, too. But it still has the weaknesses of QLC flash, like poor sustained performance.
Runpod Launches Flash: The Fastest Way to Deploy AI Inference [1 May 26, 4:35pm] NEWARK, N.J. — Runpod, the AI developer cloud, today announced the general availability of Runpod Flash, an open-source Python SDK that removes the infrastructure overhead between writing AI code and running it in production. With Flash, developers…
Self-Healing Tests Don’t Solve the Real Problem [1 May 26, 4:26pm] Self-healing test automation has been getting a lot of attention lately. The promise is simple: tests that fix themselves when the UI changes, reducing maintenance and keeping pipelines green. If you’ve spent time dealing with brittle selectors, th…
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…
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.
Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access [2 May 26, 6:41am] Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a "portion" of its source code.It said it "recently identified" the compromise of its source code repository and that it be…
30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign [1 May 26, 6:09pm] A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a "phishing relay" to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts.The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Gua…
Cybercrime Groups Using Vishing and SSO Abuse in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks [1 May 26, 2:26pm] Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out "rapid, high-impact attacks" operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions.The clusters, Cordia…
China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists [1 May 26, 2:02pm] Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO.Trend Micro has attribut…
Experts Reveal The Secret to Helping Your Pet Lose Weight [2 May 26, 1:00am] It's not just feeding them less.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
New Tool Lets You Trace Where Your Backyard Was 320 Million Years Ago [1 May 26, 2:00pm] "Our understanding of biodiversity is shifting from one-dimensional – that is, solely over time – to three-dimensional."ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story…
Large Twin Study Reveals a Surprise About Narcissism [1 May 26, 12:00pm] There needs to be a "fundamental shift in the search for the sources of narcissism".ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law [1 May 26, 8:15pm] I will continue to make the case for a 100 Justice Supreme Court because we need to get to the point that no single Supreme Court Justice matters. As it stands, each individual Justice has way too much power, and when they go mad with it, they can un…
a compact timber tower house rises from a triangular site in switzerland [1 May 26, 8:00pm] vertical living strategy defines the narrow building footprint.The post a compact timber tower house rises from a triangular site in switzerland appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
with its intricate exoskeleton, powerhouse parramatta takes shape in sydney [1 May 26, 3:30pm] designed by moreau kusunoki and genton, new images reveal sydney's new museum 'powerhouse parramatta' as it approaches completion.The post with its intricate exoskeleton, powerhouse parramatta takes shape in sydney appeared first on d…
francesco faccin transforms overlooked pedestals into sculptural protagonists [1 May 26, 1:00pm] sculptural supports in steel, pyrex, and wood frame the designer's investigation into the architecture of display.The post francesco faccin transforms overlooked pedestals into sculptural protagonists appeared first on designboom | architecture…
designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this may [1 May 26, 10:15am] explore our monthly round up of must-see art, design, and architecture exhibitions to check out around the world.The post designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this may appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazin…
