Turkey Cracks Down on LGBTQ+ Groups Ahead Of Elections [13 Sep 26, 6:59pm] In an escalation of its decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the lead-up to elections, simultaneous police raids beginning at 1 am took place in the major cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin and Mersin.
Chinese Satellite Intel Linked To Iran Strike That Killed 3 US Troops: Report [13 Sep 26, 6:15pm] According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the intelligence findings follow months of unheeded warnings from the Trump administration to Beijing regarding Chinese firms supplying targeting data to Tehran.
Dev Chat summary: September 9, 2026 [10 Sep 26, 8:22pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @amykamala 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.1 Everyone is encouraged to give feedback on the 7.1 release cycle. Check out the WordPress 7.1 Release Retrospective. 7.1.1 WordPress 7.1.1 RC1…
WordPress 7.1.1 RC1 is now available [10 Sep 26, 6:39pm] WordPress 7.1.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release: As this is a minor RC release, select the Point Release channel and the Nightlies stream. This is the latest build including the RC an…
Updating WordPress to use Node.js 24 and npm 11 [9 Sep 26, 6:04pm] As of September 8th, the versions of Node.js and npm required for WordPress development are now 24.x (minimum 24.18.0) and 11.x (minimum 11.16.0). This applies to trunk in both repositories, the wp/7.1 branch in gutenberg, and the 7.1 branch in wordp…
Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 7.2 [9 Sep 26, 3:23pm] It’s time to get WordPress 7.2 ready for release, and help is needed to ensure it’s smooth and bug-free. Whether you’re an experienced contributor or joining in for the first time, everyone is welcome! 🎉 Schedule Overview Regular bug scrubs…
Announcing the WordPress 7.2 Release Squad [9 Sep 26, 3:13pm] Meet the WordPress 7.2 Release Squad who will help guide the release and its new default themes. The cycle continues WordPress’s smaller, focused squad model while creating plenty of opportunities for contributors across Make teams to get involved.
The iPhone Duo didn’t reinvent Android foldables, but I fear the copycats anyway [13 Sep 26, 1:00pm] Apple’s first foldable is here and, shocker, it didn’t exactly reinvent the foldable, but the iPhone Duo did get some of the most important aspects right, and will give the Android side of the conversation some things to work on too.This…
The Google Pixel is fine and all, but still needs a ‘Ryzen moment’ [Video] [12 Sep 26, 3:30pm] At what stage does “fine” feel like it’s doing heavy lifting for problems that might appear in the future? It’s something talked about around the Tensor chip in Pixel phones, but isn’t it about time we saw real-world performance gains? The…
Pixelated 116: How dynamic is this Duo? [11 Sep 26, 8:30pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 116. This week, we’re talking about Apple’s entry into the foldable market. What does the iPhone Duo take from Android foldables, where does it look to improve on efforts from the likes of Samsung and Google, and what…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up [13 Sep 26, 1:27pm] Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet.The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up appeared f…
BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days [12 Sep 26, 11:10am] Multiple espionage-motivated threat actors have adopted BlueMoon in opportunistic, rushed deployments.The post BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says [12 Sep 26, 1:50am] Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket.The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on Secur…
Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing [11 Sep 26, 5:23pm] Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks.The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure [11 Sep 26, 4:11pm] The critical-severity path traversal flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server.The post GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Altman tells Fortune OpenAI will not go public in 2026 [13 Sep 26, 8:20am] OpenAI will not go public this year, the company's chief executive, Sam Altman, said in an interview released Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up [13 Sep 26, 8:10am] The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable o…
Oversight Board asks Meta not to replace fact-checking with Community Notes [13 Sep 26, 7:49am] Meta's Oversight Board asked the company not to replace fact-checking with Community Notes, according to a statement seen by AFP overnight Friday, after it said it was testing the crowdsourcing system in Latin America.
Social media activity can expose politics, religion and shopping habits [11 Sep 26, 6:20pm] There is a modern adage: If you don't want it on the internet, don't put it on the internet. However, a review of research into social media privacy in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy has found that legal and…
Are DeWalt's Oscillating Tools Any Good? [14 Sep 26, 2:15am] DeWalt is one of the most popular power tool brands in the world, and its line of powerful and versatile oscillating multi-tools are a great example why.
3 New Makita Tools Released In September 2026 [14 Sep 26, 1:45am] Makita, like many major tool brands, always has new tools to sell you. Here's what the brand has introduced to its catalog in September 2026.
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI [9 Sep 26, 10:00am] Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.
I refused to train the AI that could replace me [3 Sep 26, 10:00am] AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
How Christopher Green Finds the Extraordinary in Everyday Objects [12 Sep 26, 6:33am] Represented by Plus One Gallery, the British painter transforms lobster, strawberries, and spring blossoms into meticulously composed studies of light and symmetry.The post How Christopher Green Finds the Extraordinary in Everyday Objects appeared f…
Thomas Ruff’s 9/11 JPEGs Broke My Heart All Over Again [11 Sep 26, 11:19pm] Twelve works by the German artist, created from 2004 to 2007, are on view at David Zwirner in Chelsea.The post Thomas Ruff’s 9/11 JPEGs Broke My Heart All Over Again appeared first on Artnet News.
The Groninger Museum Returns to Its Radical Roots [11 Sep 26, 7:30pm] Artistic Director Roos Gortzak unveils four new exhibitions opening September 19, repositioning contemporary art at the heart of the museum's postmodern legacy.The post The Groninger Museum Returns to Its Radical Roots appeared first on Artnet…
U.K. Pushes to Standardize Auction Data—and More Industry Intel [11 Sep 26, 6:54pm] Plus: Chanel launches a commission series in Southeast Asia and Bonhams introduces a new resale royalties model. The post U.K. Pushes to Standardize Auction Data—and More Industry Intel appeared first on Artnet News.
It’s All About The Permissions Recovery [11 Sep 26, 3:46pm] Users who deny permissions can recover them by adjusting settings, although many may not realize this.
A Deep Dive into StyleX [10 Sep 26, 6:10pm] StyleX has been around for a while, but it’s seeing a resurgence in popularity lately for whatever reason. Seems pretty good to me. You don’t have to write atomic CSS, but you get atomic CSS output that loads like any other CSS. Kinda like you do…
Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026 [7 Sep 26, 3:37pm] Thanks to some very modern CSS, we can visually replicate the logic of scrollbars. Then make them actually functional.
React Now Rusted All The Way Out [4 Sep 26, 3:29pm] The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and e…
Two vs. Three-State Color Theme Toggles [3 Sep 26, 2:54pm] There was a fun and intellectual debate recently about UI controls for dark/light mode. I think the story starts with Modern Web Guidance skills from Google, which recommend using a two-state toggle, apparently written by Lea Verou, and Bramus Van Da…
The Index: Issue #197 [11 Sep 26, 12:00am] Mindful Design ProductsThis is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful.Scott's written about the why here, too.How the heck do record players work?An…
Save 35% on all courses for two weeks only [9 Sep 26, 9:55am] The summer is over and the autumn (or fall, for our American friends) is here, so we're offering a huge 35% discount on all courses if you use the coupon code PRICEFALL at checkout.This is the time of year where people, fresh off a summer brea…
The Index: Issue #196 [28 Aug 26, 9:55am] Before we get into this week's links, I just thought I'd let you know we're having a summer break next week, so the next issue won't be with you until September 11!Midnight Vinyl ClubA handy service that helps you explore music…
Personal website redesign project post: A CLI for adding new music to the collection [27 Aug 26, 11:55am] Right, we are at the end of iteration one.The last thing to do is to make my life a little easier. Markdown files work perfectly fine for the music collection, but they're a bit of a faff. Mostly because I always forget the front matter struct…
The Index: Issue #195 [21 Aug 26, 10:50am] BulletedThis is the stuff that's exciting about the AT protocol. Not the "new twitter" bullshit, but the endless possibilities that this technology opens up. It's using the fancy new private data stuff too.The future of CSS: tar…
AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game [11 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for vulnerabilities, and why building more resilient cod…
(Re)introducing Developer Story [10 Sep 26, 6:01pm] For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.
Java’s age is its AI superpower [9 Sep 26, 4:45am] Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
Scaling your money safely with AI [8 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience.
How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent [4 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic a…
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6 [3 Sep 26, 4:00pm] In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade…
Ukraine Wins "World's First" Unmanned-Vessel Naval Battle [14 Sep 26, 3:22am] Ukraine has won what it believes to be the first-ever "battle" between two drone boats at sea. In the brief engagement, a Ukrainian Sargan-3000 drone...
Teacher Rescues a Stuck Octopus and the Animal Seems To Thank Her With a Simple Gesture [13 Sep 26, 12:50pm] Teacher Rescues a Stuck Octopus and the Animal Seems To Thank Her With a Simple GestureAnimals can’t speak our language, but they often find ways to communicate with us. One of the most adorable examples of this happened to Pei Yan Heng, a seconda…
Mongolian President Shows off His Strength by Bench Pressing 220 Pounds [11 Sep 26, 7:15pm] Mongolian President Shows off His Strength by Bench Pressing 220 Pounds Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por The Express Tribune (@etribune) Presidents are, most of the time, stately figures who offer polite handsh…
2,977 Drones Recreate NYC’s Twin Towers To Honor Those Lost on September 11, 2001 [11 Sep 26, 5:25pm] 2,977 Drones Recreate NYC’s Twin Towers To Honor Those Lost on September 11, 2001Nearly 25 years after the September 11 attacks, the Twin Towers briefly returned to New York City’s skyline. On September 9, 2026, 2,977 illuminated drones rose abo…
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards [13 Sep 26, 4:30pm] Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub [11 Sep 26, 6:26pm] If you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it. Here's what I did to support GitHub's APAC marketing team.The post Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser [10 Sep 26, 9:31pm] Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and br…
GitHub availability report: August 2026 [10 Sep 26, 2:05am] In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration [4 Sep 26, 4:04pm] In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.The post Project HydraFusio…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once [3 Sep 26, 4:00pm] Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Matt Mullenweg Apparently Back In Charge At Automattic via @sejournal, @martinibuster [13 Sep 26, 9:10pm] Automattic says Matt Mullenweg has returned with the board's full support. But its official announcement raises additional questions.The post Matt Mullenweg Apparently Back In Charge At Automattic appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Why 90% Code Coverage Doesn’t Mean Your Tests Are Good [11 Sep 26, 5:22pm] Ask almost any development team how they measure the quality of their test suite, and one answer appears almost immediately: code coverage. It appears in virtually every continuous integration pipeline, is enforced through quality gates, and is often…
Citizen Developers Are the New Enterprise Threat Vector. So Why Is Nobody Warning Them? [10 Sep 26, 7:31pm] Organizations are missing a big target when developing governance and developer training programs for AI-assisted software development. Those efforts still largely focus on professional developers, a reasonable position given the dramatic changes a…
Coder Agents Bring Self-Hosted AI Coding [9 Sep 26, 3:49pm] AUSTIN, Texas — Coder today announced the general availability of Coder Agents, giving regulated enterprises and government organizations a fully self-hosted, air-gap-capable option to deploy AI coding on infrastructure they control, using the mode…
The Five Pillars That Define Platform Engineering 2.0 [9 Sep 26, 12:30pm] This is the second article in a series on the evolution of platform engineering. In the first article, we examined why platform engineering must evolve for the agentic era. Now let’s look at what Platform Engineering 2.0 looks like in practice. It…
Arm Announces Arm AI Portal to Streamline AI Application Development [8 Sep 26, 5:59pm] Arm has announced the launch of the Arm AI Portal, a platform designed to assist developers and artificial intelligence agents in discovering, optimizing, and deploying AI software across the Arm compute ecosystem. By providing centralized access…
W3C opens 2026 community survey [4 Sep 26, 10:29am] W3C opens an 8-minute survey until 30 September and seeks community-wide input to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand how we can improve.
First Public Working Draft: The Profiles Vocabulary [20 Aug 26, 5:44am] The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.
Bitmovin Releases 10th Edition of the Video Developer Report [10 Sep 26, 9:12am] Each year, I write about Bitmovin’s Video Developer Report because it’s one of the few recurring data points available to the streaming industry. It reports survey-based usage and planned usage for codecs, protocols, encoding, player development,…
Munich Court Proposes €1.05 Monthly Codec Royalty for Netflix Premium Subscribers [20 Aug 26, 7:14pm] The 7th Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court just published detailed FRAND guidelines addressing standard-essential patent licensing. The guidelines include an analysis of how the court might calculate video codec royalties for streaming serv…
Codecs for CFOs [27 Jul 26, 7:00pm] Executive Summary The H.264 codec has proven remarkably durable, but demand for 4K efficiency, HDR compatibility, and small-screen/low-bitrate quality makes adopting advanced codecs like VP9, HEVC, AV1, and VVC inevitable for most services. However,…
Lifelong Deafness Could Rewire a Person's Peripheral Vision [14 Sep 26, 2:55am] Our senses are shaped by how we use them.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Team finds new layer of the human genome [9 Sep 26, 5:11pm] New findings could change how scientists think about DNA organization, transcription, and genome function.
How to spot dementia in your dog or cat [8 Sep 26, 5:39pm] An expert shares guidance to help owners better understand changes in their pets' behavior and learn how to care for animals living with dementia.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt [13 Sep 26, 8:30pm] This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the problems with the latest court ruling against Elon Musk: Heads I win, tails you lose Problematic law is passed: A) Company or individual rushes a legal…
Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming [12 Sep 26, 2:39am] There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game Pass service. A mere two years ago, Microsoft made all kinds of changes…
Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb [11 Sep 26, 10:35pm] Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For [11 Sep 26, 8:05pm] 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 —…
georgia o’keeffe: architecture and the artist’s homes, buildings, and landscapes [13 Sep 26, 8:35pm] through nearly forty paintings, the detroit show goes inside the built structures the famed american painter depicted in her lifetime. The post georgia o’keeffe: architecture and the artist’s homes, buildings, and landscapes appeared first on de…
how domestic work became built into the floor plan of the modern home [13 Sep 26, 7:45am] the corridor began as a way to separate movement from rooms, leaving a spatial logic that still shapes homes today.The post how domestic work became built into the floor plan of the modern home appeared first on designboom | architecture & desig…
superstudio’s 12 ideal cities question the price of a perfectly designed life [12 Sep 26, 8:35pm] in 1971, superstudio imagined twelve cities where architecture, technology, and urban systems could shape every part of everyday life.The post superstudio’s 12 ideal cities question the price of a perfectly designed life appeared first on designbo…
suspended metal grid ceiling meets translucent and reflective surfaces inside french café [12 Sep 26, 2:15pm] the concept combines industrial materials, sculptural stainless steel, integrated lighting, and intuitive customer flow to create a space that feels precise, contemporary, and unexpectedly generous.The post suspended metal grid ceiling meets translu…
