Iran's "No History" Reply To Trump's "One Shot" Threat Amid Khamenei Funeral [5 Jul 26, 2:41pm] Iran's reaction followed a remark made by Trump, who claimed that the US has the capabilities to take out Iran's surviving top leadership "all in one shot" as they gathered to mourn late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Boy, 11, To Face Trial For Shopping Plaza Fire Which Killed 72 In Pakistan [5 Jul 26, 1:40pm] An 11-year-old boy will stand trial after being named as an accused in the chargesheet filed by police related to the fire incident that killed 72 people at a shopping complex in Pakistan's Karachi in January.
Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 7.1 [3 Jul 26, 8:09am] It’s time to get WordPress 7.1 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…
WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule [3 Jul 26, 8:03am] WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for release on August 19, 2026! Below is the proposed calendar with expected start times for each release party, and the release squad contributors involved in release parties for the upcoming 7.1 milestone. This release pa…
Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities [2 Jul 26, 5:47pm] This proposal expands the WordPress Core Abilities API in WordPress 7.1 with three read-only abilities: The Abilities API shipped in WordPress 6.9 as a foundation for registering discrete, permission-checked actions with typed input and output schema…
Dev Chat summary: July 1, 2026 [1 Jul 26, 9:26pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.1 7.0.1 General Discussion 💬 From @amykamala about handbook updates to AI policies “I’d like to also propose a new policy: disclosure o…
Microsoft’s Excel on the web grew 10x in 6 years while Google Sheets got the browser hype [4 Jul 26, 12:45pm] Excel for the web has grown 10x in sessions over the last 6 years, and Microsoft's Excel head Brian Jones says an 8-year-old cloud investment from 2018 is why. Excel for the web is also free, something Google Sheets gets more credit for. Now Mic…
3 features that Google still hasn’t launched [5 Jul 26, 2:00pm] This is a list of features that Google has shown off but not yet launched. It goes a bit beyond features that are just slowly rolling out and enters the realm of possibly scrapped.
What should a ‘Google Home Display’ be now that Google Home Speaker has set the stage? [5 Jul 26, 1:00pm] The next generation of Google’s smart home era has arrived, with the Google Home Speaker having set the stage. With an inevitable “Google Home Display” likely in the pipeline, what does that look like?This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a p…
Zawa is your one-stop shop for building your brand with logo & image tools, more [4 Jul 26, 4:00pm] Building a business in 2026 means creating a brand. You need a logo, cohesive designs, and high quality images to go with your products and services. That’s where Zawa steps in, with an all-in-one platform that helps you build the brand you need fr…
Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow [3 Jul 26, 11:00am] Attack demonstrates how LLM agents can combine known exploitation techniques with real-time reasoning to automate complex, multi-stage intrusions.The post Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People [3 Jul 26, 10:00am] In April, ShinyHunters accessed the company’s corporate IT systems and stole patients’ personal and medical information.The post Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US [3 Jul 26, 9:30am] Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments.The post Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US appeared first…
Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices [3 Jul 26, 8:13am] NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.The post Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices appeared fi…
NASA's Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July [5 Jul 26, 4:10am] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient cluster are clues to how exploding…
NASA's Hubble captures a crimson stellar nursery sparkling with blue and white stars [5 Jul 26, 4:03am] Hubble has captured a spectacular view of LH 95, where about 2,500 young stars are still on their journey to becoming full-fledged stars. Scientists discovered these growing stars can keep pulling in gas and dust for millions of years, extending an i…
NASA's Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars [5 Jul 26, 3:39am] Celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary, NASA released a stunning Hubble portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster with more than 500,000 stars. The remarkable cluster is helping scientists unravel the Milky Way's past tha…
Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox [5 Jul 26, 3:12am] Researchers have proposed that black holes stop evaporating at the last moment, leaving behind tiny remnants that preserve all the information they contain. The same seven-dimensional geometry behind this idea could also help explain why elementary p…
Why Is Jet Fuel Measured In Pounds Instead Of Gallons? [5 Jul 26, 3:45pm] Fill up your car at the gas station and you're buying it by the gallon. Refuel your Boeing 747, and you're measuring fuel capacity by the pound.
5 Alternative Fuel Types (And Why More Cars Don't Use Them) [5 Jul 26, 12:45pm] Electric vehicles are certainly the most popular form of alternative fuel, but that doesn't mean they're the only option. These lesser-known fuels exist, too.
India is testing an alternative to Silicon Valley’s AI playbook [2 Jul 26, 10:00am] A new hackathon invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools, challenging the idea that cutting-edge innovation belongs only to a handful of Western companies.
America’s immigrant tech workers are paying an uncertainty tax [30 Jun 26, 10:00am] A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf.
Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory [4 Jul 26, 10:00am] Eileen Gray's modernist icon has stuck with Bauer since her first visit nearly a decade ago. The post Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory appeared first on Artnet News.
On the Hunt for the Best Art in Ibiza [4 Jul 26, 7:00am] The parties are excellent. The art, more of a mixed bag. Here's what stood out this summer.The post On the Hunt for the Best Art in Ibiza appeared first on Artnet News.
Did This Large Animatronic Bear Inspire Jeff Koons? It’s Heading to Auction [3 Jul 26, 6:55pm] The 50-year-old bear was created for children's television, but left its footprint on the art world.The post Did This Large Animatronic Bear Inspire Jeff Koons? It’s Heading to Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
There’s New Money in Old Masters [3 Jul 26, 4:30pm] London's Classics Week pulled in $101.6 million as buyers chased aesthetics as much as provenance.The post There’s New Money in Old Masters appeared first on Artnet News.
The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s [3 Jul 26, 4:10pm] The multidisciplinary show staged by Helene Bailly Marcilhac in Paris delves into the singularly pioneering art of the 1970s.The post The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s appeared first on Artnet News.
The Field Guide to Grid Lanes [3 Jul 26, 1:29pm] The WebKit gang did a good job with The Field Guide to Grid Lanes showcasing what kind of layouts are now achievable with display: grid-lanes;. Basically: Masonry layout, with arbitrary column widths, and proper tabbing order, is now progressive-enha…
Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with TanStack Start [2 Jul 26, 6:21pm] In Part 2 of the series on using Cloudflare with Web Apps, the focus is on setting up a database and addressing key issues like performance and connection management.
Totally Free Course: Claude Code [1 Jul 26, 9:02pm] Lydia Hallie from Anthropic spends a couple of hours with us, helping us level up what we’re doing with Claude Code. Learn to customize Claude Code for your codebase, using CLAUDE.md, plan mode, and permissions that adhere to your team’s standard…
Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design [30 Jun 26, 4:34pm] Jacky Gilbertson writes about the real job of design in Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design. It doesn’t have anything to do with pixels and colors at first; it has to do with what problem is trying to be solved, why, and for whom. Per…
Fluid Typography with progress() [29 Jun 26, 4:00pm] With the `progress()` function in CSS we've got a new way to calculate the size for type based on the viewport without problems of the past.
Introduction to Cloudflare Workers for Web Apps [26 Jun 26, 2:56pm] Maybe you don't need a traditional server to run a web app that needs a node server backend. Maybe the requests that need that can go to a cloud function on demand.
The Index: Issue #189 [3 Jul 26, 11:55am] Fixing full-bleed CSSA rather deep dive into how some of the newer CSS can make this age old pattern even better.Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?It’s hard to find anything other than anecdata from individuals telling us how AI has m…
Personal website redesign project post: Rendering AT protocol posts on my /feed [2 Jul 26, 11:55am] I'm again, going to be doing a lot of the same sort of work I did for the WordPress integration, but as this is the first iteration of the AT protocol, it's going to be a lot simpler than that.Just like with the WordPress integration, I us…
Personal website redesign project post: Loading AT protocol posts data [1 Jul 26, 11:55am] We're picking up some good momentum, so let's keep the flow going. After integrating WordPress to power the blog section, it's now time to integrate a new feature of this website: AT Protocol posts.I could go all in at this point and…
The Index: Issue #188 [26 Jun 26, 11:55am] By humans, for humansWe’re approaching—or arguably are in—an era where ‘made by humans’ is a differentiator. A notion that something beyond money and prompts was put into whatever the heck it is we’re using or consuming or enjoying. We…
Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site [25 Jun 26, 11:55am] Standard.site provides a set of lexicons for publishing long-form content on the internet using the same protocol used under the hood by Bluesky.If you are wondering what 'lexicons' and 'the Atmosphere' are, don't fret. This…
U.S. Finalizes Contract for Six Arctic Security Cutters [3 Jul 26, 10:06pm] The U.S. Coast Guard reported this week that it has finalized the contracts for six Arctic Security Cutters to be built by Finland’s Rauma Marine Cons...
US Forces Still Poised in the Arabian Gulf Area [3 Jul 26, 7:54pm] With an uneasy ceasefire having held now for some three days, which is something of a local record in recent times, there appears to be a determinatio...
Hilma af Klint’s Visionary Paintings Take Over Paris’s Historic Grand Palais [4 Jul 26, 1:45pm] Hilma af Klint’s Visionary Paintings Take Over Paris’s Historic Grand PalaisUnder the vast glass canopy of Paris’s Grand Palais, visitors encounter a world of swirling forms, luminous color, and symbols that blur the boundary between the mater…
Photography and Fine Art Combine To Capture the Fleeting Light and Solitude of West Texas [4 Jul 26, 12:50pm] Photography and Fine Art Combine To Capture the Fleeting Light and Solitude of West TexasDesert landscapes have long been a source of inspiration for artists. From wide-open skies and endless vistas to golden light and vivid sunsets, the desert is a…
Famous Paintings Become Gourmet Courses in This Immersive Dining Experience [3 Jul 26, 7:15pm] Famous Paintings Become Gourmet Courses in This Immersive Dining Experience View this post on Instagram A post shared by Liz (@deeelizious) Art usually hangs on a wall or sits on a pedestal. At 7 Paintings, however, it arrives course by course.…
Once-Forgotten Music Notebook by Mozart Was Discovered in Paris After 230 Years [3 Jul 26, 5:25pm] Once-Forgotten Music Notebook by Mozart Was Discovered in Paris After 230 YearsEmbed from Getty Images Deep in the storerooms of France’s National Library in Paris, curators uncovered a small 44-page notebook that would soon reshape part of Wolfga…
How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero [2 Jul 26, 4:00pm] GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months.The post How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero app…
6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week [1 Jul 26, 3:59pm] These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.The post 6 security settings every GitHu…
How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies [30 Jun 26, 5:28pm] Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.The post How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Highlights from Git 2.55 [29 Jun 26, 5:25pm] The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.The post Highlights from Git 2.55 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic [5 Jul 26, 12:00pm] Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report.The post Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic [3 Jul 26, 2:00pm] Six audits. One failure. The fix took five minutes. Here's what Lighthouse 13.3's Agentic Browsing category actually tells you, and what it doesn't.The post Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links appeared first on Searc…
AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW [3 Jul 26, 9:30am] Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content.The post AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Continuous Quality & Validation: Testing at the Speed AI Now Demands: SD Times 100 [2 Jul 26, 2:00pm] Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Software testing has always faced the same basic tension: thoroughness takes time, and time is exactly what fast-moving engineering organization…
SnapLogic Launches MCP Builder, Simplifying MCP Creation [1 Jul 26, 4:10pm] SAN MATEO, Calif. — SnapLogic, the Agentic Integration Company, today announced the general availability of SnapLogic MCP Builder, a new template-based capability that helps organizations operationalize AI faster by automatically turning existing i…
First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Profiling [2 Jul 26, 1:33pm] SHACL Profiling defines elements of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language created to allow for profiles of SHACL and profiling with SHACL.
Pointer Events Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation [30 Jun 26, 8:43am] The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
W3C opens Inclusion Fund and Invited Expert Fund for TPAC 2026 [24 Jun 26, 12:01pm] W3C opens applications for travel support for TPAC 2026 to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their pos…
The Correct Way to Choose an x264 Preset, Part 2: Your Audience Changes the Answer [29 Jun 26, 1:06pm] Here’s the question on the table. x264’s veryslow preset delivers better quality than the medium preset but takes roughly 4x longer to encode, boosting your encoding costs by a healthy 4x (2-3x if using a cloud encoder). Which is the right preset…
Computing VMAF: How Missing Color Metadata Tanked the Score [22 Jun 26, 6:32pm] Developing a metrics tool is the easy part. Wire up FFmpeg, shell out to libvmaf, parse the JSON, draw a pretty line chart. It’s a weekend project, and the part they show you at vibe-coding camp. The part they don’t show you are the edge cases:…
How Fast Will AV2 Deploy?: Ask Joe Sixpack [17 Jun 26, 5:25pm] The AV2 spec went final in late May 2026, AOMedia announced it on June 9, and VeriSilicon had a decode IP core out within about two weeks. An AOMedia member survey reports that 53% of respondents plan to adopt AV2 within a year and 88% within two yea…
Three Paths to Compression for Machine Vision: VCM, FCM, and the V-Nova Wild Card [26 May 26, 5:45pm] Video is increasingly captured primarily or exclusively for machine viewing, including applications like surveillance cameras, autonomous vehicles, industrial inspection, and drone footage. Traditional codecs like H.264 and HEVC were designed around…
Alien-Like Reproductive Strategy Found in 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil [5 Jul 26, 10:00am] "A significant breakthrough in understanding their evolutionary history".ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
How your brain preps your body for food [30 Jun 26, 5:34pm] New research explains how our brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite.
3-in-1 vax could protect against flu, COVID, and RSV [30 Jun 26, 5:26pm] "We are hopeful that this platform could be expanded further to protect against an even wider range of respiratory viruses in the future."
Stride length tied to cognitive decline in dogs [25 Jun 26, 6:28pm] New research provides a more complete picture of dogs that are developing dementia, potentially allowing earlier detection.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making The Best Of A Ban Situation [3 Jul 26, 7:05pm] 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 —…
The Nintendo/Palworld Patent Suit Appears To Be Heading For A Muted Conclusion [3 Jul 26, 2:39am] It’s been a while since we checked in on the Nintendo patent suit in Japan against Pocketpair, the company behind the hit game Palworld. If you need a quick refresher, here you go. Pocketpair made a game that was clearly inspired by the Pokémon se…
Sotomayor Trashes SCOTUS Majority For Cherry-Picking Qualified Immunity Cases To Reverse [2 Jul 26, 10:04pm] Qualified immunity — crafted out of thin air by the US Supreme Court — has rarely been anything but an easy way for government employees to duck out of lawsuits before they’re actually asked to defend themselves against allegations of rights vi…
T-Mobile Jacks Up Prices For Everybody, Ignores Years Of ‘Uncarrier’ Promises [2 Jul 26, 8:05pm] In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate itself a…
‘beauty can help save us’: jacques monneraud on turning cardboard into lasting ceramics [5 Jul 26, 1:45pm] the french artist reflects on leaving advertising for ceramics, using illusion to capture attention, and why beauty still has the power to bring people together.The post ‘beauty can help save us’: jacques monneraud on turning cardboard into last…
a bookstore inside cobe copenhagen: a material library of architecture, cities, and ideas [5 Jul 26, 2:50am] cobe opens a public bookstore within its copenhagen studio, offering a curated selection of books on architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design.The post a bookstore inside cobe copenhagen: a material library of architecture, cities, and ideas app…
the otherworldly forms of ken price’s solo exhibition at PoMo in norway [4 Jul 26, 7:45pm] on display at PoMo in norway, the particular approach to ceramics and color come through in the american artist's oeuvre The post the otherworldly forms of ken price’s solo exhibition at PoMo in norway appeared first on designboom | architect…
copper shingles wrap curving concert hall ‘la source vive’ in évian, france [4 Jul 26, 2:35pm] along the french-swiss border, this concert hall takes shape with a copper shell and raw plaster acoustics.The post copper shingles wrap curving concert hall ‘la source vive’ in évian, france appeared first on designboom | architecture & de…
