White House Denies Trump Suggested Iran Should "Take Out" US Cities [7 Oct 26, 11:16pm] Democrats -- who control the state of California where both Los Angeles and San Diego are located -- accused the 80-year-old Republican president of encouraging Iran to hit the two urban centers.
Trump Says US Has "Taken Away" Iran's Nuclear Power [7 Oct 26, 9:03pm] US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end "very quickly" and claimed that oil prices will "come tumbling down", while asserting that the US has taken away Iran's nuclear power.
Oil gains as Middle East hostilities stoke supply worries [8 Oct 26, 1:46am] President Donald Trump and his national security team have talked about possibly restarting large-scale U.S. military operations in Iran in the coming weeks, NBC News reported.
Progress Report: wp_kses() [7 Oct 26, 7:57pm] Since its inception, WordPress has relied on the KSES1 subsystem to sanitize HTML. Its purpose has grown and changed over time, but primarily serves two purposes: correct aesthetic defects that are likely the result of typos or pasting errors; and re…
Proposal: Minor updates to the WordPress Core CSS Coding Standards [7 Oct 26, 1:09pm] The purpose of this proposal is to introduce minor changes to the WordPress CSS Coding Standards required to integrate Stylelint into Core. Please keep any feedback focused on the scope of these minor changes. On Trac ticket #29792 a proposal has bee…
Dev Chat Agenda – October 7, 2026 [7 Oct 26, 12:40am] 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. The various curated agenda sections below refer…
Performance Chat Summary: 6 October 2026 [6 Oct 26, 4:28pm] The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter shared that prefetching has finally been committed in changeset 64120. The next step is to default script and style concatenation to off outside d…
WordPress 7.2 Release Party Schedule [6 Oct 26, 1:12pm] WordPress 7.2 is scheduled for release on December 8, 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 7.2 milestone. This release p…
Google starts rolling out its upgraded Pixel screen savers to the Pixel 9 [7 Oct 26, 5:04pm] When Google added Pixelsnap to the Pixel 10 series, it wasn’t just building in support for all kinds of magnetic accessories — it was also adding in some excellent software functionality, like upgraded screensavers for when your phone is docked a…
Georgia Power, Alabama Power Data Breach Hits 400,000 Accounts [7 Oct 26, 2:15pm] Southern Company is notifying customers that their utility account information was accessed by hackers.The post Georgia Power, Alabama Power Data Breach Hits 400,000 Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Qilin Ransomware Suspect Arrested in Japan, Extradited to Germany [7 Oct 26, 1:47pm] The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges.The post Qilin Ransomware Suspect Arrested in Japan, Extradited to Germany appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand Autonomous Offensive Security Platform [7 Oct 26, 1:06pm] Hadrian offers an agentic offensive security platform that allows defenders to operate at the same speed as attackers.The post Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand Autonomous Offensive Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Advantest Discloses Data Breach Months After Ransomware Attack [7 Oct 26, 12:37pm] The Japanese chip testing giant said hackers stole personal information from its servers in the February 2026 cyberattack.The post Advantest Discloses Data Breach Months After Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chrome 155 Update Patches 247 Vulnerabilities [7 Oct 26, 10:51am] Four critical-severity use-after-free defects were fixed in Chromecast, Browser, Navigation, and Track.The post Chrome 155 Update Patches 247 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Green hydrogen production method yields valuable industrial chemical instead of oxygen [7 Oct 26, 8:40pm] A study published in the journal Nature Communications presents an advance in hydrogen production: a green, cost-effective process that generates hydrogen while simultaneously producing valuable chemicals for industry. The research was led by Avner R…
New method reveals how efficiently water-based cells turn waste heat into electricity [7 Oct 26, 6:20pm] Most electricity is generated by using heat to produce steam, which then turns a turbine. Although this approach performs exceptionally well in the high-temperature, superheated-steam regime, we currently lack widely applicable technologies that can…
Feather star-inspired underwater robot gets 3D maneuverability from only two actuators [7 Oct 26, 6:00pm] Researchers have created an aquatic soft robot inspired by marine invertebrates called feather stars. The feather star robot is able to move through the water in all three dimensions, powered by only two actuators. The paper, "Minimal-Actuation…
5 New Diesel Engines Coming Out In 2027 [8 Oct 26, 2:00am] The diesel engine may have fallen out of favor, but some manufacturers aren't letting go of it. We're about to see some impressive new diesels in 2027.
Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance [6 Oct 26, 10:00am] From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare…
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own [30 Sep 26, 10:00am] At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Congressman Calls for Smithsonian Exhibit on Trump Propaganda [8 Oct 26, 12:04am] "We must study this corrupt President’s actions,” Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said.The post Congressman Calls for Smithsonian Exhibit on Trump Propaganda appeared first on Artnet News.
Two Street Art Legends, Two New Shows—Lady Aiko and GIZ Solos Open in Miami [7 Oct 26, 10:00pm] At Goldman Global Arts, Lady Aiko unveils the largest canvases of her three-decade career, while GIZ recreates the New York subway in an immersive installation tracing graffiti’s rise to fine artThe post Two Street Art Legends, Two New Shows—Lad…
Souraya Noujaim Returns to Louvre Abu Dhabi as Its New Director [7 Oct 26, 11:15am] The Islamic art specialist helped build the museum's collection shortly after it opened.The post Souraya Noujaim Returns to Louvre Abu Dhabi as Its New Director appeared first on Artnet News.
Stanley Kubrick’s Curio-Filled Archive Hits the Auction Block [7 Oct 26, 6:30am] Plus, Beth Rudin DeWoody lists her $12 million pied-a-terre, and the art historical touchstones at Matthieu Blazy's Chanel show.The post Stanley Kubrick’s Curio-Filled Archive Hits the Auction Block appeared first on Artnet News.
Testing an iframe’s postMessage Handler [7 Oct 26, 3:23pm] There are some real complexities using iframes and the postMessage API for communication between a widget and its parent. Security vulnerabilities like cross-origin scripting risks being one.
Interop 2027 [6 Oct 26, 10:13pm] I should have noted this sooner (sorry!), but it’s that time of year when Interop is planning for next year. Submissions are closed, and now they spend time refining and culling the proposals. We’ll hear on February 4th, 2027 what the focus will…
Fallbacks for CSS `progress()` [2 Oct 26, 2:10pm] The new CSS progress() function calculates a value between 0 and 1, representing its position within a defined range. While awaiting broader browser support, users can manually implement this using other methods.
Front-End Checklist [1 Oct 26, 2:23pm] David Dias has been working on “Front-End Checklist” stuff for a decade, and it looks like this latest version of it a little over a year. There is loads of good general advice in it that can be easy to forget: Now it’s all AI’d up, which mak…
You Don’t Know Bidi (And Neither Does ChatGPT) [30 Sep 26, 4:38pm] Text that is set in a left-to-right *and* right-to-left language, mid-sentence, is a thing. Getting it right means understanding it, because your LLM isn't going to know.
The Index: Issue #200 [2 Oct 26, 8:55am] It's issue #200 of The Index! A real milestone that we should celebrate with a dedicated CSS links issue. Let's get stuck in to the good links.Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floatsThe Boss™ is here with some fantastic news on…
The Index: Issue #199 [25 Sep 26, 9:55am] Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the webA very good looking proposal!The root scroller and how not to lose itYet another in-depth, fantastic article by Kilian at Polypane.fonts.xyzYou know us by now: we see a good place to get fonts a…
Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped [23 Sep 26, 11:55am] I stumbled across this great project by Barry Prendergast. It's a web-based radio player with a lush UI. On mobile I spotted that as I was rapidly flicking through the stations to find one that was on air, the browser was zooming in and out.Her…
The Index: Issue #198 [18 Sep 26, 9:55am] You’ll miss publishers when they’re goneYet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply, to educate and share knowledge.It’s…
A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready [17 Sep 26, 11:55am] Now that we can better customise <select> elements, it's only natural to side-eye other form <input> types that have caused us visual headaches.Sure, we should be applying the lightest of touches to form elements, especially, but ev…
Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results [6 Oct 26, 5:00pm] Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role of…
The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here! [6 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.
Drug Smugglers Caught Dressed as Port Workers in Algeciras [7 Oct 26, 10:01pm] Spanish authorities became suspicious when they detected a jet ski moving near the containerships in the Port of Algeciras. They reported that the ope...
Pope Leo XIV Condemns AI Art and Defends the Importance of Human Creativity [6 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Pope Leo XIV Condemns AI Art and Defends the Importance of Human CreativityIn the age of AI, knowing how to distinguish between human-made and AI-generated art, music, writing, and images is becoming more important than ever. Pope Leo XIV agrees, an…
Researchers Develop a Strategy for Underwater Solar Power Is Surprisingly Effective [6 Oct 26, 4:35pm] Researchers Develop a Strategy for Underwater Solar Power Is Surprisingly EffectiveSome of the greatest innovations in the field of clean energy are coming from solar power. Now, a team of researchers from Yunnan University in China have taken it to…
Expansive teamlab Exhibition Highlights Its Immersive Experiential Works Spanning Decades [6 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Expansive teamlab Exhibition Highlights Its Immersive Experiential Works Spanning DecadesThe international art collective teamLab has recently opened an expansive exhibition in the Windy City. Titled teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity…
Why Learning To Draw the Skull Is the Key To Perfecting Your Portraiture [6 Oct 26, 9:55am] Why Learning To Draw the Skull Is the Key To Perfecting Your PortraitureYou’ve done it—you’ve successfully drawn the eyes, nose, and mouth. But something still isn’t right with your portrait. It doesn’t look like your subject. In this case…
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia [7 Oct 26, 11:36pm] Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises [7 Oct 26, 6:15pm] ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
Secret protection must scale with software [7 Oct 26, 5:45pm] Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.The post Secret protection must scale with software appeared first on The…
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development [6 Oct 26, 8:57pm] We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review [5 Oct 26, 3:59pm] We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics.The post ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code revi…
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. [2 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow.The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 [1 Oct 26, 3:07pm] From verifying AI-written code to securing npm dependencies, these are the sessions I’m building my Universe agenda around.The post 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Google Opens Its SynthID Watermark Detector To The Public via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [7 Oct 26, 7:38pm] Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, allowing users to check images, video, and audio for watermarks from Google and partner AI tools.The post Google Opens Its SynthID Watermark Detector To The Public appeared first on Search Engine Journ…
Why Legacy PPC Account Structures Are Sabotaging Your Smart Bidding Strategy [7 Oct 26, 7:00pm] Consolidate redundant PPC campaigns to give Smart Bidding stronger signals without erasing the business distinctions that keep your account profitable.The post Why Legacy PPC Account Structures Are Sabotaging Your Smart Bidding Strategy appeared fir…
Jellyfish Advances Developer and Agent Productivity Insights for the AI-Native SDLC [7 Oct 26, 8:35pm] BOSTON, October 7, 2026 — Jellyfish, the leading Software Engineering Intelligence and AI Impact Platform, today announced a comprehensive suite of features to help organizations measure the impact of AI engineering tools. The features, launched d…
Gremlin Foresight AI identifies, fixes reliability concerns before they become incidents [7 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Chaos engineering platform provider Gremlin today announced the general availability of Gremlin Foresight AI, which proved in beta that it can identify and address reliability risks before they become incidents. “AI-driven development means shipp…
Onboarding Agents Through an Agent Development Life Cycle [7 Oct 26, 11:45am] For decades, the software development life cycle (SDLC) has been the gold standard for deploying reliable enterprise technology. It brought much-needed discipline to a chaotic process, ensuring that rigid, deterministic code could be planned, built,…
IBM and Red Hat Fix More Than 400 Previously Unknown Open Source Vulnerabilities [6 Oct 26, 8:54pm] RALEIGH, N.C. and ARMONK, N.Y. – IBM and Red Hat today announced that Lightwell has identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The companies also announced the general availability…
Testlio launches LeoSuccess, an AI Copilot for Test Orchestration [6 Oct 26, 7:24pm] AUSTIN, TX – Testlio, a leading AI-powered crowdsourced testing platform, today announced the launch of LeoSuccess, an interactive AI copilot that orchestrates end-to-end QA execution. LeoSuccess joins LeoMatch and LeoInsights as the latest addit…
W3C issues press release about developing Verifiable Credential Barcodes [7 Oct 26, 5:50pm] Recently the data theft of approximately 160 million drivers licenses from the US and Canada was reported and unfortunately, identity thieves will use this data to impersonate victims. Real-time revocation is needed to protect individuals against ide…
Consortium Members elect Board of Directors [28 Sep 26, 12:47pm] World Wide Web Consortium Members have elected seven individuals to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors
W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL [24 Sep 26, 11:13am] W3C is pleased to announce the report from the W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL, held in July 2026 in London, UK, and online.
First Public Working Draft: Bitstring Status List v1.1 [24 Sep 26, 8:28am] This specification describes a privacy-preserving, space-efficient, and high-performance mechanism for publishing status information such as suspension or revocation of Verifiable Credentials through use of bitstrings.
Why CDN77 Chose NETINT Quadra for Large-Scale Live Transcoding [29 Sep 26, 6:36pm] While visiting Prague before IBC 2026, I sat down with Michal Hošna, a Media Systems Architect at CDN77. We discussed CDN77’s recent decision to purchase a few thousand NETINT Quadra T1U transcoders for large-scale live production, primarily for s…
Optimizing x264 Settings and Per-title ladders [25 Sep 26, 7:35pm] If you’re producing solely H.264-encoded video, optimizing your encodes can save you bandwidth costs and deliver a higher quality experience to your viewers. If you’re considering adding HEVC or AV1 to the mix, you have another reason. Before you…
Media over QUIC (MoQ), What It Takes to Deploy It, and When It Matters (From CDN77) [24 Sep 26, 1:36am] The IETF’s MoQ Transport draft is on its 21th version. According to Michal Hošna of CDN77, who I interviewed in Prague before IBC 2026, the working group has been predicting completion “in six months” for two years. He now hopes for something…
VVC On The Rise [20 Sep 26, 1:20pm] The thing about codec adoption is that years of hard work and development must occur before a single stream gets distributed by an independent publisher. The bottleneck is almost always the decode side, accumulating sufficient compatible players to m…
Cross-border shopping dilutes public revenue less than previously thought [8 Oct 26, 2:00am] Will higher sin taxes, and therefore higher prices, on candy, soft drinks and beer lead to more cross-border shopping? The answer is often assumed to be yes in the public debate, where one of the main arguments against sin taxes on unhealthy products…
Emotional ties to cultural heritage show strongest link to digital museum engagement [8 Oct 26, 1:40am] Museums are increasingly using digital technologies to create more interactive and accessible experiences for visitors. Technologies such as three-dimensional (3D) digital models, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) allow visitors to expl…
Digital finance research maps psychology, algorithms, and risk [8 Oct 26, 1:20am] A study of almost 1,000 research papers in the field of digital finance has mapped out how technology, investor behavior and financial market risk are connected. The work identified three distinct foundations rather than a single framework, with impl…
Rising seas threaten the world's migratory shorebirds [8 Oct 26, 1:00am] Birds undertake some of the world's most impressive migrations, traveling hundreds to thousands of kilometers every year in search of safe breeding grounds and seasonally abundant food resources. For many birds, migration is the key to their suc…
Immune aging speeds up around 40 and 60 [7 Oct 26, 3:44pm] "We tend to think of aging as a gradual process, but our findings show that the immune system does not simply decline at a steady rate."
Why is ADHD having a moment on social media? [7 Oct 26, 3:43pm] An expert digs into why ADHD is getting more attention now than ever on social media and what still gets lost in the conversation.
Eggshells help make stronger, lighter metal alloys [7 Oct 26, 3:11pm] "This work shows that you can produce high-value, high-quality magnesium alloys using an inexpensive, sustainable, biogenic waste material."
Tiny robot can precisely control how high it jumps [30 Sep 26, 7:33pm] Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step.As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the…
How Copyright Is Being Abused To Censor Albania’s Flamingo Revolution [7 Oct 26, 8:13pm] For the last couple of years, the copyright world has been grappling with the latest generation of AI, as numerous posts on Walled Culture attest. That’s hardly surprising, since AI is currently delivering the greatest challenge to the foundations…
Judge Blocks Utah’s Demand That Websites See Through VPNs [7 Oct 26, 6:09pm] Over the last few years, with Congress completely incompetent and a massive moral panic about tech raging, states have stepped up to try to regulate the internet any way they can. Even after the Supreme Court reminded states that the First Amendment…
Daily Deal: flowkey Piano Learning App [7 Oct 26, 6:04pm] flowkey is a fun, interactive piano learning platform that helps anyone go from absolute beginner to confident player — at their own pace. It combines step-by-step courses with thousands of songs you know and love, tailored for every skill level, f…
Federal Court Says Flock ALPR Database Searches Require A Warrant [7 Oct 26, 4:24pm] On one hand, it’s great to see a ruling like this. On the other hand, it’s not going to set any precedent, not even in its own jurisdiction. But it does push this conversation forward, judicially speaking, which means other cases reliant on ALPR…
BAIT turns G-SHOCK’s classic DW5600 into a perfectly ripe banana [7 Oct 26, 5:45pm] dubbed 'yamagata’s finest,' BAIT covers the yellow body of this G-SHOCK DW5600 in the brown freckles of a perfect banana.The post BAIT turns G-SHOCK’s classic DW5600 into a perfectly ripe banana appeared first on designboom | architect…
robotically 3D printed earth bricks wrap multispecies habitat around olive tree [7 Oct 26, 3:35pm] the pavilion combines computational fabrication with dryland agricultural knowledge to create a porous structure that regulates shade, heat, airflow, and moisture while providing niches for plants, insects, birds, fungi, and other species.The post r…
children’s illustrated worlds meet realities of seoul in yeondoo jung’s photographs [7 Oct 26, 10:50am] the series takes on new meaning at a time when images can be generated without the physical process once required to make them.The post children’s illustrated worlds meet realities of seoul in yeondoo jung’s photographs appeared first on designb…
paf atelier builds radical environments to reconnect design with collective imagination [7 Oct 26, 10:00am] founded on the principle that collective imagination shapes new physical forms, paris-based paf atelier creates human-centric environments across architecture, scenography, and immersive narrative.The post paf atelier builds radical environments to…
