US Orders Embassy Staff To Leave Saudi Arabia As Houthi Attacks Intensify [21 Oct 26, 10:05pm] The source added that families of embassy staff had also been ordered to leave the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain, all of which have been targeted by Iran during the Middle East war.
Democrats Sue Trump Over Voter Roll Purge Ahead Of Midterms [21 Oct 26, 9:12pm] The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Washington, seeks a court order barring the administration from purging legally registered voters from statewide voter registration lists or denying ballots to legally registered voters.
JD Vance "Disgusted" By Republicans Over Vivek Ramaswamy's Controversial Ad [21 Oct 26, 7:23pm] In Cincinnati, the vice president said it was "not really my concern" whether the controversial 60-second spot was appropriate, and said he was focused on supporting Republican candidates in their midterm races.
Dev Chat Agenda – October 21, 2026 [21 Oct 26, 4:10am] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting focuses on upcoming releases and Core development, with time for discussions and open floor. If you have requests for help with a …
Performance Chat Summary: 20 October 2026 [20 Oct 26, 5:04pm] The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets Script/style concatenation was only used in the login/admin for core’s own assets. It served its purpose, especially for HTTP/1.1, but WordPress 7.2 will use…
Recap: WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Retrospective [19 Oct 26, 6:30pm] This post summarizes the feedback received from the WordPress 7.1 retrospective. Thank you to those who contributed their feedback via the retrospective survey and comments on the post! For ease of reading, feedback has been synthesized. Full feedba…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-16 [16 Oct 26, 9:04am] This is the first in a series of weekly status update posts from the WP Feature Notifications work. Security PRS There are 30+ open Dependabot PRs that will resolve various dependency security alerts across the repository. It would be really helpful…
INMO GO3 smart glasses pack a display and Gemini integration with clever camera privacy [21 Oct 26, 10:45pm] There are two problems with smart glasses today. Most don’t deliver that futuristic display we all want to have, and the camera has become a serious point of friction. INMO GO3 solve both problems while also supporting Google’s Gemini and more.…
Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections [21 Oct 26, 5:00pm] Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis.The post Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors [21 Oct 26, 4:50pm] Several cybersecurity companies saw exploitation attempts of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 before PHP released the patches.The post PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors appeared first on SecurityWeek.
‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets [21 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold.The post ‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets ap…
High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 [21 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents.The post High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 appeared first on Secu…
Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security [21 Oct 26, 1:17pm] Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M seed led by Tower Research Ventures to commercialize its Beacon AI agent runtime security platform.The post Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centers [21 Oct 26, 8:40pm] With artificial intelligence (AI) data centers consuming electricity at a growing rate, identifying a sustainable computing solution to offset these massive community and environmental disruptors is proving critical.
Wheeled, flying and six-legged robots stay on track with new learning method [21 Oct 26, 7:20pm] It's important for a robot not just to learn a task optimally, but to complete it without going off the rails of reasonable expectations. Until now, roboticists could have one or the other. Aerospace engineering researchers in The Grainger Colle…
New materials library could help AI design better sodium-ion batteries [21 Oct 26, 5:00pm] The start of a new battery materials library could pave the way for future AI models to help scientists design sodium-ion batteries that charge faster, last longer and store more energy, according to new research from the University of Surrey.
Do You Need To Bleed Your Brakes With Every Pad Change? [21 Oct 26, 10:45pm] Brakes are an important part of your vehicle, and you'll need to replace the pads at some point. But do you need to bleed those brakes afterwards? It depends.
Why Is GM's 5.3-Liter Vortec 5300 Engine So Reliable? [21 Oct 26, 6:45pm] Of all of GM's engines, its 5.3-Liter Vortec 5300 engine is one that's said to be really reliable, but why? Turns out, it's for some pretty good reasons.
The Second-User Test [20 Oct 26, 10:54am] In my work with G7–G12 students at Force Academy, a research initiative in Chongqing, I sometimes take a project that appears to be finished and give another student responsibility for using, checking, or modifying it. The handoff is a test of unde…
Building an AI Analyst, One Football Argument at a Time [19 Oct 26, 3:55pm] One of my biggest pet peeves is the Monday morning quarterback, the person who second-guesses every coaching decision after the fact. In The Monday Morning Agent, we’re building one that actually checks the data. Every other Monday, I’ll take an…
AI Changed How We Code. It Hasn’t Changed How We Work Together. [19 Oct 26, 10:54am] This summer, I built a small experiment called ContextCue. The idea came from something I kept seeing during my internship. The engineers around me were using AI everywhere in the software development process. GitHub Copilot and Claude models helped…
This Week in AI: Expanding the Possibilities [16 Oct 26, 3:55pm] New AI tools are making business data easier to explore. They’re also giving researchers new ways to study disease outbreaks and physical systems. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined developments from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistra…
Code Review After Code Gets Cheap [16 Oct 26, 10:54am] In my previous article, I argued that agentic development needs enough specification to make correctness checkable. A quick prompt can get implementation started quickly, but someone still has to decide whether the result does what we wanted. I left…
Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty [21 Oct 26, 5:11pm] A judge has ordered a halt to further exhibition changes, but experts warn the removals threaten protections enshrined in the constitution.The post Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty appeared f…
How Gershon Iskowitz Forged His Own Path to Abstraction [21 Oct 26, 9:30am] In Toronto, Caviar20 follow Iskowitz’s transformation from figurative painter processing Holocaust trauma to pioneer of Canadian abstraction in new career-spanning retrospective.The post How Gershon Iskowitz Forged His Own Path to Abstraction appe…
Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning Meet Again [21 Oct 26, 6:40am] Plus, a Patti Smith photo show, a massive Anselm Kiefer finds a home, and other art world matters.The post Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning Meet Again appeared first on Artnet News.
188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography’s First Human Subjects Solved [20 Oct 26, 9:55pm] In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped the first photograph. Now, a team of filmmakers has identified the exact location of that historic view.The post 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography’s First Human Subjects Solved appeared first on Artnet News.
“I Redesigned VLC After 25 Years” [20 Oct 26, 3:43pm] I watched this whole video by Juxtaposed, assuming it was a real redesign of the VLC player, but alas, it is not official. Nevertheless, it should be, and it’s a wonderful example of how much real human brainpower it takes to design something well.
Structured Output with TanStack AI [19 Oct 26, 12:25pm] Part 2 of this intro to TanStack AI covers structured output: constraining the model's response to a Zod schema, then streaming that JSON in and rendering it while it's still incomplete.
Unlocking AI in Your Apps with TanStack AI [16 Oct 26, 12:32pm] TanStack AI is a strongly typed set of libraries for adding AI features to your apps. Part 1 of this intro covers basic setup and prompting, streaming responses, persisting threads to your database, and resuming a response after a mid-stream refresh.
Building a Fancy Scrollspy Using Modern CSS [14 Oct 26, 3:20pm] Scrollspy navigation used to mean IntersectionObserver and a pile of JavaScript. With scroll-target-group, :target-current, and a little anchor positioning, a plain list of anchor links can highlight the current section all on its own.
“WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf” [14 Oct 26, 3:19pm] Yoav Weiss makes a good point: “WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf”. I’ve seen both pushback to WebMCP in the form of “websites should just be better, or agents should be smarter, there shouldn’t be alternative paths to using them built.” And I’…
The Index: Issue #202 [16 Oct 26, 10:55am] Tiny Little OfficeThis is really smart. It's a word processor, along with other common office software like spreadsheets, but it's completely URL powered.Introducing the Accessible Components LibraryYou could not be in better hands than…
The Index: Issue #201 [9 Oct 26, 8:55am] 2027 web platform feature rankingThis is the second year we're doing this, and last year's 1900+ rankings not only helped us push the right proposals in the Interop process, it was also used to prioritize web platform feature development…
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…
Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put [21 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the trap they’re concerned about…
Don't forget about the UI for AI [20 Oct 26, 7:40am] Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the advantages of localized computer…
Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide [19 Oct 26, 3:32pm] A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong [16 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, how Quint brings developer-friendly syntax and executability to formal methods, a…
Keolis opens Regional Headquarters in Dubai to strengthen its Middle East operations [21 Oct 26, 3:59pm] Dubai, UAE: Keolis is opening Regional Headquarters in Dubai as they strengthen their presence in the Middle East. This new office will serve as a hub for the Group’s operations in the region and help develop new transport projects across the Middl…
Big 5 Global returns to Dubai for its 47th edition [21 Oct 26, 3:37pm] Dubai: Big 5 Global, the most influential industry event for construction and urban development in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), returns to Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 – 26 November 2026, supported by the UAE Ministry of Ener…
US Deep-Sea Mining Claim Areas Rival ISA Licenses in Size [21 Oct 26, 8:51pm] U.S. ambitions to mine the deep sea are rapidly expanding across the ocean, not only in the country’s own waters, but also on the high seas — the vast...
380,000 Colorful LEGO Flowers Seem To Spill From an Art Center in Shanghai [20 Oct 26, 7:20pm] 380,000 Colorful LEGO Flowers Seem To Spill From an Art Center in ShanghaiLEGO Group’s in-house advertising agency, known as Our LEGO Agency, has transformed an old industrial site in Shanghai with a wave of color. The creative team took over the…
Four African Painters Explore Memory and Identity Through Unfinished Lines [20 Oct 26, 5:30pm] Four African Painters Explore Memory and Identity Through Unfinished LinesFour contemporary African painters explore cultural identity and personal history in Unfinished Lines, an exhibition presented by Art of Contemporary Africa (AOCA) at Minnesot…
Artist Creates One-of-a-Kind Shoes Made of Real Flowers and Vegetables [20 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Artist Creates One-of-a-Kind Shoes Made of Real Flowers and VegetablesShoes and flowers are two things that don’t commonly intersect, except in the work of Katerina Shukshina, whose floral footwear uses real blooms to create whimsical, unexpected…
Are You Drawing for Inktober? Here’s How to Keep the Inky Goodness Going [20 Oct 26, 9:55am] Are You Drawing for Inktober? Here’s How to Keep the Inky Goodness GoingWith practically two-thirds of October complete, we’re also approaching the end of Inktober. The worldwide art challenge inspires daily art-making with creative prompts that…
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know [21 Oct 26, 9:16pm] TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation [21 Oct 26, 8:57pm] Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure [21 Oct 26, 4:00pm] We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.The post The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure appeared…
How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity [20 Oct 26, 4:05pm] Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first on The Git…
How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code [19 Oct 26, 6:47pm] Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context.The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The next developer interface is ambient intelligence [15 Oct 26, 7:39pm] AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent—and helping developers stay focused on building.The post The next developer interface is ambient intelligence appeared first on Th…
Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org [15 Oct 26, 6:00pm] Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.The post Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data [21 Oct 26, 2:00pm] A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT.The post Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
2026 Billboard Latin Music Awards: Performers, Hosts & How to Watch | Billboard Noticias [21 Oct 26, 11:03pm] This is sponsored content. 2026 Billboard Latin Music Awards preview: performers, hosts and how to watch on Telemundo & Peacock. Presented by McDonald’s—Monopoly is back with millions of prizes. Get ready for the 2026 Billboard Latin Music Aw…
Azul Patches 53 OpenJDK Vulnerabilities [21 Oct 26, 5:42pm] SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI-first world, today released its October “Security-only, Stability-first” updates for Azul Core that are immediately deployable to address all 53 vulnerabilities di…
Harness Launches AI Budgets for Cost Management [21 Oct 26, 4:34pm] Harness has introduced AI Budgets, a feature in its Cost Management Agent designed to help organizations monitor and enforce limits on artificial intelligence spending. The company said many organizations have established AI cost policies but lack a…
Developers Report Mixed Feelings as AI Adoption Hits Record Highs, Atlassian Survey Finds [21 Oct 26, 11:30am] AI has rapidly transitioned from experimental pilots to an industry-standard practice, with over 95% of software developers and engineering leaders actively utilizing AI tools. However, new findings from Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 20…
Sonatype Unveils Nexus Repository Pro+ to Stop Malicious Components [19 Oct 26, 6:03pm] Fulton, Md. – Sonatype, the company helping enterprises build with confidence in the AI era, today announced Nexus Repository Pro+, which stops malicious code where it enters, not after it’s already inside. By bringing Sonatype Repository Firew…
W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era [21 Oct 26, 9:56am] This W3C paper from the Strategy Team is intended to foster discussion in the technical community at TPAC — the most important W3C community event of the year — about how the W3C technical agenda for the web needs to evolve based on the rise of A…
First Public Working Draft: Animation Triggers [20 Oct 26, 5:55am] Defines CSS properties and an API for creating mechanisms that affect animation playback, based on DOM events resulting from user interaction, or on entry/exit of ranges on animation timelines.
When Will AV2 and VVC Be Worth Deploying? [8 Oct 26, 6:48pm] Consider this beta version 0.9 of my algorithmic view of how codec markets are penetrated. There are lots of assumptions that I’ve tried to document in the readme tab of the Excel file you can download below. I assume there will be errors in both m…
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…
Candida auris: A harbinger of further dangerous fungal species? [21 Oct 26, 11:00pm] Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at the University of Würzburg have now summarized the…
Data vital in holding militaries accountable for the environmental toll of war [21 Oct 26, 10:30pm] Ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP31) meeting in Antalya, Turkiye, held in Nov. 2026, an expert writing in The BMJ's climate issue argues that accurate data on greenhouse gas emissions during armed conflict is urgently needed to ho…
Rising military spending could worsen climate change and undermine security, experts warn [21 Oct 26, 10:30pm] Investing more in the military is not a solution to climate change and may cost us our security, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue. In the first article, Neta Crawford at the University of St Andrews says the view that climate change is a…
2 molecules may help slow pancreatic cancer growth [21 Oct 26, 6:24pm] Two naturally occurring microRNAs may help regulate the protein production that allows aggressive cancer cells to grow and divide.
Locusts could help detect chemical weapons [21 Oct 26, 5:13pm] "We marry the best biology has to offer with engineering principles to create a superior sensing system."
AI Is Anti-Punk [21 Oct 26, 8:00pm] Sam Altman is not punk. He’s no revolutionary. Jensen Huang wears a black leather jacket, the uniform of Brando and the Ramones, but that doesn’t make him a rebel. The scientists and engineers we might have looked to as the new hackers are well o…
Daily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online Academy [21 Oct 26, 5:54pm] CyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration Testing, Advanced Persistent Threats, Threat Intelligence Research, Reverse Engineering, an…
garnet-red accents and high clerestories punctuate AA Apartments in málaga [21 Oct 26, 9:25pm] crearctive transforms a former commercial space into four residential units using a central service spine, high-level facade glazing, and elevated mezzanines.The post garnet-red accents and high clerestories punctuate AA Apartments in málaga appear…
apple’s ‘designers of tomorrow’ brings a rattling chair and palm-frond lantern to paris [21 Oct 26, 8:00pm] at design miami.paris, four emerging design practices turn familiar objects into invitations to linger and look more closely. The post apple’s ‘designers of tomorrow’ brings a rattling chair and palm-frond lantern to paris appeared first on de…
leather octopuses and mohair whales by cosima von bonin take over paris’ petit palais [21 Oct 26, 4:19pm] within the historic galleries during art basel 2026, padded animal sculptures interrupt the solemn company of classical figures. The post leather octopuses and mohair whales by cosima von bonin take over paris’ petit palais appeared first on desig…
