"Not Even A Tiny Bit": Iran Rejects Moving Enriched Uranium Out Of Country [20 Oct 26, 10:52pm] "Not even a tiny bit of enriched nuclear material will leave Iran; such materials constitute a major asset and national wealth for the Iranian people, intended for use within the country," said Rezaei, Iran's secretary of the Supreme N…
Elon Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown In Ukraine: Report [20 Oct 26, 9:25pm] Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump discussed the Starlink decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public, while the president was campaigning last week, the report said.
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…
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.2? (14 October) [14 Oct 26, 6:03pm] “What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways t…
The Sideload 048: It’s AI Mania, Not AI Psychosis [20 Oct 26, 8:52pm] Welcome to episode 48 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by Daniel Bader to discuss AI mania, vibe coding, and the uneasy feeling of finding useful tools in an industry you inherently cannot trust.Sponsored by Nord…
US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents [20 Oct 26, 3:45pm] NIST, CISA and NSA share ten voluntary practices for preparing for, detecting, responding to, recovering from, and reporting rogue AI agent incidents.The post US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents appeared first on Secur…
AOMEI Backupper Compromised in Short-Burst Supply Chain Campaign [20 Oct 26, 1:51pm] Across multiple short compromise windows, users were served a downloader for the ShinyRoad modular backdoor framework.The post AOMEI Backupper Compromised in Short-Burst Supply Chain Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Key to AI Software Security Isn’t Speed, It’s Maturity [20 Oct 26, 1:34pm] Where your developers sit on the AI adoption scale has a real impact on how you are addressing security risk.The post The Key to AI Software Security Isn’t Speed, It’s Maturity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack [20 Oct 26, 1:02pm] The company has restored many websites and apps in Europe and expects e-commerce brands in the US to be restored in days.The post Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Platform Cairn Abused to Hack Over 100 Organizations [20 Oct 26, 12:47pm] At least three threat actors have been abusing Cairn for persistent access and financial theft.The post AI Platform Cairn Abused to Hack Over 100 Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The driveway divide: Why parking for electric vehicles is such a big barrier [20 Oct 26, 9:20pm] Most people who have an electric car have access to a driveway or private parking. In England, 90% of EV owners can park easily and charge theirs from home. But roughly 40% of U.K. households don't have off-street parking, so the questions are h…
Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous [20 Oct 26, 8:40pm] Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google Gemini are increasingly being used to help robots perform tasks, but what if LLMs could be exploited to turn helpful robots into harmful robots?
Why Are So Many Of America's Police Cars Fords? [21 Oct 26, 1:15am] If you've taken a good look at police cars in the U.S., you may have noticed a lot them are made by Ford. Here's why that is and how long Ford's been doing it.
What Kind Of Motor Oil Do Massimo's Mini Vehicles Need? [21 Oct 26, 12:45am] Massimo is a major purveyor of tiny, adorable vehicles that resemble jeeps and dirt bikes, with tiny combustion engines. What kind of oil do they need?
4 Old-School Flip Phones That Scream Nostalgia [21 Oct 26, 12:35am] Before smartphones took over, flip phones made calls, texts, and even cameras feel surprisingly exciting. These four models helped define that memorable era.
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…
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.
The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic [20 Oct 26, 4:44pm] The museum is bringing more than 160 artworks to Paris as it undergoes a major expansion.The post The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic appeared first on Artnet News.
Rare Flock of Lalanne Sheep Could Round Up $5M at Auction [20 Oct 26, 12:34pm] The sheep appeared in Lalanne’s U.S. museum debut 60 years ago. The post Rare Flock of Lalanne Sheep Could Round Up $5M at Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
Unseen Picassos Could Fetch $42M at Auction [20 Oct 26, 11:18am] Plus, a new Shakespeare play, Beatlemania in Aix-en-Provence, and other art world matters. The post Unseen Picassos Could Fetch $42M at Auction 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…
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…
Eight Sleep Technology Approved To Support At-Home Sleep Apnea Diagnosis In Abu Dhabi [20 Oct 26, 7:58pm] ABU DHABI, UAE: Eight Sleep, the global leader in sleep technology, today announced that its smart bed technology has been approved as a medical device in Abu Dhabi to support the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. Announced at the Abu Dhabi Futur…
Majid Al Futtaim Partners with Sunset Hospitality Group to Launch Maravelle [20 Oct 26, 5:07pm] Dubai, UAE: Majid Al Futtaim today announced a strategic partnership with Sunset Hospitality Group (SHG), one of the world’s leading lifestyle hospitality companies, to operate Maravelle, a flagship wellness and lifestyle destination at Ghaf Woods,…
SEHA’s Salma Rehabilitation Hospital Highlights Patient Journey [20 Oct 26, 4:34pm] Abu Dhabi, UAE: SEHA, a subsidiary of PureHealth, the largest healthcare group in the Middle East, has highlighted the inspiring journey of an Emirati woman of determination, whose experience at SEHA’s Salma Rehabilitation Hospital reflects a renew…
Lola Young, Overmono To Headline Sole DXB 2026 As Festival Enters New Chapter [20 Oct 26, 3:36pm] Dubai: Sole DXB announces Lola Young and Overmono as headliners for its 2026 festival, taking place from 11-12-13 December at The Square Nad Al Sheba. This year promises a significant shift in Sole DXB’s 14-year history, continuing a broader musica…
Pemex Platform Catches Fire at Abkatun Field [20 Oct 26, 10:36pm] On Monday, Mexican state oil company Pemex reported that it was fighting a fire on an unmanned satellite platform at a position about 60 nautical mile...
Major Investments Strengthen Gothenburg RoRo Terminal [20 Oct 26, 10:21pm] Expanded terminal areas, new rail connections and modernised quays are among the investments that have strengthened Gothenburg RoRo Terminal in recent...
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…
15 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth Nearly $3 Million Are Finally Returning Home [19 Oct 26, 7:20pm] 15 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth Nearly $3 Million Are Finally Returning HomeAncient artifacts can spend decades far from where they were originally found. But for 15 Greek antiquities that were recently held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that…
The Empowering Art Installations of the First-Ever Daisy Chain Fields Festival [19 Oct 26, 4:35pm] The Empowering Art Installations of the First-Ever Daisy Chain Fields FestivalThe inaugural edition of Daisy Chain Fields festival was a resounding success. Bringing together some of the most compelling female music performers of the last few decade…
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy [20 Oct 26, 9:25pm] Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business [20 Oct 26, 8:35pm] OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
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.
GitHub availability report: September 2026 [14 Oct 26, 8:01pm] In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: September 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The Women’s Panel: Global Rising | Billboard Latin Music Week 2026 [21 Oct 26, 12:47am] A conversation with the female powerhouses of Latin music from around the globe, featuring Ana Mena, Aria Vega, Greeicy, LALI, Lola Indigo and RaiNao. The 2026 Billboard Latin Music Week takes place from Oct. 19-22 at the Faena Forum Miami Beach, ser…
Superstar Q&A With Anuel AA: Premiere Party | Billboard Latin Music Week 2026 [21 Oct 26, 12:01am] Superstar Q&A with Anuel AA, in which the Latin star reveals new, unreleased music from his new album, ‘REAL HASTA LA MUERTE 2’ and some of the stories behind the new tracks. The 2026 Billboard Latin Music Week takes place from Oct. 19-22 at…
Mysterious AMD Zen 6 APU with 24GB of LPDDR5 memory appears in benchmarks [20 Oct 26, 1:59pm] The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
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…
By 2030, Software Will Be Agentic Software [19 Oct 26, 3:51pm] For decades, software engineering leaders have focused on a familiar challenge: delivering software faster. Teams invested in agile methods, cloud platforms, DevOps, automation, and platform engineering to reduce friction across the software developm…
ADLC: Why Judgment Must Move Upstream [16 Oct 26, 6:15pm] In early automobile assembly, the most skilled workers were fitters, who hand-finished each part so it would fit with its neighbor. The role disappeared when precision gauging made interchangeable parts possible. However, their expertise was not lost…
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.
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
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…
Major repairs needed to save Horseshoe Bay Lagoon [21 Oct 26, 1:20am] Volunteer researcher Chris Hopper, JCU's adjunct professor Eric Wolanski and independent researcher Natalie K. Dowling examined the impact of saltwater and erosion on Horseshoe Bay Lagoon, a freshwater lagoon and one of the few swamps with bulku…
Rare solar radiation storm gives scientists clearest picture yet of flight risks [21 Oct 26, 1:00am] The most comprehensive data set ever collected from Earth's atmosphere during a solar radiation event has highlighted the importance of better-coordinated radiation monitoring for aviation safety, according to new research led by the University…
Where El Niño may impact California coastal areas this winter [21 Oct 26, 12:20am] Driving across Highway 37 in the San Francisco Bay Area on the best of days already feels like driving on top of water. Buffeted on both sides by marshlands hosting egrets, herons, ducks and a handful of endangered species, the sea-level highway is a…
Researchers study how AI could improve weed management [21 Oct 26, 12:00am] Advances in weed management technology could reduce reliance on herbicides and manual labor, but a new review from the University of Mississippi and Cornell University indicates those tools also bring steep costs and potential challenges.
Deleting AI chats may not erase every trace [16 Oct 26, 5:59pm] Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers.
Song lyrics have become less emotional [16 Oct 26, 5:41pm] New research finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and relationships.
AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say—On The Same Terms As Everyone Else [20 Oct 26, 10:10pm] Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for free expression. And it keeps improving. As the saying goes, it’s the worst it will ever be. People use it to receive ever-smarter speech and to create ever-better speech of their own. AI is now an imp…
Daily Deal: Nibble All-Around Knowledge App [20 Oct 26, 5:59pm] We’d all like to learn something new, but long courses or heavy reading can feel too time consuming. Nibble transforms your screen time into short, interactive learning experiences designed to fit your daily routine. With bite sized lessons, quizze…
Kash Patel Claims Local Arrests As His Own To Boost FBI Crime Stats [20 Oct 26, 4:24pm] At best, most Trump administration officials can be called “sycophants.” At BEST. But so many of them can be called a lot of other things a bit more insulting. We have a lot of shoe options to work with. Most of them fit multiple people. Rubes, h…
hedley studios shrinks the porsche 550 spyder into a handcrafted electric two-seater [20 Oct 26, 11:10pm] limited to 250 examples, the miniature racer revives a 1950s motorsport icon with vintage curves and a 50 mph top speed.The post hedley studios shrinks the porsche 550 spyder into a handcrafted electric two-seater appeared first on designboom | arch…
pieni III: kenko’s ultra-tiny camera captures lo-fi photos without a screen [20 Oct 26, 6:10pm] with its miniature film-camera styling and unpredictable framing, kenko's latest release makes taking pictures a little more spontaneous.The post pieni III: kenko’s ultra-tiny camera captures lo-fi photos without a screen appeared first on de…
łukasz twarkowski turns theater into a live cinematic spectacle [20 Oct 26, 3:45pm] the polish director builds immersive stage environments in which live performance, moving images, and shifting scenography challenge how audiences experience theater.The post łukasz twarkowski turns theater into a live cinematic spectacle appeared…
