14 Dead In Fire At Russian Fireworks Factory: Report [28 Sep 26, 8:12pm] "The death toll from a fire at a fireworks factory in the Yaroslavl region has risen to 14, with one person injured," the state TASS news agency reported, citing Russia's emergency ministry.
Trump Denies Offering To Sell Arms To Xi Jinping [28 Sep 26, 7:46pm] Donald Trump on Monday denied asking Xi Jinping if he would like to buy American weapons, after the US ambassador to Beijing said the US president made the offer to his Chinese counterpart.
Iran's Araghchi To Meet Qatari Mediators In New York Today [28 Sep 26, 7:00pm] The report comes after state news agency IRNA reported earlier in the day that the Iranian delegation in New York for the UN General Assembly was not planning further talks with the United States, after Trump said he expected more negotiations soon.
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.2: One app for your first Core or Gutenberg contribution [25 Sep 26, 5:09pm] TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to remove the points of friction first-time contributors…
WordPress Trac MCP server [24 Sep 26, 8:06pm] Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac. Pu…
Dev Chat summary: September 23, 2026 [24 Sep 26, 7:54pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.2 Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration Roadma…
Iterating from live events to livestreamed releases [23 Sep 26, 7:49pm] After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live releases has been a go…
New public repo: core release tools [23 Sep 26, 6:03pm] The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the…
Five things Windows 11 quietly keeps about you, and which ones actually matter [28 Sep 26, 2:16am] A viral X post says Windows keeps a thumbnail of every photo you delete. Microsoft docs and Raymond Chen show thumbnails are cached only when generated, our test found no new entries, and Disk Cleanup plus a Group Policy setting let you wipe or stop…
Windows 11 26H2 releases any day now, and here’s who gets it and when [27 Sep 26, 6:43pm] Windows 11 26H2’s public rollout could begin any day, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it rolls out during the week of September 28 or the following week (early October). But it’s not an update you should be excited about unless you care about th…
What’s new in Android’s September 2026 Google System Updates [U] [28 Sep 26, 9:49pm] The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others…
Gemini fully replaces Google Assistant on Android [28 Sep 26, 8:48pm] At the start of September, the Google Assistant deprecation on mobile got underway. It now looks to be widely rolling out. more…
Even Google Search agrees that ‘Googlebook’ wasn’t a very good name choice [28 Sep 26, 6:25pm] “Googlebook” is a weird name, right? That was my personal first takeaway from this new platform, and it seems even Google Search supports the idea that Google should have used something else, as you can’t actually search for “Googlebook” wi…
Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection [28 Sep 26, 5:30pm] The misuse and abuse of AI-generated voice is growing. Modulate’s intention is to allow real time detection and intervention. The post Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit [28 Sep 26, 3:15pm] SecurityWeek seeks original, vendor-neutral presentations that help cybersecurity leaders navigate emerging threats, strengthen resilience, and address the strategic challenges facing today’s enterprise security programs.The post Call for Presenta…
Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon [28 Sep 26, 12:36pm] Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers.The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records [28 Sep 26, 11:29am] The Medicaid IDs and other information of Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries were exposed.The post DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign [28 Sep 26, 10:56am] The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273.The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Diamond quantum sensor enables AC and DC current ratio checks in one setup [28 Sep 26, 9:00pm] Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with the Institute of Science Tokyo and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, have developed a "current comparator" that uses diamond quantum sensors to accurately evaluate both AC…
Saltwater sensor turns touch into electrical signals like skin, with prosthetic potential [28 Sep 26, 7:50pm] You pick up a fragile glass from the table. Without thinking about it, you feel its surface against your fingertips and continuously adjust your grip. You hold it firmly enough to keep it from slipping out of your hand, but not so tightly that it bre…
Pressurized wind tunnel experiments could help wind farms generate more power [28 Sep 26, 7:00pm] The world needs more wind energy. But anyone designing new wind turbines or trying to squeeze more power out of existing ones faces a stiff challenge when testing new approaches. That's because the atmosphere is a tough place for a controlled ex…
7 Brands Owned By Klein Tools [28 Sep 26, 8:30pm] Klein Tools is one of the biggest players in professional hand tools, but through mergers and acquisitions, the company's become much larger than just that.
America is in the wrong AI race with China [22 Sep 26, 10:00am] The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth [18 Sep 26, 10:00am] In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
Sabine Moritz Lets Bodies Dissolve Into Abstract Brushstrokes in New Show [28 Sep 26, 8:30pm] In her debut exhibition with Galerie Max Hetzler, the German painter explores the elements and lets figures emerge from gestural fields of color.The post Sabine Moritz Lets Bodies Dissolve Into Abstract Brushstrokes in New Show appeared first on Art…
As the Gulf Reels From War, Istanbul’s Art Market Absorbs the Shock [28 Sep 26, 7:35pm] Contemporary Istanbul’s 21st edition saw an influx of exhibitors and provided a valuable platform for Iranian artists.The post As the Gulf Reels From War, Istanbul’s Art Market Absorbs the Shock appeared first on Artnet News.
Ann Temkin Is Stepping Down at MoMA—But She’s Not Retiring [28 Sep 26, 6:36pm] One of the most influential jobs in modern and contemporary art is up for grabs. The post Ann Temkin Is Stepping Down at MoMA—But She’s Not Retiring appeared first on Artnet News.
Mysterious Drawing Identified as Early Manet Work [28 Sep 26, 5:02pm] The red chalk drawing may have been intended for an unfinished painting.The post Mysterious Drawing Identified as Early Manet Work appeared first on Artnet News.
7 Must-See Museum Shows in London This Fall [28 Sep 26, 3:24pm] The city's institutions are teaming with amazing art. These shows are on the top of our list.The post 7 Must-See Museum Shows in London This Fall appeared first on Artnet News.
100 Devs [24 Sep 26, 1:46pm] Kevin Powell is doing game-show-style (specifically Family Feud) shorts where, using data from a survey of 100 devs, he asks another dev what the most popular answers were. Here’s:
Introducing Solo [23 Sep 26, 4:02pm] A versatile tool for managing coding projects, integrating multiple terminals and AI agents within a single control panel.
Brighter Than White [22 Sep 26, 9:43pm] If you’ve got an HDR display, and use Chrome 137+ or Safari 26+ (even on iOS), perhaps you’ve seen images sometimes with colors that are so bright they seem to dim the rest of the screen. I find it a bit distracting, but I can see how it could be…
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…
The Index: Issue #197 [11 Sep 26, 12:00am] Mindful Design ProductsThis is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful.Scott's written about the why here, too.How the heck do record players work?An…
Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill [25 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down…
Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm [22 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software an…
The AI magic words [17 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is becoming hi…
The Caspian Sea is Busy Between Russia and Iran [28 Sep 26, 8:01pm] The US naval blockade of Iran’s southern ports appears to be nearly 100 percent effective, cutting the flow of goods through Bandar Abbas and other Gu...
Photographer Blurs Boundaries by Capturing Desert Landscapes in Two Different Ways [27 Sep 26, 1:45pm] Photographer Blurs Boundaries by Capturing Desert Landscapes in Two Different WaysFor the past 15 years, photographer Drew Doggett has traveled the world in search of extraordinary landscapes, wildlife, and cultures. Now, he is taking a different ap…
Researchers Reveal How Prehistoric Cave Art May Have Changed by Torchlight [26 Sep 26, 1:45pm] Researchers Reveal How Prehistoric Cave Art May Have Changed by TorchlightWhen we look at prehistoric cave paintings today, we usually see them brightly illuminated or reproduced in photographs. But thousands of years ago, people would have experien…
This One-Of-A-Kind Colorful Habitat Near Mexico City Hides a Stylish Housing Complex [26 Sep 26, 12:50pm] This One-Of-A-Kind Colorful Habitat Near Mexico City Hides a Stylish Housing ComplexAmong the sprawling, bustling suburbs of Mexico City, hides a quiet retreat where art, architecture, and nature become one. El Nido de Quetzalcóatl (Quetzalcóatl…
Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good News [25 Sep 26, 7:20pm] Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good NewsIf you love ice cream, you may have been pleased to see recent headlines suggesting that indulging in your favorite flavor could actually have some surprising health benefits. A long-…
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents [28 Sep 26, 7:33pm] Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents [28 Sep 26, 6:31pm] As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and…
How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent [28 Sep 26, 7:00pm] A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app.The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent a…
Highlights from Git 2.56 [28 Sep 26, 5:23pm] The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.The post Highlights from Git 2.56 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases [25 Sep 26, 6:00pm] Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build…
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS [25 Sep 26, 3:00pm] How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
When chat is the wrong UI [24 Sep 26, 8:00pm] What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The Generative AI Report Sucks – Let’s Make It Brilliant [28 Sep 26, 2:30pm] Google's Generative AI report shows visibility and nothing else. Layer commercial data and traffic dependency on top and you get real exposure.The post The Generative AI Report Sucks – Let’s Make It Brilliant appeared first on Search Engine…
Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown for Oct. 3, 2026 | Billboard News [28 Sep 26, 9:39pm] Ella Langley continues her hot streak at the top of the chart with “Choosin’ Texas,” while Morgan Wallen gets a brand new entry in the top 10 with the “Last Thing You Need” and new highs for Karol G with “Bby Wow” and Tame Impala and Je…
Noctua upgrades Thermal Grizzly's 12V-2x6 power monitor [28 Sep 26, 4:15pm] The Noctua Edition replaces the original WireView Pro II cooling solution with a semi-passive design that can handle up to 300W without active cooling and runs below 2,000 RPM when the fan is needed.
Athena open-source defense coalition releases first ‘silent’ vulnerabilities [28 Sep 26, 8:55pm] Athena, Chainguard’s industry coalition for the orchestrated defense of open source software, today is publicly disclosing its first set of findings: 14 “silent” vulnerabilities all across Java projects, including one critical and one high-seve…
AI Is Making Software Faster to Build – and Harder to Understand [28 Sep 26, 5:04pm] As a CEO at a startup, getting back to building has been fun. Last night, I wrote code for our upcoming release. I helped fill a gap so the team didn’t have to take the entire load, and we could hit our deadline. Of course, I used AI tools. They ma…
AI Coding Tools in Mid-2026: High Adoption, Low Trust, and What It Means for Developers [25 Sep 26, 6:31pm] Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in the modern software development workflow. From generating code snippets to debugging complex applications, AI-powered coding assistants are no longer experimental. They are everyday tools for mill…
Code Is Cheap, Thinking Isn’t — Cognitive Debt Is Becoming the Biggest Barrier to AI ROI [25 Sep 26, 6:11pm] For years, software development operated under one fundamental constraint: execution is expensive. Writing code took time and building workflows required specialized expertise. Operational improvements often meant adding headcount or extending timeli…
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.
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…
Munich FRAND Royalty Guidelines: More Questions than Answers [14 Sep 26, 2:46pm] On August 13, 2026, the 7th Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court issued a 67-page FRAND Guidelines. Although multiple outlets have reported on them, I have not located a public copy of the Guidelines themselves, though I have requested one. I…
Exposed ends and bends attract DNA-cutting enzymes, live imaging reveals [28 Sep 26, 10:00pm] Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have directly visualized how enzymes find and break DNA molecules in real time. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy, the team followed individual enzymes as they…
Subjective and objective difficulty of English texts are related—but not the same [28 Sep 26, 10:00pm] Evaluating the difficulty of English texts used in educational materials and language assessments is a central concern in English language education. Traditionally, researchers have relied on objective measures of text difficulty based on linguistic…
Meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than previously thought [28 Sep 26, 9:50pm] Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma's geologic history with global implications for ancient life. Below the surface of the small town of Ames, Oklahoma, a meteor impact site spans miles. The c…
Frequent cannabis use linked to worse epilepsy [28 Sep 26, 8:01pm] Near-daily cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy had over twice as many convulsive seizures as nonusers, researchers report.
The Metric Is Not The Mission: When The Maps Became The Territory [28 Sep 26, 10:04pm] The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the ev…
YouTube And Meta Reverse Course On Musk Documentary Ads. X, Unsurprisingly, Does Not. [28 Sep 26, 8:05pm] Content moderation is impossible to do well at scale. Which also means it’s sometimes difficult to tell garden variety fuckups apart from the rich and powerful putting their finger on the scale. On Friday, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that all o…
Free Speech, Consumer Groups Make Last Ditch Effort To Block Paramount Merger [28 Sep 26, 6:05pm] Last week California Democrats — including Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass, and AG Rob Bonta buckled under pressure and got 12 states to drop their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers. Worse:…
Daily Deal: The Complete Ethical Hacking Boot Camp [28 Sep 26, 6:00pm] The Complete Ethical Hacking Boot Camp has 11 courses cover python programming and ethical hacking from scratch. You’ll learn how to build custom penetration testing tools and how to establish secure virtual environments to practice tactics. Course…
peripheral vision and artwork that exceeds the eye [28 Sep 26, 8:35pm] these artists make seeing everything at once impossible, and use that limit as material.The post peripheral vision and artwork that exceeds the eye appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
volunteers in thailand hand-build school toilet from reclaimed wood [28 Sep 26, 3:15pm] forty-one volunteers spent eleven days building a school toilet from reclaimed wood, learning about sanitary design, material reuse, and hands-on craft.The post volunteers in thailand hand-build school toilet from reclaimed wood appeared first on de…
