"We Will Kill Trump": US President Behind Bars In Massive New Iran Billboard [3 Nov 26, 2:30pm] Another billboard nearby showed Trump along with US Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bloodied faces and ragged suits against the background of worn-out Israeli and US flags.
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.3? (28 October) [2 Nov 26, 4:16pm] “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 to keep up…
Presence API meeting summary: October 26, 2026 [1 Nov 26, 2:02pm] The Presence API meeting took place on Monday, October 26, 2026 at 15:00 UTC in #feature-presence-api. It also hosts the real-time collaboration (RTC) work. This week’s focus was the last two merge criteria, user testing and a security audit. Start o…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-30 [1 Nov 26, 9:31am] One major change landed this week: the notification repository is now scoped per user, laying the groundwork for the REST API. In addition, we merged a README note and four Dependabot bumps. A batch of community PRs (fixes, tooling, and PHP test-matr…
Frontline Education Data Breach Impacts Over 1.3 Million [3 Nov 26, 2:32pm] Hackers exploited a flaw in third-party software and stole the personal information of school district staff and students.The post Frontline Education Data Breach Impacts Over 1.3 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode [3 Nov 26, 2:12pm] The acquisitions will add AI agent observability and automated AI security testing capabilities to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.The post CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode appeared first on Securit…
Android’s November 2026 Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities [3 Nov 26, 12:21pm] The most severe is a critical flaw in Framework leading to remote code execution without user interaction.The post Android’s November 2026 Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Critical Node-RED Flaw Exploited in Attacks [3 Nov 26, 12:10pm] Multiple attacks from the same IP address attempted to deploy various payloads, including a Linux bot and webshells.The post Critical Node-RED Flaw Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK Cyber Chief Says the UK Will Face AI Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure by 2028 [3 Nov 26, 9:49am] The U.K. will likely face AI cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure by 2028 as criminals and states, including China and Russia, increasingly use AI in their cyber activity.The post UK Cyber Chief Says the UK Will Face AI Cyberattacks on Critic…
Vulnerable users fear losing 'AI companions' to software updates [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] People forming emotional bonds with AI companions fear losing a valued relationship through software updates or a company pulling the plug, according to research from the University of Surrey.
New VR method turns touch information into visual cues for better collaboration [3 Nov 26, 3:40pm] What if you could see how rough an object feels, even without touching it? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that makes the roughness of virtual objects visible through changes in the outline of a virtual hand. By allowing users without…
12 Of The Best Ryobi Gardening Tools For Seniors [3 Nov 26, 4:30pm] Are you or someone you know of a certain age looking to build out a gardening tools collection? Look no further than these 12 recommendations.
The 9 Most Innovative Fighter Jets From Every Decade [3 Nov 26, 2:30pm] Fighter jets have evolved over the decades from relatively crude and slow to planes capable of exceeding Mach 2, with each more innovative than the last.
Dyoma Paints “Shandarba,” a Ryazan Folk Dance Across a Folded Facade [28 Oct 26, 4:55pm] Dyoma has painted “Shandarba” across a residential building at 1A Kashirina Street in central Ryazan. Named for a traditional women’s dance from the Ryazan region, the mural turns the building’s projecting and recessed corners into part of its compos…
Trump’s Final Midterms Pitch Focuses on His Pet Art Projects [3 Nov 26, 8:00am] Plus, why is there so little anti-war art right now? And that massive Artforum takedown.The post Trump’s Final Midterms Pitch Focuses on His Pet Art Projects appeared first on Artnet News.
Haunting Yoshitomo Nara Painting Could Rake in $15M at Auction [2 Nov 26, 2:00pm] The work, Nara's only canvas from 2011, is crossing the block at Fair Warning.The post Haunting Yoshitomo Nara Painting Could Rake in $15M at Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
London’s National Gallery: ‘Keep Away’ If You Want Trigger Warnings [2 Nov 26, 1:42pm] Plus, an intimate Bloomsbury Group drawing is discovered, yet more U.S. pavilion drama in Venice, and other art world matters.The post London’s National Gallery: ‘Keep Away’ If You Want Trigger Warnings appeared first on Artnet News.
Overriding Heading Levels With the headingoffset HTML Attribute [2 Nov 26, 1:27pm] The new headingoffset HTML attribute lets you bump a heading’s level up by adding to it, which is handy when a component’s h1 needs to be an h2 somewhere else. Here’s how the math works, how to reset it, how to style the result with :heading(), and w…
Two Circles, One Connection, and border-shape [30 Oct 26, 1:28pm] Swapping the clip-path arrow from the previous article for border-shape and shape(), we can connect two draggable circles with fancy curved lines that stay perfectly aligned.
Useful @custom-media Presets [29 Oct 26, 12:34am] Custom media queries let you name and reuse media queries the way custom properties do for values. Here’s a set of drop-in @custom-media presets for input mechanisms, breakpoints, and true HDR, plus a container style query version of each that works…
How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95% [28 Oct 26, 3:35am] I like the idea of "Please suggest 10 improvements to my ~/.zshrc" as a prompt (John Lindquist). Nick Taylor wrote up all the stuff it found for him and got nearly a second back for every fresh terminal opened.
The Vertical Codebase [23 Oct 26, 10:14pm] A nice app architecture thought by Dominik: The Vertical Codebase. When component architecture came along, many started co-locating HTML/CSS/JS for a component, and it felt right. What if you take that one step further and co-locate based on the site…
Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too [3 Nov 26, 8:40am] Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the security necessity of giving autonomous AI agents thei…
It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us [30 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specificat…
The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated [29 Oct 26, 10:30pm] I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.
Delivering controlled and concentrated context [28 Oct 26, 2:55pm] Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java [27 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the…
Casa Vista Development Celebrates AQUORA’s Next Chapter of Luxury Living [3 Nov 26, 2:26pm] DUBAI: Casa Vista Development has released the second phase of its AQUORA waterfront residential project on Dubai Islands after the first phase sold out ahead of its official unveiling, according to the developer. The project was unveiled at Madinat…
The New BMW X5 Makes Its UAE Debut [2 Nov 26, 9:30pm] DUBAI: BMW Group Middle East has debuted the new BMW X5 in the UAE, bringing the fifth generation of the brand’s pioneering Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) to local customers through its official importers: AGMC in Dubai, Sharjah and the Northern Emira…
The UAE Flag Unites Emiratis and Residents Under One Banner [2 Nov 26, 9:24pm] Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of the “Frontline Heroes” Office, affirmed that UAE Flag Day, celebrated annually on 3 November, embodies the highest values of national unity, loyalty to the leadership and belong…
Indian Seafarer Killed in Strike in Strait of Hormuz [3 Nov 26, 4:47am] On Monday, an Indian dhow was hit at a position off Limah, Oman, the latest in a long string of vessels damaged in the ongoing U.S.-Iranian hostilitie...
Indian Forces Rescue Iranian Dhow From Somali Pirates [3 Nov 26, 2:26am] Indian forces have intercepted and liberated a fishing dhow that had been captured by pirates off Somalia, according to the country's defense ministry...
Ecolock in the Real World [3 Nov 26, 2:03am] Ecolock has been in use on offshore assets for 15 years with excellent results. This article talks about real-world applications.Ecolock is a comprehe...
MOCAD Celebrates 20 Years With Ambitious Exhibition Featuring More Than 80 Artists [2 Nov 26, 6:30pm] MOCAD Celebrates 20 Years With Ambitious Exhibition Featuring More Than 80 ArtistsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an ambitious exhibition bringing together more than 80 local, national, and int…
Carmen Lomas Garza Retrospective Explores Her Influence on Chicano Art [Interview] [2 Nov 26, 5:35pm] Carmen Lomas Garza Retrospective Explores Her Influence on Chicano Art {Interview}The colorful, richly layered work of Carmen Lomas Garza has earned her a spot in the pantheon of great Chicano artists. Her bustling compositions depict what look like…
Wyoming Ranchers Are Asking People To Stop “Rescuing” Their Dogs [2 Nov 26, 3:45pm] Wyoming Ranchers Are Asking People To Stop “Rescuing” Their DogsIf you’ve ever come across a dog wandering alone, your first instinct is probably to help by finding its owner. But sometimes, a dog that looks lost is actually just at work. Ranchers i…
Jonathan the 194-Year-Old Giant Tortoise May Hold the Secrets to Longevity [2 Nov 26, 2:50pm] Jonathan the 194-Year-Old Giant Tortoise May Hold the Secrets to LongevityEmbed from Getty Images At an estimated 194 years old, Jonathan the Aldabra giant tortoise has outlived generations of humans and become the oldest known living land animal. H…
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone.The post Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT [1 Nov 26, 9:36pm] GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gears, swap perspectives, bend reality, or just press a certain key.The post Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT appeared fir…
GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack [28 Oct 26, 4:09pm] Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world.The post GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents [28 Oct 26, 4:07pm] See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.The post Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents appeared first on The GitHub Blo…
How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills [22 Oct 26, 5:21pm] As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers.The post How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills app…
Hands-on with the DockCase Mount Ling 2 Pro [3 Nov 26, 2:20pm] The Mount Ling 2 Pro is a dock for Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, or other PC handhelds that doubles as a capture card and a vehicle for up to 4TB of NVMe SSD storage.
Below the Waterline: Why AI’s True Cost Is Measured Per Task, Not Per Token [2 Nov 26, 9:22pm] Tokenomics, by the admission of the man leading the foundation named after it, is a terrible name. But the concept behind it is getting harder for enterprises to ignore. J.R. Storment, executive director of the Tokenomics Foundation, said during a re…
Stop blaming Safari, start measuring it [2 Nov 26, 8:52pm] When something breaks in a web app on an iPhone, the first thing that comes to mind is, this is Safari’s fault. Or Apple will fix it one day, and until then we either ignore the issue or go online and dig out a workaround and move on. I am in that sa…
5 Spooky Things About Trusting AI with Reliability [30 Oct 26, 5:36pm] The scariest engineering story I read this year wasn’t fiction. In August, Reuters reported on internal Meta posts showing what happened as the company pushed its engineers toward AI tooling. Code changes to internal platforms rose 220% year over yea…
Opsera Relaunches as an AI-Native Software Factory [29 Oct 26, 8:07pm] Opsera, long known for its continuous orchestration platform for DevOps, has announced its relaunch as an AI-native software factory, with its Forge factory released in April at its center. In its announcement at the time, Opsera said Forge was creat…
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 AI ag…
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.
Snap Gets Its RAND Trial Against Dolby and Access Advance. Five Issues to Watch [2 Nov 26, 10:14pm] You may have heard about a recent decision in Snap’s UK licensing dispute with Dolby and Access Advance. Here’s what you need to know. Background Dolby sued Snap for HEVC and AV1 patent infringement in Delaware and Rio de Janeiro on March 23, 2026, s…
Optimizing x265 with FFmpeg [22 Oct 26, 7:41pm] If you distribute 4K or HDR video, HEVC is a must-have, not a nice-to-have. That’s the format the TVs and devices that play 4K HDR expect, and H.264 isn’t a realistic alternative. But what if you’re distributing 1080p SDR video? In this case, H.264 p…
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 mat…
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 soci…
An asteroid's shape influences where a nuclear blast must be aimed to deflect it [3 Nov 26, 4:20pm] If a dangerous asteroid were headed toward Earth, one defense could be a nuclear detonation to blast one side with X-rays and nudge it off course. But new simulations suggest that for a lumpy, irregular asteroid, exactly where those X-rays hit could…
New survey measures make double consciousness testable in studies of Black Americans [3 Nov 26, 4:20pm] W.E.B. Du Bois' standing as a distinguished social scientist, with a distinguished body of work, has been subjected to the same marginalizing forces he examined in his pioneering scholarship on race, culture and Black social thought.
A type of Arctic Ocean bacteria may be using acetone to turn carbon into food [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] A newly identified Arctic Ocean bacterium may have an unusual way of making the building blocks it needs to grow. Using acetone, a common chemical in seawater, the bacteria incorporate carbon dioxide (CO₂) into their metabolisms, allowing them to sur…
Research ties heat to mealybug feeding and pasture damage [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] High temperatures change how mealybugs feed, and that could help explain why some pasture mealybug infestations do far more damage than others, according to early findings from Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists.
Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search [3 Nov 26, 3:40pm] Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spa…
What are the risks of using kratom? [1 Nov 26, 5:28pm] An expert explains what kratom is, what the risks are of using it, and where regulation of the drug stands at the federal and state levels.
Placenta protein may offer clues to brain development [31 Oct 26, 4:54pm] Researchers have discovered a protein in the placenta that plays a role in infant vascular development and potentially affects maternal health.
AI can get ‘brain rot’ like humans do [31 Oct 26, 4:15pm] Researchers have determined that when large language models are trained on frivolous online content, they can get brain rot like humans do.
The U.S. Midterms Were Once Again Flooded By Fake ‘Pink Slime’ Local Newspaper Propaganda [3 Nov 26, 1:25pm] For more than a generation, U.S. media academics have warned anybody who’d listen that the death of your local newspaper and the steady consolidation of local TV broadcasters was creating either “news deserts,” or local news that’s mostly just low-qu…
American Measles Cases Have More Than Doubled Last Year’s Record Totals [3 Nov 26, 4:24am] As I continue to say, you may be done with the measles, but the measles is not done with you, nor the entire country. Coinciding with the profane installment of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2025 saw the largest number of cases o…
New Studies Confirm Today’s Academic Publishing System Is A Terrible Deal For Society [2 Nov 26, 11:11pm] Walled Culture has just written about the possibility that recent AI breakthroughs might accelerate a move to open access, at least in the field of mathematics. It would be particularly welcome against a backdrop of relatively slow progress in the op…
The OpenAI Copyright Case Has Drawn A Mountain Of Amicus Briefs. We Sorted Them For You. [2 Nov 26, 9:15pm] Last week Cathy wrote about the amicus brief we filed in the big multi-district litigation (MDL) that consolidated a bunch of different lawsuits claiming that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed the plaintiffs’ copyrights by training AI models on their wo…
Governments Worldwide Are Shaping What AI Can Say About Politics [2 Nov 26, 7:05pm] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. With the U.S. midterms this week, about 1 in 5 voters has asked AI chatbots about elections and politics, a recent survey found. But many v…
exposed concrete blocks and red tiles shape garage-turned-apartment in barcelona [3 Nov 26, 3:45pm] in barcelona’s torre baró district, architecture studio lablanca transforms an irregular hillside garage into a guest apartment using a split-level layout adapted to the collserola topography.The post exposed concrete blocks and red tiles shape gara…
this living garden changes color to reveal how flowers may appear to moths [3 Nov 26, 11:50am] studio adrien lucca explores how a garden can contain several visual worlds at once, depending on the species looking at it.The post this living garden changes color to reveal how flowers may appear to moths appeared first on designboom | architectu…
smart home technology enters the bathroom with VitrA V-Care 3 [3 Nov 26, 11:30am] smart home technology is making its most significant leap straight into the bathroom. partnering with noa design studio, VitrA bathrooms debuts the v-care 3 smart toilet collection.The post smart home technology enters the bathroom with VitrA V-Care…
designboom listens: YONT studio on music, spaces, and the art of setting a mood [3 Nov 26, 10:25am] from nostalgic music videos and late-night anthems to tracks that shape the atmosphere of a space, the berlin-based creative studio shares the sounds behind its approach to interiors, installations, and objects.The post designboom listens: YONT stud…
