"No Steering Wheel, No Pedals": Musk's Taxi Service Bets On Public Trust [4 Sep 26, 2:15am] Elon Musk sent dozens of self-driving Cybercabs without steering wheels or brake pedals onto the streets of Austin, Texas, on Thursday, betting that Americans will overcome their fears of rides with "no control" and hop inside.
South Korea Preparing To Deploy Troops In Strait Of Hormuz: Report [3 Sep 26, 11:20pm] According to reports, the South Korean government had been discussing the scale and nature of a potential contribution with countries including the United States, Britain and France.
WordCamp US 2026: PHP conversation [3 Sep 26, 7:56pm] At WordCamp US 2026, a group of contributors gathered for an informal conversation about the relationship between the WordPress project and the PHP language and community. The discussion was held under the Chatham House Rule, so notes below are not a…
Dev Chat summary: September 2, 2026 [2 Sep 26, 7:29pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.2 We have a Proposal: Secrets API for WP 7.2 We are still waiting for a release squad to be published, probably early next week as per @jeffpaul…
What’s new in Gutenberg 23.9? (2 September) [2 Sep 26, 3:25pm] “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…
Dev Chat Agenda – September 2, 2026 [2 Sep 26, 12:54pm] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. Dev chat is back on Wednesdays again! The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The vario…
WordPress 7.1.1 Release Schedule [2 Sep 26, 5:00am] Since WordPress 7.1 was released, contributors have kept a close eye on incoming reports to the WordPress.org Support Forums, Trac, and the Gutenberg repository on GitHub. The volume and severity of tickets mean that the maintenance release s…
Microsoft just made Windows 11’s Photo Viewer less annoying, and it’s noticeably faster [4 Sep 26, 1:00am] Windows 11’s built-in photo viewer, ‘Microsoft Photos,’ is getting a big update with a cleaner look that drops Copilot-related features and even removes shortcuts to other apps from the toolbar. This new version 2026.11080.24002.0 is rolling ou…
Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal [3 Sep 26, 3:35pm] Hacker group published roughly 550GB of data after MAG reportedly refused to pay a ransom demand; the group says it gained access via exposed admin keys.The post Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal appear…
Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents [3 Sep 26, 3:15pm] New models, trained using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, aim to catch rogue agent behavior before it executes, without the latency of large-model review.The post Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents appeared first on Sec…
HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million for AI Runtime Security [3 Sep 26, 12:17pm] The Austin-based company will invest in agentic runtime security capabilities to secure AI coding agents.The post HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million for AI Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million [3 Sep 26, 12:00pm] The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks.The post AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million appeared fi…
153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web [3 Sep 26, 10:54am] Cybercriminals are offering digital scans of US and Canadian driver’s licenses, likely stolen from IDScan.net.The post 153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Internet's address book is becoming more private, but DNS still exposes browsing patterns [3 Sep 26, 10:00pm] When you enter a web address into your browser and arrive at the correct website a second later, a process takes place that most people never notice. Behind the scenes, one of the internet's most important systems is at work: DNS, the Domain Nam…
New design framework creates self-folding paper wearable sensors tailored to body shapes [3 Sep 26, 8:00pm] Wearable sensors, such as wristbands, rings and adhesive patches, are becoming increasingly common for health care monitoring, fitness tracking and human-machine interaction. While most wearable devices are made from flexible polymers or textiles, pa…
Who Owns J-B Weld And Where Are The Products Made? [3 Sep 26, 10:15pm] J-B Weld is known for its remarkably strong adhesives, but the story behind who controls the company and where its products come from is less familiar.
I refused to train the AI that could replace me [3 Sep 26, 10:00am] AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
Taiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labs [2 Sep 26, 10:00am] Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.
The Etruscans Made Astonishing Art. Why Aren’t They Better Known? [3 Sep 26, 9:23pm] Renée Dreyfus, who organized "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy," at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, joins the show this week.The post The Etruscans Made Astonishing Art. Why Aren’t They Better Known? appeared first o…
Forget a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The New George Lucas Museum Is Finally Here [3 Sep 26, 7:54pm] The long-awaited institution is opening in Los Angeles with an expansive view of visual storytelling—and a surprise Banksy.The post Forget a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The New George Lucas Museum Is Finally Here appeared first on Artnet News.
How Gloria Steinem Left Her Mark on Art [3 Sep 26, 7:17pm] The feminist trailblazer has died aged 92, but she lives on in paintings, photographs, and art theory. The post How Gloria Steinem Left Her Mark on Art appeared first on Artnet News.
Two vs. Three-State Color Theme Toggles [3 Sep 26, 2:54pm] There was a fun and intellectual debate recently about UI controls for dark/light mode. I think the story starts with Modern Web Guidance skills from Google, which recommend using a two-state toggle, apparently written by Lea Verou, and Bramus Van Da…
Having Fun with Vercel’s AI SDK and AI Gateway [31 Aug 26, 1:31pm] The why and how to get it installed and use it with different models, then actually build something. Plus a little Zod type safety for good measure.
Background Image Refraction in CSS [28 Aug 26, 1:22pm] "Liquid glass" design is helped along by offsetting/scaling the background as if you're looking through real glass. But that gets tricky with arbitrary CSS background positioning.
Hover Proximity Using Modern CSS [26 Aug 26, 12:54pm] You can always easily style :hover, but what if you want the NEXT item to have styling too? Or, just a smidge harder, the PREVIOUS item. How about multiple in any direction?
MicroLighter [25 Aug 26, 2:48pm] A brand new 2 KB client-side syntax highlighter from Dave. Includes a web component for very easy usage. Maybe these web components have legs, eh? The most interesting part about it is that it doesn’t touch the DOM. It uses the Highlight API to col…
The Index: Issue #196 [28 Aug 26, 9:55am] Before we get into this week's links, I just thought I'd let you know we're having a summer break next week, so the next issue won't be with you until September 11!Midnight Vinyl ClubA handy service that helps you explore music…
Personal website redesign project post: A CLI for adding new music to the collection [27 Aug 26, 11:55am] Right, we are at the end of iteration one.The last thing to do is to make my life a little easier. Markdown files work perfectly fine for the music collection, but they're a bit of a faff. Mostly because I always forget the front matter struct…
The Index: Issue #195 [21 Aug 26, 10:50am] BulletedThis is the stuff that's exciting about the AT protocol. Not the "new twitter" bullshit, but the endless possibilities that this technology opens up. It's using the fancy new private data stuff too.The future of CSS: tar…
A look at the geolocation HTML element and how it works [20 Aug 26, 11:55am] The <geolocation> HTML element does exactly what you might think it does. It’s a dedicated element that gets the user’s location, either once or continuously. The options are set using HTML attributes instead of JavaScript, but JavaScript i…
The Index: Issue #194 [14 Aug 26, 11:55am] Cooking NotebookJosh Nesbitt is an immense cook, trust us, and they've compiled some great recipes for this very nice website. They're using tabular recipe layouts, which is also a nice touch.Keeping type consistent in changing conditions…
Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6 [3 Sep 26, 4:00pm] In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade…
The good ol’ days of building Java [1 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the J…
When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct [28 Aug 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning complements probabilistic AI models, and the use of A…
Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization [25 Aug 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's hiring assistant a persistent, personalized state.
Amazing Winners of the 2026 Minimalist Photography Awards Prove That Less Is More [2 Sep 26, 7:20pm] Amazing Winners of the 2026 Minimalist Photography Awards Prove That Less Is MoreThe winners of the 2026 Minimalist Photography Awards have just been announced, celebrating the striking power of simplicity across 12 categories. Photographers from ne…
Man Born Completely Blind Overcomes Obstacles To Become Professional Surfer [2 Sep 26, 2:45pm] Man Born Completely Blind Overcomes Obstacles To Become Professional Surfer Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Derek Rabelo | Blind Surfer (@derekrabeloofficial) Derek Rabelo was always meant to be a surfer. When…
One of the World’s Most Elusive Wild Cats Is Caught on Camera in Iran [2 Sep 26, 1:50pm] One of the World’s Most Elusive Wild Cats Is Caught on Camera in IranThe elusive Pallas’s cat is native to the mountainous regions of Central Asia, but it’s incredibly rare to catch a glimpse of one. The small feline species with rounded ears…
The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment [3 Sep 26, 7:42pm] The company is about to formally launch the gold two-seater, with no steering wheel or pedals -- a move that could change Tesla forever.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once [3 Sep 26, 4:00pm] Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! [2 Sep 26, 9:00pm] From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on T…
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality [2 Sep 26, 6:00pm] Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. [27 Aug 26, 4:00pm] OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months.The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage [26 Aug 26, 8:12pm] Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4% via @sejournal, @gregjarboe [3 Sep 26, 7:00pm] Ten Speed's citation study shows product pages beating Reddit nearly six to one for B2B buyers, verified only after six pointed fact-check questions.The post Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4% appeared first on Searc…
Premios Juventud 2026: 10 Best Performances, Ranked [4 Sep 26, 3:00am] From Quevedo’s Canary Islands pride to Marc Anthony's salsa masterclass, these were the standout moments from the awards’ first trip to Spain.
Rethinking Application Updates: Solutions for Faster, More Efficient CVE Patching [3 Sep 26, 3:49pm] It’s one thing to know about CVEs that affect your business’s applications. It’s quite another, however, to go about fixing CVEs quickly, particularly in cases where a CVE impacts a third-party dependency that multiple applications use. The rea…
Coder and SpaceXAI Bring Agentic Coding to Regulated Enterprises [3 Sep 26, 1:18pm] Austin TX — Coder has announced Coder Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment for cloud coding agents, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. Cursor Cloud Agents can now run inside Coder workspaces on infrastructure the customer already ope…
The False-Heal Problem in AI Test Automation [2 Sep 26, 3:42pm] AI-powered test repair is often evaluated by one headline question: can it make a broken test run again? That question matters, but it misses the more dangerous failure mode. A test can return to green after an AI repair while checking the wrong elem…
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 [2 Sep 26, 3:23pm] Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, addressing issues such as performance, data retention, safeguards and price. The updates also target scientific discovery, as the company tested the capabilities of the models across many domain…
First Public Working Draft: The Profiles Vocabulary [20 Aug 26, 5:44am] The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.
Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML [11 Aug 26, 3:19pm] This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on {HTML} elements.
Munich Court Proposes €1.05 Monthly Codec Royalty for Netflix Premium Subscribers [20 Aug 26, 7:14pm] The 7th Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court just published detailed FRAND guidelines addressing standard-essential patent licensing. The guidelines include an analysis of how the court might calculate video codec royalties for streaming serv…
Codecs for CFOs [27 Jul 26, 7:00pm] Executive Summary The H.264 codec has proven remarkably durable, but demand for 4K efficiency, HDR compatibility, and small-screen/low-bitrate quality makes adopting advanced codecs like VP9, HEVC, AV1, and VVC inevitable for most services. However,…
Wowza’s New Video Intelligence Framework – Interviews [20 Jul 26, 12:00pm] Wowza just released the Video Intelligence Framework, or VIF. According to my article in Streaming Media Magazine, VIF is an AI inference module that runs inside Wowza Streaming Engine, rather than in a separate NVR/VMS stack or a cloud video AI serv…
A Billion Tons of Ice Are Hiding Under Utah, Study Finds [4 Sep 26, 2:01am] An incredible discovery.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
What is nostalgia and what does it mean? [31 Aug 26, 5:36pm] What is nostalgia? Why is it so pervasive? Why is it such an integral part of our humanity? Three academics weigh in.
Study sheds light on bat immunity mystery [31 Aug 26, 3:50pm] Researchers may have solved the mystery of why bats can carry viruses while rarely becoming seriously ill themselves.
Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under ‘Right To Repair’ Law [3 Sep 26, 10:19pm] At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech. That said, only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Color…
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. [3 Sep 26, 5:57pm] From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we’ve been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiti…
Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages) [3 Sep 26, 5:52pm] Become a language expert with a Babbel Language Learning subscription. With the app, you can use Babbel on desktop and mobile, and your progress is synchronized across devices. Want to practice where you won’t have Wi-Fi? Download lessons before yo…
a vase that follows the full arc of a flower’s life, even as petals fall [4 Sep 26, 2:30am] vita vase rethinks the vase around the full life cycle of a flower, making space for petals as they fall and for stems that unexpectedly rise towards the light.The post a vase that follows the full arc of a flower’s life, even as petals fall appea…
why japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes [3 Sep 26, 8:35pm] across japanese cities, tiny urban houses carve parking directly into their plans and sections to create a car-sized void.The post why japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes appeared first on designboom | architecture & design m…
MAD transforms 1923 art deco warehouse into rotterdam’s house for dance [3 Sep 26, 6:15pm] studios, public performance spaces, and a rooftop salle des fêtes will bring professional and amateur dancers together beside MAD’s neighboring fenix museum.The post MAD transforms 1923 art deco warehouse into rotterdam’s house for dance appear…
motorola gives its razr a quilted shell covered in swarovski crystals [3 Sep 26, 4:00pm] the folding phone pairs a dark quilted surface with thirty-five hand-placed crystals which catch light as the device moves. The post motorola gives its razr a quilted shell covered in swarovski crystals appeared first on designboom | architecture &a…
