Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Hires Law Firm That Struck Deal With Trump [13 Nov 26, 8:11pm] New-York based Paul Weiss, with more than 1,500 lawyers, long has been a go-to for corporate boards and executives facing regulatory scrutiny, misconduct allegations or other reputational crises.
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.4? (12 November) [13 Nov 26, 8:02pm] “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…
Introducing Mētis, Our New Flagship Theme [13 Nov 26, 10:51am] Mētis is a theme for creators in an unmapped moment: people who work in more than one form and keep finding their way as the work changes. It began as our first direction for the next default theme. As we shared when we introduced Ipsum, Mētis contin…
The Secrets API in WordPress 7.2 [11 Nov 26, 9:25pm] Update 2026-11-13: Corrected the beta migration steps for installs with more than one network: each network’s root key has to be re-encrypted, not only the current network’s. WordPress 7.2 adds the Secrets API, which stores credentials such as API ke…
Editor: The Options and View menus now use the new Menu component [11 Nov 26, 2:52pm] WordPress 7.2 updates two menus in the editor header, Options (the “⋮” button) and View, to use the new Menu component from @wordpress/ui. The change applies to both the post and site editors. The new menus have better keyboard navigation, proper che…
Dev Chat Agenda – November 11, 2026 [11 Nov 26, 4:15am] 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 tick…
Pixelated 125: Google’s glasses, Meta’s baggage [13 Nov 26, 10:00pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 125. This week, Abner has tried out Google’s new lineup of “Intelligent Eyewear,” and he’s got plenty to share with Damien and Will. Can Google nail the smart glasses experience while digging itself out of a privacy hole…
The UGREEN HomeAgent is a ‘local-first’ way to make your smart home even smarter [13 Nov 26, 9:23pm] Smart home tech often relies solely on cloud connections and pricey AI subscriptions, but UGREEN is delivering a local-first solution in its new HomeAgent collection, delivering cameras, speakers, and more that bring the bulk of the functionality and…
FAA Ground Stop Issued Due to ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ [13 Nov 26, 9:33pm] Federal officials have yet to say what caused the communications disruption or whether they are investigating a possible cyberattack.The post FAA Ground Stop Issued Due to ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In Other News: New CISA Director Nominee, Connected Car Hacking, Baker Tilly Data Breach [13 Nov 26, 3:20pm] Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens details security advisory policy, OpenAI Codex backdoor risk, Microsoft warns of model weight backdoors.The post In Other News: New CISA Director Nominee, Connected Car Hacking, Bak…
Microsoft Struggles to Restore Email and Other Services in a Global Outage [13 Nov 26, 1:47pm] Microsoft is trying different ways to identify the cause of the problem and get its servers back online, using “a measured approach to identify and repair affected infrastructure.”The post Microsoft Struggles to Restore Email and Other Services in a…
Apify Confirms Customer Data Accessed in Cyberattack [13 Nov 26, 12:41pm] The web scraping company says an intruder accessed customer accounts and obtained personal information or stored data.The post Apify Confirms Customer Data Accessed in Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SilentAir Hackers Intercept Calls, SMS From Inside Mobile Networks [13 Nov 26, 12:20pm] Enea says SilentAir hijacked mobile network nodes to intercept calls and messages, with Taiwanese subscribers the primary targets.The post SilentAir Hackers Intercept Calls, SMS From Inside Mobile Networks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hydropower study reveals energy potential in Appalachia [13 Nov 26, 11:20pm] Small hydropower systems could generate 22.6 megawatts of electricity in a remote part of western North Carolina, enough to power 5,000 homes in an area where the rugged, heavily forested terrain limits reliable access to energy, according to a recen…
Heat waves are threatening Europe's power supplies, researchers warn [13 Nov 26, 6:00pm] An international team of researchers has shown how heat waves impact European countries' ability to generate and supply power, and how they pose an increasing threat to vital national infrastructure.
New AI 'copilot' lets engineers guide structural designs as algorithms create them [13 Nov 26, 5:00pm] The use of algorithms to design structures has led to new parts optimized for ultralight aircraft, high-bandwidth antennas and F1 racing cars. But the best algorithmic design techniques still require lots of computation and time: Users only see the f…
AI helps digital humans move more naturally as they speak [13 Nov 26, 4:40pm] People communicate with more than words. A raised hand, a change in posture or a facial expression can help convey meaning and emotion. Now, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can translate speech into coordinated…
4 New Ryobi Tools Coming Out Soon (As Of November 2026) [13 Nov 26, 10:15pm] Ryobi is preparing more additions to its lineup, and they aren't all for the workshop. Its new products cover different kinds of jobs for your house and yard.
What Does 2-Stroke Oil Do To A Diesel Engine? [13 Nov 26, 9:45pm] After the shift to ultra-low-sulphur diesel, some drivers began mixing in two-stroke oil to restore lubrication. But do the pros of the oil outweigh its cons?
7 Ways AI Is Ruining Gaming [13 Nov 26, 9:30pm] From soaring GPU prices to mass layoffs and AI-generated slop, artificial intelligence is changing the gaming industry, and not necessarily for the better.
How To Tell If You Have All-Season Or Winter Tires [13 Nov 26, 8:45pm] There are a variety of car tires you can use, but do you know how to tell them apart? When it comes to all-season and winter tires, it's not too hard to tell.
Can A Leatherman Multitool Cut Barbed Wire? [13 Nov 26, 7:45pm] Leatherman multitools are great for all sorts of jobs, but how is it at cutting barbed wire? It's not impossible, but that's not the end of the story.
Juraj Ďuriš Paints “Dialóg” Beside Ústí nad Labem’s Main Station [8 Nov 26, 12:12pm] Juraj Ďuriš has painted Dialóg on the end wall of a railway building beside Ústí nad Labem’s main station. The large mural places a figurative work along one of the Czech city’s busiest approaches, where it can be seen from passing trains as well as…
Millo Paints “The Most Precious Treasure” Beside Alcantarilla’s Future Railway Station [7 Nov 26, 9:11pm] Millo has completed The Most Precious Treasure (El tesoro más valioso) in Alcantarilla, Murcia. In the mural, his characters open a chest and find clear water instead of gold or jewels. The work stands alongside murals by JDL and Rocket01, facing the…
Ratur Paints “Anchored” for Appartengo in Stigliano [7 Nov 26, 6:11pm] Ratur painted “Anchored,” an acrylic work on concrete, for the 2026 Appartengo public-art festival in Stigliano, Italy. The French artist, also known as Arthur Maslard, made it during the festival’s October programme of artist residencies and new wor…
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…
Is the ‘War on Beauty’ For Real? [13 Nov 26, 10:54pm] What to make of the 'Art Terrorism' controversy?The post Is the ‘War on Beauty’ For Real? appeared first on Artnet News.
Kehinde Wiley Owes Rent on New York Apartment, Suit Alleges [13 Nov 26, 9:40pm] The portrait painter's landlord is seeking at least $36,000.The post Kehinde Wiley Owes Rent on New York Apartment, Suit Alleges appeared first on Artnet News.
Dorotheum Brings Together Modernist Masters and Postwar Heavyweights in Vienna [13 Nov 26, 9:20pm] We take a closer look at some of the top lots from the Modern Art and Contemporary Art I sales at Palais Dorotheum this month.The post Dorotheum Brings Together Modernist Masters and Postwar Heavyweights in Vienna appeared first on Artnet News.
Creating Diagrams and Graphs Using Modern CSS [11 Nov 26, 2:19pm] The final part of the connectors series: dynamic connections that pick the closest sides, static connections that always leave from the same edge, and some bendy, zig-zag, and spring connectors, all built with anchor positioning, border-shape, shape(…
My Interop 2027 Picks [10 Nov 26, 12:55pm] What web platform features are we all wishing for perfect cross-browser interoperability next year?
TanStack AI’s Sandbox API [9 Nov 26, 12:56pm] Part 3 of this intro to TanStack AI covers the Sandbox API: spinning up a remote sandbox on Vercel or Railway, running Claude Code inside it with GitHub access, and having it clone your repo, add a feature, and open a pull request.
true or false in CSS [6 Nov 26, 1:38pm] CSS doesn’t have a boolean type, but it does have the true and false keywords. Register a custom property that only accepts them, flip it with :has(), and container style queries turn messy :checked selector combinations into readable conditions.
Data Access Testing With @testcontainers [4 Nov 26, 12:58pm] Testing data access code has always been awkward: unit tests want to be fast and isolated, and a real database is neither. With Docker and @testcontainers you can spin up a throwaway Postgres inside your Vitest suite, push your Drizzle schema into it…
Multi-Column Different-Speed Scrolling [3 Nov 26, 8:24pm] Scroll-Driven Animations can step in and make scrolling feel different even if you aren't actually interfering with the actual page scroll.
Your coding agent shouldn't grade its own homework [13 Nov 26, 5:27pm] AI coding agents can now write design docs, mock up frontends, and implement entire projects end to end. But can they be trusted to verify that their own code actually works?
Agentic search doesn't find pages, it assembles answers [13 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan sits down with Jeff Wang, co-founder at EXA, to talk about the huge scale required to support trillions of agentic searches, the technical complexities of building custom embeddings and performant vector databases from scratch, and the need to d…
Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem [10 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways…
Welcome to life in the chip age [6 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive environmental and geopolitical footprint of AI dat…
White House Extends Jones Act Waiver Into 2027 [13 Nov 26, 9:13pm] On Friday, President Donald Trump decided to extend the long-running waiver of the Jones Act to allow foreign-crewed tankers to keep carrying energy p...
Supply Chain Vulnerability [13 Nov 26, 6:18pm] On the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, officials from Qatar held an economic forum.Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister of Forei...
Lucas Museum Offers $2 Sandwiches and 25¢ Souvenirs To Keep It Affordable for All [12 Nov 26, 8:20pm] Lucas Museum Offers $2 Sandwiches and 25¢ Souvenirs To Keep It Affordable for AllThe Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has finally opened, after 17 years of work put into its creation by George Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson. While it…
Hundreds Gathered To Try To Move Chicago’s ‘Bean’ Sculpture 7 Inches to the Left [12 Nov 26, 6:30pm] Hundreds Gathered To Try To Move Chicago’s ‘Bean’ Sculpture 7 Inches to the LeftOn Sunday, November 8, hundreds of people gathered around Chicago’s iconic Cloud Gate sculpture (aka “The Bean”) with one unusual goal: moving it 7 inches to the left. I…
Winners of the Inaugural PERSPA Awards Celebrate the Beauty of Architecture Photography [12 Nov 26, 5:35pm] Winners of the Inaugural PERSPA Awards Celebrate the Beauty of Architecture PhotographyA small shift in perspective can completely transform the way something looks. This seems especially true in architectural photography. A sprawling building can s…
Here Is the One Photograph Confirmed To Be a Young Vincent van Gogh at 19 Years Old [12 Nov 26, 3:45pm] Here Is the One Photograph Confirmed To Be a Young Vincent van Gogh at 19 Years OldDespite painting himself around 35 times, there is only one confirmed photographic portrait of Vincent van Gogh that clearly shows his face. Taken in 1873, when the a…
Cj Hendry’s Celebrated Pop-up Flower Shop Arrives in Mexico City This Month [12 Nov 26, 2:50pm] Cj Hendry’s Celebrated Pop-up Flower Shop Arrives in Mexico City This MonthMexico City is a city of flowers. Around the Day of the Dead, the main avenues are painted orange with thousands upon thousands of marigolds, which later make way for red poi…
GitHub availability report: October 2026 [13 Nov 26, 12:20am] In October, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.The post GitHub availability report: October 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills [12 Nov 26, 10:54pm] Agent skills capture repeatable engineering work in files teams can review and reuse, while tools, project context, and permissions remain specific to the host that runs them.The post Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills a…
Git security vulnerabilities announced [10 Nov 26, 6:00pm] Git is releasing updates addressing six security vulnerabilities affecting recursive clones, reference handling, merges, binary patches, and imports. Here is what users need to know.The post Git security vulnerabilities announced appeared first on T…
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering [6 Nov 26, 10:15pm] Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment.The post Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide…
Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture [5 Nov 26, 8:23pm] GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.The post Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
AI Bot Management: Why SEOs Need More Than Block Lists via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo [13 Nov 26, 8:00pm] Blocking an AI training crawler isn’t the same as blocking a retrieval bot. Here’s why SEO needs deliberate bot policies, not block lists.The post AI Bot Management: Why SEOs Need More Than Block Lists appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
What Reddit Reviews Reveals About Your Products via @sejournal, @brentcsutoras [13 Nov 26, 1:00pm] Spot recurring product complaints and competitor comparisons with Reddit Reviews, then check source comments for the context behind the summaries.The post What Reddit Reviews Reveals About Your Products appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Ads Rolls Out New Invalid Traffic Overview Card via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson [12 Nov 26, 9:01pm] Google Ads introduces an Invalid Traffic Overview Card showing estimated savings, post-billing credits, and campaign-level reports. Here's what advertisers need to know.The post Google Ads Rolls Out New Invalid Traffic Overview Card appeared first o…
Nobody Owns the Handoff: Why Integration Defects Have No Home in Multi-Vendor Programs [13 Nov 26, 9:12pm] The fix takes six hours. The argument over whose fix it is takes three weeks — and the schedule absorbs every day of it. Picture it, hypothetically: a record crosses from Vendor A to Vendor B and arrives corrupted, so Vendor B’s intake rejects it and…
Amazon releases AWS Emulator to allows its services to run locally [12 Nov 26, 5:14pm] Amazon has released AWS Emulator, a local emulator of AWS services, written entirely by autonomous agents, for building and testing AWS applications. One of the keys in having agents create the emulator, without humans writing or reviewing the code,…
Why So Many AI Prototypes Never Make It Past the Database [12 Nov 26, 4:33pm] Originally, I began using PostgreSQL around 1997 at a UK social housing provider where I was head of IT. We chose Postgres (which at the time was version 6.3.2) so that tenants could see their rent accounts online without per-user licensing costs for…
AI-Assisted Mainframe Modernization: Progress Does Not Mean Production-Ready [11 Nov 26, 8:50pm] If you ask most companies where they are on their mainframe modernization journey, they will tell you that they are “about 80 percent converted.” They’ll tell you that the dashboards are green, the new Java compiles, and the tests are passing. Howeve…
Google releases A2UI 1.0 for generative UI [11 Nov 26, 5:46pm] Google today has released A2UI 1.0, what it is calling the first stable version of its open protocol for generative UI. Human-agent work today involves either written prompts or texts and speech on the human side, and a huge amount of text is returne…
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…
Fiji petrel eludes 10-day search as communities aim to protect bird's habitat [13 Nov 26, 11:40pm] A new study details scientists' search for one of the planet's rarest birds in the waters off Fiji's Gau Island. Spanning 10 days, the expedition yielded no verified sightings of the critically endangered Fiji petrel, one of the world's most elusive…
Unstable plasma heats itself with waves it generates, experiments reveal [13 Nov 26, 11:20pm] Fusion power is expected to be a sustainable energy source that emits no carbon dioxide during electricity generation. To achieve this, research is underway worldwide to confine high-temperature plasma using magnetic fields. To initiate a fusion reac…
Same farms, different answers: When nitrogen pollution estimates don't add up [13 Nov 26, 11:00pm] To reduce nitrogen pollution stemming from synthetic fertilizer and livestock waste, California's Central Valley relies on five data sets to estimate surplus nitrogen. However, most parts of the United States use just one or two data sets—the U.S. De…
Hidden 'master switch' allows bacteria to breach the body's defenses [13 Nov 26, 10:40pm] Researchers at Penn Dental Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown molecular mechanism by which bacteria rapidly compromise the body's protective barriers, a finding that could reshape how scientists approach a wide range of serious diseases.
U.S. Supreme Court Deals Final Blow To Corporate Human Rights Accountability [13 Nov 26, 11:13pm] For the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly weakening the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a key human rights law that allows foreign nationals to sue persons or entities in civil court for harms resulting from violations of internation…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: When The Chips Are Down [13 Nov 26, 9:09pm] Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or g…
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle [13 Nov 26, 6:58pm] The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle has 9 courses teaching you everything from reading tablature and basic fingering to more advanced skills. You can start at the very beginning and work your way through lessons on strumming, ear training, and jamming…
Pick Another Senator: How The Open Internet Helped Scott Colom Win Mississippi [13 Nov 26, 5:30pm] By now you’ve seen that after over a week of waiting to make sure that every vote was counted, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the new Senator from Mississippi — the first Black senator the st…
kengo kuma builds a circular thatched house from local timber and earth in japan [13 Nov 26, 7:10pm] kengo kuma brings traditional japanese thatching techniques together with 3D-scanned timber construction with this rural house.The post kengo kuma builds a circular thatched house from local timber and earth in japan appeared first on designboom | a…
arnaud behzadi on designing beyond beauty, from paris’ doobie’s to pavyllon lyon [13 Nov 26, 1:28pm] the french architect discusses how memory, emotion, and hospitality shape two new restaurants, from a parisian icon to a culinary school in lyon.The post arnaud behzadi on designing beyond beauty, from paris’ doobie’s to pavyllon lyon appeared first…
OPPO find X10 flagship smartphones capture beauty with 200mp hasselblad cameras [13 Nov 26, 11:01am] from open gate video to AI editing, OPPO’s new smartphones expand the toolkit for photographers and filmmakers.The post OPPO find X10 flagship smartphones capture beauty with 200mp hasselblad cameras appeared first on designboom | architecture & des…
bacteria become the builders in ETH zurich’s exploration of living architecture [13 Nov 26, 10:10am] by bringing microorganisms into digital fabrication, karen antorveza paez investigates how biological activity can reshape the relationship between architecture, materials and nonhuman life.The post bacteria become the builders in ETH zurich’s explo…
