Exploring a design for Feature Notifications [29 Oct 26, 1:21pm] WordPress doesn’t have a good way to tell people what’s happening on their site. Plugins fall back on admin notices that push the page down, so the things that matter, like a failed payment, a security update or a teammate’s question, get lost…
Dev Chat Agenda – October 28, 2026 [28 Oct 26, 4:47am] Dev Chat on October 28th is canceled, and will resume next week 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 di…
Help shape future Release Roadmaps by Nov 16th [26 Oct 26, 10:12pm] For each WordPress release, a roadmap is pulled together to share what’s planned and provide opportunities for folks to contribute. Over the last three years, these posts have taken roughly the same shape and approach, with some variation around th…
When Risk Becomes Personal: What Security Leaders Can Learn From a Cancer Diagnosis [29 Oct 26, 4:30pm] Risk managers are trained to spot weak signals, plan for disruption and make hard decisions under uncertainty. But the discipline looks different when the risk is not a system or an enterprise, but you.The post When Risk Becomes Personal: What Secur…
Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model [29 Oct 26, 3:01pm] Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program.The post Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model appeared first on SecurityWeek…
How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI [29 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps [29 Oct 26, 2:18pm] Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.The post Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps appeared first on SecurityWee…
Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities [29 Oct 26, 1:42pm] The flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, authorization bypasses, and privilege escalation.The post Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New 'four As' framework for the governance of AI [29 Oct 26, 10:00pm] Experts have unveiled a new proposal for the governance of artificial intelligence as they argue the debate has moved beyond simply whether to slow the pace of AI development.
Record-setting 2.75 gigahertz LED designed for fast, energy-efficient data centers [29 Oct 26, 9:40pm] A collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering and the University of Notre Dame has broken the world record for optical switching speed in quantum well LEDs. The gallium nitride micro-LED de…
Making bad weather on purpose to test camera and sensor performance [29 Oct 26, 8:40pm] Many buildings and sites tied to national security rely on cameras and sensor networks to detect people and other objects nearby, but weather conditions can quickly obscure their view. To understand how these systems perform, Sandia National Laborato…
New virtual assistant streamlines one of the most advanced microscopes [29 Oct 26, 7:40pm] Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, exactly, are the atoms? The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything about how a material behaves in the real world—h…
Angstrom-scale water channels help membranes recover lithium and purify salt [29 Oct 26, 6:20pm] Researchers at Kobe University and their collaborators have developed a polymer membrane that allows singly charged ions to pass through rapidly while effectively blocking multiply charged ions, whether positively or negatively charged. The work is p…
Is It Safe To Use WD-40 On Your Leather Car Seats? [30 Oct 26, 2:15am] While its manufacturer says you can use WD-40 to clean and condition leather car seats, there are some caveats to doing so according to experts.
What Is A Low-Drag Buoy And What Is It Used For? [30 Oct 26, 12:15am] Many different buoys are informational, but there are some that have more practical uses for commercial sailors and fishermen. This includes low-drag buoys.
Why Do Some Trucks In Missouri Have No Rear License Plates? [29 Oct 26, 10:15pm] There are many states that don't require front license plates, but some Missouri trucks are missing rear plates instead. There's a good reason for it, though.
Do Ethernet Cables Expire? Here's How Long They Can Last [29 Oct 26, 9:15pm] Ethernet cables provide a physical connection to the internet, and like anything physical, they can degrade or become damaged over time, reducing performance.
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 it…
A Gallery Known for Modern Masters Spotlights a More Discreet Painter [29 Oct 26, 9:32pm] Galerie de l’Institut, usually associated with the likes of Picasso and Chagall, turns this autumn to Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, a painter with whom it has long-standing ties.The post A Gallery Known for Modern Masters Spotlights a More Discreet Pain…
London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International [29 Oct 26, 9:09pm] Andrew Russeth, Margaret Carrigan, and Katya Kazakina rehash the past few weeks of art fairs, protests, and auctions around the world. The post London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International appeared first on Artnet News.
Will Art Basel Compensate Galleries for Closing Early in Paris? [29 Oct 26, 8:20pm] 'They are a corporation,' one dealer said. 'We are small businesses.'The post Will Art Basel Compensate Galleries for Closing Early in Paris? appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside the U.K. Books of Three Mega-Galleries [29 Oct 26, 7:23pm] Pace posted a loss in 2025, and Zwirner’s revenue jumped 56 percent. Read on.The post Inside the U.K. Books of Three Mega-Galleries appeared first on Artnet News.
Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era? [29 Oct 26, 7:00am] Plus, the 16th-century woman who made history with a self-portrait and other art world matters.The post Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era? appeared first on Artnet News.
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 work…
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…
Building an Isolated Preview for AI-Generated HTML [22 Oct 26, 6:17pm] An iframe with srcdoc feels like a safe place to render HTML a model wrote. It isn't. Three tests show how the preview can read your page, escape the frame, and phone home, and four layers of protection close each hole.
“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.
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…
Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated [23 Oct 26, 7:40am] Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision in the era of AI, and the crit…
Olympic Champions to headline Dubai’s FIBA 3×3 World Tour event [29 Oct 26, 2:44pm] DUBAI: Olympic gold medallists Worthy de Jong and Dimeo van der Horst will be among the leading names competing when Dubai hosts a FIBA 3×3 World Tour event on 6–7 November, bringing 14 teams to a purpose-built court at Festival Bay, Dubai Festiva…
Clockwork wins Gold and Silver at inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards [29 Oct 26, 2:19pm] Dubai: Clockwork, a Bahraini experiential marketing and brand activation agency with an office in Riyadh, received a Gold Dragon and a Silver Dragon at the inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards ceremony held in Dubai today. Clockwork was recognized for it…
Sharjah International Travel and Tourism Forum Concludes Its 13th Edition [29 Oct 26, 1:58pm] Sharjah: The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) concluded the 13th edition of the Sharjah International Travel and Tourism Forum (SITTF) yesterday evening at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre. Held under the patronage…
Investors Reward Huntington Ingalls as Navy Revenue Booms [29 Oct 26, 10:26pm] Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock price jumped 13 percent on Thursday after the release of the firm's third quarter results, which contained very p...
Astronomers Say They Have Discovered the First-Ever Green Star [29 Oct 26, 4:35pm] Astronomers Say They Have Discovered the First-Ever Green StarAstronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered the first-ever green star. This exciting find is part of a larger study on the true colors of white dwarf stars. While this may in…
Colorado’s Largest Wildlife Overpass Has Cut Animal-Vehicle Collisions by 91% [29 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Colorado’s Largest Wildlife Overpass Has Cut Animal-Vehicle Collisions by 91%Before North America’s largest wildlife overpass was built on a stretch of highway between Denver and Colorado Springs, an animal was hit by a vehicle almost every day.…
This Wholesome Livestream From Finland Lets You Watch Puppies 24/7 [29 Oct 26, 1:50pm] This Wholesome Livestream From Finland Lets You Watch Puppies 24/7 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yle Pentulive (@ylepentulive) If you’re guilty of doom scrolling, you’ll know the Internet can sometimes be a pretty dark place.…
Magnum Photos’ Square Print Sale Features More Than 70 Images Blurring Fact and Fiction [28 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Magnum Photos’ Square Print Sale Features More Than 70 Images Blurring Fact and FictionMagnum Photos’ latest Square Print Sale, Fact/Fiction, features more than 70 photographs by Magnum photographers and estates. With prints starting at $110, th…
Old Town San Diego Shop Honors Dolly Parton With Day of the Dead Ofrenda [28 Oct 26, 5:30pm] Old Town San Diego Shop Honors Dolly Parton With Day of the Dead Ofrenda Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por TiendaDeReyes (@tiendadereyes) Day of the Dead is around the corner. And with it, the Mexican diaspora,…
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big. [29 Oct 26, 11:42pm] Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
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 a…
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure [21 Oct 26, 4:00pm] We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.The post The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure appeared…
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…
HyperX Omen 35L review: A polished gaming PC for deep pockets [29 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Premium styling, quiet operation, and impressive performance elevates the HyperX Omen 35L into competition with the best the market has to offer. But whether it's worth the money depends on which configuration you choose.
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…
Stop Blaming Code Review for AI’s Delivery Problem [29 Oct 26, 7:22pm] Most engineering teams I talk to who use AI coding tools say they’ve never been more productive. Some tell me they’re building two to three times as many features as they used to. But pushing those features into production – that’s a differ…
SuperPlane 1.0: An open-source software factory [28 Oct 26, 6:02pm] SuperPlane has launched SuperPlane 1.0, an open source software factory that gives engineering teams a shared, repeatable workflow around their coding agents, from ticket to verified pull request, with people deciding what ships. SuperPlane checks wh…
Qt Group Launches Tool for Embedded UX Design [28 Oct 26, 5:53pm] Qt Group has announced Clate, a no-code, AI-native environment for designers to create embedded user interfaces, even on resource-constrained hardware. Designing an interface can be problematic due to the severe resource limits present on the target…
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 A…
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.
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…
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…
Small molecular twists may strengthen nature's magnetic compass [30 Oct 26, 5:00am] A collaborative research team led by Yasuhiro Kobori at Kobe University, together with researchers from Toho University, Saitama University, Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Freiburg, has identified a potential molecular mechanism…
Lab-aged microplastics enable tests of interactions with contaminants [30 Oct 26, 2:20am] A newly published study advances our knowledge of how microplastics may age in the environment and whether they stick to other contaminants as they do so. Microplastics (MPs) are tiny plastic pieces that measure less than 5 millimeters (about 0.2 inc…
New AI tool helps scientists identify bacteria hidden in soil [30 Oct 26, 2:00am] A handful of soil holds a crowded world of bacteria, fungi and other organisms. Scientists can collect their DNA, but much of it remains difficult to identify. Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and partner institutions have devel…
Electronic skin lights up under pressure [28 Oct 26, 8:15pm] Researchers have developed a next-generation electronic skin that can both sense and directly visualize pressure in real time.
How does anger affect whether people vote? [28 Oct 26, 7:51pm] New research digs into how anger might motivate political activism and, ultimately, influence who turns out to vote.
Study: America’s Measles Problem Is Domestic, Not RFK Jr.’s Dirty Foreigners [30 Oct 26, 3:21am] To state that RFK Jr. says things that are just plainly wrong is to state the obvious. His waffling claims about the dangers of vaccines are wrong. His various other pet conspiracy theories, such as chemtrails and damage to humans from EMF, are also…
Your Diary Has A Creditor: What Character.ai’s Bankruptcy Does To Freedom Of Thought [29 Oct 26, 10:23pm] What is covered by freedom of thought in the AI age is being decided by courts that are hearing cases about something entirely different. The Chapter 11 filing of Character.ai on October 12 is the second such case in a year, and it shows that the rec…
Court Tosses Trump’s Clumsy Attempt To Scuttle Musk Memphis Data Center Pollution Lawsuit [29 Oct 26, 8:29pm] Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NA…
The Streisand Effect Case Might Have Played Out Differently In Germany [29 Oct 26, 6:03pm] As you may know, The Streisand Effect was originally coined right here on Techdirt in 2005, though it referred back to an event from 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued Ken Adelman, because his project to map how erosion impacted the California coastline…
Daily Deal: Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball [29 Oct 26, 5:58pm] This Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball is a USB-rechargeable toy featuring 360-degree rolling movements, obstacle avoidance, and changing LED lights to help keep cats entertained. It’s built out of scratch-resistant and bite-resistant material…
apple breaks a 16-year design rule with its first touchscreen macbook pro [29 Oct 26, 6:19pm] after years of reserving touchscreens for its mobile devices, apple allows creatives to create digital content directly on the display. The post apple breaks a 16-year design rule with its first touchscreen macbook pro appeared first on designboom |…
historic perugia newsstand reconfigures into stepped red oak mini reading kiosk [29 Oct 26, 4:15pm] along perugia’s sant’ercolano staircase, giuseppe arezzi transforms edicola 518 from a traditional newsstand into a micro-architecture featuring stepped oak seating, a drinking fountain, and street-step furniture.The post historic perugia newsst…
these glowing amber sculptures begin with a natural polymer produced by tiny insects [29 Oct 26, 11:50am] ori orisun merhav explores a future of multispecies design, where biological processes inform how we manufacture and inhabit the world.The post these glowing amber sculptures begin with a natural polymer produced by tiny insects appeared first on de…
