G7 Nations To Release 100 Million Barrels Of Oil Amid Fuel Price Surge [2 Oct 26, 6:22pm] The announcement came after G7 leaders held talks to coordinate action on fuel prices, after the United States upped pressure on Europe to release its strategic reserves by threatening a diesel export ban.
Russia's New Weapon Against Ukraine: AI-Generated Songs [2 Oct 26, 6:21pm] In total, as many as 981 songs were found to be "pro-Russian war propaganda" according to Terrecon, with a majority of them being released after 2024 when AI song generators like Sudo and Udio took over the market.
Core Trac and GitHub Team Spring Cleaning (Southern Hemisphere edition) [2 Oct 26, 5:21pm] Over the last few days, there have been a few actions taken on Trac and in the WordPress GitHub organization that are aimed at clarifying who is looking after areas of the project, and making it easier for contributors to do their work. Maintainer Cl…
Presence API: What’s new [2 Oct 26, 5:11pm] Since its announcement, the Presence API feature plugin has grown to show who's working where across a whole multisite network, with post locks that leave the posts cache alone.
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September) [30 Sep 26, 9:35am] “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 30, 2026 [30 Sep 26, 12:18am] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer…
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…
Nadella has lost the plot calling Copilot an OS again, it’s a web app on Windows 11 [2 Oct 26, 9:52am] We looked inside Copilot build 154.0.4258.37 and found a 520MB Edge build that even carries Edge Game Assist, a copilotapp_proxy.exe identical to Edge's, no WebView2 calls, and a .NET 10 WinUI host for voice and vision. The app used 760.6MB of R…
I turned Windows 11’s useless Copilot key into a screenshot button, here’s how [1 Oct 26, 10:02pm] Your Copilot key can do far more than open Copilot. Windows 11's Keyboard settings now turn it back into Right Ctrl or the Context Menu key, while PowerToys Keyboard Manager can map it to screenshots, clipboard history, Everything search, mic mu…
Pixelated 119: 50 days later, it’s still a phone [2 Oct 26, 8:30pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 119. This week, Ben Schoon fills in for Damien as we discuss our first Pixel 11a leak and the first 50 days of the flagship Pixel 11 series. We also dive into our thoughts on Amazon’s new $80 button-equipped Kindle case…
Gemini for Android Auto is just giving up on answers for some drivers [2 Oct 26, 7:45pm] The promise of Gemini for Android Auto is huge, as the AI assistant is theoretically more capable than Assistant was. But, as it’s now becoming the only option, a weird issue is leaving Gemini for Android Auto perhaps less than useless, as it just…
The Pixel 4 is still my favorite Google smartphone hardware, and it holds up [2 Oct 26, 7:30pm] Google Pixel has evolved tremendously over the years, with some radically different designs showing up between generations. As the lineup turns 10, the Pixel 4 remains the one that stands out as my favorite smartphone hardware Google has made yet, an…
Friday’s Android app deals and freebies: ISLANDERS, Newtro Boxing, Planescape, more [2 Oct 26, 6:33pm] Alongside the early fall Prime Day deals at Amazon, all of the best Google Play app and game deals are now ready, including ISLANDERS: Mobile, Cell Clone Wars:Pro, Minabo: A walk through life, Unreal Life, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced, Kero Blaster,…
macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor [2 Oct 26, 1:15pm] The dropper “carries a complete universal Mach-O inside itself, roughly 756 KB in the development build, and extracts it at runtime.The post macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account [2 Oct 26, 11:46am] Hackers used the account, which has 13 million followers, to amplify a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency account.The post Crypto Scammers Hijack Microsoft’s Official X Account appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In Rare Move, Alleged Iranian State Hacker Extradited to US [2 Oct 26, 11:14am] Amir Barati, an alleged member of the Mabna Institute, was indicted for targeting universities, private organizations, and government entities in the US and abroad.The post In Rare Move, Alleged Iranian State Hacker Extradited to US appeared first o…
Warlock Expands SharePoint Exploitation in Critical Infrastructure Attacks [2 Oct 26, 9:34am] The China-based hacking group has been exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities since July 2025.The post Warlock Expands SharePoint Exploitation in Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Visual illusion reveals what today's AI vision is missing [2 Oct 26, 4:20pm] Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. A new study by York University researchers uses a common illusion to ask: If artificial intelligence is mea…
Even when AI behaves just like us, people still rate it as less conscious than humans [2 Oct 26, 4:00pm] Stories about AI systems deceiving users, cooperating with one another or pursuing their own goals increasingly invite us to talk about them as if they had minds of their own. But do people really believe that AI is conscious? A new LMU study suggest…
The electric car myths Australians can't shake [2 Oct 26, 4:00pm] Electric cars are dangerous, bad for the environment and impossible to use in the outback. These are just some of the claims circulating among Australians skeptical of the switch to EVs, new research finds.
Can You Put A Twin Turbo On A 4-Cylinder Engine? [2 Oct 26, 8:45pm] Can you put twin turbos on a four-cylinder engine? Discover the mechanical airflow challenges, compounding lag, and rare factory exceptions.
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own [30 Sep 26, 10:00am] At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch [2 Oct 26, 6:41pm] The blue-chip firm briefly ran three New York spaces. It will continue in Chelsea.The post Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch appeared first on Artnet News.
Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M [2 Oct 26, 5:32pm] Plus: New York's Salon 94 plans paris space, the Rijksmuseum and the Prado team up, and more industry intel.The post Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M appeared first on Artnet News.
Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More! [2 Oct 26, 5:21pm] Plus, Rashid Johnson's new girlfriend, big lawsuits, Kanye West, and more juicy art-world gossip.The post Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More! appeared first on Artnet News.
Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life [2 Oct 26, 4:59pm] Nearly six decades after the Pop master dropped his first book, the playful art object is getting a second life.The post Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life appeared first on Artnet News.
Fallbacks for CSS `progress()` [2 Oct 26, 2:10pm] The new CSS progress() function calculates a value between 0 and 1, representing its position within a defined range. While awaiting broader browser support, users can manually implement this using other methods.
Front-End Checklist [1 Oct 26, 2:23pm] David Dias has been working on “Front-End Checklist” stuff for a decade, and it looks like this latest version of it a little over a year. There is loads of good general advice in it that can be easy to forget: Now it’s all AI’d up, which mak…
You Don’t Know Bidi (And Neither Does ChatGPT) [30 Sep 26, 4:38pm] Text that is set in a left-to-right *and* right-to-left language, mid-sentence, is a thing. Getting it right means understanding it, because your LLM isn't going to know.
Modern Web Types [29 Sep 26, 8:18pm] The web platform evolves. When it does, other tech has to catch up, and not just LLMs. Another one is TypeScript types. Philip Walton explains: For example, here’s an error I got just the other day when trying to use element-scoped view transitions…
The Index: Issue #200 [2 Oct 26, 8:55am] It's issue #200 of The Index! A real milestone that we should celebrate with a dedicated CSS links issue. Let's get stuck in to the good links.Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floatsThe Boss™ is here with some fantastic news on…
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…
Constraints that make developers faster [2 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI agents.
Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent. [30 Sep 26, 5:00pm] AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources disagree, or when they become stale.
Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal [30 Sep 26, 4:00pm] Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a Stack Internal workspace for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
Your phone is AI’s newest hardware [29 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app interactions.
New Successful Pilot at the Valenciaport Sandbox [2 Oct 26, 5:05pm] The Valenciaport Sandbox adds a new pilot to its track record as a testing ground for innovation in the port and logistics environment. This time, the...
US Coast Guard Has Stopped Vessels Carrying Oil to Cuba [2 Oct 26, 3:09pm] The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that it has been stopping vessels transporting oil to Cuba, with two ships stopped earlier in the summer. It has resume...
US Sends Third Carrier Strike Group to the Gulf [2 Oct 26, 1:23pm] US officials in Washington have briefed the press that a third US Carrier Strike Group, led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), is on its way to t...
New Study Reveals Greenland and Antarctica Have Lost 12.5 Trillion Tons of Ice Since 1979 [1 Oct 26, 4:35pm] New Study Reveals Greenland and Antarctica Have Lost 12.5 Trillion Tons of Ice Since 1979We’ve all heard about the ice sheets melting, but what do rising sea levels actually mean for us? A new study published in Scientific Data reveals the impact…
Rembrandt Self-Portrait Returns To German City 80 Years After It Was Secretly Removed [1 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Rembrandt Self-Portrait Returns To German City 80 Years After It Was Secretly RemovedAfter 80 years away, one of Rembrandt’s early self-portraits has returned to the German city of Gotha in the Herzogliches Museum. The painting, which shows the ar…
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music [2 Oct 26, 9:09pm] Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House) [2 Oct 26, 5:48pm] This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also…
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) [2 Oct 26, 5:00pm] With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. [2 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow.The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 [1 Oct 26, 3:07pm] From verifying AI-written code to securing npm dependencies, these are the sessions I’m building my Universe agenda around.The post 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead [29 Sep 26, 3:00pm] Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source.The post Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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.
When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [2 Oct 26, 12:00pm] Google's AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI's dots keep requests active, with different tasks, sources, controls, and questions about site visibility.The post When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction appeared first on Search Engine Jo…
Sony brings AI-powered upscaling to the standard PS5 [2 Oct 26, 2:10pm] The base PS5 is getting an optimized version of Sony's AI-powered upscaling technology, offering developers a new way to improve image quality and stability without demanding more powerful hardware.
Allstacks Gives Product Managers a Dedicated Senior Engineer [2 Oct 26, 7:38pm] RALEIGH, N.C. — Allstacks, the product and engineering intelligence layer for modern development, has announced Allstacks Code Engine (ACE), a new Product Studio capability that gives product managers direct answers about how their product’s cod…
SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 1 , 2026 — IBM Bob, JetBrains Air, Qodo 3.0 [1 Oct 26, 6:34pm] IBM announces self-hosted deployment for IBM Bob IBM Bob, the company’s agentic software development platform, helps teams move beyond code generation to apply AI to the work of software delivery and modernization. The platform enables organizati…
Leapwork Play a continuous validation platform for Playwright test suites [1 Oct 26, 5:57pm] Leapwork Play, available today, is an AI-native continuous validation platform designed for users to build, run and manage Playwright test suites at scale. The open-source Playwright framework has become popular for enabling organizations to keep tes…
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.
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…
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…
Mowing less, spraying smarter give pollinators a boost [2 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Roadsides may not look like wildlife habitat, but a few simple changes to how they are maintained could turn them into much better places for pollinators. A new uOttawa-led study found that reducing mowing and herbicide use along rural roadsides led…
Scientists discover first type I superconductor that breaks time-reversal symmetry [2 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with no resistance and expel magnetic fields when cooled to ultralow temperatures. And depending on their quantum structure, they can also showcase strange properties like magnetic levitation. Bu…
On complex political issues, most Americans take shortcuts to simplicity [2 Oct 26, 8:40pm] A core assumption in any democracy is that citizens with access to information will make reasoned decisions on political candidates and policy issues. But a new study by UC Berkeley social scientists finds that Americans usually don't consider t…
American beech trees may carry genetic resistance to deadly leaf disease [2 Oct 26, 8:20pm] A study led by scientists at the Holden Arboretum has found evidence that beech leaf disease (BLD) symptom development is genetically controlled, providing the first evidence that some American beech trees may have genetic resistance. This finding su…
Tiny robot can precisely control how high it jumps [30 Sep 26, 7:33pm] Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step.As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the…
What you should know about acid reflux [30 Sep 26, 6:35pm] An expert breaks down everything you need to know about acid reflux, including when you should see a specialist such as a gastroenterologist.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Going To The Ballot Bot [2 Oct 26, 8:07pm] 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 —…
Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle [2 Oct 26, 5:58pm] Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects…
Flock Promises Even More Ineffectual Features In Response To Congressional Demands [2 Oct 26, 4:28pm] Flock is in the middle of a long losing streak. It’s one thing to lose hearts and minds via PR work. It’s quite another to lose actual dollars because you’ve lost a ton of hearts and minds by being on the losing end of mainstream media coverage…
Trump Breaks Law(s), Uses $20 Million In Taxpayer Money To Fund Midterm Propaganda [2 Oct 26, 12:23pm] Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr endlessly pays empty lip service to the “public interest” and the “value of broadcasting integrity” as he engages in ham-fisted censorship of comedians and journalists the president doesn’t like. Or the illegal d…
moving shingles envelop timber tower reinterpreting lunano’s stone architecture [2 Oct 26, 8:35pm] what the stones whisper temporary installation by collectif magma was fabricated in an open-air workshop.The post moving shingles envelop timber tower reinterpreting lunano’s stone architecture appeared first on designboom | architecture & des…
LOEWE’s paris runway occupies an ethereal arena by casper mueller kneer [2 Oct 26, 6:10pm] guests watch the SS27 collection from above and across a circular runway built from white scaffold and sheer fabric.The post LOEWE’s paris runway occupies an ethereal arena by casper mueller kneer appeared first on designboom | architecture &…
generative code patterns trace across MM collective’s ceramic flower vases [2 Oct 26, 3:15pm] mm collective is a dialogue between graphic and product design, unfolding through three ceramic vases inspired by the peony, lily, and tulip.The post generative code patterns trace across MM collective’s ceramic flower vases appeared first on desi…
we watched marina abramović die seven times in a shadowy cisterne beneath copenhagen [2 Oct 26, 10:50am] inside a damp underground reservoir, viewers follow operatic deaths from screen to screen, accompanied by a soprano's haunting voice. The post we watched marina abramović die seven times in a shadowy cisterne beneath copenhagen appeared first…
makelab expands footprint at MADE: bush terminal to unlock tier-one 3D printing [2 Oct 26, 10:00am] expanding its footprint to brooklyn's made: bush terminal, makelab unlocks the logistics, physical infrastructure, and production capacity needed to serve major tier-one clients.The post makelab expands footprint at MADE: bush terminal to unloc…
