Trump, Tech Executives Sign "Morally Binding" AI Document [29 Sep 26, 8:22pm] "It's almost like a Constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that and I signed it as president and it really is a form of protection," Trump told reporters after the meeting.
US Supreme Court Allows Trump's 3rd-Country Deportations [29 Sep 26, 7:46pm] Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported some 25,000 people to more than two dozen countries, including Liberia and Guyana. The vast majority have been sent to Mexico.
Zohran Mamdani Reveals Why He Texts Trump From "Time To Time" [29 Sep 26, 6:47pm] During the show, Jimmy Kimmel asked Zohran Mamdani about his "very unexpected" relationship with Trump after the two leaders met last week at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence.
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…
WordPress Trac MCP server [24 Sep 26, 8:06pm] Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac. Pu…
Dev Chat summary: September 23, 2026 [24 Sep 26, 7:54pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.2 Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration Roadma…
Iterating from live events to livestreamed releases [23 Sep 26, 7:49pm] After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live releases has been a go…
New public repo: core release tools [23 Sep 26, 6:03pm] The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the…
Microsoft explains why Windows remembers your USB drives even after you unplug them [29 Sep 26, 1:12am] A viral post says Windows keeps a permanent record of every USB device. Microsoft's docs call them non-present devices, which can be removed. USBSTOR only covers storage drives, can't prove files were copied, and a Remove everything reset w…
Five things Windows 11 quietly keeps about you, and which ones actually matter [28 Sep 26, 2:16am] A viral X post says Windows keeps a thumbnail of every photo you delete. Microsoft docs and Raymond Chen show thumbnails are cached only when generated, our test found no new entries, and Disk Cleanup plus a Group Policy setting let you wipe or stop…
The Sideload 046: Frictionmaxxing [29 Sep 26, 8:31pm] Welcome to episode 46 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by Allison Johnson to discuss her experience with Meta’s new agentic AI chatbot Muse, and whether agents are really prepared to save their users time. Plus som…
DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps [29 Sep 26, 5:24pm] The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software.The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messag…
New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks [29 Sep 26, 5:00pm] Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernelThe post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek…
RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform [29 Sep 26, 2:38pm] The company emerged from stealth mode with pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe.The post RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security [29 Sep 26, 1:20pm] The company will use the funds to expand its sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support teams.The post Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI is reshaping the workplace, but not replacing human judgment [29 Sep 26, 9:20pm] As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the workplace, new research shows that human capabilities such as creativity, analytical thinking and systems thinking remain critical and are expected to remain important in the future world of work.
Students develop electric car that captures particulate matter while driving [29 Sep 26, 8:20pm] VENTRA is a new sustainable concept car developed by the student team TU/ecomotive. The electric vehicle captures particulate matter generated by tires and brakes while driving, encourages a more sustainable driving style and produces less particulat…
A wallpaper that generates power from moisture in the air [29 Sep 26, 7:00pm] More than 6 million U.S. homes have solar panels on their roofs—but what if you could generate power inside your house, too? Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a new type of wallpaper that turns moisture in a room into small amount…
7 Drawbacks Of Buying An iPhone [29 Sep 26, 10:30pm] iPhones have much to offer, but their price, limited customization, and tight grip on the Apple ecosystem may give some buyers pause.
America is in the wrong AI race with China [22 Sep 26, 10:00am] The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
Chicago Exhibition Week Was Bigger Than Ever. Here’s What Caught My Eye [29 Sep 26, 5:08pm] The event's fourth edition launched more than 150 shows on the Windy City. Here are some ongoing highlights.The post Chicago Exhibition Week Was Bigger Than Ever. Here’s What Caught My Eye appeared first on Artnet News.
Can This Turner Painting Break Its Own Record? [29 Sep 26, 9:30am] More than a decade after selling for a record $47.5 million, the artist's hazy view of Rome is back on the block—with a $66 million estimate.The post Can This Turner Painting Break Its Own Record? appeared first on Artnet News.
An Art-Famous Shipwreck Washes Ashore [29 Sep 26, 6:30am] Plus, new data on who visits museums, a very-fun show in an abandoned office, and other art world matters.The post An Art-Famous Shipwreck Washes Ashore appeared first on Artnet News.
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…
100 Devs [24 Sep 26, 1:46pm] Kevin Powell is doing game-show-style (specifically Family Feud) shorts where, using data from a survey of 100 devs, he asks another dev what the most popular answers were. Here’s:
Introducing Solo [23 Sep 26, 4:02pm] A versatile tool for managing coding projects, integrating multiple terminals and AI agents within a single control panel.
Brighter Than White [22 Sep 26, 9:43pm] If you’ve got an HDR display, and use Chrome 137+ or Safari 26+ (even on iOS), perhaps you’ve seen images sometimes with colors that are so bright they seem to dim the rest of the screen. I find it a bit distracting, but I can see how it could be…
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…
The Index: Issue #197 [11 Sep 26, 12:00am] Mindful Design ProductsThis is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful.Scott's written about the why here, too.How the heck do record players work?An…
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.
Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill [25 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down…
Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm [22 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software an…
Jaume Plensa Explores Monumental Scale and Material Across Two Exhibitions Happening Now [28 Sep 26, 5:30pm] Jaume Plensa Explores Monumental Scale and Material Across Two Exhibitions Happening NowArtist Jaume Plensa has opened two exhibitions within a week of each other in cities across the United States. Both shows are at GRAY galleries, one in Chicago a…
Scientists Are Globally Testing a New Drug to Prevent Dementia Before Symptoms Begin [28 Sep 26, 4:35pm] Scientists Are Globally Testing a New Drug to Prevent Dementia Before Symptoms BeginOver the last few years, scientists have made significant progress in developing innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. In 2022, for the first time, a tria…
Music Prodigy Armed With a Single Keyboard Gets Entire Room Dancing in Indonesia [28 Sep 26, 2:45pm] Music Prodigy Armed With a Single Keyboard Gets Entire Room Dancing in Indonesia Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por ALUN BUTUUNI SOUND (@alundbutuuni_sound) To turn up a party, you don’t need a flashy DJ with s…
One New Yorker Is Replacing Basketball Nets Across the City To Give Back to His Community [28 Sep 26, 1:50pm] One New Yorker Is Replacing Basketball Nets Across the City To Give Back to His CommunityNew Yorker Craig Campanella is someone who doesn’t wait around for someone else to fix something—he just gets things done. The Queens resident spends his fr…
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model [29 Sep 26, 8:15pm] OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
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.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases [25 Sep 26, 6:00pm] Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build…
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS [25 Sep 26, 3:00pm] How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Yes, You Can Change AI’s Opinion. Here’s How. [29 Sep 26, 8:40pm] AnswerShare reports more recommendations in a client test after publishing sourced brand context. Here is how its machine-layer works & what it cannot fix.The post Yes, You Can Change AI’s Opinion. Here’s How. appeared first on Search Engine…
Trust As A Conversion Lever: How To Test Credibility In A Regulated Industry [29 Sep 26, 7:00pm] Test whether honest expectations and money-back guarantees build trust in health marketing, then judge results beyond the first conversion.The post Trust As A Conversion Lever: How To Test Credibility In A Regulated Industry appeared first on Search…
Shopify Extends WebMCP Into Checkout For Browser Agents via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [29 Sep 26, 2:14pm] Shopify has extended its WebMCP tools into checkout, letting browser agents update a shopper's checkout and place the order after the buyer confirms it.The post Shopify Extends WebMCP Into Checkout For Browser Agents appeared first on Search En…
We tested 13 power banks to help you choose the best one [29 Sep 26, 1:10pm] We tested 13 power banks from Anker, Belkin, Baseus, Cuktech, and Sharge, tracking charge times, output, temps, and capacity to see which actually hold up.
MongoDB Launches Atlas Agent Engine to Put AI Agents in Production Without a New Stack [29 Sep 26, 5:18pm] NEW YORK — MongoDB today launched Atlas Agent Engine, a unified execution, memory, and governance layer for production AI agents, at its Investor Day at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. While AI agents prove their value quickly in proof-of-c…
LangGrant Launches the Industry’s First Open Standards Initiative for a Safe Enterprise [29 Sep 26, 4:53pm] BELLEVUE, Wash. – LangGrant (earlier known as Windocks), a leader in database modernization and synthetic data, today announced the Enterprise Reasoning Initiative, a fully open source project supported by 10 innovators across the AI ecosystem. The…
Athena open-source defense coalition releases first ‘silent’ vulnerabilities [28 Sep 26, 8:55pm] Athena, Chainguard’s industry coalition for the orchestrated defense of open source software, today is publicly disclosing its first set of findings: 14 “silent” vulnerabilities all across Java projects, including one critical and one high-seve…
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…
How a new textile fabric could triple production in strawberry plants [29 Sep 26, 10:20pm] A new textile used to cover strawberry plants more than tripled fruit yields in tunnel field tests without harming plant health. The technology could also significantly reduce water and pesticide use in strawberry fields.
Wild tomatoes still hold the flavor we bred away: New map shows breeders where to look [29 Sep 26, 10:20pm] Modern tomatoes are a breeding success story. Generations of selection have made them bigger, firmer, more productive and easier to ship. But that progress came at a cost. Domestication and breeding reduced much of the crop's genetic diversity,…
Light-driven nickel catalyst forms chemical bonds using less metal [29 Sep 26, 10:00pm] Pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and agrochemicals are produced industrially using a wide range of chemical reactions. These processes need to become more efficient, less expensive, and more sustainable.
Christian amulets preserved Roman traditions of protection [29 Sep 26, 10:00pm] For centuries, the Romans turned to amulets to protect themselves or their surroundings. Research by Ph.D. candidate Patricia Kret shows that this tradition continued into the early days of Christianity.
Frequent cannabis use linked to worse epilepsy [28 Sep 26, 8:01pm] Near-daily cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy had over twice as many convulsive seizures as nonusers, researchers report.
EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy [29 Sep 26, 8:08pm] The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the priv…
Daily Deal: uTalk Language Education [29 Sep 26, 5:58pm] We have all wanted to learn a language at some point but it’s hard to get started. Some language learning tools can be complicated and very time-consuming. But with uTalk, you’ll be speaking keywords and phrases in no time, and will start to see…
Documents Expose Even More About Stephen Miller’s Ghoulish Anti-Migrant Directives [29 Sep 26, 4:33pm] Let’s start this off by clearing the air: Stephen Miller looks exactly like the sort of person who wants to elevate white people above everyone else. Sure, he doesn’t have the Hitler ‘stache or a blond pompadour, but he’s the same bit of unsp…
how LAS art foundation transforms quantum computing and clubs into art [29 Sep 26, 8:35pm] from berghain to venice, the organization takes immersive exhibitions beyond traditional museums, using unconventional spaces to reach new audiences.The post how LAS art foundation transforms quantum computing and clubs into art appeared first on de…
es devlin’s rotating library holds 2,000 books inside london’s design museum [29 Sep 26, 6:10pm] the artist brings her studio, decades of drawings and models, as well as a well-used collection of books into the galleries.The post es devlin’s rotating library holds 2,000 books inside london’s design museum appeared first on designboom | arch…
bureau betak places a geometric white runway in a mist-filled landscape for dior [29 Sep 26, 3:35pm] for dior’s summer 2027 women’s show, bureau betak inserts a white geometric runway into le bassin octogonal, surrounding the catwalk with water, mist and living camphor trees that will later be replanted in the tuileries.The post bureau betak pl…
former railway signal box reopens as l’aiguilleuse red-orange kiosk-bar in nantes [29 Sep 26, 2:55pm] designed by studio téré, the former railway signal box-turned-kiosk-bar sits within the jardins de l’estuaire new public park.The post former railway signal box reopens as l’aiguilleuse red-orange kiosk-bar in nantes appeared first on designbo…
