Zelensky Sees "Window Of Opportunity" For War Talks Breakthrough Before 2027 [11 Nov 26, 8:40pm] Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday there could be a "window of opportunity" to reach a breakthrough in talks to end the war with Russia before 2027, as he arrived in Ireland, where he is due to meet US envoys.
"America Did Not Start Iran War": Trump Says Wants To Have "Total Victory" [11 Nov 26, 8:28pm] Speaking during the 2026 National Veterans Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Trump said the United States had fought back against Iran and claimed that American military operations had significantly damaged the country's capabilities.
Israel's Eisenkot Urges Netanyahu To Exercise "Prudence" On Security Issues [11 Nov 26, 7:34pm] Without mentioning Iran by name, Eisenkot said in a letter to Netanyahu, which he shared on X, that "the use of security forces in the absence of a direct and immediate threat... could have disastrous consequences for Israeli democracy and for citize…
How Chinese Spies Used Sex And Secret Affairs To Target US' Tech Elite [11 Nov 26, 6:01pm] US intelligence officials have warned for years that Chinese agents are targeting tech companies, using personal relationships, business connections and stolen information to get close to sensitive research.
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…
New Block Support in WordPress 7.2: Text Shadow (textShadow) [11 Nov 26, 1:36am] WordPress 7.2 introduces a new textShadow typography block support, along with text shadow presets and a user interface in both the block inspector and Global Styles. The Paragraph and Heading blocks are the first core blocks to adopt it. GitHub issu…
Editor components updates in WordPress 7.2 [10 Nov 26, 3:48pm] Migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules WordPress 7.2 completes the migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules in @wordpress/components, continuing the work described in the WordPress 7.1 dev note. This removes the package’s remaining Emotion dependencies…
Conservative in What We Accept [8 Nov 26, 8:33pm] Joe Youngblood’s report surprised me because I didn’t realize our conservative sanitize_username approach doesn’t apply to registrations when you’re not in multi-site mode. https://x.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/2118795342875431305 We should assume every…
I tested Windows 11 November 2026 update, here’s what’s new, improved, and fixed [10 Nov 26, 6:02pm] Windows 11's November 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixes the slow, cluttered right-click menu and lets you customize it. Edge opens up to 33% faster, taskbar previews glide between apps, Xbox mode gets an Exit to Desktop button, and 26H2 PCs get Microso…
The Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 5 would be my perfect Steam tablet if it didn’t cost $900 [11 Nov 26, 8:30pm] For every Android-powered slate I’ve used, only Nvidia’s Shield Tablet really stands out in my memory. Part of the company’s occasional (and all-but-dead) dip into hardware products, the Shield Tablet — and its revitalized K1 follow-up, which I also…
Mid-week Android app deals and freebies: Wind Peaks, Box Head, 9th Dawn, more [11 Nov 26, 6:55pm] Alongside Amazon’s early Black Friday sale, we still have an all-time low on the Google Home Speaker, the official launch of Google Pixel Tag Find Hub tracker (now available for purchase), and a fresh batch of the best Google Play app and game deals.…
Today: CISO Forum Virtual Summit 2026 Day 2 – Join Cybersecurity Leaders Online [11 Nov 26, 4:29pm] Designed for cybersecurity leaders, this immersive two-day virtual event is your premier destination to discuss, share, and learn innovative risk management and defense strategies defining the modern enterprise.The post Today: CISO Forum Virtual Sum…
Critical Xen Orchestra Flaws Exploited in Attacks [11 Nov 26, 3:42pm] A critical authentication bypass allows attackers to execute arbitrary code as admin and take over XCP-ng nodes.The post Critical Xen Orchestra Flaws Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Asus, Zoom Release Security Patches [11 Nov 26, 1:58pm] Attackers could exploit them for command execution, memory overwrites, and privilege escalation.The post Asus, Zoom Release Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Citrix, Ivanti Patch Critical and High-Severity Vulnerabilities [11 Nov 26, 1:37pm] Attackers could exploit the bugs to tamper with certificate entries, achieve remote code execution, and compromise hosts.The post Citrix, Ivanti Patch Critical and High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Finite State Raises $27 Million to Secure Software and Firmware in Connected Devices [11 Nov 26, 12:24pm] The Series C round will fund international expansion and more autonomous features for the firm’s device security platform. The post Finite State Raises $27 Million to Secure Software and Firmware in Connected Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ultrasound and AI turn off-the-shelf smartwatch into full-body tracker without cameras [11 Nov 26, 9:20pm] For the first time, researchers can track the movement of a person's entire body with ultrasonic sound waves, using just an off-the-shelf smartwatch and a lightweight artificial intelligence model—all while ensuring privacy and efficiency.
Organic semiconductor sheet enables light-driven water splitting without external voltage [11 Nov 26, 8:40pm] EPFL researchers have shown that a single organic semiconductor layer can drive either hydrogen or oxygen evolution, depending only on the molecular layer beneath it. Using this effect, they built the first organic semiconductor-based photocatalyst s…
3D-printed robotic frog swims using six artificial muscles powered by light [11 Nov 26, 8:20pm] A small robotic frog developed at Aarhus University can swim using six artificial muscles activated by light. Behind the achievement is a systematic approach that could help researchers develop muscles for the next generation of soft robots.
Engineers challenge 90-year limitation in digital audio sensing [11 Nov 26, 8:00pm] What does a faint heartbeat have in common with a thunderous concert? Both present a challenge for digital technology: capturing the quietest details without losing the loudest sounds.
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…
How Emily Coan Found a New Way Forward in the Old Masters [11 Nov 26, 7:01pm] The artist's latest solo show at Dimin unveils her richest works yet.The post How Emily Coan Found a New Way Forward in the Old Masters appeared first on Artnet News.
8 Art Books to Curl Up With This Fall [11 Nov 26, 5:17pm] These new releases unpack what's what in art history, sculpture, photography, and archaeology.The post 8 Art Books to Curl Up With This Fall appeared first on Artnet News.
Artnet and Kalshi Partner on Art Industry Prediction Markets [11 Nov 26, 5:03pm] First up are this month's marquee auctions of modern and contemporary art in New York.The post Artnet and Kalshi Partner on Art Industry Prediction Markets appeared first on Artnet News.
Art Basel Offers Discounts to Paris Exhibitors After Early Shutdown [11 Nov 26, 2:15pm] The closure divided galleries and raised questions about the financial fallout.The post Art Basel Offers Discounts to Paris Exhibitors After Early Shutdown appeared first on Artnet News.
Lost Rubens Sketches Finally Reunited After 80 Years [11 Nov 26, 8:00am] Plus, the Julia Stoschek Foundation turns 20, another of Jane Birkin's Birkin bags is up for grabs, and other art world matters.The post Lost Rubens Sketches Finally Reunited After 80 Years 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.
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…
Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container [4 Nov 26, 4:34pm] CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency budget it can handle.
Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too [3 Nov 26, 8:40am] Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the security necessity of giving autonomous AI agents thei…
Second Military Cargo Convoy Casts Off From Kaliningrad [11 Nov 26, 4:07pm] The other half of the large military cargo convoy, which formed up in the Port of Baltiysk at the end of October, has now also left Kaliningrad in the...
Kandinsky’s Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Sells for More Than $42 Million at Christie’s Auction [10 Nov 26, 5:35pm] Kandinsky’s Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Sells for More Than $42 Million at Christie’s AuctionEmbed from Getty Images A painting by Wassily Kandinsky, looted during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, has sold for £31.56 million (approximately $42 mi…
Short on Time? Here Are 5 Online Art Classes With Projects You Can Finish in an Afternoon [10 Nov 26, 10:55am] Short on Time? Here Are 5 Online Art Classes With Projects You Can Finish in an AfternoonLet’s face it: many of us are busy. But we also want a fun, creative break. Well, you can fit art into a packed schedule—it’s possible! If you can carve out an…
Here’s What the Stylish A-List Stars Wore To Support the 15th Annual LACMA Art+Film Gala [9 Nov 26, 8:20pm] Here’s What the Stylish A-List Stars Wore To Support the 15th Annual LACMA Art+Film GalaThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosted its biggest annual event on Saturday, November 7, 2026. It was the 15th LACMA Art+Film Gala, an annual fundra…
Why the data center you dread might never even be built [11 Nov 26, 8:15pm] The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the p…
Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze [11 Nov 26, 8:04pm] Entering into the world of venture capital has never been easy, especially as a first-time fund manager. But it's especially daunting right now. Olaf Sakkers has spent the past five years proving that difficult doesn't mean impossible.
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth [11 Nov 26, 7:54pm] CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.
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.
Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub [5 Nov 26, 4:00pm] GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.The post Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub ap…
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone.The post Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Billboard Hot Latin Songs Top 10 Countdown for Nov. 14, 2026 | Billboard Latin [11 Nov 26, 9:15pm] Fuerza Regida and Neton Vega break into the top 10, Omar Courtz rises but will he take No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs? Narrator: Here’s the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Top 10 for the week dated November 14th! “Matadora” holds firm at No. 10. Carí…
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…
Databricks Launches New Always-on Genie: Autonomous AI for Complex Enterprise Work [11 Nov 26, 5:27pm] SAN FRANCISCO — Databricks today announced the second generation of Genie, which changes how people get work done: Genie is now an always-on, autonomous agent for enterprise work. Employees can give Genie a goal and trust it to keep work moving. Geni…
Anthropic launches tools for team collaboration with whiteboards, spreadsheets and data [10 Nov 26, 7:22pm] Anthropic today is launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards now becomes generally available as Claude Data. Whiteboards is a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude, while Sheets is a spreadsheet Clau…
Red Hat Advances Red Hat Developer Hub as an Agent-Ready Enterprise Developer Portal [10 Nov 26, 6:46pm] Red Hat today announced Red Hat Developer Hub 2.1, the latest version of Red Hat’s agent-ready developer portal. Designed to turn AI code generation speed into tangible business outcomes, Red Hat Developer Hub 2.1 enables enterprises to equip AI agen…
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…
Record-breaking 2025 Iberian fire season was three times larger due to climate change [11 Nov 26, 9:40pm] The latest global State of Wildfires report, co-led by the University of East Anglia, shows that the extreme fire-prone weather experienced across Spain and Portugal in 2025 was three times more likely due to human-caused climate change, and the area…
Living with humility took on social weight in the late Middle Ages, historian argues [11 Nov 26, 9:40pm] We're deep in the Middle Ages. In the mind's eye, monks stagger past, flagellating themselves to cleanse their sins and demonstrate their humility before God and creation. This was a time when humility—humilitas—was considered one of the fundamental…
How pipes became status symbols in 18th-century Sweden [11 Nov 26, 9:20pm] In the 18th century, a clay tobacco pipe could reveal more than you might think. Its length, quality and condition, as well as the way it was used, could signal social status. In a new doctoral thesis, Lund University archaeologist Robert Bergman Car…
Chinese Govt. Stacks Charges On Jailed Joshua Wong To Keep Him Imprisoned Another Decade [11 Nov 26, 3:39am] The so-called National Security Law that the Hong Kong government ratified back in 2020 strikes again. This law, which broke the agreement made when the UK handed Hong Kong back to the Chinese government three decades ago, has since been used to jail…
Why VPNs Are Worth Defending [10 Nov 26, 11:05pm] Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people…
Tone-Deaf Attorney General Todd Blanche Says ALPRs Aren’t A Privacy Concern [10 Nov 26, 9:03pm] Sure, this administration isn’t just tone-deaf, but life-deaf. But it must be pointed out that what AG Todd Blanche is doing here comes in opposition to members of his own party. Every since it became readily apparent that hundreds of law enforcement…
From Pirates To Protesters, France Keeps Reaching For The Internet’s Choke Points [10 Nov 26, 7:03pm] Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, in which youth protests against various governments were celebrated in much of the Western World, we saw countries like Egypt move to shut down the internet in an effort to keep the public from communicating. I’ve…
Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription [10 Nov 26, 6:58pm] Rosetta Stone Sapphire combines over 30 years of language-learning expertise with immersive technology designed to help you speak naturally and confidently in real-world situations. Trusted by millions of learners worldwide, Sapphire brings together…
marius boekhorst breaks down flowers into fragments of color with geometric glass [11 Nov 26, 9:35pm] by filtering floral imagery through a familiar architectural material, the dutch designer explores how we look at nature, and what happens when we pause to see it differently.The post marius boekhorst breaks down flowers into fragments of color with…
yuri suzuki transforms amusement park rides into acoustic sculptures for onomatopia [11 Nov 26, 4:45pm] five colorful dioramas reconfigure classic amusement park rides into structural acoustic instruments using horns, pipes, and funnels in vibrant colors.The post yuri suzuki transforms amusement park rides into acoustic sculptures for onomatopia appea…
‘these organisms are 100% real’: timothy boomer captures nature’s alien architecture [11 Nov 26, 11:50am] tiny wasps transform oak trees into living nurseries, creating strange architectures shaped by multiple species.The post ‘these organisms are 100% real’: timothy boomer captures nature’s alien architecture appeared first on designboom | architecture…
