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…
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…
Windows 11 setup now offers to install TikTok and Netflix on your new PC [30 Sep 26, 5:53am] Assisted Setup opens Get Started after OOBE to install apps, pin regional websites like BBC and eBay UK to the taskbar, and nudge you toward Windows Update. We tested it on a UK PC, along with the new Tips widget that brings Microsoft's retired…
Google Pixel 2 XL set the stage for a decade of ups and downs [1 Oct 26, 7:30pm] Google Pixel’s 10-year anniversary has me taking a look back at a bunch of the milestones throughout this lineup’s history and, when picking up the Pixel 2 XL, hindsight really kicked in as to how this phone was very much a sign of the tumultuous…
Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks [1 Oct 26, 6:00pm] Fifteen years after coining the framework, John Kindervag insists zero trust still works in the AI era—if you get the implementation right.The post Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek…
Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains [1 Oct 26, 5:16pm] Hybrid risk intelligence company Osavul has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by 33N Ventures.The post Osavul Lands $10 Million to Spot Hostile Intent Across Cyber, Physical Domains appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says [1 Oct 26, 2:30pm] PwC’s survey found that only 22% of leaders would use fully autonomous AI for cyber defense, while just 21% are implementing quantum-resistant security measures.The post Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says appeared…
Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass [1 Oct 26, 2:30pm] Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says.The post Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader [1 Oct 26, 2:17pm] Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims.The post Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New upholstery foam uses over 90% bio-based ingredients without sacrificing comfort [1 Oct 26, 8:00pm] Manufacturers looking to include sustainable upholstery, mattresses and vehicle seats in their product lines will soon have an environmentally friendly alternative to the petroleum-based polyurethane (PU) foams currently used for these applications.
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face [1 Oct 26, 7:40pm] In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.
Hybrid cryptography protocol gets stronger armor against IoT device impersonation [1 Oct 26, 7:20pm] An approach to closing a security vulnerability in an emerging hybrid cryptographic protocol for internet of things (IoT) devices is described in the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. The flaw in such protocols, w…
Steering wheel communicates for better semiautonomous driving performance [1 Oct 26, 7:20pm] A specialized steering wheel that enables negotiation between drivers and an autonomous driving simulation improved driving performance and drivers' trust in autonomous vehicle features, researchers from University of Michigan Engineering and th…
How a path-tracing method could help train next-generation event cameras [1 Oct 26, 7:03pm] From our smartphones to advanced industrial systems, cameras have become an integral part of modern life. Conventional cameras capture scenes as a sequence of frames at fixed time intervals. In contrast, event cameras detect changes in brightness at…
What Does JCT Mean On A Road Sign? [1 Oct 26, 7:45pm] If you've ever wondered what JCT means on a road sign, you're not alone. The abbreviation is there to give you useful information about the road ahead.
4 Ryobi Tools With Deep Discounts In October 2026 [1 Oct 26, 7:01pm] It's a new month, and that means new discounts on those lime green Ryobi tools. We've picked out some of the best deals available right now.
4 New Bose Audio Products To Keep On Your Radar In 2026 [1 Oct 26, 6:45pm] Upgrading your sound setup this year? Discover four standout Bose audio releases to watch in 2026, from wired ANC earbuds to premium home theater.
5 Top-Rated Ryobi Tools For Grinding And Sanding [1 Oct 26, 5:45pm] Whether you're smoothing wood or grinding metal, Ryobi has plenty of tools for the job. These five models stand out for their high user ratings.
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.
These 18 Artists Are Dominating U.S. Museums Right Now [1 Oct 26, 8:25pm] Here is the Museum Artists List for September 2026.The post These 18 Artists Are Dominating U.S. Museums Right Now appeared first on Artnet News.
Colombia’s Artbo Fair Found Some Upsides to Downsizing [1 Oct 26, 6:08pm] The Bogotá fair's regional focus was born of necessity, but Colombian art is still going global. The post Colombia’s Artbo Fair Found Some Upsides to Downsizing appeared first on Artnet News.
Jackson Pollock’s West Village Loft Is Up for Sale [1 Oct 26, 5:20pm] Pollock was a 20-year-old aspiring artist while living at 46 Carmine Street.The post Jackson Pollock’s West Village Loft Is Up for Sale appeared first on Artnet News.
Tokyo Rush! Basel Social Club Founders Detail Japanese Debut [1 Oct 26, 4:12pm] For Tokyo Jazz Club, some 60 galleries will take over eight floors of a capsule hotel. Here comes everything.The post Tokyo Rush! Basel Social Club Founders Detail Japanese Debut appeared first on Artnet News.
Marina Abramović Is Turning 80 and Still Won’t Quit: ‘Working Makes My Day’ [1 Oct 26, 2:40pm] Amid a flurry of new exhibitions and a touring performance, the artist is dropping a new book, 'Long Life, Short Stories.'The post Marina Abramović Is Turning 80 and Still Won’t Quit: ‘Working Makes My Day’ appeared first on Artnet…
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…
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:
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…
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.
UK Extends Russian Sanctions to Newest ARC7 LNG Tankers [1 Oct 26, 7:35pm] The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced a further round of sanctions on Russia, which it said were meant to increase pressure in...
Russia Briefly Detains Cargo Ship Bound for Estonia [1 Oct 26, 5:48pm] A small cargo ship sailing from Sweden to Estonia was briefly detained by the Russian authorities for an inspection late on Wednesday, September 30, i...
Carbon Costs Put Marine Engine Performance Under Scrutiny [1 Oct 26, 3:52am] With bunker prices having increased by 76% since the US war on Iran, together with an ageing fleet operating longer voyages as ships navigate around c...
Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in 100 Years [30 Sep 26, 5:30pm] Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in 100 YearsWhen it comes to discovering new species, 2026 has been a good year. Earlier this month, we reported on the first new cat species discovered in Bolivia, and during the summer, we…
50+ Years of Steve McCurry’s Iconic Photos and Never-Before-Seen Images on View in NYC [30 Sep 26, 1:50pm] 50+ Years of Steve McCurry’s Iconic Photos and Never-Before-Seen Images on View in NYCFor more than 50 years, photographer Steve McCurry has traveled the world, spotlighting diverse aspects of humanity. His visually arresting work has shown us tha…
6-Year-Old Rubik’s Cube Prodigy Sets the New Women’s World Record [29 Sep 26, 7:20pm] 6-Year-Old Rubik’s Cube Prodigy Sets the New Women’s World Record Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Shenzhen Pages (@shenzhenpages) A 6-year-old girl has sent shockwaves in the world of Rubik’s Cube solvin…
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you [1 Oct 26, 7:21pm] OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports [1 Oct 26, 6:14pm] OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue [1 Oct 26, 5:09pm] When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn't see rows of cars — he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating. Come see MyMonthlyCar in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, taking place October 1…
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.
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…
Nothing Is On Fire At Google via @sejournal, @pedrodias [1 Oct 26, 1:00pm] Google has data, chips and cash to lead in AI. The real question is whether it will disrupt the Search business that pays for everything.The post Nothing Is On Fire At Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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…
Eclipse Foundation Launches the Sovereign AI Foundation [30 Sep 26, 7:29pm] BRUSSELS – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced the formation of the Sovereign AI Foundation, a vendor-neutral initiative that will help member organizations understand their AI de…
AI confidence is high, evidence lags behind, SmartBear report finds [30 Sep 26, 6:35pm] While 81% of organizational leaders believe AI can reliably catch its own errors, despite having any evidence, only 64% of software practitioners trust it, exposing a gap in confidence about AI software quality, according to SmartBear’s State of So…
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…
Machine learning detects bacterial invasion and DNA damage in human cells [1 Oct 26, 8:30pm] When scientists assess how dangerous a bacterium is, the first question often seems simple: Can it be stopped or killed? In microbiology and antibiotic research, one of the classic readouts has been whether a bacterium can grow in the presence of a g…
EarthCARE's view of volcanic plume boosts air safety [1 Oct 26, 8:20pm] Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Krakatoa, has been active sporadically since it emerged from the sea at the beginning of the last century in the caldera formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
Learning math goes (slightly) better with AI, but human teacher plays a key role [1 Oct 26, 8:20pm] Elementary school students who use an AI-supported learning tool learn arithmetic more quickly than children who do not use such a tool. This is the finding of a multiyear study by Radboud University involving nearly 8,000 children. However, the rese…
How cities and extreme rainfall shape each other [1 Oct 26, 8:00pm] New research brings together recent advances in urban hydrology, boundary-layer meteorology, extreme precipitation and flood-risk research and proposes a new framework for understanding how cities and extreme rainfall interact and co-evolve.
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.
The WSJ Never Retracted Its Bobby Kotick Story. His Lawyers Act Like It Did. [1 Oct 26, 5:58pm] Every so often a piece of reporting is so thorough that I don’t have much to add. So let me start with this: everyone should watch Mikhail Klimentov’s comprehensive investigation, into how former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick appears to ha…
Daily Deal: Plantum Plant Identifier (iOS only) [1 Oct 26, 5:54pm] The Plantum app is a digital tool that helps to identify plants, diagnose plant diseases, and improve plant care. The app can identify over 40,000 plant species, assess their health, and give specific care advice. Plantum offers a suite of digital to…
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding [1 Oct 26, 12:25pm] Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless “self-regulatory” regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they’re just a toothless pantomime designed to…
TU/ecomotive’s VENTRA electric car concept captures tire dust while driving [1 Oct 26, 6:38pm] the dutch student-built EV captures tire particles close to where they are released, then reuses some inside the cabin.The post TU/ecomotive’s VENTRA electric car concept captures tire dust while driving appeared first on designboom | architecture…
dune-inspired promenade brings sand and vegetation into comillas’ waterfront [1 Oct 26, 3:45pm] hector navarro + arkhitekton rework the seafront of comillas, spain, using sand, vegetation, permeable surfaces, and limestone.The post dune-inspired promenade brings sand and vegetation into comillas’ waterfront appeared first on designboom | arc…
vollebak turns thousands of tiny slate tiles into a flexible rock jacket [1 Oct 26, 3:39pm] the rock jacket uses thousands of 5mm slate tiles, neoprene and cordura to turn geological time into flexible outerwear: somewhere between material experiment and a harrington built from the earth’s crust.The post vollebak turns thousands of tiny…
future-proof design relies on a chain of sustainable decisions [1 Oct 26, 10:00am] the iF design award 2026 highlights how intentional design decisions drive circular systems, material innovation, and resilient communities.The post future-proof design relies on a chain of sustainable decisions appeared first on designboom | archit…
wood-framed family home in osaka revolves around flexible open sports space [1 Oct 26, 9:25am] the free space accommodates sports, play, and everyday activities, and can be quickly reconfigured.The post wood-framed family home in osaka revolves around flexible open sports space appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine…
