"Parents Are Still Crying": Iranian Diplomat Recalls Minab School Attack [31 Oct 26, 7:35am] Iranian diplomat Abdul Majid Hakeem Elahi said the school was attacked twice on February 28, killing 168 innocent children. He said some of their bodies have still not been found and parents do not have a grave where they can go and mourn their child…
Exploring a design for Feature Notifications [29 Oct 26, 1:21pm] WordPress doesn’t have a good way to tell people what’s happening on their site. Plugins fall back on admin notices that push the page down, so the things that matter, like a failed payment, a security update or a teammate’s question, get lost…
Dev Chat Agenda – October 28, 2026 [28 Oct 26, 4:47am] Dev Chat on October 28th is canceled, and will resume next week The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting focuses on upcoming releases and Core development, with time for di…
Help shape future Release Roadmaps by Nov 16th [26 Oct 26, 10:12pm] For each WordPress release, a roadmap is pulled together to share what’s planned and provide opportunities for folks to contribute. Over the last three years, these posts have taken roughly the same shape and approach, with some variation around th…
Samsung mercilessly mocks iPhone Duo ‘crackgate’ in Galaxy Z Fold 8 ads [Video] [31 Oct 26, 1:20am] Samsung isn’t holding back when it comes to the iPhone Duo’s messy start. In new ads, the company mocks iPhone Duo’s “crackgate” with a push for customers to buy the Galaxy Z Fold 8 instead, and there’s not an ounce of subtlety here.…
Pixelated 123: The primary value is the clock [30 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 123. This week, Damien and Abner share their earliest impressions of the Fitbit Edge, Google’s latest fitness tracker that promises to split the difference between the Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5. After, the gang g…
The 12th Google Store is opening on November 6 [30 Oct 26, 7:37pm] Following San Diego and Tokyo in 2026, the next Google Store is opening in Houston on November 6. This is the company’s 11th retail location in the US and 12th globally. more…
PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress [30 Oct 26, 3:09pm] Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.The post PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. [30 Oct 26, 2:00pm] As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it.The post Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. appeared first on SecurityW…
Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure [30 Oct 26, 1:36pm] It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.The post Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs [30 Oct 26, 12:04pm] Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution.The post Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New electrode-making method offers cleaner route to sunlight-powered hydrogen production [30 Oct 26, 7:00pm] A research team led by professor Jongmin Choi of the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at DGIST, in collaboration with a team led by professor Younghoon Kim of the Department of Chemistry at Kookmin University, has developed a highly eff…
Binance heist: How were cryptocurrency billions stolen? [30 Oct 26, 5:40pm] Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, estimates that assets worth $6.3 billion were impacted by a hacking attack against the trading platform.
Laser pulses can track extreme airflow in tests for hypersonic spacecraft [30 Oct 26, 5:20pm] Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington's Aerodynamics Research Center have published a study in the journal Communications Engineering. Their work details a laser-based technique applied to arc-jet flows that could transform how s…
UK probes Meta over 'exploitative' new terms for media [30 Oct 26, 5:20pm] Britain's competition watchdog Friday opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing "exploitative" new terms allowing it to use media content for its own products, including AI, without giving publishers adequate choice.
5 Of The Best Magnetic Flashlights For Hands-Free Use [31 Oct 26, 8:30am] Need light in tight spots? Discover five top-rated magnetic flashlights built for hands-free convenience, versatile mounting, and everyday carry.
Why Do Some Pickup Trucks Have A Hitch On The Front? [31 Oct 26, 1:45am] Part of the appeal of pickup trucks is their ability to haul things. Instead of a rear hitch, some use front ones to carry and maneuver certain things.
Dyoma Paints “Shandarba,” a Ryazan Folk Dance Across a Folded Facade [28 Oct 26, 4:55pm] Dyoma has painted “Shandarba” across a residential building at 1A Kashirina Street in central Ryazan. Named for a traditional women’s dance from the Ryazan region, the mural turns the building’s projecting and recessed corners into part of it…
A Gallerist Sees Connoisseurship Returning to the Art Market [30 Oct 26, 8:30pm] Between Frieze Masters and Art Basel Paris, founder of Princedale Modern Edward Warburton takes the market’s pulse and finds collectors moving away from speculation and toward aesthetic appreciation.The post A Gallerist Sees Connoisseurship Return…
Own a Piece of Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith’s Folk Art Collection! [30 Oct 26, 5:24pm] A pop-up in Connecticut is selling a selection of works from the couple's former summer home, among many other unusual finds.The post Own a Piece of Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith’s Folk Art Collection! appeared first on Artnet News.
MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Form an Unprecedented Alliance [30 Oct 26, 1:20pm] Plus, Bill Koch's art treasures head to auction, Dallas Art Fair moves venues, and more industry intel.The post MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Form an Unprecedented Alliance appeared first on Artnet News.
London’s Must-See Art Destinations, From the National Gallery to the Fourth Plinth [30 Oct 26, 1:19pm] With Bloomberg Connects, you can explore the best cultural offerings in cities around the world. Here, a brief guide to London.The post London’s Must-See Art Destinations, From the National Gallery to the Fourth Plinth appeared first on Artnet New…
Two Circles, One Connection, and border-shape [30 Oct 26, 1:28pm] Swapping the clip-path arrow from the previous article for border-shape and shape(), we can connect two draggable circles with fancy curved lines that stay perfectly aligned.
Useful @custom-media Presets [29 Oct 26, 12:34am] Custom media queries let you name and reuse media queries the way custom properties do for values. Here’s a set of drop-in @custom-media presets for input mechanisms, breakpoints, and true HDR, plus a container style query version of each that work…
How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95% [28 Oct 26, 3:35am] I like the idea of "Please suggest 10 improvements to my ~/.zshrc" as a prompt (John Lindquist). Nick Taylor wrote up all the stuff it found for him and got nearly a second back for every fresh terminal opened.
The Vertical Codebase [23 Oct 26, 10:14pm] A nice app architecture thought by Dominik: The Vertical Codebase. When component architecture came along, many started co-locating HTML/CSS/JS for a component, and it felt right. What if you take that one step further and co-locate based on the site…
Building an Isolated Preview for AI-Generated HTML [22 Oct 26, 6:17pm] An iframe with srcdoc feels like a safe place to render HTML a model wrote. It isn't. Three tests show how the preview can read your page, escape the frame, and phone home, and four layers of protection close each hole.
It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us [30 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specificat…
The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated [29 Oct 26, 10:30pm] I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.
Delivering controlled and concentrated context [28 Oct 26, 2:55pm] Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java [27 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the…
Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated [23 Oct 26, 7:40am] Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision in the era of AI, and the crit…
Olympic Champions to headline Dubai’s FIBA 3×3 World Tour event [29 Oct 26, 2:44pm] DUBAI: Olympic gold medallists Worthy de Jong and Dimeo van der Horst will be among the leading names competing when Dubai hosts a FIBA 3×3 World Tour event on 6–7 November, bringing 14 teams to a purpose-built court at Festival Bay, Dubai Festiva…
Clockwork wins Gold and Silver at inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards [29 Oct 26, 2:19pm] Dubai: Clockwork, a Bahraini experiential marketing and brand activation agency with an office in Riyadh, received a Gold Dragon and a Silver Dragon at the inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards ceremony held in Dubai today. Clockwork was recognized for it…
Sharjah International Travel and Tourism Forum Concludes Its 13th Edition [29 Oct 26, 1:58pm] Sharjah: The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) concluded the 13th edition of the Sharjah International Travel and Tourism Forum (SITTF) yesterday evening at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre. Held under the patronage…
Dr. Fabian Kley Appointed Everllence CFO [31 Oct 26, 12:49am] Dr. Fabian Kley will assume responsibility for Finance, which he has already led operationally since March 2026 as an authorized representative of the...
RIP Sir Patrick Stewart: Stage and Screen Legend Dies at 86 [30 Oct 26, 4:35pm] RIP Sir Patrick Stewart: Stage and Screen Legend Dies at 86Sir Patrick Stewart, the legendary actor who moved gracefully between classical theater and Hollywood blockbusters, has died at 86. Best known his work in the X-Men and Star Trek franchises,…
Trick or Treat! Save 15% on All Art Classes With My Modern Met Academy’s Halloween Sale [30 Oct 26, 9:55am] Trick or Treat! Save 15% on All Art Classes With My Modern Met Academy’s Halloween SaleHalloween is on the horizon, and we’ve conjured up a spell to give you 15% off all of My Modern Met Academy’s online art classes. Until October 31, enter co…
RIP Dolores Huerta: Labor Activist and Civil Rights Icon Dies at 96 [29 Oct 26, 7:20pm] RIP Dolores Huerta: Labor Activist and Civil Rights Icon Dies at 96Dolores Huerta, labor leader and civil rights activist who advocated for immigrants, women, and agricultural workers, has died at age 96. According to her relatives, Huerta passed aw…
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down [30 Oct 26, 10:56pm] As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack [28 Oct 26, 4:09pm] Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world.The post GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents [28 Oct 26, 4:07pm] See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.The post Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents appeared first on The GitHub Blo…
How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills [22 Oct 26, 5:21pm] As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers.The post How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills a…
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure [21 Oct 26, 4:00pm] We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.The post The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure appeared…
How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity [20 Oct 26, 4:05pm] Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first on The Git…
Google Opens Connected Apps Preview For AI Mode & Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [31 Oct 26, 7:00am] Developers can apply to bring apps into AI Mode and the Gemini app, and Google's policy bars misleading descriptions meant to get an app picked.The post Google Opens Connected Apps Preview For AI Mode & Gemini appeared first on Search Engin…
5 Spooky Things About Trusting AI with Reliability [30 Oct 26, 5:36pm] The scariest engineering story I read this year wasn’t fiction. In August, Reuters reported on internal Meta posts showing what happened as the company pushed its engineers toward AI tooling. Code changes to internal platforms rose 220% year over y…
Opsera Relaunches as an AI-Native Software Factory [29 Oct 26, 8:07pm] Opsera, long known for its continuous orchestration platform for DevOps, has announced its relaunch as an AI-native software factory, with its Forge factory released in April at its center. In its announcement at the time, Opsera said Forge was creat…
Stop Blaming Code Review for AI’s Delivery Problem [29 Oct 26, 7:22pm] Most engineering teams I talk to who use AI coding tools say they’ve never been more productive. Some tell me they’re building two to three times as many features as they used to. But pushing those features into production – that’s a differ…
W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era [21 Oct 26, 9:56am] This W3C paper from the Strategy Team is intended to foster discussion in the technical community at TPAC — the most important W3C community event of the year — about how the W3C technical agenda for the web needs to evolve based on the rise of A…
First Public Working Draft: Animation Triggers [20 Oct 26, 5:55am] Defines CSS properties and an API for creating mechanisms that affect animation playback, based on DOM events resulting from user interaction, or on entry/exit of ranges on animation timelines.
Optimizing x265 with FFmpeg [22 Oct 26, 7:41pm] If you distribute 4K or HDR video, HEVC is a must-have, not a nice-to-have. That’s the format the TVs and devices that play 4K HDR expect, and H.264 isn’t a realistic alternative. But what if you’re distributing 1080p SDR video? In this case, H…
When Will AV2 and VVC Be Worth Deploying? [8 Oct 26, 6:48pm] Consider this beta version 0.9 of my algorithmic view of how codec markets are penetrated. There are lots of assumptions that I’ve tried to document in the readme tab of the Excel file you can download below. I assume there will be errors in both m…
Why CDN77 Chose NETINT Quadra for Large-Scale Live Transcoding [29 Sep 26, 6:36pm] While visiting Prague before IBC 2026, I sat down with Michal Hošna, a Media Systems Architect at CDN77. We discussed CDN77’s recent decision to purchase a few thousand NETINT Quadra T1U transcoders for large-scale live production, primarily for s…
Optimizing x264 Settings and Per-title ladders [25 Sep 26, 7:35pm] If you’re producing solely H.264-encoded video, optimizing your encodes can save you bandwidth costs and deliver a higher quality experience to your viewers. If you’re considering adding HEVC or AV1 to the mix, you have another reason. Before you…
Scientists develop new system to boost prime editing in dicot plants [31 Oct 26, 1:40am] A new gene-editing system could make it easier for researchers to introduce precise genetic changes into crops such as tomatoes, soybeans and rapeseed. Developed by researchers in China, SmartPE improves prime editing efficiency in several dicot plan…
Livestock guardian dogs enlisted in efforts to conserve Texas' smallest fox [30 Oct 26, 10:20pm] In the Texas Panhandle, two livestock guardian dogs patrol a herd of cattle grazing the Rita Blanca National Grasslands. Although their singular focus is protecting the herd from would-be predators, their presence may make them wildlife conservation…
RFK Jr. Steps In To Personally Approve Peptide Use In America Over FDA’s Objections [31 Oct 26, 2:39am] If you go through all of the bloviations from RFK Jr. when it comes to his stance on vaccines, one of his chief refrains is that vaccines that have been in wide use for many years haven’t been tested properly for safety, or that data about their sa…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A Midterm Night’s Dream [30 Oct 26, 8:03pm] 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: Build Your Own GPS Tracking System with Raspberry Pi [30 Oct 26, 6:03pm] The best way to learn Raspberry Pi is by doing and in this course, you’ll get familiar with specific features by building your own GPS tracking system. From setup and configuration to location tracking through Google Maps, this course will help you…
woven bamboo armchair clad in UV-reactive crocheted blooms glows in the dark [31 Oct 26, 3:10am] peiyang (camille) li designs she blooms in the dark, an intimate woven bamboo armchair clad in hand-crocheted blossoms made from uv-reactive yarn that absorb daylight and emit a soft nocturnal glow.The post woven bamboo armchair clad in UV-reactive…
we drove volvo’s electric EX60 to russel wright’s modernist woodland home at manitoga [30 Oct 26, 9:35pm] from seasonal color studies to an interior that projects leaves onto its seats, volvo’s electric EX60 draws design inspiration from nature.The post we drove volvo’s electric EX60 to russel wright’s modernist woodland home at manitoga appeared…
foster + partners’ generali stadium references the intricate stonework of milan’s duomo [30 Oct 26, 4:45pm] two towering walls of 11,700 fans will rise behind the goals, all beneath a roof engineered to channel their roar back toward the pitch.The post foster + partners’ generali stadium references the intricate stonework of milan’s duomo appeared fir…
