Where Things Stand After Trump Rejects Iran's Hormuz Proposal [26 Sep 26, 5:34pm] What's different after past failed attempts is the speedier timeline. Iran's pitch to President Donald Trump said a quick deal might help him in the midterm elections in November.
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…
Pixelated 118: Googlebook begins [25 Sep 26, 9:45pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 118. This week, Damien and Abner share their hands-on impressions of Google’s new laptop lineup with Will. What’s it like to use an Android-powered laptop? How different is the Googlebook platform from ChromeOS? And w…
New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining [26 Sep 26, 12:00pm] The Windows botnet relies on AI to maintain persistence, using xAI Grok to choose from predefined actions.The post New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining appeared first on SecurityWeek.
North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist [25 Sep 26, 2:16pm] Bitget’s security systems caught the unauthorized transfers on September 24, and some wallet addresses linked to the attacker have been frozen.The post North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Smoother perovskite films lift three-layer solar cell efficiency to 30.1% [26 Sep 26, 1:40pm] Solar cells, devices that convert energy from sunlight into electricity, are being deployed in increasing numbers in many countries. While most cells on the market today are based on silicon, recent studies have highlighted the potential of a class o…
Jury finds Meta liable in Cambridge Analytica case [26 Sep 26, 10:40am] A jury in New Mexico on Friday found that Facebook's parent company, Meta, deceived users about privacy protections in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, U.S. media reported.
Spotting AI writing: How reliable are the detectors? [26 Sep 26, 10:20am] Claims that Canadian-Haitian writer Thelyson Orelien used AI tools to write his bestselling debut novel are rocking the French literary world and raising questions about how AI use can be detected.
Microsoft integrates Word and Excel more deeply into Copilot [26 Sep 26, 10:00am] Microsoft on Friday unveiled a new vision for integrating Word, Excel and PowerPoint into its AI-powered assistant Copilot, in an effort to make AI the entry point for its productivity software.
US court sides with Pentagon in Anthropic AI ban [26 Sep 26, 10:00am] A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the Pentagon's decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain after the AI startup refused to remove certain safeguards on its Claude model.
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.
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth [18 Sep 26, 10:00am] In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
A.A.Murakami Imagines a New Kind of Nature [25 Sep 26, 9:00pm] The artist duo debuted a new piece at Paradise Art Night 2026, and timed to Frieze Seoul, the show was paired with an immersive dinner experience that blended themes of art, food, and scenography.The post A.A.Murakami Imagines a New Kind of Nature a…
George Morrison Was Long Overlooked. Now His Market Is Catching Up [25 Sep 26, 8:58pm] After a record-setting year for Morrison’s market, Bockley Gallery is bringing his abstractions to Independent 20th Century.The post George Morrison Was Long Overlooked. Now His Market Is Catching Up appeared first on Artnet News.
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Props Hit the Block as Memorabilia Market Booms [25 Sep 26, 5:30pm] Also: Steve McQueen's mythic Ferrari, Horatio Nelson's love letters, Pokémon celluloids, and other collectibles news.The post ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Props Hit the Block as Memorabilia Market Booms appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside the Long, Little-Known Tradition of Artists as Healers [25 Sep 26, 5:24pm] Emma Kunz insisted she was a healer before she was an artist. With her solo booth at Independent 20th Century, her story invites a wider look at artists who blurred the same line.The post Inside the Long, Little-Known Tradition of Artists as Healers…
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…
Custom Glow Rings Inside of Elements [18 Sep 26, 10:32pm] A box-shadow is an obvious choice for an inner glow of an element to highlight it. But with some fancy masking, we can use any overlay style we want.
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…
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…
The AI magic words [17 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is becoming hi…
AI, JD, and other letters of the law [15 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using…
Crowley Names Brea Schmidt Chief Financial Officer [26 Sep 26, 2:45pm] Crowley, a global leader in logistics, marine and energy solutions, today announced the appointment of Brea Schmidt as chief financial officer.As CFO,...
McAllister’s Latest High-Tech Low-Emission Tug Arrives [26 Sep 26, 1:21am] McAllister Towing is proud to announce our newest arrival! Welcome tug MARY McALLISTER. As our customer's vessels grow larger and services for these b...
NYK Expands Offshore Wind Business with SOV Newbuild [26 Sep 26, 12:32am] Japanese shipping major NYK is moving to strengthen its business in the offshore wind power segment. The group, best known for its operations in dry b...
Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good News [25 Sep 26, 7:20pm] Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good NewsIf you love ice cream, you may have been pleased to see recent headlines suggesting that indulging in your favorite flavor could actually have some surprising health benefits. A long-…
USPS Honors Linda McCartney’s Photography With New Collection of Forever Stamps [25 Sep 26, 5:30pm] USPS Honors Linda McCartney’s Photography With New Collection of Forever StampsThe late Linda McCartney is remembered for many things, from her music and animal rights activism to her marriage to Paul McCartney. But she was also an accomplished ph…
How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success [Interview] [25 Sep 26, 4:35pm] How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success {Interview}The Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival 2026 recently concluded two days of incredible music, art, and culture at the famous Seattle Center in Seattle, Washing…
TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement [26 Sep 26, 8:24pm] TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.
Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all [26 Sep 26, 5:44pm] Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.
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.
When chat is the wrong UI [24 Sep 26, 8:00pm] What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent [24 Sep 26, 6:26pm] In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app [23 Sep 26, 6:29pm] How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Google Spam Update, Image Search Data In GSC – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [26 Sep 26, 12:00pm] Google's September spam update may take up to two weeks, Search Console adds image-based search data, reports look at traffic from Search and AI Mode.The post Google Spam Update, Image Search Data In GSC – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search E…
AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It via @sejournal, @gregjarboe [25 Sep 26, 2:30pm] AI models are everywhere. The data you feed them isn't. Mallory Gray of Skydeo explains why audience signals, not mention counts, decide who buys.The post AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It appeared first on Search En…
Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE via @sejournal, @martinibuster [25 Sep 26, 12:47pm] Google's new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update.The post Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Russia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalation [26 Sep 26, 2:30pm] Russia has begun targeting data centers and internet infrastructure in its latest attacks, disrupting critical services for Ukrainian civilians. The attacks have left 100,000 households in the area without an internet connection, although a senior go…
Microsoft quietly drops Copilot+ branding from new laptops [26 Sep 26, 2:00pm] Microsoft's latest Surface laptops dropped the Copilot+ PC branding despite hitting the minimum requirements. Even high-end AI devices like the Nvidia RTX Spark and Microsoft's own Project Zenith are noticeably missing the label.
Open-source AnyPS5 dumps emulation to run PlayStation 5 console games natively on PC [26 Sep 26, 1:59pm] Traditional PS5 emulators attempt to recreate the console's hardware and software environment, but AnyPS5 is experimenting with a compatibility layer that translates PlayStation 5 executables into formats that can run on Windows and Linux.
AI Coding Tools in Mid-2026: High Adoption, Low Trust, and What It Means for Developers [25 Sep 26, 6:31pm] Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in the modern software development workflow. From generating code snippets to debugging complex applications, AI-powered coding assistants are no longer experimental. They are everyday tools for mill…
Code Is Cheap, Thinking Isn’t — Cognitive Debt Is Becoming the Biggest Barrier to AI ROI [25 Sep 26, 6:11pm] For years, software development operated under one fundamental constraint: execution is expensive. Writing code took time and building workflows required specialized expertise. Operational improvements often meant adding headcount or extending timeli…
Snyk’s Evo Reaches 60% of New Deal Volume As AI Risks Soar [24 Sep 26, 5:02pm] The rise of agentic AI security threats is accelerating growth for vendors that can help protect enterprises. Snyk’s Evo software, the agent-native layer of its core AI security platform, now accounts for 60% of the company’s new deal volume and…
MetaKarta v12 Unifies Enterprise Metadata Management for AI, BI, and Databases [24 Sep 26, 1:51pm] MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) today announced general availability of MetaKarta v12, including Semantic Hub that compiles governed business definitions into the databases, BI tools, and AI agents that depend on th…
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.
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…
Munich FRAND Royalty Guidelines: More Questions than Answers [14 Sep 26, 2:46pm] On August 13, 2026, the 7th Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court issued a 67-page FRAND Guidelines. Although multiple outlets have reported on them, I have not located a public copy of the Guidelines themselves, though I have requested one. I…
Why earwigs infected by parasitic worms head towards water [26 Sep 26, 8:00pm] Earwigs, small, elongated insects with distinctive pincers at the rear of their abdomens, have little reason to enter open water. While many earwig species are attracted to damp environments, they typically avoid open water. Yet past studies have fou…
Pumpkin-derived enzyme weakens peanut proteins' binding to allergy antibodies in lab tests [26 Sep 26, 7:00pm] Peanut allergy is one of the most serious food allergies and can lead to sudden, life-threatening reactions. Researchers from Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, in collaboration with Wroclaw Medical University, investigated whethe…
Engineers teach spacecraft to 'dream' their way to the space station [26 Sep 26, 6:00pm] Docking with the ISS may seem simple. However, actually doing so shows how difficult orbital mechanics can be. It's like traveling down a highway at 28,000 km/hr (17,000 mph) and parallel parking in an open garage on a multibillion-dollar labora…
Sparse layers of 10-nanometer silver particles boost CO production from CO₂ [26 Sep 26, 5:00pm] Electrolysis can reduce CO2 to CO, a raw material for chemical products such as fuels. Within the GreenQUEST project, an international team led by HZB chemist Prashanth Menezes has systematically investigated catalyst layers made of silver nanopartic…
A real-time look inside spacecraft heat shields during extreme heat conditions [26 Sep 26, 4:00pm] When a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic velocities, its protective heat shield faces extreme conditions, including temperatures beyond 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius). To survive, the shield relies on special…
How gravity affects the human genome [25 Sep 26, 7:15pm] "We think our findings can be useful in better understanding how space travel affects us."
Brain activity measure gives insight into depression [25 Sep 26, 7:07pm] A subtle measure of brain activity can give insight into personal feelings of depression, without even asking people directly about it.
Team figures out how smog begins [25 Sep 26, 6:43pm] "It's like nature was presenting us with a dish, and we had to guess how it was made. Now we have a recipe."
Watch this little robot hop and swim like a frog [25 Sep 26, 5:53pm] A new design showcases a way for miniaturized robots to hop or swim in spite of limitations on their power output and size.
The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us [25 Sep 26, 9:51pm] The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the ev…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Some Assembly Required [25 Sep 26, 7:54pm] 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 —…
the runway tells you where to look: 10 fashion shows that rewrote the catwalk [26 Sep 26, 7:45am] spirals, mirrored rooms, moving floors, and gridded seating turn fashion presentation into an exercise in directing the gaze.The post the runway tells you where to look: 10 fashion shows that rewrote the catwalk appeared first on designboom | archit…
ribbed lime-green gateway and blue solar canopy reform municipal sports center in murcia [26 Sep 26, 2:10am] the two interventions generate renewable energy, improve comfort, and establish a bold new presence within la unión’s mining landscape.The post ribbed lime-green gateway and blue solar canopy reform municipal sports center in murcia appeared firs…
tim burton’s batman returns batmobile heads to auction for up to $7 million [25 Sep 26, 7:31pm] screen-used batman returns batmobile by tim burton heads to julien’s auctions with a $5–7 million estimate.The post tim burton’s batman returns batmobile heads to auction for up to $7 million appeared first on designboom | architecture & d…
