Trump Eyes Oil Deals With Putin To End Ukraine War: Report [29 Oct 26, 6:58pm] The discussions between Washington and Moscow include the possible return of American companies to Russia's oil industry once the conflict ends. The proposals also cover the resumption of Russian oil sales to Europe and fresh cooperation in othe…
Arab Parties Emerge Kingmakers In Israel As Netanyahu Falls Short [29 Oct 26, 6:54pm] If Netanyahu loses office, he would face accountability for long-standing corruption charges, and a formal investigation would almost certainly be launched into the security lapses surrounding the devastating Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
Amid Record Turnout In Israel, A Look At Past Performance Of Arab Parties [29 Oct 26, 5:40pm] The left-wing Joint List was projected to win 12 seats, and the socially conservative United Arab List, or Ra'am, could win seven seats, putting them in a kingmaker's position in forming the next government.
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…
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 2.0: A redesigned app, in your language [23 Oct 26, 5:45pm] TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v2.0.0 has been released with a new interface built on the WordPress Design System, a settings dialog, a dark theme, and translations into ten languages. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit removes the points of fri…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-23 [23 Oct 26, 10:09am] This week was more of a maintenance week: 24 PRs merged, 23 of them Dependabot updates, The more interesting activity is in review: 16 new contributor PRs opened this week. Highlights README now points to the demo plugin (#648, @psykro): adds a note…
When Risk Becomes Personal: What Security Leaders Can Learn From a Cancer Diagnosis [29 Oct 26, 4:30pm] Risk managers are trained to spot weak signals, plan for disruption and make hard decisions under uncertainty. But the discipline looks different when the risk is not a system or an enterprise, but you.The post When Risk Becomes Personal: What Secur…
Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model [29 Oct 26, 3:01pm] Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program.The post Google Touts Powerful Cybersecurity Capabilities in Gemini 4 Carbon Model appeared first on SecurityWeek…
How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI [29 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps [29 Oct 26, 2:18pm] Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.The post Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps appeared first on SecurityWee…
Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities [29 Oct 26, 1:42pm] The flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, authorization bypasses, and privilege escalation.The post Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New 'four As' framework for the governance of AI [29 Oct 26, 10:00pm] Experts have unveiled a new proposal for the governance of artificial intelligence as they argue the debate has moved beyond simply whether to slow the pace of AI development.
Record-setting 2.75 gigahertz LED designed for fast, energy-efficient data centers [29 Oct 26, 9:40pm] A collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering and the University of Notre Dame has broken the world record for optical switching speed in quantum well LEDs. The gallium nitride micro-LED de…
Making bad weather on purpose to test camera and sensor performance [29 Oct 26, 8:40pm] Many buildings and sites tied to national security rely on cameras and sensor networks to detect people and other objects nearby, but weather conditions can quickly obscure their view. To understand how these systems perform, Sandia National Laborato…
New virtual assistant streamlines one of the most advanced microscopes [29 Oct 26, 7:40pm] Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, exactly, are the atoms? The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything about how a material behaves in the real world—h…
Angstrom-scale water channels help membranes recover lithium and purify salt [29 Oct 26, 6:20pm] Researchers at Kobe University and their collaborators have developed a polymer membrane that allows singly charged ions to pass through rapidly while effectively blocking multiply charged ions, whether positively or negatively charged. The work is p…
Why Do Some Trucks In Missouri Have No Rear License Plates? [29 Oct 26, 10:15pm] There are many states that don't require front license plates, but some Missouri trucks are missing rear plates instead. There's a good reason for it, though.
Do Ethernet Cables Expire? Here's How Long They Can Last [29 Oct 26, 9:15pm] Ethernet cables provide a physical connection to the internet, and like anything physical, they can degrade or become damaged over time, reducing performance.
4 Refrigerator Brands With Better Ratings Than Whirlpool [29 Oct 26, 5:45pm] Whirlpool has one of the most popular brand names in appliances, but that doesn't make it the best option all the time. These brands get better ratings.
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 Gallery Known for Modern Masters Spotlights a More Discreet Painter [29 Oct 26, 9:32pm] Galerie de l’Institut, usually associated with the likes of Picasso and Chagall, turns this autumn to Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, a painter with whom it has long-standing ties.The post A Gallery Known for Modern Masters Spotlights a More Discreet Pain…
London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International [29 Oct 26, 9:09pm] Andrew Russeth, Margaret Carrigan, and Katya Kazakina rehash the past few weeks of art fairs, protests, and auctions around the world. The post London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International appeared first on Artnet News.
Will Art Basel Compensate Galleries for Closing Early in Paris? [29 Oct 26, 8:20pm] 'They are a corporation,' one dealer said. 'We are small businesses.'The post Will Art Basel Compensate Galleries for Closing Early in Paris? appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside the U.K. Books of Three Mega-Galleries [29 Oct 26, 7:23pm] Pace posted a loss in 2025, and Zwirner’s revenue jumped 56 percent. Read on.The post Inside the U.K. Books of Three Mega-Galleries appeared first on Artnet News.
Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era? [29 Oct 26, 7:00am] Plus, the 16th-century woman who made history with a self-portrait and other art world matters.The post Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era? appeared first on Artnet News.
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.
“I Redesigned VLC After 25 Years” [20 Oct 26, 3:43pm] I watched this whole video by Juxtaposed, assuming it was a real redesign of the VLC player, but alas, it is not official. Nevertheless, it should be, and it’s a wonderful example of how much real human brainpower it takes to design something well.
The Index: Issue #203 [23 Oct 26, 10:55am] Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabsThis is fun.All my hobbies are getting slopped up, and it’s exhaustingVideo game orientated, but I'm sure many of you will resonate with this.FreeMixThe AT protocol strikes again! This coul…
Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes [22 Oct 26, 11:55am] Native masonry layouts have been a long time coming to CSS and after years of debate over how they should work and fit into the language, we finally have display: grid-lanes.If you want the full backstory on how we got here, Sunkanmi Fafowora has a…
The Index: Issue #202 [16 Oct 26, 10:55am] Tiny Little OfficeThis is really smart. It's a word processor, along with other common office software like spreadsheets, but it's completely URL powered.Introducing the Accessible Components LibraryYou could not be in better hands than…
The Index: Issue #201 [9 Oct 26, 8:55am] 2027 web platform feature rankingThis is the second year we're doing this, and last year's 1900+ rankings not only helped us push the right proposals in the Interop process, it was also used to prioritize web platform feature development…
The Index: Issue #200 [2 Oct 26, 8:55am] It's issue #200 of The Index! A real milestone that we should celebrate with a dedicated CSS links issue. Let's get stuck in to the good links.Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floatsThe Boss™ is here with some fantastic news on…
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…
Astronomers Say They Have Discovered the First-Ever Green Star [29 Oct 26, 4:35pm] Astronomers Say They Have Discovered the First-Ever Green StarAstronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered the first-ever green star. This exciting find is part of a larger study on the true colors of white dwarf stars. While this may in…
Colorado’s Largest Wildlife Overpass Has Cut Animal-Vehicle Collisions by 91% [29 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Colorado’s Largest Wildlife Overpass Has Cut Animal-Vehicle Collisions by 91%Before North America’s largest wildlife overpass was built on a stretch of highway between Denver and Colorado Springs, an animal was hit by a vehicle almost every day.…
This Wholesome Livestream From Finland Lets You Watch Puppies 24/7 [29 Oct 26, 1:50pm] This Wholesome Livestream From Finland Lets You Watch Puppies 24/7 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yle Pentulive (@ylepentulive) If you’re guilty of doom scrolling, you’ll know the Internet can sometimes be a pretty dark place.…
Magnum Photos’ Square Print Sale Features More Than 70 Images Blurring Fact and Fiction [28 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Magnum Photos’ Square Print Sale Features More Than 70 Images Blurring Fact and FictionMagnum Photos’ latest Square Print Sale, Fact/Fiction, features more than 70 photographs by Magnum photographers and estates. With prints starting at $110, th…
Old Town San Diego Shop Honors Dolly Parton With Day of the Dead Ofrenda [28 Oct 26, 5:30pm] Old Town San Diego Shop Honors Dolly Parton With Day of the Dead Ofrenda Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por TiendaDeReyes (@tiendadereyes) Day of the Dead is around the corner. And with it, the Mexican diaspora,…
Fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks [29 Oct 26, 8:43pm] The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.
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…
HyperX Omen 35L review: A polished gaming PC for deep pockets [29 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Premium styling, quiet operation, and impressive performance elevates the HyperX Omen 35L into competition with the best the market has to offer. But whether it's worth the money depends on which configuration you choose.
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…
SuperPlane 1.0: An open-source software factory [28 Oct 26, 6:02pm] SuperPlane has launched SuperPlane 1.0, an open source software factory that gives engineering teams a shared, repeatable workflow around their coding agents, from ticket to verified pull request, with people deciding what ships. SuperPlane checks wh…
Qt Group Launches Tool for Embedded UX Design [28 Oct 26, 5:53pm] Qt Group has announced Clate, a no-code, AI-native environment for designers to create embedded user interfaces, even on resource-constrained hardware. Designing an interface can be problematic due to the severe resource limits present on the target…
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.
Is HEVC Worth the Royalties? We Tested x265 Against a Tuned x264 to Find Out [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…
Faraway tectonic forces may have accelerated the Gulf of California rifting [29 Oct 26, 11:10pm] When the Baja California peninsula broke from mainland Mexico nearly 12 million years ago, it gave rise to the Gulf of California. New research suggests that this process of continental rifting was greatly accelerated due to tectonic forces on the op…
Simplified ancestral enzyme makes ATP without amino acid needed for its usual reaction [29 Oct 26, 11:00pm] Proteins perform essential functions in living organisms, from catalyzing biochemical reactions to supporting cellular energy metabolism. Their functions depend on their amino acid composition and three-dimensional structures. However, early proteins…
Asteroids venturing near white dwarfs don't break directly into dust, study reveals [29 Oct 26, 10:50pm] When asteroids travel too close to white dwarfs, the dense remnants of stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel, powerful gravitational forces can tear them apart. However, new research from Planetary Science Institute (PSI) suggests that these a…
Sex after baby: How childhood trauma can get in the way [29 Oct 26, 10:40pm] Why do some parents have more sexual difficulties than others after having a baby? Childhood trauma plays a significant role, amplifying the other factors at play.
Electronic skin lights up under pressure [28 Oct 26, 8:15pm] Researchers have developed a next-generation electronic skin that can both sense and directly visualize pressure in real time.
How does anger affect whether people vote? [28 Oct 26, 7:51pm] New research digs into how anger might motivate political activism and, ultimately, influence who turns out to vote.
Your Diary Has A Creditor: What Character.ai’s Bankruptcy Does To Freedom Of Thought [29 Oct 26, 10:23pm] What is covered by freedom of thought in the AI age is being decided by courts that are hearing cases about something entirely different. The Chapter 11 filing of Character.ai on October 12 is the second such case in a year, and it shows that the rec…
Court Tosses Trump’s Clumsy Attempt To Scuttle Musk Memphis Data Center Pollution Lawsuit [29 Oct 26, 8:29pm] Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NA…
The Streisand Effect Case Might Have Played Out Differently In Germany [29 Oct 26, 6:03pm] As you may know, The Streisand Effect was originally coined right here on Techdirt in 2005, though it referred back to an event from 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued Ken Adelman, because his project to map how erosion impacted the California coastline…
Daily Deal: Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball [29 Oct 26, 5:58pm] This Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball is a USB-rechargeable toy featuring 360-degree rolling movements, obstacle avoidance, and changing LED lights to help keep cats entertained. It’s built out of scratch-resistant and bite-resistant material…
apple breaks a 16-year design rule with its first touchscreen macbook pro [29 Oct 26, 6:19pm] after years of reserving touchscreens for its mobile devices, apple allows creatives to create digital content directly on the display. The post apple breaks a 16-year design rule with its first touchscreen macbook pro appeared first on designboom |…
historic perugia newsstand reconfigures into stepped red oak mini reading kiosk [29 Oct 26, 4:15pm] along perugia’s sant’ercolano staircase, giuseppe arezzi transforms edicola 518 from a traditional newsstand into a micro-architecture featuring stepped oak seating, a drinking fountain, and street-step furniture.The post historic perugia newsst…
these glowing amber sculptures begin with a natural polymer produced by tiny insects [29 Oct 26, 11:50am] ori orisun merhav explores a future of multispecies design, where biological processes inform how we manufacture and inhabit the world.The post these glowing amber sculptures begin with a natural polymer produced by tiny insects appeared first on de…
mcdonald’s recycles happy meal toys into wireless mouse shaped like french fries [29 Oct 26, 11:49am] developed with lenovo, this french fry-shaped wireless mouse brings a familiar red carton to the desktop, giving recycled toy plastic a new day job.The post mcdonald’s recycles happy meal toys into wireless mouse shaped like french fries appeared…
