JD Vance "Disgusted" By Republicans Over Vivek Ramaswamy's Controversial Ad [21 Oct 26, 7:23pm] In Cincinnati, the vice president said it was "not really my concern" whether the controversial 60-second spot was appropriate, and said he was focused on supporting Republican candidates in their midterm races.
Protests Banned In Parts Of Paris Today: Police [21 Oct 26, 6:54pm] Protests will be barred in parts of Paris on Thursday, the police said Wednesday, as the French government braced for a fresh wave of demonstrations in the coming days.
Ukraine's Drones Drop Like Flies From Sky After Starshield Disruption: Report [21 Oct 26, 6:52pm] The drones were heading towards Russian military targets when their video feeds suddenly stopped working, commander Oleh said. The aircraft had lost their connection to Starshield, a satellite internet service funded by the Pentagon.
Dev Chat Agenda – October 21, 2026 [21 Oct 26, 4:10am] 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 …
Performance Chat Summary: 20 October 2026 [20 Oct 26, 5:04pm] The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets Script/style concatenation was only used in the login/admin for core’s own assets. It served its purpose, especially for HTTP/1.1, but WordPress 7.2 will use…
Recap: WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Retrospective [19 Oct 26, 6:30pm] This post summarizes the feedback received from the WordPress 7.1 retrospective. Thank you to those who contributed their feedback via the retrospective survey and comments on the post! For ease of reading, feedback has been synthesized. Full feedba…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-16 [16 Oct 26, 9:04am] This is the first in a series of weekly status update posts from the WP Feature Notifications work. Security PRS There are 30+ open Dependabot PRs that will resolve various dependency security alerts across the repository. It would be really helpful…
Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections [21 Oct 26, 5:00pm] Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis.The post Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors [21 Oct 26, 4:50pm] Several cybersecurity companies saw exploitation attempts of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 before PHP released the patches.The post PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors appeared first on SecurityWeek.
‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets [21 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold.The post ‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets ap…
High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 [21 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents.The post High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 appeared first on Secu…
Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security [21 Oct 26, 1:17pm] Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M seed led by Tower Research Ventures to commercialize its Beacon AI agent runtime security platform.The post Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centers [21 Oct 26, 8:40pm] With artificial intelligence (AI) data centers consuming electricity at a growing rate, identifying a sustainable computing solution to offset these massive community and environmental disruptors is proving critical.
Wheeled, flying and six-legged robots stay on track with new learning method [21 Oct 26, 7:20pm] It's important for a robot not just to learn a task optimally, but to complete it without going off the rails of reasonable expectations. Until now, roboticists could have one or the other. Aerospace engineering researchers in The Grainger Colle…
New materials library could help AI design better sodium-ion batteries [21 Oct 26, 5:00pm] The start of a new battery materials library could pave the way for future AI models to help scientists design sodium-ion batteries that charge faster, last longer and store more energy, according to new research from the University of Surrey.
Why Is GM's 5.3-Liter Vortec 5300 Engine So Reliable? [21 Oct 26, 6:45pm] Of all of GM's engines, its 5.3-Liter Vortec 5300 engine is one that's said to be really reliable, but why? Turns out, it's for some pretty good reasons.
The Second-User Test [20 Oct 26, 10:54am] In my work with G7–G12 students at Force Academy, a research initiative in Chongqing, I sometimes take a project that appears to be finished and give another student responsibility for using, checking, or modifying it. The handoff is a test of unde…
Building an AI Analyst, One Football Argument at a Time [19 Oct 26, 3:55pm] One of my biggest pet peeves is the Monday morning quarterback, the person who second-guesses every coaching decision after the fact. In The Monday Morning Agent, we’re building one that actually checks the data. Every other Monday, I’ll take an…
AI Changed How We Code. It Hasn’t Changed How We Work Together. [19 Oct 26, 10:54am] This summer, I built a small experiment called ContextCue. The idea came from something I kept seeing during my internship. The engineers around me were using AI everywhere in the software development process. GitHub Copilot and Claude models helped…
This Week in AI: Expanding the Possibilities [16 Oct 26, 3:55pm] New AI tools are making business data easier to explore. They’re also giving researchers new ways to study disease outbreaks and physical systems. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined developments from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistra…
Code Review After Code Gets Cheap [16 Oct 26, 10:54am] In my previous article, I argued that agentic development needs enough specification to make correctness checkable. A quick prompt can get implementation started quickly, but someone still has to decide whether the result does what we wanted. I left…
Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty [21 Oct 26, 5:11pm] A judge has ordered a halt to further exhibition changes, but experts warn the removals threaten protections enshrined in the constitution.The post Colombia’s President Declared a Culture War. The National Museum Is the First Casualty appeared f…
How Gershon Iskowitz Forged His Own Path to Abstraction [21 Oct 26, 9:30am] In Toronto, Caviar20 follow Iskowitz’s transformation from figurative painter processing Holocaust trauma to pioneer of Canadian abstraction in new career-spanning retrospective.The post How Gershon Iskowitz Forged His Own Path to Abstraction appe…
Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning Meet Again [21 Oct 26, 6:40am] Plus, a Patti Smith photo show, a massive Anselm Kiefer finds a home, and other art world matters.The post Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning Meet Again appeared first on Artnet News.
188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography’s First Human Subjects Solved [20 Oct 26, 9:55pm] In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped the first photograph. Now, a team of filmmakers has identified the exact location of that historic view.The post 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography’s First Human Subjects Solved appeared first on Artnet News.
“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.
Structured Output with TanStack AI [19 Oct 26, 12:25pm] Part 2 of this intro to TanStack AI covers structured output: constraining the model's response to a Zod schema, then streaming that JSON in and rendering it while it's still incomplete.
Unlocking AI in Your Apps with TanStack AI [16 Oct 26, 12:32pm] TanStack AI is a strongly typed set of libraries for adding AI features to your apps. Part 1 of this intro covers basic setup and prompting, streaming responses, persisting threads to your database, and resuming a response after a mid-stream refresh.
Building a Fancy Scrollspy Using Modern CSS [14 Oct 26, 3:20pm] Scrollspy navigation used to mean IntersectionObserver and a pile of JavaScript. With scroll-target-group, :target-current, and a little anchor positioning, a plain list of anchor links can highlight the current section all on its own.
“WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf” [14 Oct 26, 3:19pm] Yoav Weiss makes a good point: “WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf”. I’ve seen both pushback to WebMCP in the form of “websites should just be better, or agents should be smarter, there shouldn’t be alternative paths to using them built.” And I’…
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 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…
Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put [21 Oct 26, 2:00pm] Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the trap they’re concerned about…
Don't forget about the UI for AI [20 Oct 26, 7:40am] Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the advantages of localized computer…
Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide [19 Oct 26, 3:32pm] A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong [16 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before writing code, how Quint brings developer-friendly syntax and executability to formal methods, a…
7 free apps I install on every new Windows PC [21 Oct 26, 8:00pm] From batch uninstalling software to keeping my work organized, these free apps have earned a permanent place in my workflow.
Keolis opens Regional Headquarters in Dubai to strengthen its Middle East operations [21 Oct 26, 3:59pm] Dubai, UAE: Keolis is opening Regional Headquarters in Dubai as they strengthen their presence in the Middle East. This new office will serve as a hub for the Group’s operations in the region and help develop new transport projects across the Middl…
Big 5 Global returns to Dubai for its 47th edition [21 Oct 26, 3:37pm] Dubai: Big 5 Global, the most influential industry event for construction and urban development in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), returns to Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 – 26 November 2026, supported by the UAE Ministry of Ener…
380,000 Colorful LEGO Flowers Seem To Spill From an Art Center in Shanghai [20 Oct 26, 7:20pm] 380,000 Colorful LEGO Flowers Seem To Spill From an Art Center in ShanghaiLEGO Group’s in-house advertising agency, known as Our LEGO Agency, has transformed an old industrial site in Shanghai with a wave of color. The creative team took over the…
Four African Painters Explore Memory and Identity Through Unfinished Lines [20 Oct 26, 5:30pm] Four African Painters Explore Memory and Identity Through Unfinished LinesFour contemporary African painters explore cultural identity and personal history in Unfinished Lines, an exhibition presented by Art of Contemporary Africa (AOCA) at Minnesot…
Artist Creates One-of-a-Kind Shoes Made of Real Flowers and Vegetables [20 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Artist Creates One-of-a-Kind Shoes Made of Real Flowers and VegetablesShoes and flowers are two things that don’t commonly intersect, except in the work of Katerina Shukshina, whose floral footwear uses real blooms to create whimsical, unexpected…
Are You Drawing for Inktober? Here’s How to Keep the Inky Goodness Going [20 Oct 26, 9:55am] Are You Drawing for Inktober? Here’s How to Keep the Inky Goodness GoingWith practically two-thirds of October complete, we’re also approaching the end of Inktober. The worldwide art challenge inspires daily art-making with creative prompts that…
Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures [21 Oct 26, 8:15pm] Automattic has begun laying off employees across multiple teams, including WordPress.com and its enterprise business, following a board shakeup and a series of executive departures. Sources say more cuts could follow as the company looks to improve i…
GM is betting compute and AI will help it compete with Chinese automakers [21 Oct 26, 7:52pm] To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat [21 Oct 26, 7:30pm] As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
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…
How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code [19 Oct 26, 6:47pm] Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context.The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The next developer interface is ambient intelligence [15 Oct 26, 7:39pm] AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent—and helping developers stay focused on building.The post The next developer interface is ambient intelligence appeared first on Th…
Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org [15 Oct 26, 6:00pm] Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.The post Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data [21 Oct 26, 2:00pm] A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT.The post Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Azul Patches 53 OpenJDK Vulnerabilities [21 Oct 26, 5:42pm] SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI-first world, today released its October “Security-only, Stability-first” updates for Azul Core that are immediately deployable to address all 53 vulnerabilities di…
Harness Launches AI Budgets for Cost Management [21 Oct 26, 4:34pm] Harness has introduced AI Budgets, a feature in its Cost Management Agent designed to help organizations monitor and enforce limits on artificial intelligence spending. The company said many organizations have established AI cost policies but lack a…
Developers Report Mixed Feelings as AI Adoption Hits Record Highs, Atlassian Survey Finds [21 Oct 26, 11:30am] AI has rapidly transitioned from experimental pilots to an industry-standard practice, with over 95% of software developers and engineering leaders actively utilizing AI tools. However, new findings from Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 20…
Sonatype Unveils Nexus Repository Pro+ to Stop Malicious Components [19 Oct 26, 6:03pm] Fulton, Md. – Sonatype, the company helping enterprises build with confidence in the AI era, today announced Nexus Repository Pro+, which stops malicious code where it enters, not after it’s already inside. By bringing Sonatype Repository Firew…
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.
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…
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…
Japan's expensive funerals and declining birthrates are transforming ancestral traditions [21 Oct 26, 8:40pm] Whenever I drive amid the mazelike bustle of Tokyo's Shuto Expressway, where approximately 1 million vehicles transit daily, I see billboard advertisements for all manner of businesses: dentists, hotels, car and tire companies, and affordable fu…
Salt marshes are proving to be powerful allies in building a climate-resilient coastline [21 Oct 26, 8:40pm] Salt marsh sediment and vegetation can remain largely intact even during extreme storm surges. This was demonstrated in a large-scale experiment in which researchers transported sections of salt marsh to an experimental facility capable of producing…
Reconstructing 16,000 years of summer temperature change in the Western Balkans [21 Oct 26, 8:30pm] Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have reconstructed approximately 16,000 years of summer temperature changes from sediments collected at Lake Prokoško in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The findings show how the Western Balkans responded to…
AI designs functional enzyme components that could help expand drug discovery [21 Oct 26, 8:20pm] New active ingredients for drugs to treat infections, cancer or other serious diseases are often based on substances originally discovered in microorganisms, plants or other living organisms. Producing or improving such active ingredients in a target…
A scuff on your bag, a dent in your mug—and suddenly it feels like time for a new one [21 Oct 26, 8:20pm] Imagine you have a bag you really like. It felt like "the one" when you bought it. Over time, it starts to look worn. There are some scuffs on it. Nothing is actually wrong with the bag, and it still works exactly as it should. Yet, once yo…
2 molecules may help slow pancreatic cancer growth [21 Oct 26, 6:24pm] Two naturally occurring microRNAs may help regulate the protein production that allows aggressive cancer cells to grow and divide.
Locusts could help detect chemical weapons [21 Oct 26, 5:13pm] "We marry the best biology has to offer with engineering principles to create a superior sensing system."
AI Is Anti-Punk [21 Oct 26, 8:00pm] Sam Altman is not punk. He’s no revolutionary. Jensen Huang wears a black leather jacket, the uniform of Brando and the Ramones, but that doesn’t make him a rebel. The scientists and engineers we might have looked to as the new hackers are well o…
Daily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online Academy [21 Oct 26, 5:54pm] CyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration Testing, Advanced Persistent Threats, Threat Intelligence Research, Reverse Engineering, an…
Broken Fifth Circuit Kills Massive Program That Helps Poor Rural Kids Get Broadband [21 Oct 26, 12:19pm] You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC engages in literally anything that threatens corporate power or aids workers, competition, or consumers (say, net neutrality, for example), or even school kids, it…
leather octopuses and mohair whales by cosima von bonin take over paris’ petit palais [21 Oct 26, 4:19pm] within the historic galleries during art basel 2026, padded animal sculptures interrupt the solemn company of classical figures. The post leather octopuses and mohair whales by cosima von bonin take over paris’ petit palais appeared first on desig…
rammed concrete cube and terraced gardens define sunken art center proposal in bulgaria [21 Oct 26, 3:15pm] unformed design’s competition-winning ground of descent transforms a long-vacant excavation site in burgas, bulgaria, into a subterranean contemporary art complex enclosed by terraced public gardens.The post rammed concrete cube and terraced garde…
what we learned: spectator and spectacle [21 Oct 26, 10:27am] in this chapter, we journeyed from underground nightclubs to cinematic illusions, wearable architectures, and sculptural mirrors, exploring how spectacle can challenge our perceptions and experience the world.The post what we learned: spectator and…
boss design turns outdated furniture into timeless pieces with circular initiative [21 Oct 26, 10:00am] the british furniture brand gives old pieces a new lease of life through a circular initiative and a chair built to last.The post boss design turns outdated furniture into timeless pieces with circular initiative appeared first on designboom | archi…
