Why Flavio Bolsonaro Is Facing Multiple Investigations In Brazil [29 Oct 26, 6:57am] The most high-profile probe involves alleged money laundering, corruption and foreign-exchange violations surrounding the financing of Dark Horse, a film about his father that hasn't been released yet.
Decoys, Italian Passport And A Private Jet: How Brazil's Bolsonaro Fled To US [29 Oct 26, 5:51am] Brazilian police said there is no official record of Bolsonaro's departure from the country. They say they are investigating his failure to hand over his passports, but this does not classify him as a fugitive.
ECB set to hold rates, but how long can it sit tight? [29 Oct 26, 8:11am] The European Central Bank is widely expected to keep rates on hold at its October meeting. But with inflation running nearly double the target rate and France facing a fiscal crisis, watchers will be eyeing any clues on whether the ECB is readying a…
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…
Mid-week Android app deals and freebies: Subnautica, Lara Croft GO, Fishfolk, more [28 Oct 26, 7:42pm] Today’s best Google Play app and game deals are ready, including Subnautica: Below Zero, Lara Croft GO, Fishfolk Voyage, Sauna of the DEAD, Railways – Train Simulator, Traffix: Traffic Simulator, and more. Just be sure to dive into the brand new…
Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day [29 Oct 26, 8:01am] CVE-2026-41709 allows attackers with administrative privileges to perform operations without being logged.The post Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ukrainian Hive and Nefilim Ransomware Affiliate Gets 70 Months in US Prison [28 Oct 26, 3:05pm] Artem Stryzhak was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to using Nefilim ransomware in attacks.The post Ukrainian Hive and Nefilim Ransomware Affiliate Gets 70 Months in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation [28 Oct 26, 1:56pm] The massive funding round comes just days after reports emerged that Upwind had attracted acquisition interest from several companies, including DatadogThe post Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation appeared first on Secur…
Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities [28 Oct 26, 1:39pm] The Chrome 156 update fixes 52 bugs, while Firefox 159 was rolled out with 167 security patches.The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
TLS Flaws Found in GoAhead Web Server Used in Hundreds of Millions of Devices [28 Oct 26, 1:10pm] FoxIO disclosed three GoAhead TLS bugs that can let revoked certificates through or expose some encrypted sessions to eavesdroppers.The post TLS Flaws Found in GoAhead Web Server Used in Hundreds of Millions of Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek…
Self-adjusting drone controls could make for smoother formation flying [28 Oct 26, 8:40pm] A new method for controlling groups of drones, technically known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), could make formation flying smoother and reduce energy consumption and mechanical wear, according to research in the International Journal of Systems…
Researchers establish performance targets for next-generation solar aircraft batteries [28 Oct 26, 8:00pm] A sleek, pilotless, solar-powered airplane that soars through the atmosphere to monitor climate or track wildfires was once just an idea. Now, these high-altitude specialty aircraft are advancing from early prototyping demonstrations toward potential…
Moving toward emission-free aluminum production [28 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Until now, aluminum production has generated significant greenhouse gas emissions. But a new process is emerging that produces aluminum without such emissions.
These are the 4 best used electric SUVs for under $25,000, according to Edmunds [28 Oct 26, 6:00pm] As more EVs enter the used car market, buyers with a budget of around $25,000 can now find newer electric SUVs that offer the benefits of gas-free motoring without the eye-watering price tags attached to many new electric vehicles. The challenge, nat…
3 Signs Your Car Blew A Fuse [29 Oct 26, 2:00am] Your car's fuses are designed to protect its wiring from power surges. When a fuse fails, your car loses capability until those fuses are replaced.
What Happens If You Take A Freshwater Boat In The Ocean? [29 Oct 26, 12:45am] While freshwater boats will certainly float in the ocean, they're not necessarily designed for a saltwater environment. This can lead to damage or danger.
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…
Are Museums Boring? Only a Little, Study Finds [28 Oct 26, 7:23pm] Boredom scored 1.74 on a scale of one to five for visitors to Vienna's museums.The post Are Museums Boring? Only a Little, Study Finds appeared first on Artnet News.
This Tiny Fabergé Treasure Could Make a $1M Splash at Auction [28 Oct 26, 5:04pm] Also: a historic Brian Jones letter, a World Cup trophy, the original Mason-Dixon map, and other collectibles news.The post This Tiny Fabergé Treasure Could Make a $1M Splash at Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
Steve McQueen Brings Nina Simone and David Bowie Together in an Unlikely Duet [28 Oct 26, 3:58pm] At Guggenheim Bilbao, the British artist has married the voices of the music titans in a work that spans decades. The post Steve McQueen Brings Nina Simone and David Bowie Together in an Unlikely Duet 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…
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…
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…
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix trophy touches down at Etihad Airways ahead of F1 season finale [28 Oct 26, 12:26pm] Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix trophy has made a special stop at Etihad Airways’ headquarters at Zayed International Airport as preparations gather pace for the Formula 1 season finale on Yas Island on December 3-…
Entries Open As World Triathlon Women’s Cup Returns To Dubai With A Race For Every Woman [27 Oct 26, 9:01pm] Dubai, UAE: Entries are now open for the World Triathlon Women’s Cup Dubai, which makes its way to Al Mamzar Beach Park on Sunday 6 December with races for women of all abilities, from first-time triathletes to elite international athletes. The sec…
Employee Happiness Awards UAE 2026 Celebrates People-First Workplaces at Fourth Edition [27 Oct 26, 8:32pm] Dubai: The Employee Happiness Awards (EHA) UAE 2026, organisedby Eventyst Global, concluded its fourth and largest UAE edition at JW Marriott Marquis Dubai. More than 300 guests, including business and HR leaders, finalists, independent jury membe…
Strike Damage Confirmed at Giant Saudi Refinery Complex [29 Oct 26, 3:25am] Commercially-available satellite imaging reveals that the Houthi missile strike on the giant oil export hub of Ras Tanura hit a critical component of...
UKMTO Reports Burning Tanker Off Musandam Peninsula [29 Oct 26, 3:12am] In a sign that Iranian attacks remain a serious risk in the Strait of Hormuz, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has reported an apparent attack on...
Nigeria: Building on a Decade of Port Reform [28 Oct 26, 11:42pm] A decade of sustained collaboration between government and the private sector has delivered tangible improvements in Nigeria’s ports. The next phase w...
Galveston Port Director Rees Appointed TPA President [28 Oct 26, 11:38pm] {By: Port of GalvestonRodger Rees, Galveston Wharves port director and CEO, has been elected president of the Texas Ports Association (TPA) for a 2-ye...
How the Character in Nina Sechko’s Multifaceted Work Explores Ways of Being [Interview] [28 Oct 26, 4:35pm] How the Character in Nina Sechko’s Multifaceted Work Explores Ways of Being {Interview}In Nina Sechko's work, sensibility is a safe space, created and nurtured by the women who raised her. Experimenting with classical techniques and contempo…
Art Installation With Live Human as Sculptures Seems To Break the Laws of Physics [28 Oct 26, 2:45pm] Art Installation With Live Human as Sculptures Seems To Break the Laws of Physics View this post on Instagram A post shared by xuzhenstudio (@xuzhenstudio) If you’ve ever been to a figure drawing class or sat for an artist, you’ll know how…
Astronomers Believe They’ve Pinpointed the Exact Date of Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ [28 Oct 26, 1:45pm] Astronomers Believe They’ve Pinpointed the Exact Date of Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’Painted in 1889, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night depicts the view from the artist’s asylum window in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. For years, ar…
TIME Names V&A East Storehouse One of the World’s Greatest Places for 2026 [27 Oct 26, 7:15pm] TIME Names V&A East Storehouse One of the World’s Greatest Places for 2026Embed from Getty Images The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) gives visitors unprecedented access to its vast collection through the V&A East Storehouse. Located…
17-Year-Old Creates a Portable Fire Extinguisher That Works Using Sound Waves [27 Oct 26, 5:25pm] 17-Year-Old Creates a Portable Fire Extinguisher That Works Using Sound Waves Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Periódico El Valle (@elvallemexico) A 17-year-old student is making waves with her fire safety inn…
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI [28 Oct 26, 9:34pm] Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row [28 Oct 26, 9:25pm] Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.
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…
AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [28 Oct 26, 8:42pm] Pages cited by AI often answered a question in their first lines, though the gap was smaller against pages AI pulled up but didn’t cite.The post AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Malaysia seizes $12 million worth of advanced AI chips hidden inside 30 servers [28 Oct 26, 5:02pm] Malaysian customs seized 30 servers containing more than $12 million worth of advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, as authorities investigate a suspected smuggling network linked to multiple previous seizures.
Amazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive [28 Oct 26, 3:13pm] Amazon has published new engineering guidelines warning developers and managers against ‘tokenmaxxing,’ arguing that AI usage metrics are ‘deeply flawed’ unless tied to long-term outcomes. The move follows similar spending concerns at Uber an…
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…
Living Document or Dead Weight? Rethinking Test Plans for the Real World [28 Oct 26, 5:33pm] There’s a familiar moment on a lot of software projects. The test plan gets written, reviewed and approved. Everyone agrees it covers what needs to happen. Then development actually starts. A requirement changes. A feature gets pushed to the next r…
A Scraper That Heals Itself: Lessons From a One-Day Build [27 Oct 26, 7:08pm] On Saturday, August 22, 2026, I sat down in a room in San Francisco with a laptop, three sponsor accounts and an idea I wasn’t sure would work in one day. By the end of the day, Scraper Factory had won the solo grand prize, for Best Full-Stack Inte…
Introducing pg_pinecone: Open-Source Search for Your Postgres Data [27 Oct 26, 4:59pm] Pinecone today released pg_pinecone, an open-source Postgres extension under the Apache 2.0 license, for search on your stored data. pg_pinecone is built on the search engine Pinecone runs at scale. The way it works is that it indexes your vector c…
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…
How the Indian Ocean is linked to Europe's early-winter rain and storms [29 Oct 26, 1:00am] When we think about Europe's winter weather, the Indian Ocean is probably not the first place we look. We might picture Atlantic storms, cold air arriving from the north or rain sweeping across the Mediterranean. In my research, however, I look…
The phantom lighthouse: New research explains one of Australia's strangest illusions [28 Oct 26, 11:40pm] There are two lighthouses on Lady Elliot Island, at the southernmost tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The first was built in 1873, but was decommissioned in 1995 when the second took over the job of warning ships off the reef. Visitors to…
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.
Tim Sweeney Would Be Well Served To Stop Talking About AI Right About Now [29 Oct 26, 2:55am] It’s probably a good thing for Tim Sweeney that Epic Games is a privately held company and he has a majority ownership stake, because I can’t imagine any Board of Directors would appreciate this AI rager he’s been on as of late. And, somehow, i…
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Full Paper [28 Oct 26, 10:05pm] Over the last few months, we’ve been running the wonderful ten part series on “The Metric is Not the Mission” by Konstantinos Komaitis. It’s a deep exploration of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingl…
Daily Deal: JavaScript Crash Course [28 Oct 26, 6:01pm] JavaScript began as a web scripting language and has now expanded to include a game, mobile app, server, and database development. This JavaScript Crash Course is a great choice if you want to pursue a career in web design. You’ll learn the ins and…
desert-inspired sensory playground brings kid’s perspective to downtown el paso [29 Oct 26, 3:40am] designed by miguel mendoza for the chalk the block festival, desert playgola combines recycled timber, iridescent curtains, and desert-inspired sculptures in an interactive public installation.The post desert-inspired sensory playground brings kid…
brazilian studio rótulo em branco turns oversized nails into sculptural steel tables [28 Oct 26, 10:01pm] designed by ingrid sani lang, the prego collection reimagines construction nails as stainless-steel side, coffee, and bar tables with interchangeable heads.The post brazilian studio rótulo em branco turns oversized nails into sculptural steel table…
kengo kuma’s brick towers frame open-air pools at copenhagen’s upcoming bathhouse [28 Oct 26, 4:55pm] swimmers can float beneath the open sky between brick towers at copenhagen's public bathhouse, set to open on december 5th, 2026.The post kengo kuma’s brick towers frame open-air pools at copenhagen’s upcoming bathhouse appeared first on de…
