Dev Chat Agenda – November 11, 2026 [11 Nov 26, 4:15am] 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 tick…
New Block Support in WordPress 7.2: Text Shadow (textShadow) [11 Nov 26, 1:36am] WordPress 7.2 introduces a new textShadow typography block support, along with text shadow presets and a user interface in both the block inspector and Global Styles. The Paragraph and Heading blocks are the first core blocks to adopt it. GitHub issu…
Editor components updates in WordPress 7.2 [10 Nov 26, 3:48pm] Migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules WordPress 7.2 completes the migration from Emotion to SCSS Modules in @wordpress/components, continuing the work described in the WordPress 7.1 dev note. This removes the package’s remaining Emotion dependencies…
Conservative in What We Accept [8 Nov 26, 8:33pm] Joe Youngblood’s report surprised me because I didn’t realize our conservative sanitize_username approach doesn’t apply to registrations when you’re not in multi-site mode. https://x.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/2118795342875431305 We should assume every…
SVG icons in the admin bar and menu in WordPress 7.2 [5 Nov 26, 11:15am] You may have noticed the new shiny icons in the admin screens in WordPress 7.2 Beta. As previously announced on Replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu, the icons in the admin bar and menu are now inline SVGs from @wordpress/icons. Before, they…
I tested Windows 11 November 2026 update, here’s what’s new, improved, and fixed [10 Nov 26, 6:02pm] Windows 11's November 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixes the slow, cluttered right-click menu and lets you customize it. Edge opens up to 33% faster, taskbar previews glide between apps, Xbox mode gets an Exit to Desktop button, and 26H2 PCs get Microso…
The Sideload 051: Would you let Ring fly around your house? [10 Nov 26, 9:30pm] Welcome to episode 51 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will and Daniel discuss the looming threat of CES before digging into Ring’s newly-announced Drone Cam, something that either seems too dangerous to let into your house or the ne…
I’ve waited a long time for the Boox Picco, and I’m not disappointed [10 Nov 26, 8:15pm] At around $100, the Boox Picco offers one of the most portable e-reader experiences you can get. You add MagSafe-like capability with a refreshingly simple UI, and you have a delightful way to read, literally wherever you are. more…
No, the Pixel Tag is not available today [10 Nov 26, 8:00pm] Our first impressions on Google’s new Pixel Tag are live, but orders are not. There appears to be some confusion running around the web, but the Pixel Tag is not available for purchase today. more…
Finite State Raises $27 Million to Secure Software and Firmware in Connected Devices [11 Nov 26, 12:24pm] The Series C round will fund international expansion and more autonomous features for the firm’s device security platform. The post Finite State Raises $27 Million to Secure Software and Firmware in Connected Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fortinet Patches Nearly 100 Vulnerabilities [11 Nov 26, 12:10pm] The massive drop comes after the company integrated frontier AI models into its product security testing.The post Fortinet Patches Nearly 100 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bay Raises $50 Million to Control What Enterprise AI Agents Can Do [11 Nov 26, 11:30am] Founded by three ex-IDF Unit 8200 intelligence officers, Bay is launched to provide a control plane for AI agents.The post Bay Raises $50 Million to Control What Enterprise AI Agents Can Do appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Dreeze Emerges From Stealth With $33M to Rebuild Cloud Apps After Cyberattacks [11 Nov 26, 11:16am] Created by Zerto and Kashya veterans, the startup has launched a platform designed to recover whole cloud applications. The post Dreeze Emerges From Stealth With $33M to Rebuild Cloud Apps After Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Flags High-Severity Flaws, Node2Shell Exposure [11 Nov 26, 10:35am] Pre-Patch Tuesday advisories were published by VDE CERT, Phoenix Contact, Johnson Controls, and Hitachi Energy. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Flags High-Severity Flaws, Node2Shell Exposure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Could new iron-based catalysts bring lithium-CO₂ batteries closer to reality? [11 Nov 26, 12:00pm] A new class of iron-based catalysts could bring scientists a step closer to developing cheaper and more sustainable rechargeable batteries that use carbon dioxide (CO₂), according to research from the University of Surrey.
EU to make addictive app features easier to switch off [11 Nov 26, 11:20am] The European Union will on Wednesday unveil new rules to crack down on influencer marketing, ban online features that trick Europeans and force platforms to give users the right to turn off "addictive" features.
Many AI companies will adopt advertising: Ad chief Criteo [11 Nov 26, 11:10am] Many AI platforms will end up eventually adopting advertising, the head of the online advertising agency Criteo told AFP Tuesday, as investors are focused on whether the technology will ever be profitable.
3 Of The Most Reliable 12-Cylinder Engines Ever [11 Nov 26, 3:45am] Even among engines known for extravagant ownership costs, a few V12s have earned praise from mechanics and specialists for their reliability.
Juraj Ďuriš Paints “Dialóg” Beside Ústí nad Labem’s Main Station [8 Nov 26, 12:12pm] Juraj Ďuriš has painted Dialóg on the end wall of a railway building beside Ústí nad Labem’s main station. The large mural places a figurative work along one of the Czech city’s busiest approaches, where it can be seen from passing trains as well as…
Millo Paints “The Most Precious Treasure” Beside Alcantarilla’s Future Railway Station [7 Nov 26, 9:11pm] Millo has completed The Most Precious Treasure (El tesoro más valioso) in Alcantarilla, Murcia. In the mural, his characters open a chest and find clear water instead of gold or jewels. The work stands alongside murals by JDL and Rocket01, facing the…
Ratur Paints “Anchored” for Appartengo in Stigliano [7 Nov 26, 6:11pm] Ratur painted “Anchored,” an acrylic work on concrete, for the 2026 Appartengo public-art festival in Stigliano, Italy. The French artist, also known as Arthur Maslard, made it during the festival’s October programme of artist residencies and new wor…
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 its compos…
Donald Judd and Yun Hyong-keun: Old Friends, Back Together Again [10 Nov 26, 10:43pm] A pivotal SoHo show by the Korean artist has been restaged 33 years later.The post Donald Judd and Yun Hyong-keun: Old Friends, Back Together Again appeared first on Artnet News.
Doyle to Auction Collection of Critic Robert Pincus-Witten and Textile Designer Leon Hecht [10 Nov 26, 9:30pm] The Important Fine Art sale on November 12 features six works by Yves Klein, led by his 1959 receipt book for “Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility.”The post Doyle to Auction Collection of Critic Robert Pincus-Witten and Textile Designer Leon H…
This Rare Hilma af Klint Painting Could Make Auction History [10 Nov 26, 3:32pm] 'Ser III No. 5' is headed to the block at Bukowskis where it could shatter the artist's auction record.The post This Rare Hilma af Klint Painting Could Make Auction History appeared first on Artnet News.
Just How Famous Is Yoshitomo Nara? [10 Nov 26, 8:00am] Plus, Lucien Smith’s cause of death, and a museum for sale on Facebook Marketplace.The post Just How Famous Is Yoshitomo Nara? appeared first on Artnet News.
My Interop 2027 Picks [10 Nov 26, 12:55pm] What web platform features are we all wishing for perfect cross-browser interoperability next year?
TanStack AI’s Sandbox API [9 Nov 26, 12:56pm] Part 3 of this intro to TanStack AI covers the Sandbox API: spinning up a remote sandbox on Vercel or Railway, running Claude Code inside it with GitHub access, and having it clone your repo, add a feature, and open a pull request.
true or false in CSS [6 Nov 26, 1:38pm] CSS doesn’t have a boolean type, but it does have the true and false keywords. Register a custom property that only accepts them, flip it with :has(), and container style queries turn messy :checked selector combinations into readable conditions.
Data Access Testing With @testcontainers [4 Nov 26, 12:58pm] Testing data access code has always been awkward: unit tests want to be fast and isolated, and a real database is neither. With Docker and @testcontainers you can spin up a throwaway Postgres inside your Vitest suite, push your Drizzle schema into it…
Multi-Column Different-Speed Scrolling [3 Nov 26, 8:24pm] Scroll-Driven Animations can step in and make scrolling feel different even if you aren't actually interfering with the actual page scroll.
Overriding Heading Levels With the headingoffset HTML Attribute [2 Nov 26, 1:27pm] The new headingoffset HTML attribute lets you bump a heading’s level up by adding to it, which is handy when a component’s h1 needs to be an h2 somewhere else. Here’s how the math works, how to reset it, how to style the result with :heading(), and w…
Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem [10 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways…
Welcome to life in the chip age [6 Nov 26, 8:40am] Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive environmental and geopolitical footprint of AI dat…
Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container [4 Nov 26, 4:34pm] CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency budget it can handle.
Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too [3 Nov 26, 8:40am] Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the security necessity of giving autonomous AI agents thei…
Kandinsky’s Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Sells for More Than $42 Million at Christie’s Auction [10 Nov 26, 5:35pm] Kandinsky’s Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Sells for More Than $42 Million at Christie’s AuctionEmbed from Getty Images A painting by Wassily Kandinsky, looted during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, has sold for £31.56 million (approximately $42 mi…
Short on Time? Here Are 5 Online Art Classes With Projects You Can Finish in an Afternoon [10 Nov 26, 10:55am] Short on Time? Here Are 5 Online Art Classes With Projects You Can Finish in an AfternoonLet’s face it: many of us are busy. But we also want a fun, creative break. Well, you can fit art into a packed schedule—it’s possible! If you can carve out an…
Here’s What the Stylish A-List Stars Wore To Support the 15th Annual LACMA Art+Film Gala [9 Nov 26, 8:20pm] Here’s What the Stylish A-List Stars Wore To Support the 15th Annual LACMA Art+Film GalaThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosted its biggest annual event on Saturday, November 7, 2026. It was the 15th LACMA Art+Film Gala, an annual fundra…
Git security vulnerabilities announced [10 Nov 26, 6:00pm] Git is releasing updates addressing six security vulnerabilities affecting recursive clones, reference handling, merges, binary patches, and imports. Here is what users need to know.The post Git security vulnerabilities announced appeared first on T…
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering [6 Nov 26, 10:15pm] Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment.The post Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide…
Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture [5 Nov 26, 8:23pm] GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.The post Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub [5 Nov 26, 4:00pm] GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.The post Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub ap…
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world [3 Nov 26, 4:00pm] Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone.The post Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
“F*** Keywords” – Well, What Are You Replacing Them With? via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo [10 Nov 26, 6:00pm] Declaring keywords dead is easy. Explaining what you’ll track, how you’ll govern content, and what stakeholders buy into is the harder part.The post “F*** Keywords” – Well, What Are You Replacing Them With? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Anthropic launches tools for team collaboration with whiteboards, spreadsheets and data [10 Nov 26, 7:22pm] Anthropic today is launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards now becomes generally available as Claude Data. Whiteboards is a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude, while Sheets is a spreadsheet Clau…
Red Hat Advances Red Hat Developer Hub as an Agent-Ready Enterprise Developer Portal [10 Nov 26, 6:46pm] Red Hat today announced Red Hat Developer Hub 2.1, the latest version of Red Hat’s agent-ready developer portal. Designed to turn AI code generation speed into tangible business outcomes, Red Hat Developer Hub 2.1 enables enterprises to equip AI agen…
Own the outcome, delegate the work: A framework for testing with AI agents [10 Nov 26, 5:24pm] AI can now generate hundreds of tests in minutes. What it can’t do, according to one testing solutions provider, is decide which of them matter. That was the argument Donovan Brady, vice president of developer relations at Leapwork, made in the final…
What Consumer Goods Taught Me About Building Tech Products [9 Nov 26, 8:18pm] Most of what I rely on daily as a product leader in advertising technology, I first learned selling diapers. That probably sounds like a punchline, but the instincts CPG (consumer packaged goods) brand management builds—consumer empathy, hypothesis-d…
Anthropic introduces Claude Fable 5.2, Mythos 5.2 [9 Nov 26, 7:57pm] Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, introduced today by Anthropic, show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision, and generate outputs up to 30% faster than Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. Claude Fable 5.2 is available tod…
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 AI ag…
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.
Snap Gets Its RAND Trial Against Dolby and Access Advance. Five Issues to Watch [2 Nov 26, 10:14pm] You may have heard about a recent decision in Snap’s UK licensing dispute with Dolby and Access Advance. Here’s what you need to know. Background Dolby sued Snap for HEVC and AV1 patent infringement in Delaware and Rio de Janeiro on March 23, 2026, s…
Optimizing x265 with FFmpeg [22 Oct 26, 7:41pm] If you distribute 4K or HDR video, HEVC is a must-have, not a nice-to-have. That’s the format the TVs and devices that play 4K HDR expect, and H.264 isn’t a realistic alternative. But what if you’re distributing 1080p SDR video? In this case, H.264 p…
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 mat…
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 soci…
Research snapshot: The use of icons in aphasia-friendly texts [11 Nov 26, 12:40pm] Pictorial reading supports, such as icons, can help people with aphasia better comprehend the material and enjoy the reading process. But exactly what type of icon is most helpful?
Roman-era 'frog feast' near Cambridge was the work of owls, bone analysis suggests [11 Nov 26, 12:00pm] Around 1,800 years ago, over 9,000 bones, mainly from frogs, ended up in an Iron Age/Roman gully near Cambridge. When archaeologists first dug them up, speculation soon followed. Were these the remains of a Roman frog feast or perhaps the skeletal af…
Overlooked bushland remnants serve as 'stepping stones' for endangered Carnaby's cockatoos [11 Nov 26, 12:00pm] New research from Murdoch University has revealed that Carnaby's cockatoos depend on small, fragmented patches of native vegetation to survive in heavily cleared landscapes—a finding that could play an important role in protecting the endangered spec…
Generative AI burns more energy on non-English text [9 Nov 26, 4:54pm] AI models can use up to 15 times more energy to process and generate text in widely spoken languages, often with lower-quality output.
AI can predict who’s at high risk for cavities [9 Nov 26, 4:34pm] Machine learning can identify groups who would most benefit from dental care, enabling targeted public health programs.
What are the risks of using kratom? [1 Nov 26, 5:28pm] An expert explains what kratom is, what the risks are of using it, and where regulation of the drug stands at the federal and state levels.
Chinese Govt. Stacks Charges On Jailed Joshua Wong To Keep Him Imprisoned Another Decade [11 Nov 26, 3:39am] The so-called National Security Law that the Hong Kong government ratified back in 2020 strikes again. This law, which broke the agreement made when the UK handed Hong Kong back to the Chinese government three decades ago, has since been used to jail…
Why VPNs Are Worth Defending [10 Nov 26, 11:05pm] Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people…
Tone-Deaf Attorney General Todd Blanche Says ALPRs Aren’t A Privacy Concern [10 Nov 26, 9:03pm] Sure, this administration isn’t just tone-deaf, but life-deaf. But it must be pointed out that what AG Todd Blanche is doing here comes in opposition to members of his own party. Every since it became readily apparent that hundreds of law enforcement…
From Pirates To Protesters, France Keeps Reaching For The Internet’s Choke Points [10 Nov 26, 7:03pm] Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, in which youth protests against various governments were celebrated in much of the Western World, we saw countries like Egypt move to shut down the internet in an effort to keep the public from communicating. I’ve…
Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription [10 Nov 26, 6:58pm] Rosetta Stone Sapphire combines over 30 years of language-learning expertise with immersive technology designed to help you speak naturally and confidently in real-world situations. Trusted by millions of learners worldwide, Sapphire brings together…
‘these organisms are 100% real’: timothy boomer captures nature’s alien architecture [11 Nov 26, 11:50am] tiny wasps transform oak trees into living nurseries, creating strange architectures shaped by multiple species.The post ‘these organisms are 100% real’: timothy boomer captures nature’s alien architecture appeared first on designboom | architecture…
sumayya vally’s counterspace to design elie khouri art foundation in dubai [11 Nov 26, 11:06am] drawing on beirut’s urban fabric and traditional gulf courtyard houses, counterspace will transform an existing jumeirah villa into a new cultural destination with galleries, educational spaces and gardens, opening in late 2028.The post sumayya vall…
datecrete turns date pits into design to win special prize at seoul design award 2026 [11 Nov 26, 10:15am] the UAE studio transforms discarded date pits into a cement-free material for surfaces, furniture and design objects.The post datecrete turns date pits into design to win special prize at seoul design award 2026 appeared first on designboom | archit…
