'Vertical Roller Coaster': Expert Explains flydubai Flight's Sudden Plunge [4 Oct 26, 6:58pm] The steep fall, after an attack on the captain by the co-pilot during a flight on Wednesday, would have put huge strain on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft - as well as the passengers and crew, said Alberto Paduanelli, owner of ALPA Simulation in Sherfi…
US Wants New Round Of Talks With Russia, Ukraine This Month: Zelensky [4 Oct 26, 6:47pm] The US-led peace efforts have been largely stalled with Washington's attention shifted to its war with Iran and as Ukraine says Russia has ramped up its aerial attacks across the war-torn country.
Nearly 500 Schools In France To Be Closed Monday Over Student Protests [4 Oct 26, 6:16pm] Lessons will be "totally or partly suspended" in some "400-500" high schools as the security conditions "have not been fulfilled", said Education Minister Edouard Geffray on Sunday, adding that 24 schools had been "…
Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad Steps Down: Report [4 Oct 26, 5:55pm] Mohsen Paknejad has been the oil minister of the OPEC member country since August 2024 and steps down as the seven-month war between Iran and the US puts pressure on the country's economy.
Core Trac and GitHub Team Spring Cleaning (Southern Hemisphere edition) [2 Oct 26, 5:21pm] Over the last few days, there have been a few actions taken on Trac and in the WordPress GitHub organization that are aimed at clarifying who is looking after areas of the project, and making it easier for contributors to do their work. Maintainer Cl…
Presence API: What’s new [2 Oct 26, 5:11pm] Since its announcement, the Presence API feature plugin has grown to show who's working where across a whole multisite network, with post locks that leave the posts cache alone.
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September) [30 Sep 26, 9:35am] “What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways t…
Dev Chat Agenda – September 30, 2026 [30 Sep 26, 12:18am] The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various curated agenda sections below refer…
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.2: One app for your first Core or Gutenberg contribution [25 Sep 26, 5:09pm] TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to remove the points of friction first-time contributors…
Windows 7’s Aero Shake never disappeared from Windows 11, how to enable it right now [4 Oct 26, 8:34pm] Microsoft renamed Windows 7's Aero Shake and turned it off by default, but it still lets you keep one window open while everything else minimizes. Here's how to turn it on, how it differs from Win + D and Show desktop, and why Windows 7 got…
“Rising cost of memory,” Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM [4 Oct 26, 12:48pm] In Microsoft's Inside Windows podcast, Davuluri and Marcus Ash explained how Windows 11 will use less RAM, and Microsoft later made 8GB PC optimization official. Here's why Windows 11 uses so much RAM, how AI drove up memory prices, and wha…
Google Pixel turns 10 years old today, and we’re still talking about it [4 Oct 26, 1:00pm] 10 years ago today, Google launched the first Pixel smartphone and, at the time, teased it by saying we’d still be talking about it years later. And, yeah, we still are, and this is a Google project that shows no signs of slowing down.9to5G…
doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures [3 Oct 26, 11:45am] doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority.The post doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fortra Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BoKS [3 Oct 26, 11:34am] The bugs could lead to authentication bypass, shell command execution, and memory corruption.The post Fortra Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BoKS appeared first on SecurityWeek.
macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor [2 Oct 26, 1:15pm] The dropper “carries a complete universal Mach-O inside itself, roughly 756 KB in the development build, and extracts it at runtime.The post macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Rubber ducks and screwdrivers put dexterous new soft robotic gripper to the test [4 Oct 26, 1:40pm] Professors at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) have developed a soft robotic gripper capable not only of picking up and holding objects but also of manipulating and repositioning what it holds…
AI needs safety layers like nuclear plants: Ex-OpenAI engineer [4 Oct 26, 11:20am] Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of urgent calls to make AI safe, saying the industry must mimic the aviation or nuclear power sectors with their layers of safeguards to avoid disaster.
New material provides boost to carbon capture technologies [3 Oct 26, 5:40pm] Oregon State University scientists have filed a patent application for a new carbon-capture material that turns water in factory flue emissions from a problem into an advantage.
Scaled-up seawater system produces both hydrogen and fresh water with higher efficiency [3 Oct 26, 1:00pm] Water electrolyzers are promising devices that use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. If powered by solar cells or other renewable energy technologies, they could contribute to the sustainable production of hydrogen used to make amm…
Cloud-based platform pinpoints delays across complex autonomous-driving software [3 Oct 26, 12:00pm] Autonomous-driving systems must process large volumes of sensor data and generate vehicle-control commands within strict time limits. As vehicles increasingly become software-defined, their development often involves multiple software platforms with…
9 Of The Best On-Ear Headphones You Can Buy In 2026 [4 Oct 26, 8:30pm] They may not have the better noise isolation of over-ear headphones or the portability of earbuds, but these on-ear headphones still have lots to offer.
Can You Use Makita Batteries With Mellif Power Tools? [4 Oct 26, 8:15pm] If you have Mellif power tools and a bunch of unused Makita batteries, you've likely wondered if you can use them together. The answer is: It depends.
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own [30 Sep 26, 10:00am] At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Lee Bul Floats a Giant Airship in Chelsea [2 Oct 26, 10:33pm] The artist's Hauser & Wirth debut takes a poetic approach to the promises and failures of modernity.The post Lee Bul Floats a Giant Airship in Chelsea appeared first on Artnet News.
Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch [2 Oct 26, 6:41pm] The blue-chip firm briefly ran three New York spaces. It will continue in Chelsea.The post Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch appeared first on Artnet News.
Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M [2 Oct 26, 5:32pm] Plus: Independent has a new owner, New York's Salon 94 plans Paris space, and more industry intel.The post Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M appeared first on Artnet News.
Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More! [2 Oct 26, 5:21pm] Plus, Rashid Johnson's new girlfriend, big lawsuits, Kanye West, and more juicy art-world gossip.The post Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More! appeared first on Artnet News.
Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life [2 Oct 26, 4:59pm] Nearly six decades after the Pop master dropped his first book, the playful art object is getting a second life.The post Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life appeared first on Artnet News.
Fallbacks for CSS `progress()` [2 Oct 26, 2:10pm] The new CSS progress() function calculates a value between 0 and 1, representing its position within a defined range. While awaiting broader browser support, users can manually implement this using other methods.
Front-End Checklist [1 Oct 26, 2:23pm] David Dias has been working on “Front-End Checklist” stuff for a decade, and it looks like this latest version of it a little over a year. There is loads of good general advice in it that can be easy to forget: Now it’s all AI’d up, which mak…
You Don’t Know Bidi (And Neither Does ChatGPT) [30 Sep 26, 4:38pm] Text that is set in a left-to-right *and* right-to-left language, mid-sentence, is a thing. Getting it right means understanding it, because your LLM isn't going to know.
Modern Web Types [29 Sep 26, 8:18pm] The web platform evolves. When it does, other tech has to catch up, and not just LLMs. Another one is TypeScript types. Philip Walton explains: For example, here’s an error I got just the other day when trying to use element-scoped view transitions…
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…
The Index: Issue #198 [18 Sep 26, 9:55am] You’ll miss publishers when they’re goneYet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply, to educate and share knowledge.It’s…
A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready [17 Sep 26, 11:55am] Now that we can better customise <select> elements, it's only natural to side-eye other form <input> types that have caused us visual headaches.Sure, we should be applying the lightest of touches to form elements, especially, but ev…
Constraints that make developers faster [2 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI agents.
Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent. [30 Sep 26, 5:00pm] AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources disagree, or when they become stale.
Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal [30 Sep 26, 4:00pm] Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a Stack Internal workspace for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
Your phone is AI’s newest hardware [29 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app interactions.
Oman’s Maritime Security Center Tightens Transit Rules [4 Oct 26, 5:29pm] Oman’s Maritime Security Centre has issued a series of new instructions regarding the passage and presence of ships transiting its territorial waters....
Difficult Times for Iran's Sanctions-Evading Oil Brokers [4 Oct 26, 12:45am] With the naval blockade preventing any Iranian tankers leaving the Gulf, for the last 10 weeks Iran has been selling oil from the stocks it had built...
16 Contemporary Female Painters Use Fabric as a Means To Explore Memory and Identity [3 Oct 26, 1:45pm] 16 Contemporary Female Painters Use Fabric as a Means To Explore Memory and IdentitySixteen contemporary female painters explore the emotional and cultural significance of fabric in Interlace, a group exhibition at Robert Lange Studios in Charleston…
KAWS Reimagines the World-Known Absolut Vodka Bottle in His Iconic Street Art Style [2 Oct 26, 5:30pm] KAWS Reimagines the World-Known Absolut Vodka Bottle in His Iconic Street Art StyleFor more than 40 years, Absolut has invited artists to reimagine its vodka bottle in their image. More than 550 creatives—including Andy Warhol—have contributed o…
George Lucas Reveals He Planned To Direct Three More ‘Star Wars’ Movies Before Retiring [2 Oct 26, 4:35pm] George Lucas Reveals He Planned To Direct Three More ‘Star Wars’ Movies Before RetiringAfter the release of the first Star Wars movie back in 1977, director George Lucas earned his spot among the most visionary directors of all time. With Episod…
TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis [4 Oct 26, 4:05pm] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. [2 Oct 26, 3:00pm] Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow.The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 [1 Oct 26, 3:07pm] From verifying AI-written code to securing npm dependencies, these are the sessions I’m building my Universe agenda around.The post 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead [29 Sep 26, 3:00pm] Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source.The post Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent [28 Sep 26, 7:00pm] A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app.The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent a…
Highlights from Git 2.56 [28 Sep 26, 5:23pm] The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.The post Highlights from Git 2.56 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Allstacks Gives Product Managers a Dedicated Senior Engineer [2 Oct 26, 7:38pm] RALEIGH, N.C. — Allstacks, the product and engineering intelligence layer for modern development, has announced Allstacks Code Engine (ACE), a new Product Studio capability that gives product managers direct answers about how their product’s cod…
SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 1 , 2026 — IBM Bob, JetBrains Air, Qodo 3.0 [1 Oct 26, 6:34pm] IBM announces self-hosted deployment for IBM Bob IBM Bob, the company’s agentic software development platform, helps teams move beyond code generation to apply AI to the work of software delivery and modernization. The platform enables organizati…
Leapwork Play a continuous validation platform for Playwright test suites [1 Oct 26, 5:57pm] Leapwork Play, available today, is an AI-native continuous validation platform designed for users to build, run and manage Playwright test suites at scale. The open-source Playwright framework has become popular for enabling organizations to keep tes…
Consortium Members elect Board of Directors [28 Sep 26, 12:47pm] World Wide Web Consortium Members have elected seven individuals to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors
W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL [24 Sep 26, 11:13am] W3C is pleased to announce the report from the W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL, held in July 2026 in London, UK, and online.
First Public Working Draft: Bitstring Status List v1.1 [24 Sep 26, 8:28am] This specification describes a privacy-preserving, space-efficient, and high-performance mechanism for publishing status information such as suspension or revocation of Verifiable Credentials through use of bitstrings.
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…
VVC On The Rise [20 Sep 26, 1:20pm] The thing about codec adoption is that years of hard work and development must occur before a single stream gets distributed by an independent publisher. The bottleneck is almost always the decode side, accumulating sufficient compatible players to m…
Nanoneedle arrays map RNA in fresh tissue without sequencing or amplification [4 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Recently, spatial omics has become a powerful tool, enabling researchers to see not only what molecules are present in a tissue, but also where they are located and how they are organized across cells, tissue structures and local microenvironments. T…
Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues [4 Oct 26, 9:00pm] A systematic review of informal businesses published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business argues that they should be treated as part of the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem rather than as a peripheral feature of the eco…
Gamma-ray search sets new limits on dark matter annihilation in the inner Milky Way [4 Oct 26, 7:20pm] Dark matter could be a type of matter in the universe that does not emit, absorb or reflect detectable light and appears to interact very weakly with regular matter. Although physicists have observed gravitational effects attributed to dark matter, t…
Taste shapes support for climate-friendly school meals [4 Oct 26, 6:40pm] Students in a new study were neither clearly positive nor negative about more climate-friendly school meals. Whether the food tasted good, was filling and felt familiar played an important role. Students were somewhat more positive about reducing the…
Tiny robot can precisely control how high it jumps [30 Sep 26, 7:33pm] Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step.As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the…
What you should know about acid reflux [30 Sep 26, 6:35pm] An expert breaks down everything you need to know about acid reflux, including when you should see a specialist such as a gastroenterologist.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt [4 Oct 26, 7:00pm] This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheriff broke the law, was confirmed by the state’s top court on two counts. But he is still worki…
Koreans Left With Spoiled Food Due To Borked Samsung Firmware Update For ‘Smart’ Fridges [3 Oct 26, 2:39am] I must be getting old, because the concept around most IoT injections into otherwise perfectly usable home devices has me wanting to get all these smart-devices off of my lawn. Call me a luddite if you like, but I just don’t think my toothbrush nee…
US Human Rights Record Plummets From An Already Dismal Starting Point [2 Oct 26, 10:05pm] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights? Listening to politicians,…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Going To The Ballot Bot [2 Oct 26, 8:07pm] Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice —…
geoffrey bawa and the materialization of an architect’s gaze on his country [4 Oct 26, 2:45pm] from the lunuganga garden to the sri lankan parliament, the retrospective at the vitra design museum reflects a shifting relationship between history, modernity, and place.The post geoffrey bawa and the materialization of an architect’s gaze on hi…
designboom shop drop: back to the desk with creative workspace essentials [4 Oct 26, 7:00am] designed to foster creative momentum, the drop's products aim to transform the daily desk setup into an inspiring design environment.The post designboom shop drop: back to the desk with creative workspace essentials appeared first on designboom…
when exhibitions become formats, what happens to the experience of art? [3 Oct 26, 2:15pm] a new generation of exhibitions is adapting the museum to the way we already consume media, raising questions about what happens to the artwork along the way.The post when exhibitions become formats, what happens to the experience of art? appeared f…
cypress, marble, and rippling glass rework apartment into local local’s athens studio [3 Oct 26, 7:45am] existing elements, custom furniture, and reused pieces renovate the space through a light-touch approach.The post cypress, marble, and rippling glass rework apartment into local local’s athens studio appeared first on designboom | architecture &am…
