'Failed To Maintain Neutrality During Polls': 5 Bengal Cops Suspended [25 Apr 26, 6:40am] The officers to be suspended are Additional Superintendent of Police Sandip Garai, SDPO Sajal Mondal, Diamond Harbour police station's inspector-in-charge Mausam Chakraborty, Falta police station inspector-in-charge Ajay Bag and Usthi police sta…
Microsoft is finally giving you full control over Windows 11 updates (hands on) [25 Apr 26, 12:32am] Following years of user feedback, Microsoft is finally fixing the most frustrating parts of Windows updates. New Insider builds introduce a "pause indefinitely" option, an "Update later" button for PC setup, and the ability to shu…
Google Home isn’t killing automations, but phone-related actions are going away [24 Apr 26, 11:40pm] An errant message heard by some Google Home users seemed to imply that automations were going away – which would have been crazy. Thankfully, that’s not the case, but Google Home is doing away with its phone-related actions soon. more…
Hands-on: Ecovacs’ all-in-one window cleaning robot is a game-changer, for some [24 Apr 26, 9:15pm] Window cleaning robots have never really taken as much of the spotlight as robotic vacuums or, more recently, lawn mowers. Still, the new W3 Winbot from Ecovacs is worth your attention if you have any windows that are taller than you are. more…
Pixelated 097: Lights and laptops [24 Apr 26, 8:30pm] Welcome to episode 97 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Damien and Will are joined by Andrew Romero to talk through a couple of Pixel hardware leaks coming out of Android 17 Beta 4. First, they discuss the growing possibility of a P…
Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions [24 Apr 26, 2:57pm] It targeted high-precision calculation software to tamper with results and packed a self-propagation mechanism.The post Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents [24 Apr 26, 12:34pm] From autonomous code generation to decision-making systems that initiate actions without human intervention, the industry is entering a new phase. The post Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents appeared first on Secu…
Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise [24 Apr 26, 12:32pm] Locked Shields has grown significantly over the past 16 years, with only four nations participating in the first edition.The post Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise appeared first on SecurityWee…
US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor [24 Apr 26, 11:26am] The malware provides remote access and control of infected devices and maintains post-patching persistence.The post US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
NASA scientist says a "fifth force" may be hiding in our solar system [24 Apr 26, 2:16pm] Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something bending the rules of gravity—often attributed to dar…
Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion [24 Apr 26, 2:02pm] A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading red glow that initially looked like a rare kilono…
Scientists warn about golden oyster mushrooms sold in Florida markets [24 Apr 26, 1:41pm] The golden oyster mushroom may be a culinary hit, but it’s becoming an ecological problem. Scientists warn it’s spreading quickly through U.S. forests, where it outcompetes native fungi and reduces biodiversity. In just a decade, it has appeared…
Scientists just found where airborne microplastics really come from [24 Apr 26, 12:35pm] Microplastics are floating through the atmosphere and spreading across the globe, but their true origins have been misunderstood. New research shows land sources emit over 20 times more microplastic particles into the air than the ocean, challenging…
Scientists just uncovered a 3 million-year climate mystery in Antarctic ice [24 Apr 26, 12:12pm] Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a surprising new chapter in Earth’s climate story, stretching back 3 million years. By analyzing tiny pockets of trapped air and rare gases, scientists have discovered that while the planet cooled significantly—…
5 Walmart Finds To Help You Organize Your Garage [25 Apr 26, 1:45am] Garages fill up fast, but a few well-chosen Walmart finds can make a big difference, helping you bring order to tools, gear, and everyday clutter.
12 Home Depot Tools Beginners Should Steer Clear Of [25 Apr 26, 12:30am] Home Depot can be a dazzling place for new prospective tool shoppers, but high power ratings and long feature lists don't necessarily mean "beginner-friendly."
What Actually Causes Gas Prices To Jump Overnight? [24 Apr 26, 11:45pm] Gas prices can sometimes increase overnight, which might seem strange to some. However, there is a reason why these spikes can happen so quickly.
AI optimism surges in Asia, unlike in the U.S. [24 Apr 26, 1:00pm] New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia.
Netflix’s AI deal puts the global VFX workforce at risk [20 Apr 26, 10:00am] A startup founded by Ben Affleck, recently acquired by Netflix, could automate the frame-by-frame work done by artists across India, South Korea, and Latin America.
The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show [24 Apr 26, 9:21pm] Curator Carmen Bambach's quest to stage the blockbuster involved eight years, navigating 60 museums, and endless nos.The post The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue [24 Apr 26, 7:25pm] The new space is being christened by a Duchamp and Rauschenberg double header.The post Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue appeared first on Artnet News.
Long-Hidden Keith Haring Artworks Come to Auction [24 Apr 26, 6:38pm] A cache of intimate objects gifted to the artist's best friend will hit the auction block in May.The post Long-Hidden Keith Haring Artworks Come to Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button [22 Apr 26, 10:10pm] A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do you get better accessibility? No, it’s arguably w…
The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments with HTML in Canvas [21 Apr 26, 1:34pm] An experimental API let's us put HTML within those opening and closing canvas tags and render it to the canvas, while remaining interactive. Lots of possibility here!
Building a Blog in TanStack (Part 2 of 2) [20 Apr 26, 1:18pm] A blog is a perfect use case for pre-rendering, so that the static build files can render all on their own. TanStack Start can even help with the server functions via middleware.
Building a Blog in TanStack (Part 1 of 2) [17 Apr 26, 1:18pm] A site building framework like TanStack Start can be used to make a server-side rendered blog, no problemo.
#213 – Malcolm Peralty on Managed WordPress Hosting and AI Innovation at Pressable [22 Apr 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Malcolm Peralty from Pressable, about his tech and WordPress career, experiences with Drupal and Acquia, and his current role as a technical account manager. They discuss Pressable’s hosting services, thei…
#212 – Anne Bovelett on How Web Accessibility Boosts Traffic, SEO, and Revenue [15 Apr 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley interviews Anne Bovelett, about the economic and human impact of web accessibility in WordPress. They discuss how improving accessibility offers significant SEO, traffic, and revenue benefits, referencing research show…
#211 – Elliott Richmond on WordPress Content Creation, Education, and Pizza Plugins [1 Apr 26, 2:00pm] Elliot Richmond discusses his 20+ years with WordPress, from early b2 days to founding a successful pizza delivery business powered by WordPress and WooCommerce. He shares plans for a pizza plugin and licensing model, and explains his new partnership…
#210 – Zach Stepek on the Interconnected WordPress Ecosystem, Partnerships and Trust [25 Mar 26, 2:00pm] In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Zach Stepek about the evolving nature of partnerships in the WordPress ecosystem. Zach shares his journey through various tech roles, his discovery of WordPress, and his passion for WooCommerce. They discuss…
#209 – Simon Pollard on Navigating the New Normal for WordPress Community and Events [18 Mar 26, 2:00pm] In this episode of WP Tavern Jukebox podcast, Nathan Wrigley chats with Simon Pollard about the changing landscape of WordPress Meetups and community events. Simon reflects on the vibrant pre-pandemic community, its sudden decline during COVID-19, an…
Lights, camera, open source! [24 Apr 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the people behind the major technologies that uphold the internet.
How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale [22 Apr 26, 4:40am] Chase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about what might be the hardest problem in engineering right now: getting multiple AI agents to work together in a complex sys…
We still need developer communities [21 Apr 26, 7:40am] Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into programming; MHL’s recent acquisition of DEV and how they’re creating a…
No country left behind with sovereign AI [17 Apr 26, 7:40am] Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI.
Phi Earth and ABS Sign MOU at Singapore Maritime Week [25 Apr 26, 2:54am] Phi Earth Technologies Pte. Ltd. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a leading global maritime...
Why Swedish Schools Are Cutting Back on Digital Learning and Bringing Back Textbooks [24 Apr 26, 7:15pm] Why Swedish Schools Are Cutting Back on Digital Learning and Bringing Back TextbooksSweden’s eagerness to embrace digital learning may have been to its detriment. Like the rest of the world, the country wanted to be at the forefront when technolog…
Artist Transforms Painting Into a Spiritual Call To Protect the Earth [24 Apr 26, 2:45pm] Artist Transforms Painting Into a Spiritual Call To Protect the EarthIn her latest body of work, artist Ekaterina Sky reframes painting as something far more intimate than visual expression. For Sky, each piece functions as both a meditation and a c…
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans [20 Apr 26, 6:15pm] We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.The post Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Highlights from Git 2.54 [20 Apr 26, 4:43pm] The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.The post Highlights from Git 2.54 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI [17 Apr 26, 6:00pm] See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.The post Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page [17 Apr 26, 4:00pm] Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you'll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.The post Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety [16 Apr 26, 4:00pm] Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling. The post How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Localized Distribution In The AI Era: The DIRHAM Framework via @sejournal, @gregjarboe [24 Apr 26, 10:45am] Why traditional frameworks fall short, and how the DIRHAM framework helps marketers build trust, relevance, and measurable impact in today’s content ecosystem.The post Localized Distribution In The AI Era: The DIRHAM Framework appeared first on Se…
Google May Expand Unsupported Robots.txt Rules List via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [23 Apr 26, 4:40pm] Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.The post Google May Expand Unsupported Robots.txt Rules List appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
LE SSERAFIM’s ‘CELEBRATION’ Kicks Off a New & Personal Era | Billboard News [24 Apr 26, 9:19pm] Tetris Kelly caught up with LE SSERAFIM in Seoul, South Korea, and the girls have a “CELEBRATION” that launches them into a new era. They tease what to expect from their upcoming studio album, their experience of their first VR concert, the surpr…
When Production Logs Become Your Best QA Asset [24 Apr 26, 3:34pm] Most people who use banking apps never think about what happens behind the scenes when a transaction goes through. They tap a button, money moves, and that’s that. But for the engineers responsible for making sure those transactions work reliably,…
Anthropic adds memory to Claude Managed Agents [24 Apr 26, 3:11pm] On the heels of its recent relesae of Claude Managed Agents, Anthropic this week has released to public beta Memory on Claude Managed Agents, which enables agents to learn from past sessions and share what they’ve learned with other agents. The mem…
Analyst View: The Rise of AndTek — Why Google and MediaTek are the New WinTel [23 Apr 26, 3:04pm] For those of us who have been around long enough to remember when “WinTel” was a term of endearment (or a curse, depending on your stock portfolio), the idea of someone displacing Microsoft and Intel feels a bit like suggesting the sun might deci…
Google introduces Agentic Data Cloud [23 Apr 26, 2:40pm] Companies are shifting from gen AI that simply answers questions to autonomous agents that perceive, reason, and act on their behalf. Attempting to scale these agents on legacy stacks exposes structural failures that can lead to fractured governance,…
SD Times News in Brief [22 Apr 26, 6:10pm] Gitar launches AI-code validation platform A startup developer infrastructure company has built AI agents for code review and CI workflows. The company is called Gitar, and its platform addresses the challenge of keeping up with AI-generated code…
Five First Public Working Drafts published by the Verifiable Credentials Working Group [16 Apr 26, 7:34am] The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published the following five First Public Working Drafts: Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.1, Data Integrity EdDSA Cryptosuites v1.1, Data Integrity ECDSA Cryptosuites v1.1, VCALM v1.0, and Verifiab…
First Public Working Draft: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.1 [9 Apr 26, 7:37am] This specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials, how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders, and verifiers.
CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline [25 Apr 26, 5:08am] The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing ev…
FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches [24 Apr 26, 5:06pm] The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with a new malwar…
NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software [24 Apr 26, 2:13pm] The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space…
Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine [24 Apr 26, 11:49am] The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to DelegationAs discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly.The issue is not simply that agents are new…
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One Common Habit Can Make Your Insomnia Worse, Expert Explains [24 Apr 26, 6:00pm] Research has helped us understand some things.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Why does your shoulder hurt? [24 Apr 26, 6:55pm] An expert offers advice on protecting your shoulders from injury and when to seek treatment.
Vitamin D may help prevent diabetes [24 Apr 26, 6:45pm] New findings may someday help shape more personalized medical care, potentially delaying or preventing the onset of diabetes.
Listen: What can we do about ant invasions? [24 Apr 26, 5:54pm] An expert digs into native and invasive ant species, and what we can do about the ant invasion happening in your backyard.
‘Neutral’ voters could be dangerous for democracy [24 Apr 26, 5:44pm] Voters who are comfortable living in the middle might be the largest group to blame for democratic decline in the United States.
AI-generated code is vulnerable [24 Apr 26, 5:08pm] "Everyone is using these tools now. We need a feedback loop to identify which tools, which patterns, and which workflows create the most risk."
RFK Jr. & White House Appear At Odds Over Attempts To Rein Him In [25 Apr 26, 2:39am] Amidst all the other chaos and damage RFK Jr. is doing in his current role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, we noted a few weeks back that he was also seemingly having a hard time finding someone to fill the opening for CDC Director. That o…
Good News If You Have A Sony TV And Were Hoping It Would Become Less Useful For No Reason [24 Apr 26, 10:12pm] If you own one of the Sony Bravia lines of televisions (like I do) and were hoping that the expensive television would suddenly become slightly less functional for no good reason, I have some good news for you. Sony just announced that the company is…
litterbugs reshapes plastic waste into fragile insect sculptures [25 Apr 26, 6:00am] discarded plastic fragments take on new roles as hybrid creatures.The post litterbugs reshapes plastic waste into fragile insect sculptures appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
a bright red crane drives the needle in love hultén’s reimagined vinyl player [24 Apr 26, 5:30pm] the user manually steers the needle left, right, up, and down, effectively 'driving' the playback across the record.The post a bright red crane drives the needle in love hultén’s reimagined vinyl player appeared first on designboom | ar…
at milan’s cinema of dreams, paf atelier immerses viewers in a suspended time capsule [24 Apr 26, 4:00pm] soft curtains, circular forms, and low light compose a slow transition from disorientation to awareness, allowing visitors to physically inhabit the act of dreaming.The post at milan’s cinema of dreams, paf atelier immerses viewers in a suspended…
designboom’s ultimate guide to milan design week 2026 [24 Apr 26, 3:55pm] discover our guide to milan design week 2026, the week in the calendar where the design world converges on the italian city.The post designboom’s ultimate guide to milan design week 2026 appeared first on designboom | architecture & design mag…
interview: samsung proves design is an act of love at milan design week 2026 [24 Apr 26, 10:31am] samsung explores human side of tech for milan design week 2026 ‘Design, at its core, is an act of love,’ asserts Mauro Porcini, President and Chief Design Officer at Samsung Electronics, in an interview designboom. At Milan Design Week 2026, S…
