FBI Accuses North Korean Group 'TraderTraitor' Of $6 Billion Binance Hack [1 Nov 26, 2:42am] The US law enforcement agency's statement came as Binance offered reassurances that it was covering the losses from the hacking attack, saying it has used company funds to buy tokens to replenish 90 per cent of what was stolen.
UK PM Andy Burnham Open To Slavery Apology, But Rejects Reparations [31 Oct 26, 6:34pm] Burnham said he wanted to "express my sorrow and regret for the pain and suffering of so many millions and to recognise the way it still shapes our world today", but insisted reparations were not "the right answer".
Khamenei Orders "Effective, Unrestricted Geographical Response" If US Strikes [31 Oct 26, 6:26pm] According to a series of X posts by the account of Mojtaba Khamenei, the Iranian leader met with senior commanders of the armed forces against the backdrop of possibilities of fresh escalation between the United States and Iran.
Exploring a design for Feature Notifications [29 Oct 26, 1:21pm] WordPress doesn’t have a good way to tell people what’s happening on their site. Plugins fall back on admin notices that push the page down, so the things that matter, like a failed payment, a security update or a teammate’s question, get lost among…
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 discu…
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 the…
Samsung mercilessly mocks iPhone Duo ‘crackgate’ in Galaxy Z Fold 8 ads [Video] [31 Oct 26, 1:20am] Samsung isn’t holding back when it comes to the iPhone Duo’s messy start. In new ads, the company mocks iPhone Duo’s “crackgate” with a push for customers to buy the Galaxy Z Fold 8 instead, and there’s not an ounce of subtlety here. more…
Pixelated 123: The primary value is the clock [30 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Welcome to Pixelated episode 123. This week, Damien and Abner share their earliest impressions of the Fitbit Edge, Google’s latest fitness tracker that promises to split the difference between the Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5. After, the gang get…
The 12th Google Store is opening on November 6 [30 Oct 26, 7:37pm] Following San Diego and Tokyo in 2026, the next Google Store is opening in Houston on November 6. This is the company’s 11th retail location in the US and 12th globally. more…
Syrian Hacker Gets Prison Time in US After Over a Decade on the Run [31 Oct 26, 11:00am] A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.The post Syrian Hacker Gets Prison Time in US After Over a Decade on the Run appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress [30 Oct 26, 3:09pm] Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.The post PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. [30 Oct 26, 2:00pm] As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it.The post Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. appeared first on SecurityW…
Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure [30 Oct 26, 1:36pm] It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.The post Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Electrolyte redesign unlocks tin's full charge capacity for flow batteries [31 Oct 26, 5:10pm] Tin is able to exchange four electrons as it changes between dissolved ions and solid metal, but acidic tin batteries commonly use only a two-electron reaction, leaving half that potential charge out of reach. Now, researchers in China have shown tha…
AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping [31 Oct 26, 11:00am] OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from n…
Meta settles, leaving Snap sole defendant in new social media trial [31 Oct 26, 10:39am] Meta reached a settlement in a landmark case over the alleged harms of social media, the plaintiffs' lawyers said Friday, leaving Snap as the only defendant in a trial set to open in Los Angeles next week.
What to know about the $6.3B hack on Binance, likely the biggest-ever crypto theft [31 Oct 26, 10:32am] Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming from a North Korean hacking…
New electrode-making method offers cleaner route to sunlight-powered hydrogen production [30 Oct 26, 7:00pm] A research team led by professor Jongmin Choi of the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at DGIST, in collaboration with a team led by professor Younghoon Kim of the Department of Chemistry at Kookmin University, has developed a highly efficie…
What Does A Sign That Says 'No Solar Traffic' Mean? [1 Nov 26, 3:45am] While driving down a country road, you might see a sign that indicates that no solar traffic is allowed. Here's what you need to know about those signs.
What Does A Green Curb Mean For Parking? [1 Nov 26, 12:45am] Parking is fairly straightforward compared to driving, but there are still some things to take note of, like green curbs and how they differ from yellow ones.
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…
French Dealers Demand Compensation From Art Basel Paris [1 Nov 26, 1:44am] The handling of the fair's early closure caused 'profound incomprehension,' a letter alleges.The post French Dealers Demand Compensation From Art Basel Paris appeared first on Artnet News.
A Gallerist Sees Connoisseurship Returning to the Art Market [30 Oct 26, 8:30pm] Between Frieze Masters and Art Basel Paris, founder of Princedale Modern Edward Warburton takes the market’s pulse and finds collectors moving away from speculation and toward aesthetic appreciation.The post A Gallerist Sees Connoisseurship Returnin…
Own a Piece of Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith’s Folk Art Collection! [30 Oct 26, 5:24pm] A pop-up in Connecticut is selling a selection of works from the couple's former summer home, among many other unusual finds.The post Own a Piece of Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith’s Folk Art Collection! appeared first on Artnet News.
MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Form an Unprecedented Alliance [30 Oct 26, 1:20pm] Plus, Bill Koch's art treasures head to auction, Dallas Art Fair moves venues, and more industry intel.The post MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Form an Unprecedented Alliance appeared first on Artnet News.
Two Circles, One Connection, and border-shape [30 Oct 26, 1:28pm] Swapping the clip-path arrow from the previous article for border-shape and shape(), we can connect two draggable circles with fancy curved lines that stay perfectly aligned.
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 works…
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.
It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us [30 Oct 26, 7:40am] Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specificat…
The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated [29 Oct 26, 10:30pm] I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.
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…
Sharjah International Film Festival 13 Celebrates Italian Culture and Arts [31 Oct 26, 10:05am] Sharjah: The Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFF) celebrated Italy, the Guest of Honour of its 13th edition, on Friday with a programme of cultural and artistic activities highlighting the country’s cinematic heritage, ar…
Olympic Champions to headline Dubai’s FIBA 3×3 World Tour event [29 Oct 26, 2:44pm] DUBAI: Olympic gold medallists Worthy de Jong and Dimeo van der Horst will be among the leading names competing when Dubai hosts a FIBA 3×3 World Tour event on 6–7 November, bringing 14 teams to a purpose-built court at Festival Bay, Dubai Festival C…
Clockwork wins Gold and Silver at inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards [29 Oct 26, 2:19pm] Dubai: Clockwork, a Bahraini experiential marketing and brand activation agency with an office in Riyadh, received a Gold Dragon and a Silver Dragon at the inaugural Dragons of MENA Awards ceremony held in Dubai today. Clockwork was recognized for it…
Regular bioethanol bunkering begins at the Port of Santos [31 Oct 26, 8:27pm] New phase follows the pioneering operation carried out in July, through a partnership between Copersucar, CMA CGM, Bunker One, AGEO Terminais, Santos...
WinGD Grows Korea Engine Production Capacity [31 Oct 26, 8:27pm] Swiss marine power company WinGD has signed its first-ever license agreement with engine builder HD Hyundai Marine Engine (formerly STX Heavy Industr...
Art Toronto 2026 Is Making Collecting More Approachable for People Who Want to Start [31 Oct 26, 12:50pm] Art Toronto 2026 Is Making Collecting More Approachable for People Who Want to StartBuying art can feel intimidating, especially if you’ve never done it before. You may wonder what to buy, how much to spend, and even how to approach a gallery in the…
McKenna Grace Wore a Museum-Worthy Hand-Beaded Dress Resembling the “Hunger Games” Arena [30 Oct 26, 7:20pm] McKenna Grace Wore a Museum-Worthy Hand-Beaded Dress Resembling the “Hunger Games” Arena Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por ALmée Couture (@almee.lii) Method dressing, in which actors wear outfits inspired by the mov…
RIP Sir Patrick Stewart: Stage and Screen Legend Dies at 86 [30 Oct 26, 4:35pm] RIP Sir Patrick Stewart: Stage and Screen Legend Dies at 86Sir Patrick Stewart, the legendary actor who moved gracefully between classical theater and Hollywood blockbusters, has died at 86. Best known his work in the X-Men and Star Trek franchises,…
Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn [1 Nov 26, 2:22am] At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.
4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale [31 Oct 26, 9:36pm] On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Register before all prices go up a…
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 app…
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 first on…
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…
Hackers Hijacked DebugBear’s DNS To Serve Malicious JavaScript via @sejournal, @vahandev [31 Oct 26, 9:11pm] DebugBear told customers to remove its Core Web Vitals monitoring script. Site owners should also check exposed accounts and unauthorized changes.The post Hackers Hijacked DebugBear’s DNS To Serve Malicious JavaScript appeared first on Search Engine…
Shopify CEO: Peer Ratings On AI Use ‘Didn’t Matter’ via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [31 Oct 26, 9:00am] Shopify's performance reviews asked how staff used AI. Its CEO says the answers didn't matter, and the question can give a company a reputation.The post Shopify CEO: Peer Ratings On AI Use ‘Didn’t Matter’ appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Grab the award-winning Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer with AMS for $70 off [31 Oct 26, 7:19pm] The Bambu Lab P1S earned our Editor's Choice recognition in testing, and this discounted bundle gives you access to its high-speed printing capabilities alongside the convenience of the AMS color printing system.
5 Spooky Things About Trusting AI with Reliability [30 Oct 26, 5:36pm] The scariest engineering story I read this year wasn’t fiction. In August, Reuters reported on internal Meta posts showing what happened as the company pushed its engineers toward AI tooling. Code changes to internal platforms rose 220% year over yea…
Opsera Relaunches as an AI-Native Software Factory [29 Oct 26, 8:07pm] Opsera, long known for its continuous orchestration platform for DevOps, has announced its relaunch as an AI-native software factory, with its Forge factory released in April at its center. In its announcement at the time, Opsera said Forge was creat…
Stop Blaming Code Review for AI’s Delivery Problem [29 Oct 26, 7:22pm] Most engineering teams I talk to who use AI coding tools say they’ve never been more productive. Some tell me they’re building two to three times as many features as they used to. But pushing those features into production – that’s a different story…
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.
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…
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 att…
This oddball reflective lava world is challenging to understand [1 Nov 26, 12:30am] Among Kepler and TESS's many surprising exoplanet discoveries are the ultra-short-period (USP) planets. These planets move very quickly and complete an orbit in less than 24 hours. Ancient astronomers thought that Mercury was so fast—it goes around t…
Looking for bats after dark can help science—and change how we see them [31 Oct 26, 10:30pm] What's that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past? Those are just some ways people react when they encounter microbats for the first time. Microbats are small, mostly nocturnal mammals that use ultrasonic sounds…
Giant virus yields potassium channel gene that illuminates complex protein evolution [31 Oct 26, 9:00pm] Researchers have discovered a gene for a tandem potassium channel in an algal virus. The finding supports the view that giant viruses may have contributed significantly to the evolution of complex proteins. The study is published in the journal Proce…
Chemists develop AI tool to convert human ingenuity into life-enhancing enzymes [31 Oct 26, 7:00pm] Many have voiced concerns that artificial intelligence will take jobs away from humans. But assistant professor of chemistry Zhongyue (John) Yang, along with his former doctoral student Qianzhen Shao (now a postdoc at Stanford) and other team members…
Placenta protein may offer clues to brain development [31 Oct 26, 4:54pm] Researchers have discovered a protein in the placenta that plays a role in infant vascular development and potentially affects maternal health.
RFK Jr. Steps In To Personally Approve Peptide Use In America Over FDA’s Objections [31 Oct 26, 2:39am] If you go through all of the bloviations from RFK Jr. when it comes to his stance on vaccines, one of his chief refrains is that vaccines that have been in wide use for many years haven’t been tested properly for safety, or that data about their safe…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A Midterm Night’s Dream [30 Oct 26, 8:03pm] 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 — or g…
designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this november [1 Nov 26, 8:45am] explore our monthly round up of must-see art, design, and architecture exhibitions to check out around the world.The post designboom radar: exhibitions to see around the world this november appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazi…
chromatic pavilions and modular play structures activate historic istanbul rami library [31 Oct 26, 9:35pm] milimetrik architects transforms the courtyard and interiors of istanbul's historic rami library into a 91,000 sqm environment for play and shared family experiences, welcoming approximately 825,000 visitors in eleven days.The post chromatic pavilio…
WOLOLOW 2.0 reinterprets 1960s space age architecture as elliptical bedside light [31 Oct 26, 3:15pm] WOLOLOW night lamp ver 2.0 is a miniature tabletop lamp modeled after matti suuronen’s 1968 futuro house featuring an elliptical porthole hull, angled metal tripod legs, and replaceable 12v mr16 LED lighting.The post WOLOLOW 2.0 reinterprets 1960s s…
in this video game, moths and wolves play out a nearby climate future [31 Oct 26, 8:45am] alice bucknell's, the alluvials, take players through burning forests and a sand-covered los angeles to explore a speculative future through non-human lenses.The post in this video game, moths and wolves play out a nearby climate future appeared fir…
woven bamboo armchair clad in UV-reactive crocheted blooms glows in the dark [31 Oct 26, 3:10am] peiyang (camille) li designs she blooms in the dark, an intimate woven bamboo armchair clad in hand-crocheted blossoms made from uv-reactive yarn that absorb daylight and emit a soft nocturnal glow.The post woven bamboo armchair clad in UV-reactive…
