Global Network Used Chat Groups To Drug, Rape Women In 9 Countries, Busted [3 Jul 26, 3:15pm] The investigation, involving authorities from seven countries, has revealed how online chat groups were being used to exchange advice on drugging victims, avoiding detection and circulating videos and images of the abuse.
Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 7.1 [3 Jul 26, 8:09am] It’s time to get WordPress 7.1 ready for release, and help is needed to ensure it’s smooth and bug-free. Whether you’re an experienced contributor or joining in for the first time, everyone is welcome! 🎉 Schedule Overview Regular bug scrubs…
WordPress 7.1 Release Party Schedule [3 Jul 26, 8:03am] WordPress 7.1 is scheduled for release on August 19, 2026! Below is the proposed calendar with expected start times for each release party, and the release squad contributors involved in release parties for the upcoming 7.1 milestone. This release pa…
Merge Proposal: Expanding WordPress Core Abilities [2 Jul 26, 5:47pm] This proposal expands the WordPress Core Abilities API in WordPress 7.1 with three read-only abilities: The Abilities API shipped in WordPress 6.9 as a foundation for registering discrete, permission-checked actions with typed input and output schema…
Dev Chat summary: July 1, 2026 [1 Jul 26, 9:26pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.1 7.0.1 General Discussion 💬 From @amykamala about handbook updates to AI policies “I’d like to also propose a new policy: disclosure o…
PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony’s disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox [2 Jul 26, 9:05pm] Sony just confirmed physical PlayStation discs are going away in January 2028, and fans are not taking it well. Many are now saying they would rather move to Windows 11 PCs than accept a digital-only future on PlayStation.The post PlayStation fans b…
Yes, the Pixel 11 will be more of the same, for better or worse [Video] [3 Jul 26, 4:00pm] On paper, the upcoming Pixel 11 series looks like more of the same. For the modern smartphone enthusiast, “more of the same” usually triggers an immediate eye-roll. Are we setting ourselves up for disappointment by expecting the Pixel 11 to be so…
Here are some of Google Pixel’s biggest missing features, according to you [3 Jul 26, 1:15pm] Google Pixel phones aren’t exactly known for taking an “everything and the kitchen sink” approach to features, which has led to some well-established features on other devices not being found on Pixel. According to 9to5Google readers, these are…
Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow [3 Jul 26, 11:00am] Attack demonstrates how LLM agents can combine known exploitation techniques with real-time reasoning to automate complex, multi-stage intrusions.The post Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People [3 Jul 26, 10:00am] In April, ShinyHunters accessed the company’s corporate IT systems and stole patients’ personal and medical information.The post Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US [3 Jul 26, 9:30am] Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments.The post Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US appeared first…
Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices [3 Jul 26, 8:13am] NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.The post Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices appeared fi…
Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough [3 Jul 26, 9:34am] Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system's arrow of time and even harvest energy from the measurement proce…
The real cause of a common stroke may have been missed for decades [3 Jul 26, 8:42am] Scientists have discovered that a common type of stroke may have a very different cause than doctors once thought. Instead of fatty plaque clogging arteries, the strongest link was found with enlarged and damaged blood vessels deep within the brain.…
A strange LIGO signal could reveal the missing link behind dark matter [3 Jul 26, 3:56am] An unusual gravitational wave signal has renewed hopes that primordial black holes, long considered purely theoretical, may finally be within reach of discovery. If confirmed, they could solve one of astronomy's greatest mysteries by explaining…
Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test [3 Jul 26, 2:53am] Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The discovery adds to growing evidence that these tiny insects are far smarter and more adaptable than once believed.
Scientists discover a protein switch that burns fat and blocks new fat cells [3 Jul 26, 12:22am] A protein called “Mitch” may hold the key to a new generation of obesity treatments. Researchers found that disabling it in human cells boosts fat burning, increases energy use, and makes it harder for new fat cells to develop. The findings help…
5 Expensive Car Accessories Users Say Are Worth Buying [3 Jul 26, 12:45pm] Some car accessories tend to be quite cheap, while others will run you a pretty penny. What do users say? What are some worthwhile accessory investments?
How Does Google Make Its 'A' Series Pixel Phones So Cheap? [3 Jul 26, 8:30am] Google's Pixel a-series phones are like the younger sibling to the Pixel line. They're usually a lot cheaper, for one thing. How does Google reduce the prices?
India is testing an alternative to Silicon Valley’s AI playbook [2 Jul 26, 10:00am] A new hackathon invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools, challenging the idea that cutting-edge innovation belongs only to a handful of Western companies.
America’s immigrant tech workers are paying an uncertainty tax [30 Jun 26, 10:00am] A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf.
There’s New Money in Old Masters [3 Jul 26, 4:30pm] London's Classics Week pulled in $101.6 million as buyers chased aesthetics as much as provenance.The post There’s New Money in Old Masters appeared first on Artnet News.
The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s [3 Jul 26, 4:10pm] The multidisciplinary show staged by Helene Bailly Marcilhac in Paris delves into the singularly pioneering art of the 1970s.The post The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s appeared first on Artnet News.
British Museum Recasts America’s Founding Through Indigenous Eyes [3 Jul 26, 1:00pm] The London museum and other European cultural institutions are marking America250 with shows of historical artifacts.The post British Museum Recasts America’s Founding Through Indigenous Eyes appeared first on Artnet News.
How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music [2 Jul 26, 9:10pm] The artist's new work, 'Lightscape' has just landed at The Shed in New York.The post How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music appeared first on Artnet News.
The Field Guide to Grid Lanes [3 Jul 26, 1:29pm] The WebKit gang did a good job with The Field Guide to Grid Lanes showcasing what kind of layouts are now achievable with display: grid-lanes;. Basically: Masonry layout, with arbitrary column widths, and proper tabbing order, is now progressive-enha…
Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with TanStack Start [2 Jul 26, 6:21pm] In Part 2 of the series on using Cloudflare with Web Apps, the focus is on setting up a database and addressing key issues like performance and connection management.
Totally Free Course: Claude Code [1 Jul 26, 9:02pm] Lydia Hallie from Anthropic spends a couple of hours with us, helping us level up what we’re doing with Claude Code. Learn to customize Claude Code for your codebase, using CLAUDE.md, plan mode, and permissions that adhere to your team’s standard…
Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design [30 Jun 26, 4:34pm] Jacky Gilbertson writes about the real job of design in Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design. It doesn’t have anything to do with pixels and colors at first; it has to do with what problem is trying to be solved, why, and for whom. Per…
Fluid Typography with progress() [29 Jun 26, 4:00pm] With the `progress()` function in CSS we've got a new way to calculate the size for type based on the viewport without problems of the past.
Introduction to Cloudflare Workers for Web Apps [26 Jun 26, 2:56pm] Maybe you don't need a traditional server to run a web app that needs a node server backend. Maybe the requests that need that can go to a cloud function on demand.
The Index: Issue #189 [3 Jul 26, 11:55am] Fixing full-bleed CSSA rather deep dive into how some of the newer CSS can make this age old pattern even better.Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?It’s hard to find anything other than anecdata from individuals telling us how AI has m…
Personal website redesign project post: Rendering AT protocol posts on my /feed [2 Jul 26, 11:55am] I'm again, going to be doing a lot of the same sort of work I did for the WordPress integration, but as this is the first iteration of the AT protocol, it's going to be a lot simpler than that.Just like with the WordPress integration, I us…
Personal website redesign project post: Loading AT protocol posts data [1 Jul 26, 11:55am] We're picking up some good momentum, so let's keep the flow going. After integrating WordPress to power the blog section, it's now time to integrate a new feature of this website: AT Protocol posts.I could go all in at this point and…
The Index: Issue #188 [26 Jun 26, 11:55am] By humans, for humansWe’re approaching—or arguably are in—an era where ‘made by humans’ is a differentiator. A notion that something beyond money and prompts was put into whatever the heck it is we’re using or consuming or enjoying. We…
Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site [25 Jun 26, 11:55am] Standard.site provides a set of lexicons for publishing long-form content on the internet using the same protocol used under the hood by Bluesky.If you are wondering what 'lexicons' and 'the Atmosphere' are, don't fret. This…
Strengthening Typhoon Threatens Northern Marianas Islands [3 Jul 26, 3:55am] A strengthening typhoon is headed for the Northern Marianas Islands, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to secure its own assets for the storm and advise...
Ocean Surface Temperatures Are Setting New Records Again [3 Jul 26, 3:07am] Amidst a record-setting summer heat wave in Europe, the EU-sponsored Copernicus Marine Service has released a familiar message: a new record global se...
Over 100 Latin American Artists Converge at This Landmark Exhibition in Monterrey, Mexico [2 Jul 26, 7:20pm] Over 100 Latin American Artists Converge at This Landmark Exhibition in Monterrey, MexicoIn 1977, the Garza family, a powerful business dynasty from northern Mexico, donated The Cornfield (Dry Maizefield), a painting by artist Gerardo Murillo (best…
Australian Town Crier Declared the Loudest Man in the World by Guinness World Records [2 Jul 26, 1:50pm] Australian Town Crier Declared the Loudest Man in the World by Guinness World Records Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Peter Cain MLA (@cainforginninderra) For many centuries, town criers provided the main way…
Let Freedom (and Creativity) Ring With My Modern Met Academy’s Fourth of July Sale [2 Jul 26, 9:55am] Let Freedom (and Creativity) Ring With My Modern Met Academy’s Fourth of July SaleThis Saturday, America will celebrate its 250th birthday on the Fourth of July. The country’s Independence Day is a time to celebrate in community and honor quinte…
How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero [2 Jul 26, 4:00pm] GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months.The post How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero app…
6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week [1 Jul 26, 3:59pm] These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.The post 6 security settings every GitHu…
How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies [30 Jun 26, 5:28pm] Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.The post How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Highlights from Git 2.55 [29 Jun 26, 5:25pm] The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.The post Highlights from Git 2.55 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic [3 Jul 26, 2:00pm] Six audits. One failure. The fix took five minutes. Here's what Lighthouse 13.3's Agentic Browsing category actually tells you, and what it doesn't.The post Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links appeared first on Searc…
AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW [3 Jul 26, 9:30am] Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content.The post AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [2 Jul 26, 8:06pm] Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain's AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal. The post Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Continuous Quality & Validation: Testing at the Speed AI Now Demands: SD Times 100 [2 Jul 26, 2:00pm] Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Software testing has always faced the same basic tension: thoroughness takes time, and time is exactly what fast-moving engineering organization…
SnapLogic Launches MCP Builder, Simplifying MCP Creation [1 Jul 26, 4:10pm] SAN MATEO, Calif. — SnapLogic, the Agentic Integration Company, today announced the general availability of SnapLogic MCP Builder, a new template-based capability that helps organizations operationalize AI faster by automatically turning existing i…
First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Profiling [2 Jul 26, 1:33pm] SHACL Profiling defines elements of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language created to allow for profiles of SHACL and profiling with SHACL.
Pointer Events Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation [30 Jun 26, 8:43am] The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
W3C opens Inclusion Fund and Invited Expert Fund for TPAC 2026 [24 Jun 26, 12:01pm] W3C opens applications for travel support for TPAC 2026 to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their pos…
The Correct Way to Choose an x264 Preset, Part 2: Your Audience Changes the Answer [29 Jun 26, 1:06pm] Here’s the question on the table. x264’s veryslow preset delivers better quality than the medium preset but takes roughly 4x longer to encode, boosting your encoding costs by a healthy 4x (2-3x if using a cloud encoder). Which is the right preset…
Computing VMAF: How Missing Color Metadata Tanked the Score [22 Jun 26, 6:32pm] Developing a metrics tool is the easy part. Wire up FFmpeg, shell out to libvmaf, parse the JSON, draw a pretty line chart. It’s a weekend project, and the part they show you at vibe-coding camp. The part they don’t show you are the edge cases:…
How Fast Will AV2 Deploy?: Ask Joe Sixpack [17 Jun 26, 5:25pm] The AV2 spec went final in late May 2026, AOMedia announced it on June 9, and VeriSilicon had a decode IP core out within about two weeks. An AOMedia member survey reports that 53% of respondents plan to adopt AV2 within a year and 88% within two yea…
Three Paths to Compression for Machine Vision: VCM, FCM, and the V-Nova Wild Card [26 May 26, 5:45pm] Video is increasingly captured primarily or exclusively for machine viewing, including applications like surveillance cameras, autonomous vehicles, industrial inspection, and drone footage. Traditional codecs like H.264 and HEVC were designed around…
One Specific Diet Reduces Gum Disease in 6-Month Trial [3 Jul 26, 10:00am] A new way to help gum disease.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
How your brain preps your body for food [30 Jun 26, 5:34pm] New research explains how our brain prepares the body for an incoming meal before we even take the first bite.
3-in-1 vax could protect against flu, COVID, and RSV [30 Jun 26, 5:26pm] "We are hopeful that this platform could be expanded further to protect against an even wider range of respiratory viruses in the future."
Stride length tied to cognitive decline in dogs [25 Jun 26, 6:28pm] New research provides a more complete picture of dogs that are developing dementia, potentially allowing earlier detection.
The Nintendo/Palworld Patent Suit Appears To Be Heading For A Muted Conclusion [3 Jul 26, 2:39am] It’s been a while since we checked in on the Nintendo patent suit in Japan against Pocketpair, the company behind the hit game Palworld. If you need a quick refresher, here you go. Pocketpair made a game that was clearly inspired by the Pokémon se…
Sotomayor Trashes SCOTUS Majority For Cherry-Picking Qualified Immunity Cases To Reverse [2 Jul 26, 10:04pm] Qualified immunity — crafted out of thin air by the US Supreme Court — has rarely been anything but an easy way for government employees to duck out of lawsuits before they’re actually asked to defend themselves against allegations of rights vi…
T-Mobile Jacks Up Prices For Everybody, Ignores Years Of ‘Uncarrier’ Promises [2 Jul 26, 8:05pm] In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate itself a…
Daily Deal: MYNT3D Professional Printing 3D Pen with OLED Display [2 Jul 26, 5:54pm] The MYNT3D 3D Printing Pen is a handheld creative tool that allows users to draw in three dimensions using heated plastic filament. Instead of printing from a machine, this pen lets you manually create 3D objects by extruding melted plastic that quic…
‘it’s not about hair’: sanne visser on redesigning the systems behind materials [3 Jul 26, 10:45am] ahead of the ropery exhibition at whitechapel gallery, the london-based designer and researcher reflects on a decade of working with human hair. The post ‘it’s not about hair’: sanne visser on redesigning the systems behind materials appeared…
cycling, running, and skiing converge in the new halfbike pro [3 Jul 26, 9:39am] ten years in the making, the full-body sport tool reimagines the conventional bicycle through a compact, three-wheeled design.The post cycling, running, and skiing converge in the new halfbike pro appeared first on designboom | architecture & de…
topologie rethinks climbing gear with 1000+ carry combinations for the urban wardrobe [3 Jul 26, 8:45am] with a modular concept that unlocks 1000+ possibilities of customization, topologie allows to co-create your own bag.The post topologie rethinks climbing gear with 1000+ carry combinations for the urban wardrobe appeared first on designboom | archit…
