US Man Sues OpenAI, Claims ChatGPT Helped Estranged Wife Plan His Murder [6 Nov 26, 9:40am] In the lawsuit, Gates claimed he started to suspect his now-estranged wife, Cheryl Gates, was trying to poison him after he found a handwritten note with a list of substances and dosage plans -- some of which were labelled "lethal".
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…
Your Content Is Going To Get More Random! [5 Nov 26, 2:59am] Maybe not your content per se, but the ability to discover it is with the introduction of the /random/ endpoint in WordPress 7.2. A request to example.com/random/ will lead end users to a randomly selected published post. The feature is on by default…
Dev Chat Agenda – November 4, 2026 [4 Nov 26, 6:57am] 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…
Payday Aces High review: This year’s must-play multiplayer VR game [5 Nov 26, 9:00pm] Join up with three other heisters and get revenge on the billionaire who sent you to jail in the first place in Payday Aces High, now available on Meta Quest, SteamVR, and Steam Frame. more…
Researchers Find Residential Proxies on White House Network [6 Nov 26, 12:16pm] In a month, 28 residential proxy services used 6 addresses, mainly between 5 p.m. and midnight, Eastern Time.The post Researchers Find Residential Proxies on White House Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenSSH Rushes Patches for ‘SSHole’ Authentication Bypass [6 Nov 26, 12:07pm] On Linux distributions using musl libc without PAM, some accounts accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters.The post OpenSSH Rushes Patches for ‘SSHole’ Authentication Bypass appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI Model Wrote Its Own Network Code to Get Around Sandbox Restrictions [6 Nov 26, 9:33am] After its sandbox proxy failed, an internal OpenAI model crafted raw packets and probed AWS services trying to reach the internet.The post OpenAI Model Wrote Its Own Network Code to Get Around Sandbox Restrictions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
3 Charged in Scheme to Use AI to Impersonate CEOs and Attorneys to Steal $129 Million [6 Nov 26, 3:03am] The trio, who have nicknames that include “Rocky Balboa,” “Superman Cash” and “Fat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments. The post 3 Charged in Scheme to Use AI to Impersonate CEOs and Attorneys to Steal $129 Million appeared fi…
AI Agents Got Root on Linux via 948 Kernel Flaws in OpenAI Research [5 Nov 26, 5:32pm] An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.The post AI Agents Got Root on Linux via 948 Kernel Flaws in OpenAI Research appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Newly-developed paint could keep your home cooler and lower energy bills [6 Nov 26, 11:53am] A special white paint developed at the University of South Florida could offer a new way to cool buildings, reduce energy consumption and lessen reliance on air conditioning. Created in the lab of Distinguished University Professor Yogi Goswami, the…
AI helps find better recipes for 3D-printing titanium parts [6 Nov 26, 11:20am] Engineers can 3D-print high-performance titanium parts for aircraft, medical implants and advanced machinery, but finding the right printing settings can still require costly and time-consuming trial and error. A new study shows how artificial intell…
Target fabrication achieves new precision through additive manufacturing [6 Nov 26, 11:04am] What happens when additive manufacturing meets target fabrication engineering? An impossibly small, submillimeter-scale cone that can be manufactured 10 times faster than before, enabling new target configurations for experiments at Lawrence Livermor…
Anthropic may need to cut IPO ambitions as investors balk: Report [6 Nov 26, 8:58am] Anthropic may have to accept a lower valuation than the $1.5 trillion it had been targeting for its stock market debut, after a sharp tech sell-off spooked key investors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Researchers teach football to AI models [6 Nov 26, 2:40am] The NFL has given Carnegie Mellon University researchers access to official film and on-field data to develop new technologies that can enhance the way coaches, players and fans annotate, analyze and understand games.
What Does The Briefcase Symbol Mean On An Android Phone? [6 Nov 26, 1:15am] If you've ever noticed a briefcase icon overlaid on top of some or all of your app icons, there's a very simple explanation, and a way to get rid of it.
Is Building Your Own Wi-Fi Router Legal? [6 Nov 26, 12:15am] With the right hardware and software, it's not too tough to build your own DIY router, but is it actually legal to do so? Here's what you need to know.
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…
Iris van Herpen Is Fashioning a New Reality [5 Nov 26, 10:13pm] Iris van Herpen is a fashion designer, but it’s a title that barely captures the scope of her imagination. Her practice reaches far beyond the runway, drawing on everything from the natural sciences to astronomy. The results are extraordinary garment…
Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Turns Up in Closet, Heads to Auction [5 Nov 26, 7:19pm] The newly resurfaced work is expected to realize around $3 million when it crosses the block at Christie’s. The post Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Turns Up in Closet, Heads to Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
Following Galliano Fiasco, the Met Goes Pedestrian for Costume Institute Show [5 Nov 26, 6:57pm] The closely watched affair will be titled 'extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday.'The post Following Galliano Fiasco, the Met Goes Pedestrian for Costume Institute Show appeared first on Artnet News.
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…
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.
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…
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.
VOX Cinemas Brings Festive Holiday Magic to the Big Screen [6 Nov 26, 9:24am] Dubai: This festive season, VOX Cinemas is inviting moviegoers to experience the magic of the holiday season with VOX Festive, running from 8 December 2026 to 7 January 2027 across five cinema locations in Mall of the Emirates, City Centre Mirdif, Du…
IQOS Unveils CURIOUS STUDIO With OUCHHH Collective at Dubai Design Week [6 Nov 26, 9:10am] Dubai: IQOS announces the debut of CURIOUS STUDIO, a new creative platform that invites adult nicotine users in the global IQOS community to step inside the creative process—leaving their own trace alongside renowned voices from culture, art, design…
Whish Money Enters Canadian Market with Montreal Store [6 Nov 26, 8:55am] Dubai: Whish Money has entered the Canadian market with the opening of a store in Montreal, establishing its first operational presence in the country as it expands its global network. The fintech company is operating through its Canadian entity, Whi…
Loyalty & Reward Co Brings the World’s Leading Loyalty Reference to the Middle East [6 Nov 26, 8:39am] DUBAI, UAE: Loyalty & Reward Co has launched the third edition of Loyalty Programs: The Complete Guide in the Middle East, examining how businesses can strengthen customer relationships as artificial intelligence changes the way consumers discover an…
Israeli Cruise Ship Receives False Bomb Threat Over VHF [6 Nov 26, 4:46am] The Israeli-owned cruise ship Crown Iris sometimes encounters confrontation when it calls in Greece, a product of differing views on the circumstances...
Kongsberg Maritime Unveils New Logo and Tagline [6 Nov 26, 4:12am] Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled its new logo and tagline, ‘Beyond begins here’. This is the company’s first independent visual identity following its...
U.S. State Department Expands Sanctions on Cuban Shipping [6 Nov 26, 3:10am] The Trump administration has sanctioned five ships and two people for allegedly serving Cuba's oil shipping network, and has rolled out broad sectoral...
South Korea Plans to Deploy Naval Assets Closer to Hormuz [6 Nov 26, 2:50am] South Korea's government wants to deploy naval assets somewhat closer to the Strait of Hormuz, eight months after the start of the U.S.-Iran conflict....
Meet the Winners of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and First-Ever Loba Women’s Grant [5 Nov 26, 5:35pm] Meet the Winners of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and First-Ever Loba Women’s GrantCamera manufacturer Leica is the camera of choice for some of the world’s greatest photographers. The company not only creates the tools photographers need to su…
Japan’s 60-Year-Old “Dancing Salaryman” Goes Viral for Dancing Like Nobody’s Watching [5 Nov 26, 3:45pm] Japan’s 60-Year-Old “Dancing Salaryman” Goes Viral for Dancing Like Nobody’s Watching View this post on Instagram A post shared by うつみとおる_おどる ゲッダンおじさん 側転おじさん (@tohru_dance) Toru Utsumi, aka Japan’s “dancing salaryman,” doesn’t let the 9-to-5 grin…
10,000 Supportive Strangers Show up To Wedding After Orphaned Groom Makes Online Plea [4 Nov 26, 8:20pm] 10,000 Supportive Strangers Show up To Wedding After Orphaned Groom Makes Online Plea Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por ЧП/ ВЛАДИКАВКАЗ🔞❗️ (@chp.15region) Some people enjoy small, intimate weddings with just their c…
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.
Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT [1 Nov 26, 9:36pm] GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gears, swap perspectives, bend reality, or just press a certain key.The post Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT appeared fir…
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.
Lil Baby Brings ‘Fresh’ to Life: Stream It Now [6 Nov 26, 7:33am] "Fresh" is the followup to 2025's "WHAM," which arrived at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, one of his four leaders on the all-genres albums chart.
Kiro introduces Kiro Bots, goal-oriented agents [5 Nov 26, 7:00pm] In a major development for software engineering teams, Kiro has officially announced the general availability of Kiro bots within Kiro Crew. The release introduces named, long-running artificial intelligence agents designed to restructure how agentic…
Why AI Adoption Depends on Business Processes, Not Just Technology [5 Nov 26, 5:39pm] Businesses are investing in artificial intelligence to reduce manual work, improve customer service, and make everyday operations more efficient. New AI tools can process documents, answer customer questions, analyse information, and support business…
Blocks introduces Builderlab to bring ideas and execution together [4 Nov 26, 8:52pm] Intelligence company Block has introduced Builderlab, an enterprise intelligence toolkit built atop Buzz, the company’s open-source workspace where conversations, code and agent activity live. The thinking behind the toolkit was that in building soft…
Your AI Bill Is a Data Problem [4 Nov 26, 8:20pm] Enterprises are getting better at seeing what they spend on AI. Proving what they got for it is another matter. During a recent SD Times Live! Supercast on the economics of AI, J.R. Storment, executive director of the Tokenomics Foundation, described…
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…
Autistic children benefited from online literacy instruction during COVID pandemic [6 Nov 26, 12:20pm] Despite many obstacles presented by students being at home during COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, autistic children involved in a feasibility study still showed significant progress through online instruction. Flinders University's Professor Joa…
Positive views of caregiving nearly double for dementia caregivers after support program [6 Nov 26, 12:00pm] Chinese American family caregivers of people with dementia reported a greater sense of control and competence in their caregiving roles and more positive views of caregiving after taking part in a seven-week digital support program, researchers at Ge…
High-elevation terraces suggest faster-than-expected uplift in southern Italy [6 Nov 26, 10:00am] University of Oregon geologist Becky Dorsey's latest research sheds light on the Siculo-Calabrian rift zone, a belt of faults spanning more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) in southern Italy. The new data could help improve earthquake hazard assessmen…
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.
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.
AI can get ‘brain rot’ like humans do [31 Oct 26, 4:15pm] Researchers have determined that when large language models are trained on frivolous online content, they can get brain rot like humans do.
One Subplot To The GOP’s Midterm Debacle Was A Repudiation Of The MAHA Movement [6 Nov 26, 4:03am] The midterms are over and the Republicans got their asses waxed. We can point to any number of reasons why the country delivered a stinging rebuke to the GOP across the union. It was a slap to Donald Trump. It was about the economy. It was the war in…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Mike & Ben Review The Social Reckoning (Teaser) [5 Nov 26, 11:30pm] 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…
Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access—Here’s What To Do Next [5 Nov 26, 9:02pm] Recently, two federal appeals courts issued opinions that will allow Florida and Georgia to start enforcing laws that will age-gate and block young people from accessing social media. The laws do not adequately respect minors’ rights to play, speak,…
Daily Deal: The 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Course [5 Nov 26, 7:01pm] Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Course. This program teaches you how to use Canva effectively to produce professional-quality visuals for any purpose. You’ll explore practical design techniques, creative…
the EU bans the destruction of unsold fashion, but is it enough to stop luxury waste? [6 Nov 26, 11:50am] new european regulations challenge fashion’s take-make-waste model, but important exclusions leave questions about how far the industry is willing to change.The post the EU bans the destruction of unsold fashion, but is it enough to stop luxury wast…
SCI-Arc task force champions long-term architectural strategies for fire-prone areas [6 Nov 26, 11:00am] the sci-arc resilient futures task force supports los angeles homeowners recovering from the 2025 wildfires, offering climate-resilient architectural solutions to replace outdated building habits.The post SCI-Arc task force champions long-term archi…
toothpick-drawn manga celebrates maison margiela tokyo flagship anniversary [6 Nov 26, 9:30am] an abandoned electronics factory, strange signals, and a group of researchers set the scene for the factory at night, an illustrated story that explores transformation without erasing the past.The post toothpick-drawn manga celebrates maison margiel…
lavazza tablì wins designboom special prize third place at seoul design award [6 Nov 26, 8:47am] lavazza's tablì tabs eliminates capsules from the single-cup experience.The post lavazza tablì wins designboom special prize third place at seoul design award appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
demi nguyen balances corporate branding, fintech systems, and typographic archives [6 Nov 26, 3:30am] demi nguyen translates complex ideas into visual identities, digital experiences, and communication systems, balancing strategic precision with an expressive approach to storytelling.The post demi nguyen balances corporate branding, fintech systems,…
