"Holy F**k, We're Out Of Time": Pilot's Last Words Before Florida Jet Crash [2 Nov 26, 4:21am] Unverified footage posted on social media appears to show a dash-camera recording the crash. The video shows vehicles travelling along a residential suburban street when an aircraft suddenly nose-dives into the ground
Presence API meeting summary: October 26, 2026 [1 Nov 26, 2:02pm] The Presence API meeting took place on Monday, October 26, 2026 at 15:00 UTC in #feature-presence-api. It also hosts the real-time collaboration (RTC) work. This week’s focus was the last two merge criteria, user testing and a security audit. Start o…
WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-30 [1 Nov 26, 9:31am] One major change landed this week: the notification repository is now scoped per user, laying the groundwork for the REST API. In addition, we merged a README note and four Dependabot bumps. A batch of community PRs (fixes, tooling, and PHP test-matr…
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…
Google says Googlebook ‘detachables’ are coming soon [1 Nov 26, 8:07pm] At the Android Dev Summit 2026 earlier this week, Google said that Googlebook detachables will be the next form factor after clamshells and convertibles. more…
Motorola is filling the gap OnePlus left behind, mostly [1 Nov 26, 2:00pm] As we near the launch of Motorola’s return to the flagship space, it’s becoming clear that the company is ready to fill a gap left by the departure of OnePlus, though there’s one very obvious difference between the two.9to5Google Weekender by…
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…
Ivanti Patches Two More Zero-Days Exploited in Connect Secure Attack Chain [2 Nov 26, 7:57am] CISA has added CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527 to its KEV catalog after the Ivanti VPN flaws were chained in zero-day attacks.The post Ivanti Patches Two More Zero-Days Exploited in Connect Secure Attack Chain appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations [1 Nov 26, 11:15am] The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues.The post Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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.
Winds of change: Laos looks up for renewables push [1 Nov 26, 7:30pm] Rising from verdant ridgelines of southern Laos, 133 Chinese-built wind turbines help power Vietnam's surging growth and represent part of a regional rush to diversify energy sources.
Binance resumes withdrawals after more than $6 billion stolen in hack [1 Nov 26, 7:08pm] Binance said that it had seen withdrawals of around $4.7 billion on Sunday, after more than $6 billion in virtual assets were stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange in a major hack the FBI said North Korea was responsible for.
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.
Does A Front License Plate Have To Be Centered? [2 Nov 26, 3:45am] Not every car has a centered spot for a front license plate. So, is an off-center plate legal? It depends on where in the U.S. your car is registered.
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…
GE Vernova at ADIPEC 2026: Shaping the Future of Energy [1 Nov 26, 8:01pm] Abu Dhabi, UAE: GE Vernova is a Gold Sponsor at ADIPEC 2026, taking place November 2–5 at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi, bringing together executive speakers, technology showcases, and interactive engagements on Stand 7135 in Hall 7. The company will showcase s…
MOCCAE announces “Planting Week 2026” [1 Nov 26, 2:22pm] DUBAI: Families, students and volunteers across the UAE are being encouraged to plant trees and help care for the country’s green spaces as the 47th Planting Week begins on November 2. Organised by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCC…
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…
Saudi Forces Launch Airstrike on Port of Ras Isa, Yemen [2 Nov 26, 4:15am] Yemen's Houthi rebels have reported a Saudi airstrike on the port at Ras Isa, a petroleum product terminal located northwest of Hodeidah and a repeat...
Pirates Hijack Iranian Fishing Vessel off Somalia [2 Nov 26, 3:39am] Pirates have hijacked an Iranian fishing vessel at a position off the northeastern coast of Somalia, according to EUNAVFOR's Maritime Security Centre...
Russia Advances New LNG Supply Pivot to Africa [2 Nov 26, 12:47am] As part of a wider scheme to diversify its LNG market, Russia is targeting Africa for gas exports, projecting rising demand for energy on the continen...
Light Is Both the Subject and Medium in This Room-Sized Installation by James Turrell [1 Nov 26, 1:50pm] Light Is Both the Subject and Medium in This Room-Sized Installation by James TurrellIn art, light usually serves other elements; it’s rarely the star of the show. Artist James Turrell has devoted his career to celebrating light in its purest form,…
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…
TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here [1 Nov 26, 5:04pm] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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.
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…
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…
GOG explores reviving physical PC game releases [1 Nov 26, 6:45pm] GOG wants to sell physical games, in contrast to consoles going digital-only, giving gamers more freedom over their games. However, it still has to figure out logistics and publisher permissions.
Biwin M560 2TB SSD Review: The DRAM-less drive to beat [1 Nov 26, 3:00pm] The Biwin M560 brings SMI’s SM2504XT to retail with top-tier responsiveness and excellent efficiency, though not the fastest post-cache writes.
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…
Global sexual health: Why communal knowledge about pleasure and well-being matters [2 Nov 26, 1:30am] For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal health care, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direct…
Mars dust may be less abrasive than lunar dust, spacesuit samples suggest [1 Nov 26, 8:00pm] Tucked away among its sensors, cameras and navigation tools, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is wearing small swatches of spacesuit material. A rover doesn't need a spacesuit, but the swatches—each less than a square inch (6.5 square centimeters) in s…
New restrictions kick in as Delhi battles pollution [1 Nov 26, 7:40pm] Authorities in New Delhi stepped up anti-pollution measures on Sunday, including higher parking fees and work-from-home orders, seeking to curb toxic smog in one of the world's most polluted capitals.
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.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt [1 Nov 26, 8:10pm] This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is the first of several comments about Trump’s voting fraud squad proudly announcing the arrest of… 28 people in California. It’s an anonymous comment summing up their attitude: Republicans jus…
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…
how ecoLogicStudio uses living organisms to build better spaces for living [1 Nov 26, 9:45pm] architecture need not exclude microbes: these projects use algae, fungi and bacteria as active parts of healthier living environments.The post how ecoLogicStudio uses living organisms to build better spaces for living appeared first on designboom |…
designboom shop drop: objects, surfaces and furniture that go beyond the wall [1 Nov 26, 3:01pm] discover a handpicked edit of dynamic surfaces and vertical objects, from biophilic magnetic birds and martial arts kinetic clocks to surrealist mobiles and tactile bespoke murals.The post designboom shop drop: objects, surfaces and furniture that 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…
