Pope Leo's "Paradise Of Machines" Warning As Concerns Grow Over AI Threats [25 Sep 26, 4:59pm] The Pope's comments came as enthusiastic crowds started to gather in France's capital on the day, while he spoke at the presidential palace with President Emmanuel Macron about the need to safeguard humanity against AI.
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.2: One app for your first Core or Gutenberg contribution [25 Sep 26, 5:09pm] TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v1.2.0 has been released providing full Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows for first-time contributors. The WordPress Contributor Toolkit was created to remove the points of friction first-time contributors…
WordPress Trac MCP server [24 Sep 26, 8:06pm] Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org Trac. Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac. Pu…
Dev Chat summary: September 23, 2026 [24 Sep 26, 7:54pm] Start of the meeting in Slack, facilitated by @audrasjb 🔗 See the agenda post. Announcements 📢 7.2 Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme Call for testing: DataForm editor inspector Moving to a server-aware approach for collaboration Roadma…
Iterating from live events to livestreamed releases [23 Sep 26, 7:49pm] After a few rounds of doing releases at live events, first at State of the Word 2025 and most recently with WordPress 7.1 at WordCamp US, it’s time to iterate and move towards a live-streamed zoom option. Doing in-person live releases has been a go…
New public repo: core release tools [23 Sep 26, 6:03pm] The core team is working hard on better release automation, including CLI scripts, AI skills, and updated documentation. Why is this work important? A minor WordPress release—including every security patch—can touch 20+ branches, and much of the…
Microsoft tried to ban “Microslop,” and six months later it has given up [24 Sep 26, 12:46am] In March, Windows Latest was the first to notice that Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server was blocking messages containing “Microslop.” Anyone who tried to post it got a moderation warning, and people quickly started testing variations…
North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist [25 Sep 26, 2:16pm] Bitget’s security systems caught the unauthorized transfers on September 24, and some wallet addresses linked to the attacker have been frozen.The post North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISA Election Security Plan Flags Patching Barriers, Voter Database Attacks [25 Sep 26, 12:39pm] Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin tasked CISA with developing the plan in July. The post CISA Election Security Plan Flags Patching Barriers, Voter Database Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court [25 Sep 26, 12:16pm] Ardit Kutleshi created and operated Rydox, which allowed miscreants to trade PII and cybercrime tools and services.The post Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity [25 Sep 26, 10:53am] Researchers show that file-change notification systems can leak keystroke timing, browsing activity, and WhatsApp media events.The post Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
By shaping and shrinking light, engineers alter a material's magnetic properties [25 Sep 26, 6:00pm] A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient data storage. Engineers at the University of California San Diego published their findings in Nature Communications.
The architect as gatherer—how salvaged materials could guide building designs [25 Sep 26, 5:40pm] In a traditional architectural project, the process often begins with an idea or a sketch. Material choices come later, when it is time to decide on a facade, floors or windows. But if buildings are to make greater use of reused materials, as called…
Computer system models binocular vision to improve print ads automatically [25 Sep 26, 5:20pm] A computer-based method for evaluating and improving print advertisements by modeling how human binocular vision responds to images is discussed in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining.
AI hardware design could filter out irrelevant visual data to reduce energy use [25 Sep 26, 4:00pm] When we read a car's license plate, we tend to focus on the numbers and letters, paying little attention to the surrounding buildings or sky. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system, however, may still process those surrounding details, consuming…
First US trial against TikTok to open Monday [25 Sep 26, 4:00pm] TikTok goes on trial Monday in Alabama, accused by the state of misleading parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content. It is the first case against the platform to go before a U.S. jury.
Bambu Lab Loses Big In $27M 3D Printer Lawsuit [25 Sep 26, 5:45pm] 3D printer company Bambu Lab has been ordered to pay a hefty $27 million in damages to Stratasys, Inc. for patent infringement. Here's what happened.
America is in the wrong AI race with China [22 Sep 26, 10:00am] The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth [18 Sep 26, 10:00am] In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
A.A.Murakami Imagines a New Kind of Nature [25 Sep 26, 9:00pm] The artist duo debuted a new piece at Paradise Art Night 2026, and timed to Frieze Seoul, the show was paired with an immersive dinner experience that blended themes of art, food, and scenography.The post A.A.Murakami Imagines a New Kind of Nature a…
George Morrison Was Long Overlooked. Now His Market Is Catching Up [25 Sep 26, 8:58pm] After a record-setting year for Morrison’s market, Bockley Gallery is bringing his abstractions to Independent 20th Century.The post George Morrison Was Long Overlooked. Now His Market Is Catching Up appeared first on Artnet News.
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Props Hit the Block as Memorabilia Market Booms [25 Sep 26, 5:30pm] Also: Steve McQueen's mythic Ferrari, Horatio Nelson's love letters, Pokémon celluloids, and other collectibles news.The post ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Props Hit the Block as Memorabilia Market Booms appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside the Long, Little-Known Tradition of Artists as Healers [25 Sep 26, 5:24pm] Emma Kunz insisted she was a healer before she was an artist. With her solo booth at Independent 20th Century, her story invites a wider look at artists who blurred the same line.The post Inside the Long, Little-Known Tradition of Artists as Healers…
100 Devs [24 Sep 26, 1:46pm] Kevin Powell is doing game-show-style (specifically Family Feud) shorts where, using data from a survey of 100 devs, he asks another dev what the most popular answers were. Here’s:
Introducing Solo [23 Sep 26, 4:02pm] A versatile tool for managing coding projects, integrating multiple terminals and AI agents within a single control panel.
Brighter Than White [22 Sep 26, 9:43pm] If you’ve got an HDR display, and use Chrome 137+ or Safari 26+ (even on iOS), perhaps you’ve seen images sometimes with colors that are so bright they seem to dim the rest of the screen. I find it a bit distracting, but I can see how it could be…
Custom Glow Rings Inside of Elements [18 Sep 26, 10:32pm] A box-shadow is an obvious choice for an inner glow of an element to highlight it. But with some fancy masking, we can use any overlay style we want.
The Index: Issue #199 [25 Sep 26, 9:55am] Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the webA very good looking proposal!The root scroller and how not to lose itYet another in-depth, fantastic article by Kilian at Polypane.fonts.xyzYou know us by now: we see a good place to get fonts a…
Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped [23 Sep 26, 11:55am] I stumbled across this great project by Barry Prendergast. It's a web-based radio player with a lush UI. On mobile I spotted that as I was rapidly flicking through the stations to find one that was on air, the browser was zooming in and out.Her…
The Index: Issue #198 [18 Sep 26, 9:55am] You’ll miss publishers when they’re goneYet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply, to educate and share knowledge.It’s…
A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready [17 Sep 26, 11:55am] Now that we can better customise <select> elements, it's only natural to side-eye other form <input> types that have caused us visual headaches.Sure, we should be applying the lightest of touches to form elements, especially, but ev…
The Index: Issue #197 [11 Sep 26, 12:00am] Mindful Design ProductsThis is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful.Scott's written about the why here, too.How the heck do record players work?An…
Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill [25 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic engineering, and why fixing flaky tests comes down…
Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm [22 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware programming, and the rapid convergence of software an…
The AI magic words [17 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs from AI, and why human taste is becoming hi…
AI, JD, and other letters of the law [15 Sep 26, 7:40am] Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using…
Somali Forces Free Third Ship Seized by Pirates [25 Sep 26, 5:45pm] Authorities in the Puntland region of Somalia are reporting that they freed another vessel being held by pirates. Somali pirates took control of six v...
Russian Military Cargo Ship Heads for Turkey from Tobruk [25 Sep 26, 2:13pm] A Russian-flagged cargo ship with a history of ties to weapons shipments and sanctioned military cargo vessels has broken away from a convoy that had...
Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good News [25 Sep 26, 7:20pm] Love Ice Cream? This Harvard Study Has Some Surprisingly Good NewsIf you love ice cream, you may have been pleased to see recent headlines suggesting that indulging in your favorite flavor could actually have some surprising health benefits. A long-…
USPS Honors Linda McCartney’s Photography With New Collection of Forever Stamps [25 Sep 26, 5:30pm] USPS Honors Linda McCartney’s Photography With New Collection of Forever StampsThe late Linda McCartney is remembered for many things, from her music and animal rights activism to her marriage to Paul McCartney. But she was also an accomplished ph…
How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success [Interview] [25 Sep 26, 4:35pm] How the 2026 Bumbershoot Arts Programming Made the Festival a Creative Success {Interview}The Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival 2026 recently concluded two days of incredible music, art, and culture at the famous Seattle Center in Seattle, Washing…
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal [25 Sep 26, 7:13pm] Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock tha…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases [25 Sep 26, 6:00pm] Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build…
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS [25 Sep 26, 3:00pm] How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
When chat is the wrong UI [24 Sep 26, 8:00pm] What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.The post When chat is the wrong UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent [24 Sep 26, 6:26pm] In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app [23 Sep 26, 6:29pm] How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It via @sejournal, @gregjarboe [25 Sep 26, 2:30pm] AI models are everywhere. The data you feed them isn't. Mallory Gray of Skydeo explains why audience signals, not mention counts, decide who buys.The post AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It appeared first on Search En…
Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE via @sejournal, @martinibuster [25 Sep 26, 12:47pm] Google's new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update.The post Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Noctua explores 2,000W micro-channel air cooling [25 Sep 26, 2:42pm] Noctua and Forced Physics are exploring whether densely packed micro-channels can provide extreme cooling performance without the noise associated with high-pressure airflow
AI Coding Tools in Mid-2026: High Adoption, Low Trust, and What It Means for Developers [25 Sep 26, 6:31pm] Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in the modern software development workflow. From generating code snippets to debugging complex applications, AI-powered coding assistants are no longer experimental. They are everyday tools for mill…
Code Is Cheap, Thinking Isn’t — Cognitive Debt Is Becoming the Biggest Barrier to AI ROI [25 Sep 26, 6:11pm] For years, software development operated under one fundamental constraint: execution is expensive. Writing code took time and building workflows required specialized expertise. Operational improvements often meant adding headcount or extending timeli…
Snyk’s Evo Reaches 60% of New Deal Volume As AI Risks Soar [24 Sep 26, 5:02pm] The rise of agentic AI security threats is accelerating growth for vendors that can help protect enterprises. Snyk’s Evo software, the agent-native layer of its core AI security platform, now accounts for 60% of the company’s new deal volume and…
MetaKarta v12 Unifies Enterprise Metadata Management for AI, BI, and Databases [24 Sep 26, 1:51pm] MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) today announced general availability of MetaKarta v12, including Semantic Hub that compiles governed business definitions into the databases, BI tools, and AI agents that depend on th…
W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL [24 Sep 26, 11:13am] W3C is pleased to announce the report from the W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL, held in July 2026 in London, UK, and online.
First Public Working Draft: Bitstring Status List v1.1 [24 Sep 26, 8:28am] This specification describes a privacy-preserving, space-efficient, and high-performance mechanism for publishing status information such as suspension or revocation of Verifiable Credentials through use of bitstrings.
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…
Media over QUIC (MoQ), What It Takes to Deploy It, and When It Matters (From CDN77) [24 Sep 26, 1:36am] The IETF’s MoQ Transport draft is on its 21th version. According to Michal Hošna of CDN77, who I interviewed in Prague before IBC 2026, the working group has been predicting completion “in six months” for two years. He now hopes for something…
VVC On The Rise [20 Sep 26, 1:20pm] The thing about codec adoption is that years of hard work and development must occur before a single stream gets distributed by an independent publisher. The bottleneck is almost always the decode side, accumulating sufficient compatible players to m…
Munich FRAND Royalty Guidelines: More Questions than Answers [14 Sep 26, 2:46pm] On August 13, 2026, the 7th Civil Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court issued a 67-page FRAND Guidelines. Although multiple outlets have reported on them, I have not located a public copy of the Guidelines themselves, though I have requested one. I…
Mitochondrial protein complexes: A single amino acid can jeopardize their stability [25 Sep 26, 9:00pm] Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme carries out this precise trimming at the start of mitochondrial proteins. Without it, numerous protein complexes lose their…
Blood pressure enzyme reveals second job: Making sulfur rings for cellular antioxidants [25 Sep 26, 8:40pm] Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E protect cells by neutralizing free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species, before they can damage genetic material or cell membranes. Such damage can contribute to the development of neurodegenerative diseases…
Natural proteins can guide active ingredients to diseased cells [25 Sep 26, 8:20pm] After taking a pill, the drugs it contains are distributed throughout the body, reaching the tissues and cells affected by disease and performing their intended function. However, they also enter healthy cells, where they often cause more harm than g…
How a century-old solvent can enable efficient amide synthesis [25 Sep 26, 8:00pm] Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide bonds, link amino acids to form proteins. Amide bonds are also important in medicines and polymers. Efficient synthesis of amide…
How gravity affects the human genome [25 Sep 26, 7:15pm] "We think our findings can be useful in better understanding how space travel affects us."
Brain activity measure gives insight into depression [25 Sep 26, 7:07pm] A subtle measure of brain activity can give insight into personal feelings of depression, without even asking people directly about it.
Team figures out how smog begins [25 Sep 26, 6:43pm] "It's like nature was presenting us with a dish, and we had to guess how it was made. Now we have a recipe."
Watch this little robot hop and swim like a frog [25 Sep 26, 5:53pm] A new design showcases a way for miniaturized robots to hop or swim in spite of limitations on their power output and size.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Some Assembly Required [25 Sep 26, 7:54pm] 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 —…
Daily Deal: Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball [25 Sep 26, 5:50pm] This Smart & Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball is a USB-rechargeable toy featuring 360-degree rolling movements, obstacle avoidance, and changing LED lights to help keep cats entertained. It’s built out of scratch-resistant and bite-resist…
Trump Republicans Made A Historic Mess Of This Massive Broadband Grant Program [25 Sep 26, 12:29pm] I’ve written a lot this year about how Republicans hijacked the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program (created by the 2021 infrastructure bill) and immediately set about weakening oversight standards, eliminating en…
tim burton’s batman returns batmobile heads to auction for up to $7 million [25 Sep 26, 7:31pm] screen-used batman returns batmobile by tim burton heads to julien’s auctions with a $5–7 million estimate.The post tim burton’s batman returns batmobile heads to auction for up to $7 million appeared first on designboom | architecture & d…
alexandre arrechea grows a playable tree of basketball hoops in toronto [25 Sep 26, 6:10pm] more than twenty playable basketball hoops extend from the branching red sculpture in toronto.The post alexandre arrechea grows a playable tree of basketball hoops in toronto appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
autonomous robotic hand walks on its fingertips like the addams family’s thing [25 Sep 26, 10:55am] with no legs, wheels or robotic arm in sight, the 818-gram prototype has figured out how to get around on its own.The post autonomous robotic hand walks on its fingertips like the addams family’s thing appeared first on designboom | architecture &…
the flâneur and the birth of the modern urban spectator [25 Sep 26, 10:50am] nineteenth-century paris produced a figure who made a practice of watching the city.The post the flâneur and the birth of the modern urban spectator appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
