Why Netanyahu May Remain Israel Prime Minister, Despite Opposition Pushback [2 Nov 26, 6:33pm] Netanyahu's right-wing and ultra-Orthodox bloc secured 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. Together, his opponents won 67 seats. But 19 of them come from Arab-majority parties, and relying on them is highly controversial in Israeli politics.
Key Races, Issues, Turnout: 6 Things US Voters Should Watch On Election Day [2 Nov 26, 5:01pm] The results will serve as the first nationwide verdict on Trump's presidency, revealing whether voters want to check the Republican president's power by giving Democrats control of one or both chambers of Congress or are willing to accept the status…
What’s new in Gutenberg 24.3? (28 October) [2 Nov 26, 4:16pm] “What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up…
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…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in October 2026 [2 Nov 26, 3:01pm] Significant cybersecurity deals were announced by Absolute Security, Aikido, Anthropic, Cohere, Hex-Rays, and Proofpoint.The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in October 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Florida Student Aid Website Hack Puts Data of 4.9 Million People at Risk [2 Nov 26, 2:44pm] The Florida Department of Education says SSNs and other personal data may have been exposed in a breach of its financial aid website.The post Florida Student Aid Website Hack Puts Data of 4.9 Million People at Risk appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Revolve Data Breach Impacts at Least 180,000 People [2 Nov 26, 1:35pm] Hackers accessed its online shopping platform and stole customers’ personal and payment card information.The post Revolve Data Breach Impacts at Least 180,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google Introduces $250,000 Root-in-Cloud Bug Bounty Reward [2 Nov 26, 1:25pm] The top payout is for high-impact architectural research demonstrating full administrative control.The post Google Introduces $250,000 Root-in-Cloud Bug Bounty Reward appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Malicious Claude Code Extension Served in Cursor Supply Chain Attack [2 Nov 26, 11:29am] The extension performed host reconnaissance and attempted to create a reverse SSH tunnel.The post Malicious Claude Code Extension Served in Cursor Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta delays new business terms after outcry over potential web scraping of news sites [2 Nov 26, 7:00pm] Meta said it was postponing the rollout of new terms for its business accounts after an outcry from media companies and open-web advocates who said the updated rules would allow the tech giant to scrape vast amounts of data and potentially build comp…
Redesigning batteries for ultrafast-charging EVs [2 Nov 26, 5:40pm] It's hard to ignore the difference: You can fill a car's tank with gas in mere minutes. Charging the battery of an electric vehicle (EV) can take 30 minutes or more.
Future-proof security system protects Bitcoin Lightning Network from quantum attacks [2 Nov 26, 5:20pm] Nearly all personal information is stored electronically in our digital age. This sensitive data is protected by digital keys unique to each device that would take today's computers billions of years to crack through brute-force hacking attacks.
How to prepare your online life for your death [2 Nov 26, 5:00pm] What happens to all of your online accounts—credit cards, merchants, news subscriptions, social media, streaming services—after you die? How will your heirs know how to access these accounts or understand what you want done with them? Most people hav…
12 Of The Most Reliable Push Lawn Mower Models In 2026 [2 Nov 26, 5:30pm] Mowing the lawn is a chore for most homeowners, which is why it's best to get the right tool for the job. These reliable mowers for 2026 fit the bill.
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…
Haunting Yoshitomo Nara Painting Could Rake in $15M at Auction [2 Nov 26, 2:00pm] The work, Nara's only canvas from 2011, is crossing the block at Fair Warning.The post Haunting Yoshitomo Nara Painting Could Rake in $15M at Auction appeared first on Artnet News.
London’s National Gallery: ‘Keep Away’ If You Want Trigger Warnings [2 Nov 26, 1:42pm] Plus, an intimate Bloomsbury Group drawing is discovered, yet more U.S. pavilion drama in Venice, and other art world matters.The post London’s National Gallery: ‘Keep Away’ If You Want Trigger Warnings appeared first on Artnet News.
A Mega-Gallery Wellness Check [2 Nov 26, 9:44am] Plus, Art Basel Qatar will cover some shipping costs for exhibitors and three museums launch a landmark alliance.The post A Mega-Gallery Wellness Check appeared first on Artnet News.
Inside One Couple’s Legendary Pop Art Collection [2 Nov 26, 8:00am] A new doc profiles John and Kimiko Powers, who were in 'the first rank of the first generation' of Pop's buyers.The post Inside One Couple’s Legendary Pop Art Collection appeared first on Artnet News.
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.
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.
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…
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…
KAMEH to Present Monumental New York from Its Desert Rose Collection at Design Doha 2026 [2 Nov 26, 1:16pm] DUBAI: Dubai-based collectible design studio KAMEH will present a monumental new work from its Desert Rose collection at the Design Doha Biennial 2026, marking a significant evolution in the studio’s artistic practice. Conceived at the intersection o…
Greece acquires up to six Embraer KC-390 Millennium Multi-Mission Aircraft [2 Nov 26, 12:08pm] Athens: The Hellenic Ministry of National Defense today signed a contract to acquire three KC-390 Millennium with options for an additional three aircraft, produced by Embraer (NYSE: EMBJ/B3: EMBJ3) through a government-to-government agreement betwee…
Swedish Forces Inspect Cargo Ship in the Baltic [2 Nov 26, 5:13pm] Swedish media is reporting that a small dry cargo ship possibly linked to Russia was boarded overnight on Saturday, October 31, near the Swedish islan...
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...
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…
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…
How To Run A Full-Funnel Ecommerce Account Through BFCM Week via @sejournal, @tonyadam [2 Nov 26, 3:00pm] Build demand before BFCM, give Google room to capture peak sales, and turn holiday visitors into December buyers with a phased ad strategy.The post How To Run A Full-Funnel Ecommerce Account Through BFCM Week appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S. via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern [2 Nov 26, 2:41pm] Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search's revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.The post Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S. appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster [2 Nov 26, 10:55am] Google's John Mueller cautioned against relying on short-term AI SEO tactics and explained why traditional technical SEO remains relevant.The post Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
'America hates data centers' — New data highlights public sentiment [2 Nov 26, 3:19pm] A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments about data centers in the community across more than 410 local governments, and the consensus is that people don't like them one bit.
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…
Dinosaur blood—oldest discovery rewrites what fossils can reveal about the past [2 Nov 26, 7:00pm] An international research team led by Curtin University has for the first time uncovered unequivocal evidence of fossilized red blood cells and amino acids of collagen, reshaping our understanding of fossil preservation and molecular longevity in dee…
Martian polar crater ice shifts with seasonal frost [2 Nov 26, 7:00pm] Mars shares many landforms and weather patterns with Earth, including changing seasons, volcanoes, canyons, dust storms, dust devils and water ice. Another feature that Earth and Mars share is polar ice caps. These are among each planet's striking fe…
Scientists build whole-Earth simulation to help find life on other planets [2 Nov 26, 6:50pm] It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system and are searching the atmospheres of the most promising worlds for chemicals that mi…
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.
Governments Worldwide Are Shaping What AI Can Say About Politics [2 Nov 26, 7:05pm] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. With the U.S. midterms this week, about 1 in 5 voters has asked AI chatbots about elections and politics, a recent survey found. But many v…
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Electric Circuits Engineer Course Bundle [2 Nov 26, 6:59pm] The Ultimate Electric Circuits Engineer Course Bundle is designed for beginners and students wanting to build knowledge in electrical engineering and circuit analysis. You’ll start by learning the fundamentals like Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s Laws befo…
Sam Altman’s Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That’s The Problem [2 Nov 26, 5:24pm] By now it’s likely you’ve heard of the whole concept of the AI paperclip maximizer problem — a hypothetical first put forth by Nick Bostrom — suggesting that a misaligned AI system that looks to optimize on the wrong single thing (in this case creati…
Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores ‘Smart’ TV Spying Opt Out Requests [2 Nov 26, 1:27pm] Recently, reports emerged that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly “off.” Some of those voice commands were then stored in plain text and uploaded to the interne…
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…
matteo thun transforms 72 apartments inside milan’s iconic brutalist torre velasca [2 Nov 26, 7:10pm] working within the protected 1958 tower, the studio pairs original architectural details with velvet walls and italian design classics.The post matteo thun transforms 72 apartments inside milan’s iconic brutalist torre velasca appeared first on desi…
discarded leather armchair deconstructs into nine functional domestic objects [2 Nov 26, 4:55pm] what becomes possible when every material is considered a resource? jan-micha gamer turns a bulky waste leather armchair into a floor basket, a candleholder, a lamp, a fruit basket, a pouf, a picture frame, a cabinet, a carpet, and a table.The post…
aditya mandlik explores how water, worms and bees can reshape architecture [2 Nov 26, 11:56am] the mumbai-based architect explores how ecological gradients and non-human intelligence can transform design, shifting architecture from controlling nature to collaborating with it.The post aditya mandlik explores how water, worms and bees can resha…
